1. Journals

65 - Witches Gather

Session
Ardenian Heritage 2020-02-01

Goals

Defeat the hags and free the kingdom of their influence.

Setup - 64 - Garden of Fallen Heroes Part II

The party have travelled through the Broken Bones Caves, saved an old friend of Veronica's, defeated enchanted doors, conquered flaming rooms, debated on which stairs to follow, were mind controlled and teleported to the Hag's lair, encountering them for the first time. Total darkness engulfed the party, with the hags scratching the skin of the heroes and linking their wounds.

Locations

  • BBC
    • A large cave with bones everywhere. The floor is soaks in a few centimetres of blood everywhere. Torches with purple flame dim lit the area.

NPCS

Encounters

  • The 3 hag sisters and their minions
    • The night hag has 2 counterspells
    • Each hag has 1 legendary reaction
    • Each hag has 100 HP more than in the books
    • Annis hag has 19 AC
    • Night Hag can cast the spells as if in a coven
    • Children are in cages hanging to the ceiling. The bheur hag will walk up an icy wall to a cage to devour a child when under 120 HP (ability)
  • DNDBEyond
  • Lair traps
    • Various glyphs on the floor that freeze, burn, electrify or necrotic damage whoever activates it and fails a dex/con save (15)
    • The altar in the middle where the hags are is flaming and has life points equal to how many were stolen from the players during the previous sessions (70-80) It's a bright purple flame that creates a darkness spell on the whole lair. Dispel magic with a 8th spell slot is required.
  • Lair actions (Initiative 20)
    • Boiling floor: summons as Vampiric Mist
    • Life Drain: DC 13 Con save and take 4d8 necrotic damage and a -2 STR pentalty until a long rest. Stacking. Half as much on a success.
    • Freeze Over: The blood freezes over. Dex save 13 or be restrained in the icy-blood floor. Whole lair is now difficult terrain and slippery (DC 10 dex or get knocked prone, dashing increases to the DC to 20)
  • Style
    • The annis will concentrate on spell casters and cripple them
    • night on low wis fighters (auron)
    • bheur on controlling the area
    • night hag (louise) will ethereal shift when low on hp

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.