🌿 Striesara — Campaign Status

The Whitethorn Investigation · Current through Session 10 — The Cookie Pantry · Party Level 1
THE PARTY ARE STILL COOKIES. Trapped in Mama Sugah's jar-lined pantry, Toil & Trouble fought through two rooms of animated confections, shattered a jar to free Kessia, and buffed up at a cookie-decorating station. The pantry's labels are the real horror: they catalogue the party as "batches" in an experiment to bind them as familiars to a "keeper." Meanwhile the blight is still emptying the grape clusters, the witches are still blamed, and Renvar Ilthis remains at large.

Current Status

LocationThe Cookie Pantry — Mama Sugah's jar-lined dungeon
Party Level1 (Taliesin 2 — Paladin/Warlock multiclass)
ConditionStill transformed into cookies; buffed at the decorating station
Last Session10 — The Cookie Pantry
ArcWhitethorn Investigation
Next Session11 — onward past the wooden witch's-market model

Active Quests

The Whitethorn BlightVineyards emptying on the vine; witches blamed; the Duke wants answers.
Locate Renvar IlthisEscaped via Time Stop; owes answers for Perrin's stripped magic and more.
Help EmmerissEllowen's troubled son; possible Bloodletters involvement.
Completed: Find Perrin SlateveinHome alive; retired from adventuring; his magic is gone.

Session 10 Ledger

  • Kessia freed — found sealed in a jar; Thistle's Thunderwave shattered the glass
  • Two rooms cleared — a shelf of candy constructs, then a chocolate-river room of oar-wielding Oreos and a foil sphere
  • Mama Sugah manifested — surfaced from the chocolate to praise the party, then faded
  • Decorating station — the party coated themselves in buffs (icing, fondant, caramel, chocolate, pop rocks, rock candy)
  • Varyn as an owl — present in owl form (player away); coated in chocolate and rock candy
  • The batch labels — the party catalogued as familiar "batches": Marva a failure, Thistle "Batch 29"
  • Batch #2 — an empty jar noting "three marks across a shield, green scales" and "find a success"

Open Mysteries

  • The batch experiment — who is the "keeper," and why turn the party into familiars?
  • Batch #2's "three marks across a shield, green scales" — whose shield, and how does the pantry know it?
  • Why did Mama Sugah transform the party — and is she tied to the blight?
  • How did the sleep take even the elf?
  • What causes the Whitethorn blight — and who benefits from blaming the witches?
  • Renvar's escape — where does a man go mid–Time Stop?
  • Perrin's stripped magic — can it return? What did the chanting voices take?
  • The dark desiccated-hand creatures, more active at night on the southern road
  • The abandoned farmhouse — food left behind, nobody home
  • Lysander's family: seventh of eight children of the Duke; brother Rhys deceased
  • Raeve's estranged noble blood — House Vael'Aras of Talavas
  • Emmeriss and the Bloodletters · Kessia's investigation · the Ox Fountain

Recent Arc — Sessions 7 → 10

Session 7 — The party travels to Blackroot Hollow, fighting through a corrupted forest and into a cave that reeks of rotting fruit and hot iron. Inside they find Renvar's parasite laboratory and Perrin being tortured as Subject 25. After a brutal fight, Renvar casts Time Stop and escapes. The party recovers Perrin (alive but magically incapacitated), seizes the research notes and parasite specimens, finds the drained Cloak of the Archmage, and learns Subject 14 was likely Perigrine LeCroix.
Session 8 — The party returns Perrin to his family, where a master healer confirms he is inexplicably alive but stripped of all magic. After a recovery night, a grand breakfast, and goodbyes (Perrin retires from adventuring; Lady LeCroix learns of her husband's death; the Earl takes the evidence), the Duke of Whitethorn summons Lysander by name. Three weeks south, the party arrives in Lyre's home city to find its vineyards failing to an unexplained blight and its beloved witches being blamed.
Session 9 — While Lysander reunites with his father the Duke at the keep and pledges Toil & Trouble to the blight investigation, the rest of the party lingers at Mama Sugah's sweet cart — where the treats hide real magic and Marva gets high for the first time. An unnatural sleep takes everyone (even the elf), and the party wakes as gingerbread people on a cookie sheet, under attack from Mama Sugah's pastry army. The session ends mid-battle.
Session 10 — Still cookies, the party fights through Mama Sugah's jar-lined pantry: a shelf of candy constructs and a chocolate-river room of oar-wielding Oreos and a golden foil sphere. They shatter Kessia's jar to free her, and the jar labels reveal the transformation is a 'batch' experiment to bind subjects as familiars to a keeper (Marva a failure, Thistle 'Batch 29,' an empty 'Batch #2' citing three marks across a shield and green scales). Mama Sugah manifests from the chocolate to praise them, and the party buffs up at a cookie-decorating station.