A Very Merry Frostpeak (Christmas One-shot)

Set in the world of Aurelion on the eve of Frostpeak, the UniversiD&D team embark on a Christmas/Yuletide themed adventure!

Gui takes on the mantle of DM or ‘Gui-M’ and Trevor (the technician of the series) takes on a player role. We meet the party, who consist of experienced adventurers who are now manning a bakery: Crumblestilkskin and CO.

Introductions:
Alex Mohr - Crumblestilkskin, a founder of bakery who tried to animate a full scale gingerbread man and fell into an oven and became a half gingerbread man. He is a monk.

Blake Croft - CO/Conventional Owen, a 7 1/2 foot tall warforged (druid?) who doubles as an oven. He is also the CO founder of the bakery

Trevor Bishop - Peppermint Pete, a candyman made of peppermint who is a wizard with a candy cane staff.

Katy Mier - a halfling Paladin named Tiny Timberly who grew up as a spoiled rich snob who hated Christmas until three spirits showed her the true meaning of Christmas. She handles the money of the bakery and has curly blonde hair and is clad in red and green armour.

Kylie Brewer - Rudolph ‘Rudy’ Rayburn, a forest green Tiefling fighter kid who handles the frosting manufacturing of the bakery. He can turn red when exposed to higher temperatures.

Episode:
Tiny Timberly receives a message from one of the spirits of Christmas that an elder demon will be summoned in the nearby town of Whoville and that she and her friends must put a stop to it.

The gang dust off old weapons and equipment and close down the bakery before heading to Whoville where the inhabitants are incredibly and unnaturally happy.

Spotting a figure on the mountain by Whoville and a sense of evil emanating from the mountain they head towards it. At the top they find a green furred Who called the Grunch and his elderly henchmen Whos. They are attempting to do some sort of summoning ritual harnessing the Frostpeak Cheer of the people of Whoville. After the henchmen rudely refuse the party’s Frostpeak cookies a fight ensues in which the party kill the Grunch and incapacitate most of the Whos.

Venturing into the cave atop the mountain the party come across malevolent mistletoe, home-brewed Owl-Panther Griffin’s and the Grunch’s study where they adopt a small dog they name Mux/Mucks and find some information about the Grunch and that he was likely trying to end Frostpeak for good.

Venturing down from the study they reach a frozen arena where upon ringing a bell a giant evil snowman (dubbed ‘Ice’) is awoken and attacks them.

In the fight the ghost of Christmas Present presents them with presents that grant them abilities. Most noteworthy are Rudolph’s ability to fly, which he makes use of to drop stalactites on Icey and Timberly’s porcelain doll which inhabits her body and helps destroy anyone who does not love Frostpeak.

Conventional Owen finishes the Snowman as it attempts to draw a card from a deck of many things. Tiny Timberly’s possessed body turns on Crumblestilkskin, sensing his ambivalence towards the Frostpeak spirit and Crumblestilkskin kills her body.

With Timberly’s soul inhabiting the porcelain doll, the party head back down to Whoville.

Epilogue:
The bakery expands to open two new branches, one of which is a dog treats branch and several years later the group (minus Rudolph who is happily running the frosting side of the other branch) decide to draw two cards from the Deck of Many things. Conventional Owen received a divine glowing spatula and Crumblestilkskin receives ownership of a keep (but he must clear it of monsters before he can claim it).

* In a deep and serious voice* “Crumble…I think somebody needs some cookies.”

“If we can have someone who is gingerbread we can have someone who is peppermint” - Katy

“We literally have an oven in the party” - Kylie