Saving Peter.... again?

Saving Peter, AGAIN!
Date	2/11/25
Storyteller	Doug
Tier	Trainee
Player Characters	Anima, Ser Bewwy, Ione Icesickle, Evalynne Stoneking, Samara Slitherslime
Rewards	200xp, 20gp each
Result	I guess we learned stuff? Success?
Author	Evalynne Stoneking!
Downtime	1

HI it's Evalynne again!

So I guess we're helping this guy named Peter, who... Is cursed to die a lot, but then get better. Every three months. Since he was 8.

That's not pleasant. We're supposed to see *how* it happens, according to the circle council table, but I'm not great at that kinda thing. Magic's never been my strong suit. He's been held up in a cave outside of town so none of this gets outta hand, furnished and guarded all the time, so we're taking over the guard's posts to figure out exactly what's goin' on.

Oh so I guess he dies from people just... Appearing? And murdering him? I don't like that, I'll punch those meanies in their mean faces!

I had to take a nap though 'cause this was happening way past my bedtime. When I woke up, I saw all my new and old friends! Samara Candylady and Ser Soldier was there! And then a nice man named Ione, and another person with a long name, 'I'm Just Here To Work'! They seem really strong and cool.

When we went in to meet Peter, he was really nice and cool! He asked a lot about me, and I asked a lot about him too, because now we're friends! And I wanna help my friend not get owies... Turns out he's really smart about his family and this curse, which... It goes a loooooooong way back, and his grampy and his great grampy and his great great grampy, you get the idea. He never sees the meanie cavemen manifest, either, they just appear and catch him when he isn't looking, which is extra mean.

'I'm Just Here To Work' told me to call her Anima, it's pretty.

Apparently the cave meanies won't go out of their way to do anything but try to kill Peter, and that's their only goal! It's just Peter! Weird. Okay so they keep their memories too, I guess, which apparently is weird for summoned creatures? I dunno why it's weird, anything should have memories, but apparently they hold a grudge sometimes.

Ione decided to play cards with Ser Bewwy, Peter asked me more about tea which was really nice I appreciate him asking on me like that, and Anima and Samara were just enjoying their time I think! I eventually started talking about all the way copper works with cooking, when he just... Stopped?

He shut down totally, it was weird. Just sat there, going quiet mid-sentence and doin nothin'. Like when Grampy Gumpy was almost done being alive, and his mind would wander? It really worried me, and Ione was really interested. I guess magic stuff was happening? Couldn't have been good, since then suddenly the meanies showed up around Peter! Five of 'em, really big-like!

Peter suddenly woke back up after the meanies showed back up, so I think one thing had to do with the other... Ione called it a s̶e̶e̶s̶y̶o̶r̶ s̶e̶s̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ seizure, but it was caused by a spirit that looked like a black snake with wings! Or like, the snake shut him down? I dunno I couldn't see it, but most importantly, those meanies were throwing Peter into the pyre with rocks and dirt! I wanted to do somethin, but Anima stopped me...

I guess she was right to, since we were supposta see what happens... It was icky, until they... Stopped? They just stopped there for a few minutes, like THEY got shut down too. Anima suggested that anyone that didn't like the icky stuff should watch the door, so me n' Candylady did that.

Ione said he saw the snake spirit again, and apparently the pyre lit all by itself again with Spookyween (Black an Orange) color flames! The meanies threw Peter in, and he started screaming like crazy... I hated it, it was so loud and icky, like two different kinds of voices were screaming... Until it stopped...

I thought I was gonna help someone here, this doesn't feel like helping.

After the cavemeanies were done, apparently they started to act like Anima? So like, they learn from whatever kills them? Scary! I don't want anything punching how I do! I tried to ask the Cavemeanies why they were doing it, but I'm bad at grunting.

Samara figured out that they wanted to fight us, but there was some dumb reason why they couldn't initiate. WE had to. Which I kinda wanted to. Really bad. Cause they were dissolving into a weird smoke and I wanted to punch it before it died, and apparently so did Anima! I knew we'd be great friends.

The fight was really REALLY annoying, they shot my new best friend Ione through the damn chest! Ooh, but Samara threw ACTUAL FIRE at one, and it hit really really good! I think they're weak to it!

... SO I DIED. A lot of us did, but then most of us got better (Candylady didn't till about a day later, same with Peter), and the boo-boo's have... Well they were weird and glowy on us, but not on the pile that was once Peter. Until his HEAD CAME BACK FROM THE ASHES? Just his head at first, that was... Weird. Him turning back to him was really really weird.

This wasn't great a great time, but at least I get to make Peter some lunch now! We should probably keep Peter in the city though, so that way maybe we can fix whatever is causing this... And Mr. Ione asked that the council or like, SOMEONE look into whatever this drawing is attached. The black wing snake thingie.