The party continued to concoct their masterplan and after a lot of back and forth they decided how they are going to fool king Groak. Crystal with the pigments drew herself a large frog mask, and some beautiful ceremonial clothes from rubber and other material around. Žvirblis used his alchemy jug to supply oil, creating a wet skin effect. Sara gathered some wet leaves from around the settlement, added some burning kindling and put them in a tightly sealed box.
As the sun started to set over the horizon, the king came out ready for his wedding, Ezra created distant thunder with her thuamaturgy and smoke started to bellow out from the boxes opened by Saras mage hand, from the smoke Crystal as Nangnang emerged. Charming the King with sweet words and promises of a wedding in two weeks if he treats all his guests fairly. More smoke came out and Ezra used darkness on top of the King allowing Crystal to smoothly disappear and ditch the ceremonial outfit.
The king happy with the result started celebrations, grungs brought tables food plenty of small birds, insects and squirrels, also 6 kinds of colored drinks littered the tables. As the feast continued more and more grungs started to act strangely - eating until they can hardly breathe, loudly croaking or just rolling around in the mud. The king answered all the questions the party had, pointing out the location of Omu about 30 days of travel south east of here, commenting on the flying beasts that inhabit the firefinger and revealing that there is a maze portal beneath this chamber.
At night after the feast, Tuna went out to try and steal a blowgun she saw near the king’s pool. Unfortunately she kicked over a bench and the king woke up - they couldn’t understand each other so after a few drunk croaks, Tuna just left the building. Meanwhile, Crystal heard a familiar voice of her past lover calling her in the night, as he rose up and walked towards the voice he found his dead lover - Nyrene standing there. Yet something was wrong, the way she spoke, the way she moved it was wrong, she tried to embrace Crystal but he was hesitant - and thus Nyrene started to cast sleep on him, however Crystal was able to ressist the effect and ran away shouting and waking up the party. The party rejoined with Tuna and went to investigate, but instead of Nyrene all they found was a giant anthill with large aggressive jungle ants, that glowed a slight enchantment aura when detect magic was cast by Žvirblis. The party decided to leave the ants be and went to sleep ready to continue their journey.
The following day, Tuna made a last attempt to steal the blowgun while King was out and about, succeeding to sneak over there she pocketed it and the party quickly left the settlement of DUNGRUNGLUNG. As they moved further south, they encountered a zombie Giant that was carrying a large sack, they hid from him and noticed that a family of flying squirrels where using the sack as a mobile home. Moving further south, they had to move through a ravine with a narrow 7 feet crevice. As they were slowly making their way through it - the sky turned black like a large cloud came over. When they looked up they noticed that a horde of zombies just running over the ravine blocked the sun and a few of them started to fall down, knocking Crystal down. The party slowly cut through the fallen and wounded zombies as more and more of them fell. Finally they were able to escape the narrow crevice as it filled up with zombies like a living bridge. At night, everyone dreamt of a maze that represented their life: goals, regrets and nightmares that haunt them, most of them woke up happy, escaping the maze except for Ezra where she dreamed of an unseen figure that grabbed her by the throat and told her to “Remember why you came here, remember our deal.”
The next morning the party came across a small forest of orange trees, with multiple dinosaurs feeding on them as they walked through collecting oranges in their packs, Tuna noticed that nearby in a bush goblins are following them. The part continued forth while Sara stealthily climbed a tree and circled back around behind the goblins. She tried to scare and intimidate the four goblins unsuccessfully, until Tuna knocked one out with a dart from her new blowgun. The goblins dropped their weapons and said they need help - there’s a treasure that only non-goblin creatures can retrieve by completing a traditional goblin ritual. The goblins led them to their village where their matriarch Forb - a female goblin with an albino snake on her neck greeted them. Instantly, they felt under obligation to tell only the truth in her chambers - as affected by a zone of truth spell.
Forb explained that long time ago a goblin that wants goblins to become more than thieves tried to pursue relations with other races. They wanted to follow the teaching of this goblin, but were shunned from their village for not robbing a group of travelers that passed by. Thus forb with a small group of goblins are now looking for friends, who would complete the ritual proving that