Guardian Angel Haruki

The Wild Beyond Witchlight

Elemental Plane of Air

Ishaan's Palace: Grand Hall, Right Wing

The parrot answers Brutrumukk, "There are some security measures in there. Like beams that can incinerate someone. But ya have to figure out how to actually turn the dang things on and where. They're typically shut off if someone managed to get in past this front door here. For safety reasons,"

@XxFellsingxX@rush99999

Hither

Bavlorna's Cottage: Bavlorna's Hoard (B19)

Gabriel smiles at Aurora's response to his gratitude, but blinks at Sshizna's words. He answers her, still very cheerful, "Of course. I won't let you down on that! On my honor!"

While Gabriel was speaking with Aurora and Gabriel, Zavakri finds a porcelain jar made of varnished white clay rests on a wooden table. The jar has legs that have been painted to look like the legs of a chicken. Inside the jar are two broken pieces of a wishbone. She takes out the two pieces and sticks them together, and she blinks in surprise. She is left to mumble under her breath in realization, "So that's what the carousel horses meant...!"

Gabriel and Zavakri nod in response to Aurora's words about leaving the house. Zavakri adds, "I believe there's still one room to check before we leave, if you would like to cover all bases," Gabriel disagrees, "I'd rather get out of Hither. I'm tired of these swamps..."

With everyone agreed, they begin to leave the dreary cottage in the swamps, and make their way back to Clapperclaw.

Investigating the Meat Locker (B12). If anyone wants to do so, open this box.

This room is freezing. Chunks of frozen meat dangle from the ceiling on hooks and chains. Along the walls, more meat is stacked in piles on metal racks.

A small, frost-covered wooden coffer sits in the middle of the floor. The cold seems to be radiating from it. The wooden coffer is frozen shut but it can be pried open.

Open if you succeed on Athletics DC 10. Roll with Advantage if you use a crowbar or a similar tool

The coffer contains a still beating humanoid heart. The cold is coming from it. Should the heart be removed from the coffer, the room begins to warm up.

Chattering Heads (D5)

The party makes it back to Clapperclaw without much issue. It seems like nothing has changed in the swamps of Hither.

Sshizna Only

Sshizna sees that Prismeer has changed significantly! This area used to be peaceful meadows and rolling hillsides, adorned with flowers. But now...now this area is a roiling swamp. This area specifically somehow became a village of bullywugs! How did that happen?!

She even notices that the tallest tree is gone, no longer standing tall over the meadows. Sshizna once accompanied her mentor to punish a brigand who kept breaking the Rule of Ownership again and again and again: Agdon Longscarf, the arrogant harengon. Her mentor had at first, offered Agdon to let him be, if he recompensed by giving her his prized blue scarf. However, he refused.

So, Sshizna's mentor cursed the scarf so that Agdon could never take it off. In the same breath, she conjured the tallest tree, and nailed the other end of Agdon's scarf to the tree, so that he would hang there for the rest of his days in Prismeer.

As they approach, they can see that Clapperclaw, the small scarecrow is speaking with a stout, hairless figure. He speaks to the man, "A group of adventurers already went into Bavlorna's Cottage to find my stag skull. Once they come back, I can..."

He then looks to the party as they approach and he happily cheers, "There they are! And you have my stag skull!!!"

@Vertigo@Lurking Krog@Dark Cloud@CajunRobinHood

The Wild Beyond Witchlight

@Vertigo Go ahead and roll an Arcana on Gabriel's Missing Item.

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In the meantime, I will get the next DM Post up today and move things along. We can finally introduce the new player. ^_^

Time Marches On: A Witchlight Adventure Starring Miss Light

Welcome to the Witchlight Carnival!

Silversong Lake

The kenku noticeably struggles as Miss Light places a hand over her eyes. But, there is nothing she can do and Miss Light is able to drag her to Palasha. Finding Palasha was a simple matter; All she and Morgran had to do was to follow the river upstream. There, she was able to find Palasha close to the Hall of Illusions.

Palasha looks to Miss Light and she asks, "...What is this? How may I help you?"

Time Marches On: A Witchlight Adventure Starring Miss Light

@Guardian Angel Haruki

*lights the Haruki Signal*

@rush99999

*puts on Batman costume* Post coming tonight...!

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

I know this game is dead, but I did come across a short that reminded me of this game. ^^"

The shenanigans Nevermore could have pulled off with just the corvid ability of mimicry: youtube.com/shorts/evBJUxEgCxg?si=a6x…

Daggerheart: The Witherwild

<Snipped quote by Guardian Angel Haruki>

I'm gonna say this is up to you. The auroch is slowly but surely approaching. Pepper could either do the latter plan now while it's still some distance away, or she could wait until it's close enough and do the former.

@XxFellsingxX

Got it. Thank you!

In this case, Pepper will wait for the Auroch to get close enough, and then she'll enact her plan to cauterize the wound with her spell.

Daggerheart: The Witherwild

Pepper Celestina Brevil

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Pepper was relieved that help was coming. But, that didn't last long, because apparently the auroch decided to approach her after she called for help. Her eyes widened as she slowly moved back as much as she could. As she did so, she noted the different aspects of the animal, while her mind frantically tries to come up with a plan

OK. Aurochs are prey animals.
Prey animals typically run from humanoids and predators, not approach them.
There's a response to auditory stimuli....

Then she catches a familiar smell coming from the auroch. In all of her life, she had three events corresponding with grief, loss, and death each. All three events had one smell in common.

The smell of the most expensive, extravagant, and exotic floral perfume reaches her olfactory senses, causing tears to sting her eyes and pain to strike at her heart. Flashes of memory appear quickly before her eyes.

Her great aunt wore that perfume when a funeral was held for Pepper's sister who succumbed to the Serpent's Sickness long ago. The smell was at its strongest when Great Aunt Peggy hugged toddler Pepper and wailed loudly and dramatically. Toddler Pepper on the other hand was quiet as she processed what happened to her own sister.

Archmagus Lapin also loved wearing that same perfume. Pepper could smell it on him while she was his apprentice. The smell was at its strongest when he screamed at her, berated and insulted her, and effectively kicked her out of the apprenticeship. Any prospects of being a true wizard in the eyes of her peers was lost for good.

If it hadn't been for Capriccio...I would be wallowing in despair at home right now. But thanks to him...I'm here, alive and ready for anything,

Finally, in more recent memory, there was the memory of her near death encounter with the Melancholia Flower. How the smell from that flower manipulated her thoughts and emotions in order to make her its prey. She had learned her lesson from that very encounter...

Thanks to that particular memory, she quickly snaps back to the matter at hand, and moves to cover her nose and mouth with a cloth while holding her wand in the dominant hand at the ready, in an effort to prevent herself for falling for the same trick twice from plants.

I know the smells of the sterile healing rooms, and I know what festering wounds truly smell like...
That is not a festering wound. Some kind of plant is in there!

She calculated that running back into Alula wouldn't work. The creature was already so close, it would probably catch her if she tried running up. There is also the fact that she would be putting the rest of the village in danger if she tried to run into the village, and she wasn't willing to do that.

So that left her with no choice but to use magic to try and help resolve this. She is trembling with fear, but she steels herself as her mind comes with a plan. It's risky, but there is a solution when it comes to open wounds and possible intruders in said wounds...

"The wound needs to be cauterized...! Doing so should also kill the intruders in the body..."

OOC

So...I'm not sure how close the Auroch is, so I have two ideas depending on where the Auroch is in relation to Pepper. ^^"

If the Auroch is in Melee Range, I'll have Pepper try to use the Wild Flame spell from the Book of Tyfar, and she'll try to aim those flames specifically at the wound.

If the Auroch isn't in Melee Range, then she'll use Prestidigitation to try and distract the Auroch with a loud bird cry coming from the direction opposite of Alula.

The Wild Beyond Witchlight

Looking through it, actually, I don't have much for Jub to add this point. You're free to do the next post without him.

@XxFellsingxX

Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it.

Then that just leaves @Vertigo. I'll wait for them before I write up a DM Post.

Di'Siveks: Adventure (A D&D 5E Game)

@rush99999 Does Cascade recognize the child bringing in the warm clothes?

A Most Dangerous Game (2014 5e D&D)

@Lurking Krog@Vertigo I just found this short and I can't help but think that Mortimer is thinking this towards Cedess.
youtube.com/shorts/_92Tru56bYI?si=jJi…