A Gimble In The Wabe Session 4

A Gimble in the Wabe Session 4

The Ogre With No Heart part 2

The game began with the intrepid heroes gathered around the campfire attempting to rest after a middle of the night ambush by lizardfolk. While Bata stood watch he noticed an owl observing the party’s camp. When confronted the owl hooted and flew into the night. The next morning Odolotino the titmouse arrived with a Northron human wizard. Mysterios had been in service of the Chieftain of Jarlberg until last King’s Day when he discovered a golden acorn in his Queen’s cake and simultaneously realized he controlled arcane powers. Lady Haldora evaluated him and sent him on his way to be proven with the other Thorn Knight recruits. The party was somewhat wary (Tekka has never really trusted the titmouse) but after parlay decided Mysterios intentions were good and welcomed him into their band.

After a game of Feeboo between Theolis’s Manes and Tekka’s Bloodhawk resulted in a dead bloodhawk and the Manes transforming into a swarm of rats, Bata heard cries of help in the distance. Setting off to investigate they found a Fey female caught in an Utari hunter's snare. After rescuing her, she explained that she was gathering herbs for her love who lays sick at her hut. Wounded, she requested that they carry her to her home, and that she would repay them with Gnome Ale. The party warily did so, and their suspicions were confirmed when the hut turned out to be the very house in the swamp where they had tracked the ogre. The Fey whistled a tune to make a stone path appear over the crocodile infested bog and the hero’s carried her into the house.

Inside they found a wan satyr, lying pallidly in a bed beneath an owl bone charm. It was immediately obvious to the parties spell casters that some enchantment was being worked on the satyr. The Fey told them to help themselves to the Gnome ale in a cask on the mantle. Pasco and Bata headed for the drinking horns while everyone else was cautious. The floor of the hut before the mantle was an illusion and the Druid and Bard fell into the swamp below. The fey dropped her false appearance and proved to be a hideous hag. She warned them to flee or die. The party decided to be heroes.

The hag offered to make a deal, she would reveal the location of the ogre’s heart if the party could convince the satyr to love her. The satyr begged for help and they hero’s scoffed at the deal. A furious combat ensued, Mysterios proving his worth by flinging scorching firebolts and Theolis once again ensnared  his foe with magic vines. The hag’s claws were fierce and sharp; Tekka was rendered unconscious and Tolbert the Paladin nearly slain. Outside the hut, Bata and Pasco deftly clambered up the houses stilts and onto the roof. They dropped through the thatched ceiling just in time for Pasco to revive Tekka and Bata to replace Tolbert in the melee. The hag put Theolis to sleep escaping the vines, but was being brutalized by the combined firebolts, eldritch blast, and melee attacks of the party. She offered again to reveal the location of the ogres’ heart if they would surrender, they party refused and she disappeared into the ether. Fortunately the satyr mumbled that he knew where the damn heart was…

Trusting that the hag had been bested for the moment, the party decided to catch their breath in her hut. Rummaging through her assorted witchy paraphernalia they discovered four magic items and thinking they may be useful took the time to allow the Wizard to identify them. A cruel looking and notched longsword of vengeance, a twisted black rod of the pact keeper, a wood and leather sentinel shield with living eyes around the rim, and a ring of jumping.  The party’s assumption that the hag would not harass them was correct, and they recuperated in the hut before setting off to find the temple.

We rolled treasure randomly using the horde table for a CR 5 creature. I had Mysterios player roll, and they got very lucky, acquiring four items from magic item table F.

While they rested Pasco and Bata played Feeboo and Pasco’s wolf ate Bata’s monodrone. After they had recuperated, Pasco tried to perform the the tune to make the stone path appear over the swamp but failed, fortunately Mysterios remembered. After crossing the crocodile bog the Satyr lead them to an ancient Club Man temple, where he could sense the heart hidden in an owlbear egg. Deciding against the front entrance, they came around the side and found a collapsed wall that led directly into the den of the owlbears. The creatures were fierce but after a sharp melee were slain by the hero’s. They discovered the ogre’s heart in the owlbear nest. They also found a black stone door leading further into the temple. Unable to open it Tolbert took his maul to it, and with help bashed a hole in the stone. Peering through the hole into the darkness within, they could see some sort of ancient Club Man altar. At this point we called it a night.

Now that our heroes have the heart, how will they defeat the ogre who lies at the bottom of the swamp? Where did the hag go? What treasure might be hidden further inside the old temple? We will find out in the next session of A Gimble In The Wabe…