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At Christmas - I forgot to recap - so, super basic - Hops gave out presents (No, you can't open them yet!) and then we found the fountain of youth, beat up a bunch of Drow who were stealing the magic water, and killed a giant stone spider thing, and then we threw a bunch of organic stuff in the water and caused the rebirth of a GOLD DRAGON, our favourite friend Graphael the Mephit!, and annoyingly - Larry Markoff. ‪#‎oops‬.

THEN - On Short Notice Sunday - Charmaine, Magnjor, and Hops chased after the barefoot and naked reborn Larry Markoff but unfortunately he got away (sorry Neiya! BUT we're tracking him. Sort of. We'll find him I promise).

As we tracked Larry's progress through the tunnels, we came across some cool shit to mine, so Magnor and Hops got some cool ore to make cool shit out of. ‪#‎tomineorenottomine‬

Afterwards we came upon a spooky cool guy with a giant eyeball that hurts your soul to look at. He called himself "The Seer" and he knew Hops by name! (She was pleased) He told Hops, Magnjor, and Charmaine that he could tell them each one truth about the future if they only did him a favour. He wanted a magical shield which would hide him from divination magic. We took the deal - I mean fortune telling amirite? - and off we went back through the tunnels to the Drow encampment where the shield was. Charmaine decided to go back to help the rest of the group with the cart because she had seen enough spiders for one day, while Hops and Magnjor carried on.

So let's re-cap!

As we walked away from the tomb (with the bows and the arrows and the acid from last time), we listened to the birds chirping in the forest, and whistled a bit while trundling down the path. When quietly, Hydrocat's ear's perked up a bit. The sound of a rushing river was nearby.

Wait. Was it getting closer?

Holy shit! A huge rushing wave of rapid water was gushing toward our group. (Sebastian may have peed a tiny bit)

In our shock we stood there helpless, while Hops sent Hydrocat rushing toward the wave in a ridiculous attempt to stop it. Suddenly, the water parted and the two branches of the rushing river went around our party and our cart. A stupidly good-looking water-man-god-thing rose from the waves and told Hops about a dam that had been built on a nearby river that needed to be destroyed.

As soon as the river has come, it was gone. (cool).

So Hops and the gang found the nearby dam, and the weird man (werebeaver - we're all convinced he was a werebeaver) who lived on the hut on top of the dam. After he mimic'ed our every desire or want, gave Charmaine a mystery purse that changes the properties of whatever you put inside it, we all got pretty suspicious (Except for Magnjor, who's still convinced he knew the guy from Lower Sackville), so Hops put that fucker to sleep and then the dam shrunk into a wooden cube. Natural disaster solved!

From there we met a wizard Gnome named Chuck. Or Chuckles for short. He's hanging out with us for a bit because he's lonely and he seems nice.

We then followed the call of Magnjor's Key tattoo from Stallion, and found an anti-Stallion hideout with a key, and a chest full of clothes (Peanut even got Peanut sized socks!) and an automaton who we subsequently destroyed.

Now what? Do our intrepid heroes give the key to Stallion? Do we help Chuck(les) find his laboratory? Do we research tattoo-removal in the yellowpages?

Today a nation was repersonified.

The War of 1812 was in full swing: The White House had yet to be reduced to a smoldering ruin, and the Star-Spangled Bannerwouldn’t be written for another year. Already, though, the United States was feeling emboldened to…