Five Tower Keep Session 6 & 7: 09/12/2018 Our New Hag Friend

The giant encounter went differently than our characters expected, a high pitched female voice commanded the giant. This spooked Ginger causing Stoutwood to give chase into the deep swamp taking the Hunter and his companion the evening to catch up to the rest of the characters. When the two catch up to the rest of the characters, they find them fresh off an encounter with a first-world creature, a forest drake- the second creature our characters have encountered that shouldn’t be on this plane.

We begin at 8 am in M1- each hexagonal territory our characters have visited till now including M1 are fully explored. Stoutwood learns the characters have realized Gyronna is claiming Horcton as her own- learned after talking with the swamp witch who would not give her name. The swamp witch was not a ‘sister’ of Gyronna who also spoke of a priestess.

Our characters continue SW into M2 8 am on the 6^th day after resting most of the fifth day. Two hours in with swamp water becomes up to our waist and is slow travel. We are then surprised by a two headed ettin and the swamp witch hag. We defeat the Ettin and find a well preserved handy haversack and a total 1000 gp in gold, silver or black pearls.

After a brief coarse correction our characters are on our way to finishing exploring as the swamp hag harries us further in the day. She sets 3 giant scorpions against us but we dispatch them. Our characters fully explore M2 and an hour before sundown find the scorpoion's lair and a site to set up camp. Our night it filled with sounds of swamp dolphins, insects and worse; we are however not disturbed.

The next day (Day 7) our characters continue SW into M3 where we come across several small stone statues. About two hours into our exploration we find the ground becoming more solid and about 200 feet away a clearing presents itself- here we see figures standing. Stoutwood approaches and the general assumption given the clues is there be medusa here.

We are awarded a combat feat and pick up here as our characters faced with the possibility of a medusa.