Getting Trade Routes Up (And exploring a cave that isn't Eileen's)

Dear Diary,
Ruby totally missed out on the adventure, but Igor and that highly unintelligent Leroy came along with the ever enduringly adorable Elora! You can hardly tell she's missing her hair. I also met a kinda cute Bard named Sam, but he's not quite my type. Way too into his music or whatever. Anyway, we met up with Rocca, who gave us some things to help us out on our adventure (including some SWEET glowsticks that would be totally awesome for a rave.) We went into the Thistlefoot woods to figure out WHAT THE HOLDUP was for the drug trade routes, which turned out to be some giant wolf? cat? dog? something? creatures who were killing lumberfolk and who CLEARLY ate them afterwards. I've HEARD of gnolls before, but seeing them is way different. They were COVERED in FUR. They seemed kinda smart for a constructed being, though I guess technically they are not constructed anymore. I tied to get some of their mane for a muffler, but those dumb brutes knew NOTHING about proper hair care. It was positively riddled with fleas and bugs and the hair just fell off faster than Elora's did from that weird magic thingie! SUCH a WASTE. After the fur butts were dealt with (mainly thanks to Igor, though Beadle was trying to help), we entered the cave and found a bunch of random things, including this giant jelly like square thing that ATE both Sam and Igor. Poor dears. Their clothes must be ruined. Maybe I'll offer to clean them up later. We met some guy who hired the gnolls who apparently was PERFECTLY willing to let us just leave (we weren't doing too well after dealing with that clothing ruiner of a gunk) but then Beadle and Leroy went and agitated him and he tried to KILL us. Rude. It was close, and we ended up leaving poor Sam behind, but we got away.
 
Now all that's left to do is give Rocca that itemized list and talk about payment. Hm...maybe I should start like...a guild or something. Then I could manage all this bullshit without having to get my clothes dirty. OH! Also, there was another one of those weird magical so and sos in that cave.