Session 6- A Trial in Willowdale Report

General Summary

You approach what seems to be a small village, people dressed in diffrent colours but light clothing scattered around, a huge but seemingly broken down circle building in the centre with vines growing down the side, with flowers of diffrent colours. The first person, you see, you recognise. You see Penny laine, the druid from the crossroads with Robin the dog sitting by her heels. Cora is in the background. ou can see gaps in it where the weather has changed it, but althogether its mostly standing stable. There are guards with spears on either side of the door. Penny said: Gracious, i havent explained, have i? Dont worry. Everyone who enters the village has to come in here. she shows you towards a wooden platform of sorts. Once you are done, if you are worthy, we can have some lovely drinks and a catch up- looks at pandora pointedly, who has gone to sit down in one of the seats along with many other people, who are are generally having a nice peaceful chat and drink in seats around the theatre. There are guards in stratigic places around the area. Pandora noticed them but she knows this. She takes a seat in one of the front columns. It is as though she has been here before.   The party are gentily ushered into the centre circle, where a green symbol that you have seen before is on the floor. There are gate ways to the edges of the arena like area that are softly shut and seem to be magically locked. A woman walks towards you and stands behind a small podium. The second she puts her arms up the place falls into silence. We are gathered here today in the presence of, the most holy, Mysteria, Gia and Libby. May the truth, magic and Earth bless us all. These people wish to enter our city. She walks up to you all, her arms in a position of power, slams them down and the circle underneath you glows to create a barrier of green light. The spell seems to get into your minds. Cora and Tempest, the second this happens, you notice pandora look a little tense.   hen a green light starts to light up Craff. You see an image of a young craff on the floor of the crossroads, and being chased by a spider. You see him in the base of the hunters, doing an arena fight and people booing at him, when he walks out sad. You then see an image of caltrops, the captain of the guards and a few of the bounty hunting missions he has done. You see an image of him with an elf female, teaching him blade-singing and a few interactions with diffrent members of the order, mostly for bounty hunting missions and so on. When her name- Lucinda is mentioned, there is a sense of surprize. You then see him say his name at the entrance to the crossroads and the guard captian expressing disappointment in him. The scene then goes to you all in the tavern, craff greeting the tavern keeper, then a picture of Penny and the Dog. You see craff being surrounded by all the dogs and looking a little scared. You hear penny tell craff that Robin is his responsibility and him taking the lead. You see a picture of craff looking at the hunter and the hunter looking back at craff in the tavern. The scene cuts to craff heading towards the underground entrance, him dropping a lantern and it setting the place on fire, as well as him trying to fix this problem. You see him escaping from the guards and tieing robin to the fence as well as climbing over the wall and what happens when wild magic creates a magical tune. You then the guards chasing all of you with the sound murderer echoing across the room. The scene then changes to you all standing outside the pothole in the third session and how craff's blood seemed to open the way. It shows you the kobolds and then an image of craff, as an comparison, the picture of craff's family and the cloak of billowing. It then shows you the caltrops on the floor the portal and mysteria again, but from a diffrent point of view this time. It shows craff's interactions with mysteria, his strange dream and his new cleric abilities. It shows her telling you that you are her champions and him understandably freaking over the situation. You then see the image of the party shouting out danica is fat and insulting the chaos god, right after they came back from the portal. You see the dream he had about the blue dragon, and how when holy water was on his skin it turned blue. You see the way danica looked at him with curiousity in her eyes and the conversation tempest had, where she said that she knew some blue kobolds. An image of tempest fills the screen and an image of her in her celestial form, as well. You skip to the forest where you see craff riding on the back of humpphrey's animal form. Then quick images happen of craff attempting to get a handle on his powers, the feast in the forest you had, his dream where he saw mysteria really weak and it comes back to a picture of him. The green light around craff fades and moves on to Jackie.   You see a young jackie practising a musical instrument as a child. You see a bunch of nobles insulting her and her hiding behind some boxes. You see an image of a blue dragonborn/kobold giving her a coin and telling her that everything is going to get better soon. You see Jackies interactions with various diffrent members of the order of the spikey rose and some of the items that she has smuggled through diffrent places and a birds eye view of portia. You see little parts of her journey and the first performance she has ever made to people. You then see her give the name Sherlock to athena in the crossroads, an image of symphonia, you see an image of her flirting with athena in the bar and using magic to enhance her performance and how she was talking to athena in the back room for most of the night. You then see jackie cleaning off the blood of hummphrey, and killing the guard who tried to investigate. You see the party looking up at the night sky and noticing that the symbol of mysteria that should be there is not. The scene skips to the underground area, where the bodies of the kobolds lay and jackie is looking for alchol in the kitchen, with an image of humpphrey tied up on the table. You then see the portal again, and a more birds eye view of the situation with all the gods. You see the image of the dead elf and jackie taking the pendant.   You see jackie flirting with Pandora, Cora and Tempest and her saying breasts instead of west in the forest. You see the path that they all take and humpphrey walking into the blighted lands along with a few images of jackie taking notes in the notebook and asking craff about his new abilities. You see the bird fly away after being eaten and then an image of jackie in the past and then the present and then an image of a person that you do not recognise but with a lute in her hand and her huge smile on her face. The green light surrounding jackie fades.   The Oracle's voice suddenly changes, to the voice of mysteria, as the whole room seems to fade out and all you can hear are the words of the prophecy. You have all heard them before. So i wont bother saying again.   The oracle then blinks and the room is silent. The green light wraps itself around your feet. She is still in the green light. You will be judged. Every action. Every reaction. But i do not believe this judgement is up to me. She then turns to the audience. Pandora Schrondinger, Daughter of time. Cora schrondinger, Caretaker of Creation, Tempest, Subject of miranda. The green light then pulses around her as she says Tauragon Tellwise, Subject of miranda. You hear a gasp from Pandora as somehow she knows the name, but she does not say anything. Will you come up here. Please. You are children of the goddesses and gods. You know this party. It is up to you to make the judgement on these people. Are they worthy of joining our order? Thier fate rests in your hands. She looks at the party. You have a chance to speak up, before any judgement is made. We have seen your pasts. We know the things you have done. Do you have a defense?   Pandora, turns to Cora. I deal with the realm of time. You deal with the realm of life. Another schrondinger should take up this torch. It is your choice, My daughter.   The party had the chance to speak up in defense but there was nothing really to say. The trial ended with the party heading to the tavern and a volenteer from the order offering to accompany them. Tempest, after her true name being revealed, stood in the truth circle and told the party who she really is. Everyone was shocked. She started the great war. Pandora said about second chances and there was beautiful declarations of love that happened.   They headed over to the tavern with the rest of the crowd dispersing, other than the head-spellcaster. Outside the tavern, they saw some beautiful fairy type lights above the door in diffrent colours. Hummphrey tried turning himself the same colour glow but ended up creating a dark cloud. When they walked into the tavern a lot of patrons disappered screaming ghosts. Luckily this only lasted for a minute. The tavern keeper got a lot of bottles out of the counter by touch and looked like they werent enough. Her name is Nala. The rest of you alcholed yourself up with things like whiskey. Humpphrey collapses on the floor because his tolerance for such things is very low. There are belly dancers on a small stage on the corner, with music playing out of a special orb. When Jackie goes up onto the stage and breaks the orb, the dancers leave the stage and a confused but very pretty girl comes out and onto the stage and chats to Jackie about opera singing. She asks Jackie if she knows the song, its a popular song here, the Aria of mysteria.   At Craff, drinking water, ends up throwing some on Jackie. However, he was drinking out of the wrong bottle and ended up drinking holy water, which made him feel a little wierd, for good reasons. Nothing.. strange happened to him at that time, but he did not drink very much. Jackie in retaliation from being doused with holy water, did a presdigitation which went very wrong. She ended up being scared of kobolds for 14 days *antipathy spell*. She understandably runs away and hides somewhere. Tempest goes after her and bumps into Pandora talking to a very upset Penny about something. Penny tries to hide what is happening but doesnt do very well. Cora at this point comes up and sees the conversation. Pandora phases out randomly after trying to say something she knows. Penny explains that she is trying to see if a picture is in a house surrounded by blighted lands. Penny's backstory is very sad. She explains she was one of 3 sisters the others being killed in the war. Penny says that she does not want to risk anyone, but tempest wants to go. She says to cora its too dangerous to go and talks about herself in a very worrying past tense. Pandora pops up and says do not kill..before is being taken away again. She seems rather annoyed at this. To help the situation, Tempest casts commune with miranda, and she does not know but one of her sisters might. They then call Gia who comes at the mention of Penny and gives her encouraging words, including how one of her sisters could be redeemed. Penny and her have a moment. Penny is grateful to Tempest and hands the lead of robin to Cora telling her to take it to the Blue person. Cora heads back to the tavern to see hummphrey passed out on the floor, Craff upstairs in his bedroom and jackie sleeping on the table. She takes up Robin to Craff who was praying to Mysteria for answers to his situation. He felt a sense of listening but no immediate answer. There was a mostly heartfelt moment where Robin seemed happy to see craff and jumps up at him. Cora heads back downstairs. The 3 of you take a long rest. Craff you see an small answer in your dreams about the artifacts that you asked about. You see an image of pandora carrying the staff of time, you see the picture you saw in the circle building earlier, hummphrey's backstory and the crown on the floor and fleeting images of other objects. You get a sense that in time things will be revealed. Hummphrey you see your animals having a good time playing together inside your head. You are probably surprized they are getting along. Jackie- You dream about kobolds. All diffrent types of kobolds, descended from every dragon there is. You feel afraid.   You all wake up to the sound of freshly baked bread and honey. You all head downstairs to find Cora in the kitchen helping. The barkeeper doesnt really trust you with knifes so she cuts off portions to see the party brandishing your own weapons. Craff wants to take some water away with him, so the barkeeper, not wanting to keep her eyes off you calls cora out to do the job. Because Bread is not really good enough for some of you (fair enough), you magic up a spitroast and use prestigation to keep the smell from going through the entire village. You all enjoy a feast that would make the villagers of this town very angry, and the cook shout through the door, My food is not good enough for you then, is it? You ask the barkeeper, nala where to find some new clothes. She mentions that she has a sister on the other side of the village who creates clothes.