The Pantheon War Campaign/Session 2

Villagers offer to help the party:
*Tome asks for weaponry to support the effort. Villagers do not have anything sophisticated: spears, half-broken sword, etc.
*Screecher asks (through writing) if people on other side of river were villagers. They were.
*Tome goes to talk to the millwright. The millwright doesn't especially know how it works. The water turns the stones and the stones grind the truffles. No idea how to divert water flow. (Dig a canal?)
*Where does the salt go? Over here, in a silty pile! 
Party crosses the river:
… correction, party spends 15 minutes deciding how to cross the river
*Haruspex cuts down a tree (fell yonder pine) to make a drawbridge. Revenant Paul Bunyon is very successful. 
**Screecher directs the birds in the tree to leave first.
*Party finally crosses the river.
*Chirping sound coming from the forest, unlike the forest around the village/hamlet
**Screecher chirps back. Sound is not in the vocal range of most birds. More like a cricket sound. No response to chirp-back.
*Haruspex senses life in the woods, but it is not organized life, more like a lower life-form (proto-plasm).
*Nearby trees are bowing down from weight of wyrms.
*Haruspex approaches wyrm-tree. Branches move up as wyrms move higher up into tree—they're afraid, perhaps. Haruspex projects death at them. Wyrms appear largely unaffected. Many of wyrms dangle from tree and drop. Death ray disordered segments of wyrms, but wyrms are still alive and burrow into the ground.
*Humboldt decides the worms are infiltrators from the deep aether. Unless everything is uprooted and destroyed, they will drill down and destroy the core of the planet. 
*Haruspex projects death around him to ward off wyrms. Pit opens up around Haruspex. Haruspex uses scythe to catch side of pit. The floor is made of wyrms. Returns to party covered in wyrms. Wyrms try to eat Haruspex and die.
*Haruspex pours alcohol on wyrms. They move away from it and those that contact the alcohol die.
*Humboldt determines that forest fungus can be distilled into whiskey.
Party arrives at the village with the well:
*Haruspex hails townspeople, townspeople groan back. Offers townspeople a drink.
**One of them painfully enunciates, "hail, stranger"
**Villager's fingernails have fallen off.
**Villager reacts violently to alcohol as wyrms attempt to escape esophagus. Haruspex performs mercy killing. Brain of dead villager looks like it suffered from oxygen deprivation.
*Haruspex demands other villager sit down, house explodes with wyrms instead.
**Wyrms whip at Haruspex, but do not deal damage. Mass of wyrms draw Haruspex towards house.
***Humboldt whips wyrms.
***Screecher lifts Tome who throws salt-water bladders at wyrms.
***Elesett sets house on fire. House catches on fire easily as wyrms have drawn all moisture from wood into themselves. House becomes unstable as fire reaches the foundation.
*Villages begin to move from the well towards the party. All holding up one hand.
**Wyrms begin to talk. Claim that land cannot be salvaged and there is no point in destroying them.
**Wyrm-man identifies William. William tries to negotiate. "We are William. William is us. We are now as much a mind as you are." but--they don't feel fear
***Message for William's cousin back in the hamlet? He is fine, and he cannot join her. 
**Screecher flies above village, sees 12 additional jerky-wyrm people approaching village.
**Tome throws salt balloons into well. Causes trench to open up around village of wyrms.
**Screecher lulls one of possessed villagers to sleep. Drops villager into well, causing some number of wyrms to fall asleep.
**Villages collapses on itself with wyrms. Elesett caught by flaming village/wyrms, Haruspex jumps into well, Humboldt lifted out by Screecher.
***Elesett consumed by fiery falling buildings + shock wave and becomes buried alive.
***Haruspex met by wyrms when jumping into well. Haruspex projects death (triple dice explosion), causing everyone to make will saves.
***Screecher is upset, and amplifies a death cry, causing rest of wyrms to die. Traumatizes villagers in hamlet across the river: they will never fully recover. 
****Elesett restrains herself from nuking the village.
****Tome is chilled and horrified but fine.
****Screecher learns a death song.
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