Chapter 10: The Green Lady

Scenario Text
You are advancing through the valley, where the path leads into a deep forest. Traveling in front of you in the path is a vegetation-covered carriage. A robed woman steps out of her carriage, accompanied by a deer with flower-covered fur and tree branch antlers, and raises a curled wooded rod. In the adjacent canyons, dozens of trees grow where scarred craters were. A few minutes upon entering the now expanded forest, you hear shrieks in the treetops above. One of the men accompanying the robed woman get snatched by a blurry, batlike humanoid figure. The woman sighs exasperatedly. She turns to you. Adventures, I presume. I am Hyra Callahan, and I am traveling along the road to the capital. Those wood growlers are bothering me, and I wish to get some rest in my carriage at the moment. Rid us of them and you will be rewarded. My familiar, Hutch, will be keeping watch, and will assist you if needed as long as he does not stray too far from me.

Blue flowers grow from the patches of earth her deer stepped on. Oh, and do take some saintgrove petals. Some of you look dreadfully injured. I’ll be inside, do not disturb me with trivialities.

What do you do?

Calen
Calen assisted Kate in her plan to lure wood growlers with noise and kill them. He killed three and received a Cockatrice Feather for his efforts.

Jack
Jack asked Ba'az about the nesting habits of wood growlers and discovered that they nest in a specific species of large tree that leans against cliffs and digs its roots into large rock formations to absorb mineral nutrients. He instructed Solomon and Jatin about this and told them to look for trees leaning against a cliff side. Jatin called his Chaos Horse and Solomon mounted it, accompanied by Michael's Void Crawler. They eradicated the wood growler nest and Michael, Solomon, and Jack were each given a Cockatrice Feather plant for their efforts and a Rose Lady between the three of them. Jack struck a deal with Jatin and Solomon to give up his stake to the Rose Lady.

Jatin
Jatin instructed Solomon to make use of the saintgrove petals grown by Hyra for healing purposes. He ingested a newly created Tonic of Recovery and rested after calling his Chaos Horse for Solomon to ride to the wood growler nest. Solomon was accompanied by the Void Crawler, and they found the nest with Jack's instruction. Upon reaching the nest, the Void Crawler began attacking the wood growlers, killing them with its tentacles, which prompted them to all attack it at once to defend their nest, upon which the Void Crawler set itself on fire, killing all of them. As a result of their participation in the extermination of the wood growler nest, he and Solomon received a Cockatrice Feather plant and bargained with Jack and Michael to obtain the Rose Lady Hyra Callahan produced as a reward.

Kate
Kate stole a knife from one of Hyra's men and used the knife to scrape off parts of each of their weapons in order to store them in her Collector's Pitcher. She then searched the woods for a fallen tree trunk she could store in her tool. Kate approached Hutch and implored them to follow her as she walked as far away from Hyra's carriage as Hutch was allowed. She then repeatedly hit her stolen club against a tree in order to make noise sufficient to attract the wood growlers without waking up Hyra, assisted by Calen, who she let in on her plan. This succeeded in attracting five wood growlers, two of which were killed by Hutch and three of which were killed by Calen. When Hyra woke up, Kate and Calen were informed that while their effort was admirable, the risks they took and the lesser amount of wood growlers they killed did not warrant her intended reward. Kate received a Cockatrice Feather plant for her effort.

Michael
Michael told his Void Crawler to accompany Solomon, who rode the Chaos Horse to find a wood growler nest. Upon finding it, the Void Crawler dismounted and killed a few wood growlers by skewering and strangling them with its tentacles. The wood growlers then all rushed towards the creature and the alchemist to defend their nest, upon which the Void Crawler emitted flames from its pores, burning all of the beasts upon contact along with their nest, eradicating them. Michael received a Cockatrice Feather plant from Hyra for his efforts, and struck a deal with Jatin to give him the true reward, the Rose Lady.

Nick
Nick rubbed some saintgrove on his wounds and rested to heal.

Nicole
Nicole helped Solomon prepare potions using the saintgrove petals and practiced knife fighting.

Ending
The wood growler nest has been entirely exterminated through the combined efforts of Jatin, Jack, Michael, and Solomon and Kate, Calen, and Hutch. After an hour, Hyra Callahan awakens slowly and leaves her carriage. Placing her hand on Hutch's head, she says "My familiar informs me that the nest of wood growlers has been eradicated. I am pleasantly surprised, adventurers. Although the extensive cooperation that seems to have occurred does complicate who gets my reward a bit." Five feather-like yellow plants grow out of the ground before her feet. "All of you who participated in the killing, take a Cockatrice Feather. This herb will grant the ingester the virility of a blooming adolescent for half a year. Will certainly fetch a high price on the market. For the three of you that actually exterminated the nest and did not make noise sufficient to risk waking me up," she points to Michael, Jack, and Solomon and plucks a rose from Hutch's fur that unfolds into the shape of a small woman, "This is a Rose Lady, a woodland sprite. Decide amongst yourselves who gets to keep it."