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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8222812" data-attributes="member: 11"><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-was-your-last-session.667468/post-8203914" target="_blank">We left off last time</a> with the druid in scrappy little dog form (he purposefully chose an unintimidating form) coming face to face with a singing troll! The troll roared and jumped forward as if he was gonna attack, but the druid's instinct told him the troll was just trying to spook the dog and get it to go away. So he did a play bow and wagged his tail. The troll laughed! It shared the tarts the girl had left in the basket and then shooed the dog-druid off for good, talking to it in a language the druid did not understand - gently pushing the dog away and pointing back to town. Taking up his song, he got back in his boat and poled away around the stream bend.Meanwhile, the rest of the party was back at the inn noticing some unwanted attention for their pitched battle with the constable and deputies earlier that same day. Thron (the druid) returned and informed the others about the troll, but when they tried to tell the girl about this, it did not go well and she refused to believe it. She did not seem to take seriously their warning that her next trip to the fens could be her last. Alston the gnome bard/wizard tried to explain that trolls are "evil" and "dig up gnome burrows and eat gnome babies" but had to admit he had never met one). Later they'd inform her father and he decided to lock her in her room until the knight she is supposed to marry (by arrangement) arrives to take her away.  Nora (the tiefling ranger) suggested that not being so overly controlling would be a better way to get his daughter to listen but the innkeep seemed equally stubborn.  Apples and trees and all that. Oh and unrelated to this, he kicks out the party saying their bad rep after killing the constable and deputies was "bad for business" and now word had arrived that  their companion Rollo had been causing a ruckus in town overnight. He said it was nothing personal and that he appreciated their looking out for his daughter.The last they saw the barbarian he was hanging out with some folks at an inn back in town, smoking "sparkleweed" and drinking. The party left him, but this might not have been a good idea. Thinking he could learn more about what was going on, he accepted the Loafers' invitation to get some of "the good stuff" and the source of the drugs, bringing him to a secret room in the basement where weird mushrooms were growing on some musty dung. They offered him some and he ate it. Oops.Suddenly, he was beset by men with cudgels and the innkeep, telling him to give in and just "become one with the LOAF." He gave a good fight and almost got away, defeating five men and forcing the young woman to flee (and he was poisoned the whole time). Fearing they were not in their right minds he fought to subdue (killing only the innkeeper). Unfortunately, in the midst of locking up the inn and starting to search it, the mushrooms kicked in, and just as the shadow people with the googly eyes led him to the shining gold and green jungle of living music he fell on the ground. As things grew dark, he saw someone tall standing over him. All was black.In the morning, the rest of the party went looking for their friend. After roughing up the now conscious loafers they came to realize (with the help of a detect thoughts and identify spell) that these people were under some kind of domination and their inner world was inaccessible except for a mantra "I am in the LOAF. I am of the LOAF. I am HER will. I am her hands. I am her eyes. I am HER and SHE is me and we are in the LOAF." They seemed to have no memory of assaulting Rollo and one of them, when driven to edge, threw himself out the window rather than fight or give in to answering a question straight.Thron then rode around the town with a locate object spell going and discovered Rollo's great axe was in a barn in a farm on the other side of the village. The party rode over there and after a confrontation with the family that lived there (a middle-aged woman and her two adult sons), they found Rollo in a hidey hole under a false floor in the barn. Still coming off the effects of the mushrooms, he had not had a long rest.They hurried back across town and took a short rest in the barn of the Windfellow Family. In their first adventure they rescued Erilyn Windfellow, so they remain grateful. Erilyn has been investigating the disappearances on her own (like a D&D Nancy Drew) but they convinced her to go keep her friend from seeking out a troll in a haunted swamp for now and leave the investigation to them. Alston got her to lend him <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-pcs-found-a-spell-book-with-a-magical-item-recipe.678583/#post-8213274" target="_blank">her now dead ex-boyfriend's spellbook</a> - his imp killed him in a jealous rage). After that, they decided to go investigate the temple at the northeastern part of town. On the way they met a woman whose son was missing and on her recommendation they went to see the old nebby woman who lives near the center of town and she gave them a bunch of good information. Including stuff that reinforced why checking out the temple might be a good idea (though she seemed to have a complaint about anything that came up).We left the session with the PCs outside the temple gates.</blockquote>

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