At the start of the night, Skeld woke up in the wagon and was tightly bound and gagged. Pijack noticed he was awake and said that he was the first one awake.
He told Skeld that we were unlucky because he wasn’t up here looking for us, he was hunting the Elven girl. He had found her when she got taken by the Bear clan so he went with them. After she escaped, he wasn’t able to keep up following them. He says that the justice of the Bear clan was hard on their tail and may have caught them and “saved him the trouble”.
After this he decided to wander the north and happened to come upon us, more magic users. “They” had thought the magic was gone in the north. He says we magic users “have to go” because we’re no good. We don’t mean to but we’re causing harm to the world.
He told a story about a time he had a chance to run across rich merchants that did actually mean harm when he was younger and was still just a “regular folk”. He was on a large galleon built in the south to enjoy himself and found the people on that boat were horrible people. He wished he could do to them what he has to do to us.
In the middle of the night, the deck caught fire (possibly by some careless deck hand) and the ship sank. All the rich people jumped into the water and watched it burn, but Pijack followed the sailors that jumped in the water and got away from the ship as quickly as possible. The rich people got sucked down into the water when the ship went under because they stayed too close and the world was better for it.
He said that’s what’s going to happen to Skeld… we magic users are the boat.
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The rest of the party was back in Greenmoot. Mark will be playing Fulrigg, Dan will be playing Stonecraw, Danielle will be playing Mollie.
Jarl Agatha asked if any of the magic users have the ability to track or find the missing clan members. She said that we can track them, but at this point we are probably a good day behind them. She can help us travel a great distance, but she won’t be coming with us and she needs an idea of where to send us.
Thorkatla knew (from her survival skills) that the only good place to cross the river toward Silverkeep is where the bridge is marked on the map. Sigurd remembered that it’s a stone bridge wide enough for 2 people.
The Jarl warns us that if we run across a Ravenclan patrol, there’s no telling what they will do to us.
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Erfidi woke up and Pijack noticed that she was awake. She tried to mumble something, but he doesn’t understand. A loud crack rang out and when Erfidi and Skeld turned to look, they saw a tall tree turning black and flaking away.
Pijack took his shirt off and we saw that he had a tattoo of three horned snakes twining around each other with their mouths pointing up on his chest.
He put his open palm on his neck and said, “They’re here mistress.” In response, the eye on the snake on his left side lit up.
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The Jarl decided to come with us (played by Brian) and leave Balian behind as he has two levels of exhaustion.
While everyone prepared, Mollie disappeared into the shadows and spoke to Grandfather. Grandfather said that he was busy eating. His responses do not come in complete sentences. They are in sets of three words. He also does not respond to every one of her messages. He said that the silk witch is ancient and powerful and that Mollie probably doesn’t have enough years to defeat her. He also said that the halfling (Pijack) is also powerful and a willing servant. He confirmed Mollie’s suspicion that the teleportation magic the Jarl was planning to use would make the meat bitter.
Mollie warned Jarl Agatha about the teleportation magic and she said that it is something that started happening a few generations ago and she likes to think of it as a snare. It is more powerful the further you travel. She said it will not harm us.
We all meet up in the Deep Forum and go deep in rooms we didn’t know existed. In the center, there is a tree. Holes in the ceiling allow enough light in for the tree to grow.
Jarl Agatha said the Gnarlrune is so far away that she likes to have one tree close. She tells us to wait for her word and walk into the bark.
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The Jarl spoke and a door of light appeared in the tree. Everyone walked through. We came out in the middle of the forest out of another tree with a door of light. It’s a big tall pine tree that was slowly turning black from bottom to top. The Jarl said that this was the vessel for our transport and better for it to be destroyed than us. It paid the price so we would not be damaged by the teleportation magic.
A shirtless Pijack came out from around the trees and went right for Mollie.
During the fight, Pijack drank from his mug and the eye on his right most snake (in his tattoo) glowed and he was able to breathe fire.
The eye of the middle snake glowed and suddenly there was an area of silence around us.
The left snake’s eye glowed when he took a drink and suddenly everyone else was drunk (we all saved against it except Jarl Agatha).
The eyes of the middle snake glowed again and he swapped places with someone and the silence was suddenly lifted.
After a massive fight with the Jarl’s fox transformation helping to turn the tide, we took Pijack down and started to tie him up. He said to just kill him because he’d rather die that way than die “with what we’re going to do”. He said that he is rounding up magic users and getting rid of them because he has looked into the void… as he said that the snakes in his tattoo slithered up and choked him to death before the tattoo disappeared from his skin.
Mollie looked for magic while the tattoos were choking him and only saw magic on the tattoo and his stein. She put the stein in her pack to save for Skeld to identify later.
We found the tied up party members in the cart and Erfidi ran over to kick Pijack’s body in the face. She told the group that Pijack had messaged the witch to let her know that the other members had come to save us so we needed to get out of the area as quickly as possible.
We loaded up in the cart and headed back toward Greenmoot. Mollie flew above as much of the time as she was able in order to keep watch.
We took a rest over the night and there was some wind rustling the trees, Bronin woke everyone up thinking we were being attacked but there was nothing there.
We continued the journey back toward Greenmoot and when we were about a field’s distance away, a black thing streaked down from the sky, dropping into the ground and the silk witch was suddenly there. She started running toward us and the Jarl had us all run into the sanctuary of Greenmoot where basically the entire Boar clan was waiting for us. There was a moment of a standoff before the silk witch took her umbrella, swiped it in front of her and disappeared.
And then WE ALL LEVELED!!!!
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