They soon realise that it is actually a little town
surrounded by farms some of which are locked up from the inside.
In the town square the group find quite a mess, their best
guess would possibly point at a gathering of people into the square where they
were then slaughtered possibly by Wyverns given by the claw marks in the stone.
Plus, the fact that Natalia spotted the body of a dead wyvern spotted in nearby
field.
Vaneer checks the wounds of the creature and giant claw
marks seem to explain why it was missing most of its chest, but she isn’t sure
as to what creature had done this to the Wyvern.
Natalia uses her druidic ability of commune to sense what
creatures are in the area.
After some time, Natalia discovers that there is the odd
dotting of people here and there whilst in the woods to the South West there is
a single powerful unnatural creature. In the woods the west she also sensed a
pair of unnatural creatures.
The group head west into the nearby woodland and make their
way towards the pair of creatures.
As the group approaches the area they slow and prepare for
whatever they are to find ahead.
The sounds of a waterfall could be heard as the group find
themselves emerging into a large open glade. Around the outskirts of the glade
they noticed many damaged trees and tree stumps that scatter the area.
The damaged bark shows signs of claw marks from either a
large creature or creatures.
Before they can speculate to what they were tracking they hear
excited hooting quickly followed by a second and closer hoot as a gigantuous
owl bear with wings (winged owl bear) rushes into the clearing towards the
group.
Winged Owl Bear (WOB) 1 – attacks Otto and hits one of his mirror
self’s,
Vaneer casts destruction on WOB 1 but it resists,
Hugo moves into attack WOB 1 and hits,
Miro tumbles round WOB 1 attacks but misses,
Natalia casts finger of death but fails,
Bob attacks WOB 1 and hits,
WOB 2 reaches Miro where it attacks and hits,
Otto steps back, casts hold monster which holds followed by a
quickened haste,
Boss shoots at WOB 2 and hits,
Vaneer casts mass inflict critical wounds on the WOB1, WOB 1
breaks the hold,
Hugo attacks WOB 1 hits with 2 critical blows,
Miro attacks WOB 1 hits 4x killing it with 3 critical
strikes,
WOB 1 collapses,
Bob attacks WOB 2 and hits,
Natalia casts a spell,
WOB 2 attacks Miro and hits once,
Otto casts hold monster on WOB 2 which takes hold,
Hugo attacks WOB 2 and hits twice,
Vaneer attacks WOB 2 and hits twice,
Hugo attacks WOB 2 hits x4 (1 critical),
Miro attacks WOB 2 hits and kills it with a critical.
Otto and Miro teleport back to Pitax with one winged owl
bear corpse to sell to the merchant who offers the group a further 4k of gold
for the second corpse that the party has.
When the pair return Vaneer heals up the party of all their
wounds.
Natalia scouts the area to the south west to see whilst in bird
form of any indication of what the ‘other’ presence is in the woodland. Though
after not finding anything she returns to the group to relay the disappointing
information.
The group decide to investigate the area further just incase
the quarry was hiding amongst some thick tree or bush growth.
Though they soon find that the deeper they travel into the woodland
the thicker it got so it takes just over a day to get to the area by next
morning.
Natalia checks with her commune again and discovers that the
creature had moved ½ mile away from them, so they continue making their way
towards the new area.
Before they can take in their surroundings a creature
attacks Vaneer and hits,
Miro misses,
Otto and hits,
Natalia misses,
Hugo misses,
Boss misses,
Something beneath the ground drags those that were hit
across the floor by what appear to be roots,
Vaneer casts command plants telling the creature to release
the party and show its self which works,
A Tree to the right opens its awe of a mouth in a show to
reveal itself as commanded,
Natalia recognises it as a “Quick wood” a carnivorous and
intelligent tree,
Quickwood uses its fear aura affects all except Vaneer and Miro
causing everyone else to flee in terror,
Quickwood then attacks Miro 6 times but luckily all attacks miss,
Miro chickens out of the fight and waits for Vaneer to do
something,
Vaneer tells the tree to frick off elsewhere and it obeys
the command as it shambles deeper into the woods,
Rest of party soon return as Miro and Vaneer try to bluff
that they destroyed the tree, but tree was too slow to vacate the area.
Otto teleports the group to the white rose hill abbey and
they make their back way to the tunnel entrance and through to the pool where
Evindra has been awaiting their return.
The group spend some time giving Evindra an update of
current events and the fight with the king of Pitax.
Miro soon races into the water with the shawl and briar bearing
a smile almost as big as the pool.
Evindra thanks the group for returning Briar and her shawl
as she informs them of its history.
Briar belonged to the fey and it influences the surrounding
area which is why the wine that use to be produced here tasted great. Evindra
was given the duty to look after the sword and to keep it out of the hands of a
fey queen.
Briar can be a vorpal weapon to the right wielder and change
its appearance, but its power has faded over time.
Evindra is happy to stay put for now whilst the pool under
the hill remains hidden and a secret from the world.
The group agree to keep the pool quiet and decide that they
would reinstate the monastery above to help keep it a secret once they return
to Wyvernshore.
On the way out of the tunnel most of the group minus Otto
hear a strange noise from behind them and so they rush back to the pool only to
hear a scuffle as they get closer.
As they emerge into the pool cavern they see 3 fey-like
creatures attacking Evindra and attempting to steal the sword Briar from her.
Otto Shouts “See You!” As he casts finger of death at fey1 who
is trying to steal briar but now drops to the floor dead,
Otto casts a Quickened haste,
Boss shoots at fey2 and hits multiple times,
Miro sneaks up to fey3 and stabs him in the back,
Hugo attacks fey3 and hits,
Vaneer casts dimensional lock to prevent anyone escaping
with Briar,
Natalia casts baleful polymorph on fey 4 turning it into a
rabbit,
Bob rushes for the rabbit and critically strikes it,
Rabbit attacks Bob but misses,
Fey3 tries to cast a spell but nothing happens,
Fey2 attacks Bob and hits,
Fey5 attacks Hugo but misses,
A large creature with wings of darkness reveals itself,
Creature casts prismatic spray at Vaneer, Otto, Boss and
Natalia,
Vaneer saves vs poison,
Otto saves vs insanity,
Boss saves vs Death,
Natalia fails vs fire and takes little fire damage,
Otto casts another finger of death but this time at the
winged creature and kills it,
Otto then casts a Quicken scorching ray fey2 and hits for
small damage,
Boss shoots fey2 and hits twice killing it and hits Fey5
thrice,
Miro attacks fey3 and kills it,
Hugo attacks fey5 and hits 4 times which kills it,
Vaneer attacks fey4 and hits,
Bob attacks fey4 and hits,
Natalia attacks fey4 and killing it.
The nature “friendly” members are watched in horror by their
cohorts as they stomp, skewer and rip apart a harmless rabbit.
“Think its best guessed that they know where the sword is
now” sighed Vaneer.
It’s quickly agreed amongst the group and Evindra that the
sword ‘briar’ would be best protected by the group to which Miro eagerly
accepts responsibility of looking after it.
Group also offers Evindra sanctuary within the kingdom where
ever she chooses, and she accepts under the fear of further assassination
attempts should she stay in the pool.
The group then finally return to Wyvernshore.
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