New Prey, Part 1

Seeing the mysterious board post asking for aid, three adventurers, Prim, Walter, and Roger, all set out for the Pygmy Forest surrounding Drake's Harbour. After interviewing local hunters, they found the pack of Ursus, former Huntmaster of The Hunting Lodge of Hunter's Glen. He and his lieutenants spoke to them in their werebear forms, and asked for aid against a local pack of vampire werewolves. They knew the pack was getting a drug called bloodroot from a local dealer, but the werewolves knew Ursus' face. The party agreed to find the dealer at the Needy Adventurer in the treetops of the arboreal city and set off.   In the Needy Adventurer, they were able to convince a local pusher, Hala, to acquire the drug from her boss, who turned out to be an expatriated noble from Waterdeep named Lord Orlpar. Before they could approach him, however, some calimshan mercenaries arrived and the noble left to meet with their leader who he seemed to know. Their leader then loudly announced her name as Dhusarra, and initiated a Hunt of Malar with Orlpar as the prey. The calimshan then revealed their true nature and gave chase to the now-fleeing lord, who jumped out the window with his ring of feather falling.

Roger and Prim followed after and were able to slay many of the werewolves and drive off Dhusarra, but not before the enemy slew Orlpar. The slain werewolf pack, however, changed into a gaseous mist and disappeared down the sewers. Meanwhile, Walter stayed behind in the tavern to protect the citizens with a protective barrier, but local drug buyers found themselves destroyed by the same spell. Walter pursued one of the werewolves chasing Hala into a backroom, and used disrupting weapon to destroy the vampire utterly. Hala was very grateful, indeed so was the whole city, and local government decided not to pursue the matter of the slain drug dealers. The party were able to keep the body of Lord Orlpar, ostensibly for investigating the matter further, and decided to return on a later day.