Stonetooth Trap

Modokus

Ena

Minty Pineapple

Leora

Via Rose

Yoko Mashkin

Upon departing the feywild, the party quickly made their way towards the hag Gaia’s lair, following Gridge’s directions. After having traveled for around 6 miles, the unconscious tabaxi captive began to wake, but he was swiftly knocked back unconscious so the party could continue onwards.

The party began traveling through close coniferous trees, and Via rose recognized that some of the broken branches were very high in the trees, indicating something tall was moving through the area. Eero guessed it was a troll, as the party was in gurruptoi territory and the gurruptoi in the north had been known to use trolls from time to time.

The party continued to enter a bog where Gridge said the hag’s lair was. The party discussed their plan of attack and eventually moved in to approach the underground cave the hag was staying in. The swamp was foul smelling and filled with mist that obscured line of sight. When the party approached the entrance to the cave, they saw several skeletons in the trees that had been overgrown by plants that took the shape of the original body, set up in a horrific display.

Via cast her speak with plants spell on them and learned that the hag was not inside the hideout. She then made friends with the plants and began using her druidcraft to grow flowers on the plants so they could feel pretty.

The party camped out on top of the cave while Viari Coppertail placed a sentry beacon on the entrance to go off if any invisible enemies came close. Eero waited inside as bait while everyone else waited for the hag to return.

Eero entered and saw a small iron mirror on a table in the center of the room, but didn’t approach it. The party waited and soon Viari’s sentry beacon went off, meaning something invisible was approaching Eero.

The party sprang into action and attacked the invisible orc who had arrived. Behind him several goblins and orcs charged in, along with one orc with large horns and a fiendish presence, and one massive troll. The party battled them and by bottlenecking them somewhat successfully at the door, and Viari keeping the Troll’s movement at 0 with his disabling shots to keep the party from being overwhelmed, the party was able to defeat them with minimal damage. The orc chief tried to take the tabaxi and run, but was unable to escape.

After defeating the orcs, Gridge identified them as Gurruptoi from the Stone Tooth tribe, and all members of the stone tooth tribe replace one of their maulers with a stone as a rite of initiation. The party examined the tabaxi captive and found he had an iron tooth in the back of his mouth. Minty examined him further and found one of his eyes was blue, and had a human pupil, indicating it was the source of his mistwalking powers. Leora used her healing to wake the tabaxi and the party decided to question him inside the hag’s lair while Modokus and Viari watched the entrance.

At first the tabaxi didn’t answer any questions, but when Eero read his thoughts, he learned the tabaxi was counting the number of voices he was hearing and wasn’t even registering the questions. Upon getting this information, Yunet switched to speaking orcish and the Tabaix began to respond. The party learned his name was Tamel, and the hag Gaia had raised him since before he could remember. With the use of a zone of truth and Edric’s exceptionally convincing gun aimed at the Tamel’s head at once point, the party learned that Tamel knew of the other hags but didn’t want to reveal their locations to us. He didn’t see what the hags were doing as bad because the world is full of people who fight and do terrible things. The hags were just some of many, but the party insisted this was untrue. They finally got through to him when they told him that he was likely being sent to get Eero’s blood because the hags were looking to replace him.

Tamel broke down when Yunet pointed this out to him with a double nat 20 on her intimidation check. Eero was able to look into Tamel’s mind and saw the memory he had of Gaia the hag as she gave him his own iron tooth that she now used to telepathically communicate with him. The party removed his iron tooth and he gave them the name of the final hag in the coven, Marcia. He told them that Gaia was the least powerful hag and was likely in the Gurruptoi city Delinos, controlled by the stonetooth tribe who she had significant influence over as she had significant control over their trolls.

The next most powerful hag was Marcia, who was the Bloodgrafter for the Coldfire tribe, which was led by the white dragon we saw defending Aigne.

Finally, the leader of the hag coven was Judith, who lived somewhere inside the Quedem mountains.

The party decided to explore the cave, which triggered a magical trap which collapsed the hovel on top of the party, nearly killing Tamel, the orc chieftain hostage they had, Modokus, and Leora. Luckily everyone was dug out in time before they suffocated.

The party retreated into the mountains to meet back up with the rest of the taskforce in The Scrapyard. The party was spotted while they rested by a goblin scout who Modokus punched unconscious and left in a tree, not wanting to kill him, but not letting him report the party’s position.

The group headed back down south through the mountains, evading the Quedem military and the Gurruptoi as they headed back to the town of Nenhaven and the entrance to the underdark.