Forest of Mystery

I write this from the entrance of a cave in the middle of the forest here. Several of our party have burns from an explosion but no one in danger. We've set up camp here so I'll recount the mission so far.
 
For this mission we were heading to Morgannwg to explore the fey forest and continue to map it out. The Luminaries did some exploration in the recent past so I guess we'll be adding more to the map.
The team for this mission has a few familiar faces. First is Romilius, the skinny bugbear and then White Sun, the white gold bipedal jackal covered in armor. Sun seems a little unnerved by the forest. I heard that some members of previous missions were traumatized by the forest and she must've been one of them.
 
The other two members for this mission was Mason, an old earth genasi with dreadlocks wearing a yellow straw hat and gray overalls like a farmer. He's even got a walking stick. Apparently he is a rock farmer and he carries a bag of home grown rocks along with him. It's ridiculous but he certainly has some pride of his rocks. He's a strange fellow. As soon as we arrived he rubbed himself in sand. I know that the sea is unpleasant but that was a new level. He even walks around barefoot to be more with the land. He seemed very happy in the forest.
 
The fifth member of this expedition was Svetlana, a wood elf with short red hair, armed with a rapier.
 
The delegate, Ludric, led us to the northern edge of the forest and provided us with a map. The map will apparently draw itself as we move through the forest but it doesn't seem to work all the time. It was a bit strange. Mason held the map initially but gave it to White Sun after the map didn't record our findings.
 
As soon as we entered, Mason and Romilius started their hourglass as time moves strangely in the forest. This was a bit apparent half an hour when in we come across a half elf man named Will dressed in Morgannwg sailor attire digging a hole. He's said that he was looking for his treasure but it looks like someone took it. Disturbingly he doesn't know what day it is but he's been digging for a few hours. With they way time works here its likely shorter then that but I don't know anymore. We left Will alone and didn't see him again. I don't know if he made it out.
 
After walking for awhile we came across with a giant green frog in the middle of a swampy area. We decided to go around it and avoid fighting it. The entire time it was watching us. Pretty unnerving having something that size look at you.
 
Next we came across a large pink flower. Much larger then us. Mason climbed a tree to try and peek inside the flower's petals but he couldn't see anything. Svetlana grabbed the flower to try and peek inside but it began to expand. It grew teeth on the petals and glowing eyes on the stem. Turns out the big ol flower was a mimic. White Sun set it on fire and it died after the rest of us starting slicing and shooting. I went to try and harvest the flower mimic but its too burned to be useful. I did get my bolts back though.
 
A lot of strange things happened today but the strangest had to be watching Mason slowly float down from the tree he was on. Pretty sure Genasi are just stranger then anything else now. Wasn't the only weird thing though. Mason checked his hour glass and it was pretty empty. Romilius' glass however, was half empty. It seems that time here in the forest plays by its own rules.
 
We then came across some gray skinned cloaked bipedal creatures with hooves and sharp degraded teeth that White Sun lead us to. There are two of them. They seem interested in our map but I don't really know what they are saying. Only Sun, who cast a spell on herself, knew what they are saying. They gave us come directions to go deeper in the forest and map out a more core part. Although they were strange looking the creatures were cordial. Romilius gave them a business card and Mason gave them three of his home grown stones before we parted.
 
With White Sun still leading the way, we found ourselves at the entrance of the cave I write this from. In front there are some spicy smelling flowers, the cause of the blackened ground and the many burn marks. Romilius cut a flower and it exploded. A few more flowers also exploded as the chain reaction continued through the grove. We harvested the remaining flower parts and their seeds by grabbing the dirt and not the flowers so they don't explode and decided to camp outside of the cave.
 
It's my watch right now but nothing is happening. The sun hasn't moved at all for almost two hours. Svetlana is up next so I guess I should wake her up. Hopefully it'll be like Romilius' shift and mine where nothing happens. Then again, this forest seems to be full of surprises.
 
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The mission was quite a success. After waking up, Mason cast some sort of spell and we took the appearance of stone as we descended into the cave. A sort of camouflage to make us stealthier but it wasn't really for anything. We came across a single file stone bridge that leads across a cavern. Seems normal right? Wrong. There's a pinkish glowing magical spiral under the bridge that throws off your balance. most of us crawled over the bridge but Svetlana and Mason almost fell off and died. Svetlana transformed into a tiger person and barely got up with the help of Romilius and Mason.
 
That was just the first half of the bridge too. Gravity goes up on the second half of the bridge but that wasnt too large of a problem. It was just strange watching people fall upwards and hang from the bridge. Personally, I crawled around the bridge, making my way halfway crawling on it and halfway crawling on the underside of the bridge. Gravity returned to normal at the end of the bridge.
 
Shortly after we left the cave, the grey fey creatures called a gateway, and found ourselves on another side of a forest. The forest here was a silvery glass. The ground and surrounding environment is glass like a mirror. The forest of mirrors surrounded a reflective silver pond. The trees, rocks, and grass broke easily but reformed after a short time. Some trees didn't exist either. We walked through a few like they weren't even there. It was a beautiful, although confusing, place. We spent our time there following a voice and a shadowy image that always ran from us. It was a maiden of the forest according to White Sun and it was confirmed by the figure once we found her. The maiden wanted to test us though. A light wind came in and Romilius and Svetlana disappeared into silvery ponds. Our test was to find the Bugbear and the Elf.
 
Luckily there were several clues along the way. It seemed like the branches were pointing somewhere. White Sun kept seeing the shadowy figure and Mason was talking to his reflection. All of them led us to a clearing. Mason smashed the ground below him and disappeared through the ground as the plain crumbled into a drop. Romilius and Svetlana were stuck in glass boxes in the pit. Shortly after we freed them the dark figure appeared to us once again. White Sun placed a stone on the ground that belonged to another maiden of the forest. A gift that this maiden seemed to accept from us. After that a way out to the real forest is shown. The mirrored area appears white and silvery blue on the map in contract to the green surrounding it.
 
Not long after we came across a large fir tree with many eyes at the knots of its bark. It claimed to be the guardian of the forest, Oakenbush. Although he spoke frustratingly slow the guardian was nice. He lead us to the edge of the forest where we came from before returning to his place.
 
Apparently, we were in the forest for an hour and 18 minutes. Time there was strange but I found it quite pleasant and beautiful. It was relatively peaceful and relaxing. Not to mention Ludric paid us 160 gold for our services and the harvested explosion seeds. I also have a glass shard from the mirrored area. Another souvenir to go with a burnt feather from the war games.
 
This journey was nice. I'd forgotten how much I missed the forest. Perhaps I should take a look at Agarthi's forest. I've heard its quite vast.
 
Damage Done: +8+9+0+7
 
Damage done by Allies: 19 fire
 
No longer be measuring movement.
 
Damage done by Enemies: 0
 
HP Healed: 0
 
Times Down: 0
 
Natural 1s: 1 to Harvest the Mimic, 1 to find the time using the sun.
 
Natural 20s: 20 to not fall victim to the illusion spiral