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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids1" data-source="post: 9612118" data-attributes="member: 7030604">Session ThreeTink and Alistair travel the Path of Petals to rejoin their companions. The Runewardens retreat to the Ruasidhe camp and interrogate their goblin prisoner. The goblin's name is Butte Nugget, and he drops the following points of exposition;<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Broken King is allied to a powerful fey sorceress called Medusa.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Captain Olvane's assault on Broken Keep was a disaster, Medusa turned his entire army to stone.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Broken King is preparing a counter-attack on the dwarven settlement of Burly Point.</li> </ul><a href="https://i.postimg.cc/QCzw54Vp/goblin-market-web.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/QCzw54Vp/goblin-market-web.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The Runewardens learn any goblin can open a gate to the Goblin Market. The party cannibalize their carriage for wood to build a crude but functional doorframe, then force Butte to open the way. The Goblin Market is a maze of brightly coloured stalls filling a clearing deep in the Runewild. Myriad vendors flog their esoteric wares. The Runewardens locate the shop of Scrote Gargle, fairy trafficker. The cruel merchant has the captive sprites crammed into cages barely big enough to flutter their wings. Apogee accuses Scrote of illegally obtaining his stock, and threatens to report him to the RSPCF (Runewild Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies). The party intimidate the slaver into releasing the captive sprites, or face a hefty fine. This action antagonizes the hag Nanny Spitroast, who had already paid a deposit on those fairies to use as fillings in her unsavoury pies. The manic sprites cause havoc as they zip around the market, before making good their escape. The Runewardens leave through the portal back to the Ruasidhe camp. They decide to keep Butte Nugget around, just in case they need to revisit the Market.The Ruasidhe scouts are hunting a lindwurm after it attacked one of their outposts. They tracked it to the banks of a frozen lake. The Runewardens agree to help bring down the monster. A snowstorm rolls in, reducing visibility. Apogee pulls a hyena from her Bag of Tricks and ushers it out onto the ice. The lindwurm's long, serpentine body erupts from beneath the ice and snaps the hyena up in its powerful, crocodilian jaws. The Runewardens attack, slip-sliding across the surface of the frozen lake. Alistair casts Toll the Dead, but is drowned out by the howling wind. Apogee alights on the monster's snout and plucks out one of its eyes with her bare hands. METAL.<a href="https://i.postimg.cc/HxZhDZwf/2b299dc3e2d836053788d5a06f52d3f9-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/HxZhDZwf/2b299dc3e2d836053788d5a06f52d3f9-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The half-blinded lindwurm dives beneath the icy water, taking Apogee with it. Ghoralt jumps in after her, but his heavy armour drags him down to the bottom of the lake. He spots a waterlogged corpse clutching a Frostrune Greataxe (effectively the Leviathon Axe from God of War 2018) and grabs the weapon. Resisting the bone-chattering cold, Apogee digs into the optical jelly of the lindworm's other eye and straight up enucleates that scaly mofo. SICK. She rips out a few fangs for good measure, which she can now dual-wield as a pair of masterwork daggers. Tink drops a weighted rope into the water to rescue Ghoralt from the depths.The Runewardens are celebrated as Heroes of the Ruasidhe, and granted safe passage through their territory (no random encounters, woo). They are also permitted to take long rests in the elves' treetop communes. The party purchase new mounts, majestic battle stags to carry them swiftly through the Runewild. Tink returns Virdan's ashes to the elves, who perform a song of mourning as they spread his remains among the roots of the great Ancestor Tree. The Ruasidhe reward Tink with Bracers of Archery and a few jars of goodberry jam.The Runewardens part ways with the Ruasidhe, and ride for Kidwelly. They return Hort Thistlewhip to his parents, but learn the other six Thistlewhip children are still AWOL, after getting roped into a quest to find the Golden Bodach. The party vaguely recall seeing a halfling boy for sale at the Goblin Market, and make a mental note to head back there ASATCBB (as soon as they can be bothered).The Runewardens finally reach the cottage of the Whitebone Sisters. Agressive, black, racially-stereotyped chickens wander the yard, penned in by a fence crafted from human bones. Sir Bruno knocks on the front door. Hoorah the Bunny-Girl answers, in rude health and good cheer. She confirms that yes, she is being held prisoner, but the Whitebone Sisters aren't all that bad, as hags go. Plus, her new friends have been keeping her company. By "new friends" she means skeletons of the dead children stolen from the Widderspire cemetery and reanimated by foul hag magic.<a href="https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/many-childrens-human-medical-skeleton-260nw-122407873.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/many-childrens-human-medical-skeleton-260nw-122407873.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The sisters Clavia and Sterna are baking bonebread in the kitchen. Sir Bruno partakes. Mmmm, chalky! They explain their plan to trade Hoorah to the Hag Queen in exchange for a real child to raise as their own. The Runewardens find this arrangement morally ambiguous and ask if there is anything else the sisters want. As it turns out, they will also accept the skull of hag. As Moira and her birds are still shadowing the party, the Runewardens decide to lay a trap for the last surviving Daughter of the Chimera.TBCXP CalculatorFinding the way into the Goblin Market - 100xpRescuing the Fairies - 500xpDefeating the Lindwurm - 1800xpBefriending the Ruasidhe - 100xpHonouring Virdan's memory - 100xpReturning Hort Thistlewhip to Kidwelly - 100xpMeeting the Whitebone Sisters - 100xp= 2800 / 5 = 560+ 4642 = 5202next level up (5) at 6500</blockquote>

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