Session x 113 "The Witch Queen Awakens"

Session 113: The Witch Queen Awakens

In battle with Kalek and Warduke of The League of Malevolence, The Lucky Seven proved victorious, however not without casualties. Their new friends Elkhorn, Winky, and Spymaster Hushknife were killed in the fight, as was Muffy’s familiar, Mrs. Brunkal. Bip came to the brink of dying and Grin’s magical body was frozen solid into a statue of ice. Rasmus also destroyed someone who had clearly been turned to stone, but who knows who that was? After reviving Bip and looking for the bodies of Winky and Spymaster Hushknife to no avail, you left the tower in the center of the palace. Venturing out again through the vortex that surrounded it you came to another balcony and another set of double doors.

Behind this door was a massive ball room that had seen a great deal of destruction. And here you encountered several frozen beings and one not so frozen being. Surrounding a large iron cauldron spewing dark vaper was a massive sleeping green dragon. In the room around you were several figures including a couple you recognized. The largest and most prominent was a frozen in time nine foot tall version of Bucky wearing green flowing robe with hands outstretched in an arcane gesture. In the air you saw a frozen Bibble with dragonfly wings mid flutter and several other goblins you did not recognize following behind. There were seven sprites, two drow mages, a bullywug knight, two small blueish creatures with white hair, and a blonde human woman in armor.

Rensig remembered that this dragon was indeed the infamous Jaberwock and that it was loyal to only Zybilna. With this information Bucky took a gamble. She awoke the massive dragon and was able to convince it that though it seemed strange, she was the same person that the dragon knew as his mistress. With access to the cauldron she then began to identify it and learned several ways to free the frozen Crystal Court. Destroying the cauldron, removing it from this plane of existence, or touching it with a unicorn horn while reciting a poem she did not know would undo the effects. Rensig said he could open a gate to another plane to push the cauldron through, but he would first need more diamonds, and for that a trip to the Tower of The Moon to see The Moonlit King.

Taking the cauldron to the unicorn Lamorna was also discussed, but Rhys, with one final attempt using his last spell slot capable of locating a unicorn horn started wandering around the room with his sword until he did get a hit. There was a unicorn horn above you all and to the west. Flying out of the holes left in the palace by The Jabberwock you flew up to the part of the palace that had been torn into the sky on a beanstalk and found within a future version of Bob wearing a tiny wizard hat. After convincing him that this wasn’t some kind of trick, he told you where the horn was and the poem needed to free the court, but not before warning you about the dangers of temporal paradoxes.

Now you are back in the enormous room with the Jabberwock and all of the frozen people, and Bucky has just touched the unicorn horn to the cauldron while reciting the poem. Time has returned to The Crystal Court and Zybilna the witch queen takes you all in with her glowing green eyes and says "Don't I know you?"