What Happens In The Forest

an adventure starring Skirmish, Pugsley, Gatsby, and Berta. 
Tweet: What Happens in the Forest: Gatsby, Pugsley, Berta, and Skirmish take to the trees! Join them as they fight ferocious fiends, traverse tall trees, restore rustic residences, and seek to save a smiling seed. 
Setting: the forest outside Metdifov
Non Player Characters: 
* Chet Chittertooth 
* Anaril Evanara 
* Robin Treehollow 
Plot Summary:
Pugsley, Skirmish, Gatsby and Berta begin this adventure not in their guild hall but within the forest outside of Metdifov in western Guaso. The Party have been kind enough to accompany Pugsley to Metdifov, to help him look for his lost acorn friend Nedry, Who was stolen by "evil squirrels". They start their search in the dense canopy layer, Gatsby conflagrates a bundle of dastardly tree foliage that is blocking the party's progress, Exposing several large clumps of dried leaves and detritus. Upon investigating one of the clumps of dead leaves Skirmish discovers it is a squirrel nest. Pugsley immediately beckons Skirmish to capture the squirrel so the party can interrogate him into the whereabouts of the lost acorn friend.
The scared squirrel informs the group that Chet Chittertooth has been taking the acorns as an investment, and he can be found at the "lid of the forest", which the squirrel tells them (albeit panicked) is down. The group set out looking for Chet. As all adventurers do they start at the bottom and work their way up. 
Gatsby attempts to "help" Pugsley down by giving him the boot, but is saved by Berta's flying magic swifter. As soon as the party gets to the forest floor an Ekenblim zooms past the group, moving at incredible speed and spreading its dreaded dust all over the party. Pugsley attempts to hold his breath, but suspects it's too late, the entirety of Niquamui has basically been subjected to the problematic powder.
Not long into their search of the undergrowth, Skirmish hears a rustling from a nearby fern. Upon investigating he discovers what he believes to be a furless puppy dog, but in reality is a giant undead salamander searching for its next meal, A wash of stench surrounds the courageous friends and more undead animals appear from the undergrowth like an early 2000's horror comedy. Skirmish is heavily injured by his putrid foe as Berta comes to the rescue with her Lavender scented air freshener and her powerful magic swifter. Pugsley makes the wrong move climbing a tree only to be assaulted by an undead snake, and Gatsby faces off with a very dead deer.
Once the Salamander is dealt with, Skirmish protects his friends and makes monkey jam with his huge warhammer, Berta Goes ZAP ZAP ZAP with her magic swifter, Pugsley misses with some arrows, and Gatsby devises a plan to create Guaso's first portable war crime (trapping the undead deer in a portable hole).
With our friends fairly roughed up but still standing (sorta, Berta is sitting, always sitting, she works hard you know) they continue their investigation. Soon they are approached by Anaril Evanara, A good friend and fellow FBK member's sister (Runii Evanara). She very kindly sells some healing potions to Skirmish and Pugsley. After a brief discussion the group discovers that she is responsible for the squirrels sentience; in fact, she had developed a powder created by experimenting with Ekenblim dust that will imbue any organic object with sentience. Pugsley finds out that Anaril thinks she remembers an acorn she made sentient named Nedry, and tells the party to seek out the "Lid of the World".
They group departs from Anaril but not before she gifts the group with a song and 3 flying magic leaves. Gatsby never bothered to get his leaf flying license and finds himself with quite the concussion when "someone put a tree in his way".
Flying to the understory layer of forest on their newfound leaves, Pugsley picks out a house in the distance to investigate. The party approaches and Skirmish knocks on the door. A human woman answers, recognizes Gatsby and quickly slams the door. Gatsby takes a nap (which is not advisable with a concussion, but no-one even tries to stop him) and the FBK Team try the door again. The woman answers, explaining she is Robin Treehollow, and Gatsby is one of the FBK that caused her to lose her job. She poured all her resources into moving away from Niquamui, creating this house in the trees. The kittens try to get some information from Robin, but she is much more worried about her current living situation: when she built her house she cast a very very expensive spell to cause the tree her house sits in to be permanently in status, thus to not grow and keep the house level. However, a lady came by and gave the tree sentience and now the tree can once again grow, which is quite problematic. The Kittens agree to go speak with Anaril to ask her to return the tree to its stasis state.
Gatsby devises a plan to ask Anaril to only break the spell for 70 years, because Robin is human (its not going to matter after she passes if the tree starts growing again... Who ever heard of inheritance?). 
Anaril agrees to return the tree to stasis for 70 years and the Kittens return to Robin for information on Chet Chittertooth and the Lid of the world. She pays the Kittens with pencil looking currency (how else would they carry 100'00 gold)
After departing Robin's house on their leaves and swifters. the Kittens head to the "Emgergent layer" of the forest, on their way Gatsby again not quite skilled at driving a leaf runs head first into a tree hollow filled to the brim with honey. Pugsley as helpful as he can be tries to pull Gatsby from this sticky situation he found himself in, However he is unsuccessful and Mr. Killington has to step in and assist. Bloody and Sticky Gatsby and his fellow kittens find their way to the "Lid of the world" Where they discover a fat sleeping squirrel, Pugsley recognizes this squirrel as the one who long ago stole Nedry from him. Skirmish jumps into action blasting the bloated rodent far far away. Gatsby seeing an odd effect in the sky is then thrown into the clouds by Skirmish,
Pugsley asks Skirmish to throw him but then realizes he has a flying leaf and can just float up to it....but what's said was said.
In the sky mirage, Pugsley and Gatsby are attacked by several voracious chipmunks, Pugsley makes a quick getaway feeling he is close to finding his life long friend, while Gatsby is retained by rodent teeth. 
Meanwhile Berta and Skirmish share a moment then decide to follow their friends.
Pugsley comes to an area oddly devoid of nuts, but calls to his friend regardless, seemingly feeling his presence. He hears a distant voice, he recognizes it as Nedry (despite never actually hearing it before) he finds his friend and pockets him, deciding to return to his new friends to lend aid.
Gatsby is in a bind suffering quite a bit of damage from his tiny foe, he is forced to plane shit into the ethereal plane, the tiny chipmunk quite confused continues to latch onto Gatsby's ankle, while he is floating through nothingness he notices a pseudo office filled with Ekinblim seemingly watching the people of Drawes. He quickly devises a plan, and with merely a thought, he summons the power to entangle the chipmunk into the material plane of the Ekinblim office as well as finally releasing his "portable war crime" Panic and chaos ensues
Skirmish and Berta finish off the rest of the Wiley chipmunks just as Pugsley arrives on the scene, Gatsby re materializes.
The Kittens do a Predator style hand shake, and wearily head back home to take a long overdue rest.
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