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64 - Garden of Fallen Heroes Part II

Session
AR: Sessions
Ardenian Heritage 2019-10-13

Goals

Dive into the Broken Bones Caves and confront the hags. Regroup the party and prepare the final blow against the hags.

Setup - 63 - Garden of Fallen Heroes Part I

The party reassembled with half of them being trapped in eggs, followed by a fight against snakes and monsters who took care of "eggs". Sadly their new centaur-friend Iviss activated a teleport spell sending him away. The party travelled outside of the hag and rested in the Trent. The party had a short encounter with the King of the night, who gave them more blood gold. Before sleeping, Lex asked Pelor to protect the protect the princess. Pelor granted this protected to the party and the tree who could safe off attacks on them during the night.

Locations

  • Winterwald
    • Unknown - inspired by
      • Garden of Fallen Heroes
        • A room with over 50 eggs with people in various states of decay/corruption. Some are fresher than others. One is covered with gold-dust and seems well preserved (Thaddäus).
        • The two care-takers "lived" here. Some hay on the floor, and some broken egg shells that they presumably ate.
        • At the end is a large anthracite door with two bases at the floor that can fit an egg each. Placing eggs on them will consume the eggs and open the doors.
        • Some of the items of the fallen heroes can be looted: 2 superior healing potions, a pile of 1500 gold, what used to be fancy clothes that were destroyed by the fermenting (mending could recover some), and a set of dice made out of rubies.
      • Ritual Room
        • This large 20x20 meter circular room has thousands of candles of various sizes against the walls, all burning purple.
        • The floor is made out of hardened blood with small bones drawing a giant pentagram.
        • At the 5 intersections are altars that each have 3 hag statues carved out of bones and a tiny central altar, with all hags looking inside. The tiny altars all hold a small bowl and traces of dried blood.
        • The walls are adorned with crewed painting of the original three hags that formed the coven and brought more hags into the coven, and depicts the sacrifice of the once many hags to perform a ritual that would clear the lands after 13 years and 13 months of humans and other races. There is a painting of Victoria slaying a hag, the pain it caused to the hags, and another painting of her flailed at the hangs of the remaining hags. There is a painting of King Maximus and the people of Arden who think they have control over the woods, and another where the hags are in the royal halls, eating the remains of the royal family. Some painting depict the hags disguised as old woman taking care of infants, only to eat them, give birth to new ones, and placing them back in the family.
        • The centre piece of the pentagram is made out of anthracite. It possesses magical elements.
        • Illusions of the hags will appear to try and scare the party away, maybe even have them waist resources.
        • WIS saves for players to avoid being influenced by the hags and attacking their nearest party member.
        • When activated, the anthracite will teleport the party to the hag lair.
      • Room with fire (they all have fire resistence)
        • Walk through a room of fire to disable the trap to continue walking?
      • Broken Lair 
        • The end of the tunnel, reveal the hag's layer. Large open cave, with blood-soaked floor. Purple torches emit dim light, and the smell of rot is strong.
        • The three hags are on a small elevated platform with a bloodied altar, and seem to habe just finished a meal. 
        • "Sisters, it looks like our guests finally made it here. What should we do?"
        • "I'm still hungry after that appetizer. I'll have the gnome and the human"
        • "I'll eat the elf, last I had was a hundred years ago and he was delicious (Elfrun's husband)
        • "I guess I've never had a tiefling, so that's fine by me. Bon appétit sisters!"
        • The floor starts sizzling as the blood boils, and darkness engulfs the whole room. Each can feel long fingernails scratching their skin, and wet raspy tongues linking their exposed skin. End.

NPCS

  • Thaddäus Wiesner (male knight, weak)
    • Investigated the hags with Veronica and was captured by the hags, remembers being paralyzed and swallowed alive by one of the snakes. Think it's still 1010 AC. Hasn't aged.
    • The gold dust helped preserve, the hags wanted to keep him for veronica. The gold dust could be important for helping the children.
    • Too weak to help, but thankful.

Encounters

  • Awake the members and defeat the last boss before facing off the hags. 

Next

Hype session 69, create a "party town", ask later Yase if she wants to be "kidnapped" for 10 or so sessions. Ep 69, kairon comes , and kidnapps auron. Sexy ep becomes sad ep.