Episode 9: Reidoth the Druid

Episode 9: Reidoth the Druid
30 Elesias 1481 DR

After defeating a few zombies and twig blights, the Jug or Naughts probed their way south into a pair of ruined cottages. They were ambushed by a half dozen more twig blights, but defeated them easily. Suspicious of all growing things, the party voted for Madislaka to check the trees, which she did, chopping a large chunk out of one, the sound echoing across the silent town. As they exited the ruined cottages, Mulan spotted a rather sturdy-looking building.

Then, for some reason, our heroes stood in the quiet streets of Thundertree and argued loudly amongst themselves about something. Things got a bit heated between Madislaka and Bobby (PewWee theorized that they were flirting), and Bobby began to cast a ray of frost at her. Mulan pulled him away and he missed, instead firing the bolt of ice directly in the face of a white-bearded man who had just poked his head around the door of the sturdy building to shush the group.

The face disappeared and they all heard a thud of a body hitting the ground. After a moment of indecision they rushed forward into the buiding just in time to see nothing but a very large gray squirrel whisk out a window. PewWee vaulted neatly out the opening to follow it but lost it in the trees southwest of Thundertree.

They convened again for a bit and decided that Bobby should stay behind in the druid's abode (for the old-man-turned-gray squirrel was indeed Reidoth) and keep an eye out in case he should come back. The rest pressed across the street to the ruins of a farmhouse, where they encountered another group of twig blights. A few axe-slips later, the blights were scattered across the ruined floor and the nearest thicket lay brown and dead from a mistouch by Eldeth.

Bruised and weary, the group (still without Bobby) decided to retreat back to the building at the north end of town, which was the Thundertree tavern once upon a time. After a bit of recuperation, they crept back toward the center of town. The druid, it seemed, had not returned, and Bobby rejoined the party. At an intersection near the middle of the village, a narrow lane lay stretched across with webs - webs such as might have been made by a very large spider. On catching sight of the webs, PewWee screamed and bolted back up the road, leaving the rest of the Jug or Naughts to forge ahead…