Episode 33: Flames and Roses

**Episode 33: Flames and Roses** (1x33) - The Fey break the long standing armistice with mankind and settle old scores in night attacks all across the Grimmwood Outskirts. One such unlucky community is that of Thistleberry Hollow. The forces of the Queen of Spite, La Vee’el La Fey unleash the queen’s favored war-beast, the Lionflower Alraune on the village turning its walls and barricades into a cage of biting carnivorous roses and fey knights swarm in on dragonfly wing and unleash The Fomorian on the hapless citizens. A long and bloody night begins as the Nearlies rush to the village looking to save friends and family. By morning nothing and no one will be left unscarred.

## Cast

### Nearlies

Josh | Xenator Brisbane
Kathy | Lavaleen Crest
Andy | Martin Sirque
Amanda | Gwendylyn Cloot
 Robbie | The Speaker
 Aaron |  Production & Sound

### NPCs

APPEARING
 Dodderfell
 Von Dark
 Nighgod

## Synopsis

### Prologue

Otak is still hurting at the loss of his daughter and enraged at Martin for making him think she was still alive.  He then admonishes himself for allowing such true evil to fester in his home. Thistleberry is burning, and the Nearlies have taken off to try to help.  He acknowledges that the attack is not entirely unwarranted.  Although Pixie Dust can be acquired humanely albeit slowly, too often however, it involves wringing out the pixie and grinding it up in a mortar.

He is the Woodcutter of the stories.  He is able to wander into others’ stories, and poetic justice courses throughout.  You cannot fight your story.  He always fights the wolf; fells the cursed tree; always falls in love with the woman in the Sacred Grove.  He cannot fight this, it always happens. He realizes that he let his grief over his lost wife get in the way of a relationship with his daughter.  So he sought out magic, sought out a Wish.  She said she would “return to him that which loved him most.”  He accepted, thinking to bring Sarah back.  But it was his blue ox that loved him most, and now it is stitched within his flesh.  He feels like he deserves this curse, as it is his fault for his lack of relationship with Sarah.

There is a voice.  “Daddy?  Daddy, help them.”

### Episode

The Nearlies are running towards the burning Thistleberry.  Valeriana, with her newly enhanced wolf ears, is the first to hear the sound of clopping hooves coming towards them.  It’s a battered Nighgod.  He was running to find the Nearlies to help with the attack by the Fey.  The town is completely surrounded by thorns and vines, but Nighgod directs them to the secret escape route he’d had prepared that game up through the well.  Unfortunately, Dodderfell and the Cambion would be too large to fit and would have to be left behind.  Von Dark attempts to contact the Guild of Heroes, but the Fey had jammed the signal, preventing contact from being made.  He decides to take Dodderfell and the Cambion to go get help from Izariazel.

Nighgod is warning the Nearlies against the dangers of the Alraune, and telling them to be stealthy.  While they are planning they see pixies leading the small children of the village.  Lavaleen flaps her wings to blow the fairies away.  The children have been bewitched, made Innocent.  They are happy, will no longer age, and make them untouchable by anything in the forest.  The Nearlies gather up the children and corral them in the woods, to keep them safe until they can be retrieved.

The children wrangled, the Nearlies make their way through the water way to make their way into the town.  Martin makes his hands and feet into webbed versions and he dives in first.  Xenator, not having to breathe makes his way slowly and carefully along the bottom of the water.  The rest of the Nearlies successfully makes their way, and they pop up near the burning Sad Swan Inn.

The villagers are being easily massacred by the Thornkin, and the survivors are being herded to the town square.  It appears that there are preparations for mass curse with blood magic.  They decide to seek out Molly Marrow to see if she can help stop whatever curse is being prepared for.  When they get close to her house they can see the aftermath of a titanic battle that took place between Molly and Kell, the leader of the Fey Knights.  Molly’s remains have been scattered around the yard, her head stuck to a tree with an iron nail.

Despite her terrible state, Molly’s head is still sentient.  Gwendylyn takes Molly’s head and they head into Molly’s house.  Martin attempts to turn into artificial lungs and vocal chords to help Molly speak.  This goes extremely poorly.  Instead of blowing air out, Martin blows air inwards, and sucks her eyeballs out of their sockets.  Meanwhile, Xenator is looting bottled spells from Molly’s house.

The ground shakes.  It’s an underwelling giant from the inverted world stomping by. He is surrounded by 6 Fey knights, herding him around.  Around his neck are trophies from his kills, including two recently deceased cats.

### Epilogue

The giant is enjoying his night out very much.  He likes killing and eating, and humans are especially delicious to him, and are the most fun to tear apart.  He especially reminisces over killing Loraloma, the Stone Folk Pub bartender, as she had a lovely mass of red hair, like his mother.  He snipped her hair off to take as a trophy and chewed on her.  At that point Nozzie had thrown a silver knife at the Giant.  He didn’t like that, as silver hurt him.  And then he was attacked by her cats.  They had managed to scratch his eye before he caught and killed two of them, and Nozzie had disappeared.  He didn’t like that part of the night either.  But now his handlers were taking him to the center of town, and he was certain he could find fun things to crush along the way.

## Notables

Episode 33
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 Spells Used
 Metamorph Attempts

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