Legends of Arcadia: Genesis: Episode 16

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==Recap==
===Day 2===
Koibu, Wren and Rouk check up on the carnival. They approach the young new officer, Hugo, in charge of investigating the caged animals. Wren explains they were there when it happened and they weren't working with Zephir. 
They see 3 figures striding towards them, a gnome and 2 burly men. The gnome complains about the workers being killed and blames the party. Wren promises they will get to the bottom of things. 
Rouk investigates human footprints near the cages that lead into the plains. Hugo notices those footprints are different from those of carnival workers. There are 3 individual tracks, similar in size and shape. 
They follow the tracks southwest. The mistletoe they were given points in the other direction. A few miles into the plains, the three parts split, the tracks show something is being dragged. The trail is then intercepted by tracks of canines, with no sign of a fight. The party suspects werewolves and follows the merged dragging tracks deeper into the plains. Eventually, Rouk hears the sounds of chanting and notifies the party. 
A wind-spiral has been painted in clay, upon it are 5 wolves splayed out on the ground around a figure in purple robes, holding the same symbol that is on the ground. 2 figures dressed in carnival clothes kneel behind. Hugo chucks a javelin at the chanter but misses him. The chanter's face is scarred with self-inflicted cuts, and he grins and yells "Rise and make them suffer." The wolves rise up to fight them.
Combat start: The party vs Chanter 
Hugo misses the wolf. The wolf bites him and Hugo is poisoned. Koibu hits one wolf. Rouk misses chanter. Wren casts on the humans. Rouk strikes the cultist.
Wren heals Koibu, everybody misses everyone. Hugo's poison takes effect and he has all attributes halved. The chanter takes out the arrow, says "Suffer with me" and crimson clouds fill the place in front of him. 
Hugo is the only one to hit, slashing at one wolf. The crimson mist goes towards that and sucks the blood from one of the wolves, and the wolf attacks it. Hugo kills a wolf, Rouk gets poisoned.
Rouk kills one wolf. Wren moves away. Hugo charges the chanter and misses. Koibu runs in towards the chanter, misses. The mist consumes one wolf and attacks the next. Wolf wounds Rouk, he wounds it back.
Wren kills the wolf and drags Rouk away. The wolf attacks the wolf. Koibu tries to parley with one of the tangled cultists. The mist consumes the last wolf and hits Wren. After it consumed the wolf it seems to take solid form. Chanter disappears trough the slit in the air.
Koibu casts and knocks the mist back and helps Rouk out of the battle. They kite the mist.
Mist catches up to Rouk, everyone misses.
Hugo kills the mist
Combat end.
They go back to track the cultists, find the clay but no people. Wren takes some clay. Rouk fails to track anything. They rest in the plains. Wren finds some tart berries and casts . Koibu investigates the circle with . The magic has dissipated from the circle, there are remnants of non-arcane magic, he pockets some of the chalk.
In the evening, Wren notices is not in the sky, he's on the world. During his watch, Rouk notices a pack of small almost-feline shapes. It's 4 leopards in the process of tracking something that's in their direction. Once they are within range, Rouk charmes them and leads them to the corpses of the wolves. 
===Day 3===
Wren and Hugo spar in preparation for Wren's spell in the morning. Rouk finds the tracks of the cultists. They discuss what to do, decide to follow. That they, they manage to cross the river, when they reach the hillside, the hill is shaped into a skull with a dark passage inside it. They camp in front of the cultist's lair. Rouk goes hunting but gathers nothing. 
In the night, they hear a horn and fog rises out of the skull. They all get visions of suffering. Koibu dreams of the Gnome winning all the challenges at the festival. Wren dreams of a polar bear rending her flesh. Rouk dreams of his dogs getting turned into mutilated creatures they fought yesterday. Hugo dreams of being cast out of the village and living a life of obscurity. 
Their vision gets interrupted by movement. Rouk goes towards it, a little girl with curly brown hair starts tugging at his sleeve. He takes the hand of the girl and the vision of suffering clears. She shows him the vision of his dogs eating at the shack and ushers him to find his friends, and he follows. Koibu sees the light and calls to Voraci but it isn't his time yet. Rouk and the little girl show up, Koibu makes sure Rouk is really who he says he is and follows him and the girl. 
When Wren sees the light and mist, she carves the symbol into a tree and walks towards the light. Upon getting close, the light reaches out and chokes her unconscious. The mist reaches Hugo and grabs him, he survives, then he attacks the presence in the mist. They fight, the mist wins.
The girl lets Rouk and Koibu know something bad has befallen their comrades. The girl is called , and they attempt to guide her towards their fallen friends, they both fail. Koibu tries to focus on the emotional connection rather than their usefulness, and Matrigal manages to find the trail. Hugo and Wren are on the ground, unconscious, with marks around their neck. They pick up their friends and carry them out of the mist.
Koibu asks if they can do anything for her. Matrigal doesn't like them (the cultists), those that twist her brother's words. She has a favorite beast, a bright white horse with a horn on his head. They should find the beast, take its horn, if they are heroic it will willingly give it to them. With the horn, they can dispel the mist.
===Experience===
215 exp each
* Rouk gets a 200 for dealing with leopards.
* 20 hit dice defeated
* Wren gets 2 spells exp worth for furthering ethos
* 450 exp for Koibu - idea that saves the party and spells
Category:Legends of Arcadia: Genesis Episodes