This report covers session nine of a Dolmenwood campaign refereed by the fantastic inner_blaze. Read the previous session report here. Spoilers abound. Some details may have been lost in translation.
Characters
- Brom Tolmen, 2nd level human knight (played by yours truly)
- Impudence-Hath-Victory, or “Ivy,” 2nd level elf enchanter
- Kitty Pouncemouse, 2nd level grimalkin magician
- Kungus Cobwallop, 2nd level woodgrue enchanter
- Marib Twiggler, 2nd level mossling friar
Mushrooms & Matrimony
The party took in the scene: a frozen lake within a wintry glade, snow gently falling. A tower of ice with a cherry wood door stood at the center of the lake. A trail of bootprints larger than those of a human led between the tower and the woods. A purple rift in the sky expelled sticky purple drips. Moss-covered corpses lay in a heap just beyond the treeline. The corpses included goblin and woodgrue bodies. Moss grew from their wounds, which Marib recognized as the sort of injuries a troll would cause.
Ivy knocked upon the tower door, which opened immediately. A blue goblin with yellow eyes like saucers greeted the party from a palanquin atop the back of a rotund, hairless troll. The goblin wore a fine velvet suit in contrast with the troll’s filthy rags.
Griddlegrin (the goblin) asked if the party was on “the list.” Ivy said they had a delivery for Princess Snowfall-At-Dusk. Brom said he could not know whether he was on the list until he’d seen it. Ivy said they suspected Sir Chyde had added their names to the list. The mention of Sir Chyde took Griddlegrin aback. Once he’d collected himself, he confirmed the party members were not on the list. He offered to permit them entry if they each ate a mushroom.
Everyone obliged. Brom and Marib felt heartier as a result, while Ivy, Kitty, and Kungus weren’t so lucky. Kitty’s skin turned purple, all of Ivy’s hair grew ten feet long, and Kungus began vomiting worms.
The party made their way through an entry chamber and a kitchen, then upstairs to an ornate dining room. Six frost elf guards lined the walls, and seven other frost elves clad in silk and lace sat at a banquet table laden with swans, fruit, ice-colored wine, and many other delicacies.
Brom learned from one of the guests of an old fairy, the Duke Who Cherishes Dreams and that House Guillefer had a connection to fairy. When Brom mentioned that he was in the service of Sir Chyde, the frost elves’ bored malaise gave way to rapt attention. One among them, Lady Never-Be-Borrowed, urged the party to continue upstairs if Brom spoke the truth, “So that the wedding can commence.”
The guards escorted the party upstairs into a lavish bedchamber. There, they met Princess Snowfall-At-Dusk, a beautiful frost elf woman with a star upon her brow. Ivy conversed with the princess and explained the party’s purpose for visiting. They then gave Princess Snowfall-At-Dusk Sir Chyde’s ring. Sir Chyde appeared, and his form grew more substantial when the princess placed his ring on her finger. The couple wept and embraced.
Princess Snowfall-At-Dusk announced that it would soon be time for the wedding. First, she thanked each member of the party in turn and offered them a handsome reward:
- 30 ice jewels
- A dozen necklaces of fairy silver
- A sapphire set in a platinum brooch
- A fairy silver amulet in the shape of a bowing knight that would grant one wish
- A promise that if any member of the party were to meet death, she could return them to life—once only.
She cautioned the party that “wishes are fickle things” and that their wording should be precise. Brom asked permission to name a future town after the princess, and Snowfall-At-Dusk assented to the request. Finally, she offered her friendship and said she would be glad to collaborate with the party.
A wedding ceremony took place in the banquet hall. The couple were showered with rose petals, and Sir Chyde vowed to share eternity with the princess, even if only in his somewhat spectral form. A jubilant party followed the ceremony, and Kungus made merry with his ocarina. Everyone partook of the wine, and Brom flirted with Lady Never-Be-Borrowed. He invited her to the not-yet-existing town of Snowfall-At-Dusk in “a couple of decades.”
The party departed the next morning, dyeing their weapons and armor in the purple slime from the sky rift on their way back to the mortal realm. They collected the amethyst bracelets and portrait from the tomb of Sir Chyde and made their way to the barrow’s exit. They found Selenia, Dogoode, Fern, and Lucia barricaded in the entry room. The party learned that Selenia and the animals had survived an attack by an insect swarm—and that six days had passed in the mortal realm…
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