Session 31 - 1/8/23

Megan, Michael, Tasha, Bill, Jeff

Lucia, Arden, Elektrah, Brottar, Althalus

The party heads into the Woods of the Sharp Teeth in search of the missing hunters. They are surrounded by trees, as you would expect in a forest. They are also surrounded by giggling noises, which are less common in the woods. There are tiny voices talking to them, asking them questions like "Where are you going?" and "Why are you here?". Eventually, Elektrah asks them if they've seen any humans in the woods, not realizing that they're indebted to them if the fey answers them. You never want to be indebted to the Fey. Brottar also asks questions about where they are and in which direction. The Fey tells them that they have seen hunters and they are a few hours away in a direction. The party can't tell which direction because the Fey is invisible. Arden asks what we can call him and he is told to call him "Fidget". Fidget sends Glowing Spheres in the direction of the hunters. The party heads out, eager to get away from the bizarre conversation. Elektrah uses her "Speak with Animals" ability and questions a raven. The raven tells her that there were humans in a clearing and there was also a dead deer nearby. After some time, they find the small clearing. It's got a cold fire pit with fresh ashes and marks where a tent was. Brottar asks his wolf to track the scent from where the tent had been. The wolf leads them to a larger clearing where they find a party of 3 men sitting around a fire pit with a spit over it. There is some meat on the spit, roasting. Elektrah opens up with "There are supposed to be four of you!" After a brief and decidedly odd conversation. The party learns that the hunters are named Jon, Daveth, Daren, and Kourt. Daren was taking the rubbish out into the woods to bury it. The party explains that they were looking for them because of a notice that was put up on a job board. It's decided that it's probably Daren's wife who posted the job. She dislikes it when he's away, but loves the money he makes from the skins and meat he brings home to sell. Daren comes back and confirms it was probably his wife. He married into a rich family of merchants. Because of this marriage, he enjoys his dowry and contacts and will not divorce his wife. The party is offered some of the meat on the spit. Brottar and his wolf are happy to take part. The rest of the party declines, expecting something creepy. After some conversation, Elektrah feels a bit of magic is aimed at her, but it takes no effect. Suddenly, Althalus is polymorphed into a deer. He tries to run off, but Elektrah is quicker. She dispels the magic and turns him back to his human form. The hunters and a small voice start laughing. "You'll have to excuse Fidget. He gets bored easily." The party makes their camp on the other side of the clearing. It's decided that they should maintain their usual night watch schedule because there is something decidedly creepy about the hunters.

Brottar takes the first watch and overhears the hunters chatting. "We should just leave them alone. Kourt, you've got to stop thinking with your stomach" Brottar gets up to stretch his legs and see if he can join the conversation to see what's going on, but thinks better of it. He wakes the party. The men of the party take the wolf to find the rubbish pit while the women stay at the camp. Lucia and Elektrah notice that the hunters are looking over at them. They respond in completely characteristic ways.

The guys find a small hill of loose dirt. Althalus and the wolf start digging. They find a cloth bag containing various children's toys. They also find several bones belonging to an adult. They find three other graves, some of the bones showing teeth marks. Arden gives them their final rites and they head back to camp. Brottar is all for straight-up murdering the hunters. They are concerned that they will break the Laws of Hospitality managed by the Fey, particularly as one of the hunter's plays the lute for them. The last thing they need to is to have the Fey after them as well as cannibalistic hunters. Lucia decides to tease them about how they've never had Tiefling before. Althalus talks it up discussing how they could cook the meat from her athletic thighs. It's too much for Kourt to handle and he takes Lucia up on her offer of the meat of her thigh. As soon as his knife cuts her, she kicks him away and the combat begins. Brottar brings fear to their eyes as he absolutely demolishes Kourt. Daveth tries to make a break for it, but Elektrah holds him in place with a vine. (tricksy druid magic). Between Brottar's flaming hammer, Arden's holy vengeance, Elektrah's control of plants and flame (FlameKitty coming out of the camp fire was especially entertaining), and Lucia and Althalus' sneaky attacks, eventually all of the hunters are sent to Kelemvor to be judged. The Fey do not try to interfere or stop them, having been thoroughly entertained by the battle. The party searches the camp and find a fair amount of goods and gold.

3,000 gp, Lute, a Belt, a Bead of some sort, a bottle of oil that's glowing, oil of slipperiness, a wand of some sort, a staff with birds carved all over it, 4 javelins of lightning, A potion of invisibility, scroll - Protection from Plants, Lantern of Revealing, a book of Fey songs, and a potion of FireBreath.

4,000 XP

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