Night of Thursday 19th September

After the earlier fights with the two gangs of goblins not much else occurred.

• Hailed a few of the Town Guard patrols
• Pulled our cloaks tighter round ourselves when then the rain got heavier

Dawn of the Cauldron Walls is as spectacular as ever, with the heavy clouds.

Friday 20th September

Bought masterwork studded leather armour - if I had known I could wear chain I would have bought that

Owyn and Bran by a sap each

6pm back on the prowl

• Streets still busy
• Vandalism
• Pavilion
• Scruffy lad comes up to group
• Urchin Mail
• Letter for Bran Lannister
• Speak to the red eyed dwarf to find what I seek
• Cass asks the boy who gave him the letter
• he boys to a girl in the crowded street
• the girl from the Last Laugh and the roof tops
• she leans on the corner of a building
• arms crossed
• wry smile playing on her lips
• she slowly winks
• pushes away from the wall
• casually walks around the corner
• I give chase clutching the letter
• rounding the corner I halt
• it is full but none of the people in the street look like her
• shoulders drop in disappointment
• what is it about this women?
• I rejoin the group to a mix of amused smiles and looks
• She knows my name which is a little exciting and slightly worrying

Investigations of "red eyed dwarf"

• Orak Stonehaven
• Adventurer
• retired
• Lost right eye
• wears a patch with a red gem sown into it
• Runs a bath house (modest)
• Lava avenue south
• One time Tipped Tankard regular
• Not seen there for a month or so
• Keeps to himself now

We go to the bath house after the investigations - around 20:00

• Still open
• Going inside
• Onyx tiles on the floor
• Sunken basin in the middle of the vaulted room
• The crystal dome allows light to enter
• Moon light suddenly spills in and light is cast against the walls in constantly shifting patterns
• Orak
• As he talks I get the feeling he is under some soft of external influence
• Hate goblins - which to be fair you would expect for a Dwarf
• He shows us around the bath house
• He becomes quite friendly
• Refuses to open the door to the cellar, yet every door he opens

Need to get in the cellar

• Cass tried wand of sleep
• fails
• Bran slaps him with a sap
• Owyn bitch slaps him with a sap
• 4 wererats enter 5' tall
• armed with crossbows and fire into the group
• Khandalar hit
• Owyn hit
• Bran twists out of the way
• Anari smiles as it sails past her face
• Cass grapples Orak
• Makes him sleep - wand
• Anari fires at rat creature - misses
• Kellen smashes one with his aptly named bastard sword
• Khandalar casts a spell
• one of the creatures calls out "Help me my friends we are being attacked"
• Bran charges, of course, dropping his sap and drawing the silvered long sword and hits the creature
• Owyn charges in screaming dire insults with his rapier drawn and slashes one of the creatures
• Rat attack
• Rat (victim)
• rapier
• causes damage
• Rat attacks Owyn with rapier
• causes mild hurt
• tries to bite but jaws snap shut on empty air
• Rat attacks Bran with long and short sword
• misses with both
• then bites him
• fucking sissy fighter
• Rat attacks Kellen
• misses pitifully
• Cass attacks with sickle
• shaves hair rather than slice through flesh
• Anari attacks a rat already injured
• Hts it
• Smites it
• Kellen misses his intended victim
• Khandalar has the presence of mind to pull Orak from the scene
• A good lad, getting better
• Bran attacks the same rat creature that bit me
• The long sword bites into the creatures flesh
• Owyn attacks the same creature that is battling me
• His rapier skims it's flesh and it slowly slumps to the floor dead
• Rat creature attacks Bran
• Misses with both swords
• Fails to bite
• Cass seems to ready herself for something
• Kath attacks the same creature attacking Bran
• Sword sinks deeply into creature
• Dark blood pools on the floor as it slumps to the floor lifeless
• Khandalar asks his rat friend questions
• Hired by Gallen Trodor
• Hired to watch bath house
• Khandalar starts to signal to kill the rat creature
• Owyn tries to tears it's throat out with his dagger
• Ligaments and vocal chords are exposed but the fatty layers just protect the creature
• Wererat looks mildly surprised and quite miffed
• Kellen slams his sword into its skull destroying it and splattering grey matter around the room
• Search Orak
• Nothing
• Search Orak's office
• Keys
• small
• large
• Chest
• opens with small key found
• 34 go
• 65 sp
• 187 cp
• decanter of water
• I empty of decanter onto floor and it refills
• I appraise a decanter of never ending water as roughly 9,000 gp
• We close the office door with everything intact and Orak inside
• Large key opens the cellar door

Into the cellar

• Greeted with darkness
• Cass casts light on her staff
• Star going into cellar
• Descend 30'
• Into corridor
• 5' wide
• running east to west
• walls roughly hewn from volcanic rock
• Graffiti
• Drakthar is dead, long LIVE Drakthar
• to the east
• monstrous noise/cacophony of dogs barking
• working up the passage (east)
• Owyn detects a simple trip wire attached to a bell and disables it (cuts the wire)
• QUARTERS
• Four large pillars
• Nine cots
• Bedding (blankets neatly folded)
• Southern door is open
• Bran comments that this does not look like a room used by Goblins
• Anari checks the beds
• Pulls the slats out of one of them and then sharpens an end into a point
• STORAGE ROOM
• To south of tidy bedroom
• Owyn searches it
• 5 great swords
• 12 manacles
• 20 days worth of rations
• 4 disguise kits
• 20 peasants outfits
• 25 gallons of ale
• corridor heading East
• Doorheading South
• As we leave the room
• Two Goblins attack
• Miss Kellen and Anari
• Bran attacks the one that attacked Anari causing it pain
• Anari swings her rapier fluidly slicing into it and killing it
• Owyn strikes out with his rapier
• slicing the goblin's head from its shoulders
• Two more goblins appear from the door in the east wall
• Cass sends Jazz to attack.
• Jazz misses
• Anari fails to strike
• Kellen attacks and his sword almost slips from his grasp
• Khandalr
• magic missiles one of them and causes it injury
• Bran
• unable to reach the foe
• casts sleep on the goblins
• Owyn kills the two sleeping goblins
• searching the bodies gains us:
• 4 short swords
• 4 light crossbows
• 40gp
• Gained EIGHT ears
• go though door to the east
• Square room
• 15'
• Bran searches the room and finds
• Secret compartment in the middle of the floor
• 4 flasks of alchemist fire
• healers kit
• masterwork artisan tools
• The is a door in the sw corner of the room that leads into a corridor
• Short corridor
• heads east - west
• Leads to another door to the west
• This door open into a small chamber
• Small chamber
• ledge over looking much bigger passage that is roughly hewn 30' wide and is a natural fissure
• 2 goblins armed with crossbows are here
• Owyn attacks and misses
• Anari attacks and hits one of them
• Bran attacks the same one as Anari and killed it
• Owyn attacks remaining creature
• charges into the Goblin smashing his arm in the Goblin's face
• spraying blood and teeth from the wreaked mouth
• pushes the Goblin off the ledge
• Goblin falls 20' to the floor of the fissure
• it's head explodes like a water melon on impact with the rock floor
• limp body rolls down the fissure for a short distance
• collect TWO ears
• we return to the storage room to move up the corridor heading of the room
• Corridor from storage room
• initially heads east
• right angle bend then head the corridor north back to the original corridor
• there are doors leading of the corridor going north
• gap in the corridor head east
• through the gap arrows are fired at us
• Owyn got hit by one - minor damage
• Bran fires back
• hits and kills one Goblin
• Goblin fires again but misses
• Anari fires
• hits and kills one Goblin
• Carry on heading east to the end of the corridor then turns right and looks out onto two pallets
• The pallets are rough constructed and walls are roughly hewn and appear natural
• Two goblins and two worgs
• Owyn charges in with everyone else stuck in a 5' wide corridor
• Owyn attacks and misses
• Goblin attacks Owyn
• hits with BOTH long and short sword
• Owyn seriously injured
• Second goblin attacks Owyn
• misses with both attacks
• Cass casts shocking hands on Jazz
• Jazz fails to touch anything
• Worg attacks Owyn
• bites Owyn and rips flesh from his neck
• it does fail to trip him over
• Worg 2 attacks Anari
• misses
• Kellen can't move due to the restricted space
• Anari attack worg 2
• slices deep into the creatures flesh
• Bran attacks Worg 2
• hacks into flesh
• Goblin 1 attacks Owyn
• the attack renders Owyn unconscious
• Anari is stuck in the back by Goblin 2
• Kellen tries to over run
• gets bitten badly by the Worg 1
• Goblin slashes at Kellen and misses
• Kellen hits the Goblin
• Anari stops fighting
• stabilises Owyn and pulls him out of the way
• Cass
• Jazz attacks the Worg with shocking grasp and kills it
• Bran charges as Goblin 2
• Hits it
• finally starts singing
• Goblin 1 attack Kellen
• No damage
• Goblin2 attacks Bran
• parry long sword
• short sword bites into flesh
• Cass charges up Jazz again
• Worg attacks Kellen
• bitten again
• fails to trip
• Kellen attacks the Worg
• does minor damage
• Anari attacks the Worg
• hits it significantly
• Bran attacks Goblin2
• finally kills it
• Goblin1 attacks Bran
• misses with both weapons
• Jazz fails to touch the Worg
• Worg misses Kellen
• Kellen attacks
• Smashes his sword into it's head cleaving it in two
• Anari spins and attacks the Goblin
• the extended rapier removes its head
• Bran gets covered in a spray of arterial blood
• Ears collected 4
• The party stand, apart from the unconscious Owyn, between the corpses, exhausted with blood from their wound mixing with that of the Goblins and Worgs. No spells left and with seriously injured members of the party. They grimly look down the chasm towards the next fight.

Ear tally for the session: 14 (70gp)

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