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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids1" data-source="post: 9601760" data-attributes="member: 7030604">Session 1Winter has come to the Runewild. Snow blankets the forest canopy and an icy wind rattles the shutters of Caerfell Keep like a determined burglar. The annual Solstice Festival is in full swing, and a ring of colourful stalls have been erected around a huge tree festooned with tinsel and twinkling lights. Several of our heroes are in attendance;<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ghoralt Ironbane, Half-Orc Fighter, multiclassing into Skater Bro (Rich),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Merlin, Human Wizard, with his odd, mis-matched eyes (Morgan),</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tinkerbell, Elven Fighter (dex build), tall and stoic as the hardiest spruce (Ted),</li> </ul>(No Tom/Sir Bruno or Ellie/Apogee this week, but they should be back soon).A group of children are throwing snowballs and challenge the heroes to battle. The heroes MERCILESSLY CRUSH their infantile opposition. After annihilating the children, a merchant offers a Robe of Christmassy Items to the last man standing. The heroes turn on each other like rabid animals. Newcomer Gale (Tiefling Warlock, played by Adam) takes the prize.A murder of ravens descend on the market, coalescing into the form of a sinister black-cloaked woman. She lowers her hood to reveal the face of Moira - last surviving member of the Daughters of the Chim - SPLAT - a snowball hits her in the face, spoiling her dramatic entrance. Ghoralt points accusingly to the nearby children. Regaining her composure, Moira delivers a message from Griselda (Hag Queen of the Runewild and ringleader of the Grand Coven). To summarise: naughty word with the grand hex on Caerfell and she will go out of her way to ruin your lives, capiche? The heroes respond with more snowballs. Infuriated, Moira animates the solstice tree in the centre of the market, transforming it into a hostile holiday treant.<a href="https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/hand-drawn-christmas-tree-background_23-2147581502.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/hand-drawn-christmas-tree-background_23-2147581502.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The tree plucks oversized baubles from its body and hurls them at the heroes. Gale responds with Hellish Rebuke and the holiday treant is consumed in the flames of the warlock's scorn. Ghoralt grapples the tree, figuratively rooting it to the ground. The rest of the party kick back and wait for the recurring fire damage to finish the job. The holiday treant crumbles into ash. Gale uses a patch from his new robe to conjure a replacement tree, which Ghoralt immediately attacks.Realizing Griselda is not going to stand idily in the final dungeon waiting for the heroes to defeat her, the Runewardens set out into the Runewild once more. They need to save the Pookah before the Grand Coven rounds them all up, then arrange an audience with Seventails the Pookah King - but where to start? Apogee suggests consulting Malicraft, a (comparatively) benign hag unaffiliated with the Grand Coven.<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Gothel.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Gothel.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Malicraft occupies a ruined windmill overlooking an abandoned, overgrown village. She looks and acts like Mother Gothel from the movie Tangled. Malicraft will trade answers for favors; purge a nest of ettercaps in the neighbouring hex and she will spill the proverbial beans. Gale also wants the whereabouts of his old adverturing party, the Red Hand.The heroes locate and invade the web-smothered lair of the spiderlings. It is real dark and nasty up in there. The heroes immediately split up and are ambushed from all sides. They delve deeper into the nest, trusting newcomer Gale to watch their backs. A nigh-invisible noose of spidersilk hooks the warlock and yanks him up into the ceiling. Tinkerbell comes to the tiefling's aid. Ghoralt trusses an ettercap up in its own web, then piledrives it into a stalagmite. Victory!!Having defeated the spiders, the heroes find some treasure; piles of coin, a Spider Staff (enables casting of the Spider Climb and Web spells), and a statue of a petrified elf (missing a hand). Ghoralt balances the statue astride his skateboard and rolls it back to Malicraft's mill. The witch honours her bargain and reveals the whereabouts of three Pookah; Hoorah the bunny-girl has been captured by the Whitebone Sisters (a pair of wizened bone hags), Hori the turtle-boy hangs around a pond east of Widderspire Village, and Heek the rat-boy was last seen along the road to the Broken Keep. Sir Bruno is concerned for the safety of Hoorah (having encountered her twice already) and the heroes make rescuing the hapless bunny-girl their top priority.TBCXP CalculatorDestroying some children in a snowball fight - 5xpDefeating the Holiday Treant - 2300xpMeeting Malicraft - 100xp8x Giant Spiders - 800xp2x Ettercaps - 900xp= 4105 / 4 = 1026(+ 2700 = 3726)next level up (5) at 6500</blockquote>

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