Games Seventy-Four: The Herd

 In the Seventy-Fourth foray into Dragonreach ("The Herd"), a band of novice heroes accepted a contract to investigate a remote farmstead, from a perfectly normal farmer...

...who reported strange doings surrounding his perfectly normal herd of cows...

The party's novice paladin quickly deduced that the cows were (mostly) extraplanar "Abyssal Cows" somehow summoned to this plane.  

A series of mishaps led the party to being surrounded by the intelligent, malicious, and man-eating demon cows, and fleeing into a hidden, flooded passage under the cow pasture's pond - whereupon they found an imprisoned demon who claimed to have been trapped by some sort of lich until it had granted a certain number of boons to mortals.  One of the farmers, it seemed, had been availing himself of the demon's boons.  

 After accepting a few demonic boons, the party decided that further exploration underground was too dangerous, and so tried to escape back out of the pond.  Unfortunately, the cows and the corrupted farmer were waiting...

The band desperately hacked their way past, with the unfortunate paladin dying in the attempt, and fled.  This night, at least, the demon cows prevailed...