Session 25 Recap

We pick up right where we left off.

We’re all standing there looking at Adasin a little confused. Adasin explains what happened to him, how he met two new friends (Richmond and Jessica) and how while out hunting one night they heard an owl and something knocked them out, then later they started to change. They discovered eating humans allows them better control over the changings.

Adasin is clearly trying to get us to leave and is getting more and more nervous the longer we stay. A strange man walks through this gathering (Maurice). He keeps on going but we do notice he has a glave strapped to his back.

Althena detects his thoughts and he’s hoping Richmond and Jessica stay in the woods until we leave. Althena asks why he is worried about that and it's because they may not see us as friends but instead as enemies and attack us. Nalagon is starting to realize this isn’t just the safe camp site she thought it was.

We have two options: leave or stay but more a little more away from the cabin. Adasin is getting more and more panicking about us still being there. Sorcha saids we should stay but a little ways away like the other side of the stream. Nalagon walks over to Adasin and makes herself appear taller and dresses him down in military commander mode. Adasin immediately snaps to attention. Just then Sorcha hears a twig snap (they’re here). One is coming from the west and one from the east near the cabin. Adasin pleads with us not to hurt them so Sorcha tries to talk to them but they are only seeing us as food. Adasin continues to plead with Nalagon to get us away but she ultimately sides with us and draws her great sword. Sorcha turns into an Allosaurus. Vistra finally comes out of the cabin which makes Adasin a little more confused. Archimedes flies around making noises to see if it would scare the bears but that doesn’t work. Adasin changes into his humanoid form and Vistra changes into Artic. Tolvin uses a Magic Missile to try and scare the bears away but that fails.

We enter combat. On Tolvin’s turn he starts glowing again. On Nalagon’s turn she uses Menacing Attack and we realize we should never get on her bad side. Combat lasts for a couple of rounds until both Jessica and Richmond are knocked unconscious and Adasin surrenders. Tolvin gives Adasin a couple of low level healing potions to use on Jessica and Adasin after we leave. We also tell him they better not be here when we come back. He says they will move deeper into the forest away from humans. We will sleep somewhere else for the night.

We head east down the road. It is completely dark at this point so Tolvin lights up his and Azi’s shields. We can hear and stream in the background and the closer we come to the stream the muddier the road gets and it harder to walk. We come to a clearing. All the trees in the area have been cut down. We see what appears to be a nest with two blue eggs about the size of ostrich eggs. Azi decides to give an inspiring speech.

Maurice appears and we chat a little. We start to get a strange feeling about him, especially when he starts talking weird shit like how fun it would be if he could turn into an animal like a bear or owl. Sorcha and Vistra soon remember something they remember reading about a hybrid-like thing that lives in this forest but it's only supposed to be a legend. It's an Owlbear. Maurice invites us to stay for tea, Yeah that’s not gonna happen we’re just gonna keep on moving along. We start to hear noises around us and we try to keep going on our way. Maurice says that’s not gonna work and disappears.

Sorcha and Vistra move towards the eggs. Now there are a lot of loud noises all around us. Scorcha picks up one of the eggs and someone says put that down. Four owlbears and 1 Oni (Maurice) now appear. Tolvin uses one of his tricks to bring a black bear to help the coming battle. We learn the eggs belong to Maurice’s friend and he’s creating bears to make into owlbears so he can create an army to fight Verul. (Seems a very complicated way to make an army.)

We enter combat. Tolvin shoots a fireball at Oni and misses but Oni jumps in the air and is now hovering 30ft off the ground. Sorcha brings in two hyenas. Eventually we are able to knock Oni prone. And we stop in the middle of combat after a Owl Aarakocra appears and says “Give me the eggs and you can leave. I’m not as worried about survivors as my husband is.”