G15 - Fuck Little Tree

Date: Planting (4) 19th, Earthday, 760

The frog couple that caused issues at Little Tree was dealt with by the party. Exhausted, hurt and wet, they notice that the entire village hard gathered outside. A man, holding a Shepherd's hook, stirred, "I got to go get to my sheep".

The innkeeper of Tankard and Toad urged the group of villagers to either come into the inn or leave, and stop lollygagging. Just like that, the crowd dispersed.

With some more breathing room, Volgis recalled his knowledge about demonic frog eggs, they take 6 days to hatch and a frogspawn of 300 eggs or to. It takes 3 months for the tadpoles to become adolescent frogs. With that information, Mel volunteered to go down the well to destroy the eggs. Olar cast water breathing to her, and she dived right back into the well. Underwater, she went to work with her daggers. Jimmy Sprockets started collecting vials of from slime to make potions.

After a bit of time, it became apparent that Mel was disoriented. Jonom decided to help, they both wanted to stay at the bottom of the well to protect the eggs. Miraculously, they got pulled up from the rope tied around Jonom. Relatively quickly, they both recovered. The party thought that perhaps the broken eggs might cause hallucinations or mind-altering effects.

They decided that they must experiment to figure it out. Aka Noone and Jimmy gathered people to be baptized in the pool, so they can gather test subjects. Six in all, with a 6-year-old going first. They confirmed that the water had a temporary effect on people.

In the meantime, Jonom decided to visit the innkeeper and inform him of what had taken place. The innkeeper was in disbelief, but Jonom was having none of it, things started to get out of hand, until a half-elf patron at the inn stepped in and asked Jonom to leave. The event ended with the Little Tree guard showing up and asking the party to leave. In the process, the Half-Elf traveler stole Jonom's warhammer.

With Jonom not having a hammer, they went to Blacksmith Aralor and bought a pickaxe, the only serviceable weapon he had. Seeing him make nails, they asked for 2,000 nails to be delivered to Snickers at the Adventures INC HQ. From him, they out about Groub Orcfeet Furrier and his brother Steve Orcfeet Butcher.

With their long day over, the went to rest. Jonom in the barn and the rest of the part in the inn. The war bunny was sent to scout and wake Jonom up if something was weird. A few minutes later, the bunny woke Jonom up and took him to the lake and looked down. Jonom collected the group and this time Jimmy went down to the bottom of the lake and destroyed the remaining 73 eggs that were not harmed, but decided to keep one just in case.

The party went to rest again, a few minutes later the war bunny woke up Jonom again. This time it took him to the area outside the inn, where they had vomited at the day before. They discovered a tadpole in the vomit. Which lead to everyone throwing up again.

For the second time, they all went back to sleep. The next day, the party found Jonom sleeping at the bottom of the lake with no memories of why he was there. After buying some furs, they headed to the Forbidden Forest for a second time. Upon entering the forest, they could see a clear line where the snow started. Jonom sent his war bunny to go forward in a straight line, and kill any threats. The party followed its tracks.

An hour later they reached a river going East to West that they jumped over, 30 minutes later the war bunny lost its connection to Jonom, an hour later they found where its tracks ended. They could see something humanoid and barefoot had attacked the bunny, and a broken branch. It occurred to them that whatever it was, it might have been hungry, and the war bunny provided no food. Soon enough, Jimmy located a troll on a tree scrambling to defend themselves. The battle was dangerous, but Jonom managed to land the killing blow on the troll.

Two and a half hours total in the Forbidden Forest, and they had to fight a troll, what else might await them?