What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Three

With Orion off work this week, we were all finally able to get together for another game of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows. 

Our adventure begins where the previous episode left off - in Ghyran, the Realm of Life. Having just murdered three Dryads the woods around them came alive with activity! 

Lloyd, the abducted guard from the village they were forcing to guide them to the realm gate, screamed and ran off into the woods... only to get chopped in half by a Kurnothi Hunter with a great sword. 

Harold, the Spirit Torment, attacked the Kurnoth Hunter that chopped poor Lloyd in two... 

At the back of the caravan, Sir Remould was horrified to see a bunch of vine like roots rise up from the ground, twist around a half-dozen of the Deadwalkers Zombies they were using as porters, and then drag them down into the earth. A number of similar vines rose up and trapped Sir Renmould, luckily he was made of sterner stuff than the shambling zombies! 

A Branchwych tried to conjure up a storm of brambles that would have just shredded almost all of the remaining Deathrattle Skeletons and Deadwalker Zombies... but Lady Esmerelda was able to unbind the Branchwych's spell before it did any real damage! 

Another trio of Dryads attacked Sir Raven, seeking vengeance for their sisters he'd just killed... instead Sir Raven chopped them to bits with his insanely sharp and sturdy sword... 

Sir Raven then chaged off into the woods after the Spirit Torment to engage the Kurnoth Hunter - upon skewering on on the end of his lance (and getting it well and truly stuck on there!), he realized there were MORE Kurnoth Hunters here, who started taking shots on Sir Raven and Harold with their mighty great bows! 

A group of absolutely savage Spite-Revenants appeared out of the undergrowth and completely shredded the rest of the skeletons and zombies. They also killed poor Nuillermo... 

and set Muillermo to flight! 

He did not make it far before an absurdly huge arrow from a Kurnoth Hunter's great bow struck him in the neck, taking his head clean off. Blood geysered out of his neck due to the extremely high blood-pressure Muillermo was experiencing at the moment of his demise... 

Having dealt with the minions... the Spite-Revenants spread out to attack the surviving members of the party. Luckily, Sir Renmould had just freed himself from the entangling roots of the Tree Lord. 

The Tree Lord moved to attack Sir Raven, who seemed the biggest threat - just as Sir Raven was cutting down the last of the Kurnoth Hunters... 

The Tree Lord destroyed Sir Raven's mount in the same manner as all the zombies! Roots rose up from the jungle floor and entwined themselves up around the mounts legs and into it's rib cage... and then tried to yank it all down into the ground. 

One minute Sir Raven was on his mount... then next he was standing on the ground amongst a pile of broken horse parts, feeling not a little bewildered and disoriented! 

Sir Raven also cut down a Spite-Revenant that moved into his way... 

Two of the Spite-Revenants attacked Lady Esmerelda, giving the Branchwych a chance to get away! They ended up in a protracted fight which ended with Lady Esmerelda finally managed to set one alight with a series of Arcane Bolts! 

Sir Renmould was also engaged in a desperate duel with two of the Spite-Revenants and eventually cut one of them down, then the other fled off into the dense underbrush! 

Sir Raven and the Harold the Spirit Torment went a few rounds with the Tree Lord. The Spire Revenant was injured somewhat in the encounter. Sir Raven was gravely injured... 

Then, as suddenly as they'd attacked, the forest spirits disappeared into the woods and left the party along amongst the shattered remains of their servants... 

Unburdened by the painfully slow skeletons and zombies (and the few mortals that kept needing "rest") they made much better time! Though they were harried by the Sylvaneth all the way to the edge of the woods... 

After a day or two they DID make it to the edge of the woods... and beyond that was the most rank and foetid marshland they'd ever encountered. Harold and Sir Renmould seemed unaffected by it, but the two Vampires were deeply disgusted by miasma of decay and decomposition that hung over the place - not to mention the endless clouds of disgusting flies that swarmed them getting into every exposed orifice; eyes, nose, ears, mouth, puncture wounds from the Tree Lords massive impaling talons...  

Into the marsh they strode, however, because it was in the middle of these that they would find the Realmgate back to Shyish, the Realm of Death... 

Stay tuned for Episode Four... in three weeks...!