The mystical chef has fingers on many pies that it appears to be. He chats a bit at the party and expresses some alarms to the notion that the Frost-Eant Dragon hybrid is wild and loose, which appears to be viewing as a significant event, but fails to get into detail.
He accepts the severed leader of the enormous leader as proof of completion and thanks the group for their efforts. The next agenda is an excursion that may be more challenging. Beyond Black Angel Woods there is a swamp. In the swamp there are retreats, rare retreats and steaming retreats. The hideaway has a crown. A rare crown, a witch's crown. The Witch's Crown is a well-known one, and the group is tasked with obtaining and returning items. All the other looting belongs to them. Armed with maps and presumed locations, they set out to approaching winter teeth. The suicide mission was not for the group's magical defense against life-threatening cold.
They make a peaceful journey around the northern part of the forest and find a path to the lake that marks the edge of the swamp. Steam swirls refer to the behavior of geysers in the area, and the group is invisible and jumps into the caldera. There, they are amazed and neutralized the conditions of bugbears and trolls, and perhaps guarding the entrance to the hideout.
The rare itself turns out to be a large sized hollow tree stump. The room is occupied by Spector, who asks to pull the card and pass on his property. The party is compliant. Specter does that and then attacks. The group is ready to betray and will defeat it within seconds.
They find a slab of obsidian that resembles a very magical door and a large stone “plug.” The stone hollow indicates that an exceptional sized snake fits there. The group rests at night and is attacked by the pastor's agents (remember? – Vega's missing fingers come back and haunt them) – Tricrops monsters that deal a lot of damage before being placed down. In fact, Desin is killed twice, but Sniffle's twisting magic of fate saves him on the first opportunity. He's fine in a few hours. After some long dithering, fortune telling, and lie skull consulting, the group enters one of the obsidian portals that send them to unknown locations. They bypass the trap and arrive in a room with a large mineral deposit that plunges through the end of the staff.
They release the staff and meat golems they kill. They push Medusas into the resident laboratory, pursuing strange experiments on breeding animals and humanoids. The party kills Medusa and continues. Eventually they find an exit back to the witch's stump. To smirk, the group enters the other portals hoping for another locale. Alas, “It's the same area, but they have to cross the entire area to enter from a different direction and get out.
The staff will insert it into the sticker at hand. The seal falls down, revealing a shaft of considerable depth, is made of stone engraved with rune letters, and maltered with lead. More debate leads to the group's descent through magical means. The statue is scrutinized, traps are detected, corridors are explored, almost everything is dead ends, traps, or both. Hmm.
Going down another stairs, they are led by a beautiful woman sleeping in a glass ffin, but the keen eyes of the disgusted gnome are visible through the illusion. A deadly night hug inside! Nevertheless, they explode the co – their shards fly through the air like so many angry hornets. HAG attacks with brass knuckle-backed punches and magical attacks.
She proves to be extremely resistant to damage, and the fight is a bit slow, but in the end she is cut down and the group realizes that this is not the final place for the crown they seek. But it's time to sleep, and they leave the well and reorganize with stumps.
They go, look around a little more, and eventually find another secret door they are open, revealing a large chamber that hums with force. A chipper woman of uncertain age is sitting. On either side of the throne made at the tree root there are cages. These cages have residents who are accurate replicas of party members. She welcomes the group and announces her excitement by finally meeting them!
