November 2024

Treehom Festival Challenge

The rats in the room are dead. Rowan goes back to the ship to tell the crew and Cotton asks him to find rocks for Phil on his way back.

There are two paths ahead. Down one the party hears squeaks and the other path is quiet. Cotton shoots his pistol down one path into the wall to draw whatever is squeaking out into the open. The party finds the tunnel goes to a darkened room. They find a ladder that goes to the ceiling, a large chute in the ceiling and a large greasy old wooden door bound with iron. The party considers what tracks they can find. Most track go toward the right. To the right there is a sharp downward slope. As the party makes it down the slope, they find a snaking, curve-back path. They encounter some rats with and without armor as well as an elf. Combat is entered. During combat, poison goo is released down the curve-back path. The party is able to mostly avoid the goo. Once the party makes it to the top of the path, they find Milphio whom now looks much like a rat, and a missing person in one of the cells that have been built here. At the top is a pool with the poison goo in it. The poison pool gets hit with fire and alights.

The tunnel from the poison pool room goes to an altar in a room. There is a rat shaman there with incense in a censer.

Booyagh's death has worn on Cotton significantly. Cotton sees and hears Booyagh as his own personal phantom.