Campfright

Failing to get past the 3 statues two different times the party faced the 3 women once again.  Most members were satisfied to move outside the cave entrance thinking that if the Hag once again animated she could leave the area.  Maybe that is what she wanted.   So Lythandar used his mage hand to place a coin into the Crone's hand while standing some distance away but still in the cave.  As the coin dropped into her hand all three statues animated and stepped aside, providing a pathway onward.  Just behind the statues the party found a war pick lying in the cave exit.  Moving ahead they saw two exits from the cave, one headed north and another to the east.

The Hags Have It

The Cyclops guards advanced on the party and caused some initial damage using their reach to stay away from the party members.  The group countered with several attacks doing limited damage to the monsters.  The Cyclops Rambler charged forward and move right through areas occupied by Mara and Pretis and then he swung his greatsword and critically whacked Mara for 67 points of damage.  Only by use of her Bear's Endurance did Mara fail to fall unconscious.  Seeing this Melisana, Gofin and Demin hurriedly moved away from the Rambler.  The battle continued with the party knocking off several of the Cyclops Guard Minions but the Rambler was still upright and attacking. 

Loose in the Feywild

The party found themselves spread out amongst three Huge Crocodiles, each ridden by a Hag.  The encounter was on as the Crocs grabbed Pretis and the Hags attempted to claw at the party from high on the back of the Crocs.  Gofin and Demin found themselves flanking a Croc but Demin attacked and moved away leaving Gofin to battle the giant on her own.  Lythandar summoned the Hellhound (DM Note: A good move considering the Crocodiles had regenerate 5 except when they took fire damage.)  Melisana pushed the second Croc/Hag pair away form her and then cast Written in Fire causing more fire damage to the creatures..  Pretis escaped the grab and she and Mara did heavy damage to the first Croc/Hag pair  Alhellara used a Divine Glow blast to further harm two of the Crocs while granting Pretis an attack bonus.  Gofin used Shadow Jack to join the third hag riding the Croc.

Searching for the Gate

After their meeting with Paelias the party headed for the nearest "village".  It turned out to be a small out of the way burgh.  Checking around the group found that they could purchase a few magical and/or mundane items and they spent some of their gold, much enhancing the good burgher's pockets.  They asked around the village if there existed an area that was shunned by the locals (like a portal which they did not mention specifically.)  A young teen aged boy pointed them towards an eerie woods to the northwest of town off of the normal road.  The party set out for this area in the mid morning.  Soon after noon they came upon a wagon in the middle of the road, no people, no horses, just a wagon.  There was also a ring of standing stones alongside the roadway here.  Demin moved forward and noticed a unicorn inside the ring of stones, while Mara move off of the road and noticed two Displacer Beasts under two rather large trees.