View source for Wellspring of Wrath

{{Infobox expedition log
| title             = Wellspring of Wrath
| date              = 4/10/2023
| storyteller       = Dag
| tier_of_play      = Trainee/Expert, Hard
| player_characters = [[Cutter Black]], [[Bodrukk Ninelives|Bodrukk]], [[Vreal Leethal]], [[Hiromi]], [[Bright Eyes]], [[Timid Thistle]], [[Coitessezin|Cozin]]
| rewards           = Rewards: 350 xp, 150 gp, 7 Antiplague, Aeon Stone (Dusty Rose Prism), Bracelet of Dashing, Shadow Rune, Healer's Gel (Lesser) Formula, Stone Body Mutagen (Lesser) Formula
| result            = Success
| author            = Tas
}}

== Description ==
Sideun has been studying the 5 specimens brought back and determined the following: The creatures were once normal animals, they do not detect as magical, and the tumors inside them either should have already killed them or would have soon. Scouts were sent out to canvas the wilderness, and discovered an area where there was a higher density of these creatures deep in the woods. Go out and investigate, but keep your guard up, as these creatures have proven deadly in the past, and its possible you will encounter variants not yet seen.

== Log ==

* We're headed to a scouted area where more mutations were spotted. Our goal is to determine whether there's some kind of source to the corruption. Some kind of wellspring, if you will.
* 8 hour trek. On approach we see many tracks we could start to follow down.
* Timid Thistle IDs bear tracks, wolf tracks, and bunny tracks.
* We find a dead bear among many dead rabbits. After Bodrukk yeets several dead rabbits into the nearby woods, we find that there are indeed 4 living mutated bears. And 4 mutated wolves :|
* Huge damage from Tinker using Alchemist's Fire on the wolves, which are weak 10 to fire!
* Vreal goes down to a bear in round 2 but we've taken out all the wolves
* Cozin sets a new damage record: 96 damage in one strike, absolutely murderizing a mutant bear.
* We defeat the bears and spend downtime healing
* We continue following tracks and hear mutant badgers off in the distance
* We come across a den with a few mutant badgers
* This seems to be some kind of sinkhole with a large pool of still water
* At the end of the first round of combat, a giant crocodile comes out of the sinkhole
* We take down the first couple badgers
* Timid Thistle trips the huge croc with a crit!
* Cutter Black kills the last badger right in time to avoid it knocking out Bodrukk
* Timid Thistle double-crits the croc for a huge kill 
* Bodrukk to Level 7, Timid Thistle to Level 5, Vreal to Level 6
* The water here is clearly the source of corruption. Cozin takes a cauldron of it to test later and sets up some snares. Bodrukk plans to block the path with logs as much as he can to discourage animals from drinking this.
* Cozin traps: Caltrops, 2x Deadweights, Detonating Cures