Legends of Arcadia: Genesis: Episode 17

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==Recap==
Matrigal left the party in the woods, with Wren and Hugo unconscious. Koibu and Rouk find a cover to sleep in. Nothing disturbs them in the night. 
===Day 4===
Wren and Hugo are still unconscious, Koibu and Rouk look for food and patch up the companions. 
Meanwhile, Gnoeman is resting in his garden, getting served grapes.
Rouk fashions a raft to carry the unconscious. As they travel, he notices men cloaked in furs to the east, marking the ground with chalk. Rouk notifies Koibu and they hide from the men. Since they have no weapons, Koibu suggests talking to them and requesting help. Rouk disagrees but Koibu waves for them anyway while Rouk hides. 
The men are druid of the planes, Rouk recognises them. They explain the situation, the druids accept to help them, because Wren is a druid in need. Wren cannot recall what exactly happened, Koibu and Rouk inform her of Matrigal's intervention. Druids give them some rations and refuse payment. Rouk tells them of the cave and the mist they've found. 
The druids, Jarvis, Tigerlily and Hue, leave them to their journey and continue marking the ground. Rouk attempts to hunt, comes back empty-handed.
===Day 5===
Hugo wakes up, Wren heals him and the party further with . Rouk suggests this isn't their responsibility anymore and they return home. They remember their search for the unicorn that has been captured in the north. 
They head back to Steepwater to resupply. As they make their way through the area of the carnival, where they reconvene with Gnoeman. Gnoeman tells them 4 people that worked with the carnival went missing, and he really wants them to meet his new girlfriend, Melinda. The party meets the beautiful red-haired barmaid. A few drinks and poems later, they go to resupply.
Hugo heads to the town cleric, , and asks for guidance on finding the unicorn, learns unicorns are fey creatures and they should contact the elves in the woods. Hugo then informs of his new mission. 
===Day 6===
The party reconvenes, and they head into the woods to look for elves. Wren tells them she has elven relatives and of elven center in the woods that is said to be created by Astair himself. Gnoeman is distracted by a beautiful tree, and a big hairy creature comes bursting out of the tree and grabs him by the throat. It is a pathetic-looking creature, something between an ape and a human. Gnoeman casts on it.
Combat start: The party vs Gurgi
Koibu misses the ape, Gnoeman stabs it and the creature immediately releases him, 
and tells them in broken common not to fight it and cowers. Rouk recognises the creature as gurgi and tells it to back away.
Combat end
Wren tries to patch up the gurgi's wounds but fails. Gnoeman wants to kill it, but the party stops him. Gurgi offers to lead them to the unicorn if they give it the small one (Gnoeman) for munchies. The unicorn has been taken by mean ladies that stabbed Gurgi. Rouk gives Gurgi some rations, and Gurgi shows them the way. but warns them they will have to go past , the lady likes.
Wren asks the party if they would like to be willingly charmed by the driad, they all refuse, some more reluctantly than others. 
The party, with Gurgi in tow, rest for the night. Gnoeman is very distressed with Gurgi's presence. Wren feeds them some .
During Koibu's watch, Gurgi grabs him by the shoulders, whispering "He's coming!", pointing to the woods. Koibu wakes them up. A heavily wounded owlbear is coming towards them. 
Combat start: The Party vs. Disfigured owlbear
Hugo chucks a javelin at the Owlbear, misses. The owlbear attacks Rouk. Wren misses the owlbear. Koibu tries to lure the creature towards him. Gnoeman misses with the sling. Rouk flanks the creature and misses.
Wren stands between the creature and Rouk, and heals him. Gnoeman hits owlbear with a dagger. Rouk heavily wounds the owlbear, almost killing it. Owlbear attacks Koibu, as the final attack happens its beak falls to the ground, in its place appear fangs, unlike the owl or the bear. Rouk and Gnoeman miss.
Rouk hit's the creature, it's on its last legs. Gnoeman jumps on its back and stabs the creature. The creature almost kills Koibu.
Koibu casts on everyone, killing the creature.
Combat end
Wren inspects the creature. They are surprised the cults influence has expanded this far north and drag the beast away from camp.
===Day 7===
Gurgi leads them around potential encounters in the woods. When they approach the river, there is a bridge, elven in make, and has a symbol of Astair on it. Gurgi says Loreley is past this bridge. Koibu casts . Gurgi doesn't cross the bridge. 
There is a thumping under the bridge, there is a cloak in the river. Rouk jumps into the river, spots the crocodile and the party drags him back up. Gnoeman distracts the crocodile with , an illusion of a deer. While the crocodile hunts, Rouk fetches the body, and they pull it back up. The illusionary deer run's away.
The remains are of the elf. The cloak on their body is a Cloak of Elven kind. There are 115 gold pieces of gems and jewels, and a magical dagger. 
They press on to the other side of the river. On the side of the tree, they see Loreley, bronze of skin with long red hair. Wren compliment's the dryad's three. She discusses Drexl and what happened to Jasmin. Loreley doesn't want to help lift the curse of the innocent. She proposes a trade, Wren for curse. They decline, and Loreley suggests they find her favourite toy, it has been taken by the snakepeople, and she will lift the curse. She says the Gurgi will take them to the snakes, or they can let her end Gurgi instead. The snake people are favoured of Agepa, and their goal is to find Goldie. 
They leave and discuss what to do with Goldie and the gold. The snakepeople are on the way to the unicorn. They push further north lead by Gurgi. Rouk figures out that the snakepeople are the 'mean ladies' that took the unicorn too. 
===Experience===
875 exp each.
* 100exp to Wren for recap
* 6 hit-dice defeated for Warriors
* 100exp to Gnoeman for the Illusion
* 50exp to Koibu for Spark Shower
Category:Legends of Arcadia: Genesis Episodes