In this episode of Story Game (A story telling game I play with my son 4y/o) Charlie Ghoul the hero and friend to all has reached the column like mountains to the East and must climb upwards to reach the Monastery.

The Story so far (Dwarven King to the Sun Tree):

After teaching the Dwarven King to share and freeing him from the curse of Greed, Charlie is gifted a talisman that allows him to see the true problems of someone's heart. Charlie and Khymal return to the banished dwarven village to share the good news that they may return home to the mountain after many years away. Khymal vows to help them on their journey but will one day return to smith a new crown for the Dwarven king, like his father before him.

Charlie rings his bell from Clause, and in short order, he and his horses and cart appear from over the horizon. Charlie offers to help his charity of toys for children across the world. They begin a journey down the mountain river to the base of the desert and the dried-up lake underneath the great Sun Tree. Heading down the river, his horses turn into giant seahorses, and his cart turns into a boat, and they travel down the river. They play games, eat snacks, and tell jokes. After some time, the river dries up, and Clause's horses leap back to the road and return to being regular horses and a cart.

They travel down to the Sun Tree and begin exploring it, finding veins of poison that run up the branches. While climbing the tree, Hooty acts odd and tries to make them all fall. Unbeknownst to them, Hooty has made a deal with "The Villain" to save his home at the cost of his friends. Charlie and his companions manage to save themselves with Rinky's shrinking magic. Hooty flees and heads down underneath the Sun Tree into the deep caverns below.

Charlie and his friends sneak down below, and their new trap detector helps them safely reach "The Villain's" lair. Once inside, Hooty and "The Villain" stand at the back of the cave with Black-Air in a cage. A battle ensues, but Charlie's new pendant sees that "The Villain's" heart appears to be someone good trapped in a Skeleton Lord's evil body. In the battle, Charlie channels the power of the pendant and the power from the Sun Tree, converting all evil to good. Hooty and the evil in his heart are healed, and "The Villain's" Skeleton form evaporates to reveal an angelic man with ocean blue skin and golden hair. Their name is Ashudan and is a Sun Tree priest from before it was poisoned by "The True Villain," along with all the other terrible villainous things across the land.

Charlie learns that "The True Villain" planted three evil seeds at the base of the Sun Tree, and that they must help defeat them to save the Sun Tree and return life to the lands around the Sun Tree and Hooty's forest. Ashudan reveals a pathway deeper in the Sun Tree that leads to the poisoned seeds. Charlie and everyone travels through the deeper levels, surviving ghost voices and sun spiders, until they find the three evil seeds: Anger, Pride, and Sloth. They defeat them by showing them the opposite, and once they do, the Sun Tree's heart beats back to life.

A dark cloud appears above, it's the "True Villain," who laughs that evil and unkindness will spread. The Sun Tree banishes the "True Villain" with a blast of Sun light, and Charlie and the companions are safe for now. Ashudun and Clause talk and know there is talk of a Monastery to the East that holds some old secrets of how the "True Villain" was imprisoned a thousand years ago, and they must travel there to find the secrets to save the land.