10 Kythorn 1491

Phee notices with time that the helm gives her mild telepathic abilities.

Mell investigates the porcelain jar, and after fiddling with the bones within it, Bavlorna’s voice says “Skabatha forgets the first creature she sees when she wakes up, though her memory returns of it each night. A creature forgotten by her in this manner is invisible to her.”

Mell shares this with the group. Phee uses her newfound telepathy to listen on Mell’s thoughts, and is quite flustered by the realisation that Mell pretty much wanders around turned on by the varying hotness of their friends.

The party meet up with Clapperclaw and return his head, and he does an unnerving head swap. They’re quite taken with the help, and offer to give them information. Mell asks after the Alicorn, but he doesn’t know where to find one. Though he does mention that the mount of Skabatha is a horse with no horn. Maybe the owner of the horn that Mell currently holds.

Curious about the coup, Mell morphs into one of the local Bullywugs and strolls past the talking heads. There’s a new head, with a dagger in its eyeball. Apparently it worked? All hail Illig.

Yndrus goes to investigate the mysterious tree. Nothing comes of his investigations, so he and the rest of the party pass out for the night; everyone save Phee retire to the vacant house, where Phee sleeps under the mysterious tree.

After resting over night The Party finds a Giant Toad in one of the as yet unexplored huts. After rescuing Phee from said toad, after being swallowed, they explore and find a bubbling cauldron near the lake.

It scuttles off after they attempt to tamper with it. A strange elemental fire creature rises from the coals from its fire and bargains for dry wood in return for a password to open the cauldron. Once the trade is complete the create, a magmin, cackles “Spittle Spew.” Armed with this knowledge the party manage to lift the lid on the cauldron once it has returned.

Deducing that the potion is some form of brew that allows or causes shape changing they collect a couple of bottles worth each.

Bavlorna is distracted by a thumping noise coming from upstairs, from the mannequin attempting to get through the door. Phee hides behind a chest, and spies a tiny door. As Bavlorna grumbles up the stairs, Phee escapes through the side door and, still invisible, whispers to her friends, “Friends, it’s me!”

She fills the party in, and they all head down the stairs.

Hatching a plan, they decide to hide the recently purloined loot in a spot under the cottage and at least pretend to Fix the Preservation Pool.

A battle ensues. Yndrus and most slap at it, while Mell shouts insults at it from the edge of the pond.

It attempts to suffocate Yndrus with its gelatinous body but he, now in the form of a dire wolf, breaks free which leaves opportunities for Mell and Phee to blast it with spells and the party keeps whittling away at its health. Eventually, Mell embarrasses the blob to death.

The party, now having completed their task, stroll off out of the house and Mell grabs their loot on the way back to the boat. She gives the helmet back to Phee and carries the rest. As Mell holds the thread, she feels the subtle sense of frustration and anger. Phee fills Mell in on the shadow that tried to steal said thread. Disturbed, Mell tucks it away as the party heads back to shore.

After hassling a couple of Bullywugs atop a watchtower, the party decides to help Clapperclaw find their head. There’s a chance that it was used by the Harengon’s as tribute to Bavlorna.

They meet with Bavlorna, carrying the crate she wanted. Upon delivery, the party goes to “help out” with her broken pool, and Phee snarfs the Cupcake of Invisibility and sneaks upstairs. She finds a locked room, that her totally not cursed key opens. A life form lets out a croak and dies, and as Phee locks herself into the room, it slips out under the door, leaving a spool of thread behind. She explores the area, grabs at a fancy helm on a mannequin, which doesn’t appreciate it and tries to grab the helm back. As she grabs it and puts it on, the helm disappears as she is invisible, and the mannequin lumbers around the room looking for their missing helm. She also grabs a stag skull that looks just like the missing head Clapperclaw described. There’s also a porcelain jar with chicken feet, and a creepy frog statue that is filled with the blackest black times infinity. Phee decides to abandon the room and slips away, dashing down the stairs and winds up back in Bavlorna’s room, alone with the witch.

The Party reconvenes on the bottom floor. Yndrus wades into the pool and investigates a mirror in the water. It seems to be a partially connected portal to the Hall of Illusions back at the Witchlight Carnival. There’s the sounds of angry noises and slamming doors upstairs. Phee hides underneath the lily pad, and notices that the roots of the lily end in tiny feet. Creepy. Mell shifts back into the zombie fairy she adopted the form of last time she was in the house. Mell and Yndrus start talking loudly about the clog in the pool pipes, how it seems suspicious, and they need to do something about it.

Bavlorna appears, looking furious. Mell states that they are doing their best to fix the pipes. Bavlorna then appears to see through Phee’s invisibility and tells her to leave her property, the lilly pad, alone.

Yndrus tries to distract, asking who might be plotting to damage her pond. Bav only howls, “Fix it!”

After more cajoling and poorly hidden threats, seems like the party won’t be leaving till the pond is fixed. Mell gingerly wades into the pool with a wrinkled nose, while Morgort sloshes to the well with little reservation. Mell is quite ineffective, but Morgort jumps right into the well. She senses something alive in the well, and prods it with her glaive. She shanks it a couple more times and backs out of the well. The water roils and a cylindrical gelatinous creature appears at the lip of the well.

Yndrus - “Bavlorna, what is this?”
Bavlorna, cackling - “Your problem, I believe.”