TRS09 - The Curious Village

The Curious Village is the ninth full session in the campaign The Red Star. In it, the party enter a strange village where they uncover a mystery.

Summary
The party, having left the forest, come across a quaint little village. A man named Gerion Snow welcome them in, and a merchant sells Pyrria a double crossbow. Gerion and another villager named Eratch tell the party that their village is constantly being attacked by harpies, and ask them to take care of the harpies, planning on luring them out with cooked food. The party waits for the harpies to appear, then ambushes them. During the batte, Eptol finds the body of Eratch hidden behind a tent. After killing two harpies, a third appears, and rather than attack the party, it simply says that they do not kill humans, and implies that the villagers are not human.

Edus questions Gerion using his interrogation spell, threatening extreme pain. Edus asks Gerion what he is hiding. Geron insists he's not hiding anything, but Edus sees through his lie and Geron gets hurt by Edus' spell. However, Geron still claims to not be hiding anything. The other villagers appear, asking Edus not to hurt Gerion. Edus loses his temper and shouts at the crowd, before Resmi interrupts him and tells him to calm down. The rest support Resmi, but Edus won't back down. Flynn procedes to punch Edus in the face twice, knocking him out. Gerion back attacks Flynn with his arm that had become a large grey claw. Gerion reveals that he, along with possibly other villagers, are doppelgangers. Having no way to tell if the other villagers are doppelgangers or not, the party is forced to ignore that possibility, despite Iago's objections. The other villages say that they'll convert the village into a prison, and take 'Gerion' into custody.

The harpy comes back to the village, this time with a wyvern. After a long fight, the party vanquishes both the wyvern and the harpy. They leave the village, regretful that they could not do any more.

Trivia

 * Introductions: This session introduced the characters Gerion Snow and Eratch.
 * Deaths: In this session, Eratch died.
 * Notable Events: This session saw Edus showing his true colours, Iago revealing his heart of gold, and the party's first encounter they walk away from dissatisfied.

Quotes
''"Fire kit? I want the fire kit. Give me the fire kit. Fire kit." ''- Iago

''"Edus, by Apsu himself, stay thy tongue before I stay thy jaw." ''- Resmi

"YOUR MOTHER WAS A-" - Edus, before getting punched in the face.

''"IAGO, WEREWOLF MODE ACTIVATE." ''- Eptol