Abomination Vaults Session 9

17 Pharast 4721: The Gauntlight Ruins

• The party leaves the dungeon below the Apprentice’s Island. Corbin attends to some personal business, while Rizzard, Arryn, and Zazgaz pursue some quests in Otari.

• Olaria Gallantine, the owner of the local courier service, asks the group to find one of her missing couriers. They follow the Granary Road and stumble upon the petrified centaur courier. Rizzard sneaks through the underbrush but accidentally steps on a fallen tree branch, drawing the attention of a basilisk. Both Zazgaz and Rizzard are slowed by the beast’s gaze, but they manage to kill it. The petrified centaur is beyond saving and no package is found in the vicinity.

• While Zazgaz and Arryn patch up their wounds, Rizzard sneaks to the East and surprises three kobolds, quarreling over the missing package. Rizzard ivokes a magic incantations and vanishes, sneaking towards the kobolds. Unseen, he spellstrikes the leader and nearly finishes him in one blow. They others come to aid and within seconds the kobolds go down. They secure the missing package and learn that the Stonescale Kobolds indeed work in a lumber camp in the forest, operated by Major Menhemes.

• They return the package to Gallantine, who directs them to deliver the contents. They bring a package of chili peppers to Magiloy and a small collection of metal pins to Klore Hengus, overseer of the Giant Wheel and flume. Magiloy asks them to procure some rare mushrooms from Slab Hill, while Klorte wants them to find the arsonists that have been setting fires in the area. Klorte offers a striking hatchet as a reward.

• The group decides to hunt down some mushrooms. When arriving at Slab Hill, they find an abandoned basket, filled with mushrooms. Next to it, a broken stone slab no longer bars entrance to a barrow. They enter the dark passage. Facing several undead and magica traps, they find the dead body of a local Half-Orc and several magic items. Some strange warrior was buried in this barrow…