Z: Are you calling Australians
Goblins?
B: No. 
O: It's true honestly though, so…

E: Guys, we are bad people.
B: Reputation is in delicate condition.
GIGGLES
E: Guys, we gotta lock in.
Z: There’s no locking in.

LAST SESSION

BLEEM: “YOU DON’T
FUCKING GO THERE!”

The party recall seeing a creepy girl in the middle of town singing an equally

creepy song before running off towards the cornfield, but not along the road.

Before falling asleep a record begins playing ahaunting song. B: “I know exactly where I’m not going.”

Mass amounts of crows line the roofs of the town square, staring down at the people as the town begins to dwindle. Looking out to the town, they see someone muttering to themselves before walking directly into the cornfields, stopping for a moment to look up at something that's not there. 
     B: “Not a fan of this place, let me tell ya’.”
Martha arrives to greet the party and tells them she’s back at the tavern to wait for her son, Isaac. Beau asks about Jonah and she explains that he is the town butcher whose daughter went missing recently. 
     G: “Do you know why people are running towards the cornfield? We saw a really creepy girl last night running into it.”
She asks what the girl looked like and Beau creates an illusion of her. Martha bursts into tears and explains that they saw her daughter who is missing. She begins to explain that people have been seen whispering to the field shortly before disappearing. There have been reports of a strange creature and a name, Raum.
     M: “All I know is that all of this started happening after Jericho Sticks went missing.”
Eleana asks about Jericho and learns that he was “an animated scarecrow. He wandered around town playing his banjo.” After he went missing everyone in town began pointing fingers at each other accusing murder. She tells them about his song, Virgil's Birdcage, about a kind man whose heart had been replaced by an angry crow and only song and dance can keep the crow asleep. The town loved his songs so much that William Lodge petitioned the mayor to make him a citizen of Foxwillow.
     G: “I bet Jonah had something to do with it, he was really mean to us.”
Osiera asks where Jericoh would spend his time and Martha points them towards the general store and the library. Before heading out, Martha also points them towards the burned windmill and asks them to see if her missing children are there.

On the way to the general store, they detour to visit Jonah in an attempt to apologize (except for Grimm) and spot him chopping wood. The group argue amongst themselves if they should wave or not. When he sees the group he stops and stares at them, mostly Grimm who has a huge smile on his face. Without breaking eye contact he walks inside, closes his blinds, and locks the door. 
     B: “Dammit!”
     G: “Now we can get the jump on him.”
     B: “Well, I can be very persuasive.” (He begins walking up to the door.)
     E: “Let’s give him a day, Beau.”
     B: “Fair enough, if he meets us in the cornfields though, it ain’t gonna be very friendly.”

Arriving at the general store they see that most of it has been burned down. Jiwho finds a potion of healing. Osiera finds a beautiful banjo underneath the rubble but as she’s sifting around she accidentally sticks her hand in pumpkin guts. Looking around they see several dead pumpkin heads.
     B: “Wipe your hand off and we'll forget that happened. Apologies to whoever that was but they’re gonna remain was.”

They arrive at the library to find that the lights are off and no one is there. Inside there aren’t many books, however there are hundreds of town records, maps, and city documents. In an empty bookshelf they see the contorted body of a scarecrow, unmoving. It’s wearing glasses atop its carved pumpkin head and clutches a crumpled paper in one of its hands. Beau casts detect thoughts and hears nothing.
     B: “A’ight, it’s dead.”
     Z: “Was it ever alive?”
Jiwho attempts to grab the paper but as soon as he reaches out the creature lashes out at him.
     O: “Oh good, I’ve been craving pumpkin pie!”

Eleana attempts to talk to it, hoping that someone is still in there. With no response, she takes a few steps back, not wanting to kill it. The rest of the party attack it. Conflicted, Osiera attempts to knock it out but it is Zora who deals the final blow and kills it outright. In its dying moments, the scarecrows visage becomes more human like and it speaks, “He-- He loved that song. I wanted to make sure that he could have this.” Irritated, Zora picks up the remains of the head and rolls it over to Eleana, “When it’s time to kill, it’s time to kill. Otherwise we will die!”. She joins beau as Grimm picks up the body and throws it in his bag.

Reading the crumpled paper they notice it is sheet music for the song "Virgil's Birdcage”, similar to the record they heard the night before. They discuss the meaning behind all of the stories and songs they’ve learned about and wonder how true everything is. Eleana asks Osiera for the banjo and sits down on the steps of the library. As she strums it sounds… awful.

During the pitchy performance Beau hears a knock in the distance, notices something, and slinks off in pursuit. The music stops and Osiera asks him where he’s going. Looking in his direction they see Jonah off in the distance walking towards the cornfield. Beau gives a shrill whistle which stops Jonah for only a moment before he continues on and disappears into the field.

Grimm books it to the butcher shop and Jiwho picks the lock. The inside is dimly lit with the smell of raw meat and flies. They unlock the door to the back room and are hit with a heavy scent of iron. Looking inside they plucked crows hanging from the ceiling and on the floor there is a pentagram etched into the stone and filled with blood. On the points are the skulls of a chicken, a lamb, a cow, and two bundles of crops from nearby.

They realize that this is a ritual casting of a curse, one that causes crops to wither and animals to die. 
O: “So the butcher has caused the famine. Why?”
     E: “It- It doesn’t make an- any sense. He genuinely was scared for his daughter.”
     J: “You can still be evil and love your daughter.”
They find a book of Jonah's that talks about his resentment for William Lodge who had been selling his good crops to Wickermoore. The last page confirms their curse theory with Jonah admitting that he evoked an old hex, but it also reveals regret and fearfulness that it is affecting the rest of town. Jiwho recommends they leave and throws a burning torch to the floor.

As they walk towards the windmill, Beau decides to walk to the cornfield. Zora goes with him but stands in front to protect him.
Staring at the field, Beau sees a pair of eyes with four points for the pupil.
B: “Zora, I don’t think we have much choice about going into this cornfield.”
Z: “I’m afraid you’re right Master Beau, but first lets go with our friends.”
B: “I certainly don’t want to go in there alone.”
Z: “I won’t let you go alone.”

The windmill is unrecognizable from how the group had left it yesterday but they manage to find the trapdoor they
spotted. As they get close they hear scratching from the other side of the wood that gets progressively louder the longer
they hold their breath. Grimm smashes the door open and they start calling out for Martha’s children. Climbing down they
start to smell blood and see a dead crow at the bottom. Lying atop some burlap sacks is a body that is clutching a note
in their limp hand. As they get close they see a cut along his neck and hear familiar music coming from his chest.
It’s Isaac.

Suddenly, his chest tears open and swarming out are dozens of crows that start attacking. The largest among them is a mutated six-eyed corvo-demon. It caws at them, “YOU. WILL. DIE!” During the battle the crows eyes turned red and it mocked Dierdra’s voice, looking at Osiera, “Look what you made me do.” Grimm took so much damage that he almost lost control and started attacking his friends but Beau managed to charm him. Eleana hex’s the corvo-demon and lands the final blow on it, screaming “Stop lying to Osiera!” The bird begins bubbling into a black ooze. The rest of the swarm grows angrier and Osiera manages to deal the final blow on them, burning them with her primal magic. The rest of the group approach Grimm and he calms down. Osiera approaches the bubbling ichor, reaches down, and makes a black handprint on a blank page in Dierdra’s book. Looking down she sees new images on the pages, sketched in trees that are all crossed out.

They pry the now bloodied note from Isaacs hand. It reads:
Isaac,
Come and meet me in the windmill, where we used to hide when we played as kids. Remember? I've learned something amazing!
-A

O: “Adelaide? That’s fucked up.”
E: “What the fuck is going on in this town?”

Osiera places a wicker doll imbued with bless inside of Isaacs exposed chest cavity and druid crafts ivy around him. Grimm picks him up and throws him over his shoulder. They carry him through the quiet town and present him to Martha as she falls to her knees bawling her eyes out. Zora and Osiera spot William crying also, faintly hearing “My son!” as he cries out. 
     E: “I don’t even know how we can help this town.”
     O: “I think we have to go to the cornfield.”
     Z: “I don’t know that we can. But we can make it end.”

Looking up they see a swarm of crows that have made a strange shape in the sky, a massive crow. They hear a voice booming from the cornfields, “Just know there are prices to be paid if you decide to wander into my fields. Lay bare your secrets, lighten your burden, do this and perhaps I shall allow you entrance to my land of dreams.” Eleana asks Osiera if she has zone of truth and it bellows out again, “Your songs shall do nothing here, for we bear nothing but truth and I would hate for you to reveal your truth to the friends that you travel with. Instead I ask for one payment, a secret that you have kept from everyone else. Know that if even one of you refuses this offer, your path through the maze will be daunting.” Everyone looks towards Beau who is smoking a cigarette, not paying attention to anyone. Grimm smells a fowl odor coming from his bag of holding. He reaches in thinking of the source and pulls out the decomposing human corpse of the librarian. Six eyes from the cornfield stare at the group, almost taunting them.