Family Dnd Session 2

 The kids wanted more DnD! So our party went to the towns notice board looking for work. A man called Herman has disappeared and his wife has offered a reward. Our heroes set out to willow Lake to find him. They discovered 2 thugs dipping a tied up man into a bucket of water demanding information on Shireheaths defences and saying the Black Skull had paid him good gold to give them the info and why has he changed his mind. Downhead the halfling snuck closer, Azarok tried to follow but he stepped on a very dry twig and it cracked alerting the Thugs. They charged forward and battle was joined. The Thugs were vanquished and the tired up man was Herman, he begged the party not to tell his wife or the town mayor that he had been paid to scout on the defences and offered them the 1000Gp he had been paid. They agreed and took the money. They took Herman back to town where he ran off to find his wife. The party then went straight to the town mayor and told them about Herman. They also handed over the money, they managed to persuade the mayor to reward them with the money which was a good bonus. They then settled into the tavern for the night, Azorak lost some money gambling and Downhead won some. The next day they went to the notice board for more work. Old Jacob has not been seen for a while and the mayor had offered a small reward to find out what has happened at Jacobs farm.  They headed out, when they got to the farm Ianthe the druid noticed there were no animals around at all.  Downhead crept forward and found everything quiet......... Maybe to quiet. Azorak crept up to the farm but tripped on a root and made a noise. A low moan was heard and out of the trees came a zombie Ogre. Ianthe cast a spell to create thorns all around to show the ogre down. Downhead scrambled onto the roof of the farm cottage and fitted arrows onto the zombie, Azorak also started shooting, Ragnum went into a rage and charged the ogre. Ianthe turned into a wolf and charged the ogre also.  The ogre smashed the wolf with a mighty blow turning Ianthe back to her normal self. The team felled the ogre but it was a zombie and got back up. It smashed Ragnum with a huge blow taking him out, thankfully Downhead died an arrow and finally stopped the ogre. Ragnum was brought back round and they investigated the cottage. A small thin man opened the door and greeted them happily. It was Jacob and he said he'd had a note from the Black Skull telling him to leave the farm to his forces and when he didn't the zombie ogre was unleashed. That's where we left it. The party went to level 3, the druid now had a few more solid spells for attacking and the rangers each have an animal companion. Downhead had a giant wolf spider and Azorak  has an Eagle.

Who is this Black Skull? And what does he want with Shireheath.