Quest: We slew the dragon terrorizing Dragonholm Bay, and are returning home with our newly-fashioned Dragonscale Armor!
Not long after the Warrior and the Shaman left the village, they encountered an old crone sitting in her garden. The Shaman attempted to talk to with her, but before he could say much of anything, she offered her walking stick to him. As soon as he took it, the crone turned it into a snake, laughing as it bit him! The two hightailed it out of there as quickly as they could before she could do anymore damage.
As they continued along the forest path, the Warrior and Shaman felt like they were being watched. Suddenly, a face appeared in the trees. The Warrior tried to speak with it, but, not to be outdone by the witch, the Treant grabbed the Warrior and flung her several miles back the way the two had traveled!
The duo were not making good progress. Deciding to avoid the Treant, the two chose another direction and encountered a ravine. Without any thought (and with no regards to her injuries from being thrown several miles by a Treant), the Warrior deftly leapt over the ravine, and was able to find a spot for the Shaman to cross as well.
Feeling more confident after their victory against the ravine, the Warrior and Shaman continued on their way. Suddenly they smelled smoke and heard cries for help. Going to investigate, they found a small village with several buildings burning. Hearing the cries of children from inside, the Warrior didn't hesitate and charged into the flames. But what she thought were children's cries were nothing more than the wail of a boiling teakettle. She narrowly escaped before the building could collapse on her.
The duo then encountered a second ravine, but luckily this one had an old rope bridge spanning the divide; they used some rope they had to better secure the bridge, and crossed without incident.
Next they encountered a large snake. Before it could decide whether the duo were prey, the Warrior jumped forward, making herself seem as large and threatening as possible. It worked and the snake slunk off in search of easier prey.
Unfortunately, the snake (or some other nasty beast in the Forest) startled a horde of beast which started stampeding towards our heroes. While the Shaman safely hid, the Warrior was caught off guard and stood in the middle of the stampede with her eyes closed and her arms spread wide. Through some miracle, she was unscathed and the stampede passed her by.
The final obstacle in their path was a rock-slide. They traversed it, earning a few cuts and bruises for their troubles, and finally made their way home.
While playing this first round of Forest of Fate, I didn't keep very good track of what happened during the adventure. We also weren't treating it as a Storytelling game so much as we were trying to understand the rules. But when I was telling another friend about our adventure later, I thought it was worth writing it up into a more coherent story. This was also helped because the card events did flow rather easily from one to the next. The second game didn't seem to flow as well when we flipped the cards (I wrote it up in a way that made a bit more sense).
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