Session 46: Off to fight a Beholder Events

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Lowsun 12, 2023 KC, Evening

  Near Village of Skola Vale, Skola Vale, Kampos   Adventure Recap     Tabletalk: What if they had just gone to space long ago...     The party gets their stuff together, Barlo handles the carts this time...   On the road, there are two dwarven miners argueing... they are very much in their argument. They seem lost.   Barlo asks them where they are heading.   They were supposed to be working on an Emerald mine, some bigwig - a Neyer. Half-Orc. The old staff kept leaving. Morenars Neyers just purchased this mine, probably paid more than its value and has been experiencing many problems since then.   The party asks if they would like to travel with them and they accept. They have all their equipment with them. They are on foot.   These guys are very obviously miners. Asked if they had spent much time in the Vale, no they did not. Which is why they might not have had the chance to get the correct directions. There seems to be all types of problems. He is panicked, trying to get the value out of it.     Late Afternoon.   The party decide to go to the Elder of the Dawngreets to see if she can find a safe place for the Spelljamming Helm. They discuss leaving it on the ship.   At the keep they see their ship is still there. It hasn't moved it seems. The guards at the front remember them, they send a go-fer to get her. They go in, and the cart is attended to. Barlo takes the Helm off.     NPCs of the adventures table talk         The Elder says it is time for her to take care of some things. She says to let the guards know if they need to watch the chair, that they can stay at the keep, and of course food is no issue as she will look more into the ship situation.   Barlo asked about a tanner, but they remember they went to one already...   Shadow asks about wanting to take the ship, the elder says it could put them into trouble with Morenars, until the situation is handled since it is now in the courts.   Barlo says they can take the chair, he goes with it. They go to the Donjon, not totally in -- but deep enough. He tips the guy a Gold coin (and he says he will share it with the other guard.) Barlo is given the key to Skola Vale Donjon Room 312 and told it will have to be him to retrieve it.     tabletalk on the Enderchest     Shadow asks if he has any Monster Harvesting kits.     Kit - 7 lbs. 30 gp. This kit contains everything the average harvester needs to prepare and harvest a carcass for usable parts including a skinning knife, a bonesaw, 2 glass vials, pouches of salt, and tweezers. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency to any check made to harvest a creature.   still no name...   Shadow goes to The Illustrated Woman and talks to Mirabelle Wheatflow. Purchases some main color inks. She gets the full set for 20 gp. She asks about the Chaos Quadrapod ink, it would be a slight glow ink. She asked about using "essence" as an ink, the tattooist doesn't know.   She asked about any new designs. She is able to persuade her for a trade. Shadow takes the Wings of Ink, and gives Protection.         Barlo keeps trying to spy on the Gnome's hiding spot.   Barlo took one of Bastion's gems, but then handed it back.   The party also looks at some of the other random "loot" and think they need to find an adventure shop or something to sell it too...   "Ogre's Ladder" will buy it.   They give 10,000 gp to the Elder to cover the costs for the keep and they say they will take care of that with Jeets.   Barlo asks for more on the Emerald mines for intel on how to help. She'll see if she can use that in the negotiations.   it is getting evening. So they rest. They fill up on standard gear. meat for Arktos   also 1400 for the legs. 16 lbs. of Roc meat  

Lowsun 13, 2023 KC, Morning

  They take the cart.   (retcon: Bastion asked the Gnome about the drying up of the magic market. Prices don't seem like they are changing, but the trend is that it is harder to get items.)   They head out.   it's a bit colder than recent days in the morning. They head out North and get to the large wall that gives the vale its name. ON the sides of the wall are various caves and mining operation. They come up to a cave and see that this one is away from most of the others. There are some tracks coming in and out of the 25 ft opening. Orcs and hobgoblins it seems. A few older tracks of probably the adventurers. In the lair entrance it is very natural looking and opens up with various suits of Armor in various states of disrepair and decay line the walls.   (retcon: last night Shadow did the Darkvision tattoo on Calliope. They are eyes on the tips of her ears. white. 6 hrs. retconned healer kit purchase)   note: turns out black bears eat about 11-18 lbs. of food a day.   The three tattoo wearers pop their Darkvision.   Sas and Shadow begin to notice various mushrooms growing on the suits.   Note after the fact from DM: the shriekers only had a few alive, and many of them were Dead.     They squish the heads of the shriekers and Silence them. They start going down the hall looking for traps. Noticing the tracks they see how they follow patterns.   They spot the traps. Shadow slips on one edge and falls into a 20' hole with spikes. She is able to climb out. Barlo starts to open the other tarps.   Since Barlo has read the Monster Hunting Guide he is aware that Beholders float and like traps on the ground since they are safe. Barlo goes up to check out one of the holes in the roof. Using the rope he gets up about 60 feet and still sees it goes up.   He comes down as he isn't sure how the group would handle it.   He then goes into the other hole, and he sees it goes up another 60 feet, but this time there is Light up there. He sneaks up.   He sees some hobgoblins sleeping and others playing cards. He tells the party what he saw. They are about to go through the other path as it is easier for the party.