03-06-2020

The crossing
A brilliant plan was concocted to find some displacer beasts - Elnaril was to his Fulgerica with his axe so the open wound would attract them. All this attracted was a little displacer cub which Bisque wanted to adopt it and give it a hug. The rest were not sure how to react so waited until three blink dogs attacked the cub. Elnaril saved it by opening the iron flask and absorbing the creature into it. The dogs were surprised but otherwise happy there were no more threats around. Bhog talked to one of the dogs and they agreed to let the adventurers join the hunt.

Lucky for them a group of six displacer beasts were close. A fight ensued and the adventurers were surrounded, even worse a hag joined the fight. Bhog welcomed her with a cutlass between the ribs before she managed to use some of her magic. The displacer beasts were dispatched one by one, the hag ordered them to retreat and jumped on her walking stick to fly away. A well placed dimension door put Xavier and Fulgerica withing fireball and eldritch blast range so she was blasted off her broom. Elnaril, Bhog and Bisque finished the remaining beasts in the meantime. Unfortunately one of the dogs was killed and another ran away because of his wounds.

The beats were skinned and the adventurers retrieved the corpse of the hag and her walking stick. The stick was a magic device that upon identification could cast ice magic spells. The problem was it could be used only by a hag. A mixture of hag bones and tree sap tricked it into believing a hag was wielding it but a dump of water cleaned the sap and it reverted to normal. Fulgerica tried to put it in the water but his hands were frozen solid on the staff, Elnaril had to melt the ice with his flaming blade. An eladrin walked into the camp and greeted the adventurers, the wounded blink dog was with him. He explained the staff could be used if a special item was retrieved from a had covenant. He also pointed to the bridge and river nearby that marked the boundary between the seelie and unseelie domains. Also were the adventurers bathe in the water it would rejuvenate them. Fulgerica was fascinated by the dogs and asked if he could have one. The eladrin suggested to ask as the dogs decide for themselves who to follow. One of the dogs accepted and received a lot of belly rubs - his name became Alvin.

The camp was set and the adventurers busied them selves with looking for plants and herbs. The search yielded ingredients for ten sleep potions and two kirin plants that can reverse emotions.

Portals to other worlds
The night passed without any other events. In the morning Alvin decided to discuss boundaries with the adventurers. Jeheira returned from the scouting mission in the night, a cave was to the north following the stream, a marsh to the west and to the south west a huge tree stump that looked like it was hit by lightning.

The quick scouting of the cave made it out to be empty. On the walls some strange plants grew so the party took them all. At the end of the cave they spotted a huge hole in the ground. Jaheira was send to investigate but a magic force pulled her to another realm. Xavier called back his familiar and described a land similar to the one they were in but barren. This appeared to be a portal to the Shadowfell.