Session 8 7/23/21

The Syrum

The party was hired by the alchemist guild. An experimental mutagen was stolen. It increased the physical body of a person by granting them racial hit dice, but degraded their mental stats. The thieves Ruby and Flynn were hired by the Gnecromancer Xylophone Shadowbender. He was hiring laid off fighter's guild members to experiment on- enhancing them, then killing them and turning them into powerful zombies. 

The party tracked him down and defeated him, freeing many of the captured people and recovering the syrum. Once it was completed they were able to get a sampling of it.

The Damsel

Julietta summoned the party, having had dreams of true love kept apart. Katherine Dannan's father was keeping her locked in a tower so she could marry a Chelaxian Noble, which would be very lucrative for his tobacco and alchemy reagent farming. However, Julietta saw that Jaspar would be Katherine's true love.

The party broke into the keep and rescued Katherine to find that she was a seven year old half elf girl, and not interested at all in romance. They took her to Ivy's Forest to meet Jaspar but were pursued by her father and his guards, who set fire to the forest. The party met Jaspar, who was a unicorn, and had him get Arcus Woodsplitter, who was able to control the weather and put out the fire, and awaken Ivy's Tree so that it could move away from the fire. 

Jaspar revealed that Katherine was a chosen of Valaren and they would form an eternal bond as protectors of the forest- and that not all love was romantic or sexual. Jaspar blessed the party with the powers of the forest protectors.

Session 7 7/2/2021

 The Missing Dog

Urist Lighbender, Royal Magician to Rogar Hornbreaker has come to the party via the Mage's Guild contact. Rogar's favorite hunting dog, a dog with the advanced template, bred and enhanced by the alchemists guild, was stolen. Divinations indicate that it was stolen by the orc tribe outside the village. He worries if he tells Rogar, then the dwarves will march on the tribe and completely wipe them out. Seeking to avoid the bloodshed, he wants to see if the party can recover the dog.

The party went to Arkus, who wasn't aware of the dog, but some young ones were still out on their Mor-Zog Gog and haven't returned. Arkus led the party to Lynn's Lake, where the naiad Lynn would let them use the pool for scrying. They discovered that the boy Runs with Rivers was inside Ivy's Forest- an area dangerous to men, which is patrolled by the Qatgirl a dangerous lichenthrope.

The party tracked Runs with Rivers through the woods, to find he had taken Trapper as his animal companion during druid training, and that he was tracking Shaking Spear, a young orcish girl who he had dreams was captured by the Qatgirl. They party faced and defeated the Qatgirl and saved Shaking Spear.

The party negotiated with the Orcs to give away a direwolf pup to be trained as a hunting beast by Rogar and was able to negotiate trade with Rogar for Trapper, and thus avoided war and let the boy keep his dog.

Making a Man

Adam and Steve from the Fighter's Guild asked the party for help. A recruit, Eric, had been wounded during a patrol a month ago, and since then he's been very wary about engaging in combat, often letting his partners go forward and fight on his behalf. This has caused people to stop trusting him, and is jeopardizing his position in the guild. They wanted the party to capture a monster and sic it on Eric, forcing him to fight it and get his courage back. 

After the party tried to come up with several plans which did not involve the mission, such as pretending to be bandits, Vesper attempted to hypnotize him in public, which failed and caused him to start reporting her for spell-assault. Pending came to speak with him, and during conversation realized that there was something more to his fear. They discovered that when he was wounded he contracted lycanthropy and he was afraid to enter combat for fear the wolf would come out. They reported his disease to the fighters guild for them to take care of.