Ep 1104: The party goes off in search of a green Dragon

When last we left our band of heroes we had gotten all of the information we could out of the traitor at the wood elf village.

We briefly discussed what to do and decided to head out immediately even though it was late in the day and get as far as we could tonight, camp, then continue on to the dragon's lair in the morning.

Leovan the ranger and Tsedek the rogue are leading the way, Itanis the wizard is safely in the middle, and Magnus the paladin is bringing up the rear. Very important to note: Elle the wizard rides backwards on Magnus' massive war horse so we have eyes on the skies/road behind us. Also, Magnus isn't the brightest soul with a 7 intelligence. This all becomes relevant in a bit.

Towards the time we were going to camp for the night we suddenly hear the sound of a tree falling in the woods ... and then a lady's voice calling out help me help me. Leovan, Tsedek, and Itanis blend into the woods to proceed cautiously towards the sound. Magnus, hearing a damsel in distress, proceeds directly with haste towards the sound. So, of course, Elle is doing that too 'cause she's on his horse.

Sigh

We arrive to find a wood elf lady pinned under a tree and not an obvious trap, thankfully.

Magnus then goes I'll help you, hops off the horse, and proceeds to try to lift the tree off of the wood elf lady. Paladin rescuing the damsel after all. Anyway, the tree doesn't budge. Elle goes hey shouldn't we use some rope and the war horse?

And that's when the rest show up. So, Itanis, being the other half of the chaos wizards, decides to mess with Magnus some. And it was funny. See, Itanis is an illusionist and he has some stored in a bag of holding. So he pulls out Magnus' twin, had it go over and also lift the tree, and then he used animate object to move the tree himself making it look like the twin was easily moving the tree himself.

This thoroughly baffled Magnus. And then the tree goes "Hey, put me down!" That did not help the confusion. At all.

Turns out the wood elf was a druid and the tree was awakened. For rescuing the damsel in distress, she gifted all 5 of us a garland of flowers that makes us invisible to animal spies and a bonus to resist frightful presence. Both handy when stalking a dragon.

We went ahead and camped for the night. The deal is when we camp for the night Elle puts up the cabin and the guys have to gather food. Paladin decided to cast "create food and drink". Its a good thing Elle travels with Dwarven Whiskey because that's some bland eating right there.

Next day we continue on our journey and it's relatively uneventful. Sort of. Till the spiderwebs started getting thick. Like jungle thick. Magnus, being the warrior he is, whips out his sword and goes to start hacking at the webs. Elle hollered, loudly, at Magnus because if he had swung at the webs he would have hit her too. So Itanis and Elle used flaming sphere to kinda blaze a path through the webs. After the second round of flaming spheres burned out, 3 Ettercaps and 8 giant spiders come out of the webs on us.

And that's where the session ended, one hour lunch after all.

Between Elle's stopping Magnus from smiting the traitor elf and the yelling at him to not swing his sword, plus Itanis messing with him with illusions, one of these days Magnus is going to get fed up with the wizards and start smiting us.