I accompannied other members of Syndicate - Mimsy, Astraelis, Salviron and Sylk - into guarding the Caravan through Dragon Spine Mountains to the Citadel of Raven. My companions were mostly grumpy about the rain and my attempt at cheering them up by summonning Scratch - my sphinx of wonder familiar - didn't help because he also got upset about the rain. Caravan stopped upon seeing a dog - a golden retriver - on the road. We investigated, finding out it is friendly to Scratch, and everyone else, and seems to be owned by local wizard named Leonardo. The dog seemed agitated and wanted us to follow. her somewhere. Thinking either the wizard is in trouble that we should deal with or, if we leave his dog without help, we will have wizard trouble, I sent Scartch after her.

The dog was clever enough to lead us to a cave, filled with steam. The heat and small geysers of steam gave us the run for our money, especially in one large room. After solving a puzzle, we found a room where group of Goblins and Hobgoblins were keeping animals in cages. The dog was very agitated about letting them be free. Thankfully, I offered Goblisn and hobgoblins to ditch their curent empolyeer - a Dragon named Torch - and seek employment at Syndicate. With everyone's help we managed to convince them and lead the large group out of this horrible cave.

On our way back we were attacked by the Torch, who exploded Scratch and almost killed us, if it wasn't for dog to heal us. We gave our all agaisnt the creature and beat it. I managed to convince few Hobgoblisn that were Torch's bodyguards, to also seek employment at the Syndicate. I am very happy that I managed to save few of my brethren from the awful life of servitude. Now I need to help them find new job at the Syndicate. I hope they manage to adjust.

Also, we found out the dog was a retired archdruid in diguise and the Dragon had personal vendetta against her, for killing his mother. World sure is strange.

Second also, I adopted a moose. Hope they have stable big enough for them at Syndicate headquaters.

I have joined Surx, Ivor, Salviron and Na'ima to a mission on behest of mayor of Parnast. Apparently there was a band of Hobgoblins spotted seeking wizard's tower in the swamp. The mayor was an individual whom my companions had poor opinion of. And he didn't exactly endear himself to me with his assumption I'm one of the hostile Hobgoblings, already captured. We did manage to learn the Hobgoblins are likely serving in what my village used to call a "grab-bag" army - assortment of random mercenaries, tribes and bandits of different species, unified only by presence of one warlord leader. In this case, the warlord was a hill giantess, Badfrual. I guess giants like to keep my people under their boot as well.

Before we could venture on our quest, however, a pseudodragon familiar showed up. On behalf of some sort of Seer, it requested we keep the tower out of Hobgoblin hands and allow them later exploration of it,. Since some of my companions remembered the Seer as an past client of Syndicate, we agreed to this offer.

I was hoping that, once we meet the Hobgoblins, we will be able to talk to them and maybe even convince to switch sides. Unfortunatelly, by the time we found them, they have already been slain. Their killer (Water Weird, I believe), that attacked us with a bunch of Mephits. One Mephit, which smelled horribly, observed us fighting these enemies. After our victory, he offered to lead us to leader of local forces in the swamp - Mother Knuckle. After I gave fallen Hobgoblins quick burial, stinky Mephit lead us to her lair. Which turned out to be on top of a sunken tower, likely the very one we were looking for.

We tried to sneak into the camp, posing as "monsters" looking for work. But this attempt failed so hard the only explanation is that we run into Faerun's most paranoid Ogre. We were force to defeat Mother Knuckle and her Ogres. Some of them fleed after seeing their leader fall. Hearing them plan to join Badfrual, I attempted a preemptive intimidation tactic. I told one of them to make sure to let Badfrual know what quick work Glassfang Syndicate made of his previous employer. My reasonign was that it may cause the giantess to think twice before crossing our paths. But my companions felt that it would rather provoke her to seek us out, and killed the Ogre. A shame, but they did make a fair point, so I won't be arguing.

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.