Mission: Collar Ingredients day 2

Party 1

"We can't leave yet." Nym murmurs, voice carefully low as he guides Gossamer away from their sleeping companions. "We have a spy, remember?" He tilts his head at the little dragon, sitting primly in a tree nearby, meticulously cleaning it's paws.
"If you are sure you want to do this, I have an idea." He says, leaning close as he tells you his plan, "I'm going to start cooking the morning meal. You go out to look for more firewood, and while you are out look for a certain herb for me." He guides you towards the fire pit, where he grabs a piece of charcoal from the very edges near the circle of rocks.
He grabs a scrap of parchment from his back and begins sketching. "It's a small plant that looks like this. It's a light lavender color with lime green freckles along the edges of the petals. Bring me a handful of the petals." He folds the parchment and slips it into your hand. "Don't worry about any special way of picking the flowers, they aren't dangerous, especially if your just handling them and not eating them."
He hesitates for a split second before adding, "Don't lick them." As an after thought, his lips curling up at the corner is the only hint of his amusement that this is a warning he has to give you.
Everyone in the party who eats the food has to perform a constitution saving throw. DC 15 if they fail, they are out for the count. If they succeed they will be drowzy and slow, but still awake.
When looking around the area you have camped in you realize you are in a thickate of dead trees. You can see one or two valiantly fighting for their lives, the stray apple clinging to the branches suggests this was once an orchard, but time has left it to rot. Much like those apples.
If you are following the folliage it will take you away from the orchard and back into the marshy forests of the Gloomshroud. If you venture inward from the camp you will find more dead trees, and rotting foliage.
Corrupted Driad
A navagation check of 15, while wandering within the orchard, will lead you to it's center where a small spring-fed pool of water sits.
The pool is home to a corrupted Driad, and if you get 5 feet of the pool she will attack you.
As you approach the water you can tell something is wrong. There is no plant life within 30 feet of you and the water is a deep murky red brown and carries the stench of decay.
A ripple disturbs the still surface of the pond a split second before the water erupts before you and something lashes out at you from the depths.
You have a split second to take in the appearance of what has attacked you before you are hit. It is a woman, her skin a dusty grey-green and cracked like dried dirt. Her hair consists of matted leaves, wilted and glooped together from time she has spent under the water.
Her movements are jerky and accompanied by loud snaps and creaks.
Roll Initiative...

Party 2

When everyone returns to the top portion of the cavern you spend a few minutes discussing what you found below, Chirp imiditately flocks to Taegen to tell him about his find and theorize what it all could be for or why it's there. Taegen is horrified by the description, and says he has a bad feeling and that maybe they should leave. The party can either chose to continue exploring the cave or they can leave and look for another place to find their missing ingredients.

Party 3

You have just settled after your harrowing fight, you take a short break to have a breather and explore the boxes tucked up against the cavern walls. There is a fire roaring in the middle of the room, the smell of roasting meat wafts the the air. If someone investigates what's cooking, there is a fish spitted over the fire and looks to be fully cooked. by the stones making up the fire pit is a string of sausages and draped over a rock nearby is a large fish, it's head cut off and thrown to one side.
There are two makeshift beds, piles of furs and straw, pushed up against the walls and a couple boxes lined up against them.
There are three alternate ways out of the room, aside from the one you took to get in there.

04-16-2021

Teirse

Gloomshroud

This is your last chance to get all the items on the list.  If you don't find them all you go back to the school without them.
encounter creator creature encounters ingredients people