Family Matters

The party enters Brqua and learn that the entire town is empty. Kilijan and Weneon break into a blacksmith shop and discover an eladrin looking them dead in the eyes. They leave immediately after getting no response from the man standing in his empty shop. They meet Silvester, a lama, in front of Greg's house. Silvester tries to tackle Mycha, but fails. He then spits on him. Greg interrupts and invites them inside to eat dinner.

As they enter the dining room, they notice the smell of food coming from the kitchen. At the table, two eladrin are sitting with the same dead-eye stare. One is Martinela, Greg's wife. The other one is Brucelion, his son. Greg brings out the stew and serves it to the party. Melcior tries to tell the party not to insult Greg's pretending that his family is obviously in some kind of hibernation state: not dead - not alive either. As the dinner continues, the party realizes that Greg is extremely delusional in regard to his family and the entire town. Greg gets some more food from the kitchen, and Zeck arrives. He uses the opportunity to let the party in on a few things: Greg was absent when the harengon attacked his town 80 years ago. He succeeded on getting a divine intervention from his god. His god summoned a necklace with a diamond around everybody's neck, keeping them in a state of suspended life. He then told Greg that saving them and bringing them back to life is his job. Greg studied resurrection spells, but did not succeed. Harengon deserting Baba Yaga's legion fled to Brqua, and Greg tried to heal them of the Curse of the Deserters. Greg only managed to heal one of them, Zeck. Zeck vowed to stay at Greg's side since then. (That was 20 years ago) After learning these facts from Zeck, Greg returns from the kitchen and tells the party that he is inclined to help them to get to The Almenarch and Revilon if needed. Before continuing their conversation, however, Zeck commands Greg to take Martinela and Brucelion to bed. He does so and the party decides to stay for the night. Weneon decides to take a walk outside and stumbles upon Silvester, who calls him into an alley. Weneon is surprised the lama can speak, but he is even more surprised when he turns one of his hoofs into a human arm and lights a cigarette. He makes Weneon promise not to lead Greg in any grave danger, as he is his guardian angel. Weneon promises to Silvester that no harm will come to Greg and asks Silvester who will take care of the town while he is gone. Silvester takes a puff of his cigarette, winks at Weneon, and tells him: "Ne sikiraj se."

The next morning, the party wakes up early to make their way to Revilon, where Greg said his brother lived. He could help them to learn more about the rebellion, Melcior is very interested in. Before leaving, Kilijan presents Weneon his mended feywild trinket, and tells him that, although mended, he realized it needed to be fey-touched by a strong being from the feywild in order to reactivate. Melcior, Amidor, and Manasa go ahead, telling the party to meet up in Revilon.

While travelling the fields of the Feywild, the party sees from a distance the Materia Swamp, a moor that comprises the dreams and wishes of beings from the material world. Their creativity and their passions. They materialize here, Greg explains to them, in the form of bubbles, which explode upon being fulfilled or unfulfilled by the death of the respective person they belong to. The party then notices a small harengon outpost on the road to Revilon, and they decide to take a different rout through some treacherous woods to avoid them.

Wood Walker While stumping through the woods, the party notices that they are being followed. Kilijan summons a construct drone to recon the area. The drone warns them about a being approaching them. It is a deformed and corrupted tribal eladrin who greets them and sits down on a piece of wood, while telling the party that they can choose if they want to die quickly or slowly. A sound is then heard from behind them, and the barbarian eladrin puts down his great club, telling them that he will first witness how they do against the wood walker. A corrupted ent attacks the party, a big tree with three skulls in it's hands. They fight it off, while Mycha attacks the barbarian eladrin. The fight ends with the party being at the end of their strength. Greg banishes the being and the party starts to flee. As they do, they hear the sound of a war horn coming towards them. Three more barbarian eladrin run towards them. However, as two of them try to flank the party from the left and the right, the middle eladrin takes them on heads on. A spark of light flashes in behind him, and the party sees Melcior killing the middle eladrin with a scorching ray, while Manasa casts two eldritch blasts towards the other two.