Four people, of disparate origins and demeanours, volunteer to help out Magdalene Lighthand, a halfling from Rodden’s Farm, on a mission into the nearby small farming village of Weald. According to local reports, people in Weald have been acting particularly strangely and unpredictably in the last few months, and some that have ventured into the village to find out more have yet to return. An expedition was finally planned after the export of produce from Weald stopped completely, and a hysterical woman arrived at Rodden’s Farm, claiming to have “escaped” Weald. Reaching the village a few hours before sundown, the gang decide to split up to look for clues. Farraway Reid, a gnome with a dress covered in pockets, and Orla Tan’Sae, a centaur from the fey realm, go with Magdalene to cover the northern area of Weald. They discover the town’s barracks, stripped bare of all weaponry with cells painted white and signs of the beds being in use. Glancing into the temple next door, Farraway decides to leave after seeing the unnerving white-robed occupants, while Orla tries to talk to some horses. Farraway also peers into some nearby houses as well as stealing some trinkets from a bedroom. Meanwhile, Wilbury Eldermane, a studious firbolg, accompanies Murjac Marturim, a disgraced dragonborn soldier, into the local Stoneraider Inn. Meeting the innkeeper, Gordon Stoneraider, the pair are immediately put off by how aggressively happy he is, even when mentioning unfortunate topics such as his wife leaving him. They convince him to go upstairs to answer some questions, and get some information, as well as a brief encounter with his daughter Gail, who seems immensely angry at the interruption. Orla speaks to a plant and learns of some strange “little people” causing chaos, before the party reunite by the well to share their findings.​ Suddenly, a hideous grey fey creature leaps out from the well, using portals to try to make a quick getaway. The group manage to pin it down, despite its oily excretions, and Murjac knocks it unconscious. They look up to see an elderly wizard running towards them, who introduces himself as Crawyn Heatherhill. Crawyn thanks them for capturing the creature, which Orla and Wilbury identify as a boggle, and leads them back to his home, where he has a room packed full of imprisoned boggles. He has been using fey-sensing boggle goggles to try to prevent these bothersome creatures from causing chaos around the village. He also has a magical aura set up around his home, to keep the boggles trapped, as well as to protect him from what he suspects is a magical influence affecting the minds of the villagers and amplifying their emotions to the extremes. Already in tune with fey energies, Orla tries on the goggles, and is immediately met with visions of the boggles, as well as a more powerful, more sinister fey presence… somewhere in the forest.