GG Chapter 3: The Ballad of Quaxley

The Session

The boys take a restful rest, noting that the creatures of the Cordybog Jungle continually come across their camp but always move outside the perimeter. Throughout the watch, they hear/see Viper Wolves, Tiguanodans, Spore Blights, Needle Blights, Vine Blights, Viper Bats, Hyphasnakes and as distant Sporestalker.

In the morning, Mistral pins a vine blight to a tree, who proceeds to mold around it to escape and beckoned the party to follow it. On their trek with this vine blight, the group noticed several mushroom people (myconids) riding Viper Wolves in the thicket on both sides of them, seemingly escorting them to whatever destination lie ahead.

The flock arrives in a small myconid village made from the fungal undergrowth of the region, with buildings structured like mushrooms, spore towers, and slime pits. The Cordybog Sovereign, chief of the village, speaks to them through his spores, welcoming the Gau’Sharan Games candidates to their home. The Sovereign insists they attend a feast at the village center, a giant mushroom building with bioluminescence flowing through vein-like vines. While being led there, the flock deduces that the Sovereign means to sacrifice them to whatever lies in the village center. Instead, Kennifer & Skylark head into the chamber while Quaxly & Mistral engage in combat with the Sovereign & his Myconid Brutes, the Myconid Adult & Sprout villagers unsure who to support due to Quaxly’s tunes.

Combat: The Bro Flock vs. The Myconid Village

Initiative

• Skyquack: 9
• Quaxley: 8
• Cordybog Sovereign: 12 (0/120 HP)
• Myconid Brutes (1/2): 7 (0/57 & 0/57 HP)
• Myconid Adults (8/10): 7 (13/22 HP each)
• Myconid Sprouts (4/6): 7 (7/7 HP each)

Round 1

• Cordybog Sovereign: Hallucinating Spores on Quaxley & Mistral
• Mistral: Deals 1 necrotic/3 piercing/2 lightning (5 damage total due to piercing resistance) to the Sovereign
• Quaxley: Fails to persuade the Myconid Adults to join them, but drops off a kid from the brutes to the adults
• Myconid Brutes: one brushes the kids off, the other kills two kids
• Myconid Adults: attack the brutes for child murder

Round 2

• Cordybog Sovereign: 11 bludgeoning/7 poison to Quaxley
• Mistral: Tridents the Sovereign for 2 piercing/6 necrotic/4 lightning (11 damage due to resistance). Does an additional 1 piercing on the way out. Flies away 50 ft, still in trident range
• Quaxley: Grabs another kid and gets him to safety. Bellows a harmonic note (21 Performance). Proteccs the kids
• Myconid Brutes: The injured one doesn't hit, but the other one kills an adult
• Myconid Adults: Critically injure a brute (40 damage)
• Myconid Sprouts: Run in fear

Round 3

• Cordybog Sovereign: Casts Blight on Skyquack for 16 necrotic damage
• Mistral: Does 4 piercing/2 necrotic/3 lightning to the injured brute, killing him.. Chugs Potion of Greater Healing for 13 HP
• Quaxley: Flies 20 ft in the air, then fails to persuade the Sovereign to back down. Casts Eldritch Blast, dealing 5 force damage.
• Myconid Adults: 5 hit the brute for 25 bludgeoning (12 total)
• Myconid Brute: Doesn't hit anyone
• Myconid Sprouts: Retreat

Round 4

• Cordybog Sovereign: Casts Fungal Swarm on Mistral & Quaxley, dealing 26 poison/poisoning anyone who fails a DC 15 Con save
• Mistral: Takes 13 poison damage from Fungal Swarm. Throws trident at Sovereign, dealing 5 piercing/5 necrotic/5 lightning (13 total w/ resistance). Amulet of Darkness deals 5 necrotic to Sovereign & 9 necrotic to the Brute & Adults. Flies farther away, getting out of the Fungal Swarm
• Quaxley: Takes 26 poison damage from Fungal Swarm and is poisoned. Flies 10 ft to the ground, then casts Raise Dead on the fallen brute & grants Bardic Inspiration to it. Shakes off the poison.
• Myconid Brutes: Friend brute deals 23 damage to enemy brute. 16 damage to the Friend Brute & kills him, then kills an adult
• Myconid Adult: Kills the last brute

Round 5

• Cordybog Sovereign: Pacyfing Spores on Quaxley & the adults. Adults are stunned, Quaxley resists.
• Mistral: Tridents the Sovereign 4 piercing/5 necrotic (7 damage w/ resistance), then 3 piercing/6 necrotic/5 lightning (12 damage w/resistance), 2 piercing w/ pullout game. 21 damage total. No longer resistant to piercing damage.
• Quaxley: Casts 5th level Blight for 33 necrotic damage, bloodying the Sovereign.
• Myconid Adults: stunned

Round 6

• Cordybog Sovereign: Casts Blight on Quaxley for 38 necrotic damage, dropping him from the sky to 0 HP
• Mistral: Trident to the face, 2 piercing/4 necrotic/3 lightning/1 pull-out (10 damage), then 2 piercing /2 necrotic/2 pull-out (6 damage)
• Quaxley: Death Success

Round 7

• Cordybog Sovereign: Kills Quaxley and begins to eat him
• Mistral: Enraged with vengeance, 6 piercing/3 necrotic/3 pull-out (12 damage) with the trident straight through the head, killing him Gallagher-watermelon style. Flies down to mourn his lost companion.