Game summary for November 7, 2013, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Broken Moon adventure; PCs included Caerwen (elf monk), Dario Malavasi (human oracle), Gnok Thatek (dwarf monk), and Tigris Inebriavi (elf magus), accompanied by NPC companion Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric).
The party traveled on toward Ascanor Lodge and came across a dead man tied to a tree with a large silver knife stabbed through his heart. As the group approached, Tigris triggered a tripwire that unleashed a volley silvered crossbow bolts into the party! After nursing their wounds, they investigated the body and found its mouth filled with wolfsbane. They cut the body down and laid it beside a tree. Then covered it in some branches. And then left.
The team made camp and spent a relatively uneventful evening in the Shudderwood. They pressed on through the next day and arrived at Ascanor Lodge shortly before dawn. They were denied entry based on the letter from Count Caromarc and the bloody invitation and turned away. However, around the same time, a nobleman emerged eager for a werewolf hunt. He invited the party to join in, and they all set out into the evening.
The team came upon a slain deer carcass Delgros the huntsman had discovered, which is what led Duristan (the nobleman) to want to investigate. It was currently being consumed by a trio of dire boars! The great pigs jealously guarded their meal by charging the party! A quick battle ensued, and the boars were slain with only a few gores. The group discovered great claw marks on the stag corpse. Duristan decided to set werewolf traps and spend the night, but Delgros returned to the Lodge.
Later in the evening, while Duristan served brandy and talked about daring hunts and acts of bravery, the team heard some of the hired guards scream in the darkness. They found two men slain by a towering, slavering werewolf standing over twelve feet tall! The massive beast roared a challenge and demanded the party leave its territory. It gave them a message to deliver to “whomever sent them” as a second enormous werewolf appeared from the darkness. Howls erupted all around, and Duristan bolted.
The party fled after Duristan and found all the guards murdered. They got on their horses and returned to Ascanor Lodge and followed Duristan in. Within, they were introduced to Estovion Lozarov, warden of Ascanor. He offered the use of the library and had Belik the porter show them to their rooms. The team did some research in the library to discover several clues about the Shudderwood werewolves and then cleaned up for dinner.
