The Syndicate once again sent out a band with the aim of resolving this goblin problem around the Shining Falls area. I suggested we go to the Zhentarim and ask for any information they may have (seeing as how their mark was on the strategy map found previously in the goblin encampment). I figured if they were having their business disrupted by goblins also, then it would behoove them to trade with us. However Solia and Bri seemed more inclined toward the Emerald Enclave with this tactic. So we went there instead.

We encountered an insufferable Harper who needed safe escort to the Emerald Enclave grove, so we took him with us and delivered him. The druids et al pointed us to a dryad friend of theirs who had gone missing, so we went there, fought and killed a "banderhobb", freeing the dryad, the end. By the way, a recovered journal or missive or whatever informed us that the banderhobb had been created and placed in this area by the Zhentarim in apparent alliance with the Axebiter goblins. So. Maybe next time we listen to Gyaba. I am, after all, quite skilled at cutting straight to the heart of a problem. 🗡

Anyway, we reclaimed our pay for our efforts from the bodies of the slain. Which included two hobgoblin fighters, one hobgoblin mage, a quadrupedal wingless dragon shitfuck, and the banderhobb.

One of the dumbest people I have ever met is a Harper. We went to the emerald enclave and got to burn some hobgoblins and their dragon. then we got to burn a giant toad to save a tree. And apparently the zhentarim are working with the goblins or something like that.