Game summary for April 20, 2017, Reign of Winter campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: All Might (Human Warpriest played by Andrew Renfrow), Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Ten-Penny Tacey (Half-Orc Rogue played by Shane Bradley), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The team continued traveling through the wooded maze and discovered another home surrounded by trees. As they explored, a female winter wolf came charging out ordering the team to form up in a protection ring and escort her out of the woods. The team talked to her and she continued to bark orders. They found three of the Winter Guard inside the home dead from earlier injuries. They turned their back on her and walked way, which enraged the wolf. So, she breathed a cone of cold over all of them! She then charged Deska and began mauling the team. They were able to recover quickly and fight back. In short order, the wolf was defeated. Greta then taught them how to skin the wolf to create a rimepelt.
Further down the path, the team encountered three men and three women coming out of a home and drinking wine around a large campfire. The men were obviously drunk, and the women were stunningly beautiful redheads. They offered to share their wine; Deska tried to pretend to drink, but they noticed and encouraged her, so she sipped the wine. Ten-Penny also tasted the wine, and both agreed it was delicious. The team wanted to leave, but the women begged them to stay, and for some reason Ten-Penny plopped down and drank with them. Soon, Tulvur was sitting with them as well. Deska went inside and started the cottage on fire and slipped back outside. However, she found herself sitting calmly on a log as the flames engulfed the house. The women became angry at the destroyed wine within and attacked, their beauty shifting into hideous monstrous visages. All Might fought valiantly alongside his warhorse, but he took several devastating shots. The drunken men attacked, and surprisingly, so did Ten-Penny and Tulvur! Ten-Penny began brutally injuring Greta, and the barbarian woman had to fight her way out. She cut a drunken man in half with a single swing of her axe and fended off several attacks from Ten-Penny, but several more slipped through. Deska shook off whatever was affecting her and transformed into a polar bear! She began mauling their enemies as All Might’s horse trampled one of the creatures. Finally, the team killed the last of the three women, and their charmed allies shook off the supernatural effect.
With numerous wounds inflicted by their own colleagues, the team took a few moments to try and patch themselves up.
