August 8, 2018 Session

Highlights

After the battle with the Ettins, the party follows the steering stone in their possession and hobbles into a shanty town in the woods. They deliver messages to a overly cautious Martin Shimlock while Cirnan Sulo mocks him and demands that they take immediate action against the Polonians.

The party thinks Cirnan is a tool and discusses fighting him , but instead leaves to explore the Black Forest north of the Green River.

Eventually the party happens upon a single elven scout - the first full-blooded elf that the party has ever seen and perhaps the first elf anyone from The Riding has seen in hundreds of years. Yornan walks out onto a wooden bridge to speak with him. They converse in a language that - of the party - only Yornan knows. He pledges that he does not support the evil water devils and agrees to participate in an ambush that is about to occur.

The party hides on a small hillock on one side of the stream that rises out of the marsh. The elf stands alone on the other side. As the Polonians cross the bridge, the party can barely see traces of what are presumably other elves that rises from the scrub and marsh and kill. On their own side of the bridge, the party handles the Polonians easily, but almost falls to an giant alligator that crawls from the swamp. Only the fortitude of Hurodash supplemented by the healing spells of Yornan is sufficient to keep the gator at bay.

At the end of the fight, the elf reappears on the bridge, bows once in the direction of the party, and then disappears into marsh. He leaves behind one small gift, a quiver of 8 arrows.