Previously:

The game ended with the party having defeated all the Bugbears and Shambling Mounds.  The party is all pretty healthy.  Jeremy has taken a great deal of damage during the encounter with the Shambling Mounds.  We have not searched the shack or the surrounding areas.

Currently:

We take time to search the shed for anything important.  Jeremy scanned the tools and the shed with Detect Magic.  After searching the Bugbears we found only 72 gold pieces.  After searching we turn to survey the land.

About 250 feet to the east there is an elevated garden.  About 300 feet to the southwest is another elevated garden.  The gardens are only about 3 to 5 feet elevated.

• We choose the nearest one to the east
• Beeker is like a toddler trying to climb onto a parents

After taking time to examine the garden I am able to determine the garden and the trees are magically enhanced.  The garden patch that contains the herbs is also magically enhanced and growing rapidly.

• There is a strange black moss growing on the trees
• The herb that is growing is a mutated form of Ragweed
• It is not really that harmful but it is annoying

There is really nothing interesting on the first plateu.  We head to the next plateu.  This platue has a majority of poppys the size of sunflowers.  The poppys are about eitght feet tall.  There is also a tree that support support coconuts.  There is the unnatural scent of decay.  There is a great deal of guano on the ground.  As we are exploring we are attacked.

• These are tiny creatures that look like birds and mosquito’s crossed.
• Beeker:  Casts sleep and nails several
• Evil:  they are attacking Beeker
• One manages to attack and attach to me
• Jeremy:  He uses his Flurry to smash one of the creatures on Beeker
• He then kills another creature around him.
• Tolan:  I try to hit is twice and miss both times.
• I manage to hit Magellon with the second hit.

• Beeker:  The Stirge flies away bloated.
• Evil:  Three more attack me and only two attach to me.
• Now three are attached to me
• Jeremy:  He attacks and kills two
• Tolan:  I manage to miss both hits
• Magellan manages to sting on and put it so sleep

• Beeker:  He uses a Coup-de-grace and annialates one of the creatures
• Evil:  Two continue to suck on me
• Jeremy:  He attacks the creatures on me
• He hits it and manages to kill it
• Tolan:  I can’t get to the fleeing Stirges but I send Magellan after one of the fleeing
• It kills the fleeing creature with extreme prejudice
• I also take time to do a flaming smash on the sleeping Strirgis.

After the battle we notice that the poppy’s are moving away from us.  They are trying to move away from the battle.  They have pulled up their roots and they are moving at a rate of five feet per round.

• Jeremy grabs the nearest Poppy and stops its movement.  The plant is not struggling.
• He takes time to break the stalk
• The other plants are still moving away
• The plants come back as we move away

After the plants move away we spot four gems in the ground.  They are all identical and they are not radiating magic.  The gems are Banded Agates. 

The only other plant in this area is the coconut tree.  Beeker searches the coconut tree.  There are only 15 coconuts on this tree.  After close examination I am able to determine that this type of coconut does not belong in this region but other that than the location it is normal.

As we continue to explore the cavern we encounter a grove of trees in the center of the cavern.  The trees in this area are about 100 feet tall.  There are also four smaller broken trees.  In the center of the grove there is a larger oak tree 150 feet tall.  Hanging from the branches about 20 feet up are the bodies of two men.

• I send Magellan into the trees to spot anything
• She does not see anything

We are attacked once we enter the grove of trees.  An earth elemental attacks us.  It is large sized.

• Jeremy:  he uses Flurry of Blows and hits every time
• Beeker:  Takes five feet back and casts Mirror Image
• Evil:  attacks Jeremy and deals damage
• Tolan:  I cast Wind Armor on myself and move closer

• Jeremy:  He uses Flurry on the elemental
• Beeker:  Cast Snake’s Swiftness on Jeremy
• Evil:  It attacks Jeremy and hits him
• Tolan:  I use a scroll of Shilleillagih on my club

• Jeremy:  attacks and hits
• Beeker:  He moves closer to Jeremy and tags him with a healing wand
• He manages to cure Jeremy for 19 points of damage
• Evil:  It attacks Beeker and does not hit the real creature
• Tolan:  I move closer and miss with my attack

• Jeremy:  uses his Flurry but does not kill him
• Beeker:  He heals Jeremy with his wands
• Evil:  It attacks Jeremy and misses all times
• Tolan:  I manage to only hit once

• Jeremy:  He is the death blow for this elemental

Jeremy tries to touch the tree to climb it.  As he touches it he is almost stricken by a Constitution drain.  It is almost like the tree is trying to drain the life from him. 

We take the time to retrieve the Staff of Plant Bane.  Jeremy is the one to wield the weapon.  The tree is appears to be mutated by something.  The only oddity in this area is the purple glow.

I Wild Shape into a bird so that I can take a look at the purple glowing crystals.  After reporting to the group we devise a plan.  I Wild Shape into a Rhinoceros and then Beeker cast Spider Climb on me and I walk up the walls.  The plan is to destroy the crystals.  The goal is to destroy the crystal in the center first.

I destroy the first set of crystals and determine that they are actually embedded in the stone ceiling.  Each crystal are about three inches into the rock.  There are a total of ten crystals in this particular set.  Each crystal has about 15 sdc.

On the 5th round of destruction the team makes a listen check.  The hear a rumble coemign from the south, away from the main entrance.  The team is near the main center tree trying to recover crystals that are falling from the ceiling.

• Beeker uses his wand and casts Mirror Image on both himself and Jeremy
• Then he casts Enlarge on Jeremy

A Treant covered in purple paint and carrying a scycle come running at the party.  He tells them that they are going to worship at his feet.

• Jeremy:  He shouts and cast Holy Weapon on himself
• Tolan:  I cast Flaming Sphere on the Treant and deal only 3 points

• Jeremy:  uses flurry and misses all times
• Evil:  It attacks Jeremy with the scycle and only hits him with one hit
• It has destroyed three of the mirror images
• Beeker:  He is going to use Giant’s Wrath
• Tolan:  I cast Flame strike and deal massive damage

• Jeremy:  He fights Defensively and deals damage with is now Holy weapon
• Evil:  It Animates trees and calls to another tree near us
• It will take a full round to fully uproot the tree
• Beeker:  He uses the Wand on Jeremy again

• Jeremy:  He is extremely hurt but he does the Flurry again an only hits once
• Evil:  It strikes Jeremy only once but manages to hit the mirror image
• The Treant manages to damage several of the mirror images
• Jeremy also takes damage from the trample
• Beeker:  He casts Primal Force to change himself into a Medium Fire Elemental
• Tolan:  I use the Flaming Spehere for the fourth round and smash the seventh crystal.  There are a total of ten in this cluster. 

• Jeremy:  He is casing defensively a Cure Moderate Wounds
• Evil:  It take out two of the images and deals massive damage to Jeremy
• The other tree tries to smash the fire elemental
• Beeker:  He tries to attack and misses.  But any attack against him will also take fire damage
• Tolan:  I manage to deal fire damage and smash my eighth crystal
• This is the fifth round for Flaming Sphere

• Jeremy:  He burns another 3rd level slot to heal himself
• Evil:  He cast Protection from Energy
• The Bugbears provoke AOA from Jeremy and Beeker
• One of them is killed by Jeremy
• One of the Bugbears actually hit Beeker
• Beeker:  He is still in the fire Elemental Form but manages to cast Sleep on the Bugbears
• Three of them are asleep
• Tolan:  I manage to deal damage with the Flaming Sphere (6th round) and destroy the ninth crystal
• Magellon also manages to put one of the Bugbears to sleep

• Jeremy:  He attacks and deals damage
• Evil:  The scythe deals damage to Jeremy but the animated Treant misses hit attacks
• The Bugbears miss their attacks
• Beeker:  He cast Miser’s Envy on both the Sycle and one of the Bugbears
• The Bugbear that is enchanted to attack the Treant for the Scycle
• Tolan:  I direct the Flaming Sphere for the 7th round and destroy the 10th crystal
• There are no other Bugbears to put to sleep

• Jeremy:  He tries to flurry again and only deals moderate damage
• Evil:  He is protected partially by and elemental protectioin
• He Wild Shapes into an Eagle and tries to fly away
• Beeker:  He is wanting to cast Earth Bind to force the creature to the ground
• The creature makes it
• Tolan:  I cast Call Lightning Storm and hit the Fleeing Eagle/Treant
• I also redirect the Flaming Sphere to the remaining Treant

• Jeremy:  He manages to damage the Treant
• Evil:  It misses Jeremy with its attacks
• The Fleeing Eagle/Treant flies to the south
• Beeker:  Moves out of danger
• Tolan:  I cast my Call Lightening Storm and hit the Eagle/Treant for the second time before it moves out of range

At the end of the game the party is still in the cavern.  I have destroyed several crystals on the ceiling.  The rest of the party is on the ground trying to finish off the rest of the Bugbears.  I am going to try to take out as many crystals as I can before either my wild shape or the Spider Climb wears off.  Also, the rest of the party has decided to head to the surface and rest for a day to recover any lost spells.