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Game summary for November 29, 2016, Reign of Winter campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Tiswichtt (Orc Witch played by Casey Scruggs), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

As Tulvur plunged into the pit, a pair of winter-touched sprites and an atomie attacked!  Tiny frigid arrows whipped through the icy air staggering Tiswichtt.  Deska quickly dropped her spear and tied a rope around her waist to try and help Tulvur out of the ice pit.  Before she could drop the rope down, the atomie shrunk her with faerie magic!  It followed this with hurled magic stones from its sling.  Ten-Penny was able to engage and bring down one of the sprites while Tiswichtt went toe-to-toe with the other.  Deska managed to extract Tulvur and draw her dagger to assist Tiswichtt.  The atomie also shrunk Tiswichtt!  Tulvur unleashed a barrage of crossbow bolts at the atomie and drove it off into the forest.  He then spun about and put a bolt through the face of the other sprite.  The atomie returned having consumed a healing potion as a moss troll emerged from a cave!  It plunged its spear into Tiswichtt as she hit it with a chill touch to sap its strength.

Things looked bleak, but Tulvur was able to put pressure on the troll by closing into melee with Icebiter as Ten-Penny hit the atomie with a tanglefoot bag.  She was then able to kill it as it was stuck to the top of the igloo.  She worked her way around to flank the troll, and the team unleashed upon it.  As it fell, Ten-Penny yelled, “burn it!”  Needing no further prompting, Deska pulled out her flint and steel and lit it on fire!

Game summary for November 22, 2016, Reign of Winter campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Kenwrec Battleglaive (Dwarf Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Magnus Erlingsson (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team proceeded down the trail and found a warning written in the snow stating, “Turn back before the winter devours you.”  The team ignored it, and it exploded in a blast of frigid cold harming much of the party and killing a horse and a pony.

The team pressed on and ran afoul the injured giant weasel that tore into the party.  It attached itself to Magnus and ripped his flesh open, spraying crimson blood across the snow.  The team was able to defeat the animal and save Magnus, but he was badly injured.  He used the powers granted him by Gorum to heal injuries, and the team began setting up their pavilion to rest.  Kenwrec and Tulvur headed back the way they came to investigate the exploded snowbank a bit further.  Meanwhile, some elemental creatures of winter attacked Magnus, Deska, and their companion, Ten-Penny Tacey.  Magnus again took a beating while Ten-Penny managed a critical sneak attack to drop one of the creatures.  A charge from Magnus killed the other.  Finally, the rest of the team returned, and they made camp.

The next morning they awoke to find Deska and Magnus ill with chillbane shakes!  Using guidance, they were able to treat one another and nurse themselves back to health over a couple of days.  They then set out and found what they believed to be the winter portal surrounded by igloos.  Tulvur crept into the first igloo and plunged 20 feet to the bottom of an icy pit!

Game summary for November 15, 2016, Reign of Winter campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Tiswichtt (Orc Witch played by Casey Scruggs), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team secured a pony for Tulvur to ride and headed back into the forest looking for the winter portal.  Along the way, they came across bloody tracks leading them to the frozen body of Dryden Kepp.  They discovered a journal on his person and learned he was hunting a giant weasel and had set out bear traps.  He apparently injured it and ended up getting mauled to death by it up on the ridge.  The team recovered a couple magical arrows and a flask of applejack.

Soon the team came upon a clearing where something had been digging.  Deska moved up to uncover the buried items and was attacked by frost firs!  The wooden creatures swung violently, and Deska fell back and caught one with entangle while Tulvur shook the other with his fearsome demeanor.  Tulvur’s axe proved particularly well-suited to fighting the trees, and the team defeated them in short order.

The group continued through the forest and found Dryden’s bear traps which they claimed for their own.  They then came upon a field of icy boulders setup in some kind of maze before a log hut.  A little girl kept yelling at them as they moved through the ice and eventually warned them to run.  The group began noticing frozen corpses within the ice, and Tulvur had a bit of a breakdown.  The party dragged him along, and they stood before the hut. Sitting in a chair was a small child-like doll that resembled the little girl; however, the doll was old and wrinkled.  It possessed one blue gemstone eye and one mirror eye reflecting the sun.  The party found odd things began happening, like lights appearing in the hut, doors opening and closing, and so on.  Eventually, Deska tried to attack the doll, which provoked it to stab her in the neck!  The doll came to life and began to hover in mid-air.  It succeeded in charming Tiswichtt, but the team brought it down before the witch could unleash wrath upon her allies.

After defeating the doll, the team found a trail behind the cabin leading further into the valley.