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The Mother Tree

• The party sets out from Camp Righteous, inspecting the two canoes left over and taking the sturdier one (which still isn't too sturdy). Further down river, Sivan can see a bunch of small black forest spirits gathering on the shore. Eku is the only other person who can see them. She calls them chwingas and notes that it's unusual to have so many gather in one place.
• #SeedOfCorruption They follow the chwingas in to the forest to a clearing where a black mass is undulating and writhing around. The mass is revealed to be a fully grown triceratops and another creature (which Sivan surmises is the baby). The Chwingas have created a ring around the two animals. Griselka talks to the mother triceratops, summoning his spirit totem, and negotiates access to the child to try to save it.
• #SeedOfCorruption Sivan shoots the triceratops and it doesn't seem to affect the corruption much. Ladmon casts gust of wind on the triceratops which gives some clearance, revealing a wound. With the area clear, Griselka removes the object embedded within the wound. He and Eku seal the wound with greater restoration, which isolated the corruption to the back half. The party decides to give the baby triceratops a merciless death. Sivan is sad.
• The chwinga beckon Sivan deeper in to the forest where they find the Mother Tree, a spiritual nexus point in the Forest. They all eat of its sap, gaining the ability to see the chwinga. The party took turns looking in to the nearby pond, seeing themselves past, present, and future, but then the images in the pond turn very dark as images of death abound.
• #battle #SeedOfCorruption #RestoreEku A giant corrupted treant and void motes appear from near the pond and a battle commences. Zinyra ultimately destroying the Treant with a holy smite, divine energy exploding outward. However it is too late, as the Mother Tree has become corrupted. Eku tries unsuccessfully to save it. In desperation, she reveals her true form: a couatl. Eku then wraps herself around the Mother Tree, stopping the corruption in its tracks but at great cost to herself.
• #SeedOfCorruption #RestoreEku Eku is dying from the corruption she transferred from the Mother Tree to herself. She tells the party of a great evil that lives in Mbala. A hag who has placed a curse upon Eku, preventing her from using her full couatl powers to restore herself. If they break this curse, she might survive the corruption. Otherwise, she will continue to diminish. Undril Silvertusk offers Camp Vengeance as a place Eku can stay to rest.
• The chwinga leader Te Te Roa is surrounded by the few surviving Chwinga and becomes a small sapling, his namesake. Under the remnants of the dead Mother Tree, the party makes camp with a few chwinga and the shattered remains of the once thriving chwingan population that had lived there just hours earlier.

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