Teaching an Old Croaker New Tricks

After the party gets their prisoners to lead them to their hideout at Croaker Cave, their prisoners tries to escape using their night vision while Brath and Mae were trying to light their torch but then mysteriously disappear in the pool below. After using a plank to cross the pool, Mae uses druidshape to become a bat and scout up ahead on the cave system to the right. She reports back that their are more bandits and large ice toads ahead. After they fail to sneak past the bandits, from Vivi falling over a dead bat bucket, they convince them that they were there to help and the bandits let them pass without harm. After they arrived to a new chamber in which the bandits seem to have made into their sleeping quarters, they take a channel to the left and come into a bat cave. After they battle the bats and try to continue but Mae and Brath slip in bat guano. As they continue down the cave channel they see that they arrived back at the cave entrance.

They then turn back to go back the way they came. Once they reached the sleeping quarters the take the cave channel to the north they arrive at a new pool. They see a large toad surface from the pool. After Vivi cast Speak with Animals, she convinced the toad, later who revealed his name was Old Croaker, to ferry the party across the way. After Vivi and Mae befriended the large beast, Mae gave him a flower leading him to cry from joy for he never had a friend before. After they reached the new cave system they thanked Old Croaker and entered then new cave. They see Hulil Lutan and her apprentice Raegrin Mau mediating. After convincing her to let them help her, she tells them that what they need is in her chest and she leaves with Mau. After a fail at lock picking, a blue cloud of dust covers Brath and he is infected with Frozen Woe. After taking the Vial that was in the chest they go and find a merchant that Hulil said she sold the other too.