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-====== Campaign X, Season 4, Episode 1 ======
-===== Ettercaps =====
-**Location:**  the Laekenala Jungles of Halganath
-**Date:** Trilan 12th of 1333 Avard
-**Characters:**  [[gaeleth:people:Ghorza]], [[gaeleth:people:Urzoth]], [[gaeleth:people:Valanthe]], [[gaeleth:people:Karvana]]\\
-Valanthe was a member of the Queen's Own, along with her sprite partner Poppy.  The entirety of the Fey Wilds trembled fourteen years before whole forests were despoiled and destroyed.  None had ever seen undead treants, before, but the terrible woes of that time left haunting marks on all the Fey Wilds.  Clues to what happened were scant, and the undead beaten back at heavy costs.  A new clue, hwoever, had sent Valanthe into a thick maze of hedges where a broken trunk held new growth, but within the new growth was... something.  She touched it with her ironwood blade.
-Ghorza, [[gaeleth:divinities:Guardian]] Paladin of [[gaeleth:divinities:Barith]], half-orc raised by the her father among the [[gaeleth:places:Toomar Tribes]], had had a vision of terrible things to come.  Ghorza's sister, Urzoth, had been raised more by their mother's [[gaeleth:races:bog orcs]] in the Wuron Swamps.  Urzoth had become a fungal druid, following the more ancient teachings of [[gaeleth:divinities:Mazripos]].  Urzoth followed her elder sister wherever she went, supporting her in her own way.  Both half-orcs could feel an uneasiness in the natural order, perhaps a holdover of the [[gaeleth:history:War of the Undead]].
-Ghorza and Urzoth had been approached by Varsericsh, a dragonborn servant of Sordrunaskashast -- leader of the druids of the [[gaeleth:places:Dragon Nation]].  Sordrunaskashast had obtained a log written in a coded language of [[gaeleth:divinities:Nathel]]'s people.  The log detailed a strike force being sent to obtain the locations of [[gaeleth:history:Karatikan Alliance]] super weapons that could drain a forest of its primal energies and convert it into arcane power capable of leveling mountains.  The dragonborn Varsericsh asked Ghorza and Urzoth to investigate the location detailed in the log, and if possible, learn more.  They were told to look for a box of metal or stone that might have either Nathelian or Karatikan runes.  Such a sealed box was standard for both sides to contain secret information.
-The Karatikan Alliance of druids fell centuries ago in the aftermath of the [[gaeleth:history:Storm Wars]].  Once lush preserves fell into chaos, and the local druids did their best to maintain the natural order as best they could.  The ??? line of druids had maintained portions of the Laekenala Jungle since the fall.  The latest of that line was Karvana.  Much information had been lost through the generations, and so she was thrilled to find an ancient treat, so large that he could barely move and so old that he remembered the time from before the Storm Wars.  Unfortunately, he was so old that his memory was jumbled and speaking with him was difficult.  He was worried, however, about an ancient terror.  Something from the Storm War was stirring, and the elder treant wanted Karvana to investigate before it was too late.
-Valanthe literally fell out of the sky as Karvana observed Ghorza and Urzoth.  The four women -- two half-orcs, one eladrin, and one human -- did not all speak a common language, together.  Karvana and Urzoth spoke the druidic tongue, Urzoth and Ghorza spoke the orcish tongue, Ghorza and Karvana spoke the common traders' tongue, and Valanthe and Karvana spoke the elven tongue.  All were cautious of the others, worried that they were perhaps after the same evils in all the wrong ways.
-A set of ruins nearby told of something ancient.  The ruins were partially submerged by a tributary of the Dreneb River, and the only entrance above ground was surrounded by the webbing of giant spiders.  All three worried that the answers they sought, lay within the web-encrusted ruins that wound into the canopied hill nearby.
-Urzoth managed to make friends with one of the giant spiders, her druidic bond to living things strong enough for her to communicate with one aspect of the colony.  Unfortunately, something stronger was in control of the colony:  ettercaps.  The ettercaps and //all// of of the spiders of the colony came out of the ruins to show the intruders their strength, before retreating.
-Valenthe knew ettercaps.  They were one of her mortal enemies, enemies of the Fey Wilds and the Courts.
-====== Behind the Scenes ======
-**Date:**  NOV2020
-**DM's Notes:**  This is an odd campaign, in that there's a unified theme among all the characters -- the theme of nature, and feminism.  Everyone is having to figure out new companions, new ways of looking at spells, and new ideas on how to work together.  This led to some time overflow, so we had to halt the session after just two turns.  I do like how the group functions, especially in a first session where they're learning one another and still somewhat distrustful of one another's motives.  I look forward to seeing where this group of girls goes.
-**Reference:** [[gaeleth:campaigns:campaign X:Campaign X]]\\
-**Previous Episode:** [[gaeleth:campaigns:campaign_x:Xs4e0]]\\
-**Next Episode:** [[gaeleth:campaigns:campaign_x:Xs4e2]]\\
-==== Saige (Valanthe) ====
-No comment.
-==== Michael (Karvana) ====
-No comment.
-==== Sualy (Ghorza) ====
-No comment.
-==== Caileb (Urzoth) ====
-No comment.
-===== Visitor Comments =====
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