Expedition 11: The Troll of Blackwater Bog

### Summary

We venture into the Blackwater swamp to gather intact troll corpses for Lin'dsey, and return with our quarry.

### Detailed Writeup

In the early hours of the morning, the party decides it's best to go by the water and rent two rowboats, in case something happens to one (which Feng refuses to let happen). Jamie, Calliope, and Tolyr take one boat and Feng and Lahont are in the other.

The adventurers reach the swamp and continue inland via a mangrove-lined river, and come across trolls quicker than they expected. Two trolls come lumbering towards the party, one toward each boat. The trolls try to tip the boats over, only managing to flip over the boat with Jamie, Calliope, and Tolyr. Because Calliope is shorter than the 4-foot water level, Jamie takes her on his shoulders as the fight commences.

The party fights the trolls, while they spot a third troll coming from the bank behind. Calliope uses shield and blocks the troll's blows effortlessly, just as she slams massive thundering punches at them. Lahont "the Finisher" Bowyerson kills the troll in front of him with his rapier, but Tolyr's fire damage causes the troll to instantly catch on fire and turn to ash.

Jamie, realizing that he's been holding his sword incorrectly for the last two rounds, finally finds his grip and slays the second troll with two hefty slashes of his claymore. The third troll, now attacking the party, gets walloped by Calliope's gauntlets. Lahont tries to hide in the boat. The trolls know he's in the boat.

To everyone's surprise, the troll that Jamie slew rears back up. The other troll grabs the boat with Lahont in it and starts dragging him away, but he rolls out in time. Jamie slays the troll once more, and Feng grapples it. Lahont pours acid on it, killing it for good. The third troll gets away, but the party has one intact troll corpse for Lindsay.

The trolls came out of a small grotto, flooded with water. Feng checks it out, but steps in a bear trap, dealing him quite a lot of damage. The party uses Tolyr's 10 foot poles to check for more traps - they find four, and Feng almost steps into another one. These trolls are crafty - what could they be protecting? The party finds a bone dagger with a sapphire embedded in it, as well as a salt-encrusted obelisk of some sort.

On the way home, the party spots a chest that looks like it's been dumped among the mangrove trees. We poke it with the now 8-foot pole, but nothing happens so Jamie goes up and flips it over. Surprise - it's a mimic! The party all fights the mimic, learning that one's hands tend to get stuck to it. Feng deals the final blow with his war hammer.

Amongst the splinters of wood and gore, they find a series of statuettes made out of various metals depicting mousefolk, as well as 3 gem-encrusted necklaces of diamonds, emeralds, and ruby.

The party discusses the merits of having a mimic as a pet, Feng would like to call one Chester and the party doesn't really know whether or not Calliope was joking by proposing the idea.

On the journey home, Calliope asks about Feng's armor, and he explains in a long monologue in orcish, finishing just before Tolyr completes the ritual cast to comprehend languages.

	+ 6 healing potions,
	+ potion of stoneskin
	+ oil of sharpness
* Dagger of the Second Day: part of a set of two, right now is a +1 magical dagger (would do cool stuff if we could find the other)
* Keeping around the 300gp of diamonds in that necklace for future...
* The party splits:
	+ 600gp of remaining necklaces
	+ 1 silver of salt on obelisk - it is a salt stone, it can gather 1 silver a week of salt from salt water. Feng takes up this task and the party will split the 1 silver a week.
	+ Lindsay's store credit
	+ Statues, if we can sell them we will split the money later.