The Bard and the Monk
January 28, 2023
The Party
- Gilbert Fezziwig (Gnome Artificer) – Mark M.
- Maran Maraka (Half-Elf Bard) – Mark C.
- Nihl (Dragonborn Monk) – Kasey
- Rosetta (Human Cleric) – NPC
- Villitch (Aasimar Paladin) – Ross
Marching through the Gariagas Woods, the party came upon the town of Motia whose woodcutters had been going missing of late. The Half-Elf Bard Maran Maraka told them he was searching for a wizard who had learned the Black Art of turning men into orcs and suspected the missing were being put to that purpose.
Furthermore, another adventuring party had come this way on the same search only the day before, heading up the road to Sylora. Maran joined the adventurers and, halfway there, they came to the aid of a Dragonborn Monk named Nihl who had been ambushed by bugbears.
Nihl, the sole survivor of that previous expedition, was heading back to Ludinium to find reinforcements. He gladly took up with the party in order to get back at his foe, Neyata, the Evil Half-Elf Wizard who was making Orcs out of men. It was the same process that turned Goblins into the very Bugbears they had just fought. First, however, they all took lodging in Sylora.
Following Nihl’s lead, the party walked through miles of wooded swamp to find Neyata’s crumbling keep. Wasting no time, they entered and engaged Bugbears, Orcs and even Zombies made from Nihl’s former team-mates! Neyata fled when the fight went against her.
In the dungeon, the heroes found a horrific laboratory where Neyata had conducted her Black Magic, but little else as she had made off with all of her notes and materials. One thing was found, however: a small wickerman figure which could be used to contact Griselda the Green Hag.