City of Progress - Campaign Journal: Chapter 3.1 (Irate Tree Tantrum)

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At the table today were:

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Beable Bamford - Halfling siege mage and Golem Lord for Rab's Progress, and his trusty Golem "mouse" (carrying a ginormous cannon inside of it).
Galarend - Human Shining Knight Paladin and General of Rab's Progress' standing army. He is never far away from hits trusty steed "Bolba."
Bolba: A huge flying Triceratops decked out in spiked full-plate armor. (yes, it flies. I approved a permanency of a Fly spell in his case due to particular circumstances.)) By the way, he is totally sentient, has a sense of humor and can speak in a very low and slow voice.
Their tag-along NPC and follower of Galarend; Dungle, a Dwarf Fighter.
Lady Wisteria - Human verdant Sorcerer who is the Rab's Progress' herbalist and "tea-master." (In the front yard of her home stands the only tree in all of the city - a huge oak tree)

And then the party got loot. A giant fist sized alexandrite worth some stupid ridiculous amount of gold, was rolled for and Galarend won, promising to split the 200k with everyone evenly. Another mentionable item was the ring of regeneration which Lady Wisteria took, and a couple of Bone Razors that Galarend got Bolba to smash under his feet.
Taking the GK armor to the blacksmith, he dropped his smithing tools, before handling the armor as though he was exhausted from it and asked if they had anything they wanted to say. They didn't, but the blacksmith made a mention of finally getting to see his family again after 900 years and tossed the armor onto the coals. A gigantic explosion (which almost deafened everyone and did permanently deafen Dungle) erupted as the Forge was flung back into the Prime Material Plane. Upon emerging from the forge, they saw that for a mile around in all directions, trees were knocked over.
Lady Wisteria was not pleased about this.
So the players flew back to the expedition team encountering no trouble on the way, and were flagged down by Rogar and his crew. They were excited when they heard the explosion and came out bustling with questions – to which Galarend tried to quite them down. He went on to explain that Rogar’s theory was correct and the Prism Forge was on the Shadow Plane.
Rogar asked, “then what was the big explosion about?”
To which Lady Wisteria replies, grumbling, “It’s back.”
Immediately, Rogar calls behind him to get the excavation team up and ready. The engines of 30 giant excavation golems roar to life. Lady Wisteria goes livid.
Beable suggests that there might be a problem – there’s no way the Twisted Forest would like them to go into it – knocking down greenery after what just happened near the forge. Rogar presses his lips into a line and calls everyone behind him to shut off the machines. Beable begins to suggest that since they are going to be excavating, more people will travel and destroy trees and possibly get killed, maybe they could build a road through the forest – to which the Lady flat out rejects the idea and snarkily suggests building a road above the forest.
Wondering what to do, Lady Wisteria first talks to the trees about how they are doing. The tree she speaks to tells her that he misses his brothers – all two-hundred-fourty-six-thousand-four-hundred-and-thirty-three of them. Her next action was to go and consult the Duke.
She casts Transport via Plants on a nearby tree and pops out at her Oak tree in the City of Progress. She then follows with an unseen servant, delivering a message with two letters: one to Jeffery (the duke’s butler) telling him to take the letter to the duke, and the one for the duke himself. Which read something to the effect of:

Prism Forge found. Awaiting instructions at my shop. – Signed Lady Wisteria, Tea Master.

Minutes later, the Duke knocks on her door and comes in. She gets the unseen servant to make tea, and mage hand’s the chair out for him.

Together they discuss the problem – which the duke mentions, traveling on foot and helping with the excavation team (escorting them through the forest, and assisting once they’re there) dig by hand.
She agrees, but before departing, the Duke requests 100 pounds of one of her teas when she comes back – for a large party he will be holding. Also not to mention that his servants love her tea, he adds with a smile. She agrees and travels back to the edge of the Twisted Forest with the news.
She returns to find the group burning through healing spells and resources to clean themselves up and she tells them. Rogar wasn’t happy about having to leave his golems, but they would do so for the Duke.

And that’s where we left off. The next game should pick up in a week. See you guys then!

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