(Tales From the D&D Table) The Missing Mage Part Seven

I'm just gonna straight up post my session notes from now on; I just don't have the mojo to do a proper write up any more. Yay autism/probably ADHD too! 

• Everyone asleep except Pen who is on last watch
• Weird dreams about the pool and Delta finishing the thing and talking to someone
• Shift to forest, see selves asleep, feel doomy and see shadows that engulf us, wake up.
  
• "Well that was a thing."
• Other party asleep, one elf missing, female elf awake and is like 'shh.'
•  Sunriseish.
• Getting colder and darker, hear scary noise.
  
• Euraxia gets the feeling we're too late to stop The Thing.
• Blinding Darkness, only thing visible is fire.
• Penny uses Divine Sense, gets nothing, does sense undead.
• Hal sees approaching light, other's don't.
• Approach light.
• Light is other party, they're ready for shit. Boy elf still gone.
• "You good?"
• 'This your fault? We aint seen shit like this til you appear.'
• "Oh yeah like you're all on top of things."
• Half-orc draws big black cock sword.
• "Not even our warlock can do this what you on."
• 'You gonna help us then.'
• "Where'd the other elf go."
• 'Foraging.'
• Group up with defenses out, head toward ROAR
• Torchlight getting more useless, nearly collide with trees a few times.
• Penny: "Next tree we hit we burn."
• Bump into tree, take branches to make torch bigger, kinda works.
• Hal casts Summon Familiar, little bat (called Kevin) appears.
• Via bat, Hal sees big humanoid approaching, shedding smaller humanoid shapes.
• 'We gonna hafta fight.' Make fire bigger.
• Shadow flits in and out of light.
• "What was that?" 'IDK'
• Fight time!
• Everyone else sees big foot on edge of light.
• "HOLY FUCK THAT THING'S BIG."
• Other warlock gets out whip, asks what it is, whip says 'think thing.' Attacks with whip; no apparent effect.
• Euraxia shoots, misses.
• Nick attacks, miss.
• Penny uses 'sacred weapon' ability, glow makes it easier to see big shifty shape that is bigger than the trees
• Halbarad Eldritch Blasts, misses
• Other Half-Orc swaps out for a big bow, shoots, hits.
• Big Thing roars, everyone is big ow and stunned.
• 3 of the lil shadows attack other Half-Orc, latch on and drain strength.
• Last shadow attacks Nick, latches on and drains strength. More ow for Nick.
• No one can do anything, Big Thing continues forward.
• Gug attacks shadows on other Half-Orc, kills one.
• She-Elf's turn, attacks two shadows, kills one, big ow on other.
• Last two shadows miss despite being literally attached to targets.
• Other warlock withdraws whip into rod and uses it to open Gateway and fills area with horrors and gross noises.
• Euraxia attacks shadow on Nick's face, nearly kills it.
• Nick attacks shadow, kills it.
• Penny Lay Hands on Nick, heals a bit.
• Hal Eldritch Blasts, hits.
• Other Half-Orc is mad, misses last shadow.
• Big Thing fails to do pretty much anything, is slightly hurt by light.
• Gug attacks remaining shadow, kills it.
• Other warlock still channeling Gateway
• Euraxia shoots Big Thing, hits.
• Nick attacks Big Thing, hits.
• Penny attacks Big Thing, hits.
• Big Thing now has very sore foot.
• Hal Eldritch Blasts Big Thing, kills it.
• Big Thing topples and disperses, as does Darkness.
• Other warlock stops channeling, uses energy to douse burning tree.
• Big Thing dropped loot including lump of flesh for some reason.
• Also find random clothes and food and adventuring stuff and Bag of Holding, which goes to Halbarad.
• Bag has potions of healing, a scroll of Scry, a Lantern of Revealing and some gold.
• Share out the gold, leave the potions in the Bag, Penny claims the Lantern.
• Everyone glad we avoided TPK.