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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids1" data-source="post: 9403055" data-attributes="member: 7030604">Day 8 (cont)Having overwhelmed the bandits, the Runewardens take a short rest in the liberated gatehouse. While on watch, Bruno hears the same haunting pookah-song he heard in the Widderspire cemetery, and finds Hoorah the Bunny-Girl near the flame-scarred foundations of a crumbling chapel. The ghosts of Lady Widderspire and her two children endlessly relive their final moments, trapped in the burning chapel during the Griselda's assault on the keep some 100 years ago. Bruno gathers up their fire-blackened bones and carries them back to Widderspire to be interred within the family mausleum. The ghost of Lord Widderspire manifests to express his gratitude, and gift Bruno the Helm of the Intercessor.Day 9The Runewardens return to Widderspire. Attempts to flip thug captain Harden fall on deaf ears. This hench dude is straight-up unflippable. Eventually, the party wall him up in their dark basement; maybe 72 hours of gruelling psychological torture will loosen your tongue, eh?While they wait for Harden's mind to break, the party resume their night-time vigil over the Widderspire Cemetery. Three disheveled figures appear among the headstones, one is pushing a wheelbarrow with a squeaky wheel. The figures are wrapped in filthy rags and reek worse than the corpses they have been sent to collect. Apogee wildshapes into a oversized spider, triggering Verdan's arachnaphobia. Bruno flails around in the dark. Two ghouls are defeated, the third flees back into the forest.Verdan tracks the fleeing ghoul, hoping it will lead him to the lair of the Whitebone Sisters - but the trail goes cold when it enters Ruasidhe territory. Verdan turns back after interrupting a group of wood elf scouts teabagging their kill.Day 11The Runewardens release Harden from solitary confinement. After three days without food, water, light or social contact, he is ready to spill the beans. He reveals Ianto the Red maintains a camp in Redcap Pass, in the mountains south of Caerfell. The robber baron has allied himself to the Daughters of the Chimera, a coven of green hags, and they have gifted him with the power to shrug off even the most grievous injuries.The Runewardens hand Harden and their other prisoners over to a patrol of Aruandan knights to be imprisoned in the Kingdom proper.Day 14The Runewardens head for Caerfell, the largest settlement in the Runewild. They meet a commoner called Lucinda Travers, leading a large, unsettling cow. Lucinda wants rid of the beast, and is prepared to trade for Merlin's mule. Doris looks scandalized by this transaction. Mid-negotiation, Lucinda's father Dellwood appears to reclaim the cow. An argument ensures; Lucinda wails that the beast is bad luck, while Dellwood roars the cow is not for sale for any price. Apogee recognises the creature is a worry-cow, a fey-monster created by a hag after listening to a mortal's woes, but witholds this info from the party so as not to reveal her association with the witch Malicraft.It is getting dark and the Runewardens arrange to sleep in the Travers barn. The surrounding fields lie fallow, and the only living livestock is the worry-cow. Bruno must be jonesing for vitamin A (and other essential nutrients), as he decides to milk the monstrosity. It ejects a frothy green ichor from its slimy udders. Bruno gulps it down and is immediately poisoned, because what were you expecting to happen Tom, really?!The worry-cow assumes its worrying form, feeding on the fears of those around it to change its appearance; a hooded Darth Sidius-looking motherf*cker with snake arms and a bad afro. Dellwood Travers bursts in brandishing a pitchfork, intent on defending the worry cow. Merlin "accidentally" decapitates the old man on the backswing of his green flame blade. Jade fire spreads, filling the barn with celadon smoke. Lucinda Travers shrieks hysterically. Bruno is trapped in the burning stall with the rampaging worry-cow, with one foot stuck in the milking bucket and a very dicky tummy. Ian hauls him out, but is kicked in the head for his trouble. The genasi barbarian stumbles and falls, and is trampled into porridge beneath the beast's powerful hooves. Apogee casts Thunderwave, unleashing a sonic boom that explodes the worry-cow from the inside-out and demolishes what remains of the burning barn.Emerging from the choking green smog, the Runewardens mourn the abrupt demise of their front-line fighter/style guru. Alas, poor Ian. Tinkerbell attempts to persuade Lucinda her father was killed when lightning struck the barn. A freak accident that no-one could have forseen or prevented. Meanwhile, Bruno gorges on magic honey, and suddenly grows to twice his normal size!TBCXPPutting the Widderspire ghosts to rest 100xpLearning the location of Ianto's primary camp 100xpDefeating the ghoulish graverobbers 850xpDestroying the worry-cow 700xp1750/5=350+581=931The Runewardens advance to lvl 3!</blockquote>

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