37. September 3, 2017

We dock, and prepare to go ashore. The border of Ærden has a barrier of woven trees, and there's a constant fog hanging over everything north of the Ærden border. The land is swampy. We have only been slogging north about 15 minutes when we are attacked by four boar creatures (which are invisible at first). We slay two giant boars and two were-boars flee. We speculate that a magician laid an invisibility spell on them, thinking they otherwise would have turned invisible when fleeing. We splash onward. Night falls, but we press on, and are attacked by a writhing mass of large, poisonous snakes! And then an enemy spellcaster arrives to a clap of thunder and summons more snakes. With a series of amazing fighting moves, the party takes down the spellcaster and KO's him and plans to interrogate him later. The only being badly hurt is Ghard's horse Timothy, who is massively poisoned and in bad shape.