So the group woke up and Cooky had made them troll sausage breakfast and said ‘hey since you’re heading to dragon island anyway…”. Oh right I was sorting browser tabs and forgot to do this part. Anyway… Went to the encampment that Heath sent the group to investigate the fading trees. met up at hippie village talked to frogs, Lothar and Lurtzog, learned the visitors dont know the ways of the swamp. frog poison to Rel denied. went into village, they were surprised bullywug was there. Keyx convinced them he’s a polymorphed human. Shaman Tchapitulas said that the fading woods are to the north, but not magical. she and here people are here to gather reagents for shaman spells and to sell at their shop. Also that giant crabs come and attack them every few nights. Group agreed to help, and Lass is all hot on Kexyl. Group rides to forest. Many dying trees. Rel cast detect magic, everything super magical, no living creatures, dead silent. Rel and Kex knock over a tree. Its hollow and the inside is magical. group sees an owl. Rel is able to speak with him. name is Jaree. he explains he watches over this forest. explains the shaman people are fearful and take too many reagents. Brings the group to ground zero for tree fade. Group takes a sample of ground zero tree. Jaree gives JPK a feather from his wing, says he should make a better quill. Feather is magic. Jaree says he knows everything here will die and that as an ancient owl, he will die here too. Group goes back to encampment. Giant crabs are attacking. Several dead already. Kex calls out to Shaman, who is distracted and gets clamped by the crab. Crabs are defeated but biggest crab, My Boy Blue attacks Lass. After many hits, Lux slays the beast and cooks it at the same time. He takes its blue shield pieces, and everyone eats a ton of crab.

Shaman is healed but scorned for her lies. She says that Shaman Hilda will hear about this. As if even. Back at Ash the group hits up Oaken Oar and talks to Heath. Naturally the members of Led Zeppelin are there. They tell Heath of their adventures, and show him the samples they have taken. They tell him of Jaree, and he knows of this bird. He agrees to make a suit of bark armor, and the group decides that Rel should take it. It will be ready in 9 days. Rel chose Oak. Oak is nice. Group heads to smithy where they meet Waylon Smithereens. He agrees to mold the blue crab shell into a breastplate for Lux, and dye it the darker shade of his cloak. Group heads to Oddmores Oddities, where nothing is even. Oddmore, apparently Jewish, was there and he had a strange automatic abbacus. He sold Lux an improved forgery set, and said he’d order a disguise kit. Group heads to docks and finds only one ship. They agree to take the group over to the island. Suddenly, Cooky arrives to convince the group to take him along to satisfy a few story beats the DM spent way too much time planning and damned if that ain’t gonna happen. He gives them the troll sausage and group agrees to take him with. And scene. PS: Oh and they made it over to the island, no problem.