Session 2: Fishy Disappearances

The party began their travel through the Ignian Marsh, catching catfish, shivering in the cold of the winter, and began to get to know one another over the three days. On the third day of travel, the party had begun to see people, rowing in the waterways between reeds, fishing, or simply relaxing. It was as they began to see more people, they heard a man sobbing among the reeds. Axel and Caz were quick to leap from the cart and investigate. Michael followed, with complaints from the others about being stuck together. Caz and Axel check if the man was okay, and they quickly learnt his name to be Lucas, a local fisherman in town. His two daughters had gone missing, like many of the kids in the village of Marn. So Caz, Axel and Michael would offer to help. When Lucas returned to the cart, Darkpaw had altered himself to look more human like, and Dru had only scoffed at his "shame for who he is". So the party travelled to Marn, a damp and dark wooden town, built above the marshy waters. They were quick to begin their ivestigation. On the way they met Lucas' eldest daughter, the Thawn of the town (Oscar), and his advisor, Benjamin. Soon after, Axel and Darkpaw headed out of town to meet Daehlan, the reclusive drow many of the townspeople suspected while Dru and Michael took to asking more direct questions to the public, and discovered rumour of an elderly woman who no one seemed to know very well. Caz, had found a similar lead...   After much investigation, the party gathered theories, and followed their suspicions. Darkpaw had stolen a boat from a man who saw the gnoll and fled in fear. Caz and Axel had followed him to the largest waterway in the Marsh they had seen. Here Darkpaw explainec that their is some kind of ominous magic on the other side. Meanwhile, Michael and Dru finally found the old woman, Allana. Who was supposedly Benjamin's grand mother. They had asked to come over to her place to talk, instead, he dismissed them, implying that these strangers were up to no good.   So, Dru and Michael followed this woman all the way out of town, deep into the Marsh, and witnessed the old woman, simply disappear into it's murky depths. Dru was quick to stick her head in the water to see where she went. There was an ominous silence in the water, before elongated, wrinkled fingers reached for her face, pulling her in the water. The old woman had tugged her through the waterway by the hair, so Drue too her dagger, and simply cut some of her hair clean off. Michael was quickly lifting Dru from out of the water, towards the shore that they had seen someone run through. At the time, they did not know it was Caz. Axel, Darkpaw and Caz, had discovered a beautiful Willow tree where candles were lit, a bowl of blood and guts sat, and to further inspection, where corpses' were sprawled in the water. Axel had let out a thunderous burst to the tree, in rage and hope that whoever had done what they did to the children would appear. Caz had heard what he thought was Michael's voice and was quickly sprinting further inland. The other's followed, and eventually both groups found themselves at a camp, with three tents and a fire lit. From one tent, Allana appeared, but her figure transformed, her hair growing longer, her nose stretching further from her face, her skin fading into a mossy shade of green. She let out a cackles as Dru spoke up  

"We found your home"

  The party were quickly fighting a small coven of three hags. Axel had lit up some of the hags in a violently bright display of faerie fire, Dru had quickly targeted the hag who they followed there, slamming into her with her fists, Caz had slammed into a hag that had called him a boy with a cocky line, and Darkpaw had blessed his allies before exploring the camp, to find anything useful or signs of the children. He had found them in one of the largest tents to which they all ended up screaming and shouting that the hags had sent a giant dog to eat them. While Darkpaw tried to calm them, the rest of the party brought down the hags. Caz and Michael returned the children to their homes, to which Caz received many thanks and even a hug from a teary eyed mother. Darkpaw and Axel explored the camp. And Dru... well Dru put down Benjamin without the parties knowledge. It was swift, clean, and she left no trace of what she had done with her psionic abilities.   And so, the party saved the children of Marn, and still founnd themselves in the small town before they continue their adventure.