Loose Threads:
Participants: Minitel-Rose Ainsworth, Durmakh, Aric Thremyrson, Luma Del Navanora
Locations: Giant Ant Nest
Full report: Minitel
Our heroes, Durmakh, brave and sturdy; Aric, magical and conflagical; Luma, cunning and swift; and Minitel, knowledgeable and musical, sought out the remnants of the vile, over-sized ants in their seat of power: the Nest from whence they spawned!
Their queen dead, our heroes were confident that they would need weather little resistance, in order to discover what had corrupted and embiggened the ants so. But they were wrong!
The ants still held fast to their mound of dirt. Soldiers guarding the door, workers collecting what detritus they could! But our brave four adventurers pushed through, and down into their nest, slaying what soldiers saw fit to stifle their progress. Inside, our group discovered the likely source of the corruption, an old oak tree, growing unnaturally bright (quite literally) and hearty despite the depths in which it had been sown.
Ever wise, Minitel knew that to approach the tree, in the center of the ants’ domain, would be foolhardy to the point of suicide. At least, without precaution. She quickly deduced that a quick slathering of remnants from the ants’ fallen brethren would deter the rest from attacking.
Returning to the surface, it was quickly found that even their own fallen served these dark, mutant ants as sustenance, forcing the intrepid band to draw out and slay a group of workers! Well saturated with the viscera of their now fallen foes, the team descended once more, to see what oddities this strange tree brought with it.
And, to the astonishment and fear of all, eggs! Dozens of them! Each truly massive! The ant colony would survive, to the detriment of all in First Landing! And what’s worse, a new queen, growing betwixt the surface roots of the subterranean tree! But! As the adventurers drew nearer, a whole hive’s activity ceased, every insectile attention upon the heroes! Fearing what this spotlight meant, the heroes beat a hasty retreat, recalling their way home to First Landing.
Maybe a little embellished, but it gets the point across.
- Minitel
Full report: Durmakh
Tacked up next to the previous report.
Durmakh the Unknown, Aric the Blue, Luma the Knife, and Minitel the Blind saw a job posting to look in an ant hive and see what was happening. They killed the soldiers guarding the nest and went in. They saw a weird tree underground but the ants wouldn't let them approach it, so they went all the way back to the surface, fought some more ants, and then came all the way back down. That let them see some eggs before they gave up. And there was a glowing plant.
Scrawled at the end.
They killed the extra ants for ant guts so the other ants would leave them alone.
Scrawled below that.
And the ants were kind of glowy.