From Westwind's Journal

Night, 7 Wealsun

The mixed group of ogres has withdrawn. Some of their dead lay on the
field. Wrye leads us away and finds another grove to rest in. Lysander
is using a wand to heal Brother Gerard. As he's doing it I stop him. I
try using the wand, he (Lysander) shows me some things that help me
understand how to do it.

8 Wealsun

In the morning a bunch of the ogres show up. Brother Gerard bargains
with them, truth be told we are in no condition to take them on. Some
members of the group grumble about the deal but I support it. We also
agree to help them with a problem, the fact that they can not deal with
it themselves doesn't dawn on me until someone else mentions it. A rogue
orc druid is creating insects and vermin.

2 Ogres guide us into a swamp. We spot some thick black smoke in the
distance but keep to our path. We are attacked by giant bees and giant
hornets after stumbling into an area of quicksand, mud what ever. Then
swarms of insects attack us. Wrye spots a figure after he hits it with a
few arrows it vanishes. We finish off the insects, who have liberated us
from our guides. Wrye looks where he saw the figure but finds no tracks.
Wrye leads us out of the swamp in the direction of the plume of smoke we
saw earlier, which by now is less thick.

Still in the swamp we find a trail that appears to have been made by
large insects heading out of then back into the swamp. We discuss which
way to head, deeper into the swamp, where the hoard of insects came
from, or out of the swamp towards the smoke. We head towards the smoke.

We exit he swamp and find a destroyed village. We find one old man
alive. "The elf, we trusted him." Brother Gerard heals the old man
(Ulrek of Cribdal). Wrye and I find some giant preying mantis and a
giant stag beetle all wounded and deal with them.

We search houses. A collosal monsterous scorpion climbs over the town
wall. It has a nasty poison but we take it down.

Ulrek tells us that the individual out in the swamp is not an orc but an
elf. "Olitheral the damned elf who lives out in the swamp." Ulrek is the
quarter master of the town. He helps us resupply. I get a magic long
sword that has something to do with the spirit world. A bunch of arrows
(normal). With a magic long sword I start to investigate the Keoish
armor and shield we found previously. The armor just doesn't feel right,
too bulky and heavy. The shield however seems great. A bit heavy but it
doesn't impede my movement.

We have resolved to return to the swamp and deal with the elf.

Westwind