=Song by Valkorian the Bard=
coming soon
=Where did you go=
Kael's mansion, Forest
=Who did you meet=
-Players- Nephr-Ka-Ra, Lu, Mary Jane, John Le Foque, Fumby & Spurt, Valkorian
-Non playable Character- Kael, Bonnie & kids (Clint, James & Austin)
-Enemies- Pumpkin Tree, Pumpkin Kids, Jack O Lantern and his steed
=What happened=
The group arrived in front of Kael's mansion because of his mission. Bonnie is here too with her kids, Clint, James, Austin for the Halloween event that's happening tonight. Lu asks the kids if they can teach him how to become a ghost and the kids cast a minor illusion of a ghost in front of the group, who were jump scared. Nephr then casts unseen servant, and it was even scarier than the illusion and the kids run and hide behind Bonnie. Kael then comes out of the mansion and explains the particulars of the pumpkins that he requires, the direction that the group needs to go is north east. He also tells them that they are allowed to attend the halloween event tonight as well.
The party walks for a few hours and the sun goes down, it is dark now. When they arrived to the destination that was pointed out, it is a forest area and there are indeed pumpkins lying around the floor. John goes up ahead and surveys the area, he sized up some of the pumpkins and determined the one with the biggest size. Nephr and him went up to it and Fumby shared his idea to cast the enlarge spell on the pumpkin to try to trick Kael but that probably won't work. Lu tried to hide in the bush nearby while holding Fumby's hand but he failed miserably. Back to John and Nephr, they are using a dagger to try to pry the big pumpkin from the earth and harvest it. Mary Jane is busy carving faces of Jack O Lanterns in the other pumpkins that were in her vicinity but she missed it, stabbing into the roots instead. Suddenly, the earth breaks apart and a monster emerges from the ground, the pumpkin shows it's head and now the group could see the body, standing 15 feet tall over them all. It roars into the dark forest night and suddenly all the other pumpkin heads emerge their hiding places. Total there were 10 small ones and 1 big one.
The fight begins. John uses his Bonaparte to blast some of the body off the big pumpkin tree. Nephr protects himself by casting mage armor and gives bardic inspiration to Mary Jane, and he summons a renegade spirit from the beyond. Mary Jane then casts a fire bolt and hits the pumpkin head. Valkorian uses dissonant whispers and scares the big scary pumpkin head away, inflicting the frightened condition on him as well. Fumby commands spurt to rend one of the smaller pumpkin heads and Lu follows it up with some punches, bashing the pumpkin back into the soil. The other small pumpkins close in on the group and they target Mary Jane but most of them missed. John keeps up the pressure by shooting the monsters around him and he manages to kill the big scary pumpkin tree. It shrieks and falls to the floor, the group feels the floor tremor around them. Two more big pumpkin heads rise up and they are very angry. Nephr and Val both use starry wisp and they take out a few of the smaller pumpkins. Spurt does a flyby attack on the big pumpkin head and hurts it. Lu continues punching and he defeats more small fry pumpkins, moving on to the big pumpkin tree. The horde closes in and they hurt John and Lu a little bit but they are both still going strong. As they are getting surrounded, Nephr cast shatter and the pumpkins exploded, covering Mary Jane from head to toe in pumpkin juice and flesh. She retaliates and transforms into her starry form and she uses her guiding bolt to do more damage to the big pumpkin head. Lu flurry of blows and he uses his fists to cut up more of the big pumpkin. The big pumpkin tree does a revenge strike and and slams the ground, injuring Lu and Valkorian in the process. Nephr and Valkorian tries to team up and fear the big scary pumpkin head but they both fail. Mary Jane uses her shillelagh to kill the small pumpkins around her, making more pumpkin juice. John takes aim and fells the big pumpkin tree. There was only one big pumpkin tree left, and Mary Jane shoots her guiding bolt at it and kills it where it stands. The rest of the small pumpkins scurry away.
The group looks around the forest area and Nephr and Lu managed to find some intact pumpkins nearby. They harvest 5 pumpkins to bring back. They head north where the pumpkins ran off to, most likely to their nest. They gave chase and arrived onto a trail filled with pumpkins, and right at the end of the trail there is a gigantic pumpkin house with lights inside. The small pumpkins ran inside it. As the group marches on, Lu examines the pumpkin lamps that are at the side and he left them alone. Mary Jane however, wanted to bring a souvenir home and she tries to grab one and it triggers all of the "lamps" to rise up and the group is going into battle again. They take out shortbows and try to shoot Nephr out of the sky. He hangs on to his broom of flying and they miss their shots. The rest surround Lu, Mary Jane and John and start slashing at them. They fight back, Mary Jane hits them on the head and John did some damage using his Bonaparte too. Valkorian finally takes out the pipes of haunting and he scares the crap out of the pumpkin guards. Fumby and Spurt finishes the job by killing one of the guards. Lu also punches another into the ground. As that happens, the sound of neighing of a horse can be heard and riding on top of it was a Jack o Lantern, the big boss has arrived. Nephr with quick reactions casts a shatter spell right at his location and does some big damage to both him and his minions. The pumpkin army rallies and tries to hit the group but because of the fear earlier from the pipes of haunting, they miss most of their attacks. The group sticks together to fend off their attacks and prepare to fight the Jack o Lantern. It is angered by what Valkorian did and it charges forward and knocks him down to the ground. He then hurls flame towards Nephr, who gets hit, but using his reaction, teleports Valkorian away from immediate danger - right into other pumpkin guards and he takes even more damage lol. John uses hail of thorns and manages to kill the steed of the Jack o Lantern. Valkorian stands up and gives mantle of inspiration to the group, allowing them to reposition themselves and also giving minor healing. Lu moves swiftly throughout the battlefield and he leaves a lot of dead pumpkins in his wake, he rushes towards the Jack o Lantern and he manages to twist the pumpkin off it's head. Just as well, because the head was an explosive bomb and it would have killed the whole group. Once the head lays in his hands, the group realizes that the pumpkin head fits the exact specifications that Kael wants. Fumby wants to bring the gigantic pumpkin back home but quickly realizes that it is an actual house and it can't be moved. They settle on looting the house instead. They found a magic silvered weapon within a chest which Valkorian receives. They finished their business there and headed back to Kael's mansion. Their total haul is 4 small pumpkins, 5 medium pumpkins and 1 huge pumpkin.
By the time they reach back, the mansion is already fully decorated in Halloween seasonal flair. They are also served a delicious dinner and the head of the Jack o Lantern was used as the centerpiece decoration. John tells Kael that the group almost died but Kael just swats him off. As they are eating, the doorbell rang, they went to go check it out. It was a bunch of kids that John recognized from a prior adventure. Kael is being generous for once in his life. Lastly, the group notices a chest at the top of the stairs, Mary Jane goes for it without hesitation and opens it. A ghost pops out and didn't manage to frighten Mary Jane, it was the prank by the kids! xD
The End.
Crimsoun
