About three days later, Jubilost and his band returned, looking... rather worse for wear. Despite the scrapes and missing supplies, Jubilost himself carried his normal air of arrogance, as he presented his report. Beginning to the south of the Tuskwater, they encountered a large, bubbling bog that they pointedly avoided, though they did mark it on their maps (I9), before heading south along the Shrike River, and finding a crossing, an old, abandoned ferry station that looked like it had changed hands a dozen times over the years. (J10)<br/><br/>The group then swung west, still along the banks of the river, then scouted the southern border of his lands, running into no issues... until they stumbled into a nest of particularly ferocious owlbears (J12). They spend the next week attempting to escape from the persistent hunters, getting lost, losing their supplies, finding the route they needed, only to discover it was being stalked by the same predators, and so on and so forth, until they finally dragged themselves back across the rive, and returned north, haggard and hungry and miserable, and with little to show for it, much to the gnome's annoyance.