Chapter 1

Small Town Troubles

The fledgling adventuring party learns about their new powers and abilities as Orbital Strike begins searching the town for the Astral Orb. The party looked into a poisoned well, which led them to work with local alchemist 'Greasy' Greg Gremble (first by helping him "milk" a Shambling Mound), then they found out there was a mermaid secretly living in the lake who instructed them to go destroy a Grung spawning pool upstream. Meanwhile the party looked into the strange happenings around Nora's free-roaming horse named Clarence, specifically how he seemed to disappear into a tree in The High Forest. They also tracked down a Boggle named Goop, who returned their stolen items. Reka Rearguard was murdered and the party staked out to find a zombie pounding on Iwana Sais's door, which they destroyed, revealing a ghost of her mother who said that her daughter was in great danger.

Session 2

Greenwake 41

Aired tried out his new brewer's kit but the bottle exploded
Feannag and Nira discussed how to keep the sheep safe in the future
A town meeting was called, led by Alduin Silversmite and Reeve Fona Goldcrest, announcing that there was likely a shapeshifter in their midst. The shapeshifter is dangerous and can assume anyone's form, so villagers should travel in groups of three for safety. An investigation was being conducted to track down the shapeshifter. Tony's Pajamas were found behind The Bursting Barrel, so he was likely the shapeshifter and has taken on a new form
Simon Sais spoke up at the meeting, saying there was a banging and scratching at his door around 3am last night
Wrenn spoke up, concerned they were the shapeshifter after their magical lightning outburst the night before
Nira pulled Gabriella Starsyx aside for a quick discussion of her fledgling magical abilities, though somewhat rude Gabriella was able to give her some pointers, Rip also followed along and both gained a modicum of control over simple spells
Wrenn met with their mentor Tam Thunderhand, who revealed that he was a forge cleric adventurer before he settled in Grey Hawk, they worked together to forge a +1 shield and they learned to control a small amount of divine magic over a few hours of training montage
Feannag talked with Foke Barnswaggle, who mentioned the well by his house seems poisoned and also heard tales of a mermaid in the lake from some local fishermen, Feannag blames the Reeve
Took a sample of water from the suspicious well and Aired analyzed it with his brewer's kit, decided to bring it to the expert: 'Greasy' Greg Gremble
Greg was in the middle of trying to "milk" the fluids of a Shambling Mound, a powerful plant monster of the High Forest. The party helped him collect 3/5 spiles of fluid and escape the mound, but not before Wrenn and Aired dropped to 0HP

Session 3

Greenwake 41-42

Short rest at 'Greasy' Greg Gremble's house while he used his alchemy equipment to analyze the well water, was able to distill a black curse fluid out of the water, which Aired took. He also mentioned it could be from something evil or poisonous living in the water and contaminating it.
Greg also mentioned that he was working on Lightning Resistance Potions with the Shambling Mound fluid and that they should bring interesting fluids to him for trade in the future
Went to The Bursting Barrel and spoke with Nora Gremble, Gerthwin Bartelby, and Dutch 'The Boozer King' Ottenbrau, while Nora was feeding Clarence, who seemed to have miraculously healed from his injuries the night before
Went to the docks of the fishing village, met Yarr Xibloes who offered to take them out to look for the mermaid in the morning
Went back to The Bursting Barrel where Tony's Pajamas were found, Void was already there, they described the danger of the shapeshifter and how they'd been tracking it for over a year since it's kind wiped out their village somewhere among the stars
Long Rest
Woke up early and went out with Yarr to find the mermaid by the waterfall
Saoirse introduced herself, said she'd been living in the lake for years but the poison was ruining the water, must be coming from a village of poisonous Grung upriver spawning in the waters
For some reason they then threatened Yarr and gaslit him into believing they didn't find a mermaid
On their way back through town they saw a crowd around Simon Sais and Iwana Sais's house, upon further inspection they found Reka Rearguard dead, clearly killed sometime in the middle of the night and found in the morning. She had blunt trauma and a nasty bite taken out of her side, then she likely bled out. She had a shovel with her.
Feannag interviewed Simon, he said he heard the banging on his door again and a scream around 3am. Investigation cut short when town guards arrived and took over.
Trekked into The High Forest along the Dessarin River for about 2 hours, found some Grung in the shallows of the river guarding a spawning pool full of tadpoles. The Grung tried to chase them away, fired a warning shot and the party attacked and killed all but one who fled and went for backup.
While the air filled with the sounds of Grung in the trees the party considered whether or not to destroy the spawning pool and the ~300 tadpoles in it. Nira blasted the pool with Sacred Flame before they fled
Aired took a sample of Orange Grung Poison

Session 4

Greenwake 42

Party discussed moral implications of destroying Grung spawning pool
While about 2 miles north of town a small figure appeared and stole Wrenn's 100gp pearl
The party chased but it escaped all grapples with slippery oil on its skin and using small dimensional rifts to flee. Party opted not to chase into The High Forest
Saw Clarence walking around in the forest, Nira called him over and fed him some hay then they all went back to town
Back in town they saw the villagers queueing up to go into a small booth set up with a magical aura around it
Feannag snuck up to it and overheard Alduin Silversmite interviewing villagers one-by-one for info on the shapeshifter. He was using Zone of Truth to get secrets out of people, and guards were marking off names from the book when they had been vetted by Alduin
Aired went in for an interrogation, passed easily, Cock went in and was detained for not being able to answer truthfully due to his failed memory
Nira was able to vouch for him to get him free of the guard's quarters
Feannag and Wrenn had no interest in being interrogated, wanted to sneak away and avoid Alduin
Feannag stealthily tracked Bailey Fanteaser back to his house with the book of names, then stole the book, crossed his own name off, and left the book on Bailey's porch
Went to see 'Greasy' Greg Gremble who was able to identify the slippery and sticky goo they collected from the goblinoid thief as coming from a Boggle, a bogeyman chaotic evil fey who use trickery and thievery to cause mischief and steal shiny trinkets
Sold Orange Grung poison to Greg, who examined it and said it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the water supply, suggested the cursed fluid could be from some sort of evil fey in the area
Party set about gathering shiny trinkets to try to catch the Boggle in a trap behind The Bursting Barrel, Feannag bought stuff from the market and Wrenn polished up steel armor scraps from Tam's Forge and Blacksmith Shop
Managed to catch the Boggle, who answered questions in exchange for shiny "treasures"
It's name is Goop, and it lives under Bailey's house and fucks with him constantly. Traded trinkets for Wrenn's pearl and a small magic item. Goop also mentioned that the vile liquid smelled like "her," some mysterious mistress who hurt it before.
Rip cast Alarm on Simon Sais's door to try to catch the culprit of the banging

Session 5

Greenwake 42

After discussing how to set a trap to catch whatever was banging on Simon and Iwana's door, the party followed Clarence on his midnight trot into the woods
Though he spotted them and ran away, they were able to track him to a clearing with a huge ancient oak tree
The group was spotted by a group of territorial boars, which attacked, dropping Rip to 0HP, but they were easily dispatched by the group. Aired opted to knock them unconscious rather than kill the beasts. Rip started a small forest fire
Feannag noticed Clarence run behind the oak with a green flash, and after chasing him he saw the tree closing up some sort of magical doorway. Upon further inspection Aired noticed some druidic runes carved into the roots
After managing to put out the forest fire, the party returned to camp following Nira's skein of yarn she'd laid down on the way out
Short rest in Rip's nest
Feannag set up a stakeout across from Simon Sais and Iwana Sais's house, saw a figure approach and bang on the door in the dark. The rest of the party arrived and Wrenn recognized the zombie as Cima Fanteaser, Iwana's mother
After banging on the door unsuccessfully for a few minutes the zombie shambled off down the road to the graveyard followed by the party
Nira, Rip, and Cock kept it distracted with mage hands while Feannag and Aired ran to the Crescent's Rest to get help from Alduin
Alduin quickly dispatched the zombie, and a specter rose out of the body, which the party and Void quickly subdued
Finally calmed, the spirit of Cima was able to communicate that her daughter was in danger, she was pregnant and the baby was some sort of monster. She said she was sorry and was finally at peace
Alduin commented on how the group seemed like a budding new adventuring party, Nira disagreed wholeheartedly. He said they should look into this matter in the town since Orbital Strike was looking for the shapeshifter and didn't have time.
Feannag went to the graveyard and buried the body, everyone else went home to sleep as the sun rose
Long Rest
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