Episode 7: Three Stones

So we were actually staying at “The Prancing Lord Inn.” Not the prancing pony. Funny, right? Anyway...
 
I went to get the guards because of the dead goblin and all, and Skathor woke up the locals and when I got the guards back to Skathor, there was like a full scale goblin riot in the making. A lil dude even tried to stab me. I tried to explain that there was an agitator and that it wasn’t about humans vs goblins, but the stabby goblin wasn’t listening and I don’t think I did a good job explaining things. I am just not a convincing guy sometimes.
 
Things got out of hand and we ended up slipping back to the Prancing Lord. In the morning, we found out the riots kinda expanded and some fires happened... so we kinda started that unintentionally. In retrospect we should have just gotten the guards and left the locals out of it. Lesson learned, I say. I wonder if Skathor thinks the same thing?
 
The gates were open and we rejoined the others at the Moldy Pub. It turns out the lady in black agitator we met was also responsible for that weird coin Gray is interested in and she sponsored a gross prank done by Zerko on some goblins that the other guys found out about. She IS an AGITATOR, for real. What a jerk!
 
As part of comparing notes we all agreed that the crowfolk wizard Xido was our next stop. Nef and I went to visit him while the heavier folks stayed below. We found out that the case Sir Iskander had held silvery butterfly broaches which were magical. They could make someone go to the astral plane and sorta become temporary ghosts for like a couple of hours. But also, a native of the astral plane could become temporary real physical people the same kinda way. I wonder if the lady in black is, like, a ghost who’s like being a mean tourist or something? Causing all this trouble.
 
Xido also said Iskander was interested in something being weird about 3 Stones which is like this local scenic picnic spot/holy site. I’ve seen standing stones before. They’re like here and there all over the place. But 3 Stones is south of town which fits nicely with what Iskander was doing.
 
On the way to 3 Stones, Brother Gigg caught up to us and let us know that Iskander had taken a small sack of salt when he left Irkmil, the stable boy, for a little bit before he took off. We caught up on some stuff and Gigg got us pointed in the right direction.
 
On the road, after Gigg was gone, Nef got really weird about smells and sounds. Like he was having weird visions like when you eat a nightflyer shroom. But it turns out he learned his magic from someone connected to the Fey and was like trying to warn us to be calm, careful, and respectful. He was all vague and avoidy for awhile, but that’s the gist. Anyway, I’d say he was the greatest risk at not following those instructions, but if HE”S saying that, this must be serious.
 
So we arrived at 3 Stones and it was pretty. I picked up a few herbs, a bunch of wild chives, I’ll give to Kosh and Geyef later for dinner. And then Nef had to sing a Sylvan song at noon for whatever Fey creature was living there. After a while the middle standing stone began to have a rain of light that turned into a curtain of light which opened into a dark stone staircase going up. Weird!
 
It seemed like an invitation so I lit a torch and went in first. The others followed. Eventually we reached a stone roof and Gray and Skathor, who are both strong as crap, had a dickens of a time opening that stone door, but they did it. It looked super heavy.
 
It opened up into a twilight forest, which was weird because it was like 12:30 pm tops.