Trials, Tribulation, and Treasure

The three of you manage to wrench Barley's chain off the spike as Krogan throws a chair and kicks over the table at the alligator.

The beast in return roars and charges maw gaping to grab Elira. Luckily the dwarf manages to avoid being grabbed.

The beast slumps to the ground under your assault.

Krogan puppies up at this time We best hurry before the cringe returns and helps Elira in grabbing things before heading out of the hut with her

Rhidon guides you as best he can only to realize that he let Flit lead them to the crone and the swamp has many false paths and hidden ways and getting out may be harder than getting in was.
I want both of you to propose some means that will help you get out of the swamps. Include a Test with an applicable skill or Save vs being lost. You can control the NPC for this as well

Barley can feel a strange mental force that permeates the swamp. It leads the mind away from noticing things and confuses the sense of direction.. In addition there is some kind of magic on the path itself. Two actually. One seems to promote plant growth while the other has a sort of suction effect leading only down the path to the hags home.

Between the two of you a story of fey trickster comes to mind where one way paths can be defeated by walking backwards. You experiment a bit any come up with Rhidon, Krogan, and Barely take turns carrying Elira who gave backward while carried. She tells you when your wander off the enchanted path that lead to the hut. Using this method you leave the swamp before sunrise and make your way back to town. Elira and hey mother have a heartwarming reunion. After that talk a while the woman asks the three what they wild like as a reward for helping save her daughter.

The lady takes you oput to diner and pays for your lodging for the night. As you sit around the lady tels some local legends and well as the new she is aware of. Merchants are often the source of new spreading across the land and she has a few interesting points. The Expedition, a cooporative effort between many factions has opened access to a city from the Dawn age and new that portions of it survived the Shattering has brough a stream of adventurers, in and out of it. This seems to have sparked an increase of hostilities as other factions learned of Paphos, the lost city, and moved in to take their share of the prize. Orcs, goblins, hobgobins, lizardmen, and kobolds all have been seen inincreasing numbers. Luckily the city is down river to the west but the conflict between the various vations has spilled beyond it area and is causing tension here at the edge of the dwarven Nation.