Party: Onics, Kyani, Willow, Zaerius, Arlis
Location: Daggerford > Outskirts of Daggerford

Thrax yeeted us through a portal or some shit, telling us to go to Daggerford to make some money. So we went, got checked into the city and did some quick shopping. While we were shopping, we heard some guy talking loudly to some lady. Come to find out they were talkin' about some big monster that's been taking all their cattle and destroying property and the weather's been weird lately. We snooped a bit before askin' them what was going on. The guy was a merchant named Illan Darosi. Guy's a piece of shit and I'll tell ya why later. The lady Alekka Golt was a farm owner and one of the ones that said her cattle were being taken. We offered to help 'em look into the problem. Alekka wanted us to go a peaceful route, but Darosi was encouraging us to go kill whatever it was out there. I was already feelin' off by him pushing for violence while the lady was more passive. Bit suspicious if you ask me.

Anyways, we agreed and headed out towards the farm. We checked out the corral where the cattle was supposed to be. There was only 10 of the 20 there, so something had recently come and took 'em. We managed to find clues... wagon tracks and humanoid footprints along with cattle tracks. And then there were some big ass footprints. We decided to follow the big ones and it led us to a field. The weather started to get fuckin' weird, and we quickly set up some traps and a goat to try and trick the giant. But it avoided the traps. We talked to 'em. Found out his name is Trosius, and found out all he was tryin' to do was to deliver a message from his queen back in Maelstrom.

Trosius was sayin' that there had been word of the red wizards of Thay activity nearby and they wanted to warn the nearby towns and cities, and try to parlay and come up with some way to work together on stoppin' 'em. Sounded pretty solid to me. So we went to investigate the other tracks... and found all the cattle had been killed. Throats neatly slit and bled out. If that wasn't some kinda blood ritual of red wizard bullshit then I dunno what is. We found all the cow collars were perfectly in tact, and there was a burn pit where we found a big wooden toe. Bastard had staged everything, making a big foot print outta wood to make the storm giant a scapegoat. We asked Trosius to come with us to the city and we would deliver 'em to whoever in charge we could.

But of fuckin' course Darosi made it real hard for us. He was rallying up the crowd to take arms against Trosius. But we argued back and gave evidence. We ain't the most charismatic group so it was a bit rough, but Kyani came in at the last second, showing the cow collars to the farmers and showing that Trosius' hands were way too fuckin' big to be working the buckles on the collars. They started to believe us, Darosi, who IS A CONFIRMED FUCKIN' RED WIZARD CULTIST tried to escape. Well, he did fuckin' escape. Willow and Zaerius tried to stop him but he turned into red mist and disappeared.

Trosius had said that Darosi had showed up in every town and city that he'd tried to give his queen's letter to. So he's been actively trying to keep Trosius away. The Red Wizards already have influence in places then... Who knows how deep his influence goes in Daggerford...

Fuck.