I was directed to the Adventurer’s Guild in my search for Be’bop.  A red-haired woman named Penny directed me to a meeting room where two adventurer’s were meeting with the head of the guild, Wesley.  The two woman were named Qualia and Blathnat and both were accompanied by birds.  I was told that Be’bop has opened a business called The Cog.  Since I required employment I agreed to accompany these ladies to Rikevist. 

We arrived in a town with a marshy, earthy aroma.  There was also a smoke in the air.  They apparently made bricks there.  The man that owned the brickyard, Giani, who requested the guild’s assistance finding missing employees.  He was very dirty and appeared to also work amongst his employees.  Some have them have been missing a few days, some a few weeks.  His business is falling farther and farther behind and losing money.  “Some people just want to see the world burn,” was his reason why.  Someone at one of the pubs must be trying to lure them off into the swamp according to witnesses.  They head north.  He has not seen any unusual people in town, but the owner of the pub might.  Giani knows most of the townsfolk and employees three quarters of them.  Someone may have found clay out in the swamp.  It’s not hard to make bricks. 

We went to the pub.  A dragonborn man was working there.  His name was Garm.  There is an old ruined monastery three days north.  He thinks someone has been luring them there.  He refuses to tell us who he thinks it is.  He wants to keep his reputation in case he is wrong.  He offered us moss sandwiches.  I said, “Ugh” under my breath.  He misheard and said, “No it’s not Mmmm, but it is nutritious.”  The sandwiches had a thick slimey moss you find on trees.  The texture was awful.  The dark bread full of seeds was also unpleasant. I ate it to be polite but also because I require sustenance to survive.  The chickens went missing recently.  Maybe it’s goblins.  There are a lot of those in the swamp. 

Garm directed us to a merchant at the dock yard.  I purchased clothes for traveling through the swamp. 

We were attacked in the swamp by a corrupting ooze and 3 bagiennik.  After defeating them we rested. 

In the morning we traveled to the monastery.  It was crumbling and returning to nature.  There was nothing in the ruined houses but bugs.  We were attacked by skeletons.  Inside there were more skeletons and a potato wearing an opal bra and pink miniskirt that Blathnat was very interested in.  One of them was very large.  It was comprised of multiple skeletons.  We found nothing of interest except some renovation plans for the monastery. Outside we found a statue of Lathander showing off his nipples. 

We returned to Giani with the plans.  He said he would like to keep them even though he has no plans of restoring it. There are a lot of bricks there.  Blathnat said something about unions, but I had already mentally moved on.