The Beast IS affected by Lanneths mind magic.
The Hydra Bites out at all those within reach after Dain's Arrow goes Wide.
William
Yorikata
Yorikata gets bit despite the fuzziness in the Hydra's head
Lanneth Starts Laughing madly at the creature as it continues to miss.
Not the king of the marsh now are you? she calls between her laughs.
I bet it will be even worse if you fall asleep while to the others can get into flanking position! Night Fairies, bring the beast down!
Yorikata presses on through the bog that is sucking her feet in, until she faces the sleepy monster toe to whatever that oversized appendage of the hydra is called.
Lanneth will continue to cackle every round to keep misfortune up on the Hydra even when it is asleep. She also draws out her bow but waits until the others wake up the hydra ready to shoot if she needs to.
The Party is able to slay the Hydra thanks to Lanneth's Witchy Ways, the heat continues to become oppressive in the swamp. Small bugs and other "things?" begin to move about the party.
William retrieves his shield and spear. He searches the beast and the island for anything of value.
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Lanneth joins the searching for anything of value.
Good thing there was only one of those Hydras. Multiple would have been a problem.
Dain is able to find the way again towards the next marker stone, it is approaching noon by the time you arrive. As you make your way further north you find some bridges the span the smaller of the streams and bogs allowing you to move a bit quicker before you have to slog through the swamp again.
After a while the path starts to curve to the North West, eventually you come to an area that looks like a fairly recent battle took place, some scraps of armor and weapons lay around....
Hmm..Be wary of undead.
Yorikata takes a look around.
Or something that ate those boys.
Lanneth also looks around.
As the group starts poking around you find the Remanent of what look like 2 different parties having been here around the same time. All the Equipment is sized for people around your size and shape but is in disrepair from being submerged in the swamp for so long. Spears and shield, long swords and bits of broken armor. Despite all the decomposing equipment there seem to be no bodies present, you could venture further into the deep water to check but poking around in the waist deep water provides no bodies.
Lanneth is too busy looking at the equipment to think much about what is going on around her...
Dain looks around
Dain is eventually able to find some tracks leading a bit further north but around the water this time, the boots are deep into the bog almost similar to Dain's foot prints
"It appears that we may be following the prints of the victors."
We got tracks here going north and around the water.
"These look like your footprints, Dain. You been here before?"
I am not going in circles if that is what you are implying.
What would dwarves or dwarf kin, be doing in this marsh?
Dain follows the tracks around the large swamp lake to the north, the way is slow going even with what looks like a trail. Eventually you can see a hut in the distance, smoke rises from a fire or what could be assumed as a fire in this overly moist place.
A house here? Someone wants company even less then me....
Lanneth calls out as the get near the house.
Children! Come out of the house, we want to talk to you!
"Do you smell children, Lanneth?" William says with a smile.
William can hear what sounds like someone talking, at first it is in common but then switches to another more gruff language. "I have to find ris, càite am faodadh e a bhith?" A huddled figure can be seen just around the fire.
"Do you smell children, Lanneth?" William says with a smile.
"To Lanneth, everyone who isn't like a thousand years old are children." Yorikata comments with a smirk.
William reaches into his pocket and produces the bone of a chicken leg he scarfed from the galley. "Just in case."
"What case?" Yorikata inquires befuddelt.
"It was your suggestion that I took to heart. You said she is old and cannot see well and to use a chicken bone as my finger to convince her I am not plump enough to eat." He puts the bone back in his pocket just in case.
Lanneth shakes her head fondly and holds out her arm.
Come help the old lady to get the house dear.
William takes her arm as they approach the figure huddled by the fire.
"How about we just try to keep her properly fed and she might refrain from eating any of us." Yorikata suggests. "Now that we talk about eating, I'm hungry."
As Dain get's closer he hears words that he knows.
She is Speaking Dwarven
"Umlo I have to Find Umlo, Thug na cailleachan uaine sin leis" The Dwarven woman says again.
Dain speaks quietly. She is saying something about finding Ulmo.
After watching for a while as the woman moves about her camp you start to get the feeling that something is wrong, her hair is unkempt, clothes are caked in mud and other things. The way she switches between common and Dwarven is not normal nor are her mannerisms from what Dain can tell.
There is a problem here, she is being erratic I believe. Perhaps her mind is addled.
"Something that can be fixed with hiting her one the head?" Yorikata inquires.
The Dwarven woman looks out over the large body of water, then moves back to whatever she has on the fire.
"Yorikata is a young, charismatic female. She probably looks like the least threatening of us. I believe she should approach the woman first. But does she speak dwarven. Maybe Dain and Yorikata."
"Sorry, that dwarven makes my tongue hurt. I never managed to get a sentence out that any dwarf understood." Yorikata replies.