Garrick Reed employs Varian Soto to help set traps with the combined 200ft of rope the party has (19 - 5 traps) under Garrick Reed’s command, they deploy trip wires around the area to help protect themselves. Then the Whitefire Arcanist screeches and we surround her. Skeletons rise from the ground, and wraiths erupt from the forest.
Fight starts! Garrick Reed get’s chi-punched soul-removed-from-body; and Varian Soto gets traumatized by another wraith! It’s not lookin’ good boys. The girls fuck shit up though, thank god.
The fight ends when Varian Soto slides behind the fire and uses it to light and loose an arrow that sails through the wraith and hits a skeleton that explodes into the other causing enough damage to finish them both. The ritual completes and the final foes fall with the eruption of magical energy from the Whitefire Arcanist.
We gather ourselves and return to her treehouse, where she feeds us soup and rests. Finally she asks that we travel to the Spire to check in on the Keeper as there’s been a disturbance in the force. We’ll have to wait a few days to return anyway while the stone recharges. Marlowe Fairwind reminds the Whitefire Arcanist that she works for the King Emeris, NOT for her, but the Whitefire Arcanist reassures her that the King Emeris knows about this (insight, success, she’s being very honest). Garrick Reed passes and lets Marlowe Fairwind know he’ll be at the tavern when she has his money. Khari Nix agrees to stay with Marlowe Fairwind, and Varian Soto says only that they wish to spend more time in Hush, so they’ll be around either way.