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--- game_systems:pathfinder:kingmaker:adventure_journal [2024/04/15 09:58] – Bryan Stephens
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 End of Book 5
+===== BOOK 6: SOUND OF A THOUSAND SCREAMS=====
+==== A Bloom of Evil ====
+|Game Date|4-14-2024|
+|Campaign Dates|Sarenith 6, 4719|
+=== It was a Clear Morning ===
+It has been slightly over a year since the liberation of Pitax. The clean up of corrupt nobles and functionaries took some months. The Kingdom’s stability suffered at times, with increased unrest in various areas, but after a year, things have settled out, and Pitax was able to enjoy its first Liberation Day last month. Alas, the Kingdom of Thylicia is about to fall under the greatest threat it has ever seen.
+The morning of Sarenith (June) the 6th breaks as a typical summer day. The heat of summer is still a few weeks away. The rains of the previous month have cleared, and the sky is a bright blue with high clouds without the heft to carry more rain, pushed along by a slight breeze. Aryan and Fyonia enjoyed a walk in the courtyard after breakfast.
+{{ :game_systems:pathfinder:kingmaker:monster:treant.jpg?350|}}
+The messages started to arrive to the Marshal, the Keeper of the Keys, and the General of the Kingdom. Between Levton and Coppertree all communication was lost with the watchtower. Immediately on that news is reports of a sudden giant forest. All three immediately teleport to the area, telling their respective agents to inform the others. Caleb arrives first and begins to probe the area using arcane eyes. The forest has upended and destroyed the highway and canal. Giant trees, plants, flowers and animals now abound. Inside, Caleb sees how some people are shot through with sudden plant growth, killing them where they stood, and he shudders.
+Miki arrives with Barry and several of her higher level agents. Barry departs to tell the King in Person. Miki is stunned with the First World energy flowing about in front of her. It is entrancing. Still, she orders her druids to shapeshift and enter into the forest to explore. During this, Grunder arrives and simply starts to hack his way inside the rough terrain. He emerges noting he can create a pathway, but he is not sure it will last more than a few hours. It is then that the King and Queen arrive in a flash of light. Seeing the destruction, and hearing that his covers a radius of 12 miles or so, Ayrn is angered and appalled. Hearing Miki express amazement at the horror before them, the King grabs his friend and hauls her up to his face.
+//”How many dead!”// he shouts into the startled druid’s face, //”The farmers! The fishers! Your soldiers! How many are dead!”//
+Ayrn’s companions are stunned at the display. Miki nods her head and apologizes as Ayrn sets her down. He orders them into the chaos, Grunder in the lead cutting their way through, with Miki behind trying to sense her way to the core of this event, where the First World has spilt into this one.
+Following what was once the highway, they group rescues two merchants from a wagon amid the bodies of their fellow travelers. Plants with more movement and appetite than is common have killed many. Miki sends them back the path they have carved guarded by Flip. Aryn lends her Felix to ride. They continue on to the watchtower to find it in ruins.
+The mot and baily has been destroyed, an the tower lays crumbled. Both Marshal’s and Key’s men fight against ordinary cats now transformed to the size of cougars. The party jumps in to save them and offers them healing potions. Caleb goes to order his men to escape back down the path, but Aryn overrules him. He orders all remaining forces to move to the farms and fisheries to save any subjects they can. Not knowing the dangers of this wood, Ayrn cannot be sure they will even survive. There is a brief silence as the reality of that order sinks in, and then the watchtower’s commander salutes and leads his forces into the woods.
+One of Miki’s agents flies out of the woods as parrot and transforms, only to be pulled back into the forest by vines! Grunder leaps to the rescue and kills the giant fly-trap plant. He reports the extent of the damage and wide area of this strange forest and offers a direction they might try towards the north. Miki sends him out to join the rest of their forces.
+=== The Heart of the Bloom ===
+The group follows a game trail into an open area with a great tree. Miki proposes to //speak with plants//, and Ayrn agrees, but instructs the group to prepare for combat. This includes various spells cast and items readied. Miki approaches the tree to cast her spell, but suddenly, roots emerge and swipe at the group. Miki and Caleb are struck and knocked several feet backwards. It appears a fight is on.
+Ayrn, his eyes flashing, charges across the difficult terrain with ease, plunging //Briar// into the monster before them. As he approaches, a dryad with vine-like tentacles with thorns steps from the tree. Fyonia pulls out her //broomstick// and takes to the air in what would end up being a futile effort to avoid future root attacks. Miki decides fire is the way to fight a forest and becomes a huge fire elemental and starts to //call lightening// down. Caleb //enervates// the tree. Finally, Grunder charges towards the targets.
+The dryad uses her bow to attack Caleb, wounding him while the tree moves, striking Miki and catching on fire, while grabbing Caleb with roots. Caleb cannot move, but resists being pulled away as the tree //blinks// into ethereal space. Lacking a target, Aryn and Grunder lay into the dryad, slashing at her immense form. Fyonia launches //magic missiles// into the ethereal tree, her permanent //detect invisibility// letting her see that foe. The Tree responds by grabbing both casters, its roots reaching well into the air. Again it tries to haul them away to its own pocket and fails.
+{{:game_systems:pathfinder:kingmaker:monster:dryad.jpg?350 |}}
+The fight rages on until the dryad falls, with the tree moving along another plane, always trying to grab Caleb. Fyonia, once free, turns herself invisible to then unleash a mighty //fireball// as the tree reabsorbs the body of its dryad. Unlike the dyrad, the tree is quite evil, and Grunder activates his //smite// for himself and Aryn to focus on the tree. But the monster blinks away again, while ordering two trees to uproot themselves. Miki sets on fire and Caleb responds with bouncing rays of fire, both at the animated trees and their larger foe. Fyonia uses //dimensional anchor// to keep the tree affixed on this plane of existence, letting Ayrn and Grunder charge forward. The allies the tree created explode in fire that rebounds on their creator. Between more chopping, fueled by holy might, and the roar of fire, the great animated tree explodes in a burst of primal First World Energy, knocking several of them back. Then there is the silence after a battle. There are no forest sounds, but the pop and crack of dying fires.
+Miki notes the first world energy is fading from the land and the excessive growth has stopped. Ayrn bows his head, his hopes that things might revert dashed. The body of the dryad, now normal sized and alive, lays in the ash of the great tree. Aryn has Fyonia cast //dimensional anchor// on her as well and demands Miki wake her up for interrogation. Again, Ayrn’s hopes are dashed, as this dryad seems to have no memory of what happened and cannot return any information. Stymied and frustrated, Ayrn shoves her at Miki and orders her to take charge of her.
+Caleb goes through the ash to find several items with unknown inscriptions upon them. They will take some study. It is now Miki and Caleb receive sendings that the Castle of Knives looks to be reappearing. Ayrn looks at the first world sword in his hand and it feels warm. He can sense a thirst for first world power, first world blood. That mirrors the King’s rage at the Fairy Queen who is attacking Thylicia and killing his people.
+Ayrn leads the group towards the farms to see if anyone has survived this horror. His thoughts are dark, and his normally smiling face is grim. Riding beside him, his love reaches out to pat his shoulders, which Aryn barley acknowledges. What is coming next?

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