Twenty-fifth Session (12 page pdf) – “Brimstone Falls” – After leaving the somewhat-relieved Whitebridge Station and its casual racism, the PCs search for fuel for the River Queen, leading them into both toil and trouble in the depths of the jungle.
Anyway, the party has to go get some tumors off a shambling mound to power their magical riverboat. And in a cool twist, the adventure has some lizardfolk “come to pay homage to the loa spirits” that have statues along the path and they are “none too please to find strangers (especially “softskins”) at this sacred place, and don’t hesitate to attack.”
But the party, having a wendo goddess sponsor themselves, left an offering at each loa statue on the way up, and when they also parley with Serpent’s “serpent shaman” parseltongue trick, that’s enough to chill them out. I really, really like rewarding interacting with the fictional world and not just moving from “combat” to “combat”, that is so lame.
And (almost) just like that, they have a captive shambling mound!
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