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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids1" data-source="post: 9617059" data-attributes="member: 7030604">Session FourThe Runewardens try luring Moira down to fight them on the ground, but she is having none of that and ignores their gentle mockery. It doesn't help that the players of Sir Bruno and Apogee are both absent this week, as it is for those two characters that the Crow Hag holds a particular animosity.Instead, the reduced party return to the Goblin Market to rescue Ansol Thistlewhip. Unfortunately, the halfling lad has already been sold to Nanny Spitroast, who is definitely going to put him in a pie. The Runewardens head to Nanny Spitroast's Meat Wagon. It is much bigger on the inside.<a href="https://media1.thehungryjpeg.com/thumbs2/ori_3746462_4fcs8d58lou4poj4og0nffcovzndqxt9tls19j3z_butcher-character-vector-classic-professional-butcher-man-with-knife-for-steak-meat-market-storeroom-advertising-concept-cartoon-isolated-illustration.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://media1.thehungryjpeg.com/thumbs2/ori_3746462_4fcs8d58lou4poj4og0nffcovzndqxt9tls19j3z_butcher-character-vector-classic-professional-butcher-man-with-knife-for-steak-meat-market-storeroom-advertising-concept-cartoon-isolated-illustration.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The party interrupt four half-ogre butchers frantically beating their meat. A track running along the ceiling carries flayed carcasses deeper into the facility. The butchers hurl entangling strings of animate sausages at the heroes. Gale eviscerates a half-ogre and tosses a handful of entrails into the meat grinding apparatus, dragging the screaming butcher to his gory demise. Ghoralt is suspended from a meathook and carried off along the track.Ghoralt is carried into a room filled with huge vats of bubbling sludge, where bones and meat byproducts are boiled down to gelatin. The overpowering stench of vinegar makes his eyes water. A large gelatin ooze slurps out of a vat to attack the party. Gale attacks with his sword, slashing the ooze in half. The two oozes gang up on Gale, take him out and grotesquely absorb his body into their amorphous mass. RIP GALE. Ghoralt manages to free himself and inflicts more slashing damage, splitting the ooze again. By keeping their distance - and not doing any more slashing damage(!) - the Runewardens defeat the oozes.<a href="https://www.foodmategelatin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/meat.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.foodmategelatin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/meat.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The final room of the meat dungeon is swelteringly hot thanks to two large ovens. A conveyor belt deposits unbaked pastries into the flames. Ansol Thistlewhip has been stuffed into a flaky pie crust and is already well on his way to a fiery end. Nanny Spitroast oversees her operation from a catwalk on the far side of the room. Scrote Gargle - goblin entrepreneur, forced to work for the hag after the Runewardens ruined his fairy trafficking hustle - is stationed near the conveyor belt. Butte Nugget joins the fray for Team Runewardens, so Adam has something to do other than mourn another dead character.Ghoralt pushes Ansol off the conveyor belt. The oven animates and belches fire. Ghoralt resists being balefully polymorphed into a pig. Butte Nugget does not resist Ray of Sickness and pukes his measly 7HP up all over the floor. RIP BUTTE NUGGET. Ghoralt charges the hag, then one of Tink's stray arrows (natural 1 whilst shooting into melee) hits him in the head, killing him outright. RIP GHORALT IRONBANE. Nanny Spitroast gives Tink a thumbs up for the kill-assist. Tink's next shot strikes true and the Pie Hag expires. Seeing his employer go down, Scrote Gargle surrenders. The two surviving Runewardens rescue Ansol and chop off Nanny Spitroast's head. They loot the magic items from their fallen comrades, but leave the bodies where they fell. Scrote Gargle takes over the Meat Wagon and chucks their corpses into the pie-making machine. Waste not, want not.The party leave the Goblin Market. Rather than return Ansol to his family, they tell the boy his entire extended family is dead and he lives with the Whitebone Sisters now. The bone hags exchange Hoorah for the "orphan". The Runewardens also trade Nanny Spitroast's skull for three Superior Healing Potions. Hoorah thanks the party for rescuing her, and promises to put in a good word with the Pookah King. She also passes on her pookah gift to Sir Bruno, who can now cast Speak with Dead.The Runewardens return to Kidwelly for a long rest. Large black birds circle the town for the duration of their stay, perturbing the superstitious halflings. Ma & Pa Thistlewhip enquire after their missing children. Tink expertly deflects the question and definitely does not admit to fostering Ansol with the Whitebone Sisters. Halfling bard Dread Zeppelin (Drezepp for short, played by Rich) and his warforged bodyguard ID4 (played by Adam) express their interest in joining the Runewardens. Considering the high rate of player attrition, they are both hired on the spot.What to do next? The party are at a loose end while they wait for a summons from Seventails. Their supply of healing potions took a hit in the meat dungeon, so they decide to visit the magic honey tree. ID4 recommends traversing the Deepdoom, a labyrinthine maze of tunnels beneath the Runewild, occupied by two clans of warring deep gnomes, and all manner of other subterranean horrors. No thanks ID4, we'll just follow the road.<a href="https://png.pngtree.com/png-vector/20240208/ourmid/pngtree-beehive-different-size-for-bees-honeycomb-png-image_11713842.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://png.pngtree.com/png-vector/20240208/ourmid/pngtree-beehive-different-size-for-bees-honeycomb-png-image_11713842.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The magic honey tree is an ancient and formiddable oak. An enormous beehive clings to the trunk some 20ft above the ground, surrounded by hundreds of oversized bees. Drezzep casts a spell that causes flowers to sprout nearby, distracting the swarm. Then the flowers start squirting water everywhere, which fucks the bees right off. The party are swarmed by stinging insects. Tink & Alistair get stung, like, a lot. ID4 is made of metal (with a ridiculous base AC of 25), so he's pretty much immune to their attacks. Drezepp turns invisible and climbs the tree, leaving the others to deal with the bees.Suddenly, a naked dwarf bursts out of the bushes! He hollers at the party to get away from the hive. Who is this strange guardian of the magic honey tree, and why has he got his knob out? Find out - next week!TBCXP Calculator4x Half-Ogre Butchers + animate sausages - 1200xp1x Gelatin Ooze - 1200xpDefeated Nanny Spitroast - 2000xpRescue Ansol Thistlewhip - 100xpGave Ansol Thistlewhip to the Whitebone Sisters - minus 100xpRescued Hoorah the Bunny-Girl - 500xpRecruited Drezepp & ID4 to the Runewardens - 200xp5100 / 4 = 1275 + 5202 = 6477 (which I will round up to 6500)Everyone advances to lvl 5!!!!!</blockquote>

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