Dying to Fauns

Adventure log

Set out

• guardholm -> to the NE -> Sagebrook

• East is Merskin pass

• There's a split along the road

• To the south are various farms. (3 hours travel from sagebrook)

• Travel back from Sagebrook, over bridge.

  • Farms to the south : Anavielle, Maeger, Draxon.
  • crests, hillock, highland / grassland area.

• Encounter At Anavielle's farm

• To vineyard : follow road (to the SW) to lake

  • 30m to vineyard

• 1h around pond, trail into brazenwood

• "ruins"

  • collapsed structure, large tree growns in the center, tree is "weridly centered"
  • Diamond shape on door carved is in tree - "For remembering" - same shit as in North Tower
  • stone pedistal - with diamond shaped indentation
  • several tables and chairs
  • choked with vines - dreadthistle - harvest'd ? function as caltrops

Forest

• travel 20m - find a sign path is staright, turns to the right.
  • cavak - erador to the right
• travel 30m - split
  • we take left
• travel 15m - hill overlooking the forest, 10' stone structure.
  • another "animated" thing
• Encounter two Ogres & mannequin
  • nymph, ogre, faun, human, manequin, skeletons

'Ogre' Ruins

• sign with Cavek
• full of skeletons (8 of em)
  • small ~8hp, big <27hp

Back to vineyard

• "Cavek has been around for 100 years"
• unsure where the fawns are. "near the standing stone"

Erador

• collection of farmhouses essentially.
• 'Mayor' is Parret Pelham. Knows where the fauns are. :)
• HELP: Kobold incursions to the south.
• HELP: Spineshatter
• HELP: Fauns
• cavek
  • not heard from in many years. was helpful. When the war started, he became reclusive.

standing stones

• circular stone slab in the center
• "when the ladies beauty fades, and the beast claws retract, our heritage shall be revealed"

glade ~10 m to the east

• covered in bottles, 6 hungover fauns.
• a "friend" of the fawns, a Satyr. Lost his homeland, driving the fauns.
• "Treefall" - entrance to fey realm. Requires a rune of opening.
• Nymphs to the north, annoyed by Ogre. 3 of them (perhaps just the one).

head north to the "Ogre" bothering the fauns.

• Mountian redbell - +1 fort save vs poison, component
• Shamelessly kill ogre.

Back to the Faunuture

• "Satyr has the key to the other side, hasn't been around recently. Drinks more than ever. Something to do with the tree. Get him to stop being a jerk."

Off to the Treefall door

• other side is a mirror, duh. smells like plants. Whole floor is 1 piece of wood.

Boiled tree

• pop dat boil
• We kill some evil monkies, slowly...
• nugget of wonder (eat to random rod of wonder)

back to vineyard.

• -20 gp, +1 bottle of wine

back to fey

• Kill done gryphs
• Satyr is now helping us.
• Fight beardef demon. Kill it
• Open 'prismatic' pustule, get 'red gem' strong evocation.

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Information gathered

Farm - Yellow House, white trim

• porch on e/s side, and chairs
• farm is well maintained, but messy
• Grain silo to n/w
• entrance is on ?s/w)

Encounter At Anavielle's farm

Anavielle - answers door and shuffles us off.

• There are two people with the farmer, one is yelling at him, the other is disinterested
• clairvoyance - they are threatening the farmer.
• We kick down the door
• Daughter in "kahoots" with thugs for inheritance

Anavielle

• magical scarecrow, he things the fauns
• "Evil monkeys"

Vineyard - Elia / Mista

"We lead simple life, inherited from parents. Fauns are protectors. Anavielle - perhaps he has a feud."
"They have a glade in the brazenwood, there's a path on the far side, past a ruin. Right is to village of Aradoor. Can't be more then a few miles."

• girls are less than 16. boy with no arms / legs
• "Fawns are no danger"
• she knows "Alexander"
• hunting lodge motif

Wines for sale

• 10gp each 5 years (spend 30gp)

Ogres - "Smashnar" & "Crushnor"

• manniquin - provided by Cavak (26 to 37hp <15 ac, immune to necromancy)

Loot dat Body

379 gp

Shatterspine thugs

• 375
• 5 potions of Cure Light Wounds
• potions (bull str, swimming)
• 1 vial alchemist fire
• throw axe, 3 longbow, 3 great sword, 15 arrow, dagger, 1/4staff, manacles
• MW Studded leather, mw scim, mw h xbow,
• 3 tanglefoot bag, 3 thunder stone

Ogres

• MW comp long,
• MW greatsword -> MW Longsword(no transform)
• MW Chainmail -> MW Buckler(no transform)
• potion - fang
• potion - virtue - (1 temp hp)
• scroll - light wounds, wand - Daze(50)
• grey control gem
• Red and ??? gem
• 2 red gem : (fey realm)
• Gold helmet
• 47 gp
• 2x adamantine arrow
• 3x Feather token, anchor. Made from griff feather.
• FANCY GEM