The first night after rescuing the griffon eggs, the party woke up and there was a stranger sleeping in the middle of their camp. It turned out to be Derriel Glass, a Druid of some renown in the Margreve. He was in need of some gold and offered to identify any magic items the party might have. After some negotiating over price, he identified quite a few magic items, some that Gatonio had but didn't know were magical that he'd acquired (without notice) from the Hollow Tree near Levoca.
Later that day, on the way to Whistlehollow the weather turned bad and the party began lookin for shelter. Instead they found some wagons with mostly eaten humans laying around the front of a cave entrance.
The party snuck into the cave and found some ghouls, led by some other ghouls, who were watching two spell casters trying to perform some ritual. A short conversation confirmed, yup, ungrateful undead up to no good in the Margreve.
It was a fierce battle with one of the ghouls making an unbelievable five attacks almost like the DM hadn't quite prepared and read through all the creature stats thoroughly enough. Despite the fearsome onslaught, the party prevailed leaving one of the spell casters alive so they could ask questions.
The spellcaster didn't have much information. He'd agreed to a job to get some of the "Tongue of Derende" and then found out he'd be escorted by ghouls. He didn't know who his employer was or how the ghouls ended up with Hazel Trotsky's journal. (Did I forget to mention that bit?) The party felt it was safe to let this patsy go and they stayed the rest of the night at the cave.
In the morning it was still stormy and they arrived at Whistlehollowmid-day. Following the sounds of screaming at the inn, they found Jedza Nansa upstairs with a huge gall growing on her belly. Any attempts to remove it only injured her. Hazel had tried to remove it and was poisoned and unconscious. Jedza begged the party to go to her sister, Baba Mavra, and retrieve a soul jug, the only thing that would keep her soul from being consumed by whatever was growing in her.
The party agreed and made their way through the storm (with Jedza's homunculus) encountering shock lizards, a shambling mound, some spiders including one that could vanish, and an Alseid named Flawn who'd been cursed and left human footprints. A simple remove curse from Dodgy solved that problem.
Baba Mavra's House was clinging to a rope with its eight legs, the rope being suspended over a chasm with a swift flowing river below. Eluine and Gatonio decided to climb across to the house and the moment both of their weight was on the rope, it broke and they fell into the river with the house. About a quarter mile downstream they all made it to the shore and the rest of the party met them there.
The party found the soul jug but couldn't get it out of the chest without getting themselves sucked in. Meanwhile the homunculus let the party know Jedza was close to death and they needed to get back to the inn quickly. After a few tries they were able to operate ropes that moved the house's spider legs. They sped there way back to the Inn, Jedza told them how to get the soul jug out, and the party moved quickly to get her soul inside it. Just as they did this, whatever was in the gall erupted out killing her. Her soul was trapped in the soul jug and clearly, a battle was about to begin.
A beast creature riding in a whirlwind attacked the party. It was able to summon small lightning creatures and the party took a bit to get themselves organized. First Lavaell went down and then Eluine. They were revived and the party pressed the fight. Soon they were victorious, although the room was in quite a state of disarray. They quickly walked out hoping no one would notice.