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Beginning on a relatively new continent. 600ish years ago, there was a massive disaster where the planes split up. Many civilizations were destroyed or severely damaged. In the 300 years since, the world has been stabilizing. Beastfolk clans have risen back into a semblance of power and organization. In the past 100 years, exploration has picked up, discovering the continent we are on now. Shadowed Mire sits on the border between the two major powers, Phenada and Republic of Idris. It's a rough and tumble kind of town, and the swamp itself is pretty (very) dangerous too.
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Starting on April 5th, Ostara Sun festival, celebrating the coming of spring. It's the equivalent for Beastfolk to the Celebration of the First Passing.
Daffodil tried some of the cherry flavored liquor at the Wicked Toad Tavern, run by "Brew" a Boggard (frogperson). She didn't hold it well. Then went up to the fight pit to punch somebody about it.
 
Azoth/Az (Gray's Character) is walking around asking about ruins or such in the swamp. He learned about some ruins and such out in the swamp that are real dangerous.
 
Bonetwitch (Ed's Character) wants to pick up a new rug for her shack, as well as maybe some herbs and a little snack.
 
Phil (Bee's Character) is a clown person, just people watching, blinking one eye at a time, like some kind of freak. Sees some people wearing green cloaks, with armor, leathers, weapons, pelts, actively trading goods. They seem pretty strong. There's a couple shifty figures trying to go about their day without running into anybody. There's kids pickpocketing, sometimes getting caught. In the swamp below, not near any wooden walkways, some big chicken-esque footprints the size of a person's head.
 
Az notices a small child trying to pickpocket him, and hands him a silver.
 
Back to Daffodil, at the fighting pit are the two Ustels, Sapling and Cattail, Cattail prevailed. Cattail then got her shit stomped by a tiny mouse.
 
Meanwhile, outside, Bonetwitch and Phil notice a creature (an amalgamation of stitched together monster parts, upper body of an umber hulk, insectoid with big claws and massive eyes, and the lower half of a cockatrice with big chicken legs too big for the torso, with a scaly serpentine tail, and various unidentifiable chunks of flesh, making a nasty gargling sound). There's a panic, blood everywhere, somebody got decapitated.
 
Daffodil valiantly runs toward the sound of danger, and combat begins!
The creature is out of sight, and while some are readying to attack, others are working to stabilize injured civilians.
We managed to save those that weren't outright dead immediately, and fell the creature.
We were then approached by some of the Fenkeepers, specifically Skift, a tiefling ranger with a Gray Render companion.
 
Skift had some theories on where it could have come from, possibly the ruins on the edge of the swamp, or possibly elsewhere. The creature is a construct and a monstrosity.
They invited us to join them to their tower and possibly to the ruins in the swamp. Phil and Bonetwitch went to Bonetwitch's house, while Daffodil and Az went with the Fenkeepers.
 
Daffodil thinks she may have offended Cattail and is planning on making Apology Muffins, or failing that, Regret Flapjacks.