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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lykkenthrope" data-source="post: 9455227" data-attributes="member: 7045440">Session 11:Cruelpigs party do not read upon pain of toad!Session 1 of Module 2: The Indomitable Forest of Fire!The Heroes have all leveled up.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Grom, Sorian, Reshi, and Ze all took the base ability points at level 4.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vic (Level 3 Abjuration Wizard) took 1 level into Grave Domain Cleric after seeing the destruction and lack of respect for the natural order of life when fighting the Inquisitors.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And Torrent became a full PC for this module! Her player is aware shell have to make a new, original, character once we get to the Lyceum) But given I viewed Torrent as more experienced than my other players, I let her level up to 5. We did a quick modification and made her 4th Level War Domain Cleric and 1 Level into Ranger. (I remember when I was new to Dnd, it made it more enjoyable to be able to hit things and that confidence made it easier to roleplay).</li> </ul>The next morning Grom got up early to do some running and patrol property while everyone else prepared to leave. Ze came together with Torrent and asked Sorian to join as she briefly told them about her past as an Inquisitor, and how she had left 2-3 years ago. Both being older, and knowing Ze is a very young 19, gave her sage wisdom to not be too hard on herself and to perhaps open up to the group sooner than later so everyone else finding out would be on her terms and not in a heated battle. Ze said she would think about it.The fully rested heroes, well except Ze who still had one point of exhaustion from using her mask the previous day, finally set out to enter the forest. Torrent explained the stand the heat potion and the importance of moving quickly and efficiently through the forest as they all only had enough potion for 48 hours for all of them, for one person to have 56 hour. With big gulps of their first potion, they entered the Innenotdar Forest.Vic and Ze facing their own trauma with fire as the entered the forest were a bit quiet. Sorian being gripped with both painful and happy memories of the forest before it had been put to the torch, had a moment of prayer and self-reflection as he took his first step back into the woods. Torrent had a map from before the fire and used that to begin navigating the Elf Road.Initially things proceeded relatively calmly. They found a caravan of recently deceased victims of the woods', perhaps an animal attack? but most seemed to succumb to the intense heat about ½ mile into their journey. They noticed one figure, who was still slightly on fire, was still alive by some miracle, through with extensive burns. Vic jumped into action, healed the man, but as he regained composure of himself and realized his family was dead, begged for death. Vic, realizing this man was well beyond her and Torrent's help and that practically they did not have enough stand the heat potion or supplies to get him to safety, put him out of his misery with a swift cut of her dagger. The group did note that even though they tried to put out the flames on the man's clothes, they remained smoldering.Later, as they crossed one of the several bridges throughout the forest, a Hellhound appeared. The hellhound looked at them inquisitively, almost playful. All the heroes except for Grom took a defensive stance. However, Grom went and reached out a hand to show he could be a friend and the hellhound dropped a bone in front of him. Thinking it was to play fetch, Grom through the bone and the hellhound dutifully brought it back to him. Upon picking it up a second time, Grom realized there was writing on the bone.The message was a demand for the intel they had acquired, and a promise to parley so long as the group carried the bone with them. After a brief discussion as to who might have left this message, the group agreed that keeping the bone on them would at least prevent them from being ambushed by whoever had sent this message. Sorian strapped the bone to his forearm as a makeshift bracer, to keep his hand free while keeping the bone clearly visible.Continuing on, the heroes had to stave off an attack from several fire-bats who were chasing a strange mephit.  The fleeing mephit tried to use Reshi as a make-shift shield, and surprisingly, Reshi helped defend the not-so-little guy.  After getting a few burns and scratches from the bats, they were all cut down.  Sorian noticed the flame on the bats did not go fully out and as he was inspecting the remain a bit closer, he noticed the bat flame back to life.   This second revival, went a bit quicker with Reshi pulling upon his sorcerers metamagic to double some of his spells.  They noticed the bats were still smoldering, they urged the little mephit to flee while the bats were unconscious and the heroes left the area quickly themselevs. Soon they came across a fairly dilapidated bridge. After realizing too much weight at once would cause the bridge to groan and crack, they sent their lightest party member Ze find a safe passage across.  While trying to cross it safely, Ze tripped and alerted 2 giant flaming wolf spiders to their presence. With some coordinated tactics and a clever cold spell cantrip from Reshi, the group managed to clear the bridge and safely cross.After crossing the bridge, the group came upon a strange looking green man, not quite an orc, too tall for a goblin…and he had scales… standing nonchatly in their path, his weapon strapped to his back, not drawn. His purpose is anyone's guess, but since he stands in their only mostly safe path,  the heroes in front (Sorian, Torrent, and Grom) take an immediate defensive stance, gathering they might have to face off against this grizzled stranger.And that was the cliff hanger end of the sessionI had my husband draw a more formitable, sinsiter looking Kazyk (full disclosure: its a mix of his own drawing he has the sketches, earlier versions I vetoed or asked for edits on (lol) , but he does use some AI for texturization and to polish)  But I think he looks pretty good.</blockquote>

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