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Session 1 of Group 4, date 8/30/16 Recap: The party starts out in a bar in the small town of Otharaunt in the country of Aundair where each decided to stay for a short time. Emery Dupree (a Dhampir bard) tried to seduce a man in order to drink his blood but ended up freaking him out and making him leave. He then talked to the barkeep and started to play the drums for some ale. Sitting by himself in the back of the bar, Hipsis (a rok rok warlock psion) waits for an opportunity to make money or gain power. Lucian Soothsayer (a Tiefling wizard sorcerer) was seated at the bar when Setroc (a human rogue) sat down next to him and started a conversation. Lucian offered to read Setroc's future for the price of one ale and Setroc agreed. Lucian looked at his cards and foretold that Setroc was going to need to trust his friends for up coming challenges, this then led for both of them to become friends. Outside the bar Bristlecone (a treeman/tree folk/tree person druid) was taking a nap when some children started to plan under him. He talked to both of them, at first surprising and scaring them, and quickly earned their trust. They said that their house was haunted, that there were monsters in it and that their youngest brother was trapped upstairs. Bristlecone went into the bar and asked the armed characters for aid. The barkeep then told them that the children were merchant children and that they would probably be paid well for helping them. The children then pointed out the rok rok Mage and bard to the party saying that the Mage looks strong and the bard can play the drums really well. When Hipsis joined the group he pulled Setroc aside and asked if there was any opportunities he could join in, and impressed Setroc by speaking to him in his own mind. The party decided to join each other for the time being to rid the house of the monsters. The party walked to the house at night, which had two large marble statues outside the front. They went inside and found themselves in a foyer with a large staircase, many doors and a large picture of the family; three kids and two parents. The party went upstairs and found a black suit of armor that attacked them, but was destroyed by the massive amount of magic cast at it by the group. They then found the master bed room where they found a jewelry box and secret balcony. They went across the hall to the maid's quarters and found a locked room connected to it. Setroc picked the lock and found a crib with the skeleton of a baby in it. The ghost of a maid then attacked them and screamed not to touch her baby. They destroyed the ghost and found a secret staircase leading upstairs. Before they went up Emery found a storage closet where a magical broom crit him, he then slammed the door and ran up the stairs. When they reached the top they heard children in one of the rooms so Emery opened the door, hoping to find the youngest child but rather seeing two ghost children. He then tried to persuade them to give him some information but since he didn't praise their BEST toys one of the ghosts attacked him. He then grabbed one of their toys and threatened to destroy it if they don't back down. The children then faded away but then entered the bodies of Bristlecone and Setroc, where Setroc started acting more angry and Bristlecone acting more docile and sheepish, both wanting the toy from Emery. Emery refused and they moved on, finding another secret staircase heading downstairs, where they started hearing chanting "Lander, Lander, Lander...." They went down and took a short rest in a cellar area. When they were done they found the graves of the merchants and started to question the children who sent them on the job. They moved on towards the chanting though Bristlecone found a room with skeletons along the wall but decided not to go in it, rather try to get the toy back from Emery. The party found themselves in a room full of strange objects like dire wolf tongues and bags of entrails. Bristlecone and Setroc were finally able to take the toy from Emery and Bristlecone took it back to the kid's room. While the party started to destroy the items Emery found a group of cultists around an alter chanting "Lander, Lander" He then disguised himself as one of them and convinced one of them to let him in and perform the sacrifice. He asked them what the sacrifice was and who was being sacrificed, they told him that they were trying to summon their God Lander and that the sacrifice was a woman. He saw that the sacrifice was going to be a blood sacrifice so he went over to the woman and started to suck her body dry of blood. The cultists turned on him and tried to kill him and his compatriots. Emery continued to try to suck the woman's blood when what was going to be Lander(which turned out to be a shambling mound) rose up and swallowed the woman and Emery. Bristlecone turned into a giant spider and started attacking the shambling mound and the cultists got on their knees and prayed to "Lander". Setroc attacked the shambling mound but rolled his 10th 1 so he was severely injured by it(not yet specified). While he was casting spells Lucian created some wild magic and turned himself 3 years younger, going from 34 to 31. With the mages casting spells at it, the spider biting down on it and Emery biting it from the inside, the shambling mound finally fell with Emery bursting out of it yelling "I am your new God!" The cultists did not believe him and misty stepped out of the house. The house started to shake and the party escaped it as quick as they could while avoiding traps on their way out. They went back to the bar to find the children but it turned out that the children were working with the cult and ran away with them, after they insulted and swore at the barkeep. Emery demanded compinsation so he went to the gaurd tower to claim ownership of the house but none of the gaurds wanted to talk to him this late at night. The party then were offered rooms by the barkeep and they all rested for 10 days. Tl;dr: The party met at a bar, got jipted by two kids to go kill monsters in their house and teamed up to make some money. They went to the house, killed some ghosts, got possessed by some ghosts and stopped a ritual of Lander being performed by some cultists. They went back to the bar, found out the kids were cultists, wanted to take the house as compinsation and rested for 10 days.

Session 2 of Group 4, date 9/6/16 Recap: We find group 4 back at the bar, some members of the party have left for their own reasons and new adventurers have taken their place. First is Lucian Galanodel, a half elf tempest cleric wild sorcerer who joined the party after his cousin, also named Lucian, left to wander by himself. The second person to join the party is Mountain a half giant half orc who was paid by Emery to be his bodyguard for 100 gold. The party sat at the bar, Emery disappointed to find out the house he wanted to buy was actually not real, when a bard took the stage and started to sing about the hidden treasure of a silver merchant lost in a cave. The party decided to go after this treasure but first they started talking to the bard about the song and if it was true at all. The bard assured them it was real and he gave them a map in order to find it. Before they left Emery consulted with the bard and they decided to play a song before the party left. Emery did a pretty rad solo of Ragnar the Red and the party left the bar, in search of the treasure. On the road nothing big happened except for Emery inviting a small family to share a meal and a place to sleep. They reached the cave from the song and decided to make a trap for the beast that laid within. They created an illusion of a sheep to draw the monster out, which turned out to be a manticore, and when it pounced for the illusion the party jumped out of the woods and attacked. The fighting was over in seconds, with Lucian, Emery and Bristlecone casting spells at it, Setroc sneaking up and stabbing it and Mountain delivering a horrifying beat down on it. Once it was slain the party looked in the cave and found some silver pieces, a cracked plate and a box with a mysterious mask inside. The party was hesitant and afraid the manticore may have a mate so they opened the box quickly, found the mask and put it on, revealing the mask to having magical properties of divination. Once the mask was on Emery's face a Chimera swooped down from the sky and initiated battle with the party for killing its mate (though a manitcore chimera baby would be too horrifying to think of). The party battled with the monstrosity, Bristlecone casting moon beam on it, Lucian casting sorcerer spells at it, Setroc trying to reach it while it was on the ground, Mountain smashing it and Emery trying to read its mind. The beast took down Mountain, to which Emery ran to aid his body guard, and flew up 60ft. A mysterious mage appeared upon a ledge in front of the cave and cast a lightning spell at the flying beast. The chimera fell and Mountain cut off one of its heads on its return to the earth. The party stood around the corpse when the mage revealed himself as (uuuuuhhhhh.....) Brizang the Wizard, most powerful wizard in all the land blah blah blah. He angrily told Emery to give the mask to him to which Emery refused, wanting the power to himself. Brizang, flustered, teleports away from the cave and to a nearby town. His assistant, the bard that had told the party about the cave, approached them and said there would be a reward if they handed over the mask to the wizard and that they could discuss it over at the town of Askelios. The party agrees and starts to head there on their own. While they were discussing what to do with the mask a group of thugs approached them and told them to hand over their money and the mask. The party declined and started having a battle with the thugs, though Mountain was knocked out pretty early by an almost invisible orc. The party kept fighting, Emery healing Mountain and telling him not to sleep on the job, but the thugs proved to be too strong and defeated them. They were tied to a tree and were stripped of all their gold and the mask. Bristlecone was able to talk to the somewhat leader of the group who revealed herself to be a member of the Silent Rain. The party, after having an awkward talk with Brizang's assistant who saw them resting under a tree, decided to go to the wizard and tell him the mask was stolen. On their way to the town one of the thug's head was on a pike and had a sign next to it saying "this is what happens to thieves" though the mask and their money was no where to be found. They reached the town and told the bard to take them to Brizang immediately. Brizang, angry he didn't get to take his bath, brought the group together at a bar and heard them out. Brizang was furious with the party, which lead to Emery being furious with the daft wizard, and a fight almost broke out until Brizang's granddaughter Elaine stopped them. They discussed what they should do and Brizang told them of the masks and where to find them. The mask that was stolen was a part of a set of masks that, if brought together could either be destroyed or raise their Xoth an evil sorcerer with unimaginable power. Brizang told them their was one in Starpeaks and that they should head there instead of fighting the Silent Rain. Elaine insisted on going with the party and after Brizang didn't put up a high enough bid to make her stay she joined the group. Brizang decided that each member of the party would receive 1,000 gold pieces for each mask they found. The party, after being mesmerized by a candle and destroying a bar table, left for the mountains by way of lightning rail. They were greeted at the mountains by a swarm of large bees and a pillar of smoke coming from the inside of the mountains. They took care of the bees and continued inside to find the mask. They found themselves in a entry room with a imp type creature and another candle. Almost none of the party fell for the candle and they killed the imp. They continued on where they found more candles, a group of which made Mountain and Emery turn on their party only to stop after Bristlecone doused some water on them. They crossed a floor made of wax, fought more killer bees, killed wax golems, Elaine got a nice healing slap on the ass by Emery and they destroyed hives to find a secret hatch leading down a dark hallway. At the end of the hallway was a door and after Mountain failed to kick it down a voice on the other side told them to leave his house immediately. Bristlecone turned into a badger and dug a hole under the door, seeing as Mountain wasn't getting anywhere and immediately was slammed and grabbed by a wax golem. Emery, having an ingenious idea to act as a candy delivery man, went under the door in a candy man uniform and an illusionary box of candy and stated to the old man "Candy gram". The golem knocked Emery out and held his head in his other hand. Mountain finally broke through the door and when the old man said "If you leave I'll let your friends go" Mountain responded with "What if I kill you". To this the old man told his golem to crush Emery's skull, killing him. The party, after seeing this happen, charged the old man and killed him and his golem. Elaine complained that they had invaded a man's home and killed him but the party was able to convince her that he still tried to kill them even when they were outside fighting the bees. They searched around and found notes that the man apparently got from a group of mischievous imps who gave him the means to create enthralling candles. Bristlecone burned the notes, they picked up 50 candles and the group brought Emery's body outside for burial. The group had... words... to say about Emery, the only one knowing him the longest being Bristlecone and they laid him to rest, after they had found a card in his jacket saying "Property of the Dupree family" with his home address. They decided to mail the jacket to his house and they slept for the night. Tl;dr: The group got 2 new members, Mountain and Lucian. They heard a song about a treasure and left to find it. They killed and manticore and chimera and found magical mask. A wizard by the name of Brizang wanted it but his assistant, the bard, made a deal to talk about it at a nearby town. On their way there the party was attacked by thugs and lost the mask, finding out they were the Silent Rain. They told Brizang, he got angry, they made a deal to find more masks, Brizang told them to go to some mountains and his granddaughter Elaine came with them. The party killed some bees, an imp, some golems, got mesmerized by some candles and beat up and old man. Emery was killed trying to deliver some candy and the party laid him to rest and went to bed.

Session 3 of Group 4, date 9/14/16 Recap: The party wakes up and leaves their camp, continuing on their search for the masks of power and heading towards the capital of Aundair. Before they leave, Mountain drops by Emery's grave and gives some final words to his "friend?" and notices a necklace with a wolf's tooth on it. He takes the necklace and the party continues down the road. They reach an intersection in the road where some merchant caravans are stopped, one merchant beating a horse who is exhausted and lying on the ground. Bristlecone tells the man to stop and when he doesn't Bristlecone turns into a tiger to scare the man away. This is when Chem, Emery's younger brother, reveals himself to the party and welcomes them to the caravan he is guarding, allowing them to earn some gold if they help transport the carts. Chem tells the group that he has been watching them since they were in Otharaunt and tried talking to them after they left the starpeak mountains but saw that his brother was dead and left them to bury him. Later that night Chem tells them that he is a paladin of revenge and that he would like to join their group in honor of his brother, he also tells them that the Dupree family is a family of vampires who have lived for millennia. When Chem brings up Emery's death and asks what happened Elaine almost spills the beans and tells him the whole truth until Mountain interjects and tells Chem what mostly happened, leaving out the part where he threatened the man holding Chem's brothers skull. Day goes by and as it is turning night a meteor, star or an asteroid falls from the sky and lands next to a farm near by. The knight traveling with them, known as Stron Benovian, races toward the crash site with the party dragging along. They reach the farm where some hicks are arguing with each other about who should get the meteor and Sir Stron is laughing his ass off. Chem goes up to the stone and tries to break it with a nearby pick axe but ends up breaking the pick axe instead of the stone. None of the party could figure out what it might be so they left the hicks to fight over it and left. On their last day of travel Mountain stumbles upon a path with candy on it. He, and the party trying to stop him, follow the trail until it leads to an old, blood stained, hut. The party brings Mountain back to the caravan and they reach their location, a town in the Grey Woods. They are paid and left to do whatever they wanted for the rest of the night. Mountain and Lucian go to the local tavern, where Mountain is praised by the denizens for being a part of a clan that saved most of their lives, while Lucian is berated by a man who says that Lucian killed his entire town with storm magic. Mountain is able to get free ale and a room for himself but Lucian is not so popular with the patrons as Mountain is. With questions about his clan, Mountain explains to the patrons and Lucian that most of his clan was wiped out and he is one of the only survivors. The patrons leave and a shifty man walks in to the bar and takes a seat at a table. The barkeep immediately serves him an ale and Mountain and Lucian one as well, as to the man's orders. Lucian and Mountain then have a talk with the man who would not give up his name, though Mountain did give him the name of Shifty. Shifty talked to them about information they might know and Lucian and Mountain gave him most of the information they have accumulated so far, though not saying anything about the masks. They talk a little bit more until Elaine steps in and takes Mountain out of the room saying they need to go to her room. Lucian is left with the man who, shortly after the interruption, leaves him alone and with no memory of the conversation they just had. Bristlecone decided to sleep outside and just stand as a tree all night. Chem was invited by Stron to join him in a lodge where they drank and swapped stories, though Stron's stories almost led Chem to fall asleep. Before going to bed Chem prayed to his god/passion Raggork if he should kill the annoying knight who then gave him a feeling of great power coming from Stron. The man known as Shifty arrived at the lodge and decided to talk to Chem, in so revealing he was too a vampire and gave Chem some information about a secret way to cross the Scions Sound safely from Thaliost using an underwater technique the army was going to use to invade Karrnath. He also warned Chem about Korth, telling him to steer clear of it. Chem thanked him and Shifty left him, alone and again without any memory of him, only the information he gave. The next morning the group woke up and went to the barge that the merchant promised to let them use to get across the river. Though some members wanted to find a different way across they decided to all get on the barge, barring Chem's retainers. Halfway across the barge the merchant asked Bristlecone if they were really at Otharaunt and went into a haunted house. Bristlecone replied with the truth and the merchant revealed himself to be a cultist of Lander. Both sides of the barge had cultists and they started to chop the ropes of the barge to send the party barreling down the river. A water elemental arose from the river and began to attack the party when Bristlecone snapped his fingers and made the elemental utterly disappear. They tried getting back to the side they came from, to save their horses and Chem's retainers but the merchant was able to cut the ropes and sent them down the river. Mountain and Chem grabbed onto the raft and sailed down the river together, Elaine fell off and was pushed down the current and Lucian rode Bristlecone down the river like a log. Eventually Mountain and Chem found themselves in a manor with none of their weapons or armor they were brought into a parlor by a half orc who introduced them to the other "visitors" who turned out to be Elaine, a bard and a red panda looking druid. A man by the name of Zaroff had brought them to his island home and told them that he was a hunter and that his prey was unknowing adventures who wind up on his island. He gave them some days to prepare and said that if they survived on his island for 5 days he would let them go but he would be hunting them every day until everyone died. Chem, Mountain and Elaine found refuge in a cave where Chem and Mountain set up traps and Elaine waited to heal everyone. The bard found himself in some ruins and decided to play a song on top of one of them. The druid was lost for the first day, going in and out of a swamp area and then to Zaroff's camp. Zaroff found the bard easily enough and shot crossbow bolt after crossbow bolt at him. The bard did not move or stop singing and in the end was killed by Zaroff but his head was not collected by him. The next day came and Zaroff found the cave Chem and Mountain were hiding in so he let his dogs enter the cave first. Zaroff then met the druid in the ruins and applauded the druid for actually fighting him like a man, using traps and the like. Zaroff left the druid alone and went back to the cave to corner the rats. Most of his dogs died trying to get to the three but they had at least set off all the traps for Zaroff and his ogre. Mountain and Chem killed the ogre and most of the dogs with Elaine healing them and bringing them back from unconsciousness but Zaroff proved to be too powerful for them, until the druid joined the battle. The foes met at a standstill where it could go either way and Elaine told Zaroff if they let them go then their would be not more killing. Zaroff agreed to this saying that this was the best hunt he had in a while but Chem could not accept letting such an evil persist in the world. He tried attacking Zaroff but without spells our any health left he was knocked unconscious by the hunter. Zaroff let them go with all their equipment and dropped them off near the town of Loran Rath. Meanwhile, during the events of the island hunt, Bristlecone finds Lucian unconscious along the river. Realizing Lucian had a broken arm, Bristlecone cast lesser restoration on him to heal it and kept him safe for a couple days of rest. When the two were up for it they headed towards Loran Rath. Tl;dr: Party finds a caravan and meets up with Emery's brother Chem, a vampire paladin. Together they delivered a merchant to a trading post in the Gray Woods. Lucian, Mountain and Chem had a chat with a really Shifty guy and the next morning the tried to cross the river by barge. The merchant betrayed them, revealing himself to be apart of the cult of Lander and chopped the barge ropes while they were almost across. Chem, Mountain and Elaine find themselves in a manor, Lucian has a broken arm and is knocked out, Bristlecone comes out of it almost unscathed and Chem's retainers and their horses are probably dead. Mountain, Chem and Elaine have to survive on the island for 5 days while a hunter called Zaroff tries to kill them. He kills a bard the first day and is met at a standstill the next day where he lets the rest of them go for being great sport. They are sent on a boat to Loran Rath where Bristlecone and Lucian are heading.

Session 4 of PETA 9/20/16 Recap: The party finally comes back together in Loran Rath, though Mountain is taken away by Elaine to go talk to her grandfather, Brizang. Lucian, Bristlecone and Chem go around the caravan station, right outside of Loran Rath, and buy some items for their adventure. Chem buys 10 random potions, one being a potion that increases the length of ones skin, this happening the Chem's face. Bristlecone sells off his wand of magic missiles and gets 80 gold pieces and one map. Lucian sells the Manticore leather he had and receives some gold and a leather cap. Chem is about to go into the city when he sees a woman in a cart full of sick people he gives his assistance and she offers him a job to help her. A day goes by and Chem, Bristlecone and Lucian meet the woman at her camp. Chem purifies the food the sick were eating, Bristlecone stops the sickness on two of the inflicted for a time and Lucian is able to get a sexual favor out of the priestess for the work he has done, which he would receive the next night. The party is told by the woman to take 3 afflicted to a house within the walls for rest. The party takes the afflicted and are followed by a young guard who is told to watch the house once they have left. At the house Chem is able to discern that the residue coming from the sick is magical and necrotic in nature. Lucian is able to identify the disease as nurgle, an unknown plague. The party heads to the guard captain to try to get an audience with the lord of Loran Rath but are told to come by tomorrow. The party returns to the woman and are told to give out healing solvent inside the walls in the morning. The party takes it and heads to sleep. The next morning Chem, Bristlecone and Lucian take a look at the solvent. Lucian believes the solvent is alright and Bristlecone believes it is the plague. Lucian puts some of it on his face, trying to show the honesty of the busty priestess, and Chem uses detect magic to realize it is the same plague the sick had. They decide to ambush the priestess at Lucian and her meet up that night, hopefully with some guards as well. Lucian tries to shadow the woman but cannot find her and is almost touched with more solvent by an old man at her camp. Bristlecone and Chem head over to the house with the three sick people to find 2 of them missing and one bloated and dead. Bristlecone and Chem then head to the wells and find one of the bloated bodies in one of them. They go to talk to the guard captain who doesn't believe the priestess is the one spreading the disease. They are kicked out and meet up with Lucian who had to pay off a guard to get back in the town because of his new ailment. Bristlecone heals Lucian a little bit before they go to the tavern but the guard outside will not let any of them in. Chem walks up the outer wall and uses a rope to bring in the other two through a window. Chem pays off one man who saw them enter and decides to impersonate Lucian so that the woman would think that he was still well. Chem follows the woman down into a cellar and is then charmed to put on handcuffs and dangle from the ceiling. Bristlecone and Lucian head downstairs and try to figure out where Chem went so Lucian asks the bartender who makes him buy a drink and tells him that she went downstairs. The two head downstairs where the priestess, who now looks like a disgusting plague creature is taking off all of Chem's armor and weapons. Bristlecone turns into a spider and Lucian casts spells at the monster. Chem is let down by the priestess and is told to fight for her, which he does just without his weapons. The priestess comments how pleased she is with the growth of the disease within Lucian. Lucian blasts her with a thunder wave and knocks her across the room, causing some of the bar patrons to head downstairs. The priestess turns back into her human form and yells out rape, right before Bristlecone bites her neck in half. The patrons say that they will arrest the group and Lucian denies, Bristlecone agrees and Chem tells them he senses great evil from the woman. Ultimately they are taken to jail and await their trial where, thanks to Lucian's god, Mountain and Elaine will be there on time. Tl;dr: The party meets up, tries some potions, buys a hat and finds out there is a plague in the town. A priestess is trying to stop it so the party helps but the priestess is actually the one spreading the plague. Lucian contracts it, the guards don't believe the party and they try to kill the woman. They kill her in human form and not in demon form so they are arrested by some drunks and thrown in jail. Lucian talks to his god and now they await Mountain and Elaine at their trial.

Session 5 of PETA 9/27/16 Recap: As Mountain and Elaine are returning to Loran Rath a large man stops them. The two are stunned feeling disgusted and ill from just being around the mysterious man. The man tells them the rest of the party has been thrown in jail and that they should be ready to speak for them during a trial. Elaine and Mountain get away from the man and rush to jail to find Lucian and Bristlecone behind bars. Both Lucian and Bristlecone tell them to get the priestess' body and to bring it to the trial so that Bristlecone can reveal her true form with moonbeam. Elaine is told to find Chem and Mountain is told to try to get the woman's body without being noticed (which will definitely work). As it becomes night time Bristlecone and Lucian are visited by an old friend, Emery Dupree, the bard who died at the hands of a wax golem not too long ago. Emery speaks to Bristlecone first, making small talk until he asks Bristlecone what he would do if he murdered someone who didn't deserve it. Bristlecone stated that he probably has and that it is not a big deal because those people were trying to kill him. Emery moves onto Lucian who he gives the same information and asks the same question, how can one live with themselves if they killed an innocent. Lucian replied with the memories will fade and the experience will be all but nothing, though unknown to Lucian Emery has been having nightmares of what he did and no amount of time will make that dream go away. The next day Elaine finds Chem in a fancier kind of prison due to the fact that he is a noble. Elaine asked Chem what they should do and if he had any ideas that would help them win the case. Chem asks if she could call Brizang to vouch for them and to tell the judge that they are on a job for him. Elaine begins to break down and begs Chem not to try to kill her grandfather if she summons him because she has been hearing about what Chem says about him. Chem, in an attempt to try to calm her down, promises to not kill Brizang if he is summoned and that he will call off his contract to kill Brizang for Emery's death. Elaine picks herself up and heads out to message Brizang, allowing Chem to breathe a sigh of relief that she finally left. That night Mountain and Elaine receive a knock on their door and find Emery Dupree waiting on the other side. Mountain doesn't know what to say, he is torn because he believed that what is dead will always stay dead but Emery is right here alive and (sort of) well and, not only that, he was the man who got Emery killed in the first place. Elaine locked herself in the bathroom and tried to turn undead but found it did not work on Emery, so she began telling him to leave and that he was some devil or undead. Emery ignored her and told Mountain what had happened in hell and how he escaped. At the end of the story Elaine shouted for Mountain to kick him out, seeing as if he was telling the truth he must be evil. Mountain and Emery were having a nice talk until Elaine said something along the line of how Mountain was the reason Emery died. Emery become confused and started questioning Mountain about what he did, to which Mountain replied with the truth, but not all of it. He stated the golem had Emery in his fist, Mountain said something and the golem killed him. Just as Emery was going to leave Mountain stopped him and tried giving him the wolf tooth necklace he found on Emery's grave. This lead to more questioning about what happened because last Emery knew Chem had his wolf tooth necklace, so why would Mountain have it now. Mountain gave him an answer that was not satisfactory to him, so Emery told Mountain to keep it. Emery said that he was coming here to tell Mountain how good of a friend he was to Emery but now he is not sure what Mountain is to him. Emery left, leaving Mountain speechless and Elaine scared for her life. The next night Mountain decided to try to get the priestess' body and to hide it before the trial. He succeeded at grabbing the body without being noticed but when he was trying to find a place to hide it he was spotted by a guard and arrested for desecrating the dead. He was then put into a pillory stock and left for the town to ridicule and make fun of. The next day came around and the party was brought before a judge and a court to be tried. The judge allowed a lawyer acting on the part of the town to speak first and he told the court that the party murdered a woman who was trying to cure the plague and that they were the ones to cause it in the first place. Chem then laid out exactly what happened to the party and how the woman deceived them into trying to infest the town with the plague. Just as the judge was going to allow witnesses, a couple of guards started to run around for no reason, one of them hitting one of the elite guard of the judge. Then a man who had a crown of finger bones on his head appeared in the room and set half of the court room on fire. The figure vanished and on the other side of the flame the judge yelled that the party was guilty even though the lawyer for the town begged for his reasoning. The party was dragged out of the courtroom where Chem told them they were cowards, persuading one of them to go back in and try to help. As they were leaving a woman that was in the courtroom walked out nonchalantly past the party and their guard. Bristlecone turned into a brown bear and Chem intimidated the guard to run away before he let his bear kill him, to which the guard threw down his halberd and ran away. Chem picked up the weapon and used disguise self to turn into the guard who ran away and asked another guard for help with the chains. The other guard, who is apparently Chem's partner, was hesitant because of the giant bear in front of him but Chem was able to persuade him that he was totally in control and that one of the prisoners tricked him and chained him to the others. The guard brought them into the jail, uncuffed Chem and put Bristecone and Lucian back in their cells. Chem then tricked the guard to give him his weapons back, as to try and trap the "prisoner" once he comes back for them. A large bang was heard outside and Chem told the other guard to go be a hero and save the townsfolk. The guard ran off and Chem began getting the group out of the cells. Once they had gathered their equipment and left they saw Brizang putting out the fire at the courthouse and telling the guards to let Mountain out of the stocks. Once everything calmed down Brizang talked to some officials of the town and was able to let the party leave with a warning and a job, to pay off their debt. They were told to accompany a boy back to his town and to save the town from a curse on the land. Before they left Chem had some words with Brizang, saying that since Emery is alive his contract to kill Brizang is void but if anyone else died on their mission to get the masks the contract would be opened again. Brizang, outraged at this, said that Chem could try. He then teleported them to the boys town and their were held in the town leader's home. They met him for dinner and discussed what was wrong with the town to which the man said that the town has had dark snowfall over it for a time now and that whenever he would send a party to help them they would end up dead. Some children from the town told the man of some rat creatures in an old fort near the town so he told the party to start there. The next day the party went to the old fort and explored its rooms for a little bit. They found a greeting area with a skull candle on a table. Chem lit the candle and everyone's darkvision went out and a old mage appeared behind them, telling them this was his home and anyone trying to stop him will die. The candle let loose a magic that knocked out Lucian and allowed most of the party to level up because of the new found knowledge they acquired from it. Tl;dr: Elaine and Moutain talk to the guys in jail and try to get the woman's body and call Brizang for help. Emery returned and told the group he was going to get over killing people in hell and try to help others. He had an awkward conversation with Mountain, to which Mountain lied again about Emery's death and he left. Mountain was caught stealing the woman's body, during the trial the courthouse was set on fire by a mage with a finger bone crown and the party tricked a guard into believing Chem was his partner. They got all their gear, saw Brizang putting out the fire and saved the town from being engulfed in flame. Brizang sent them to help a little boy's town and they were sent to an old fort to lift the curse from said town.

Session 6 of PETA 10/4/16 Recap: The game starts off with the group back in the fort, with no dark vision and only one torch. They move to the next room and find a body of a elf woman, who is very scantily dressed with her breast exposed. Elaine gets annoyed with the men starring at the poor woman and wakes her up. The woman tells the party she was just taking a nap and looking for her group that came to the fort at the request of the Bergemaster. She said her name was Elfa and that she would help them finish the job her company was sent to complete. They moved into a kitchen area where Elfa immediately gets in a fight with a self proclaimed Rat King who blows a whistle and alerts rats to help him. Mountain, Lucian and Elfa take on the Rat King while Chem and Bristlecone take on a large amount of rats coming in from behind them and Elaine constantly moves from the two parties healing all of them. Elfa gets beaten down by the Rat King but luckily when the King tries to take a bite out of Lucian his disease infects the Rat King and kills him. The party meets up again to inspect the dead, finding a wand of rats on the Rat King which Elfa uses to make friends a couple scurrying rats. She then heads to a freezer and finds her party frozen inside, one holding a sword with glyphs on it. She immediately chops off its hand, not noticing the room getting colder and colder every time she swings at it. Before the party could leave without her the exits were walled off with magical ice that the party couldn't break through. Suddenly in the kitchen a large ice golem appears and attacks Elfa, knocking her out and sending her flying through the freezer. The party quickly attacks the golem and luckily for them Lucian's wild magic effect made everyone, including the golem, vulnerable to piercing damage, which so happened to be what Bristelcone's wolf form used. Elaine was able to get into the freezer to help Elfa up only for Elfa to be knocked down again by the golem who was trying to crawl his way into the freezer. The party made quick work of the golem and supposedly saved the town from its curse. When Elfa woke up she tried to keep the sword but if froze her hand, causing her to drop it and for Mountain to pick it up, to which the sword froze his hand and Chem was the only one to keep it and make sure it didn't harm anyone else. They also found a crown of finger bones like the man at the courthouse had and found out it had a very large Chaotic Evil presence in it. The party then moved to a new room where they found a chest that was magically locked. Chem told the group that they should just leave and come back in the morning so the group, except for Bristlecone, walked back to the main room of the fort to head back. As they were going to leave Elfa went exploring and founds some zombies, to which the party took care of to protect her. Chem finally had enough and told everyone they should just go before someone died. They headed back to town with Elfa breaking off from the group, not liking how they rolled. On their way Bristlecone started to feel a oddly heavy branch that broke off when he was walking. He picked it up and put it in his pack, not knowing what just happened or what it meant. The party reached the town where there was no heavy snow falling but everyone still seemed depressed. The party met the Bergemaster again and went to sleep in his home even though Chem felt an air of dread. Before he went to sleep Chem talked to the sword asking what it wanted and after some freezer burns he learned that the sword wanted to be held by a great champion, when he asked if it was him the sword referred to it burned him again. As they went to sleep Chem was visited by one of his father's servants who told him to head back home or else his father will have to hurt the people he cared about, i.e. His party and Emery. Chem said he would think about it and the figure left by blowing a puff of cigar smoke in his face. The next morning Bristlecone woke up to a head on his back, seemingly grown from the stick he put in his pack. The head repeated everything he said and was just as clueless as Bristelcone was about the whole situation. Bristlecone told the party to chop the thing off of him to which Lucian did with some hesitance. The head fell to the ground and grew hands, feet and a body. The strang creature then fell in love with the hand axe and began running around with it, slashing at the air and walls. Bristlecone and the group then decided to call the little guy Pinecone. Chem woke up, surprised to see the mini Bristlecone with a hand axe and told the party what happened the night before. As Mountain interjected by saying Chem's dad can't be that powerful and that it was just stories the Bergemaster came up in a almost trances sense and told the party to take the gold and leave. He gave them enough gold for Chem to head back to his home but only said the money was for them to "head home". The town was also completely entranced and when the party wanted to head back to the fort the Bergemaster and the town told them to head straight for the Lightning Rail. The party begrudgingly left and headed south towards the light rail. After some complaining on Mountain's part Chem decided to give the sword to him, seeing as he didn't want it if the sword didn't want him. They reached the road that headed towards Krona Peak and saw a band of adventurers riding on one horse. They stopped them and talked for a little while, asking who they were and what they were doing. One of them revealed his name was Dander and that these were his compatriots, an oracle and a fighter. Chem asked the oracle if she saw any prophecy having to do with vampires to which Dander tried to talk him down saying the oracle had no real prophecies and that he would be wasting his time. The oracle told Chem a prophecy about his family and how when the three sons are reunited an age of great change will occur. Confused by this, seeing as Chem only had one brother he let it rest but thanked her for her help. Then a group of Paladins came charging by the party, stopping to talk to them about the magic users they had. Chem tried to reason with them but when he was getting no where Dander showed his rank to the Paladins and they quickly got on their knees and asked for forgiveness. Dander told them to leave with the horses and to not bother them, but to Danders surprise they took all the horses, including Buttercup, his own horse. After this a man who was watching from a tree dropped down and introduced himself, to which Mountain recognized to be Shifty. The group started talking to them and saw that he had one of the masks they were sent to find. When trying to find a trade for it Chem came to the horrifying realization that his brother got a horrible deal from Brizang, now knowing that the worst mask would go for 10,000 gold, not 4,000 like Emery traded for. Not finding a solution the party started trading information and gear to him. The party was able to sell the finger bone crown for around 1,000 gold, Chem found out that he has a sibling (the first born) and that he was last seen in some ancient ruins, Lucian found out he could get himself possibly healed by Spectre (one of Shifty's friends), Mountian found out the sword wants to return to an Elven family down south of the continent and the party found out that the person who set fire to the courthouse was probably Shifty's friend Ghost. Finally Chem tried to find out what Dander's real name was but Shifty wiped his memory of what Chem thought to be Sir Lander. Shifty then left, saying he had important business in Korth and that the gods were quite busy right now. The party then continued onward to Krona Peak. Tl;dr: Party meets a new friend in the fort, kill a Rat King, rats, an ice golem and some zombies. They find a sword with glyphs, a rat wand and a finger bone crown. They head back to town where Chem talks to his father's servant about returning home and Bristlecone gets a new friend, a baby Pinecone. They leave when the entire town is under Chem's father's control and they meet up with Lander... I mean Dander. They talk, scare some Paladins off, and talk to their good friend Shifty again who gives them info on Lucian's disease, Chem's missing brother, Mountain's ice sword, and the man who blew up the courthouse. They headed towards Krona Peak without a horse.

Session 7 of PETA 10/11/16 Recap: The session begins with the party walking down the road towards Krona Peak, allowing Dander to lead the way. They have a good two days of traveling when they see a merchant caravan heading in the same direction. The party decides to travel with them to the next town, Irontown, and enjoy meeting the people and allowing Pinecone to play with some of the merchant children. Once they reach Irontown the party decides to sleep outside the town because of an admittance fee but when Chem hears that Elaine gave Dander 800 gold pieces as an "investment" he pays the fee and heads in to find him. While he does this the party stays back and enjoys mingling with the locals, even Lucian is feeling better and thinks it is a good idea to get into a drinking contest with some dwarves. He, Elaine and the local bars' current champion sit down to have some ale, with Elaine dropping out almost immediately. Lucian was able to down every drink that was given to him, not feeling a thing and just when he thought he could beat the dwarf the ale that was in his stomach did not digest and it started to fill up until he was throwing up ale. He lost and worse he was on the brink of death because of all the ale trapped in his body with no where to go. He was able to flip his body upside down and do a handstand to get all the ale out of his body. Though he left a mess on the floor he was alive and afterwards he caught up with Elaine and went to sleep. Bristlecone on the other hand allowed Pinecone to play with the local dwarf kids but warned him not to leave his eyesight. Pinecone abliged and had a good time chasing the kids around. After his time with the kids, Pinecone wanted some food to eat even though Bristlecone only eats sunlight through photosynthesis, so Bristlecone took him to the market where he bought him some vegetables from an old dwarf woman. Pinecone enjoyed them and they both went to bed. Chem looked around for Dander for a while with no luck but found his soldier friend in the market. He asked where they were staying and he said Dander bought a room at the most expensive inn in the town. Chem headed in, bought a room, and bought liquor for everyone in the bar while waiting for Dander. Dander finally showed up and Chem tried to get him to return all the money he received from Elaine but it turns out he used almost all of it and per the contract if Elaine tried to get the money back the contract would be void. Chem tried talking Dander out of the deal but finally just ended up challenging him to a duel at the fighter's guild in Krona Peak for the money. The party woke up the next day and found each other outside the gates when a strange woman showed up and started to talk to them. She said her name was Emmy and she wanted to know if she was heading in the right direction, south towards a party who supposedly stole from her. The group helped her out and Chem even knew that she was a different continent and when she came to Eberon she pretty much brought ruin with her wherever she went. Chem told the party about this but Elaine wanted to bring her along so that they could use her powers to get to the top of the Icepeak mountains. After Elaine tried to let Pinecone play with this woman Chem said enough and that for the past 2 times he suggested what they do he was right (the barge being a bad idea and korth being a bad idea) so they should let the woman go on her way and not let Pinecone get anywhere near her. The party abliged and the woman took the Lightning rail south. Elaine, still made at Chem told him to find some work for them so that they wouldn't be broke in Krona Peak. Chem agreed but didn't care too much about getting money so he found a merchant caravan wanting protection to Krona Peak and each person got 1 silver for the travel. While the party was traveling they came upon blue statues of Paladins in the middle of the road. Two of the Paladins were dead, trapped in ice while one still seemed to be alive inside the ice. Chem and Bristlecone melted the ice off of the man who turned out to be a lion paladin of the oath of silence. He thanked them and said he would not arrest Bristlecone for there help. The party moved on and finally reached Krona Peak where they all separated to do their guild training. Chem had his fight in the fighters guild against Dander, Lander's brother, and a pirate. Chem talked to Lander's brother, Dom Benovian, before the fight and they promised not to attack each other while they were in combat with another. The fight raged with Chem fighting Dander and Dom fighting a man called Alrich. Chem put up a good fight but when Alrich asked him to help with Dom, Chem refused saying he would not betray someone who showed him kindness. Dander knocked out Chem and Dom defeated Alrich. It was a battle between brothers who did not recognize each other and when the dust settled it was Dander who was still standing. Dander tried to persuade the fighter's guild to let Chem in but they refused, saying he did not show his worth. And thus the party trained for the next 2 weeks before they head off to the Icepeak Mountains. Tl;dr: The party go to Irontown and Elaine gets swindled by Dander out of 800 gold. Lucian almost drowns in ale, Pinecone has fun with dwarf kids and Chem challenges Dander to a duel at the Fighters guild for the money Elaine threw away. They moved on, met a girl named Emmy who was crazy and from a different continent and find a lion paladin on the way to Krona Peak, frozen by Emmy. They reach the city, train and Chem gets his ass beat in the fighting pits because he didn't backstab Lander's brother.

Sessions 8&9 of PETA 10/25/16 and 11/1/16 Recap: The party convenes back at a bar in Krona Peek after a couple weeks of training. Mountain, who has returned from his own travels, is challenged by Chem to fight for the membership of the fighters guild. They both get good swings on each other but without his magic Chem is left helpless to Mountain’s pure strength. Fortunately both of them are allowed into the fighters guild by the referee. The party splits up to gather supplies, Chem and Elaine look for an alchemist to identify Chem’s potions while Mountain, Bristlecone and Lucian look for traveling gear. While they are searching, Bristlecone, Lucian and Mountain are confronted by Land- I mean Dander who gives them a donkey drawn cart and promises to uphold his deal with Elaine. Back with Elaine and Chem, the alchemist reveals that most of Chem’s potions are crap and only a few are worth noting, like a bottle that explodes when opened. Bristlecone, Lucian and Mountain find a general store for traveling and buy warm clothing, sled attachments for the cart and other survival equipment. The merchant offers to sell Bristlecone a feral wolf for a cheap price but Bristlecone kindly refuses and buys a group of pugs, one for each member of the party besides Elaine. The party reconvenes and heads West, crossing Lake Dark, passing through Havehollow and then, eventually, get to the Icetop Mountains. They are offered passage across the lake for a moderate amount and, while crossing, fog starts to grow and become more dense growing closer to Havehollow. Once at Havehollow the party rests in an inn before heading to the Icetop Mountains. While there they hear a song from a female bard about a powerful wizard with an even more powerful wand that killed him. The party talks to her and lo and behold the song is true and the wizard’s house is not too far away. The party has some initial doubts about the woman but say fuck it and head towards the house,except for Lucian who feels even worse because of his sickness so the party leaves him, Pinecone and a guard pug behind. Before entering the gate of the house Chem and Elaine realize Revina, the bard, is actually undead though she believes she is alive and does not know what they are talking about. The party enters the garden of the house hesitantly when a rhino appeared at the gate. The party ran through the front door, just avoiding the rhino who slammed against the wall with a large thud. The first room the party find themselves has two doors (which Elaine tells Mountain to immediately break down), a hallway and a starcase heading upstairs. The first door is held shut, as if someone were holding it from the other side, but Mountain makes quick work of opening it when they find only a skeleton and a skull are in the room. The skull had a symbol on it that Bristlecone recognizes as a phase of the moon. The party keeps the skull and goes down the hallway. They open the first door to the right which seems to be a game room, with a chess set, chairs and tables. The chess game appeared to be unfinished and Mountain was the one to solve it and open a secret compartment in the desk the chess set was on. Inside was another skull and a magnifying glass. The party moved back to the hallway and opened the door exactly opposite of the one they came out of which lead them to a dining area. A table was set with skeletons sitting around without their skulls. The party moved down towards the kitchen and find a room with a table of rotted meat and stone rats. Once they entered the rats turned from stone to flesh and some of the party turned to stone. This continued until all the rats were slain and the party sustained some injuries. They moved onto the next room, the kitchen and found 3 odd apples, one red, one yellow and one blue. Mountain begins to throw apples around at people, especially Elaine who was being a party pooper. Once these apples touched someone, though, it turned them into that color, causing Mountain to turn red and Elaine blue. Next they found a door to a pantry that opened to absolute darkness, which they let Bristlecone scout out with his spider wildshape. He discovered a still body, a couple potions and a skull but was unable to grab it. Chem went into the pantry to retrieve the skull by using his divine sense and was attacked by something in the dark. It did not leave too big of a mark on him though so he grabbed the skull and left before the creature could get a better hit on him. The party moved upstairs where a gust of wind pushed some of them back down the stairs when they tried to walk down the second floor hallway. The party moved to a side area where the wind did not reach them and found a couple doors. They entered the first door to the south which led to a bedroom with a table with a globe of an inferno on it, a glass chair, a bed and a door leading to a closet full of gems, which Chem instinctively threw the chair at, checking for traps…. They also found a key inside the desk and a trapdoor above the bed, leading to an attic. The party then moved to the second door to the East where they found a bathtub full of moss and fungus. They believed the tub was a monster so Rivena offered to bait the monster out while Mountain and Chem prepared to attack it. A tongue shout out at Rivena but Mountain chopped it in half before it could touch her. The tub wailed and then grew silent to which Mountain shoved his hand down and found a skull, but sadly since he changed colors the skull also changed to red, making the marking on it impossible to read. Mountain and Bristlecone entered a room that was connected to the bathroom which had a mirror in it that caused Bristlecone to go blind. They left the room and Bristlecone cast lesser restoration on himself to make the blindness end on himself. The party moved back down the stairs and entered the last door in the first floor hallway which led to a room full of butterflies. There was one jar with a gem in the room which Elaine grabbed and the party fled the room before the butterflies attacked them. They then moved back to the dining area where they found another skull under a plate. Moving up the entrance staircase and down the hallway the party was forced back again by a mysterious wind. They pushed forward to a hallway that was not affected by the wind and began to explore for more skulls. They entered the first door to the West and on entrance Chem was shrunk down to the size of a bug. A centipede spotted Chem and Chem begged his party to toss a rope so he could get out faster, because the door was about a mile away for Chem at this size. Mountain pulled out a rope and dragged the tiny Chem back out of the room with the centipede on his back the entire ride. They moved onto the next room and found it to be library with suits of armor, tables and scrolled on notes. They found a skull within the desk and a book with spells within it which they decided to leave. They moved onto the next room to the west which had a bed with dream catching shades around it. Chem entered the room and began to be able to read the thoughts of others in the hallway, to which he took the opportunity to ask Mountain one last time what really happened to Emery. Luckily for Mountain his thoughts were so confused by the question he gave away no information to Chem. They then entered the last room which turned some of the party invisible once they entered. This, though, led to Bristlecone and Lucian contracting the apple AID’s by accidentally bumping into Elaine and Mountain which changed them blue and red. Now with Chem as the skull holder, the party went back to the bedroom and went up the trapdoor to the addic. Once on the third floor they found an altar with Rivena’s corpse next to it with a skull in her hand. She retained her memories and told the party that she was forced by the wizard’s magic to trap adventurers within his home so the rooms could kill them. She disappeared and the party continued to look around for more skulls, hoping to find the last one for the puzzle. They found nothing but for a door that needed a special key to open and a bag of dust of appearance. The party went back to the shrinking room and lassoed the chest within the room into the hallway. They opened it and lo and behold the last skull was found inside. They went downstairs and started to arrange the skulls in the order of the moon, though they failed their first attempt and received a powerful shock from the room. The next attempt they succeeded and revealed a safe behind a painting of the moon which had trinkets and a moon shaped key. They went back to the addict and began to open the door…. They opened the door which lead to a room with two desks, a table and a unicorn horn wand. Elaine tried getting close to the wand when she was teleported to a different plain than the group. As Chem and Mountain were trying to figure out how the magic worked, Bristlecone tried to read the arcane symbols around the wand but was teleported to the same place that Elaine was trapped in. With the two tanks stuck trying to figure out magical entrapments, what could go wrong? Bristlecone and Elaine found themselves in an alternate version of the house where they could see everything but Chem and Mountain. Looking around they saw a body of a man in paladin attire lying motionless. They found an old wizard’s body being eaten by a zombie, to which Elaine started to hurl horrible insults at it, such as “You Fiend!” and “I will smite you!” The zombie then started to attack Elaine, even though Bristlecone was hurting it the most. Elaine was knocked down by the zombie and Bristlecone brought her back up and told her to fight, to which she was immediately knocked down again and eaten before Bristlecone’s eyes. Back in dump stat city, Chem and Mountain are still trying to figure out how to grab the wand. Chem comes up with the idea of throwing random shit at it until it falls or rolls of the table. He grabbed his javelins and he fired and he missed, and then he fired again and missed again, then he fired, then missed, then fired, then he missed, then he passed out, had a dream about firing at somthing, missed, woke up, grabbed another javelin, fired, missed, fired again missed…. Long story short, Missed. He then ran out of javelins and asked for Mountain to scoot around the wall and grab the javelins at the other side. Mountain did so and Chem then told him to start throwing them towards him. “At you” said Mountain “No, not at me at the wand” said Chem “Why at the wand?” “Because they will push it out” “But I’m right here, why can’t I grab it” A long pause and with a slap to his forehead Chem says, “Grab the fucking wand Mountain” And as easy as that Mountain grabbed the wand from behind the magic symbols and released Bristlecone and the corpse of Elaine from the other dimension. The group found a key on the dead wizard and put it into a chest that was in the wand room. Inside they found an amulet and some more trinkets. With Elaine lying on the ground motionless the remaining members of the group each grabbed a body, Chem with Elaine, Mountain with the mysterious man and Bristlecone with the wizard and went outside to bury them. While they waited for Lucian and Pinecone to arrive they also found in the pantry a tiefling holding a potted tree that looked almost like Bristlecone and Pinecone, only more burnt. Chem tied the Tiefling up and gave the potted tree to Pinecone and Bristlecone. As they were about to start burying people Rivera and the wizard appear in astral form on the porch of the house telling the party they can keep the house and its possessions, to which Chem goes back in and grabs the suit of armor in the library. While they were about to bury the paladin, his eyes opened and he introduced himself as Cyseal a paladin of the order of the sun. Before he could say anymore the tiefling woke up and Chem began to interrogate him, asking him why he was in the house and why he shouldn’t kill him right now. The tiefling said his name was Lucius and that he was once a human who was turned into a tiefling not too long ago. He said he was exploring the house like they were but was attacked by a doppelganger and dumped in a barrel. Chem allowed him to stay with the group if he could show that he can enter a city and not be detected while in it. Though he did not like this plan, Lucius agreed so that he could join the group. Finally the tree awoke and said that his name was Hive and that he is not the same as Bristlecone and Pinecone but he would still like to join the party, as long as there are things to burn. After burying Elaine Mountain came up to the group and told them that while he was traveling to Krona Peak alone he was informed that he might be the last of his clan so he has to travel alone to find out what has happened. The party agrees that this is something that Mountain needs to do alone and that he will be fine on his own. Chem says one last goodbye to his good friend Mountain and the party heads back to Havehollow. The party split off into three groups, Lucian and Bristlecone went off to buy a toy or entertainment item for Pinecone and to get their fortune read, Hive and Lucius went to go grab new clothing to hide Lucius and Chem and Cyseal went to find the guide who would lead them up the Icetop Mountain. Lucian and Bristlecone buy a dragon chess set for Pinecone and then went to a fortune teller for a reading. Lucian went first, hoping to find out anything about his illness and discovered that not only will his disease grow over time but it will also kill him very soon. She also told him that there may be something for him to find in Atur. The price for another reading was too high for Lucian’s liking and Bristlecone had no need to see his future so they left. Hive and Lucius found a clothing salesman and asked if they had anything that would fit either of them. The shop owner grew suspicious of Lucius and, seeing as he already had warm clothing, he decided to leave. Chem and Cyseal arrive at the guide’s home to find it swarmed by soldiers from Breland. Chem and Cyseal ask about why they are here and are told to talk to their captain who made the deal with the guide. Chem and Cyseal head into the soldier’s main tent and talk to the captain, offering to aid them in their quest up the mountain for a small fee of 2 gold. The captain agrees and tells them to meet him in the morning. The party meets back at an inn and discuss how everything went. Chem comes up with an idea to have him, Cyseal, Lucian and Lucius follow the soldiers up the mountain while Bristlecone, Hive and Pinecone follow from behind, though the strategizing is interrupted when some Breland soldiers start to get drunk off their stool and harass some bar maids. Chem saw this as the perfect opportunity to get the soldiers so hammered that they would not be able to go with them on their mission up the mountain, making it easier to grab the mask and run. Chem started to gain the trust of the soldiers through promises of ale and talked to the bartender about giving the soldiers an ale that would put them out quick. As he is doing this, though, a very drunk sir Land- Dander, starts a fight with the soldiers. Chem jumps in, trying to get Dander out of the bar before he is killed and helps the soldiers toss Dander out to the street. Bristlecone decided this would be the best time to teach Pinecone about how to help others and began to treat Dander in their cart. As most of the were getting hammered, one starts to head upstairs with a frantic looking maid. Chem challenges them to a drinking battle and lays 20 gold down for them to fight over. The soldiers agree but only if all of PETA joined in, so it was Lucius, Lucian, Chem and Cyseal against a group of Breland soldiers. By the end of the night, all the soldiers were passed out and the only one who won the drinking contest was Lucius. The next morning the party met up with the captain who had a large chunk of his men missing. They departed anyway with Chem, Cyseal, Lucian and Lucius following the soldiers and Bristlecone, Pinecone and Hive following from behind. Though soon after they left Chem finds Dander in the back of their cart, who begins to ask if he can join them on their mission, seeing as he is broke. The Breland soldiers recognize him and call him by his true name..... LANDER!!!!!! Chem realizes he has been fooled by the man who created the cult of Lander, the very cult that killed his best friend Tobias. The two men look into each others eyes as Chem challenges Lander to a duel.... TO THE DEATH! Tl;dr: The group head to Havehollow to get to the Icetop Mountains. In Havehollow they meet Rivira who tells them about a haunted wizard's house. The group heads there to see what is inside and to help the girl. Once they reached the house Chem and Elaine find out Rivira is dead (Though she doesn't know it) and they are all chased into the house by a rhino. They investigate rooms, finding skulls with signs of the moon in closets, chess sets, chests, tables, attics, bathtubs and dinner plates. They faced a swarm of rats in a room that changed everyone in it to stone one turn then back the next turn. Chem retrieved a skull from a kitchen closet, feeling a weak punch when entering. Mountain and Elaine had fun with color changing apples and the group found Rivira's corpse in the attic where she tells them she was forced to send people to their deaths. Eventually the group finds all the skulls and places them in the right order on the table and open up a portrait with a safe behind it where they find money and a key. They unlock the door in the attic and find a chest, some tables and a wand inside. Elaine and Bristlecone step towards the wand and are teleported to a place almost exactly like the house, but not. Chem and Mountain try to figure out how the wand did that and try to knock it away from the circle by throwing spears at it. A zombie attacks Elaine and though Bristlecone tried to help it eventually ate her. Chem finally realized all they had to do was grab the wand from behind and the circle wouldn't affect them, to which he took the wand and Bristlecone, Elaine, a zombie corpse and a knocked out paladin appeared. They mourned for Elaine, burying her outside the manor and saw the ghosts of the wizard and Rivira who said they could keep the house. They found a tiefling and a potted tree in a barrel in the kitchen closet and took them outside, Chem tying up the tiefling. Mountain gave his goodbye to the group revealing he needed to go back home because he might be the last of his clan. The paladin revealed himself to be Cyseal, order of the sun, the tiefling revealed himself as Lucius, a human turned tiefling, and the tree revealed himself as Hive, the pyro tree person. The party went to town to find the guide who was helping some men from the Benovian's homeland who also wanted the mask. Cyseal and Chem made a deal with the captain of the men to guard them as they ascend the mountain. The party meet at the bar, Chem gets a ton of the Benovian men drunk, Sir dander gets in a fight and loses and they head out the next morning without the wasted men tagging along. They devise a plan to have the treefolk follow from behind so that the soldiers won't kill them for being magic. As they are heading up, Dander pops out of the cart and tries to tag along when the soldiers notice him and call him by his name. Chem gets pissed and challenges Lander to a one on one fight to the death.

Session 10 of PETA 11/8/16 Recap: We return to the stand off between Lander and Chem who have now taken their places for their fight to the death. With the aid of Lucius and his potions, Chem is able to deflect every attack Lander throws his way (though after injecting him Lucius passes out in the back of the cart) and creates huge wounds into him using his divine smite. The fight continues with Chem taking big hits on Lander but he continues to stand, not dying. The fighting stops when Lucian tells the two something doesn’t feel right and a horde of Lander cultists come charging at the party with giant kitten monstrosities and the tree people bringing up the rear. Sadly as Bristlecone, Hive and Pinecone arrive it is evident that Bristlecone’s pug is nowhere to be seen, killed by the cultists on their way towards the mountain. Chem decides that protecting the innocent is more important than Lander and begins to help the soldiers against the cultists. The fighting begins with soldiers fighting cultists head on while Bristlecone, Hive and Pinecone take them on in the rear. Chem tells his pug to protect the unconscious Lucius while he kills more cultists but it was in vain because Chem’s pug was killed by a cultist who tried to kidnap Lucius. The fighting continued until a new foe entered the brawl, large trees started to surround the party and kill soldiers and cultists.. Lander looked to Chem and told him to get out of here with his friends and he will try to hold off the murderous trees. The group got in the cart while Chem and Cyseal pulled it in place of the slow donkey. As they were getting away they could see a man in dark robes address himself as a cultist of Dis and begin to fight Lander and his army of cultists. Finally safe of the threat of evil trees and cultists the party regroups at the bottom of the mountain to take stock, realizing that a couple of soldiers and the captain tagged along with them in their escape. The group then started to ask for more pay from the captain and he agreed but only for the humans in the group, i.e. not Bristlecone, Hive or Pinecone. Though there was a lot of argument on this fact the group decided to take the extra pay without getting any money for the tree people. They started to move up the mountain but soon came to a slower pace when the party realized they had not bought snowshoes for the trip and were being left behind by the soldiers. One of the soldiers, as thanks for the group saving his life, offered to make them snowshoes out of their cart that was more of a hinderance than an asset. The party agreed and kept one of the attachable sleds and a rope so that Chem could drag Lucius’ unconscious up the mountain. At night the party began making igloos with the soldiers but when offered to join the soldiers in theirs the party refused because they would not allow the tree people or Lucian. After some group discussion they decided that the tree people and Lucian can handle being in the cold while Chem, Cyseal and Lucius could not so they went back to the soldiers to take their offer. The soldiers refused to let them in but Chem gave them his parchment of a golden chalice, given to him by Stron Benovian, as an admittance fee. The next day came and the party continued up the mountain until they reached the mouth of a cave. Tl;dr: Chem fights Lander but is unable to kill him even though he inflicted mortal wounds to the man. As they are fighting, a swarm of Lander Cultists and giant kittens attack the party. Hive, Bristlecone and Pinecone come running from behind the group and tries to help out. PETA is able to fight off the Lander cult until trees start to come towards them and kill soldiers and cultists. Chem tells everyone to help move the wagon and to get out of there as Lander rallies his cult to aid him. A man comes out of the woods and tells Lander there is not enough room for two cults and that Dis will be displeased. They begin to fight as the party runs up the mountain towards the mask, with the captain and some men tagging along. The group heads up the mountain but begins to see that they need snow shoes in order to continue at a normal pace. One of the soldiers offer to make them some if they break down the wagon. The group agrees and Chem drags Lucius' body on a sled up the mountain. The group sleeps the night away with the danger of the cult of Dis following them and Lucian's life coming closer to its end.

Session 11 of PETA 11/15/16 Recap: The session begins at the mouth of the cave in the Icetop Mountains. They party decides to leave Lucius at the mouth of the cave rather than drag his body along for the journey. The soldiers want to split off into two groups so that they can cover more ground and though the party didn’t want the soldiers to find the mask first they agreed to splitting up. PETA went down a tunnel in the cave and started to hear the voice of someone called the guardian of the mask. He told the group that they must answer riddles in order to find the mask and escape alive. The party answered his first riddle and continued on to a room that had a floating helmet in the center. Bristlecone, Pinecone and Hive went forward, looking for the mask while Chem, Lucian and Cyseal inspected the helmet. After many, many failed attempts at grabbing it Chem finally is able to jump on it and put it on his head to which it burns his scalp as it descends. He let go of the helmet but the height he had brought it down to was enough to read an inscription inside the helmet, revealing that it was Elaine’s father’s helmet and he had left it for her. The party continued down the tunnels where they found a cliff that led directly down to lava. Chem used spider climb to find that there was a room with a lizardman statue along the side of the cliff and he began to bring each person over. They were then asked another question by the guardian once Lucian punched the statue with his now completely bone fist. Ropes then appeared for the party to climb down on and they proceeded to descend until the guardian asked another riddle. The first answer they gave was incorrect which caused some of the ropes to break but luckily they got it right on the second try and were shown the path to the next riddle/puzzle. They then came to a pit of lava and a copper door on the other side of it. Some members of the party on trying to open the door got crushed as it fell on them. Most of the party was going to fall into the lava below if it weren’t for Pinecone grabbing the door and keeping it from pushing them in. The group then came to a room with another pit that led to lava and a lizardman statue on the other side of the room. This time the party was unable to solve the puzzle and when Chem tried to cross to the other side he was shot by a fireball that instantly knocked him out. After bringing Chem to consciousness the party devised a way to get across the room and get to the statue, which dissolved into a run and gun tactic. Luckily Lucian was able to get to the other side and cast shatter on the statue which stopped the fireballs… after they had completely knocked out Bristlecone, almost killing him. The party then entered what appeared to be a temple over a large pool of lava. There they found many more stone statues of lizardfolk and a large statue of a lizard priestess of some sort. As the party tried to investigate it they discovered the mask on the priestess, which then caused all the statues to reform back into lizard people, who then attacked the party. The soldiers soon met up with the group, with less than the amount that entered the cave and joined in the fight. Luckily the only deaths that were accounted for in this fight were a couple of Breland soldiers and a lot of ancient lizardfolk. The party made a deal with the captain saying that if they get to keep the mask than the soldiers could keep whatever else is in the cave. The captain agreed and the soldiers began to play with their new enchanted sword and gold. After the fight Chem realized that his bastard sword was missing, and upon further investigation found that all of his belongings besides his shield and cold the sword had disappeared. He first accused the Breland soldiers but then realized that the only thing left on him was his full plate army. He took off his armor, knowing that it ate all of his goods and tossed it into the lava below, revealing that the armor had all his gear in it and that he just threw all his loot into lave…. Before the party left the cave Hive tried on the mask which turned out to be a mask of illusion because when he put it on he was turned into a goblin, also Elaine spoke to them for a second and gave her helmet to Cyseal. The party reached the mouth of the cave and found that Lucius was nowhere to be found. They felt sad for the loss of their new friend but time was precious and they needed to get to Atur in order to cure Lucian. On their travel from the Icetop Mountains to Atur they came in contact with the paladin of silence they saved on the road to Krona Peak. The paladin was suspicious when he only saw Chem, Lucian and Cyseal and no Elaine but he shrugged it off and told them to head to Bastion to resupply on anything that they needed. The party then decided after the paladin left that Chem and Cyseal would go into town and grab some gear and possibly get some magic items identified while the rest of the party meet them outside of Bastion on the road to Atur at night. Chem and Cyseal went into town and were instantly harassed by a man trying to gain recruits for the paladins of silence but beyond that they were having a pleasant time shopping. The rest of the group on the other hand met an old woman in the woods who used to be a part of Brizang’s army of wizards, the ones who stopped the demon portal. She told the group that Brizang had been captured and she was going to get revenge on the paladins of silence. Hive decided to head into the deeper woods, despite the woman’s warning not to and found himself surrounded by a group of Dis awakened trees. Luckily for Hive the old woman had just completed her creation to kill the paladins of silence, a one handed John Crossbarrowsmen. Thanks to Bristlecone and Lucian’s politeness the woman sent John to save Hive before he was completely brainwashed. Once the two returned to the group the old woman told John to kill everyone in Bastion. Once this order was given the group warned the woman that some of their allies were in Bastion shopping to which she replied with “whoops” Now the group from the woods are trying to get the Bastion before John can slaughter everyone in it. Tl;dr: The group go to a cave, split up from the soldiers and answer some riddles. They find a room full of lizard statues that turn out to be real lizard people. They fight, some soldiers die and the group makes a deal to keep the mask while the soldiers kept everything else. Chem found out his armor stole his money so he threw it in lava, destroying all his money. They got Elaine’s helmet from her father, couldn’t find Lucius and headed to Atur. The lion paladin of silence showed up again and said to head to Bastion for some supplies. Chem and Cyseal went, everyone else went to the woods and met an old lady who worked for Brizang. Hive was almost brainwashed by Dis trees, was saved by reanimated John Crossbarrowsmen and now John is going to kill everyone in Bastion, fun times.

Session 12 of PETA 12/7/16 Recap: Currently separated, Bristlecone, Hive and Lucian head to Bastion to help save Chem, Cyseal and potential innocents from being killed by John Crossbarrows. Bristlecone leaves Pinecone in the witch’s house for his safety. Following far behind John, the party comes across deserted wagons, but do not see any bodies. When the three finally arrive at Bastion, they see a wagon moving, from which a man sticks his head out, only for a crossbow bolt to greet him. The rest of the men begin heading back towards the fort. After some talk with the Oath of Silence paladins manning the front entrance, resulting in more crossbow bolts imbedded in skulls, Hive manages to convince the guards to let them into the fort to help. After revealing that they know who created the undead and are here to find Chem and Cyseal, the paladins look uneasy, knowing that the three standing before them are magic users. A spell was cast and threats were made, resulting in Bristlecone, Hive and Lucian being taken prisoner, peacefully, to be interrogated. The paladin in charge brought them to a room, asking for as much information on the witch as possible, to the extent of bringing in someone to discern the truth, magically. Lucian resisted the truth effect and was promptly taken from the room. Knowing Pinecone was still with the witch, Hive and Bristlecone gave the general location of the house, with Bristlecone purposely leaving out some information. They also revealed that she was an ally of Brizang; at the mention of his name some of the paladins appeared shaken. It was revealed to them at Chem and Cyseal had come up with a plan to dig a tunnel out of the fort, on the opposite side from where John’s crossbow bolts seemed to be shooting from, and that Bristlecone, Hive and Lucian would be given a one-time pass to keep their lives. Lucian is brought back into the look, unconscious but otherwise “normal” with the three of them being escorted out of the fort. Bristlecone promptly Wild Shapes into a horse, retrieves Pinecone and warns the witch of the coming paladins. As Bristlecone and Pinecone leave, the house transforms, growing chicken legs, and heads further into the woods. Told that Chem and Cyseal would meet them in Atur by the paladins, Bristlecone, Hive and Lucian head towards Atur themselves. Along the way, the mask Hive has plays some tricks on the party, changing their appearances every once in a while, notably turning Hive into a southern belle and the whole party into goblins, later on. They meet some bugbears along the road, killing one as the other two flee. Resting around a campfire, all appearing as goblins, orcs stumble upon them, telling them to get back into marching order, at which the party proceeds to kill them all. Now transformed into orcs, four ogres find the camp, asking to use the fire for warmth. Hive proceeds to light himself, leaving the ogres awestruck at his magic. Both groups rest at the campfire. Bristlecone, Pinecone and Lucian transform back into their original bodies, with Hive keeping his new goblin body, confusing the ogre that was wake. Lucian claims that it is more magic and the ogre falls back asleep, amused. The group makes it to Atur, with Lucian heading straight to the Temple of Shallya for healing. After spending a day at the temple, they are unable to cure him, but send him to the abbot, an old druid that resides at the top on a hill in the city. The woman says that she will heal Lucian if the party completes ten tasks for her while giving him an apple from her tree to slow down the dying proccess. “End the hate between two house; Find the girl’s lost hopes for her* ; Send the brutes to the sea ; Make Atur good to me, Do away with this pox on the land ; Burn the Picture that none can see; Return the man lost to me; Win the contest of the weak; Do something worth more than gold; Purify yourself.” Lucian goes around asking towns people for information of the things that she spoke and learns of an apple contest; the winner has to present the judges with the best apple found within the city walls. As Hive and Lucian enter a clothing shop, Bristlecone and Pinecone wait outside. They see some boys throwing a girl’s doll between them, playing keep away. Pinecone draws his handaxe, wanting to help the crying girl, but Bristlecone takes away his axe. With Pinecone wanting to do the right thing, Bristlecone reminds him of his sling. Pinecone hits the boy that was holding the doll in the eye, sending the boy crying and the rest of the boys scattering, returning the doll to the girl*. Inside one of Lucian’s fingers turns gold. TL;DR: Bristlecone, Hive and Lucian went to Bastion to help save Chem and Cyseal but ended up not needing to. They get interrogated, telling the paladins of the witch. Bristlecone goes back to warn the witch and the four head to Atur, killing things along the way. Lucian isn’t cured but is then cured, partly, by an old druid who will finish healing him after the party completes ten tasks, one of which has been completed by Pinecone.

Session 13 of PETA 1/24/17 After spending about 3 days in Atur the group was able to find a druid who agreed to heal their friend lucian after completing 10 tasks for her. The group was able to complete most of these tasks but then Lucian was bed ridden so the party had to come up with a quicker answer. After meeting with Razah, the new sorcerer supreme, the party was told that Brizang is MIA but that their contract would still be honored. Chem, who discovered from Phantom that the masks are worth much more, bartered with Razah for a increase for each member of the group. They finally decided that their deal would be that for each mask they would receive 2,000 gold each and aid from Razah when they need it and changed who would be paid under the new contract, though Razah had to take a piece of Lucian with him for… research. They agreed and Razah took Lucian’s pinky toe and began to leave with the mask when Hive asked him if he could join Razah at Brizang’s sanctum and learn more about magic and the masks. Razah agreed and he and Hive were off. Lucian, now feeling good enough to move, visited the druid to ask about his illness and more about the mission. The druid told Lucian that his sickness will never go away but that she would be able to make it not kill him as quickly as it currently was. Lucian agreed and his face returned to its original color and his bone hand turned back into his regular hand. He did have a couple of side effects left but they were more helpful than detrimental. When they were done the druid told Lucian that his group needs to leave town immediately. The party regrouped at the center of town when a caravan rolled down the main street. Jumping out of the caravan was a elf cleric by the name of Ernun, a human looking elf rogue by the name of Anton, a human barbarian known as Ogril and the groups long lost bard, Emery Dupree. Emery and Chem talked alone, discussing what both had been up to since Loran Rath. Emery told Chem the reason he was trying to find him was because their father had grown impatient and wanted one of them now and was sending his troops to bring them to him. Chem decided that he would give Emery Ice the sword and would head off by horseback to lead the troops away from Atur, making sure no innocents would be hurt by his father’s army. The two brothers reconvened with the party and told them their plans and what has happened. At hearing this, Bristlecone told Chem that he would be leaving with him, not only to protect him but to reach the forests outside of the continent. Chem had little choice and they both road off out of Atur. Lucian and Emery persuaded Anton Ogril and Ernun to join them in their adventuring party and they all decided to head towards the Blade Desert because they needed work while waiting on Razah and Hive to return. They paid a good amount of gold to take the lightning rail down to Gatherhold, a town of halflings from the Talenta Plains. There they hired a guide who would lead them through the desert to their first job, investigating the ruins of Taer Elladorn. They also bought a wagon and 2 mastiffs to drive Emery while he slept for 16 hours because of his terrible nightmares. They ran into a group of hobgoblin bandits who asked for a payment to pass, though Lucian pulled out a candle of cheerfulness and mesmerized 3 of them and made the rest of the hobgoblins run away in fear. They continued into the desert, taking a rest before they reached Taer Elladorn. While they were setting up camp and heading to bed Emery saw a light in the distance though the party thought that it was nothing and decided to sleep. As they started taking watch the light blinked out and then reappeared very close to the camp and revealed itself to be a floating mesh of tentacles that attacked the party. The party was able to defeat it and decided to pack up camp and move on even though the light that Emery had seen in the distance was still there. They pushed on towards Taer Elladorn when the party heard a scream come from shambling figure in the distance. When the screaming got closer the party saw a man inside of a hulking devourer, an undead creature made up of flesh and bones. The party jumped into action but it wasn’t until the devourer knocked out Emery in one hit that they realized this was a losing fight. Lucian used his overwhelming amount of magic to keep the monster at bay, Ernon shot volleys of radiance at it, Anton through knife after knife at the thing and Ogril tried his hardest to pull the screaming man out of the devourer’s chest, but all their efforts were to no avail. Once the devourer felt he was up against people he might lose to he crushed the man inside of him and let out a huge explosion that knocked out Ogril and the group’s guide. He then put Emery in his chest and began taking down everyone a person at a time. Lucian used a gust of wind to keep the creature away from him at all times, Ernon healed Ogril so that he could rejoin the fight, but Anton decided that he didn’t want to die today so he ran before the devourer could get him. The devourer, being pushed by Lucian’s magical wind ripped into Emery and killed him, regaining some power by consuming Emery’s last bit of energy. With this boost he was able to kill Ogril and sent out the corpse of Emery to fight for him as an undead thrall. Lucian was surrounded by the devourer and his now undead friend Emery, looking like he was going to become the devourer’s next meal, but he sent out a final radiant spell towards the monstrous creature and brought him down, causing Emery to turn into dust, only leaving Ice the sword left on the battlefield. The group took the sword, what left they had of their party and headed towards the light that they had seen before. TL;DR: The party left Atur because now Lucian’s disease won’t kill him as fast as it was doing before. Razah showed up, gave the party a new deal and left with Hive back to Brizang’s Sanctum. Chem met up with Emery and decided to leave with Bristlecone to make sure his father’s army didn’t level Atur. Anton, Ernon and Ogril joined the party and they went down to the Blade Desert to do some jobs. On their way to a job the party was attacked by a devourer who killed Emery, Ogril and their guide. The party headed towards a light after defeating the monster.

Session 14 of PETA 1/31/17 The group reaches the light and discovers that it is a porch light to a mansion. A steward lets the group in and tells them to head to the kitchen for supper. The group complies and meets a well dressed man sitting at the table. He asks them which one of them is Emery Dupree and when they tell him that Emery was no longer with them he became angry and told them either they can leave his home or he could kill them. The party asked why they would need permission to leave and the gentleman told them that he was trapped in this dimension by a Dupree, told to capture Emery. The party left through the front door but when they arrived back in their original dimension it seemed that he didn’t let them leave for free because Ernon was nowhere to be found. They found themselves in a study with a professor staring at them who immediately believed they were sent to him to help him with the threat that affected all of the Blade Desert. He called for his friend, Professor Archibald Drake, to bring his new visitors some tea and ushered them into a living room to discuss his problem. Professor Drake had his robot, Winston, bring the group some tea though when he arrived in the room Winston had no tea and Professor Drake professed to the group that he should probably teach his robot how to make to before asking him to do it. In the living room the party met two individuals that went as Margo and Luigar, two warriors from the desert who are secretly dragon knights. The scientist sat everyone down and told them that the desert was in danger by the summoning of an efreeti, an evil djinn who wished the destruction and subjugation of all people within the Blade Desert. The scientist told the party that the only way to stop his summoning would be to find crystal fragments around the desert and to bring them together. Professor Drake then led them to his laboratory and showed them his method to find all the fragments, a large machine that printed papers with arrows pointing in the direction of the nearest fragment. In order to use this machine, though, the party had to go get a sandskiff that would be able to hold the machine as they traveled the desert. The party then split off getting water, food and other necessities for the journey through the desert. Lucian ended up buying two halfling slaves at an auction and then told them they weren’t slaves and could leave whenever they wanted but even when they heard what he said in their language they still did not understand the meaning of freedom so they stayed and served him. The group was able to get a deal with a sandskiff merchant to rent one sandskiff for their journey though Luigar (also known as Dusk) almost lost them this deal when he erupted on the owner of the sandskiff business after he made a comment on how people who try to free slaves are filth. A couple days pass as the professor cleans up and improves the sandskiffs as per the group’s agreement when a parade began to burst out in the main road of Gatherhold. Most of the party went out to see what was happening and Lucian was very pleased to see his friend Cyseal in golden armour leading a band of Sun Bros through the town square. The two of them talked, Lucian telling Cyseal about their situation in the town right now and how they need to work together to defeat an Efreeti. Cyseal then went to the owner of the sandskiff business and brokered a deal to get a sandskiff license, a guide and another sandskiff for the party to use on their journey though he did have to leave his golden armour as collateral. After the week had past the party began the journey to find the fragments, heading south along the main road of the desert. On their way they were routed by a group of desert folk riding horses who told them to stop. The sand people referred to themselves as “banditos” and then a fight started to commence between the party and the banditos trying to steal their sandskiffs. It was very easy for the group to kill the banditos without any damage taken to the sandskiffs and they kept sailing on towards their destination. TL;DR: The party meets a vampire who wanted Emery so instead of dying they were teleported to a scientist’s tent in Gatherhold. They met Professor Archibald Drake, Margo (Rashem), and Luigar (Dusk) and were told by the scientist to find some desert fragments to stop the summoning of an efreeti. They got sandskiffs, bought slaves and met up with Cyseal the paladin of sun and went out to save the desert. They were attacked by sand people who spoke in a slightly racist manner, called themselves banditos and began to play russian music as they attacked. They party killed them and moved on from this racially tense situation.

Session 15 of PETA 2/7/17 The party continues down the road, following the direction of the professor’s machine. They begin to head into the middle of the desert, going through mountains and having to deal with the scorching sun almost running them completely dry of water. They take a rest in the middle of the desert when they notice two large men watching them set up camp. The two men head towards the party and the group tells them if they come in peace they can stay around the fire but if they have come with ill intent then they will die. The men told them that they were in their land and that they needed to leave immediately. After much discussion the party realizes that the only way to complete their mission is to go through the land of these men so the party prepared for battle. The battle commences with one man almost killing Margo(Rashem) and the other getting run over by Professor Drake and his sandskiff. Throughout the battle the party realized that the men were not getting hurt by physical attacks and that they were actually sand golems. The fight carried on, party members fell unconscious and were healed and thrown right back into the fight and the golems started to be hanging on by a thread. In his attempt to finish off one of the golems, Luigar(Dusk) used his dragon knight power to fly up 15ft and try to drop the sand golem to his death, though the golem knocked him out before he could get any higher. Margo immediately ran the sandskiff over to Luigar so that he can stabilize him and the rest of the party killed the golem that had fell from the sky. The other golem reseeded back into the sand after telling the group that he will tell his master about what they have done. The party rest over the night and kept moving towards the fragments, though Margo told the gnome sandskiff driver that he will drive for a little bit so that he can talk to Luigar alone. After a lot of unnecessary negotiation and a lot of headaches on Margo’s side, he was given the reins for about 5 miles. While Margo and Luigar discussed on their skiff, the gnome immediately started telling the rest of the party about Luigar’s wings and how he flew to try and kill the sand golem. Margo was currently scolding Luigar on the other skiff about revealing his powers in front of people they had just met a week ago and an enemy who they now have to go out of their way to kill to hide his secret. Luigar begrudgingly agreed with Margo’s arguments and promised to follow the code of the dragon knight, to only show your powers to people you trust and the people you are going to kill. They head into the mountains when they spot Sun Bros flying overhead on their pegusi circling them. Cyseal meets them and talks to them about why they are here and if they could help the group. Turns out that the Sun Bros needed Cyseal’s help and that they could really help each other. Cyseal told the party that he needed to go with his order to fulfill his duty as a Sun Bro and after a long conversation that had a lot of demands and secrecy from the Sun Bros, the party decided they couldn’t stop the Efreeti without Cyseal so they were basically forced into helping the Sun Bros. The Sun Bros flew them and their sandskiffs over to a temple, further south in the desert. They are dropped off at the temple and are told that men who work for the sand golem’s boss have dug up this temple and the party’s job is to go in, figure out why they have dug it up and kill anyone who is hostile and to capture anyone if possible. The party enters the temple and are barely able to read some texts on the walls of the temple telling them whose temple it is and that there are traps ahead. The party enters a circular room and waited to see any traps or enemies pop out of the shadows. TL;DR: The party continue heading through the desert and fought a couple sand golems because they were on their turf. Luigar revealed his dragon knight powers, they killed one golem and the other disappeared. Luigar had a stern talking to from Margo for using his powers in front of people and the rest of the party grew suspicious of their new comrades. They met some Sun Bros who forced the party to help them and they were flown over to an ancient temple. They went inside to find the sand golems boss and his goons and they ended in a circular room.

Session 16 of PETA 2/21/17 The session begins with the party walking down a narrow hallway in the temple the Sun Bros brought them to. They continue down the hallway until they reach a gate to a dark room. Winston’s light shines in the room and the group can see that some shadows are receding from within the room. The professor devises a plan to get into the room without using the pressure plate at the other side of the hall, he jumped in the bag of holding and told the group to pull him out on the other side of the gate. The group complied, reaching their hands through the gate and re opening the bag to pull out the professor, who was then threatened by shades of soldiers advancing on him. He quickly jumped back in the bag and the party brought him back to the other side, deciding the best idea was to use the pressure plate so that all of them could fight the shades together. The party was able to destroy all the shades, with Rashem cleaving most of them with one attack. They continued into the dark room where they found ancient symbols around a large archway leading to two doors. Some party members checked out the southern door, finding a large brass door to their left and a path further to the right. Anton tried unlocking the brass door but instead triggered a trap that caught the whole hallway in flames. The professor studied the liquid that was set on fire in the hallway and determined that it would take all day for the flames to extinguish so they decided to head through the northern door. Almost immediately once they walked through the door a harpoon shot at the party. Rashem then led the way, watching for more traps down the hallway as they progressed. They came to a turn in the hallway that led down a path of mysterious ruins. The professor told the party to get into the bag of holding and that Winston would fly them across the hallway to the other side. The group went one after the other, letting Winston carry them across the hallway to the other side, above the presumed dangerous ruins. On the other side Luigar led the way down the next hall, stopping once he saw strange circles along the walls and the ceiling. They saw 2 doors down at the other side of the hallway and again the professor found that the best solution was to use the bag of holding and winston to carry them over to a door and try to unlock it. Anton jumped in the bag, only leaving his torso up outside of it and flew over to the door to try to pick it. Sadly this process was taking too long for Luigar and he decided to head down the hallway a little bit further. Unfortunately for him and the party he was on the edge of a pressure plate and triggered a trap that caused water to gush out of the walls and ceiling. Anton was unable to unlock the door on the right of the hallway so they quickly pushed into the door on the left. Closing the door they faced another shade of a fallen warrior, though this one seemed much more intimidating. The group quickly dispatched him then began to look for another exit from the room, when the came upon a giant stone Sphinx. The group knew the only way to get past a Sphinx is to answer its questions so they began to go one by one. First the professor answered with “River” and was teleported to a separate room, without his robotic friend Winston. One by one the group answered riddle after riddle until it was only Rashem and Winston left, the water almost filling up the entire room. Rashem, helpless with riddles, asked his dragon to help find the answer, though his dragon sounded very different from what Rashem remembered. With Robby’s the Dragon’s help Rashem answered the correct word “Icicles”, grabbed Winston and both were teleported to the room with the rest of the party. They continued down the hall, Rashem again looking for traps as they continued until they came to a door with what sounded like a bar behind it. While the group was pondering entering the room, Rashem found and outline of a door just to the right of that one. The party was able to push the door open and entered a burial chamber with a pale, undead figure near the back. Once the party shown a light on the creature they were less disgusted by his seemingly rotting figure but were astounded and perplexed by the firmness and smoothness of the dead man’s ass. Just looking at it brought wonder to the eyes of the party, bringing awe and wonder to anyone who looked upon the glorious greased up man’s ass. He called out to the party saying something along the lines of “Get out of my chamber or I will kill you” though no one really heard what he had to say, for they were still mesmerized by his supple dairy air. All they heard come from his lips was the name, “Bartholomew”. He outstretched his finger and commanded his undead horde to attack the party while they were astounded by his greasy and pale body. The party then knew they were in for a fight and lunged at the horde, however, Bartholomew’s ass was too much for Anton to handle and the rogue jumped at the greasy man, wrapping his arms around him in a loving embrace. The party fought on as Bartholomew tried to escape the hold Anton had on him, but it was all in vain for Bartholomew could not defeat the boundless love of Anton. During the fight, Rashem jumped in the middle of the horde and prepared a cyclone strike on all the undead, although he hesitated, waiting for his good friend Dusk to get out of the way. Little did he know a giant undead creature was right behind him and was waiting for him to enter the range of his claws. The creature knocked Rashem down and two zombies began to feast on his corpse. Thankfully for Rashem his loyal ally Professor Drake had just entered the room (after killing a dozen or so zombies in the hallway, which definitely happened) and pulled off a patch from his cloak, releasing a fully grown draft horse that landed over Rashem’s body, protecting him from further zombie attacks. However, just when the odds seemed in Rashem’s favor, Cyseal took it upon himself to end not only the zombies, but to put down Rashem as well. Fire erupted from the paladin’s hands and engulfed the majority of the hoard, the horse and Rashem. Dusk lunged at Bartholomew, having enough of Anton and his flirting time and skewered the man on the end of his spear. With this attack the floor collapsed, causing the party and the rest of the zombies to fall down a deep hole. Dusk sprouted his wings and descended to catch Rashem’s body, which fell limp in his arms. The rest of the party reached the bottom of the pit, relatively unscathed with zombie corpses lying about them. Once everyone was back together, Dusk held his former mentor in his arms and said with pain in his voice, “Don’t you die on me old man”. Tl;dr: The party went into a crypt and killed some ghosts and triggered some traps. Rashem almost died in a riddle room but thanks to Robby the dragon’s help he was able to escape. They met a dead man named Bartholomew who had the most supple ass of any undead the party had ever seen, and for some reason he was also very greasy. The Professor nat 20’d a ranged horse attack and killed some undead with it. Cyseal killed a horde of zombies, a horse and Rashem. Dusk mourned the loss of his mentor and vowed vengeance upon Cyseal.

Session 17 of PETA 2/28/17 The beginning of the session starts with the group finding themselves in a room with two doors, a lot of debris and dozens of zombie corpses. They entered a hallway that was cut off by a blue curtain that radiated with magic and was cold to the touch. The professor tried to move the curtain but once he touched it he was almost turned into a frozen statue as ice began to envelope his whole body. The party was able to get him away and heal him a bit before trying something else on the curtain. Lucian decided to cast a spell at it and once the spell hit the curtain started to shimmer less. A volley of spells were cast at the curtain until finally it lost all magical properties and the group was able to pass it. Further down the hallway another curtain blocked their way, this time of curtain of yellow that had sparks flying off of it. The group decided to try and decipher script from the beginning room to try and figure out what they should do next. As they did that the professor decided to look into the second doorway of the room. When he opened the door he saw spiders all along the walls and ceilings and, naturally, he quickly shut the door and told no one to open it unless they all want to die. Anton for some reason was very angry and frustrated by the group and kept on asking the party if they should just strip Rashem down and throw all his stuff into the curtain. Dusk looked at him with pure rage in his eyes and told him if he even touched Rashem he would die. The group decided to try and throw stones at the curtain until its magic was gone, taking the rubble from the collapsed ceiling and throwing it at the curtain, lessening its power. The curtain was on the brink of losing all its power when Anton took it into his own hands to throw Rashem’s gear into the curtain, destroying everything but his armor and dual blade. They continued down the hallway where similarly they ran into another curtain made of pure fire. The party was stumped by this curtain and tried everything to get it down, tried destroying the statues holding the curtains, cast spells at it, threw more zombies into it but nothing seemed to work. Finally they realized that it may have a passphrase that might stop the magic of the curtain, and try as they must no one could figure out what the phrase was. Anton, being quite a dick, decided to try pronouncing one word in the script and threw Rashem’s body into the curtain as he said it. Rashem was covered in flames but once Anton said the word the flames stopped and the curtain fell over Rashem’s body, extinguished. The group reached the end of the hallway where they found an odd orb sitting on a pedestal. Cyseal immediately grabbed the orb and told the group the mission was over. As he said this, however, a genie arose from the orb and told the paladin that he gets 3 wishes. Cyseal, regretting his actions, wished for Rashem to come back to life, so the genie waved his hands and Rashem came back to life… for 3 seconds and then immediately returned to being a corpse. Cyseal, angry that the genie tricking him, threatened that he would wish the genie destroyed as his last wish unless he did not trick him again. The genie, scared by this, went back into the orb and teleported himself to Lucian’s hands and told him that he had 3 wishes. Lucian asked the genie to give him more experience, to get to the next level of being a sorcerer, however the genie deemed this request some sort of “meta gaming” and refused his request. Cyseal, now furious at the genie, attacked him while his back was turned. The genie felt nothing, turned around and turned Cyseal into a candelabra for attacking him. Lucian then decided not to wish for anything else and Dusk scooped up the orb before anyone else could grab it. With the brilliant advice of Professor Drake, Dusk wished for the genie to be a good genie or to be as good as his own dragon. The genie turned from a red to a light blue and told him he had 2 more wishes. Dusk then wished for Rashem to return to the state he was in when he entered the crypt and with a wave of his hand the genie brought Rashem back to life, though somehow the exact same age as Dusk. Just when Dusk was about to say his last wish a rush fell over him and he uttered, “I wish you would protect the desert from the Efreeti”. And with that the genie left the crypt and began battle with the Efreeti above the sands of the Blade Desert. Dusk talked to Rashem about what had happened but Rashem could not remember anything, he couldn’t remember Dusk, his party or the fact that his dragon died a century ago. With the visual aid of Professor Drake’s minor illusion, Rashem saw exactly how Cyseal had killed him in the tomb. The party went outside where they were greeted by Paladins of the Sun who thanked them for their work. To the surprise of all, Cyseal created a pure light construct of himself that emanated from the candelabra, striking awe in the Sun Bros who promptly got down on their knees and praised him as the Sun’s prophet. Rashem, furious that Cyseal was receiving praise for being a holy man, laid into him about how he murdered him and now thanks to him he can’t even remember his dragon’s death. The entire party was shocked to hear about Rashem being affiliated with a dragon and Dusk promptly hit him on the head, dragged him by his collar and told the group he would explain later. Tl;dr: The party had to deal with some annoying curtains to get to the end of a hallway. First curtain took spells to take it down, the next it took thrown objects and the last took a passphrase and a thrown Rashem. Anton was being quite a dick the entire time, constantly asking to throw Rashem’s corpse into a curtain to try and knock it down (this being because zat loves to fill in for PC’s as a dick). They got an orb at the end of the hallway, a genie popped out, they got some wishes, Rashem was brought back but with no memories and Cyseal was turned into a candelabra…. Yes a candelabra. Rashem learned about how Cyseal killed him, flipped out, revealed he was a dragon knight and Cyseal was praised by the Sun Bros as a Prophet of the Sun.

Session 18 of PETA 3/7/17 The group convenes and is eager to hear what explanation Dusk has for Rashem’s outburst. Before the discussion commences however Dusk and Rashem make the group promise they will not tell anyone about what they are about to reveal and that to do so would incur swift execution by the two. The party agrees and Dusk and Rashem reveal the meaning behind the dragon wings and their powers. They are what one would call dragon knights, guardians of a powerful and deadly beast. The dragon that they both serve is the Tungsten dragon, a lawful good dragon that lives in the Blade Desert. Though they did not always have the same dragon, Rashem actually served an even older Tungsten dragon 400 years ago who died not but 100 years ago. Before his dragon died he gave his word that he would be the mentor of the new dragon knight and he would help the new Tungsten dragon grow and develop into a proud and noble creature. When his dragon died and the new one was born, Rashem’s powers were taken away and then given back once entering the contract with the younger dragon, losing all of his experience being a master dragon knight. Rashem and the Tungsten dragon trained Dusk to become the next dragon knight and now both Rashem and Dusk share their new dragon’s power and search for treasure to build up his horde. The thing about dragon knights though is that they have to keep their powers a secret because if another dragon knight sees them or hears about them their dragon might force them to kill the revealed dragon knights, trying to receive power over their dragon. Even a lawful good dragon like Rashem and Dusk’s dragon might tell them to kill a dragon knight just so that they will not threaten the survival of the Tungsten dragon. After the explanation Rashem apologizes to Cyseal for threatening him, he knows that if either of the dragon knights die their dragon will be left vulnerable for attack by other dragons. After they finished their talk they followed the Professor’s machine which led them to a small oasis. The adventurers rented rooms in the Black Orb Inn and had a look around the town for any signs of another orb. While Rashem was sitting at a table he saw a cat who had a note on his tail saying to follow him. Since the party had nothing else to do and the cat might lead them to the orb they followed the cat to the dump of the city. There, two cyclops burst out of the trash and told the party to hand over all their valuables or else they will die. The party began to give them small things but Lucian had the brilliant idea of giving them Cyseal. Once they started inspecting the candelabra Cyseal spoke to them and frightened one of the cyclops, causing him to drop the candelabra. The party then began to fight the cyclops, Rashem and Dusk attacking head on, Anton and Lucian giving support from behind, Cyseal stabbing them in the back and the Professor flying around the dump looking for heavy items that took him way too long to grab and proved to be useless during the battle. The party defeated the cyclops, the Professor dropping an anvil on the head of one of them for good measure, and the cat that had led them there began to speak. He said his name was Asparagus White Socks and that he had been looking for adventurers to help him and his council find their missing king. He led the party into an abandoned shack where hundreds of cats were talking and playing around with each other. He offered the party a fancy orb if they could retrieve their king before the morning of the next day. The party, suspicious if the cats even had the orb, brokered a deal to let the professor see the orb and hold it while the rest of them stayed outside. The professor came back out saying it was real and that there was no genie in this one. Asparagus followed the adventurers and told them there was an oracle who could help them find the king of cats over by the docks. The party met with the oracle who told them that they might find some clues from the rat king who saw the cat king last. After a long sigh the group headed to the rat king’s layer where they were immediately attacked by four giant rats. The group easily took them down and approached the rat king who was very upset that they killed his own kind (even though they attacked first). Dusk was not exactly pleased with talking with this fat mouse for answers so he got straight to threatening the rodent’s life to which the rat king replied with “If you kill me another will take my place, we are all kings here”. And with that Dusk threw his javelin right through the rat king’s body and demanded a new king answer his questions. Sadly for Dusk, that rat king was the only one who knew where the cat king was so the party were out of ideas. Half of the party went to the bar for information while others went back to the oracle to see if she had any more clues. The oracle said that the only person that might know where the cat king may be is the warg king and upon returning Anton revealed he had seen the warg king on his way back from the bar. Clearly the next step was to go see the warg king and see if he could give the party answers about the cat king but with a completely exhausted party who had not slept all night they started to think that they should just take the orb from the cats and let them deal with the king. The party tried their hardest to get Asparagus to become king but he kept refusing saying he was not worthy of the title. Eventually the party just started taking votes on whether they should keep looking for the cat king or take the orb from the cats who had asked too much of them. They had until 5am to find the king before he will be dethroned so the party began to weigh their options. Tl;dr: Rashem and Dusk told the party they are the dragon knights to a Tungsten dragon. They went to an oasis to get some sleep and find an orb to stop the Efreeti but were stopped by an annoying, talking cat named Asparagus. They went on a wild goose chase all night trying to find the “cat king” so that they can get the orb from the cats but they decided to stop and think about their options. On one hand they could continue looking for the cat king, leaving them exhausted, or they could just commit cat genocide and just take the orb from them. With a little help from a strange god called “Dan” they leaned towards taking the orb from the cats and afterwards let Dan, “Wipe that town off of his map!”.

Session 19 of PETA 3/14/17 An exasperated Gnome sits in a chair to large for him as his servants go about getting his Ink well and paper. Ah PETA what is there to say your adventures have left us all confused and it falls to me to do my best to record your actions for the annals of history. Bring the scrying glass please asks Razah as a large silent figure holds a mirror in front of him. It is unknown as of ye whether what they, though let it be known one among them refused the Efrit's offer he was alone in this but the Sun Knight Cyseal struck out against the Efrit though he fought valiantly it was naught as the Efrit overpowered him, though he did not kill as to show the Heroes that his intentions were pure. Itis yet unknown what they did was beneficial or highly irresponsible but the quest to slay the Efrit of the desert ended not in death but in compromise. It seems the Efrit went to PETA offering to make a deal if they would give up there quest to gather the orbs that would be his fatal ending. It was only after much Debate did our heroes finally write up a binding contract that ensured the Efrit's survival and the Deserts safety. The specifics of which are lost to me now but only time will tell if this was the proper course of action. The group known as Peta was given safe travel to Taer Valesta the fortress city of the desert, seeing that the very thing that bind them together was gone they began a long month of relaxation, preparation and training for the future. During that month various occurrences happend in the city. Anton the brawler and The Professor began a small operation to take the armor and weapons collected off of the slain Sun Knights and looked to return them for a profit. Hoping to make use of the large orphan population they took in a number of children to prep the armor for resale. By having them scrape off the sun ornamental. One boy among them said his Name was Arty Dodger and he wants a fair wage after some not so diplomatic diplomacy they were able to talk the children into working cheaply, until just when it looked like the children would finish. They stole the Armor's and made a break for it. Professor and Anton began searching for them only to find them in the seediest part of Town trading the Armor to a Half Elf with what looked like Purple arms. His name was Ervan Trenor and sensing a good bit of Profit could be made using these two he has decided to join them after helping them deal with the mischievous Arty Dodger. Lucian begins training to attain new levels of power when he is close to attaining that power an old friend returns. Hive returns after spending a while with me after refusing to give up the mask only when offering to give him of something of equal power did he finally relinquish the mask. That now sits in my armory. Cyseal ah the poor Knight, he seems to have a new found lack of faith, he seeks the wisdom of those who can help him. Hoping they can restore his faith and remove his curse. While they are unable to do ether they point Cyseal in the right direction telling him where he can not only find the answers he seeks but also remove the curse that avails him. They give him a young Altar boy to accompany him on this quest. The Professor has began sending correspondent letters with some one who he thinks can help him with some of his ideas, before he can see him though the group has decided to help Cyseal with his problem and so begin a quest to save the candelabra and hopefully restore his faith. They hire a boat to take them down to the bay of swords but not one day out of the city they are held in place by some mysterious creatures in the water. so begins a battle of patience and ingenuity as the two sides try to reveal the other. Eventually it ends with the boat sinking and our heroes using a rowboat to get to shore. Not ones to allow this to stop them PETA treks on eventually running into vengeful spiritual wisps. Using there quickest course of action they outpace and escape the Wisps and soon find themselves looking up in the distance towering over them the look toward a large Jungle Temple where Cyseal faith and his humanity may be found.

Deep in the jungle temple is the last that was seen of the group known as PETA there fate is unknown to all that look outside its walls.