We found the damn monster: A Bobby Mcgee AppleWood Story

Well ole Grubnar heard tell of some beast lurking west of town and he rounded up a few of us to go check it out. We struck out about midday and headed out towards where it had been heard. Bout dark when we were getting close to camp for the night we heard a whole heap of yellin up ahead. We rushed up ahead to see if we could help whoever it was doing all that hollarin.

Now there (if you can believe it) was a man just dressed up as fancy as can be up a tall tree. Around the tree were two very angry ogres trying to mess up that man's clothes. Well me and the gang got rid of those ogres quick and introduced ourselves to this man. He said his name was uhh..... Millard... Lets just say its Millard.

Millard is a strange man if he is a man at all. He has been watching us since we first got to the island he said. Claims he has been here for a year exploring the island for the king but I ain't never heard anything bout him. He tells of us the Hydra to the east. Anyway this guy says he will give us 5 questions we can ask him. Now I'm not much for riddles and such so I just tried to get him to come back to town and help document the island with us. After some uhhh "miscommunication" between some of our party members and Millard he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Thought that was the last we would see of him.

The next day we set out to see if this Millard guy was on the level about the tower, the bridge and the Hydra. Well sure enough we show up and the tower is there and the bridge is there but no Hydra as far as we can see. Millard had even been so kind as to put explosives near the base of the tower so we could blow it up and drop it on the hydra. However.... some of our more eager party members decided to climb up the tower thus alerting the hydra and locking themselves in the tower at the same time.....

After some considerable effort (buy me a drink at the tavern and I'll tell you the full story) the Hydra was dead and the party safe. Millard who apparently had a little bit of a crush on our cleric sent a ferret to tell us thanks for killing the Hydra for him. I can only imagine this won't be the last time we run into Millard.