📘 Session 3 – “Whispers of the Woods”

🧭 Overview

After Sessionconfronting 2’sa Mind Flayer encounter,in Session 2, the party returned to Rassalantar (onto the Long Road)regroup—only to regroup with the miners they were escorting. The miners, shaken by caravan abductions, reporteddiscover the entire town (200 people) had walkedmysteriously vanished into Westwood,the leavingWestwood. itInvestigating tracks led them to looted buildings, a merchant encounter, and eventually into the misty, dragon-touched depths of Kryptgarden Forest. Along the way, they discovered signs of Mind Flayer activity, hints of Corellon’s influence, and evidence that an ancient green dragon—referred to in legend as the “Green Witch”—inhabits the woods.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Party Members

📍 Key Locations

Rassalantar (Long Road): Found abandoned. Looted for gear and clues.

Westwood: showedDense, variouswindy sizesforest; tracks led party to Kryptgarden.

Kryptgarden Forest: Lush, misty, and overgrown. Evident dragon influence.

🧑 Notable NPCs

📜 Quests

⚔️ Key Events

🧭 Rassalantar Investigation

Town abandoned; ground churned with many tracks (men, women, children),.

Rogue The& miners debated returning to Waterdeep or continuing to Westbridge, ultimately deciding to head back. They paid the party 20 gold each for the day’s travel (not the full escort fee) and requested the party investigate the disappearances, believing them to be competent adventurers.

Cleric and Tabaxi took 200g from temple),Tymora’s temple (left trinkets).

Barracks searched; draft horses found in stables.

Wizard checked for correspondence—nothing suspicious found.

Total loot: 700g → split as100g 100each.

• Decision: The party chose to

  Night travel at night to follow fresh tracks, despite cold, windy weather (survival check confirmed). The wizard led tracking with a 15, notingthrough the centralforest; pathcold andwinds.

  flanking tracks.
• Camping: After

  Camped traveling into Westwood, the party camped for the night. The tabaxi slept, while the human rogue, Githyanki artificer, and dwarf cleric stayed awake, guarded by thewith Steel Defender and sphinxSpynks familiar.familiar Aguarding.

  campfire was lit.

• Merchant Encounter:encounter: ThePurchased human rogue heard three voices—a merchant and two guards from Red Larch, unaware of Rassalantar’s emptiness. The rogue briefed them on the situation, noting Mind Flayers are rare outside the Underdark. The merchant sold:

• Gloves of

  Notable MissileItems Snaring

Dino owes theRigg human122g roguepost-shopping 122spree.

• Westwood Exit:

  Corpse Thewith partyBrain emergedRemoved: fromSign Westwoodof afterFlayer activity.

Shrine to Corellon: Damaged statue with offerings. Dino left a day,calligraphic briefly checked Kheldellgift (noroll: issues15).

Moon-Touched Longsword: An hour later, the party spotted a blue gleam in a bush. The human rogue stealthily investigated (despite noise), finding an old skeletal corpse holding a glowing Moon-Touched Longsword of elven make (glowsFound in the dark,forest, canglowing befaintly. sheathedWizard to(absent) dim). The wizard ritual-cast Identify to confirmidentified its properties.elven Faintmake.

Cow Bones: Found several cow bones, a week or two old, picked cleanBones with deepDragon notchesBites: fromNature largecheck teeth.confirmed Thegreen dragon.

Green Dragon Lore: Tabaxi and Githyanki artificer (nature check 22) identified green dragon marks, confirming an adult (or larger) green dragon’s presence. The tabaxi (Arcana/history check) noted green dragons create lush, overgrown forests, identifying Kryptgarden as thehome lair ofto an ancient green dragon,dragon—“The possibly the “Green WitchWitch.”

💰 wizardLoot apologized& aloud for trespassing, citing their pursuit of “illithids” (Mind Flayers), and the party cautiously backed away from the dragon’s territory, continuing to follow the townsfolk tracks deeper into the forest.

• Where:

  Location: Deep in Kryptgarden Forest,Forest.

  two days in, following the townsfolk tracks.
• Status:

  State: Financially strained; better equipped; dragon-aware.

Condition: Alert and cautious; tracking townsfolk; hoping to avoid dragon conflict.

Debt: Dino owes Rigg 122 gold.

Resources:

• Party is

  High financiallyJinks’ strainedSpynks afterFamiliar

  purchases, but equipped with new gear.
• Confirmed

  Dino’s Steel Defender

Boots, Hats, and Spellbooks improving utility.

🧩 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks

Mind Flayer involvementColony: (corpseGrowing withevidence eatenof brain)a andplanar greenor dragonnautiloid presencethreat.

Ancient Green Dragon: Potential ally or danger; forest traits).is her domain.

Missing theTownsfolk: townsfolkStill areunder being led, possibly to a Mind Flayer laircontrol or dragon-related site.

Beholder Rumors: Sword Mountains.Mountains nearby—could be central to all disappearances.

Spelljammer

• Party Resources:

Mind

Dino’s abandonmentGithyanki escalates regional tension (Lord’s Alliance may investigate).

Spynks and lore.otherworldly influence.