Our thrio took an invitation to attend the festival in a small village deep in the forest. Feeling less experienced and afraid how people would react to a Hobgoblin, I fell back on letting Mimsy and Artemyeva do lot of talking. So when I say "we" talked to someone, I mean mostly them. I was observing village's odd customs - the mayor was a goat, for one. My Sphinx liked the mayor and I let them play together. This turned out to be a mistake, as a small child freed the goat to play with both, and the goat ran to the forest. Village's rulling council informed us the Festival is set to sacrifice a Mayor to Not-So-Good Neighbours who live in forest beyond the river, in exchange of them not killing children. Hence why the mayor is a goat. If the goat would not be sent to other side of the river by sunset, the deal would be broken. Situation was dire and I must admit, with shame, pressure made me slipp into some old army habbits and be rude to one of villagers, who only tried to help. We already were on thin ice with villagers after my companions tried to negotiate payment for fiding the goat, and my outburst did not help.

We managed to track the goat to the forest on other side of the village, where we discovered a different group, composed of Satyrs and Dryads, who invited the Mayor to their festivities and feed him food that gave him sentience. We convinced the Mayor to relinquish his title in favor of nearly identical goat who was, to quote, "an asshole". We also convinced one of Dryads to go back with us to join the festival. Hopefully, the villagers and these Fey will form an alliance against the Neighbours.

We took a boat with new Mayor to other side of the river. But it was already sunset and the being that was receiving sacrifices tried to claim the deal is broken. The village's original mayor, help shrunk in a bottle by this mysterious individual, told us the villain behind this plot loves contests and riddles. Figure he is some sort of Fey as well. So we challenged him to one and managed to solve it. He stormed off, alongside his lackeys, who appeared to be some sort of Goblinoids. Adding Fey to the long list of those who force my people into servitude. Something I will need to research further.

We returned to the village and returned home via a portal. Lessons learned: I need to work on my people skills, research ties between Fey and Goblinoids and not let my flying cat out of sight again.