Loose threads: The hive, Giant oak tree?
Short summary:
Found a giant ant hive full of mutated ants, murdered them, found a weird tree, and left.
Full report: Hurggrek Valkorn
After hearing tell of a patrol of strange, giant ants, we were tasked with finding where they were coming from and putting an end to their threat. After a short walk in the direction of the Elemental Portal Shrine, our fearless group was ambushed by an easily dispatched patrol of ants, marred with vibrant green markings and bleeding a strange glowing green substance. Our fearless tracker, yours truly, completely failed to follow the trail, but we managed to stumble into the hive anyways.
We camped out until morning, waiting till it was light to assault the hive. We fought our way through the side entrance, cutting down the guards as we went. The cleverer among us discovered a way to camouflage the party from the worker ants using the dead guards' pheromones, though the rest were still a problem.
Inside the hive, we eventually came to a fork within the tunnels, with one path leading straight down, and one leading in either direction. The middle one, as it turns out, contained some glowing moss, similar to the glowing blood, a dead fellow with some armour and a belt. Also, a giant centipede that almost killed Oskar, who we foolishly lowered down by himself. We would collect that treasure later, after we had defeated the centipede, though we went down the right fork first.
We were ambushed by spiders down that path, though we did stumble upon more treasure, left behind by some unfortunate souls, cocooned among some spider eggs (which we torched, of course). After stopping to grab the armour, and burning some glowing moss, we went down the final path, further down into the hive. There, amidst a churning ocean of ants, in the bowels of the earth, illuminated solely by the light of the corruption, we came upon the heart of the hive. At the centre of all of it, the source of the strange glowing substance, was an oak tree, its glowing sap carried to whereabouts unknown by toiling ants.
Down in that horrid pit, sat the Queen, a horrid abomination, an amalgam of various insects who dwarfed the ants that toiled around her. As we approached, she offered us a deal: drink from the sap of the tree, or be destroyed. As a chorus of ants watched on, we pretended to accept the offer in an attempt to get closer to the Queen. And it worked! Somewhat. They caught on and we were swarmed by an endless tide of ants as we attempted to strike down the Queen.
After a long, tough, and hard-fought battle, we managed to slay that vile beast. Stunned by the loss, we snatched a sample of sap and recalled back to First Landing.
Participants: Trimling Hillsong, Oskar Dragonlance, Delin Andar, Gamaztaal, Hurggrek Valkorn
Location: Giant Ant Nest