Attack on Small Fishing Village and Selkies

MAL 9

 * After an uninterrupted night's sleep, the party departed for Mendham Wood, where Bay says the Elemental Druids are located. On their way up the coast from Hastenport, they encountered a small fishing village that had closed its gate, blocking the road (something that is illegal to do during daylight hours.) Investigating this, they learned of a demon attack the previous afternoon, which decimated a small community of selkies on a nearby island and left two local fishermen missing. The party gave the villagers some of their extra arms and talked to the village priest, who stated that although the weather had been abnormal recently, Sesharet was NOT wroth.
 * Investigating at the beach, the party encountered a foxwoman named Seela who said she was a Sylvan wizard investigating the demon attack. They also found an apparently enchanted sand castle, which did not break apart even when it was tipped over.
 * The party went with Seela to the selkie island, where they discovered the bodies of 13 selkies in a shallow cave adorned with a bloody pentacle. The party determined that the selkies had died the previous day and seemed to have been drained of both blood and life force. They also found a piece of a bloody fishing net and a glowing blue eye affixed to the wall above a stone altar, which Seela identified as a symbol of magical power associated with the fey, probably a worship object of the selkies. Jon identified the pentacle as leading either to or through the Abyss and used recently, but it was of a strange style he had never seen before.
 * The party disabled the pentacle, but was shortly attacked by a strange tentacled beast that dominated Angara into nearly killing Aler, zorched everyone standing in the shallow salt water with electric shocks, and beat Red and Blue within an inch of their lives before finally discorporating. No one in the party had ever seen such a creature before, but it matched the description given by the fisherman who saw the demon that attacked the town the previous day. Jon concluded that the creature had not plane-shifted or gated away, but had rather had its corporeal form destroyed by the party's attacks. Also, the pentacle on the ceiling of the cave was nowhere near big enough to have gated in a creature of its size. The pentacle was used recently, but to transport something other than this creature.
 * Seela asked if she could join forces with the group. They agreed, but not before Jon's attempt to read her mind left him temporarily stunned, apparently unwittingly on Seela's part. She became angry and offended when Jon told her he had been trying to read her mind, but accepted his explanation that he was concerned about demonic influence over her.