# [[021_20210416 The Village of Vo]] ## Session Summary After killing two out of the three dryads that came out to defend against the tree Boris had cut down, we turned to see a massive brown bear kill the third dryad. The bear led us to a clearing where we met a second bear, a polar bear, who shifted into the druidic form of Viridian, a human woman who introduced the brown bear as Flint. Flint and Viridian welcomed us to the island and offered to show us to the village of Vo. Ora raced back to the beach to check in with the crew of the Wavechaser, with the help of Flint, before joining the rest of the party at Vo. Meanwhile, Lira, Boris, Three Earrings, and Jamedi took in more of the creepiness of the village as we realized that nobody in Vo really remembered how they had gotten there, or anything about their lives before their arrival. We met the goliath blacksmith Hektor Dalina, whom we'd last seen in Port Damali and was now going by the name Graven. Graven welcomed us to his home, not responding even when Boris hit him violently. We also met the young halfling boy, Little Finger, who seemed to be the only one in the village who remembered things clearly. He spoke of little dragons that regularly came to the village. Three Earrings confided to Ora that she was feeling uncertain about our current course of action, since a lot of her abilities have been granted by Uk'otoa, the pseudo-god whose prison we strengthened at Urukayxl. Lira, Boris, and Jamedi went to the communal feast, eating nothing but learning that the brown bear, Flint, was actually an ale-loving dwarven man who bore symbols on his axe of a god that Jamedi identified as Moradin. ^summary ## Housekeeping - Ora still has one bardic inspiration die (1d8) left for the next 10 minutes. - Level 6! Level progression will be slower from now on. I just wanted to skip past levels 1-5 because that's when most parties die. - New abilities - Boris - Fanatical Focus: Starting at 6th level, the divine power that fuels your rage can protect you. If you fail a saving throw while you’re raging, you can reroll it, and you must use the new roll. You can use this ability only once per rage. - Ora - Expertise: History and Persuasion - Lira - Multiclass: 1 level of cleric ## Recap ![[020_20210404 Repairs at Rumblecusp#^summary]] ## Quest [[The Rumble at Rumblecusp]] ## Review the characters [[Ora]] [[Boris]] [[Lira]] ## Strong start Boris, you've just killed the second dryad. The third one has just touched a nearby tree, seeing the leaves where the bodies of her friends were, and disappeared. A few seconds later, you all hear a loud roar and a yell as the third dryad's head is severed cleanly by a great-axe. You watch as the axe drips green blood onto the grass and the body of the dryad withers away into a pile of leaves. Wielding the greataxe is a large brown bear. ## Scenes - [x] Lira comes down from flight. She's used Disguise Self to make herself look like a human woman - herself, just human. - [x] [[Flint]] and [[Jannika Jäger]] introduce themselves. - They're out hunting and will want help carrying the displacer beast. - They'll welcome players to Vo. - [x] Arrival at Vo village - [x] Little Finger makes an appearance - [ ] Boris dreams of Damota learning Divine Fury - Only Kogas Ironcutter in his Divine Fury - Leylas asks him what they should do with the powers of the beacon. Should they share? - She asks him if they should pick some of the army he's assembling to share in the power. - [ ] Ora hears a voice in her mind from her father. He is worried about her. - "Tell me you're okay." - "The war grows dangerous and I find myself looking for my best assets." - If Ora responds to him and tells him she's okay, he will say "Manus dimittere." and activate Ora's mage hand. ## Secrets and Clues - [ ] [[Trent Ikithon]] is assembling an elite army to go to [[ttrpgs/The Slayers Five/Xhorhas]] and will try to get [[Ora]] to return to him. - [ ] Lira has slept with CTE once in an attempt to ascertain more about her motivations. - [ ] Jamedi does bloodletting rituals every day to practice his hemocraft. - [ ] Flint is a were-bear, and so is his wife Honeythorn, whom he's accidentally gotten too rough with at the wrong time of the month. - [ ] CTE will try to avoid Ora because of their night together. She won't want to get too close. She will immediately put the moves on Jannika. - [ ] Boris's [[Lash of Shadows]] can poison a creature in combat (Dead Eyes and Serpent Venom). - [x] Nobody in Vo remembers where they've come from, but they all believe they are in center of Exandria and that Vokodo is a god worth worshipping. - [x] Little Finger, an 8-year-old halfling boy, is the only one who is immune to the effect on Vo. - [x] The mist is poison and causes a foggy confusion and feeling of being watched. Every night spent on the island triggers an Investigation check (DC 10 at the beginning, climbing by 5 for every day thereafter). Upon failure, players must choose an item to lose. - [ ] Banner, Honeythorn's brother, is immune to disease. He has been attempting to find out how to stop the Mother, but he can't do it on his own and he won't leave his sister with no one to fend for her. - [ ] Jannika's druidic nature is responsible for the wild magic around Vo. ## Fantastic Locations - [x] The jungle walk towards Vo - brilliant flowers by the base of trees - long vines hanging down some trees - the ground is rough and not cleared. Flint and Jannika climb up a tree to use vine paths - [x] Vo village - The dense canopy gives way to a natural clearing around a massive tree - When you look up, you see what looks like wood and branches strung together with twine and leaves from tree to tree, forming a network of treetop structures. - Every structure is different, and some of them look like they've been salvaged - one has the ornate metal statue still attached to what looks like the bow of ship. - [x] The treetop house they're given to stay in - A hollow in a tree that has somehow managed to grow and thrive around it. - Pulleys out of one window, for transporting wood and food. - Smells of sap and earth and simple living. ## NPCs - [x] [[Flint]], male dwarven cleric and werebear, his wife Honeythorn (also secretly a werebear), daughter Rivulet - [x] Little Finger - [x] Viridian aka [[Jannika Jäger]] - [x] [[Hektor Delina]] ## Monsters - [ ] 4 x displacer beasts - [ ] 4 x fire brand kobolds and kobold scale sorcerer ## [[Loot]] - [ ] 12 gp - [ ] rope of climbing --- ## Log Psychic Whispers for 5 hours with Lira, Boris, CTE ora goes back to ship Lira 14: map case Ora 3: tinderbox Jamedi 12: tinderbox CTE 3: dagger Boris 9: javelin long rest If [[Hektor Delina]] aka Graven regains his memory, he's going to hit Boris Little Finger told them about "little dragons". Flint shifted into his dwarven form in front of them. Boris took a level of fighter. Hektor gave them his house to stay in.