Session #7 - The River Job, Part Frog

We continued down the river. The river has been getting wider and wider. The river seems to be flooded, which matches the reports that had come in. Gan says it seems like natural flooding. The timing is odd.
 
As we were heading up the river, four super-giant frogs appeared. They tried to eat us. We killed them, cooked them, and ate them for dinner. Hammond says that the frogs had been enlarged magically, but that doesn't make a lot of sense since the normal enlarging magic doesn't last very long. They also stayed big after they died and did not have magic auras.
 
We got to Trinity that afternoon. The docks are completely underwater because of all of the flooding. The city itself is pretty flooded as well.
 
Trinity is a small city. The primary industries are farming and logging. Our barge polers took us to the Primrose warehouse (it wasn't very big) and started unloading the boat. We went in to check-in with the bosses. We found a half-elf working with books and ledgers. He was also instructing the workers bringing goods into the warehouse.
 
He asked how the trip was, and we (Hammond) said it was fraught with danger. The half-elf guessed giant animals. Apparently the flooding started a week or so ago, and the giant animals appeared about then. Flooding is normal in the springtime, but this is really weird. Farmers in the area are having a hard time with the flooding and giant animals. He decides to hire us to deal with the flooding. All of the flooding is interfering with profits. His "payment" will be to write a letter to tell Gurt to pay us. He suggests that we ask around to try to find some more information. There's an elf that's been in town a few times... but he doesn't give us any more information. Hammond asks, and the half-elf says we can sleep upstairs in the warehouse. Before we go, we ask the half-elf's name, and he tells us to call him Clovis Luanne. Clovis says we can use the rowboats to head upriver, but we have to row ourselves -- he won't send them with us.
 
So, we went to gather information around town. We headed to an inn named The Tipsy Turnip. Throughout the town, there's flooding about an inch deep everywhere, including the warehouse and the inn. We heard about an elf that comes to town occasionally. He's a stinky hermit, and he complains about Choco (god of the water). He comes to town in a boat pulled by a pack of (regular-sized) beavers. He lives up-river. He appears from upriver and returns upriver. His name is Marcel. He hasn't been seen since the flooding began. Choco is a god of the water. No one appreciates how important water is and how great Choco is. He says that the waterways need to be protected and that the farmers and industry are harming the waterways.
 
We decide to head out in the morning, so we headed back to the warehouse to sleep.