Episode 3 -- Into the Mountains From Oak Pine

The team awoke the next day in the tavern.  They ate breakfast, Mortimer bought two bottles of barley whiskey (a Dwarven favorite), and they headed into the village.

In the village they bought some items in the market place.  Lumi and Mortimer colluded to lace one of the barrley whiskey bottles with a natural sleep agent.  But in the market outside of Mortimer's presence she bought a weak poison.  Lumi also arranged to trade a powder she could find in the mountains for an Elven-wrought vial/pendant upon her return to Oak Pine.

The team found clues on the community memo board.

Vladimer the Bloody is the Dwarven bandit.

The party left the "follow the lights" flyer and black feather on the board.

The party followed a road north out of Oak Pine.  They followed a trail that forked off of the road in a north-easterly direction.  They followed it into the mountains because of a large black feather they saw on that trail.

They lost track of the trail and were slightly lost.  They came upon a small lake in which a small rowboat was floating.  A hooded figure was in the boat with its back turned toward they group.  On shore a middle aged man was cooking freshly caught fish next to his tent.  The man said his wife was in the boat and she was avoiding the group because she was feeling ill.  He invited the group to eat fish with him.

Daumpney pulled the woman's boat ashore when he sensed something was wrong about her.  She attacked Lumi as soon as she reached shore.  She was a some type of undead or hag with a life draining attack.  Lumi and Daumpney took a lot of damage and their max hit points were reduced until the next day.  All members of the team fought the creature until it was slain.   Then Mortimer interrogated him and they burned the husband alive in his boat at Lumi's insistance. (Mortimer doused the man in fish oil before the man was set alight.  Mortimer shot him with a crossbow while he was burning.) Then they ate his fish and took what they wanted of the items in his camp -- of which there was very little of value.  (Mortimer probably took his tent.  I don't think anyone was interested in the 2 suits of leather armor.)

The session ended with the party having breached a magic gate in the mountains after following the trail of blue lights.  Daumpney figured out its puzzle.  The team learned of Lumi's ability to wild shape into a small bird at this gate.  Mortimer.  They also learned of Mortimer's telekinesis ability as he remotely manipulated the gate's buttons.