Plague strikes! game goes on!

 

Four players absent, the cast from last Saturday:

Lily Tigress: Fairy Illusionist (aka Tiger lily) 

Fiona (and cake) Halfling Warlock (with fairy cat familiar) (bestie of Vellyn)

Vellyn, Dwarf Fighter (bestie of Fiona) 

Pais, Halfling thief 

Rod, Human Duelist (hater of bullies)

After having all their curses removed at the Unicorns lake they made to Loomlurch. 

Along the way they found a fairy ring and sang and dnaced with a cluster of Campestri!

(having aquired the adventure pack for Thither from: (sorry cant figure out why this isnt a link)

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/383985/Thither-Adventure-Bundle-for-the-Wild-Beyond-the-Witchlight?filters=0_0_0_45535_0_0_0_0

I sprung Fablerise and Yarnspinner (the story telling spider) on the party. 

The losing of their names was quite funny, 

Interesting night as the whole campaign has been odd, my players are acting odd.

Running total of magic items the players have missed skipped or ignored: 9 

Visiting Loomlurch the group tried some goblin candy and chatted up Chuckle head... A goblin with a caramel apple for a head. 

They arranged a meeting with the second Hag and had tea with her, Tiger Lily was nearly attacked by the Hag when they asked about the painting Bavlona had tasked them to steal. The group eventually decided to accept a mission from her as well to disrupt a play of her sister Endalynn! 

Now aiming to steal the picture and disrupt a play, they dont realise they missed Will of the Fey wild's attack on Loomlurch due to spending the night in Fablerise. 

Whoops, missed a week.

 The holidays are very busy at work for me. Also putting in a bunch of over time made me miss an update. So here is two in one!

Two weekends back:

The entire party showed up!

Lily Tigress: Fairy Illusionist (aka Tiger lily) 

Fiona (and cake) Halfling Warlock (with fairy cat familiar) (bestie of Vellyn)

Vellyn, Dwarf Fighter (bestie of Fiona) 

Pais, Halfling thief 

Delphine, Even Cleric of Demeter. 

Rosetta, Dryad Druid and Juniper(awakened sapling- her tree)

Rod, Human Duelist (hater of bullies)

Babs, Harengon monk 

Harry Cottontail, Harengon Wizard 

 They began their errand for Bavlorna, off to Thither with Clapperclaw as guide. Thither is a fae woodland with faerie rings and was agreed to be much nicer than the swamp of Hither. 

The majority of the party now 3rd level. Encountered Nib in his cave. each acquired an enchanter item from Nibs. 

They wound their way through the forest running into the various random encounters. Biggest issue was finding meat to feed Juniper! Once Juniper was fed, the new proud owlbear rider  Tiger lily with her noble steed. 

Meeting the get away gang (totally not the lost boys) They agreed to help free the children from Granny Nightshade. They went to consult the unicorn of the wandering lake. 

A miracle occurred, when the orc assassin attacked the unicorn...they didnt kill him. Instead the murder hobos talked and made a deal with him. Sending the assassin to Nibs cave for just deserts. 

We called it there. 

Yes, man. Yes men. (and women, you get the idea)

 

Last week was... odd.

Players who claim they want certain types of adventures, probably dont. 

Two or three of my group claim to want more RP and less whack a monster. 

Group arrives at Downfall the Bully wug court. They explore a little, help put out fires at the ballon shop. Enjoy a tussle with some Merrow. briefly visit the Bullywug court and hurry on to a little B and E at Bavlorna's house. 

Inside the house they proceed to blunder about missing all the good stuff. They wander upstairs and confront the Hag in her parlor. She tells them, "do three tasks for me or i wont even deal with you" Tasks: Fix her broken pool, find her latest shipment of taxidermy stuff and find her missing book!. 

The usual suspects had the book, the bullywugs had given it to them. So (fanfare) they split the party to go look for the crate and to fix the pool. 

Group one: Murderhobo, Drama teacher, Librarian, and Secrets dont make friends. Spent an incredible amount of time (hours in game) searching for a drain plug to empty the pool. They examined EVEY tile, the entire pool. They inspected the bottom of the house as well. 

Group two: Helper, Follow them, Stabby stabby and Me too, head back down to the bullywug town to search for a mission crate. The search takes on many, many i look for a crate moments. Asking me in excess of 15 times (at three locations) if they see a crate. 

Mean while, group one spends fifteen minutes looking down the well in the pool. being afraid to investigate it and boggling over how it is deeper than the floor. (fantasy game!) They finally investigate the well and end up fighting! (spoiler alert)

Lucky saves prevent anyone being devoured but it is a close fight. Session paused as they try to figure out why they cant get in one hut (one of the rp desirers sat on a rp clue instead of sharing it).

Will the clueless brigade solve the mystery of the missing crate?

The RPers skipped all the main RP opportunities. The combat crunchers did more RP than the "RP crowd" Frustrating night on so many levels.  

Back from the long break!

 Due to covid in the house, we missed 2 weeks of play time. 

Saturday began the 2nd night of the Wild beyond the Witchlight campaign.

We were down 3 party members due to out of game concerns. 

Leaving tonights party to be:

Fiona (and cake) Halfling Warlock and faerie cat familur

Vellyn, Dwarf Fighter 

Pais, Halfling thief 

Delphine, Elven Cleric of Demeter. 

Rosetta, Dryad Druid and Juniper(awakened sapling- her tree)

Rod the overly aggressive duelist.

The wrap up in the carnival involved some rigged games i swiped from a redit list.

Darts and balloons (dull darts), Strength test hammer and bell (rigged to have a slack cable unless carny stands on a board). Ring toss  (rings too small to go on the bottle) Archery test with repellant arrow tips to move the targets)

Due to some clever thinking they managed to win at all the rigged games, removing arrow tips, sharpening darts and standing on the board, and placing the ring on the bottle while the carny was distracted.

After Pias was crowned Monarch they were escorted to the portal and sent to Prismeer. Arriving in Hither on the raised causeway. 

Pixie dust used to rescue Sir Talavar. They mostly submitted to the Harengon Brigands, save the duelist who tried to kill one. The six brigands all teamed up knocking out Rod.

Rod really seems to hate the brigands, he also tried to cut Agdon's brand off his own leg when fighting the scoundrel. Pais caught Agdon by his scarf and lept into the swamp to stop the fleet footed robber. 

I am using all the "random encounters" 2 before each set encounter. I am also using some random fae encounters i found on line via web search. Trying to stretch out the campaign a bit since everyone seems so engaged. 

The party is nearing the Soggy Court and they will arrive next session.

Notes on conversion oddities with the 5e rules to C&C the Warlock requires alot of finesse to function in the rules light system. 

I am handing out chocolate coins that can be used to add a plus 2 to a roll for good RP or cleaver ideas. 

The players enjoy eating them to get the plus. 

Used scented oil , (cotton candy) to simulate the sweet smelling Faewild. Bunny ears on myself when playing the Harengon Brigands. 

Found someone had up loaded Agdon's song to You tube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGAVgcDnAw

The words are a bit over powered by the music. So i sang along to it with the bunny ears on. This made my daughter scramble to get a pic. As soon as i have a copy I will upload it.