Ragnorra Session 27

Start: 9 am, Tuesday, Flamerule 20, 1396

The party regrouped in the morning in the Prancing Gargoyle. Suddenly, Ronja received a summons from Lloyd.

Lloyd introduced Saveta, someone he vaguely described as "an envoy of a friend", and "someone with mutual interest in the surroundings and Plungepool".

The party likewise, vaguely accepted his proposal of companions. Before they left, they requested protection from scrying from Lloyd. He hesitated but accepted, granting them temporary protection, so they could speak privately with their new acquaintance.

The group of them returned to the Prancing Gargoyle, where they talked. In truth, it was part interrogation and part interview. In the end, they caught each other up in the current events and what they knew they were up against, in privacy. For the time, they agreed they would keep some secrets from each other, amicably.

Vix said goodbye to Lilly, and they brought Leonard and Vix's minions in the bag. The party decided to go on foot. They left town and decided to circumvent the Plungepool, rather than taking what seemed like the shortest path. They proceeded north, and found various ways of crossing the waters without getting infected. As they traveled around the Plungepool, they noticed a great blight of the plants, and an almost total absence of animals.

Eventually, they traveled around to their destination. Ronja scouted ahead, peering around a great boulder to see what appeared to be a fleshy, malformed treant. It was partially transformed, and tentacles shot out like shoots from pus-dripping, infected wounds. Alongside the treant, was some afflicted, seemingly in worship.

The party felled the treant and afflicted. Behind it, they found a building reduced to rubble, and an old well. They decided to carefully descend into the well. At the bottom, they found a group of Malshapers, along with a group of enthralled gibbering mouthers. They decided to send Saveta's golem at the front, have Saveta wait part-way up the ladder, and to use the staff of teleportation to flank the Malshapers, who appeared to be spellcasters.

Leonard agreed to sit this one out, and keep watch.

3600 xp

Omen and Montgomery must feed in 55 hours.

End: 5 pm, Tuesday, Flamerule 20, 1396