The False Hydra

Disaster / Destruction

Since Shin contracted scurvy during the last fight, it's time that he went back to visit Dr. Wannabe. Everyone makes their way out of the mountains and back to Crystmas only to find that they're being followed by a mute aarakocra with malicious intent. They take out the avian with ease and finish their travels. It turns out that Crystmas is under attack by an invisible threat- The False Hydra. Their time here is spent recovering and investigating the new threat.

The False Hydra is an aberration born of fear. Unbeknownst to the party, Salethar has cast a mass fear spell on the town in order to summon the hydra and slow the group down. Crystmas lost over a third of its population to the hydra; Many of the dead were friends of the party. What made it particularly dangerous is that it could only be viewed in reflections, and losing sight of it would result in forgetting its existence. The same is the case for anything the false hydra did (ie tunnels it created and people it killed). The hydra was eventually slain, but this event is the cause of the next period of downtime, in which Shin and Mex continue the town guard's training.