A Quest from a Hooded Figure

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Our adventurers find themselves in a bar drinking, they speak with a hooded figure who gives them a quest.

Zeratul , Atalis Liadou , Leumas and Illyria Sarsalas are all sitting in a bar, celebrating their success of killing some orcs. They notice a hooded man walk into the bar they are at and initially bay him no mind. After some games the adventurers notice they are being watched by the man and go to talk to him. The man explains he has been robbed by orcs and other nasty creatures. They stole 1 item from him in particular, an amulet, that he is willing to pay the party to go get for him. A little low on cash and leads to kill more orcs, they agree to terms and set out the next day. Their mission is simple, invade and retrieve from an orc complex, a magical amulet they are told not to put on.   The man told them the location of the orcs and they take a day to travel there on foot over the hills into the southern Nico Fiefdom. They find the orcs and proceed to dispatch with them with ease. The leader of this band, Krunk the Indomitable. Krunk is wearing the amulet the hooded man spoke of. During combat they find that the amulet will heal and hurt all of those near it, at random. After slaying Krunk, Leumas severs his head to keep as a trophy. On Krunk they find a map of the area with various markings on it and the amulet they were sent to recover. On their way to the rendezvous point with the hooded figure they make camp for the night and are ambushed by 2 bugbears. While caught off guard and still damaged from the encounter with the orcs, the adventurers struggle with the bugbears, but manage to kill them none the less. On these bugbears they find another map. Comparing this one with the one from Krunk, they find similarities and a trail leading to Krunk's complex. They surmise they were followed by the bugbears who found Krunk dead and intended to avenge his death.   The meet up point is a tower in the middle of the low land hills. The hooded figure is Archmage Antonidis and he is speaking with Deveral Quinn.