Well That Was Fucking Gross

Session Date: May 2, 2020

Several weeks passed uneventfully in Keras before we headed back to Spur Harbor for a simple mission. The job offered 100gp to investigate a disruption in the produce supply from a large local farm.

The first day travelling between Spur Harbor and the farm passed without incident. On the second day we came across a group of people standing in our path. We sent Hal to see if he could get a read on them before we let them know we were there. Hal reported that the circle of people were acting strangely and not moving, reacting or behaving at all as normal humanoids.

As a group, we approached the workers. When we got within about a hundred feet of them, Raktosh called out to them. One of the orcs turned to us. His movements were sickeningly unnatural. He was leaking blood from his face holes. He garbled something unintelligible, before the rest of the pack sprinted to attack us.

Two of them threw spears, arms included, attached by fleshy ropes. Xandria cast sound burst, disintegrating one of them into a cloud of bloody spray. We killed all of them, leaving only puddles of blood and viscera. There were no bones, only blood covered clothes and farm tools.

While investigating the corn, Raktosh shot an arrow at one of the ears. It exploded into a spray of blood. The stalks of the corn were metallic and repelled the arrows.

Xandria vaguely remembered a demon, or some other powerful ancient entity with power over, or some other connection to, blood and steel.

Searching through the blood pools revealed six slivers of steel, one on each of the farm hands. The metal slivers were magical. Raktosh determined that they had hints of evocation and enchantment magic.

We continued down the road until we came to a place where the corn had grown across it, barring our path. We attacked the corn and proceeded through. As we went, we noticed the corn regrowing behind us where we had just cut it down.

Raktosh panicked and bolted for where he thought the road resumed. Suddenly, the corn attacked him, hoisting him into the air. The corn attacked the rest of us, then pulled back into a circle as an enormous metallic bull charged in and gored Xandria. Remi retaliated by calling down a bolt of lightning and hurling elemental fire at the bull, badly damaging him. The bull dropped Remi, but Raktosh killed it before it could kill Remi.

We took the bull’s cold iron horns and made our way out of the cornfield, arriving at the farmstead.

We decided to check the farmhouse first, leaving the barn and silo for later.

We entered the house and found a middle-aged woman in the kitchen, baking cookies.

She tried to get us to eat the cookies, but Hal knocked them away, realizing they were not as they seemed, and apparently angering the “husband” of the baking lady. As we heard him coming down the stairs, the illusion inside the house faded, revealing the woman to be a ghost. We raced outside to fight them and managed to kill both.

During the course of the fight, Hal reentered the house to get around behind the big bad guy. As soon as the guy died, Hal heard voices below the stairs. He opened the door to reveal two girls, who rushed out to hug him.