Swamp Thing

Neshir called for the party's help in dealing with reported sightings of a swamp monster outside of the Crescent City in Larrunana. The three heroes joined up with Neshir in the city and spoke with her about the sightings. The heroine reported a local wizardry professor had been collecting information on the sightings and would serve as their local expert.

Atom had initial doubts about the professor's motive as the fairy's suspicion would eventually prove valid. The party and Neshir asked the wizard about the sightings and learned that hikers in the bayous had been reported missing and the wizard attributed the cases with the swamp monster.

The party heading into the bayou and rowed out into the swamp looking for the supposed monster with the plan to communicate with the beast diplomatically. When Atom accidentally summoned an alligator, the party soon found their boat under attack by a dozen swamp gators. The situation turned deadly when Hood lost a leg in the fray and the boat began to sink. Sorcerer luckily saved the party with an arcane attack, but none of the party members could salvage the sinking boat. With more alligators inbound, the party prepared to meet their end, but after a flash of green light, they awoke to find themselves lashed to chairs inside a decrepit- yet tasteful- bayou shack.

The four heroes spoke with the Swamp Thing in his shack and learned the beast was responsible for the missing people and had even been their killer, but after a falling out with the wizard professor; the wizard cursed the Swamp Thing who went into exile in the bayous. The Swamp Thing negotiated with the party members to allow him to kill the wizard which would put an end to the killings and Neshir reluctantly agreed.

The party smuggled a small cypress tree into the wizard's tower at the university. Swamp Thing summoned himself through the plant and fought beside Neshir against the powerful magician in his office. Meanwhile, the party battled undead creatures in the lobby. Hood at one point nearly met his end when one of the undead pinned him to a pillar with Hood's own weapons. Atom and Sorcerer fared better and the two were able to rescue their companion.

The party began healing themselves when the wizard was thrown onto the lobby floor beside them. From out his chest poured a cypress tree limb which grew into the sentient Swamp Thing and encased the wizard's body. The party heard the wizard let out cries of terror as his bones crunched inside the wooden cocoon. Finally, Swamp Thing reformed into his original state with the body of the wizard dissolved into oily blood greasing the Swamp Thing's limbs. The beast then disappeared to his swamp and Neshir returned wounded to the party in the lobby.