Seether

The Acquaintances With Weapons must end Valindra Shadowmantle's reign of terror.

## Major Plot Points

* AWW left Crescent City and ventured further into the Wytch Elms thalmont. The weather got extremely cold and a blizzard fell on the party. They discovered a battlefield where high elves, wood elves, and drow elves were frozen solid. Fern cast reincarnation on a wood elf, bringing him back as a firbolg. The revived soldier said that the drow enslave high elves and wood elves in the Wytchn Elms. The drow and other elves usually fight each other, however, when Valindra Shadowmantle's forces appeared, they joined forces. This was all for naught as they were defeated.
* Valindra now controlled the Wytch Elms and the Lazarus thalmont to the north. She spread false propaganda that AWW was fighting on her behalf and that she controlled the territories they helped.
* Guided by Peggy's detect magic spell and their new firbolg friend, AWW went to he capital city Zelena. The drow magister, Zaldrize Dreamfyre, was decapitated and her head was put on a snowman in the center of town. The group saw a white dragonborn soldier riding a mammoth. He was trying to break into the local magic shop.
* Vulveeta failed to climb up the mammoth and was stomped by it. Salty Twat was stomped quickly after. Bigsby cast dominate monster on the mammoth and wrestled control over the beast. Sudsy crawled up the beast and tried to take the dragonborn down. The soldier proved too strong and pushed Sudsy off the mammoth. Fern's chill touch was enough to finish the mammoth rider.
* Wet Dick led the party inside WANDa's. Wanda shared a soldier broke into the shop, but he got drunk so she was able to trap him in the basement. Olivia and Voloth bought two hand grenades. Bigsby bought a hover boar.
* In the basement, the party was able to intimidate the solider into giving up some intel. He said Valindra was in her flying castle above the city. In exchange for his life, he let the party have a group of winged polar bears. Calypso stayed behind to watch over the city's survivors.
* The group flew up to the castle and landed in the courtyard. Sudsy went to investigate and fell into quick slush. Vulveeta went to rescue him but fell in as well. Fern flew a polar bear over and pulled them out.
* Bigsby led a stealth squad made up of Fern, Salty Twat, Vulveeta, and Sudsy into the castle's second floor through a balcony door. Fern cut the rope that anchored a life raft to the balcony. This door led to Valindra's bedroom. Fern found the wizard's diary, discovering the castle itself was Valindra's phylactery. Bigsby stole a stained glass window.
* Voloth, Wet Dick, Peggy, Olivia, and Dani investigated the first floor of the castle. Dani's fireball spell burst the front door open. They then found a skating rink filled with a ghostly orchestra and audience. Peggy, Dani, and Voloth skated beautifully and were allowed to leave.
* AWW reunited outside of the library. When they went inside, they discovered Igor, Valindra's boneclaw man servant. Bigsby and Fern tried to tell him they were unionizing Valindra's forces and they never betrayed her. Discovering he was food motivated, Vulveeta was able to coax him into not alerting the guards they were there by giving him jerky. Sudsy used his infernal communion book to summon the most powerful devil he could. He asked the devil to find the juiciest tome in the library. The devil gave him Volume 69 of Valindra's diary series. The devil then demanded AWW give him the Ring of Winter when they get it.
* After reading Volume 69, the group learned Valindra was in a love triangle with a man named Eduardo and Igor. Feeling guilty for betraying his master who truly loved him, Igor threw himself out the window.
* In the library, Wet Dick was able to operate the castle's control panel. He flew it over the nearby battlefield. Bigsby summoned his unseen servant and had it start crashing the castle into the ground. AWW made their escape as the castle went crashing down. Bigsby nearly fell off his hover boar. Peggy's chaos magic changed his bad luck and kept him steady. Voloth was struck by ice shards but stayed on his flying polar bear.
* Valindra came out of the wreckage and attacked the party. Dani cast sunburst on the wizard. The lich woman converted Fern's fire magic into ice and was immune to her poison. Valindra unleashed a wave of necrotic energy against AWW. Voloth shot at her with eldritch blasts. He then hit her with his maul, severing her arm and taking the Ring of Winter from her. His next maul attack was enough to slay the now mortal Valindra.
* When the demon came to collect the Ring of Winter, Dani convinced him to take her unborn child instead.
* Bruce Vayne was elected to be the magister of the now combined Wytch Elms and Lazarus thalmonts.
* You're all level 17 now!