Frosthaven – The Eternal Crave (122)

David Skelector Boardgame, Fantasy, Frosthaven, Play reports

We do our first random scenario of the campaign, one that has been revealed in a road event because Tredir our Drifter accepted the challenge of eating a Firepepper! Hurray!

Characters

  • Miasma the Boneshaper (David) lvl 3, minions: Bob the dead lumberjack and Raging Sally
  • T-Gee/Mina the Geminate (Math) lvl 2>>3, two competing hiveminded insect swarms in a single body
  • Tredir the Drifter (Guillaume) lvl 2>>3, versatile Inox fighter

A fortuitous encounter has led us to participate in an important ritual in order to placate a dangerous entity that goes by the lovely name of Hungry Maw. In short, we already found Fireppers – now we must find some special bark, the last ingredient in order to nourish nothing less than its Eternal Crave…

Or we could just fight the entity but I mean, we can’t pass the occasion to be chefs can we!

We must navigate a treacherous path with slippery ground, traps and ice shards. The polar bear roars whilst the snow imps throw snowballs at us, damn the little annoying buggers!
Poor skeleton Bob wants to join the action but falls into a pit trap.
I think it’s mating season for the polar bears, lucky us.
The drifter: « don’t mind me ». whistles
The Geminate and Raging Sally fight the bears as the Drifter goes further and gets a look at another area.
Here it is, our goal, almost encased in ice.
But some sinister force conspires against us and new foes appear literally from nowhere (hey you, yes you scenario designer, stop throwing curveballs at us!).
The drifter has the bark, now he needs to get back to the cauldron at the entrance and get on with the special brew. The geminate helps him get through another wave of monsters with a Firefly Swarm attack that kills 3 snow imps at once! Impressive!

As for me, I’m too busy stealing every bit of furniture that’s lying around, there’ll be not a single bit left after I’m done!

With a bit of fiddling we manage to cook the special recipe, the Hungry Maw is satiated and gets back to sleep. Success!

And don’t forget, what’s hot entering is hot exiting too!

Closing Comments:

  • We’ve had a much easier time with this one than the last scenario but it took more than 3 hours, longer than usual. Part of the set-up we didn’t even get to see: the room with the Hungry Maw and a forking path that has locked when we chose to go the other way.
  • There was a (mainly) mathematical puzzle at the end, our first answer was wrong but was taken into account by the scenario, providing us with another hint. The hint confused the hell out of me but Math came up with the answer, phew!
  • We’ve got through the entire loot deck this time with me picking up a big chunk of it as I’m almost always lagging behind. What can I say, someone has to do it!
  • Hey look! I’ve finally added the names of our characters! I guess Miasma is finally remembering who’s tagging along beside her undead minions…

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