As the four of you stumble drunkenly out of the bar and down the street you garner some unusual looks from the locals. Don't get me wrong, adventuring groups are quite common in The Puddles. But an adventuring party made up of a womanizing half man, a drunken dwarf, a brooding monk, and a racially confused pixie/drow/gnome bard is certain to get a few looks so to speak.
It doesn't take long for you to find the tile with the boiling vial on the front and as you enter the establishment your nose wrinkles up with the smell of charred sulphur, peat moss, vinegar, and strange oils. The patron of the shop approaches you warily as is normal in The Puddles when four heavily armed men walk into a place of business.
Well, hells bells! Hisses the proprietor. Are you adventurers? Did that brute Pug send you here? Wonderful! Simply wonderful. Did he tell you I have a very dangerous mission for you? Yes very dangerous indeed.
He pauses and looks you up and down as if sizing you up. After a moment he says
Well you look capable enough. Lets hope you can handle this ... um ... task. It should be childs play for the likes of you I think. Ever since that darned earthquake 6 months ago some strange things have been happening all over the Cairnlands. I've been experimenting with a new fungus that has started growing out there just recently. Been here my whole life and never seen it before and yet now its there. Hrm? What do you make of that?
Well anyways I've found this mushroom has medicinal qualities. I've managed to extract an oil from it and after heating it with an intense flame and mixing ....
The shopkeeper obviously really loves his work and he launches into a long and windy description of the extraction and reformulation process. After several minutes of him droning on and on you finally get something useful out of him.
After I mashed it up with my pestle it seemed to form a cohesive poultice. It works wonderfully on wounds or burns of all sorts. Look, if you gather these mushrooms for me I can make you more of this stuff. But be careful. Some nasty little critters have found they like to eat this stuff. Be careful.
He hands you a small pot of brown goop. Inside is 4 applications of the poultice. Each application will heal the victem of 5 hp of damage.
After some asking about you find out the area you are looking for is due West of Absalom.
