Participants: Aoibheann Caoimhe Ó Ceallacháin-Dyre, Elias Harkness, Rhoss Vaska, Rope, Variel Magnelis
Locations: Burrows, Beach near the Bugbear Shipwreck
Our party met within The Blinking Pug, hired by the Guild to investigate reports of increased sahuagin activity. We departed shortly after and made our way out of the city, heading northeast. Looking for a place to camp for the night, we scouted a location near the Burrows. It was there we were attacked by the corpses of a bear and boar. We naturally assumed they were undead but were quickly proven wrong. Instead, the two animals had been infected by a pair of brain-snatchers, aquatic creatures that kill animals and control their bodies like puppets. After defeating the corpses, the brain-snatchers attempted to flee but didn't make it far before we killed them.
After an uneventful night's rest, we continued our way northeast until we arrived at short of the Sea of Stone, from which we could see the Bugbear Shipwreck from afar. Before we could investigate the wreckage, Rhoss and Rope discovered a trio of cages further down the beach. Investigating them, we discovered one cage held a giant badger that had been taken over by another brain-snatcher. Inside the other two cages were a wild cat and a kobold that were seemingly left here to suffer the same fate as the badger. We freed both the cat, who ran off, and the kobold, who informed us that he was captured by a creature with three arms, green skin, red eyes, and 'face wings.' We could not think of any creature that matched that description and waited to see who would come for the cages.
As night fell, a sahuagin arrived by sea and attacked us. It was soon joined by a second sahuagin shaman riding on top of a hulking fish creature. We fought them off as best we could until something under the water called the hulking fish to return back to sea. The fish left, with the sahuagin following after it, accidentally leaving behind a whispering shell as the only clue as to what they were doing. With them gone, we activated our Recallers and left.