Campaign Recap for 06/01/2021

 After action for 06/01/2021.

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Shadow Wulf (John), Solaris (Julie), Elkas (Jose)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 60th of Grentle, ending at 60th

After a short time travelling they encounter Lars and Chocho. Lars is a woodsman adventurer that had been rescued by the God Marked Marauders in a Haunted forest. He is a follower of a nature spirit that sometimes guides him towards adventures. Chocho is an awaked brown bear that wears a backpack and can only say "Chocho". Lars tells them he is travelling from the city of Asuim and delivering mail, mostly from the slaves of that city. The party is  shocked by Asuim being a slave holding society. Lars is shocked by their seeming nativity and explains some stuff about the city, slave tattoos, things to buy and avoid in the outer city and to be wary of the inner city. And then he and Chocho head toward Weepmire to deliver the mail. About an hour after meeting Lars..They encounter a staggering man covering himself in a dirty threadbare rug. He is revealed to be an escaped slave from the city of Asuim and is looking for Lars to deliver a letter he has had written to his father in the Village of Weepmire. The party gives him food and water but he refuses their offers of clothing and such. He tells them his name is Eaghan and his father is Henry and he is owned by Kieran Kerruish. Meltara takes Eafhan's soiled note to his dad and promises to deliver it. Eagham thanks him and staggers back to the city to be punished. Later when Meltara tries to read the letter he realizes the letter is just gibberish and not a real letter. Meltara is unsure what to do about this. Another few hours and they arrive at the secret path in a dense section of woods that leads to another secret warehouse. Solaris (Julie):As we get to the warehouse, I give everyone a silent high five of joy. "We did it!!!" The people at the warehouse tell them about a nearby farm fallen into abandonment but is somehow overrun by bees. The workers are afraid to gather or purchase supplies, as two of them (Tomas and Raek) are presumed dead. Also the wagon from Asium never came. The party decides to check out the farm while the wagons is being unloaded and reloaded. Elkas at first stays to help with the wagons but latter follows the others. The party carefully approaches the small farm, seeing the main field is unharvested and still growing barley. There are numerous beehives in the field, all with clusters of bees around them. Keeping their distance from the field the group (Solaris, P'wox, Meltara, Shadow Wulf and Buddy) make their way to the only barn. Hearing noise in the barn, Everyone except P'wox and Buddy climb on top of the barn. When P'wox opens the door on the side a hideous twisted demon cow attacks him. It was a battle mostly between P'wox and the cow as P'wox was blocking the doorway so the cow was trapped in the barn. The noise of the battle alerted a group of demonized sheep past the house, who charged through the damaged house towards the battle, screaming erie baaahs! Elkas showed up and run towards the barn as he saw Shadow Wulf on top of it. Edging too close to the field, he triggered a Swarm of Bees that attacked Shadow Wulf. There was a lot of talk about burning stuff down, but since nothing was really trapped in a slowly burning area it seemed like a bad idea. The fighting took a while but wasn't that difficult for them (as they mostly avoided the bees). P'wox checks out the house sees that there are huge rents and holes in the walls, everything inside has been wreck and thrown about. Not seeing anything interesting he quickly leaves. Solaris and then Elkas check the barn. There are body parts thrown about the place and the stench of rotting meat and blood. Solaris (Julie):"There has been a murder. There are dead body parts in this barn. It's so gross and smelly." Elkas goes to the house.. looking around he sees that though everything is destroyed nothing has been taken, so if there is anything of value it would still be here mixed into the trash, but he is too busy for that and leaves. Meanwhile. Meltara sees a crystal shining near the center of the field and starts heading towards it activating 3 swarms of bees... cliffhanger!

(next game will start with Meltara running or beeing killed..bee seeing you)

(move game to monday next week, follow up in chat)

Kill count is 1 Swarm of Bees, 1 Demon Beast and 4 Lesser Demon Beasts.

Exp is 50+100+(4x25)=250/5=50 base

Meeting Lars and Chocho +50, Meeting Eagham the slave +50, Taking Eagham's letter +50 (Meltara), Finally getting to the Warehouse +100, Exploring the abandoned farm +50.

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 4664, Elkas 4456, Solaris 4176, Meltara 4989, NightWolf 2910, FrostBeard Battlehammer 510. Shadow Wulf can level to 3 on a Long Rest.

Campaign recap for 05/26/2021

After action for 05/26/2021.

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Shadow Wulf (John), Solaris (Julie), Elkas (Jose)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 59th of Grentle, ending at 60th

Picking up from last session while some stayed at the farm, Solaris and Elkas head off with Grandpa and the Wagoneers! Immediately the trail grows cold, requiring 3 hours to find the first beast at a farm about 2 miles to the north.. but it is too late. the farmers family and the beast had fought in the small house and both sides are dead and tossed about. At the same time, two of the wagoneers had tracked another to another small farm and helped the farmer and his husband destroy the beast with only some injuries to the farmer. Regrouping they start searching from a nearby hill they find the final beast 3 hours later, laying siege to a small cottage.. they close in on it and kill it with no issue. They continue to search for the signs of the buzzing man but are unable to find anything and so return back to the Waldon farm just as the corpses of the demons are finally all burned. Once again united they tell their tales. When everything is over, Nightingale will tell her theory: The Buzzing Man is some kind of Queen Bee type insect or demon that came through that tiny gate. It gathered bees and made a body for itself and then somehow made the first crystal. It then corrupted and warped the farm animals then the farmers. It did this in a matter of weeks.. There are probably more of the Buzzing Man.. it seems to be the vanguard of the invasion. They all eat and get ready for a short rest. P'wox tells Shadow Wulf "I have had a chance to check out the shortbow you gave me. It will be great for detecting undead. I owe you a drink at the next public house!!" The watches are Meltara and P'wox 1st watch, Elkas and Solaris 2nd, Shadow Wulf and buddy 3rd. Two Wagoneers will also stand watch with them. During the 2nd hour of the first watch Meltara hears a noise P'wox and Meltara investigate and see some creatures eating the corpses of Ankhegs. Decide to leave them to their meal as they seem like natural scavengers like wolves or foxes or something. The rest of the watches pass uneventfully. In the morning the wolves eating are gone, an Inspirational breakfast and they are on the road again. A few hours later they are passing through a narrow rough road cut through a wooded area. Several of the characters notice humanoid figures hiding in the forest with bows on both sides of the road.  They inform Grandpa who tells them that they've been following the wagons for the last half-hour.  They see some people up ahead standing on the road, a warrior type with a sword and shield and three hulking humans with clubs. "My name is Rhoads! I patrol this stretch of road and for you the road stops here.. for now. First do any of you buzz? And what do you know of Demons?!" He demands.  Information is exchanged (poorly, as the players just blaher out whatever enters into their heads...) till Grandma and Grandpa explain what has been happening. Told of two other bands of highwaymen wiped and broken by Demons, of Asium closing the inner city, and the Code of the Highwaymen. And then Rhoades lets them roll past on their way to the warehouse. Three hours laters almost at the warehouses... Wagon 1 has Grandpa, Meltara, Shadow Wulf and Buddy, wagon 2 has Grandma, P'wox, Solaris and Elkas. Each wagon has three wagoneers as well. The wagons are ambushed by 3 Warmongers and 5 husks... A warmonger and 4 husks are destroyed but one of their own, Clevon the bowman, has fallen and was carried away. Meltara was down again... but saved by Solaris. Searching the husks the party 26 silver, and the one warmonger that was dropped has a belt with a pouch of 17 gold and 2 small 10gp gems. Some of the husks have matching tattoos that the party remembers having seen on some of Rhoed's group. They burn the bodies. The weary travellers get back on their wagons.. "Who the fuck damaged Wagon 1?" (it was Elkas...)

Kill count is 1 Warmonger, 4 Husks, 2 Escaped Warmonges and 1 Husk.

Exp is 200+(2x200/2)+(4x50)+(50/2)=825/5=165 base

Demon hunting with Grandpa +50 (Solaris and Elkas), Not pointlessly fighting with the wolves at the farm +50, Not pointlessly fighting with Rhoads +100, Handling negotiations with Rhoads +0

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 4364, Elkas 4156, Solaris 3876, Meltara 4639, NightWolf 2610, FrostBeard Battlehammer 510

Campaign recap for 05/19/2021

 After action for 05/19/2021.

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Shadow Wulf (John)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 59th of Grentle, ending at 59th

Solaris and Elkas go with Grandpa to hunt the beasts (GM Note: as they aren't around this week) Meltara, P'wox and Shadow Wulf take a short rest while the others leave. Getting ready to explore the farm. Nightingale asks the three about the battle. She listens to their tales, but is unable to draw any new insights from them. They decide to check out the main house first. They enter the main house and into the kitchen. All the furnishings has been moved to the walls and in the center of the room a pile of ripped apart and chewed up bodies. Shadow Wulf sees a short bow hanging about the fireplace, grabs it and gives it to P'wox. Meltara goes deeper into the ruined house but doesn't see much. They find Naida's Journal and each spend a half hour reading through sections of it. The interesting stuff is at the end.. 

Entries from Naida’s Journal.

Seven weeks ago.. Jacob found a weird thing at the edge of the north field. It looks like a group of weeds have somehow grown together into a small ring.. The open is tiny about two fingertips across and any sticks he put into it got burned. Jore is going to check on it.

.. He smashed it with a large rock and checked the farm for something similar, all the boys helping. He didn’t find anything else but was worried..

Six weeks ago.. The bees have been acting funny… It seems there are sometimes a lot more bees than normal and sometimes a lot less. Eddie says he saw somebody stumbling around the north field but could find him or any footprints.. He is probably drinking too much again.

Five weeks ago.. Put the coins from the sale of summer honey in with the rest. Some of the pigs are missing.. No wolves or monsters have been seen in the area. 

Four weeks ago.. Ankheg in the South field. Looks like at least three. Since that field is fallow, Jore is going to wait a while on dealing with them. More pigs are gone. No visitors to the farm in a while now…

Three weeks ago.. Something horrible and glorious has occurred. Jore was killed by the Buzzing Lord. Eddie was turned into a reborn servant and killed Jacob and Winson, but both were also reborn as servants. Myself and Taylen have been transformed into Warmasters! All the missing pigs were turned into battle forms for the Buzzing Lord. He had a small summoning crystal but has started on a large one.. He is taking the smaller one to a nearby village. 

Two weeks ago.. The Lord had us move the Ankhegs into barn 3. He has plans for them.

Few days ago… the New Crystal was complete.. Already some of the horses have been transformed.. I almost finished repairing Jore’s body.. Soon he will be back again.

P'wox discovered a quiver with arrows and a leather duster in the bedroom (gave duster to Shadow Wulf). Nightingale and P'wox drag the bodies out of the house to be burned, Shadow Wulf stands guard and Meltara stares at a barn. Nightingale finds a coin pouch on the Prowler that used to be the farmhand Eddie. Going to the first barn, Meltara, P'wox and Shadow Wulf search through it, Shadow Wulf finding a small sack with a small polished stone picture frame and a set of copper utensils. each of these is worth about 5gp. In the second barn, P'wox finds under a small pile of wood is Taylen’s alchemist and herbalism kits, 5 empty vials, his bag of supplies (Blood herb, 2x Dusk itchweed, Raven silkweed, 2x Ucre bramble), a potion of Waterbreathing (10mins) and a Blinding Bomb (5ft radius, DC 10 Dex Save or Blind for 1 min). In the same barn, Meltara finds hidden under the hay is a tiny box with a note that reads " To Narida, Always the light of my Life. Love Jore. And contains a Mother of Pearl Necklace (worth 45gp). Finally going to the third barn, which they know (from Naida's journal) contains several Ankhegs. Flinging open the barn doors they see a huge pile of potatoes.. being eaten by two Ankhegs. The Ankhegs ignore them, eating the potatoes till Shadow Wulf and Meletara attack them with ranged weapons. Another Ankheg pops out from the potatoes and finally two young Ankhegs show up. The party manages to kill the Ankhegs without much difficulty, except when Meltara was almost eaten by one of them and only saved when P'wox gives the near death Meltara a 2 HP healing potion. Searching the barn after the battle P'wox finds an old forgotten Heavy wool blanket worth 5 gp under the wood pile in the back.Finally searching the farm hand's cabins P'wox finds a trapped sea chest in Eddie's cabin. The trap misses him and in the chest he finds a portfollio of hand drawn erotic pictures. He leaves that and P'wox takes the bear trap from Eddies cabin (DC11 DEX, 1d6 Budg damage on failure). Nightingale has almost finished burning all the the demon corpses. The smoke attracts nearby farmers who show up and ask what has happened. Some stay and help burn more bodies. Some return to their farms to warn others.

(GM Notes: Nightingale spent most of the time here reading the journal, burning bodies that had been demonized and finding the location of the coins of the Waldon family (which she looted).)

Kill count is 3 Ankhegs and 2 Young Ankhegs.

Exp is (3x450)+(2x200)=1750/3=583 base

Important Loot found: A Shortbow, wellmade, +1 to damage and has the minor property of dimly glowing when within 20 ft of undead (given to P'wox), A dark brown leather duster jacket (the wearer ignores rain and will know the coming weather for the next day) (given to Shadow Wulf), Taylen’s alchemist and herbalism kits, 5 empty vials, his bag of supplies (Blood herb, 2x Dusk itchweed, Raven silkweed, 2x Ucre bramble), a potion of Waterbreathing (10mins) and a Blinding Bomb (5ft radius, DC 10 Dex Save or Blind for 1 min) (P'wox), Taylen's Journal (details his experiments) (P'wox). 

Possible other Loot: In the master bedroom is a wrought iron bed frame (large, hard to move, worth about 40gold), Barn 1 has a pile of bags of potatoes. There are 242 bags each weighing about 6 pounds. Each bag is worth a SP.  If left unattended 1d8% of the total will go bad per 1d6 days, if kept in a root cellar or similar every 1d4 weeks. Barn 2 has 23 bags of grain, weighing 50lbs each and worth  5SP each. Barn 3 has a pile of loose potatoes, 800 hundred pounds worth and a pile of bags. If this produce is left behind all the other local farmers will take it in a few days.

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 4049, Elkas 3791, Solaris 3491, Meltara 4324, NightWolf 2295, FrostBeard Battlehammer 510

When everything is over, Nightingale will tell her theory: The Buzzing Man is some kind of Queen Bee type insect or demon that came through that tiny gate. It gathered bees and made a body for itself and then somehow made the first crystal. It then corrupted and warped the farm animals then the farmers. It did this in a matter of weeks.. There are probably more of the Buzzing Man.. it seems to be the vanguard of the invasion. 

Campaign recap for 05/12/2021

 After action for 05/12/2021.

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Solaris (Julie), Elkas (Jose), NightWulf (John)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 59th of Grentle, ending at 59th

Sneaking around the farm, they see a Prowler with six lesser demon beasts patrolling the south west edge of the fields, turning and heading up the edge as they get to the end. In the field they see a Warmonger and 2 Demon beasts standing around the slowing pulsing crystal. The party heads to the west side of the farm and goes up the rear of the barns, encounting a group of 3 lesser beasts and a demon beast from the field that heard them and showed up. They kill these without alerting anyone else. They continue to sneak up to the house. Hidden around the back corner of the closest barn to the house, they can see the warmongers and hear them talking, the one in the house being called Mom by the one in the field, it being called Taylen. The Mom one calls the two husks that follow her Jacob and Winson. It seems they were the family that ran this farm at one time, now twisted and warped into demons. Also from where they are they see the Buzzing Man, tending a beehive in the distance, near a fenced in bed of flowering plants. At first he ignores the by play between the Warmongers but then tells them to return to their tasks. They respond with "Yes Lord!" and go back to what they were doing. The Warmonger in the field (Taylen) is watching the crystal in the field and making a sword extend from his hand and arm and then retracting it.. giggling as he does so. After a few moments, the corpses of the horses surrounding the crystal mutate and twist, becoming 3 more Demonic beasts. Sticking to their plan, they use buddy to set the attack, having him bark near the front of the house and draw the demons to them, allowing them to ambush the smaller groups as they come to investigate. 'Mom' and the two husks show up and are beaten ('Mom' screaming about her destroyed 'sons') before the Prowler and his group of six Lesser demon beasts show up. P'wox has NightWulf send Buddy back for help. Elkas uses an up-powered Burning Hands to kill the horde of Lesser demonic beasts. Doing 15pts of fire damage, halved for their resistance is 7 and 5 out of 6 Lesser beasts failed. NightWulf gets lots of crits with his longbow. P'wox using his symbol to Abjure the Extraplanar, but they all resisting. The Buzzing Man going to the roof of the barn with Solaris and Meltara, attacking Meltara. Solaris using her Warding Flare to help Meltara in his battle with the Buzzing Man. They destroy the Buzzing Man's shell revealing his actual form, a humanoid horde of bees! Meltara taken down, Healed by Solaris, P'wox running to the field to destroy the crystal. NightWulf running from and then being taken down by the three Demon beasts chasing him. Battle ended with the BuzzingMan about to attack P'wox, then seeing more people crossing the dry stream bed to the south (Grandpa and ma and most of the wagoneers alerted by Buddy), It ceased attacking, flew to the crystal, enveloped it into his chest and flew away to the north, taking the last 3 beasts with him. "Beeee seeing you..." he said as he left.. Abandoning the farm and heading north, the beasts each head in a separate direction while the Buzzing Man escapes with the crystal. Since he is flying there are no tracks to follow…  At the party’s request Grandma uses a Revivify Scroll on NightWolf, restoring him to life. Now he owes them for that too.

Grandpa and the wagon operators will go and hunt down the last 3 beasts, Grandma will stay with the PCs to help them check the farm.

GM Note: The PCs made a plan and mostly stuck to it. There were some cool action moves in the battle, climbing on roofs, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, Solaris running around to heal and use Spare the Dying.

Kill count is 9 Lesser beasts, 2 Beasts, 2 husks, 1 prowler and 2 warmongers. 3 beasts and the buzzing man escaped.

Exp is (9x25)+(2x50)+(2x50)+100+(2x200)+(3x50x0.5)+(1100x0.5)=1412/5=282 base

Freeing the farm +150, Revealing the Buzzing Man's true form +50, Using the Demon beast's corpse to jump off of to try to hit the Buzzing Man +50 (Elkas), Running across the roofs of barns to escape +50 (Meltara), Running around to heal and use Spare the Dying +50 (Solaris).

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 3466, Elkas 3791, Solaris 3491, Meltara 3741, NightWolf 1712, FrostBeard Battlehammer 510

Campaign recap for 05/04/2021

 After action for 05/04/2021.

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Solaris (Julie), Elkas (Jose), NightWolf (John)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 58th of Grentle, ending at 59th

There was no game on 04/27/21 as the GM was on vacation.

Things got off to a slow start as everyone leveled up their characters (rather than do it during the week). 

P'wox gives the party a rousing speech about how they will do better and become heros of tales told in all the cities and towns (this gives them each +6 temporary HP). The morning breakfast talk about the demons and the crystals. Grandpa shares all the information he has gathered, but the players seem not to listen, acting surprised when they hear the same things later. They speak with the Hedmon and get permission to interrogate Wade the farmer who was a demon worshipper. He tells them what they had heard earlier (or would have heard if they had been listening). Wade, who is almost an outcast in the village, tells how a mysterious "buzzing" stranger gave him the crystal and told him to wait 2 months and then take it to a graveyard, place it near the freshest bodies. He was also told the creatures that would raise up would not attack him as long as he held the crystal but that was a lie. One clawed at him as it was half formed on the crypt shelf so he dropped the crystal and ran back to his farm to hide. When asked why he did it, Wade told them it was for power and respect. The demons would obey him and he would run the village. They did not learn anything new. Suddenly a farmer runs into the inn and  says an army is coming. In the distance they see a tall person with a large band of shorter humanoids, some pulling wagons. As they get closer, the group hears them. They are singing a popular song called the Ballad of SnakeEyes, with multiple stanzas about his various misadventures and the refrain is "And then he bravely ran away.., Bravely ran away." The last stanza  they sing tells about him working for the Finger at an underground castle.. Jornor and his band of goblins show up with more information, two huge wagon mounted ballista and two more wagons containing several husk and demon beast corpses. The demon beast corpses look like hairless distorted animals, obscenely twisted into horrific versions. He tells of saving some farms in the areas he "patrols". Jornor acts very rakish and tells tales of he and his band fighting with the husks. When asked about the "buzzing man" he tells of how he encountered such a person and crossed rapiers with him and would have won if the person didn't fly away when losing. He tells how he flew off, not with wings or anything. Meanwhile the snappily dressed goblins set up a small market place by the 2nd Turpid (the inn), playing musical instruments (badly), singing (badly), strutting around, posing, selling some weapons and armor and buying local produce and trade goods. NightWolf and Meltarra buy Studded Leather armor from the goblin smithy, Meltara's having a gothic/heavy metal look to it with skulls, spikes and a horned helmet. The farmer that also works as the Executioner shows up and Wade is publicly beheaded, his body taken to the graveyard. The demon corpses and parts are burned in a bonfire built by the goblins. NightWolf summons Buddy, his wolf companion, for the first time. Solaris pets the giant fey wolf and calls it "PUPPY!!!" Jornor and his goblins pack up and leave the village, promising to check the local graveyards for husks and crystals.

In a moment of quiet, Solaris uses mending on the shards of crystal from the farmhouse, and as soon as it is reintegrated it begins trying to draw her in to touch it and be absorbed by it. But she resists and they smash the crystal again. P'wox smashes the shards of crystal to bits. Elkas examines the bits and figures out that the crystal's shape is somehow channeling magical energies. Apparently the crystal is a non-magical resonator that somehow draws magic from the area it is in.. and can absorb spells.. using the energy gained to create husks. Elkas discovers that it is using different laws of magic then he is used to. Or using them in a way he isn't used to. The important take-away is that repairing the crystals (or duplicating them) causes them to reactivate and do what they were doing before. Everyone gets on the wagons and they roll out. Lots of local produce is now on the wagons which will be taken to the next stop, another hidden warehouse/ brewery 15 miles away. Travelling for the next eight hours and making camp 8 miles away from the village. watches are Meltara/NightWolf and Buddy/P'wox/Elkas and Solaris, each 2hr. The night is uneventful, except for Buddy barking wildly at everyone. In the morning,P'wox gives the party another speech. Travelling (slowly) towards the hidden warehouse, Meltara hears movement in the forest ahead. Grandpa calls stop and the group is sent to advance and check it out. Solaris flies to the top of the nearby trees and can see an abandoned farm in the distance with some sort of large geometric pattern in one of the mostly empty fields. NightWolf stalks forward with Buddy by his side. He hears something eating and destroying the trees up ahead. He sends Buddy forward and a pack of eight lesser demonic beasts attack! As the party repositions to help NightWolf and Meltara another pack of five lesser demonic beasts and their controller, a demonic Prowler bursts out from the other side of the trail. There were some exciting moments, like Elkas's 1st mirror image being shattered by the prowler's claw.. sparing him. The next claw also shatters a mirror image. Elkas last mirror image is shattered by acid blood leaving alone once more. NightWolf killing a few with Critical hits and Buddy mauling a couple. The battle ends with no one downed but they did burn a few spell slots... In the distance there is an abandoned farm and what looks like a crop circle with a shiny thing in the center...

CLIFFHANGER!!!

Kill count=(13xLesser Demon Beast)+(Demon Prowler)

Exp=(13x25)+100=425/5=85 exp each

Attempting to interrogate Wade +50, Investigating the Crystals +50 (Elkas), Buying the gothic studded leather armor +50 (Meltarra),

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 2984, Elkas 3259, Solaris 2959, Meltara 3209, NightWolf 1230, FrostBeard Battlehammer 510

Campaign Recap for 04/20/2021

 After action for 04/20/2021. 

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Solaris (Julie), Elkas (Jose), NightWolf (John), Frostbeard Battlehammer (Rumo)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 57th of Grentle, ending at 57th

Back at the inn, the 2nd Turnip, the party regals the villagers with tales of bravery. The barkeeper is most impressed by P'wox's tale and give him a lavender cordial in a small glass vial that has "chair" written on it. He got in from an adventurer that couldn't pay his (and his parties) tab. P'wox studies the potion and determines that the potion "grants the form of a piece of a wooden chair for 2d8 minutes". Suddenly, a soil covered farmer runs into the inn and yells about demons in the graveyard. "I saw them walking in the graveyard when I was heading to the barn." The Hedmon calls up the local militia but that will take at least a half hour to gather. Grandpa tells the party to go manage the situation. The party gumbles and asks the GM about rests and then they goto the graveyard accompanied by Frostbeard Battlehammer, a dwarven rogue that is currently in the village. They get there and fight 4 demon husks and a late spawning demon prowler. (GM Note: The party’s combat tactics mostly non existent, Only NightWolf making any plans). Meltara examines where the demon husks came from and finds a small (1 ft high) crystal, looking very similar to the one in the farmhouse earlier. Meltara grabs the crystal, it burning at his bare hands and tries to run out of the graveyard with it.He and the rest of the group fight over it.  At one point Meltara presses it to his face and the crystal burns off some of his life force and shoots a purple light back into the graveyard. The crystals is creating/summoning more demon husks while this is going on but the party doesn't seem to notice. Meltara finally drops the crystal and tries to step on it, before smashing it with his dagger. Frostbeard goes to where the purple lights shoot off to but doesn't investigate that well (missing the forming demon husks). They walk back to the inn and minutes later suddenly hear screams coming back from the direction of the graveyard. Frostbeard vanishes back into the night. NightWolf and P'wox go to investigate the screams. they rest of the party decides to goto the inn. Seeing a group of four demon corpses about to break into a farmhouse (with people screaming inside), Nightwolf and P'wox run back to the inn. Meanwhile at the inn the rest of the party tell Grandpa that they killed five demons at the graveyard and heard a scream in the distance but "didn't want to die tonight". Grandma and pa run out of the inn toward the graveyard, running into P'wox and NightWolf. P'wox and NightWolf watch as Grandma and Grandpa run to the farmhouse, break in and demolish the demon husks.. but it's too late most of the household has died. Grandpa and Grandma then head to the graveyard and investigate the battle and location the crystal was.. finding tracks that lead back to a farmhouse on the outskirts of the village. They capture the demon worshipper that lives there and bring him back to the inn. The Hedmon identifies him and he confesses. The farmer, almost an outcast in the village, tells how a mysterious "buzzing" stranger gave him the crystal and told him to wait 2 months and then take it to a graveyard, place it near the freshest bodies. He was also told the creatures that would raise up would not attack him as long as he held the crystal but that was a lie. One clawed at him as it was half formed on the crypt shelf so he dropped the crystal and ran. The militia finally heads out and spends the night looking for demons in the village. The party takes a Long Rest.

Kill count=(4xDemon Husks)+(Demon Prowler)

Exp=(4x50)+100=300/6=60 exp each

Finding and smashing the summoning crystal +100, Trying to shout tactics to the others +100 (NightWolf), Fighting over the crystal/summoning four more Demon Husks +0, Half ass investigating the area where the purple lights went to +50 (Frostbeard), Locating the farmhouse under attack but not doing anything +25 (P'wox/NightWolf)

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 2849, Elkas 3074, Solaris 2824, Meltara 3024, NightWolf 1095, FrostBeard Battlehammer 510

Elkas and Meltara can level to 4 and NightWolf to lvl 3 once they take a Long Rest.

Campaign recap for 04/13/2021.

 After action for 04/13/2021.

Playing: P’wox (Aaron), Meltara (Keiran), Solaris (Julie), Elkas (Jose), NightWolf (John)

Date in Campaign is: Start at 55th of Grentle, ending at 57th

Meltara begins attempting to harvest one of the mimic corpses..P'wox looks over the south wagon, determines it was once owned by a human merchant(s) and has been here for a few months... nothing of value. Flipping over the wagon P'wox finds a small purse... he stabs it with his longsword just in case..In the purse is 15 sp, a few bits of paper and a small black needle stuck in a black cork (GM Note: Later experimentation would show that anything the black needle is stuck into (up to a surface area of five square feet) becomes black and returns to its normal colouration when removed.) Meltara collects a vial of acid from the mimic stomach. They call Grandpa and the wagons forward..tell their tale.. and then Night Wolf wanders over with his confusing story. Resuming the slow wagon trip to Weepmire..which is still about 20hrs of travel away... NightWolf joins the group. Two hours of travel later (about two miles).. in the distance a smaller wagon is slowly rolling towards them along the same trail. The wagon is carrying grain to some village, driven by a farmer and his two sons. When close enough to chat Grandpa and the farmer chat, the farmer purchases something from Grandpa and then the wagons continue onward. Three more hours later, Elkas and Meltara spot someone standing in the middle of the road up ahead. He seems to be wearing leather armor, a janunty feathered hat and carries a rapier. The wagons are stopped several hundred feet away and the party sent ahead to check it out. Stopping over a two hundred feet away the party debates and then sends NightWolf to check the small stand of trees to the south of the road. NightWolf sneaks in the woods and sneaks into a small group of goblins hiding there.. but does not discover them till he and they are next to each other. A goblin swings a scimitar at him but NightWolf disengages and runs back to the party. Tired of waiting, the person on the road moves closer and yells out to them, saying he is Jornor Olohom, a gentleman bandit and he patrols this road. If you wish to pass this way you need to pay the toll. Party debates this, till Meltara says fuck it and asks how much is the fee and what guarantees does he offer. Meltara tells him to swear on his family jewels, so Jornor swears on his "Strong Long sword that brings forth the proper cries'' that they shall not be molested or bothered by man, monster or beast for the ensuing eight miles, which is the area he claims as his patrol. He asks for 5 gp per wagon and 1 sp per person, Meltara pays 12 gold. (GM Note: Meltara should have bargained him down, there is no way that farmer they crossed three hours earlier paid that much). Jornor steps off the road and enters the south woods, a band of nattily clothed goblins (clean, equipment in good repair and their hair combed!) join with him and wave to the party and wagons as they pass. The wagons travel three more hours and then camp is made. The night is set into 3 watches of 4 hours each...1st Solaris/Nightwolf, 2nd Elkas/P'wox and 3rd watch is Meltara. The night passes uneventfully. The wagons start to roll at dawn...12 more hours to Weepmire. Journeying the whole day without incident...maybe that bandit's word means something...

The village Weepmire, a small village of 20+ buildings in a loose circle around the inn at the center and a ring of farms around that. The inn is called The Second Turnip and doubles as the local fort in times of trouble. Hedmon Micsan meets you all at the village center. As they enter the inn through the old, hardwood door, they're welcomed by the smell of alcohol and a feeling of comfort. The bartender is a little preoccupied, but still manages to welcome them with a smile. Solaris is thinking it is strange that no one seems to recognize Grandma and Grandpa in the tavern especially after Elkas said he thought they were suspicious...So Elkas has to explain (again) that he knows Grandpa and Grandma are Reckless and Nightingale. The wagons will be staying at this village overnight and then leaving in the morning for the warehouse. Nightwolf and Solaris stay with the wagons for the first 4hrs, then P'wox and Elkas and then Meltara for the last 4hrs. Well that was the plan, till the bartender tells them about the demons at the old Ferno farm not that far out of town. Grandpa says "I know adventurers like yourself can't resist a haunted farm so you can go.. try not to get killed." Jojor the serving boy will lead them to the farm "but I'm not stepping on to that farm!" Jojor leads them there, about 1.5 miles away and then heads back. The group investigate the lightless abandoned farm, the moons providing enough light to see. They tried to sneak around but were pretty noisy. Getting to the farm house it's a typical enough place with shuttered windows and heavy wood doors. P'wox tries to push the front door open with his longsword but the door seems barred from the inside. Using their various detect fiends/undead/etc they determine there are four fiends in the building. Circling around the farm house they find the animal pens, a few dried out carrasses still in the area and a large dead tree in the middle of pig pens. While looking for a wood beam to hit the door, the huge dead tree in the animal pen area come life and attacks Meltara.. and they blast it to burning timber. Meltara smashes the farmhouse door with his spiritual weapon twice then kicks the door and runs into the farm house, and is attacked by demons, surprising no one. (GM Note: This seems to happen in one form or another every week). He disengages and runs back out. The demons are two Maw Demons and what appears to be some demonic animated corpses. After killing all the demons in the farmhouse, they enter the house and see the crystal radiating evil in the house... P'wox first tries to destroy it (damaging his sword). Trying to study it to figure out how to destroy it and then wants to eat it! Nightwolf shoots the crystal from his hand before he can eat it. The crystal shatters and falls to the floor. Solaris gathers up the pieces, planning to use her mending cantrip to try to turn it into an ordinary crystal. They return to the Inn and tell their story. We will start just before they take a Long Rest.

Kill count=(Animated Dead Tree)+(2xMaw Demons)x(2xCorpse Demons)

Exp=(200)+(2x200)+(2x100)=800/5=160 exp each

For Not fighting the gentleman bandit and his band +150, Paying off Jornor +100 (Meltara), Freeing the Ferno farm from demons/destroying the summoning crystal +100, Shooting the crystal out of P'wox hands +100 (NightWolf) 

Current Exp Totals are: P’wox 2664, Elkas 2914, Solaris 2664, Meltara 2864, NightWolf 810.

Elkas and Meltara can level to 4 once they take a Long Rest.