Owlbear Cave - Point of Interest
General Summary
Expedition Performed on November 30th
Elemi's Report
Today, I went to the owlbear cave with Kazo, Timtygeg, Onalyn, Gerald, Vulthak, and later Quostor. There seemed to be something different before we left though. There seemed to be two Geralds, and I sensed a sort of grey aura around one of them. Initially, I first suspected foul play, having seen someone transform into a split image of me. But.. this time it seemed... different. When we arrived, the first thing that we saw in front of the cave was some sort of ruined statue, with claw marks on it, as well as the inside of the cave. There also seemed to be blood trailing into the cave, and whatever it was, it looked like it was being dragged into the cave. After a while, we entered the cave and made sure that everyone had a light source that they could use. A few chambers later, we found ourselves in front of a room that was just absolutely-- ugh, revolting. There seemed to be a lot of rotting meat or whatnot in that opening. We spotted some wolves, and while discussing what to do amongst ourselves, Timtygeg's new Mastiff decided to run in and join the feast. Not too long afterward, we were engaged in a fight with the wolves, some small, and some very large. As we were fighting, some owlbears descended upon the wolves, instantly taking some of them out, and started eating them. Gerald seemed to have embarrassed himself by having his armor fall completely off of him in the middle of the fight, but we managed to defeat the wolves and the owlbears, but we weren't looking too well. We decided to take a short rest outside, but Onalyn set fire to the corpses. I put some caltrops on the stairs so that we wouldn't be followed, or if we were followed, we would have an advance warning. When we got outside, Gerald started bickering with his phantasmal self again. But not long after, the owlbears that were left in the cave showed up. Initially two, with two cubs, and then one more later on. Being in really bad shape, we decided to run, but Vul'thak got downed in the middle of the pack. I ran in and gave him a potion, as well as dragging him away from them, but things were not looking too well. Suddenly, Quostor showed up in the middle of nowhere. With his presence, he immediately started to work on the owlbears, while Vul'thak went home... to get autographs? I guess he has his own priorities, but I'm happy that he's alive and well. As we fought, there seemed to be a trend where armor just falls off of people, as Onalyn's armor also fell off of her before going down. I also rushed in and gave her a potion. Oh, I also gave one to Gerald too. After Onalyn fell once more, I gave her yet another potion and told her to get back. I wasn't looking too well myself, but I was sure as hell not going to let anyone die today if I can help it. Quostor dispatched an owlbear, and then another one shortly after, and seemed to knock the last one unconscious, and tended to its wounds as we rested up around it. I really am wondering though... why was Quostor there? Was he watching me again? I wouldn't be surprised if he was called to come over here by the guild master to watch me or something. He did seem unsettled when I did use magic around him... I guess he's nervous about Denarius's power. Anyway, after we rested, we decided to go into the cave. Once inside, we decided to follow one of the paths that led us to some underwater cave of sorts. Gerald decided to dive down, but after a while, his body surfaced, prompting the party to drag him back to shore. I cast some healing magic, but he still wasn't conscious. But after some CPR, he seemed to be doing fine. No one is dead yet. Thank god. Afterward, I went down myself, and saw some glowing and glittering down there. Unfortunately, I couldn't hold my breath for too long and was forced to surface. Timtygeg went in next and managed to get some kind of dragon key of sorts. After examining it, it seemed to have some sort of magic around it. I'm guessing that there was some sort of magic chest somewhere around here. Afterward, we explored another one of the pathways, which led to two smaller rooms-- one which had a chest in it, and one with multiple dead bodies in there. Looking at the bodies, they seemed to be adventurers like us, but they met their demise by what I believe are the owlbears. I opened the chest with Timtygeg and found an egg of sorts. I thought it was a dragon egg of sorts, because after all, a dragon talon key, and a scaly egg? It's gotta be a dragon egg. I called for Quostor to take a look at it, and he (At least I think it was him?) determined that it wasn't an egg at all. When Kazo saw the egg.. she acted strangely. The Kazo that we know to be extremely greedy and hoarder of gold wanted to pay a lot of gold for that egg. It was unsettling and uncharacteristic of her. I recommended that we leave it with the guild master, or we could sell it at a store for some gold and left the others to bicker while I went to examine the bodies. I found a boy with a relatively intact breastplate, as well as a small sack of platinum coins and gold, and a very ominous ring, shaped like a skull with a green gem on one of its eyes. I pocketed it all and went back to the group. After a while, we left the cave. When we returned to Stokra, we went to Trinkets and Traditions, as I had sensed some magic coming out of the egg. The shopkeeper did some magic on it and said that the egg belonged to a grove, and was one of four or something like that. We decided to talk to the guild master after that. As we were leaving, the shopkeeper also told us that he had a delivery for Bright, which Quostor brought back to the guildhall After exiting the store, Kazo was constantly trying to buy the egg from Timtygeg, which was very very concerning and out of character for her. It was as if she was extremely desperate to get the egg at any cost. Timtygeg was scared of Kazo, and quite frankly, I got a little scared myself. There is something definitely going on between Kazo and that egg. When we got back to the guildhall, we talked to the guild master while Quostor delivered the table to Bright. The guild master brought the egg to the sylvan stone in the room and decided to leave the investigation of the eggs to us. Kazo once again tried to buy the egg, and she looked uncharacteristically angry, the smile on her face disappearing. She quickly recomposed herself, however, and put her smiling mask back on.. something that I bet that she's learned how to do over the years very well. After being dismissed, I gave the breastplate to the guild master, not having any use for it myself. It seemed to be made of some kind of special metal. After a talk with Kazo, I went to talk with Timtygeg, who said that they needed some better armor. I went back to the guild master and got the breastplate back to Timtygeg. We then went to Bright to appraise our items. As for what we got, whoever is reading this is probably going to ask us about it if they wanted to. I'm not going to list it here, but I am really curious as to what Torchkeep's shop has to offer. I will be making a trip there myself not too long from now.
Timtygeg's Report
First our party arrived at the entrance of the cave, Onalyn Checked out the statue of the owlbear. I checked out the severed leg and found nothing of interest. After more scoping out of the area and only my dog, Preciford, smelling something interesting, our party moved into the cave. We looked around, finding an initial divot with nothing of interest, and moved on further into the cave. As we arrived at a rancid-smelling area, many including myself succumbed to the foul smell while my dog got excited and dragged me in, getting all of us into a fight and almost immediately getting me killed. We got into a huge fight against about six different wolves, and then suddenly two owlbears showed up and killed some of the wolves, joining the fray of the fight. We eventually succeeded with great amounts of effort, and decided to exit the cave. As they exited the cave Onalyn lit the corpses on fire to get rid of the smell. As we sat outside smoke began to come out of the cave. We heard screeches and multiple owlbears exit, and we began to fight them. As we fought one called another bigger owlbear. We get into combat and many go down and up and down and up, Onalyn especially, and then after Vulthak almost is killed, Quostor showed up and tag teamed in, and we ended up defeating all of the owlbears, leaving one with her cubs alive as Quostor knocked it unconscious. We rested and then entered the cave again all together, minus Vulthak but plus Quostor. We ventured into where our past battle had been and headed north through a thin cave, and came upon a large pit with water. Kazo noticed some shiny things in the water, first Gerald disrobes and swims in, and is able to grab an amulet but goes unconscious, being saved by Elemi and Quostor. After a fair amount of effort, I went underwater and retrieved a key. We then exited the cave and walked into the room where the owlbears slept. We then walked through another longer cave and found multiple corpses with various items on them and armor, and a chest with a fancy egg sculpture thing. After giving the corpses another lookover the team headed back to town.
Report Date
30 Nov 2020
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