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Miscellaneous

With Mantor wanted by the guard for the violence that occured in Dotting, the adventuring party decide it's time to act and remove the hag, Sister Meggett, from the hamlet. They leave a defiant agent in Teris as a decoy for Mantor and set off with haste to Dotting. Both Gumdrop and Sister Meggett are slain and a couple of new allies are met. Konstantin, a mercenary warrior with a troubled past, aids them on the return journey with both martial prowess and magical ability.

With the new allies the group had made through their contacts in the guard, the adventurers are warned that Han and Mantor are both wanted for their involvement in the atrocities that plagued Dotting. Knowing that this is a lie, the group seek guidance from the defiant embassy in Teris. It is recommended that a decoy is left in the Rat's Barding so that Mantor can work to clear his name; not everyone is very good at telling the defiant apart! They were also advised that an agent from Fang & Claw had gone missing during a scouting mission in the vicinity.

The journey south to Dotting was uneventful. However, the hamlet was in a much worse state than on the previous visit - many villagers had deserted and most services were shut down. Brent, the previously injured guard, was now sheriff of what remained of the village and he had little recollection of the events that had transpired. Jorgen found the corrupted pixie, Gumdrop, within the guardhouse but she escaped before capture.

Sister Meggett resided in a cottage on the eastern outskirts of the village, swamp on one side and a large garden on the other. With no hesitation, Woyzeck struck Gumdrop down outside and threw a torch to the thatched roof to start a fire. A brutal fight ensued; a scarecrow leapt to life to protect the hag while Sister Meggett herself fought with tooth and claw. At the last moment, as she was struck down, her amulet flared to life and she was regenerated as a half-hag, half-spider monstrosity. Even this was not enough and, as the weather shifted to rain, her body lay broken on the path outside her cottage.

Within the cottage were a few treasures, including a particularly well crafted porcelain cauldron. In the basement below was Veria, the halfling agent from Fang & Claw. She was in a bad way, bruised, dirty and unfed. The group took her out and located Sparky, her fox companion who had lost his tail in a show of viciousness by Sister Meggett. Finally, the group also located a few letters - correspondance between several hags - that revealed Meggett was not working alone.

Back in Dotting itself, the group met Konstantin, a troubled mercenary with his own tale of hags and betrayel. He joined the group for their journey back to Teris, his support tipping the scales in the party's favour during an ambush by guards and thugs. This support was more chaotic than expected, as during a charge into the fray, Konstantin was replaced by a particularly angry sheep. Unfortunately, there was not a lot of specific information divined from the ambushers - just that the guard were involved and that a captain in Teris had hired the additional help.