Session 29

Balls in the woods. Jeopardy

* Session begins, the tower has fallen and bisected the room.
* Qo investigates the body of a guard who was crushed by falling rocks. He PICKS UP THE HEAD?? Ulfred looks at it sort of hungrily. Qo bounces the head off the wall and freaks Vjenga out hardcore.
* Vaneldred is off in the corner drinking, doesn’t give a fuck about her broken limb.
* On the other side of the wall, some of the party can see shapes crawling down toward them on the wall. They are not dragonborn, but do seem draconic in some ways. They are dressed in white and some have scales and longer malformed snouts.
* Venphira is above, on the second floor, and is trying to dig through some of the rubble to reach the rest of the party.
* Langar whips out the javelin. Ain’t that the way. He slams the javelin into the ground and damages a few of the climbing enemies SEVERELYs
* Initiative
* The enemies draw closer to Langar. They are pale and have blue eyes. They lack hair.
* Kijin gets to stabbin, and shaves off some scales. The blood is a pale blue and it freezes as it bleeds.
* Ymna casts moonbeam, beams em real real good. One succeeds and one doesn’t. Ymna casts healing word on himself, which manifests as mushrooms which grow in his wounds and then fall off.
* Ulfred and Morgana flee toward the back of the room, away from the attackers.
* Queen Bergljot pushes her throne aside (swole nice), and reveals a hidden stone passageway previously behind.
* Solla sees Ettr, who is nonplussed and searching for an escape point.
* Langar lines up some baddies and zaps em.
* Vjenga casts spirit guardians at fourth level. It’s fish night with cats. She also summons claud and starts slapping.
* Jinx tries to yank one of the draconic attackers toward her with lightning lure. She shoots with her shortbow.
* Venphira spiderclimbs to a vantage point from which she can see the rest of the party.
* Sylvi punches one of the attackers and caves in his nose easy peasy. She uses Eikthyr to try to petrify him and fails.
* Qo tries to casts crown of madness, but his target saves. He moves back.
* One of the icy draconic folks releases a blast of cold energy from their mouth. It catches Qo, Sylvi, Jinx and Vjenga.
* As one of the enemies moves, Vjenga takes an opportunity attack. The one who moved points a finger at Qo and a ball of fire springs from him. Crazy damache. Sylvi goes down.
* Elyes gets really excited about Vjenga’s AC being 9. Owie. Another of the attackers lays into Jinx despite the fact that she is just a little guy.
* Guldrad brings in the Entry Fraggers. With a wild magic surge, they drag everyone near them toward themselves.
* Tordla uses healing word to bring Sylvi back to consciousness and uses his action to heal Qo with cure wounds.
* Kijin gives one of the attackers the fish treatment.
* Ymna drops moonbeam, and raises a zombie instead. The ghost of the slain dragon person is consumed by Ymna’s amulet, and as their zombie emerges from a portal, it seems that an inordinate amount of time has passed. Ymna orders the zombie to start digging its way through the rubble.
* Ulfred sees Sylvi fall and uses a legendary action to scream. Sylvi, Jinx and Qo all see the jaw of Ulfred unhinge and a massive, grotesque bat crawl out of his mouth. The three of them are frightened of Ulfred. Vjenga has a cool relaxing necklace.
* Solla uses step of the wind to climb a way up the wall. There is a window a ways up that they manage to climb through. Through the window, they can see the group on the other side. Solla pokes their head out and asks how everyone is doing. Badly????
* Langar heals himself, and then spends a blood point to spider climb up to join Solla.
* Vjenga uses Walls of Asgard.
* Jinx HAULS ASS away from the terrifying illusion of Ulfred.
* Venphira jumps down from her spot above and starts blasting Ymna’s zombie, as she doesn’t know it’s his.
* Sylvi punches the same person whose nose she broke before, and pops one of his balls like a water balloon.
* Qo activates the Helm of Darkness and teleports with a misty step out of the midst. He winds up in a safe spot behind the table.
* The attackers take a lil damage at the start of their turn. I foolishly remind Elyes that he also gets to attack with them. Vjenga un conch ous. Another attacker stabs Sylvi, she is also un conch ous. The one nearest to Vjenga finishes her, and she sees the image of Helheim. She sees corpse-eater. There is a guardian at the gate, laughing. Behind her, she can hear the voice of a little girl say “that’s it.” Vjenga’s tatz expand and the light of the amulet fades.
* Kijin tries to crawl through the hole and gets stuck. Ymna instructs his zombie to try to dig Kijin out. He summons another zombie and instructs it to do the same.
* Ulfred to the rescue. He SLICES and SLURPS one of the remaining enemies.
* Jinx rolls a critically necessary nat 20 and returns to the fight. She heals Sylvi from unconsciousness, who has been having a vision of Kare being racist.
* Solla hops down from the window and starts clobbering one of the enemies near Vjenga.
* Langar also moves down from the window and gets to stabbin. Langar is healthier than he was before the fight. He downs two more and offers a hand to Vjenga to help her get up.
* Ymna’s zombies dissipate.
* Vjenga takes Langar’s hand and yanks him down to the floor with her. Her teeth are chatterin bro. She asks him to sit instead for a minute.
* Qo turns his lights back on.
* Tordla heals a few of the party members. THANK YOU Tordla
* Morgana peeks her head out to see her daughter.
	+ “I almost died.”
	+ “But you didn’t!”
* The head of a white dragon is seen as it is slammed into the open wall through the roof. The party can see the copper claws of another dragon, covered in amber, and grasping the head.
* The party moves with purpose into the hole behind the throne. Langar helps Vjenga :Sylvicucked:. As he is moving into the tunnel, Vaneldred tells him that they need to talk. He tries to grab her, but the limb he grabs just cracks under his grip. She says she can’t feel it.
* Before Vjenga gets healed, Langar wants a sip.
* Jinx LEARNED HEALING FROM Vjenga :SylviCUCKED:
	+ As she heals her, it appears as tiny mushrooms, moss and lichen.
* Venphira offers her blood instead. When he goes to bite her, Jinx can see his face. It is incredibly pale, and he lacks facial hair.
	+ She says that Langar is welcome to come to her for blood in the future. She prefers that he not bite people who are already injured.
* Vjenga gets the resurrected luck feat.
* Venphira turns to Sylvi to heal her. She puts a hand on Sylvi, wings appear briefly before being sucked in.
	+ She asks Sylvi how she’s feeling
	+ “Pretty epic”
	+ Nobody can behave themselves with foundry chat.
	+ She asks Sylvi to move so that she can speak to Ulfred. She asks him accusingly whether he knew about the attack. When she can’t tell if he’s being honest about his denial, she says that “only one person” would know.
* Eikthyr, Lydr, and Byrtr are here also.
* Venphira, Vjenga and Queen Bergljot discuss structural stability. The Queen tells them that the bronze dragon was Rösk, who should have taken care of most of the danger. Kijin supposes that they block some of the exits to prevent ambush. The Queen disapproves. Vjenga says it’s alright, he’s a courier and not a tactician.
	+ Langar doesn’t like this mfer.
* Eikthyr (man) is having a panic attack while Eikthyr (dog) smiles at him with human teeth.
* The party takes a short rest.
* Venphira tries to get Sylvi’s attention. She pulls her into a hug, pats her head, and tells her that she’s glad she’s safe. Sitting against the wall and between Women, she takes a nap. She seeks out the Nidhogg, who has been entertaining themself with Kare’s soul.
	+ Nidhogg does a little trolling.
	+ They also claim that they can only see through her eyes -- but when she’s asleep, Nidhogg is able to control her senses. He’s hard to read.
	+ Nidhogg advises her to keep doubt in her heart, as it will be useful later. She tells them to have fun with Kare’s soul.
* Jinx pulls a sushroom. It's the Millard's Rollrim, or Whore's Rollrim
* Ymna gives Langar a Bro Hug, Langar awkwardly accepts it and walks off to talk to the queen. He asks whether she’s seen Johannes. She says no, and she hasn’t seen Sihinion either. She reassures Langar that they are too stubborn to die and he agrees.
	+ Langar is stiff and militaristic in interacting with the Queen, and he kicks himself when he walks away for it.
	+ He seeks out Vandeldred, who says they recognize him. She was a friend of Saegr
		- He asks how she knew him. She was a follower of Odin before her death, and subsequent resurrection into her current fragile form.
	+ Langar asks if she knew his mother. Vaneldred did, and she apologizes for his loss. He suggests that they reconvene to talk more when they’re outside of the castle. He contemplatively crosses his arms, and the two of them exchange bone breaking shoulder taps and arm wraps.
* Solla asks if Guldred recognized the white dragon.
	+ They say that they did. They’ve seen them before but don’t know their name.
	+ They call Solla “born of Solla, or of Esirar.” They say it’s not their place to explain.
	+ Solla momentarily heckles Qo but Kale’s not here.
	+ Guldred described Rösk as enigmatic and volatile. Solla cusses and invites Guldred to the wedding. They will be attending on their own.
* Vjenga rolls a real stinker of an arcana check to learn some more about her new tats, and uses inspiration. Vjenga relocates Sylvi to support Venphira’s sleeping head.
	+ When she approaches Byrtr and Lydr, they are discussing groceries.
	+ Vjenga asks about Lydr’s grandchildren. She has two, Hrundsomd and Utr. Vjenga introduces herself as her great granddaughter.
	+ Byrtr and Lydr have been together for 50-60 years. Byrtr is exiled, and Lydr is wanted for her premonition of her daughter’s displacement.
	+ Ymna overhears and asks if Byrtr has heard of Fytostyr. Vjenga says he is one of her Uncle’s friends.
		- Ymna’s father, Fytostyr, is dead. Byrtr thinks that Jire would have been responsible for his death, and is surprised to learn that Ymna thinks they’re both dead.
		- Jire was wrapped up in the worship of Vili. Ziggurat Vili.
	+ Vjenga asks Ymna how his parents passed. His father and brother were attacked on the journey. He never saw Jire’s corpse. He exchanges insults with his grandfather.
	+ Lydr asks how Utr is doing. :( Lydr met them, but they didn’t mention Vjenga. They were very rushed when they met with her.
		- Lydr says they were traveling through Ymir’s lash into Helheim or Jotunheim. She describes the Schnatz and learns that it is the child of the world serpent and the earth. Ymna gets whacked on the head. It eats mountains.
		- Vjenga asks about the petrification status of her sisters. The Schnatz is not known to petrify, but other creatures, including gorgons, may inhabit the building. At this, Morgana perks up to clarify that Medusa is the name of a singular gorgon, not the species. She’s also swaddling her manlet husband.
		- Lydr advises Vjenga to talk to Hel herself about her Uncle’s deal. She also says that there are apothecaries where one can purchase petrification cures.
		- Lydr is about to say more, instead the session ends.