Slip Past the Blight and Find Giant(ess) Problems
AC asked her about the necklace.
Old Gnaw-Bone told you what it was made of. "A fragment of godspark — that of Lathander…"
She told you, too, what's known about godsparks: when the god of strength fell, he gave his to one of the heroes; a god of murder stole several others.
She told AC one difference between her shackles and his contract.
He can take his off.
Lessie said goodbye to Lynx. She thinks she heard a Mockingbird thank her.
Bree was beside her by then. She told Lessie she had been searching for her passion, her place, and that she had found Teppo, and that she had found hope.
She stepped away.
A herd of deer was crossing the meadow. Bree joined them.
She disappeared over a hill.
As she did, another deer stepped into the herd in her place.
You retrieved Ubys from outside the perimeter. You started back through the forest.
The forest was different now.
Light had withdrawn. Branches moved without wind. Bushes walked. Twig Blights, Vine Blights, two Blighted Trees — thirsty for the blood of the living — came up through the trunks of the trees themselves.
Moist cast Pass Without Trace.
You ran.
The Blight-things searched ground you'd already left. You came out of the forest by the camp you knew.
Long Rest. Ubys played Teppo's lyre — strummed "Ice, Ice, Lady" — over a fire that, this time, no wyvern arrived to interrupt.
In the morning, Ubys arranged Runs with Bitches's belongings in a tidy line at the camp and laid a Leilon token across them. An offering. Take what was yours. Know we were here.
You headed west.
Two days back to Leilon.
On the first day, dead grass blew toward Moist — toward, not with the wind — and an Owlbear broke cover ten feet from him. Lessie stepped between the party and the Owlbear before anyone moved.
The Owlbear knew her.
"Sworn to spare our hunger…"
His name was Daryl. Lessie had once saved a friend of his — Gerald. Lessie offered him jerky. He was annoyed not to be eating you. He took the jerky and went on.
On the second day, the road shook.
A Hill Giantess came up over a ridge. She had a club she called Tammy. Her name was Pammy.
"Tammy, do you smell that?"
Ubys tried to Thaumaturgy you all into the bushes.
"No!?" — Pammy unconvinced — "I smell human…"
She lifted the cart off the road and found AC underneath.
She swung Tammy and laid 20 into him.
AC burned a seal and CRIT for 28.
Dhuxtyn CRIT for 23.
KeYs CRIT for 15.
Lessie turned into a Giant Frog, missed her bite, and latched onto Pammy's belly-button.
Ubys cast Command through a rune he'd carved while waiting outside the grove. "LEAVE! Go on — GET!"
Pammy looked at Tammy and said: "Tammy, time get out of here…"
She ran.
You laid into her on the way out — Lessie ripped off her knee-cap on the way unlatching — and Dhuxtyn dropped Sleep on her at 90 feet.
She fell.
You finished her on the ground.
In her satchel: a hand-drawn map to her hidden stash. You took it with you.
You arrived at Leilon in the evening. You set down at the Dusty Gnome. Tomorrow: the bug problem at the silver mines.
Next session: the silver mine. The dust over town. The two dwarves at the entrance.