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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 3082698" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>So, we got so far as them getting into the forest, running across the serpent woman with the lignefying gaze, and the resolution of that conflict. A few spontaneous things came up, like me deciding that the PC who hungers for blood got drunk off the blood of a fey rabbit he caught and exsanguinated, which allowed him to hear the secret speech of the woodland creatures, and that the medusa was a member of 'The Festival' (basically the local court of the fey, run by a cannibal named Rekkan), and that she had been a woodshaper until she pissed off Rekkan and got cursed to her current form.</p><p></p><p>They ran across the medusa -- Ifran, with her fey deer companion Kifu -- when the 'vampire' PC was out stalking, and another PC was following him to see what he was up to. He caught the scent of a deer, and was about to ambush the deer when he got hit by a poisoned arrow. He panicked and fled, and the other PC who was following him (a mage) caught sight of what had attacked him -- a serpent with arms holding a bow, its tail coiled around a tree limb, and its eyes glowing vivid green. The mage succeeded his Fort save, though, so he only took some Con damage, representing him partially lignefying when he saw the medusa's eyes.</p><p></p><p>The mage counter-attacked with a spell, and the medusa tried to back away, firing an arrow at the mage to drive him off. The vampire decided to pull the serpent archer out of the tree. Unfortunately, our blood-sucker (who isn't actually undead) failed his Fort save and turned to wood in mid-leap. </p><p></p><p>The mage ran, then reconsidered and looked back, seeing the creature dragging away his friend's body. So the mage used a custom spell to put a short-term dome of stone over the two of them, trapping them while he ran for help. He got close enough that his shouts were heard, but the poison on the arrow dropped his strength to 0. However, the party was able to rouse him enough that he could tell them what happened, and they went to retrieve the medusa.</p><p></p><p>They knocked her out with a nonlethal spell targeted through a crack one PC bashed in the dome, and then they tied her up, not wanting to kill her right away if she could be useful. One PC with special miracle powers (plot-related for my homebrew setting) was able to partially restore the vampire, and a great debate ensued as to whether to simply kill the medusa now (and let the vampire feed on it), or to wake it and interrogate it and probably have to kill it anyway.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately they woke it (it was blindfolded), and got a lot of information out of it, and found out it was cursed and did not want to die, but that it didn't exactly think it was doing anything wrong, since it considered them food. The fey, it seems, are cannibals. However, they did learn who the leader of the fey was, and they learned of Sceadrau and some of the other issues in the woods. And then, after much shouting, the vampire attacked and nearly killed her. Two PCs managed to call for mercy, and saved the medusa from death, but they're just keeping her around now with lots of frustration because 3 PCs want her dead, 2 PCs don't care, 1 PC thinks she might be useful to study, and 1 PC wants to try to help the pitiful, cursed thing.</p><p></p><p>All in all, I'd call it a good session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 3082698, member: 63"] So, we got so far as them getting into the forest, running across the serpent woman with the lignefying gaze, and the resolution of that conflict. A few spontaneous things came up, like me deciding that the PC who hungers for blood got drunk off the blood of a fey rabbit he caught and exsanguinated, which allowed him to hear the secret speech of the woodland creatures, and that the medusa was a member of 'The Festival' (basically the local court of the fey, run by a cannibal named Rekkan), and that she had been a woodshaper until she pissed off Rekkan and got cursed to her current form. They ran across the medusa -- Ifran, with her fey deer companion Kifu -- when the 'vampire' PC was out stalking, and another PC was following him to see what he was up to. He caught the scent of a deer, and was about to ambush the deer when he got hit by a poisoned arrow. He panicked and fled, and the other PC who was following him (a mage) caught sight of what had attacked him -- a serpent with arms holding a bow, its tail coiled around a tree limb, and its eyes glowing vivid green. The mage succeeded his Fort save, though, so he only took some Con damage, representing him partially lignefying when he saw the medusa's eyes. The mage counter-attacked with a spell, and the medusa tried to back away, firing an arrow at the mage to drive him off. The vampire decided to pull the serpent archer out of the tree. Unfortunately, our blood-sucker (who isn't actually undead) failed his Fort save and turned to wood in mid-leap. The mage ran, then reconsidered and looked back, seeing the creature dragging away his friend's body. So the mage used a custom spell to put a short-term dome of stone over the two of them, trapping them while he ran for help. He got close enough that his shouts were heard, but the poison on the arrow dropped his strength to 0. However, the party was able to rouse him enough that he could tell them what happened, and they went to retrieve the medusa. They knocked her out with a nonlethal spell targeted through a crack one PC bashed in the dome, and then they tied her up, not wanting to kill her right away if she could be useful. One PC with special miracle powers (plot-related for my homebrew setting) was able to partially restore the vampire, and a great debate ensued as to whether to simply kill the medusa now (and let the vampire feed on it), or to wake it and interrogate it and probably have to kill it anyway. Ultimately they woke it (it was blindfolded), and got a lot of information out of it, and found out it was cursed and did not want to die, but that it didn't exactly think it was doing anything wrong, since it considered them food. The fey, it seems, are cannibals. However, they did learn who the leader of the fey was, and they learned of Sceadrau and some of the other issues in the woods. And then, after much shouting, the vampire attacked and nearly killed her. Two PCs managed to call for mercy, and saved the medusa from death, but they're just keeping her around now with lots of frustration because 3 PCs want her dead, 2 PCs don't care, 1 PC thinks she might be useful to study, and 1 PC wants to try to help the pitiful, cursed thing. All in all, I'd call it a good session. [/QUOTE]
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