1st Session Exercise - Remnant

Many rumors swirled about the mist, but they were so plentiful, and at times so outlandish that telling fact from fiction was virtually impossible. However, every once in a while, it was said that forest spirits that had previously dwelt in the forests were being forced to flee. Many people had spoken about small troops of fauns, dryads, and brownies forlornly departing from their woodland home. Druids close to these creatures have apparently been told of foul creatures that have polluted the woodland the deepest of roots to the peaks of the highest treetops, and even the air itself. The contaminated monstrosities are said to have been incubated in the mists and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. One faun even gave a description of something that resembled a crocodile, but one that stood as tall as a horse with pink bloated flesh, a short whip-like tail, and a snout that tapered off like a beak. The faun left saying the horrors were incrementally making their way out of the forest.

The Drangord River crossing at Eliany Ford nearly saw the end of the entire expedition when the water level rose unexpectedly just when the adventurers were mid-stream. The river's water suddenly ran thick, black, and odorous, and among the four of us all but Augustin's mount were lost. The freak occurrence was seen as a poor omen, as the river's source lies in the forest.

My cougar Beast was nervous about the water, so I coaxed her to cross first before I readied everyone else. This perhaps both doomed and saved us, as the river waters rose unexpectedly fast. I was able to loop a rope around my companion as she pulled most of us out of the river.

As the party nears the forest borderlands they passed through a town/village/encampment all the still standing buildings were nailed/boarded up as a slow creeping fog starts to envelope the settlement. It starts out only surrounding a few buildings and then the whole area. Just as quickly as it came, it disappears. As we the party crest a hill we see a settlement down the road.