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Faith and Hope

Initial Brief

The Council puts out a call for adventurers to track down the Last House of Andrinavana the Untamed.

PCs

Jimmy Hoskins - Joe W
Vincent Barma- Vicky

Debrief

After it becomes clear that the herb gardener appears to have stolen the tenders body from it's burial place Jimmy and Annabel use there contacts to track down some of herbs gang. After a brief discussion they find that the herb gardener is meeting his patron in the college of the stars. They quickly travel their and arrive to find the herb gardener seemingly talking to a bush at their approach he sics his goons on them and flees upwards into the dragon. The party quickly follow but he seems always one step ahead as the forest seems to part around him before closing up to inhibit their passage.

Eventually the party stumble across some of herbs cultists. After being beaten down it emerges that the gardener seems to be attempting some ritual to corrupt the Tender. With this knowledge the party press only to find themselves in a peaceful tranquil glade. There are several people in the glade who invite them to eat. The party are naturally quite suspicious and this only grows as the encounter continues. Eventually when jimmy attempts to leave with one of them several of the others morph into large plants and attempt to stop them. Jimmy eventually solves the issue by stabbing the prisoner and carrying her to safety in his sword. This has the effect however of shattering the sword as it attempts to hold a soul too powerful for it.

Carrying on the party come across a ritual in full progress around the body of the tender. As they move to intervene it seems as if the participants are fighting amongst themselves before someone cracks the fabric and the tender herself is pulled through as a lush calm forest seems to superimpose on the forest of turean. After beating back the Herb gardener again the party talk to the turncoat who is to no ones great surprise a follower of the traitor. He attempts to persuade the party to bring the traitor through as well to help but fails to persuade them as they decide instead the push through the warring forest towards the centre of the calm zone. As they do they fight of the vines and beasts of turean. At one point Jimmy falls and lies seemingly dead upon the floor. Vincent attempts to drive out the whatever is effecting him and instead meets with jimmy's sword. After learning that only the sword can truly kill him vincent calls on the tenders power to resurrect jimmy.

Pushing on the party are assailed by some form of mental attack. Whilst most of the party easily shrug this off. Richard Silver is overcome and finds himself overwhelmed with despair. Jimmy attempt to fix this by stabbing him with the sword of hope. This seems to work as pandora leaves the sword and moves instead into Richard curing his ailment and infusing him with new purpose.

Pressing on again the party eventually reach the central glade in which hangs the tenders body. The herb gardener now infused with draconic vines seems to be attempting to finish his ritual. He is eventually beaten down however and Vincent retrieves the tenders body. As he does so he feels something try to enter him and accepts as the surrounding forest seems to rush into him as the Tender attempts to use her priest as a lifeboat out of the dragon. At the same time the traitor priest sacrifices himself to allow the traitor to posses Annabel to aid in the parties escape. The tender is not particularly pleased by this and the two argue for a short time before the encroaching dragon forces everyone to flee towards the exit. As they flee however Annabel is struck down and the Tender refuses to help forcing jimmy to resort to having to transport both Annabel and the traitor out in his sword instead. Outside they are met by Auln the first and least as well as other representatives of the tender church. They demand the body be handed over to them going so far as to attack when they are refused. Eventually however Auln is excommunicated and the fight comes to an end with the body being handed over to the villagers.

Once things have settled down Vincent has a somewhat fraught conversation with the Tender before he resurrects Annabel from inside Jimmy's sword.

Consequences

Richard Silver

  • Silver has merged with the being from the dragon known as pandora. This gives him access to the primal tree with a purview of hope. He will also be aware that he is sharing his body with another being. This being may occasionally talk always being encouraging. It will never however attempt to interfere with his ability to do as he wills.
  • When he bleeds his blood appears to be somewhat infused with mana. This means that any open wounds will ping as mana to mages and also gives him access to the mana distillation skill for free.
  • The malady of his soul is now fixed as the gaps are patched up with another being.

Annabel

  • Has gained access to the true face of the traitor epic tree.

Jimmy

  • In the scramble after the Herb Gardeners death has successfully taken over part of the Herb gardeners business. This is mostly based around the grow house in the port district. He also manages to recruit one of the herb gardeners exxcomunicant tender priests to his employ.
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