1. Early start to the day and know the location of the bandits within about a mile.
a. Debate strategy on the way
b. Get near and secure the horses on top of a plateau
2. Searching for tracks of other horses we come across a path between some rocks that leads to a cave system and nearby there is a pit with lots of small bones(trash pit)
3. Quietly enter the cave and Thomas grabs a torch off the wall
4. Thomas slides on a slippery section and falls into a pit
5. While helping him out of the hole we are attacked by Rats
a. Fended them off they retreated
6. Continue past the hole
a. Beware this place only death here, run with your lives while you can.
b. Lots of bones, chickens, horses, one human skull, mostly animal bones.
c. Crates and boxes broken open one of which was addressed to Teldora.
7. In a northern passage I grab a chest and a cave In separates Nate and Thomas from Orion and Hazel
a. Lizard creatures attack Nate and Thomas
b. They defend themselves as Hazel and I extract ourselves from the cave in.
8. Near their campfire and bedding more creatures throw rocks down on us from about 20 ft up
a. Kill them with ranged attacks
b. Near the campfire was a mushroom farm of Treeshelf mushrooms as well as many other varieties of brightly colored mushrooms.
c. Decide not to touch any mushrooms that we don’t know and gather a bit of the edible ones.
9. Deeper into the cave system we pass trophy walls and hit another fork in the path
a. Voices from the west section
10. I watch the western cave as the rest of the party searches down the silent eastern passage.
a. They found a bedroom with a journal in a dresser
i. Kicked out of capital
ii. Can scam the people of Frost Rain
iii. Talks about the caravan route and his plan to ambush it
iv. Gold mine
v. Belongs to the dwarves
vi. Plans to hire help with excavating the gold mine.
b. Massive skull in an empty alcove with a bunch of pointy teeth
11. From the west comes 2 lizards and another larger one that speaks common
a. Leave or die
b. The skull is the shrine to the dragon mother, we will sacrifice you to awaken her.
c. We defeat them
12. Find the ash for Ingol and the flowers/herbs that teldora. As well as other odds and ends. Make our way back to town.
13. Return to town
a. Drop off ash to Ingol
i. The creatures were kobolds
ii. Extreme interest in the dragon skull.
b. Hagglers hook
i. People laughing at us thinking we lost, others cheering, some asking to be told the story
c. Teldora
i. Heals us
ii. Return the medicinal plants
d. The guard post.
i. Get paid for clearing the bandits.
LVL UP => 2