Prologue: The Children's Journey

As you all finish breakfast and wash your dishes, you quickly get to your chores and you get done with all of your chores within an hour of feeding the chickens, goats, horses, pigs, cows and other animals, collecting milk and other things, watering the garden and more.

With the chores done, you all see the large foreboding doors of the underground storm cellar. Once you get inside, please give me a perception check Woody, Tink, and Ollie.

Tink as you all enter the room after walking down a flight of stone stairs, you see a table with a Deck of cards (33 in total) sitting in a velvet box to the left of you, and towards the back of the room is a sinister looking machine that has a table with chains, a long hose with a mask at the end of it connected to a large burlap sack that is currently empty and a wheel and gauge next to it. This is the machine that Grandmother Sophie used to extract people's fears and store them in the machine. As you can see , there is blue magical puddles all over the place from where the machine had regurgitated all the fears out of it making them real. The room has a torch sconce that had been magically lit but has yet to fade away.

There is also a large cauldron in the center of the room covered in the same magical blue substance that is all over the place.

Flora, you recognize it as the cauldron Baba Yaga had thrown you in and tried to cook you inside it.

Avoiding the Extractor machine for now, you all are about to move on to the next room when the giant cauldron that had been in the center of the room now blocks the way to the next room. Looking closely, you can now see a spooky face on it as it has instantly comes alive and tries to slam Woody inside of it with its lid.



Woody please give me a Strength Saving throw DC 18 as the Cauldron is going to attempt to grapple you if it hits you.

Running out of the cellar, Flora takes Woody to Grandmother Sophie.

"Grandmother Sophie, we need help! Woody got attacked in the cellar. Can you help?" She asked.

Grandmother Sophie nods. " Give him to me."

She quickly places a hand on Woody and casts cure wounds on him before saying "I shouldn't have let you go in there. You are not ready for what is in there. You all need training. Go rest and you will all start your training tomorrow. "

It is now 2 pm since you all went into the cellar only to retreat for now. What are you all doing for the rest of the day? @Basil,@Eyes,@Seck . Flora mentioned going to play in the woods or go swimming and Sunset isn't until 6:30 pm.