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,
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.