The gourd on Melita's leg just bites that much more aggressively for her violence, and while Amalia's shifting does catch the pumpkins off-gourd, it's Jyoti who truly saves the day. Gathering all her willpower and strength, the starwhale is able to blanket the field suddenly in stoothing starlight, finally lowering tensions enough for the fighting to come to an end.
As though called back by an invisible force, the vampire pumpkins stop their assaults and begin to scramble back to where their leader waits, its dark eye holes ever so slightly less menacing now. With one last growl it speaks into Amalia and Fangorn's minds, but it doesn't take an Attuned to know what it has to say:
We do not forget; we do not forgive.
Though on this day we let you live
Never hall we call you friend-
Go now, and seek us not again!
The gourds have allowed you all to escapethanks to Jyoti's critical success! Their advice: gtfo
As though called back by an invisible force, the vampire pumpkins stop their assaults and begin to scramble back to where their leader waits, its dark eye holes ever so slightly less menacing now. With one last growl it speaks into Amalia and Fangorn's minds, but it doesn't take an Attuned to know what it has to say:
Though on this day we let you live
Never hall we call you friend-
Go now, and seek us not again!
The gourds have allowed you all to escape
