Session 13 (9/17/21)

 The Amazons

The party was approached by Jaspar the unicorn. The migration of the Forest Giants in Ivy's Woods were disrupted for some reason, and his prophecy tells him that if the migration isn't repaired then the forest will be in grave danger. 

The party sought out Clawdia, chief of the Forest Giants. These giants were bigger than normal forest giants, 20-25 feet tall, and all female, many with a taste for humanoid flesh. She revealed that her tribe makes occasional migrations to breed with the males of the mountain giant clan- gargantuan giants 45 feet tall who have an insatiable taste for humanoids. The males children are sent back, while the females live here, safe from being dominated by the spores in Ivy's Forest. 

However, monsters have taken over the pass- medium sized spiders. The Amazons are terrified by the spiders and have been afraid to take the voyage. This puts them at risk, as if the social contact is not met, the Mountain Giants will come burn the woods to claim the women. 

The party went to fight the spiders. In the tunnels they met a Lampad named Terra who informed them that the spiders are aggressive because some humans went to a shrine nearby and defiled it.

The party headed to the shrine, which was a shrine of a long forgotten spider goddess. There they found that some Ragathiel paladins were turned into spiders when they destroyed the holy books in the shrine- and the spiders that were here became aggressive and went out into the nearby mountains.

The party considered finishing the job and destroying the altar, which would destroy the dark goddess' influence on the world, but were afraid of getting similarly cursed, so they reached out to Umbraella Arachnix, who came to the shrine and learned that the goddess was Lolth from another dimension. She freed the goddes and became her chosen. 

Umbraella pulled back the spiders to the shrine, solving the Giants problems, but refused to spare the Paladins, as they had done her goddess damage and must be punished. She also hinted that she might turn nearby mountain giants into gargantuan driders under her command.

She blessed the party with a succubus profane gift. However, Vesper and her cohort were weakened- this was a great evil they had done, and it violated their Good flaw.