First Adventure: The Hunt for The Night Thing

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Mother Hush

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Nov 9, 2022 4:40 pm
Mother Hush
You all walk into the hut, and you see that this hut is shaped like a ring, wrapping all the way around the tree. You see a hearth with a stone cauldron, a table with one chair, shelves with many different ingredients, small cages with small game, and dried vegetables hanging from the ceiling. There are a bunch of clay and wood and bone dishes scattered everywhere, most half-full with different unidentifiable substances.

There is a poorly taxidermized head of some creature that you have never seen before, mounted on the wall like a hunting trophy, its mouth stitched shut and variously other stitches done jaggedly. Its eyes roll back and forth, following those who speak, and it blinks periodically.


"My dearies, bless your hearts for coming! I know you don't trust this old hag, but please bear with me.

"Share a secret with me, something that no one else knows but you, or you and one other person, and you can choose a potion or talisman."


She gestures to one of the shelves, where there are things hanging from it, or potion wineskins sitting on it.

"So, dearies, who will share first?"
Nov 9, 2022 7:51 pm
Wotan listened carefully to Mama Hush's terms and decided to play a trick.

"I was fed my younger brothers in this very household for the promise of godhood. The promise was a deception, I will kill everyone responsible for that deception before I rest."
Nov 10, 2022 6:36 pm
Lilla's mouth twisted in disgust, her apprehension about Mother Hush momentarily forgotten.

"Did you say 'fed'?" she said, incredulously. "Is that a metaphor, I hope? That's vile."
Nov 10, 2022 7:27 pm
Bracus stands there taking in all that he hears with less than happy face, but is taking no action at the moment one way or another.
Nov 10, 2022 9:24 pm
"I did not know it at the time. But as I drank from the well of knowledge I knew. It is why I gouged out my own eye." There was no way he could have known as Mother Hush kept it a secret. "But I espied that loathsome trickster. And I heard his promise to you, Mother. And here we are damned fools."

Wotan pulled from the wall a Talisman holding the Fiend to its word. "Goodbye Mother." Wotan said as he left the house.
Nov 14, 2022 7:48 pm
Stekko listen to the happy skirmish between mother and son, trying to hide the disgust when part of Wotan's past is revealed. <I like this game> he answers to Mother Hush, <and I like secrets... uhm... let me think...> he scratches his nose while thinking, <In my village, everyone fears my one-eyed friend here, but I meet with him sometimes, and we play tricks on my people... if they knew this, they wouldn't be happy at all... but his presence and actions are a necessity for the thriving of the clan, even if they cannot realize it>. Then Stekko pauses, looks at Mother Hush, and adds: <Now it's your turn... share a secret with this old dwarf, what do your talismans do?>.
Nov 14, 2022 8:24 pm
Unlike some of the others Bracus has nothing he cares to share with a Night Hag. He forges the option and only waits for the others to complete to leave.
Nov 17, 2022 11:09 am
The ascetic merely shakes her head at the ongoing game, having thought deeply about the matter. She waits for Stekko's turn to be finished.

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