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Expedition 5: The Greenwids

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Player created map. Expedition Party: Feodor, Gossamer On an overcast morning two adventures set out from Strotherhine into the marshes around town. It is high tide and the brackish marsh waters have risen almost to the tops of the tufts of cordgrass that stick out of the muddy landscape. They come across a very high section of water, and thick dense sucking mud, they push past and take their time. Soon they spot a huge eel feeding in a shallow area flooded by the high tide. They coordinate together and manage to  kill the eel without too much trouble.  They haul the human sized eel back to Strotherhine, and talk with the dockmaster, Olwen Nash, who buys it off of them for 40g, 2 salted fish rations, and an old filet knife. They spend the night in Stortherhine and make plans to travel to the oak and hickory forest to the west the next day.  Looking over the map they have been working on they believe it will be faster to first travel to the earthwork spiral in the pine for...

Expedition 4: The Fields of Moseley

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Player created map. Expedition Party: Feodor, Gossamer, Lief Our adventures set out on a southward path back to the ruins of the tower they had found before. The day is grey, the wind is brisk, and the sky is foreboding. They make it to the tower without much trouble and after further investigation of the space they discover a trap door hidden among the debris of the abandoned camp.  Inside they discover a small damp room with several puddles. It appears to have once been some kind of root cellar or larder. Most of its contents are rotten but they do find a grappling hook, rope, and some interesting fungus that Lief, a fungal forager, believes might have some bioluminescent properties. Not finding much of interest beyond that, they exit the trap door and decide to explore the larger area around the tower. A small distance from the tower they find an area with strange whitish stones that jut out of the earth and grasses. They are oddly shaped, and one large stone appears almost like...