Humblewood Recap #1

 

Humblewood Recap #1 Sunday October 26, 2025 @ 12:00-5:00 P.M.

 

<<WARNING SPOILERS FOR THE HUMBLEWOOD CAMPAIGN: ADVENTURE IN THE WOOD! >>

 

CHARACTER BIOS

Player Name: Chessie

Character Name: Zivvy Blackfiddle

Nickname/Stage Name: Captain Crescendo

Race: Mapach (A racoon-like humanoid)

Class: Bard

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Background: Entertainer: Fiddler

Personality: She is a hopeless romantic who is always looking for her “someone”.

Ideals: She believes the world needs new ideas and bold action.  

Flaws: She has an inclination to find nobles to take to bed, a tendency that gets her in trouble.  

Desires: She is in search of the most epic violin of all time — “Oh yes, it will be mine!”

Character Appearance: She is a Mapach Bard who wears a Black Masquerade mask with a purple feather, plays a black fiddle, and wears black clothing surrounded by a black cloak lined with purple silk. Unusually she wears black gloves as a bard.

Character History: She was born in Alderheart. She was raised in the poorer parts of the city, the Underfall, the roots. She learned to play on a broken teapot and a cracked bow. Even worn-down items make their own music. Her signature musical piece is “Midnight Minuet”. A lullaby that goes into a fast storm of strings and an accompaniment of illusory butterflies. She came to Meadowfen to perform.

 

Player Name: Veronica

Character Name: Luna Ivory

Race: Stout Strig (An owl-like humanoid)

Class: Fighter

Alignment: Lawful Good

Background: Wind touched

Character Appearance: She has white feathers with yellow eyes and a gray beak. Her gray beak matches her metallic scale mail armor with tufts of white feathers coming out in sporadic patches where she is unarmored.

Character History: She escorted Zivvy, Lucien, and Quilliam to Meadowfen.

Player Name: Shaune

Character Name: Quilliam Pippin

Race: Hedge (A porcupine—like humanoid)

Class: Druid

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Background: Merchant

Character Appearance: He is a blue Hedge who dresses in merchant clothing that is also blue but with golden embroidery. His golden spines can be seen piercing through his hat and robe.

Character History: He came to Meadowfen to trade.

Player Name: Nick

Character Name: Lucien Hemlocke

Race: Vulpin (A foxlike humanoid)

Class: Rogue

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Background: Bandit Defector

Personality: He is quiet and mysterious.   

Character Appearance: He is a Vulpin who wears a black hood with holes for his ears and black clothing.

Character History: No one knows why he has come to Meadowfen.

PART 1: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS

    The group had just arrived in the town square of Meadowfen, when an injured Swift Strig woman appeared. Her tawny feathers were singed and she was covered in ash, soot, blood, and bruises. Quilliam used his herbalism kit to treat her wounds and then helped her to walk inside the village elder’s house.

    An elderly huden gallus (a chicken-like humanoid) introduced herself as Ardwyn, the elder of Meadowfen. The wounded Swift Strig introduced herself as Cara Stormsinger and then recounted the tale of her harrowing survival. The fires of the Scorched Grove had spread to the hillside town of Ashbarrow, razing it to the ground. Bandits were all along the road and she barely escaped with her life. With her message delivered, Cara fell asleep on the floor of the house.

     Ardwyn asked the group to deliver the message of Ashbarrow’s destruction to Alderheart. She didn’t have much to negotiate with but said she would refill Quilliam’s herbalism kit and give them enough food and water to travel to Winnowing Reach. They agreed to deliver the message.

      On the road, the group saw two male and one female Mapachs and a female Vulpin near a merchant’s cart. One of the male Mapachs was sifting through the cart and the other one standing above a body on the ground. The female Mapach was watching the road. The female Vulpin leaned up against a tree.

       Quilliam used stealth to sneak through the grass to get to the cart as cover. Zivvy tried to distract the Mapachs. Luna attempted to intimidate them into letting them pass. Lucien fired a warning shot at the female Vulpin. This seemed to anger the female Vulpin and Mapachs.

 

      Luna struck one of the Mapach bandits with a lunge from her rapier. A male and female Mapach bandits flanked Luna and the female struck her with her short sword. The last male Mapach bandit attacked Lucien but missed.

      Quilliam cast Shillelagh on his staff and used stealth to enter the south forest. Lucien struck the male Mapach bandit with his rapier. 

     Zivvy unbuckled the male’s Mapach’s pants and then put them up over his head, blinding him. The female Vulpin bandit fired a warning shot at Lucien with her short bow and then shot him with the second volley then she hid in the northern forest.

 

     Luna finished off the Mapach bandit with a thrust from her rapier. The female Mapach bandit struck her back with her short sword. The male Mapach bandit got his pants of his face and buckled his belt.

     Quilliam continued sneaking in the southern forest. Lucien used his sneak attack to stab the Mapach bandit in the stomach and he dropped.

     Zivvy jumped on the female Mapach bandit’s back and put her hands over her eyes. The female Vulpin bandit shot Lucien twice and he dropped looking like a pincushion. She hid in the northern forest.

 

     Luna dropped the last bandit with the butt of her pommel on the back of her head. She moved to the northern forest tree line.

     Quilliam continued using his stealth in the southern forest.

     Zivvy moved to the northern forest tree line. The female Vulpin bandit left the northern forest and saw her bandits defeated, so she started to flee in the northern forest.

 

    Luna climbed a tree.

    Quilliam dashed into the northern forest next to the female Vulpin bandit. Lucien bled out and was still.

    Zivvy dashed into the northern forest. Fray attempted to use Charm Person on Quilliam but it failed.

    Luna glided through the northern forest. She landed next to the female Vulpin bandit.

    Quilliam smacked her with his staff.

    Zivvy talked to the female Vulpin. She claimed to have done nothing, only ordering the Mapach bandits to steal from the merchant. Zivvy grabbed some bandages from Quilliam and went back to check out her story.

   

    Zivvy saw the merchant’s goods on the Mapachs and 5 gold pieces. She found Lucien dead, and she took his coin purse with 90 gold pieces and his lute. She bandaged up the Eluran (a cat-like humanoid) merchant. She told her that her name was Eliza and she was waylaid on her way towards Winnowing Reach. She said all her scattered goods were present.

    She came back and told the other two that the female Vulpin bandit’s story checked out. So, they let her go. She gave the other two 1 gold piece each that she found on the bandits.

 

     They went back to the merchant’s cart. Quilliam bandaged up Lucien’s body and they placed it into the bottom of Eliza’s cart. They gathered up Eliza’s goods and put them on top of the body. Luna grabbed the hand cart and carried it forward. The group headed towards Winnowing Reach in the east…

 

[End of session.]