{"id":298,"date":"2014-04-14T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-04-14T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:25","slug":"dd-4e-barons-of-the-wild-session-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/dd-4e-barons-of-the-wild-session-8\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#038;D 4e: Barons of the Wild &#8211; Session 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fc04.deviantart.net\/fs12\/i\/2006\/310\/4\/f\/minotaur_by_DrBeard.jpg\" width=\"688\" height=\"1006\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mannish gone Mad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Royal Munch Bunch dove into the depths of the Copper Holes, leaving Doni the Halfwit Halfling to practice the art of obscene tattoos on Chuggs outside.<\/p>\n<p>The dreams that had haunted Ansis came to life in the darkened pits of the mine, as a cat faced snake chased them through a labyrinth, crashing into them and crushing them time and time again. \u00a0While attempting to hunt it down and kill it, the fellowship blundered through the maze and into a giant hoard of treasure. \u00a0Amongst the treasure was a giant bronze statue of a minotaur that Llamers and Keelix recognized as a Bronze Warder from the Mages of Saruun. \u00a0 Draped in the arms of the bronze minotaur was a real minotaur.<\/p>\n<p>Breathing heavily, oozing from sores and snorting foamy bits of blood from his snout, the minotaur rose from his repose and spoke to the heroes. \u00a0Hearing his voice, the Munch Bunch recognized the beast as Mannish, the bloodcrazed minotaur from their time in Thunderspire. \u00a0 Through a collapsing frame of disease and madness Mannish&#8217;s mind would return at myriad moments and he told them that Meshach and the remains of the Tattered Band released the pixies and faeries by murdering the Mages of Saruun that had held them bound, the pixies went wild, and the things that have resulted since were due to that mistake. \u00a0Meshach has declared himself King and now sits arrogantly in the Gash thinking himself above humanity. \u00a0Apart and above.<\/p>\n<p>Mannish&#8217;s mind was as decrepit as his body, and he lashed out violently intent on killing the heroes. \u00a0Through bouts of wild insanity Mannish begged for death, and the heroes granted it. \u00a0Ansis was able to command the Bronze Warder to come crashing down on Mannish with the mammothing bronze axe it held, breaking off horns and cracking Mannish&#8217;s skull. \u00a0Cat the Maze Snake returned and fought alongside Mannish but it was too late, and the heroes were able to finish them both off.<\/p>\n<p>The hoard of the copper maze was enormous, and the heroes quickly determined that it was basically the entire wealth of the valley that had been robbed by Mannish and his roving bands. \u00a0Searching the hoard they found many items of power, and quickly girded themselves up to close the Shadowfell Crossing, which they believed to be at Bog Village of the Frogmen to the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Munch Bunch dove into the depths of the Copper Holes, leaving Doni the Halfwit Halfling to practice the art of obscene tattoos on Chuggs outside. The dreams that had haunted Ansis came to life in the darkened pits of the mine, as a cat faced snake chased them through a labyrinth, crashing into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[10,12,17,20],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg","category-tiny-tabletop-titans","tag-barons-of-the-wild","tag-dd-4e","tag-rpg","tag-tabletop-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}