Late 2017

After the group had managed the colony of New Assension, they learned of a number of potential threats facing the colony.  These were:

1.  A number of (mostly) men had gone missing, returning befuddled and speaking of nymphs.
2.  A witch was controlling a pack of wolves, which were attacking people.
3.  There were scary ghost to the east, in the part of our map marked "ghosts".

Elzeny and her council consulted, and decided to send their group of troubleshooters out to stop the wolf attacks, their reasoning being:
a)  the wolves seemed to be the only threat that was an actual threat to the colonists;
b)  ghosts were above the pay grade of our adventurers; and
c)  they wanted to "deal" with the nymph "problem" themselves (aka - they wanted the possible nymph sexy times for themselves).

So, their flunkies went out, found the witch in her hut and discovered that she was eccentric but harmless - and not the source of the wolf troubles.  She was, however, able to point them in the right direction.  Eventually, they were able to find the wolves (or the wolves find them - same result either way).  During the very hard fight, they discovered that one of the wolves was actually a shape changer and seemed to be controlling the others.  While the hirelings defeated the other wolves, each was almost killed at one point or another, and the shape changer escaped.

The next session, the hired help followed the shapechangers tracks into the area of the map marked "ghosts" and met a grizzled man.  From this man, they learned that he was the recipient of a "gift" (though it was more of a curse) where he was forced to fight a battle between ghosts - a battle that he had fought in and found invigorating in his youth.  He believed that if he could succeed in getting the enemy's banner he could end the curse... but in all the years of the curse, he had never succeeded and his chances to do so were slipping away as he aged and his fighting skills waned.  While he would find himself unharmed after every battle, those outsiders who were killed helping him did not.  Despite this warning, the minions agreed to help him.  Unfortunately, the ghosts were indeed over their pay grade, and many again almost died - but fortunately, the spirits killed the old man first, ending the battle.  Elzeny's mercenaries returned to New Ascension with the man, contemplating how be successful in a future attempt.

The session after that, we were back to Elzeny and her councilors, who thought they should go investigate the nymphs.  Unfortunately, non of those who had returned from the nymphs had a firm idea of where they were (or the party forgot to ask), so they did a fair bit of wandering around, mapping the east shore of the lake.  While doing so, in a grove of magical mushrooms, they were set on by a group of goblins and fey, who tried to capture the women with nets to put them in cages.  After successfully defeating this threat, they interrogated one goblin and learned that the women were to be brides for a troll, and that others had already been captured in this way.

The party followed the tracks left by the cages and found a larger cage which was the centre of a ritual pulling it into the material realm from the feywild.  The cage was covered with spikes, on some of which were the severed head of women of various races - likely the fate of Elzeny and the others had they not prevailed over the kidnappers.  At some distance from the cage were a number of bonfires surrounded by dancing fey - part of the magic ritual.  The adventurers decided to try to fight one of those groups first, which posed far less trouble than expected.  This was a surprise, as one of those defeated was a troll, which Catarina managed to take down with the party's sole source of fire damage.