Session 1

The players awake to find themselves bound with ropes in a small cave, with a Dwarf snoring away next to them. After awaking the Dwarf, they introduce themselves, realizing they were all waylaid on the road by Goblins and captured. They easily escape the clutches of the Goblins in the starting cave, and after a group of Emerald Company mercenaries arrive, looking to rescue them, they make their way back to Eldham. On their way out, Mai cleverly disarmed a falling rocks trap by using Mold Earth to turn the rocks into one solid mass and bind it to the ceiling. They returned the Elven woman Citra to her husband at their farm, where they stayed until mid-day.

Players made their way to the Messy Cushion tavern in Eldham where they met the barkeep, Reginard Silverstring. They checked the job board where they saw notices about the Baron's items going missing, a general warning about some roads leading out of town being attacked by Goblins, and a farmer whose chickens were being stolen and his scarecrows were moving closer to his house each day. Reginard directed them to the Dead Goose Inn across the city where they found Merith Keylen, one of the Emerald Company members that came to rescue them. Merith made the party Whelps in the Emerald Company with the exception of Tamas who was already a Recruit.

The party decided to investigate the farmer whose chickens were going missing and ventured to his farm. They found him on the porch of his farmhouse with his eyes nervously glued to the scarecrows that were creeping up to his house. He told the players his story and they decided to wait for nightfall to keep an eye out to see what happened. They took turns patrolling, but it took a while for them to notice anything. They heard a sound of rock hitting rock where the Goblins were attempting to break the rock formed around the scarecrow stakes that Mai had used Mold Earth on. They investigated but kept just missing the Goblins and finding nothing but the broken up molded earth and a nearby stone. The players noticed the chickens were no longer making any noise and investigated, only to find that most of the chickens had gone missing. They finally caught one of the Goblins and chased him, and Mai knocked him out. They hid nearby and waited for him to wake up, the followed him back to his lair, where they found chickens buried in the ground with their heads above ground, clucking confusedly. They confronted the Goblins, who told them they just wanted to grow more chickens since the farmer wasn't doing anything with them, and they planted the chickens to grow. They claimed they would give the first harvest back to the farmer. These were a stupider breed of Goblins with yellow skin. Shortly after, a Hobgoblin emerged and asked the Goblins what was going on before becoming aggressive towards the party and engaging them. Tamas attempted to capture him to get information, but ended up shooting it in the head and killing it. They brought the chickens back to the farmer and told him what happened. He paid them and they set off on the road back to Eldham.

The players encountered a man, appearing to be a hunter, making camp for the night, roasting some rabbits. He offered to share his dinner and the party eagerly accepted. He explained he was going to stop through Eldham on his way to Carran and was too tired to continue, but he was nervous because of Goblin activity. Upon being served the rabbit stew, all of the players except for Dain fell asleep. Dain threatened the man assuming the worst, and the man's comrades emerged from the forest, outnumbering Dain 3 to 1. They told him to hand over all his valuables, to which he decided instead to engage them, and that's where the session ended.