The time the Hummingbird stopped singing

The third day into a quest for a hidden orb the party ventured into a forest in search of a wizards tower that was known to be there. While navigating around the overgrown forest the party found themselves in a grove of Lilac, and sitting among a boulder a gorgeous Dryad singing to her hearts content, not by her own I might add she had with her an assortment of hummingbirds of all sorts of blue, orange, pink hues. Antelion the Bard of the party began to sing in key with the enchantress. All started well with a few notes in perfect unison and soon enough the hummingbirds gently rested on Antelion's shoulders and started buzzing to the same tune. Then...with a slight hiccup (which might of actually been the hiccups) Antelion stumbled over a few notes. Within a second of realizing his mistake he felt a slight pinch in his neck. As he glanced over to react to the sudden irritation he came to find that the once beautiful hummingbirds were in fact not hummingbirds. No my friends! What Antelion and his compatriots had stumbled into was a fiendish succubus and her menacing hoard of stirges. From that day forth Antelion had a strong dislike of birds but more importantly he had an even stronger dislike of the hiccups.

This all came from an encounter that started as a one-shot and turned into the main week to week campaign. Unfortunately the orb was never found and the party disbanded, but the remnants of the party including Antelion and one other banded together and found others to join in on a quest.