Gary, Elmer, Nahala and Reed run into each other in the tavern and decide they feel like visiting the smuggler’s town they discovered some time back, but before they go they want to go by the general store since Gary has a few things on order. Gary’s horse and cart have been delivered and while he’s there he picks up a giant silvered sword to replace his current one after the unpleasant encounter he had with some undead who wouldn’t die when he hit them. Elmer gets some incense, Reed gets a dose of Assassin’s Blood poison, enough to poison several ammunition or a few applications to a blade. Nahala really wants a Wand of Magic Missile, which the store happens to have in stock, but doesn’t really want to pay full price for it and offers to maybe do a deal and hook Mason up with some of the goods the smugglers smuggle for a discount on the wand, which Mason agrees to. He’s looking for some liquor and any magic items, particularly magic rings.

Everyone has decided that the general store is named Carl’s Club and the proprietor’s name is Carl and Mason, which is his actual name, doesn’t seem able to dissuade them of this. Gary goes out back to take posession of his horse and cart and meditates to speak to the horse, learning that the horse’s name is Donweeeeeey. The group mounts up with Reed driving and giving cart driving instructions to Gary and heads off towards the smuggler’s town before realizing, as they reach the banks, that they’re on the wrong side of a huge river. They head up river to attempt to find a ford or other crossing and eventually stumble on the partially collapsed remains of a stone bridge about twenty or thirty miles up stream. Elmer is able to do some repairs and get the bridge passable, Gary leaves a tiny flag with a pretzel on it mounted in the middle of the bridge, claiming it for Dwarfoe.

The group camps on the far side of the river and during the later watches, a sexy lizard lady approaches Gary and tells him she’s been out hunting crocodiles in the river but hasn’t had much luck finding anything. Gary invites her to sit down by the fire and share his jerky and they talk briefly, then she says “Oh god, what’s that!?” pointing out into the darkness, Gary turns to look and she sucker punches him and reveals herself as a green hag. Gary wakes the rest of the party who stumble about trying to figure out what’s going on and eventually are able to assist Gary in killing the hag who is not, sadly, a sexy lizard lady. Gary makes a shield out of her face and Reed finds a spyglass worth about a 1000G on the corpse for some reason.