Down in the Hundred Acre Woods

Scribe Notes

Summary

GM: Kita
Season: Winter 2026
Night: Wednesday
Location: TBD
Level: Medium

Party

1. Winter, Air Mage - Amy-Rose
2. Boom Boom, Fire Mage - Ian
3. Echelon, Shadow Celestial - Zarne
4. Calliope, Bard - Helen
5. Doc, Healer - Michael
6. Argus, Binder - Sam

Employer

Ollie the Friendly Ogre

Mission

To fix the story of Winnie the Pooh

Pay

35000 Silver Pennies with potential bonuses

Scribe Notes

Session 1

Day 1

Meeting in the guild for our mission details, it seems like the binder fellow Argus is playing a bit of a prank and drew childish picture of himself, pinning it to a chair instead of attending. A blonde, mischievous younger girl named Pixie let us know the book "The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" has been damaged and the Storybrooke Library is asking the guild again for help in fixing the damage, she informed us she's responsible for Argus's tardiness saying "some people don't come willingly". It seems my party cant keep a straight face with the name of this book, especially Winter. Pixie said that this book is different from the previous ones, all of the pages containing text have been removed leaving only pictures and that the book has been leaking ink non-stop since its breaking. We agree to help and sign our contracts, deciding our roles, me (Doc) the scribe. Boom Boom the cook, Argus the milsci, Winter the healer and Echelon the party leader.

Pixie directed us to a clearing to get us to Storybrooke containing an impressive and still in bloom Cherry tree, if I remember right that's where a pervious party of mine left our friendly goblin, Trash. Hopefully he's getting a decent education with all those books in there... She tells us to close our eyes and hug the cherry tree, winter going first hugs the tree but nothing happens, pixie tells us to hold hands and close our eyes as a group before we can go, and we arrive at the Storybrooke Library. We heard a crash and a soft "uh oh" from the second story, pixie gestures for us to look up, where we find Argus was taped to the ceiling of all places. Pixie hinted she was responsible, flew up with a chuckle and untaped his mouth, unsticking him from the ceiling. He came crashing to the floor on top of me after an attempt at catching him. Dwarves are heavier than they look. Boom Boom let out a loud whistle calling for Trash as we all kept an eye out for our little friend, and got a tad excited asking about a sequel to a book of his; "Burning passion?" Must be a pretty exciting ready if he's thirsting for more. I think he spotted my surprise and kicked me for fun, might have been the nifty hat Trash gifted me a while ago though.

Trash stealthily appeared on Echelons shoulders and after a quick catchup with him, he's going to come along with us. Pixie informed us that the book has been kept above a bucket, it's leaking an inky substance and they want to keep it contained as its quite messy. Argus offered another bucket to her as Ollie joined us and confirmed our payment for helping of 35000sp. He let us know that the book is a 'children's tale, not an adventure' while bringing over to us with the book and bucket of strange ink. Winter opened the book and it looks like the pages that have text are missing, the only ones left are pictures of each of the characters with no names listed and the map has been torn out. Argus asks how we're supposed to leave the book, and Ollie offers us a magical handbell that we can ring in an emergency. Ollie let us know the characters are children's toys, that there's a young boy named Christopher Robbin who can be found in a house and that there is a door to the woods by the house. He tells us we need to talk to Christopher Robbin first. Before we leave we do a quick round of DA's on both the book and inky substance leaking from it:

• DA on the Book:
• Last magic to impact - Waterproofing

• DA on the Ink:
• Nature of Magic - Storytelling

Holding hands again holding the book and are teleported inside it in front of a locked gated and fenced property, a red house up the road from us. It looks like a summers day outside which is a bit jarring. Trying the gate it looks locked but Echelon made short work of it as we made our way up to the front door. Argus in preparation summons his sabre-tooth iron golem, trash is given some buffs and Winter knocked on the door. An older man answered and we asked if we could see Christopher, he let us know that Christopher is his son, living there with his wife. Winter, proclaimed we were this boys friends, getting a bit offended when the father said we looked a bit large to be friends with his child. After some back and forth with the father, Boom Boom announces we're entertainers, sent by his friends, and that we're his friends too. It's at this moment we realise that Trash has gone missing. Oops.. Boom boom mentions offhand that the book appears to be broken before having a note appear in his hand reminding him that not everyone knows they're in a book. The door is closed on us and we have to figure out another plan.

Argus sends off a clay pigeon golem that he can see through to investigate the upstairs window, spotting Trash tangled in some curtains and panicking, and a young boy hunched over an open book looking unresponsive, not noticing the noise of Trash at all. This seems to be Christopher Robbin. We DA the house for traps before proceeding:

• House DA:
• Nature of trap ward curse or alarm - No Answer

Argus constructed a ladder made of earth and Echelon climbed up to his window stealthily to rescue Trash and ask some questions. Getting to the Window we saw the toys Ollie mentioned that look just like the characters we saw on the remaining pages. they seem to be neglected and covered in dust, placed in a corner of the room. The rest of the party goes on lookout duty for the parents as Echelon tried to snap Christopher out of his trance approaching him.

He seemed to be dazed and not caring, unfazed by anything going on which we all agree is pretty concerning. We ask him about his friends, the toys. And he tells us he "no longer needs them". Footsteps were heard coming up to Christopher Robbins room as argus loudly climbed up to join Echelon. "Who's trying to get in my window?", "Don't worry about it." Argus used some magic to prevent the door from opening. Talking with Christopher more we learn he hasn't been to the hundred acre wood in some time and get directions to the woods from him. He seems almost unresponsive and uninterested in the conversation. Echelon DA's Christopher to figure out what's wrong:

• DA on Christopher Robbin:
• short lived sentient
• last magic to impact - Darkness

Argus and echelon hear someone about to open the locked door and made their way back outside, unlocking it as we walked away towards the door at the edge of the woods, Christophers mother looked out the window at us before closing the curtains

Session 2

Day 1 Cont.

Following guidance from Christopher Robin we step into the woods. It’s darker than we’d imagine with a dense canopy above our heads blocking the sunlight. While we’re sorting out our marching order Argus summons another golem, this time a gorilla to carry our things! Looking around for our doorway, we all notice that despite it being a sunny day it's dark and dreary in the forest, like its covered in almost a shadow or the light was dimmed. There are very few sounds of fauna and quieter than we'd expect. Boom boom notes it seems a bit too damp for this type of forest too. I think he’s looking to start fires.

Argus sends his clay pigeon up above the canopy to see more but the bird-golem couldn’t see past the leaves. The forest seemed pretty empty, and we haven’t seen any animals around, Boom Boom keeps his eyes peeled and an eye out for mushrooms while we took in the silence and explored. Travelling for under an hour or so, we saw a fey circle of mushrooms in a clearing. Choosing to avoid it for the moment. Boom booms mushroom hunt also found a strange looking plant at the base of one of the trees, a white stemmed, red and purple capped mushroom that we DA to figure out if it's sentient:

Boom Boom mushroom DA:

• Aura strength - living sentient (uh oh)
• Major magical ability - charm
• Biggest weakness - bludgeoning
• Power associated with - Jester

Boom Boom suddenly becomes immediately very aware he's wearing mushroom armor while Argus uses a DE to figure out if it’s under a magical effect or spell/ward/ritual. Turns out, yes it was cursed. Trash our inquisitive little guy reached out to touch it and had his hand swatted by Echelon.

“Mushrooms are people too!” - Trash
"This mushroom might be starter than you" - Echelon

After some quick reassurance for our goblin that we think he’s like a person too, we volunteer to speak to the mushroom, we all think this probably wont go well so Winter stepped in to take over the interrogation starting in common, getting no response she swapped to Elvish and it replied:

“Hello there! Come here often?” - Winter
“I don’t move from here” - Mushroom
“Has anything changed in your life recently?” - Winter
“It’s a bit darker in here, I would like to move if you would help me” - Mushroom
“That’s a nice offer but I’m too smart for that” - Winter

It tries to charm her magically and fails, Argus DA's and discovers it's currently being possessed.

“My name is winter, what's yours?” - Winter
“If you help me out of this hole then I'll tell you” - Mushroom
“What is your title you possessor of mushroom” - Argus
“Like i said, if you help me out I’ll tell you” - Mushroom

Argus signalled to his sabre tooth iron golem “mittens” and it crushed the mushroom under its paw, no death buzzes were felt which felt a bit unnerving. Inky liquid coated mittens paws and from what we can tell it’s still under argus’s control. Boom Boom and Echelon both DA the Ink:

Boom Boom DA on paw ink:

• Magic aura
• Nature of magic - poison

Echelon DA on paw ink:

• Effect on me if poisoned - damage

We proceeded deeper into the forest looking for our doorway entrance noticing that despite the forest being dark it seems to be getting darker, the sounds from nature getting duller, only able to hear our footsteps. Echelon casts light on himself to boost his armor as Argus gives his gorilla a lantern to hold for us as it's becoming late afternoon. Walking a bit more cautiously we noticed what sounded like multiple sets of footsteps coming from ahead.

“Do we have more friends coming?” -Trash

Up ahead we saw a child that didn't look like Christopher Robbin, it looked about 8 years old and said 'hello' to us as the footsteps began to circle. Boom boom called out to try communicate:

“Who are you?” - Boom Boom
“Titus” - The child
“Do you not have anyone to play with?” - Winter
“Everyone ran away” - Titus
“Who are your friends?” - Boom Boom
“Some were big, some were furry, some were tall, I have a friend here!” - Titus

Titus proceeded to pull out a giant rat from his pocket and place it on the ground facing us saying “I have other friends, want to meet them?”

We saw 2 bears, 2 wolves, and another child all with black eyes encircling us. Echelon asked one of the wolves if it's friendly, it smiled with ink bleeding from its eyes and said “yes, will you be my friend?” A tough fight ensued with the first child turning to a puddle of ink, it was able to move rapidly this way, appearing behind us immediately. We noticed ink staining the animals fur as we fought that looked to be flowing. Callie and Winter noticed something was wrong when hitting the animals with their weapons feeling less powerful and we eventually figure out that they seem to be taking less damage from B class strikes. Killing them they looked to melt into puddles of the same inky substance we keep encountering, we made sure to not step in it. Echelon was grabbed during the fight and was afflicted by a strange effect telling us he felt hopeless, in pain and cold. One of the children was able to throw a ball of black goo towards boom boom before turning to a puddle moving somewhere else along with the bandits that appeared mid-combat. We continued dispatching each of the bad guys one by one as they turned to goo. As the fight concluded Titus looked to us and proclaimed, "I'll make you my friends, not just yet!" before running off into the forest outpacing us. Winter and I empathied Echelon for the strange effect caused by one of the inky kids, it could be healed with our abilities and we neutralised it pretty quickly, luckily. Echelon DA’ed himself to learn about the poison but forgot to ask a question.

Boom boom DA'ed the ink puddles on the ground as we collected ourselves and healed our wounds.

• Magic aura strength
• effect on me if i touch it - poison
• effect of burning it - poison gas

Session 3

Night 1

Boom Boom while we travel checks to confirm the plane we’re currently on. His DA for plane of origin on a random plant and it reveals we’re on Storybrooke as expected. Following the pathway set out by Christopher Robbin we walked for a good hour, our surroundings getting dimmer and darker as the sun set into the evening. Arriving where we expected to find the entrance we instead found a murky pond in a clearing surrounded by trees, the water looks undisturbed and it’s still deathly quiet. Echelon is a little distracted by Trash as the rest of us notice the pond is algae filled and bubbling, winters air-mage nose picks up on a funky damp smell but I think that’s probably expected.

Echelons' Da the pond water:

• aura - magic
• nature of magic - darkness

Boom Booms' Da on the pond:

• effect on immersion - minor difficulty breathing underwater

Argus' DE on the pond water:

• it's a semi-permanent effect

Argus' Da on the pond:

• plane of destination - no answer

Trash walks to the side of the water as boom boom touches the water to collect a vial for doing some alchemy. In the meantime we setup a campsite as it's getting dark on the waters edge. Boom Boom tries to burn his water samples trying to figure if it's flammable or useful for alchemy but it seems like normal water once removes it from the pond-source. boom boom makes us a nice dinner while Trash is sitting on dinner (the mule). Argus summoned a clay golem to scout the pond, it looks like an Axolotl. It was sent into the water and argus relays what it sees, it struggles in the pond with a slight current as it walks to the bottom of the pond. The algae and mud along the bottom prevented most of its movement due to being being quite sticky and after a few minutes it sees something in the water, a door with 2 wooden boards across it. The door looked to be solid on the ground with most of the bubbles coming from the door and some from around it, it looks to be about 25ft down roughly. There are no fish and no sounds of fauna at all. Argus tossed a stick in the water and it floated as expected as I reached down to touch and figure out if it'll hurt.

Echelon DA's me (Doc):

• short lived sentient with an asterix
• Warded, Alarmed, Cursed or Trapped - no answer

We camp for the night - first watch sees nothing much changing but hears some rustling from the distance. second watch hears rustling that sounds much closer, about 40ft away. We decide to wake the group slowly and silently, trash wakes up and is told to protect dinner, running over to hug it's legs as we ready weapons. Winter upon being woken up yelled loudly telling us off spoiling the surprise of Echelon and boom boom who were actively sneaking up to the noise, taking a wide berth. Boom boom holding a greando, echelon with his shuriken. As they get closer to the bush they see a short figure, child sized wearing a bandage over its eyes with short black hair that calls out: “Wait wait please don’t hurt me!”

Boom Boom DA's on the bandaged child:

• aura - short lived sentient asterix
• gtn - human (fuzzy/static-y)

Boom boom: Hello who are you
Child: Who are you why are you trying to hurt me
Boom boom: I'm not trying to hurt you
Child: What are you holding
Boom boom: That’s a fun stick
Child: A fun stick?
Boom boom: Yes, fun ensues, I don’t think you should play with it, i wont hurt you with it, tis not a sharp stick, or an axe
Boom boom: Do you want to come into camp and talk to people, where its a bit lighter
Child: I don’t know you, who are you
Boom boom: I am boom boom, we can have a fire and smores, we can put marshmallows on sticks I'm sure
Child: I don’t belong here
Boom boom: Where do you belong here
Child: I don’t know
Boom boom: Do you know your name, we're looking to put people places
Child: No
Boom boom: Do you want some food and warmth by the campfire
Child: Uh, there are others here, i can feel them
Boom boom: Yes, how many can you feel
Child: 10 including me.

Echelons DA on the blind child:

• plane of origin - storybrooke
• nature of curse - displacement
• book associated with - we hear static

Argus' DE on the child:

• the child is cursed

I took a step towards the child weapon drawn, I really don’t trust this kid especially after the last encounter, but the party let me know I'm overreacting.

Boom boom: Do you have names of people you know, who do you know?
Child: I don't know anything at the moment
Boom boom: Names of friends of families?
Echelon: Your name?
Child: I remember nothing

I got told to step back. The child is frightened and says "I understand the distrust, I would stab me to, I don't know where I am." Argus asks can you point to the entities you can see. The child pointed to the party, Trash, Dinner and Echelon twice. Behind us another child Appears. We turn around and see another child behind Echelon, the same 'Titus' from the fight saying "Wanna be friends?" (both children ran away last combat, child that touched echelon is Titus)

Echelon and argus DA Titus:

• aura - long lived sentient
• argus: power associated - jester
• argus: plane of origin - storybrooke
• echelon: best method of damaging available to me - meteor shower

Echelon: what do you do with your friends? what do you and your friends get upto?
Titus: i play with my friends
Echelon: what are your fav games to play?
Titus: tag, you're it.

I get touched by Titus hurting me with poison... argus wacks him with a war hammer in the head, its head crumpled into its shoulders before reforming. "Well that was rude..." It reaches out to touch Argus and does so dealing some poison damage before running away darting for the pond as winter shoots an arrow at it, it seems to absorb the arrow. Boom boom tosses his Greek fire grenado at it, it explodes and hits it launching it sideways around Callies wall looking back at us. Callie summons another illusionary wall in Titus’s path to slow him down.

"You dont want to be my friend? Why what have I done?"

Boom boom tries to convince the bandaged child to leave with him, picking him up while like a football under his arm holding a flaming hand and a half in the other. Echelon casts meteor a shower to try hit Titus as winter preps a ball of lightning, callie preps another wall, I send a spectral warrior to attack it. Argus charges to tackle the child. echelon tells the kid:

"We have a game to play, statues, you move you lose, I'm the champion!" 

As Callie' second wall appears, Winters ball of lightning hits Titus as he screams "WHY?" before looking me in the eyes and asking me why I want to hurt it, black tears falling from his eyes. Argus commanded his metal gorilla golem 'Crunch' to attack Titus as he charged the kid to hold him still for the meteor. Titus deals a large amount of poison damage to argus as the gorilla pins the child too and tries to restrain him, Argus leave the scuffle letting the gorilla hold Titus in place as the meteor impacts. The area went silent as the dust settled only a stain at the impact zone and no sign of Titus. Inky goo covering the golem quickly makes it rust. The blind child says there are now 9 entities it can detect with a faint other one that's moving away. Argus minor creates a silver bucket to hold the ink in, it starts rusting instantly.

Argus DA's the ink in the bucket (formerly Titus):

• aura - magic
• nature of creation / how it's made - ritual
• best method of destruction - no answer

As we wind down and recover from our wounds, Trash has fallen asleep on dinner at camp, holding the dagger as boom boom, winter and I walk back. Boom boom feeds the blind child while I keep my distance, it does eat food. Argus measures the child for some armor before we go to bed. Third watch is a bit tense but continues uneventfully.

Mil-Sci

Daily pattern

How much time does the party spend sleeping, eating, traveling, doing rituals, etc each day

Travel Magics

What travel magic options does the party have, how far per cast/or per day if duration is longer than usual travel time. Can the party eat/sleep/etc on the mode of transport.

Watch Order

Day Watch. Used when stationary, or on a larger transport such as a ship
First - ??
Second - ??
Third - ??

Night watch
First - ??
Second - ??
Third - ??

Marching Order

Skirmish Formations (Front)
Double File	Single File

Buffs

General Buff Notes

Buffs listed in the table don't need to be detailed, other buffs not on the table must be mentioned at the time they are cast.
Y means always on, N/- means never on, 'Sit.' means when the party has time for buffs before a fight.
Weapon Spells which weapon/s it is going on normally should be noted also

Long duration buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Fire Armour (BB)	##	????	# Day	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Fire Proof (BB)	##	????	# Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name (??)	##	????	? Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Short duration buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Weapon of Flames	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Loot and Expenses

Significant Items

A small magical handbell to be used in emergencies to leave the book, from Ollie

Purchases

Permanent lessers for the party, 1000SP each from Kurt.

Calendar

Insert correct month here