Game summary for October 19, 2017, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Ten-Penny Tacey (Halfling Rogue played by Shane Bradley), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
Deska opened the door to the Dancing Hut and was immediately warned to stay outside by Ratibor the Bold. Deska revealed Baba Yaga’s cookbook and enacted the ritual to free him! He stepped outside and declared his intention to resume his quest to conquer all of Iobaria. The team tried to dissuade him and get him to come with them instead, but instead they made him angry. Finally, they departed each others’ company.
The team entered the Dancing Hut and placed the blue dragon scale and gold nugget in the cauldron. Once again, reality shifted, and they found themselves in an ornate glassed-in gazebo in a great garden. Deska sent her magical owl to scout around, and they were most interested in a clearing containing a stump upon which sat a gray cat.
The group went to the cat and learned it could speak! They discovered its name is Syvet, and its “master” is missing Queen Yelizaveta. The cat said it is afraid she died around 100 years ago, but it believes she has been unable to find peace. Deska moved to pet the cat and realized it was barely in control of itself. Suddenly, the stump split open to reveal sharp fangs and tentacles rose up all around. The wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing pulled several of the party in close and began biting them. Deska turned into a mastodon and began goring the stump. Tulvur and Greta slashed away as Ten-Penny hit it with a magical ice spear. As the entity died, the cat thanked Deska for its release. Intrigued, she cast reincarnate upon it, and Syvet came back as an orc. She told them she had been killed by the aberration long ago and had somehow merged consciousness with it. Syvet was a bit unsteady and trying to get used to her new form. Deska put her on her mastodon back and carried her around.
The team went to investigate a storage building the owl had spotted. In the trees they were ambushed by a pair of moonflowers! The deadly plants blinded half the party with a flash of light and then swallowed Tulvur. He was encased in a constricting acidic cocoon and spit out upon the ground. Ten-Penny drank a ditch dram admixture to heal injuries and turn invisible. She then started trying to cut Tulvur out of the cocoon. Meanwhile, Deska the blind mastodon struggled alongside Greta to fight off the plants. Greta’s axe seemed to cut deep wounds, but Deska’s tusks were quite ineffective. Eventually Deska regained her sight, shifted into large fire elemental form, and used Natural Spell to cast multiple flame strikes upon the plants to great effect. Ten-Penny freed Tulvur just in time, and the team defeated the plants.
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