Session Journal – May 15, 2024
3 Long ships, 20 people astride each, are rowing towards the stump of the world tree. Clouds hang over the lake moving quickly across the sky.
Chris – rowing, then sees the Finna and Dragonkin working together on the boat, sends his familiar but he needs to get his bearings in the new place
Taylor – rowing, rowing, perceived
Kate – rowing, perceives and sees that it is very beautiful, row
Alec – Perceiving the lake I see dead trees below with occasional shimmers, rowing, row
Joel – rowing, rowing, perceives with spyglass and sees on the shore of the stump a camp and a smoldering fire with vines growing and stairs cut into the wood ravens circling above
Daniel – Casts a spell to see for danger in the future he sees something important is coming but isn’t sure, checks on the ravens above, row
Sean – Perceives the water for life and sees fish but knows that this lake is large enough to hold some sort of massive beast, rowing, row
We’re about an hour out from making it to the stump and something feels wrong. Chris thinks about his family in the sky and about how he could possibly contact them. Orna uses an elixir to make her look like a Finna. Pip scouts and feels like she hears something on the wind. I stand near the edge of the boat just trying to get ready for any possible attack. Joel asks the other dragonkin on the boat what they know about the lake, they say the waters are usually clear but they’ve seen a great serpent in it before. Daniel heads to the back of the boat where one of the dragonkin is looking up into the sky but he doesn’t see anything. Sean looks at the smoldering fire to see anything now that we’re closer, it’s obviously a camp but there is no movement nearby then looks into the sky and sees a dark shape above the clouds. Between the clouds we see a glimpse of two dragon ships descending towards us. Archers shoot a torrent of arrows down towards our three boats. An arrow whizzes past Joel’s head then another hits, cutting his face. An arrow bounces off my new armor and I give them the double bird. Pip goes to shoot up but nearly drops their bow into the lake. Orna turns to look and an arrow thunks directly into her eye, she slides over the edge of the boat and dies. We move on past that pretty fast while 30 boggarts drop into the lake with a splash and their boats begin to fly up and away. Christ casts ice storm above the water where the boggarts landed in the water, shots of sharp hail hit the water and blood and frog flesh starts exploding out of the water, killing 12 frog men. I leap off the boat and run across the water with my sword and split a boggarts head in half before splashing down into the water.
Suddenly, a blurry figure appears near the edge of the stump (this is Taylor’s new character) and he throws a javelin, lodging between of a frogmens eyes, then throws more in the same direction. Pip aims her wet wet long bow and kills 2. Joel pulls out a grappling gun and shoots it directly into the flying ships and is immediately picked up into the sky. He begins climbing up towards the boat. A boggart begins to reach a hand onto our boat to climb up and on and Sean swings an axe and crits slicing through it’s soft froggy skin and into another one then another, killing 3 total. Daniel casts gravitational pull lifting Susan and 4 boggarts pulling us towards the boat as I climb back on board. Daniel takes 5pts of damage and one bogart drowns while trying to attack us. Drax is spinning on the rope and in that direction we see two more boats. The boat is on the shore. Chris casts electric arc exploding a frog and then jumps onto the shore joining Taylor. I stand up out of the water realizing I’m on the shore I slice straight through one and turn around seeing three frog coming at me with spears and I slice through all three. Taylor sees the Finna running onto shore, he is an elf but their families are tied in some way. He was born during the death of the world tree and left on the stump by his family to begin it’s regrowth. He transforms his mouth and bites into a frog crushing it’s head. Susan is really into this like sexually. Kate shoots at the remaining frog killing it. Joel is high as shit in the sky clinging to the boat and remains hidden. Daniel approaches new guy (Taylor) to be like, “you’re cool.” From newly approaching dragon ships, two giant frog men jump on to the beach. Sean pulls the harmona-gun and fires at the feet of the closest giant frog with freeze bullets. As one begins to step on the shallows the water freezes causing it to cartoon slip backwards and fall prone. Sean shoots it while it’s down for 36 damage. The other giant frog continues to approach and Chris casts Daze causing damage and stunning it. I run up to the prone giant frog and sink my giant sword into it’s shoulder and use my last action to put my boot up against it’s body to pull it out. Taylor’s Elf Druid is named Barry Mescaline. Taylor casts Shatter on the ships that dropped off the giant frogs. A chunk of the ship cracks and shatters dropping off of the ship and it begins to fly up and away, as it begins to leave Kate shoots the Storm Arrow into the missing chunk of the ship, a bolt strike the arrow and is launched into the ship, then bolt after bolt of lightning begin to strike the ship. Frogs begin to leap from the ship and the whole side of the ship explodes as it begins to tumble and falls into the lake and sinks, then shoots at the giant prone frog with the arrow bouncing off its skin.
We cut to Joel, clinging on to the ship, pulls out a potion of invisibility and chugs it then climbs aboard the deck. There are boggarts doing ship stuff but there is no one obviously steering. There is a dragonkin aboard the ship in ornate armor giving orders to the boggarts in their language.
Back on the stump beach, Sean fires another freeze arrow at the standing giant frog causing him to slip and land on his face. Sean changes to his axe and moves to flank the frog near Susan. Daniel runs across from the both frogs and shoots a direct line of Inner Radiance torrent hitting both.
Joel cuts across the ship while invisible and runs to the door of the cabin of the ship, sneaking in successfully closing the door behind him. Turning around is a room covered in runes with a glowing chair with a meditating Boggart, with two dragonborn guarding him. They begin pulling their swords from their sheaths with eyes directed at the still invisible Joel.
END OF SESH.