Players (Characters)
Scott (Rain)
Jeremy (Grokk)
Catherine (Amber)
Tony (Roland)
Rachel (Horkina)
DM: Tom (Garlen)
The next morning, Shensen arrived at the Rubble Rousers' doorstep. She had a pair of boots of striding and springing, the party's reward for rescuing her. Garlen accepted them, and explored his newfound abilities by jumping all over the guild hall. A messenger from the church of St. Cuthbert stopped by to let the party know Sarcem's body was en route to Sasserine, where he'd be reincarnated. The party was to continue searching for the wands of water control.
The party had a few leads to follow up on. The werebaboon, tongueeater, had an unholy symbol that combined the symbols of Vecna, Hextor, and Erythnul. Roland recognized this as the symbol of the Ebon Triad, a strange cult that believed the three evil gods could be combined somehow. Shensen said the baboon had been taking orders from a red-haired woman who wore the symbol of Hextor. Jenya used the star of justice to cast a divination asking where the party should go to find the wands. The response was "there is an art to gathering information, and an Artus may have what you seek. Fences make good neighbors." Garlen asked around about local fences, and was pointed to a man named Artus Shemwick, a cook at the Tipped Tankard.
The party asked Artus what he might know about the missing wands, and he offered to sell the information for 300 gp. Artus shared that the party should research a woman named Triel Eldurast, and that she has been seen on the northeastern slope a short distance down from the wall. She planned to ransom the wands back to the city to finance the Ebon Triad's plans. Research uncovered that Triel Eldurast had been in Cauldron's town guard. She murdered several of her fellow guards and fled about ten years ago.
That night, half of the party waited just outside the city wall while the other half moved quietly through the undergrowth a few hundred yards down the hill. Rain spotted a red-haired woman and followed her to a tunnel entrance, and then had Amber signal the rest of the group with a flare. Garlen followed the woman's footsteps down the lava tube until reaching a small overlook. There was a massive cavern below, with a small city that looked like it had been built by dwarves and then slightly melted. A glowing lake, seventy feet below the overlook, stretched to near the edge of the ruins. A rickety-looking cage hung on a pair of ropes strung across the lake. The ropes attached to a small structure resting on the overlook. Rain quietly opened the door and saw a winch inside. Another door led to a pair of thugs who were playing cards. The party dealt them a losing hand: straight damage.
Grokk operated the winch while Garlen, Roland and Horkina rode across. Garlen entered the structure on the opposite end and managed to collapse a wall on himself, but Horkina was able to pass by and operate the winch to bring the rest of the party safely down. There were six doors leading into the ruin. The party entered through the northernmost door, where four thugs waited on a ledge above. A few bow shots finished them off, and Rain still had the presence of mind to notice the floor was trapped. Given enough weight, the floor would sink slightly to reveal small spikes. Rain jammed some rubble through a few small cracks in the floor and stabilized it.
The party headed to the north and west, where they came face to face with the skeleton of a tyrannosaurus. Garlen tumbled behind the monster, but couldn't damage it with his swords. Grokk and Horkina pounded on it with their axes while it swiped at them with its claws. It withstood a massive amount of punishment, and Horkina had to retreat to be healed. Eventually, a fire spell from Roland and a healing spell from Amber caused the beast to collapse into a pile of bones.
The group continued clearing the northern caverns, using ranged attacks to kill a pair of Spawn of Kyuss and melee attacks to finish off a room full of zombies. An undead gnoll wielding a spiked chain and a symbol of Erythnul attacked the party in the rearmost cave, but he fell to a few quick strikes. The party set a watch and used the rearmost cave to rest.
Grokk and Rain reached level 6.
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