Where Once They Were, No Man Remains

Where Once They Were, No Man Remains
Date	8/4/2024
Storyteller	Unseelie
Tier	Expert
Player Characters	Mantella, Holly Crown, Jovial Guts, Suttonalia Morroweather, Vara
Rewards	250 exp, 35 pp, 500 cp, Wondrous Figurine (candy constrictor, Ritual: Animate Object, Scrolls (Exchange Image, Allfood, Clownish Curse), Faerie Dragon Liquer (young), Impossible cake (Skeleton Shape), Blast Boots (Moderate and Greater), Invisible Net
Result	Success? (ADDENDUM: We failed to rescue the associates)
Author	Holly Crown
Downtime	7

-We get hired to investigate some associates that went missing.

-Numbered 5 in total, they were tasked with retrieving an important item. Not much information was given on them or the job.

-Apparently they wanted stronger associates, but they ended up hiring us because we were available

-Mantella looks distraught, and Lifegiver is nowhere to be seen. It looks like they had a falling out

-We split up and look for tracks

-Mantella ends up finding tracks that look like they belong to "humanoid-like creatures", one of them is bipedal with hooves

-Jovial sees a trail of blood going into a cave

-Blood seems to be from one source. Either the thing that injured them doesn't have blood, or it wasn't hurt

-Mantella points out that it looks like it could've been an ambush. Might have been a bird, or something else

-The one with hooves was walking behind the person who was bleeding

-We find some brightly colored creatures, not natural, but very asleep. Some sort of aberration

-Mantella says they're called Skrik Nettles. Apparently they eat meat

-Mantella dresses up as me. I can't tell the difference

-We exit the cave to a clearing with a waterfall, and see a bunch of dead frogs and an injured frog

-The living one looks scared. We leave it alone

-We find a spot with a lot of blood. Seperate from the trail we were following

-Vara finds a giant jellyfish

-Looks like an adult stage of the ones we found in the cave

-Vara points out that it's was killed by a lot of weapon and magic attacks

-A giant spined lizard creature attacks us

-It starts eating the jellyfish, we leave it alone

-We come to some sort of mushroom forest. Vara notices a floating sack of blood, and a floating corpse

-The corpse isn't floating for very long. It falls to the ground. It's hair looks like an onion

-We hear sounds of a fight and see some people fighting the strange blood sacs.

-The people look familiar. One of them is an elf with hooves, these must be our associates

-Two of them immediately get their blood sucked out of them, an orc and a Kholo

-I run up to defend them. They seem very surprised. Before I can ask them anything, everything goes black

-When I come to, we're in a completely different place, with more of those skrik nettles. The people I was trying to save are gone

-The nettles attack. They have strange powers that make people float

-They don't like being pierced

-One of the mushrooms nearby eats one of the nettles

-The Nettles keep floating out of my reach, very annoying. I'm the only one not floating during this fight

-Jovial keeps floating higher and higher, about 50 feet off the ground

-She hits the ground with a sickening crunch

-Thinking quickly, I use my feather token to knock one of the nettles away

-Mantella's able to use the tree to maneuver around and heal Jovial

-Vara's floating up really high next, they might be in danger

-He falls, Sutton catches him, pulls him into a twirl. It's a very impressive maneuver

-The battle drags on so long that I just resort to throwing random items at it

-Mantella finishes the job

-I examine the mushrooms, they seem fey in nature

-One of them starts talking. It just wants the jellyfish, and doesn't think we look tasty. It doesn't like the taste of onions. I disguise myself as Mantella because I think it's funny

-We find a bunch of items in a sack in a nearby tree stump, including a cake that looks like a skeleton

-We meet a shimmer theif. It looks lost, and wants to find its cave. We lead it there

-We meet a choir of frogs. They want us to go away so they can practice. We hear something sneezing in a nearby cave. We begin to suspect we're in the first world

-The shimmer theif forgot their name, thinks their called Slimmer Theif. Jovial starts calling them Forgot

-The mushrooms in the cave are sneezing. A bunch of us also start sneezing

-We meet a bunch of Flumphs who don't like their names.

-We run into a gnome with brightly colored hair. From the descriptions from other logs and from Melfyra's descriptions, this must be Gnome Ann.

-She says she sent out a letter to the council 2 days ago.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

(OOC Addendum: The characters we met in-session had similar names to our characters. They were named Sir Kron the Holy, Variel, Sun-Mantel, The Grinning Gutter, and Nora the Sudden Storm)

Where Once They Were, Gnome Ann Remains
Date	8/17/2024
Storyteller	Unseelie
Tier	Expert
Player Characters	Mantella, Holly Crown, Jovial Guts, Suttonalia Morroweather, Vara
Rewards	242 exp, Gnome flickmace, gnome switchscythe, gnome amalgam musket, Gnome hooked hammer, presentable rune, unexceptional rune, called rune, choral lucid rooting rune, disguise kit (elite), scroll of phantasmal protagonist, 300 gold
Result	Success
Author	Holly Crown
Downtime	Same 7 days as the last one

WHERE ONCE THEY WERE, GNOME ANN REMAINS

-Some creatures had letters from their names stolen, Gnome Ann wants us to find the culprits

-Some creatures got turned into different creatures, such as Shimmer Thief turning into a Slimmer Thief

-A fox who was apparently a member of our party shows up. It's name is Member Fox

-A rowdy swarm of rats enters the cave as we try and leave. They start littering everywhere. A frat swarm

-According to Jovial, their booze is weak

-We get outside, and it's turned to night. The frog quartet are asleep

-We come across a bizarre creature, it looks like a bear with bird-like creatures. An owlbear with duck-like features. A fowlbear if you will

-Mantella speaks with the creature. He didn't understand what it was saying

-We find a bison with logs for horns. It might be missing an N

-We come across a pony breeder who's prized pony phased through the walls of the stable. Might be a phony?

-Sutton sees the pony running by behind us. She says it seems to be warping around

-Apparently some people call them war ponies. It's a warp pony

-We head back to the mushroom forest. We find a cat. It stirs up memories of the fey from Cat Village

-Vara hears noises deeper in. We follow him and find a mutterfly

-Holly Crown, err, Mantella? This is getting confusing. I think it's Mantella catches the Mutterfly, it starts whispering things to him. He can't understand it

-We figure that we should try and catch all of the creatures with messed up names and bring them to Gnome Ann.

-Jovail tries screaming at the Warp Pony to catch it

-Vara feeds the pony, it seems to follow us now.

-We decide to bring the smaller creatures to Gnome Ann before dealing with the bison

-The Fowlbear gives us a fish tail. It might be important

-Gnome Ann puts it in her potion

-Vara hears singing from the forest by Gnome Ann.

-Gnome Ann mentions that she keeps finding gnomes named Ed, but she hasn't seen one here yet

-We find a being singing a relaxing song, with a see snake and red carp nearby

-It offers us a dance, Sutton accepts

-Mantella, I'm definetly sure it's Mantella, identifies the being as a Baoban Sith. He's known for sucking people's blood.

-Mantella and Vara find a Basil Disk. Considering the stone creatures nearby, we think we can leave it alone

-We find a bed nearby. It might have ties to the gnome named Ed

-The Baoban Sith doesn't like us messing with the red carp, but doesn't mind the see snake

-The Baoban Sith gets annoyed that we aren't appreciating his dance

-Jovial makes a remark about Sutton being a better dancer, the Baoban Sith gets mad

-A redcap starts trying to attack Sutton, that's when we figure the Red Carp was a Redcap

-After beating him up a little bit, he says we can't fix the names if he's dead. We also find out that he doesn't know his own name. Mantella and I get him to sign a contract, and we bring him and the other creatures with mixed up names in that area to Gnome Ann

- We get all of the mixed up creatures fixed, with some complications because of the Baoban Sith. Here are the names of these creatures:

Bed -> Bread

Cat -> Cat Sith

Slimmer Theif -> Shimmer Theif

Mutterfly -> Butterfly

Baoban Sith -> Mob Ed

See Snake -> Sea Snake

The four Flumphs

Member Fox -> Ember Fox

Warp Pony -> War Pony

Frat Swarm -> Rat Swarm

Log Horned Bison -> Long Horned Bison

Red Carp -> Redcap

-Gnome Ann also wants another group of Associates to come by. I will let the council know

-The council needs to know about the dead associates, so we go to see them.

-We see the posting for the job we just did. We tell the council that we did both of them.

-They say the last one didn't happen and we failed since the associates presumably died. I update my log to reflect this.

-Jovial asks to join my law firm, I accept. I also decide to promote Lifegiver to partner as well, while I'm at it.