Logging Credentials

21st Febuary 2023

Lord Beefington has personally requested a group of adventurers to head to the forest and help out a small logging town community.

## Adventurers Attending

* Sharian Naetris
* Karn
* Rain

## Mission Notes

Karn is called to see Beefington, but he's too busy with port and sausage so sends his spellbook instead, which talks Beefington's daughter into letting him in, after some rebuttals from Beefington about not wanting to talk to a book an illusion of Karn appears and Beefington explains that he needs a group to head to a northern logging town that is being attacked by beasts to help them and if poosinle retrieve a contract bearing Beefingtons seal from the mayor.

After meeting Sharian and his new friend, a and Rain teleporting to the Guild the group teleports to Glimmergate, buys some nice cheese and wine and heads up to the VanDurenVille in the Nothern Vale Forest. After asking around a little the group found the mayor of the town Edwic Van Duren, a fairly rude man who explained wild animals and beasts had been attacking the town, but denied all knowledge of the contract but eagle eyed Karn spotted him locking a contract in a drawer but he claimed this was just his smut collection.

At this point the group heard screaming and headed outside (rain jumping out of an open window), a group of wolves, lions, boars and crag cats were attacking the city, all attempts to communicate with the animals failed, the creatures seeming entirely enraged and only able to attack relentlessly and a battle ensued.

During the fight Rain retreated to the offices and headed upstairs only to find Karns book already in the process of searching the office so he jumped through the now closed window to get back into the fight, meanwhile Karns book with the help of a fairy stole the contract and took it to Karn. Eventually with the animals slain, the group took some time to regroup.

Looking at the scroll Karn found that funded by Van Duren, Beefington in the early days of the Guild had sent a group of adventurers to remove a clan of elves from the forest by any means necessary. Realising the town wouldn't last long Van Duren fled and the group looted his office. One of the remaining town clerks asked them if they would go to the forest to deal with the animals so the remaining townspeople would have time to flee to Glimmergate so the group headed out.

Heading back into the forest on nightmare and steed the group were am bushed by a displacer beast, its two displacer kittens and a Knight are appeared with three dragon wyrmlings. The group decided to outrun these creatures but they refused to pursue instead turning back towards the town, unwilling to leave the townspeople in danger Sharian turned back to fight them, Karn and Rain headed on into the forest however.

After banishing the displacer beast and the Nightmare Sharian made short work of the smaller creatures and git on his broom and made his way back to the group.

Getting ahead of the others Rain was greeted by a small group of Quicklings and other fairies who directed her to a Grove further ahead, the terrain of tangled roots and vines seemed quite difficult but due to Rains truly remarkable abilities to walk through magical plants she passed through fine until she was briefly stunned by some strange nasally talking mushrooms. She then headed into the Grove where she met a dying Treant who told her of Valeria, the druid of these woods who was driven insane by grief at the death of her clan at the hand of the guild adventurers and how she made an agreement with a dark and powerful figure to gain control of an army of animals and beasts to seek vengeance on the town.

The treant was bonded with Valeria and would die when she does but wanted her own body returned to the Feywild but would not go there until she new the forest was safe again. Sharian banished the Treant back tk the Feywild against her wishes and the group headed out to the final confrontation.

Finding her further in the woods, attempts at discussion quickly proved pointless and battle ensued. The party quickly dealt with her bodyguards, a Thri-kreen, a giant crab and a Sasquatch. The druid appeared to be wildshaping but began screaming as the flesh started ripping from her body as she massively grew and turned into a Braxat. A long and grueling fight ensued with Rain being feebleminded and reduced to a shadow of her usual cocky self.

Eventually the party hurt her enough that the druid was returned to her now sevearly damaged body and after a few desperate last spells she was slain by Sharians magic.

The party returned to the fairy's who granted them a small reward and were returned to the Feywild. After a short time Sharian used his magic to return Rain to normal and the group headed back to the guild where to discuss what to do with Beefingtons contract.

## Loot

* Standard Gold and Experience
* Bag of Beans - Karn
* Edwic Van Duren coin purse (Containing 71 gold) - Sharian
* Gold bars taken from Edwic Van Duren's safe (worth 250 gold) - Sharian

## Rumours

* Track down Edwic Van Duren
* Track down the former guild members who killed the elves
* Find out who is controlling creatures against their will