WANDERING LANDSLOTH

Dungeons of Thistlemoor 12 // Dead Priest ☠️

SESSION 12

Adventurers

DOWNTIME

Fourtower Bridge

EXPEDITION 12

2nd day of the 2nd week of Winter. Heavy fog.

The party hired Sidwel and Thyme and travelled directly to the lodge in Twoshard.

Travel action. No encounter. Followed road.

Twoshard Mountain

A little bit of searching around revealed a dwarven war wagon just behind some trees near the lodge. After a simple knock, Reinheld (Dwarf - scarred face, loyal, war wagon leader), a dwarf wagon captain came out, only trusting Greedo. He told them his group was transformed to Gnolls a week ago after a devilish priest cursed them and that he was hiding ever since living off the provisions in the wagon. He locked it and joined them in their hunt for more gnolls.

Further in the woods they found a second homestead. A gnoll scout was spotted in the trees nearby which they shot down without issue. Inside the house was a corpse of a Lunasol priest with his chest burned out. In the cellar, Dan encountered and talks with Poppy (freckled human girl) who claimed to be the daughter of the priest.

"Have you seen my brother? You smell like flesh food."

After some more conversation, she started crying out for her brother and transformed into a gnoll. Dan dispatched her quickly, shaken.

Upstairs they found Basil, the brother of Poppy and son of the priest. He kept looking at a closed bedroom door while telling them what happened.

"Father was taking us to Fourtower to see the priest there. One night when we camped Father left and didn't come back. Poppy went looking. We didn't see them until the next day. Father wasn't speaking. Poppy kept us quiet. We started going the wrong way and that's when we met the dwarves. Father talked with them and invited them to stay by our house. I asked Poppy what he meant but Poppy said to shut up. He led us to this boarded up home we'd never been to before. Then, the next night he was dead. Poppy said she needed to be with my brother. That's when. That's when she..."

Dan offered to adopt the kid after realizing the tragic situation and diverted the conversation about them killing Poppy downstairs. Björk lied that Poppy was already dead before they arrived.

Just before they left, Greedo checked the room the boy was looking at before leaving. There lay their dead brother. Cannibalized.

Outside they heard the calls of humans for help.

Exploration turn. Encounter: Stone Scorpion. Reaction: Kill!

Dan led them in a pursuit that was interrupted by a Stone Scorpion that came flying out of the forest. They turned tail and ran back to Fourtower.

Loot:

Warden Notes I had a general idea of the sequence of what happened to the priests family and dwarves but it wasn't written out. That resulted in some improv that made it quite confusing for me later. Don't do that again. But, the players loved the role-play when they were used to a lot of combat. Do that more.