Meteor-Rites of Passage

29th June 2023

## Adventurers Attending

* Lv1 - Reece Osborne Reece - Bodvar - Forest Gnome - Ranger
* Lv1 - Jonah Konrad - Hralden - Tiefling - Artificer
* Lv1 - Kirsty Anderson - Star Watcher - Goliath - Paladin
* Lv1 - Harper Alistair Pleasant - Xerxes Kaalahdiil - Dragonborn - Warlock
* Lv2 - Kelvin Murphy - Dúr - Half-Orc - Barbarian
* Lv2 - James Potter - Valen - Aasimar - Warlock
* Lv3 - Ben Walker - Karl - Human - Fighter

## Mission Notes

Arriving at the guild our adventurers were appraised of an overnight situation where weird lights were seen in the sky before an object landed in the Black Swamp, by the guild's glorious leader, Beefington. Enjoying being back and getting to look over the new cannon fodder err I mean recruits, Beefington suggested they go check it out and report back their findings.

After collecting their new member care packages, they headed outside to meet Hamer for a lift to Yellowfield Farms where they asked the locals about the overnight activity, giving Bodvar a chance to survey the Black Swamp closer up and make a plan about how to enter it wisely.

Taking the path in off the road Bodvar continued with the help of the party to navigate past most of the common obstacles and difficulties of the woodland, before the party happened upon a Kobold hunting party who seemed distracted by their prey.

After some debate, the party agreed that attacking now with the upper hand seemed to be the most effective way to proceed through the woodland. As they began downing Kobold, they discovered the prey to be a giant toad, which swallowed a kobold whole. Clearing the Kobold they hoped to befriend the toad, only to find it hungry and were forced to kill it as it attempted to eat and swallow Hralden.

Continuing through the woodland they made it to the impact site. Amidst scorched earth and broken trees at the centre of a crater was a large black rock that was surrounded by Goblins, who appeared to have been in a recent fight. Attempting to intimidate the Goblins away, combat ensued and by collaborating well the party managed to pick off and disperse the Goblins as combat appeared to go in the parties favour. A number of Goblins were killed but their leader and a number of formerly injured Goblins managed to escape.

Investigating the impact site they discovered the body of a large red reptilian frog looking creature that had been slain by the Goblins with an incision would in its head and a cavity with something missing, amongst the body of other dead Goblins. Checking over the meteorite which appeared to be a large crystalline geode, the outer appeared to be covered in a large black crust with divets in that held some slug like tadpoles. A couple of active ones slipped off and appeared to burrow into the ground, while a bunch were inactive or immobile. After taking some drawings the party decided to set fire to everything to destroy all the remaining organic material.

Heading back out of the forest with their new found samples and drawings, the party were set upon by Bullwugs, who demanded to know why the party had been responsible for destroying the forest, after some miscommunication and misunderstanding, the party attempted to intimidate the bullywugs, who didn't seem to be scared, as they were confident that the frog king could handle the party. With the party eventually running from the disgruntled bullywugs as a giant frogemoth came out of the bushes to chase the party away.

Arriving back at the guild and completing some research in the archives, with the help of Creak they discovered that they had likely encountered a dead red Slaad. Further reading suggested that the pests multiply quickly through a number of disease and egg planting methods and that this was likely to become more of an issue.

## Rumours

* Slaadi have entered the black swamp and are likely to multiply and become a threat, what will the guild do?
* Relations between the Guild and the Bullywugs is again fraught, can those relations be repaired?