The Missing Children of Dargan

The Champions arrive at the village of Dargan where the they investigate the case of the missing children. They soon find out that the death of an old man and a mysterious visitor may be involved. Eventually the leads take them to a cabin in the woods where they find a stone stairwell leading down into darkness.

Upon their arrival in Dargan the group is shown little of a welcome. As they enter the tavern, looking for leads to start their investigation, they are given suspicious looks by the locals. Mordrack and Ub use their intimidating appearance to get the barkeep to share some information. He continues to tell them about the missing children: Olaf, Anna, Elsa and Christof. Later that evening Alleria attempts a kinder approach and learns that a strange man has been in town, days before the children's disappearance. Ub catches rumors about old mister Talden, who died a day before the children went missing.   Ub decided to investigate the village graveyard and meets with the local Priest. He asks some questions about the death of mister Talden and learns that he died a most unusual and unexplainable death. At night, when the villagers are all in bed, Ub, Mordrack and Brakathar decide to open Talden's grave and investigate his wounds. They find that something pushed his eyeballs out, from inside his head, and well as burnwound on his chin and inside his eye sockets. Mordrack consults his demon patron about this, who tells him that is is old, long forgotten magic, from far away.   The next day the group splits up to talk to the parents of the missing children. All parents tell the same story: the children went to bed and the next day they were gone. No sign of forced entry or struggle. In each room they find burn marks similar to those on Talden's chin.   They ask Bryn, Anna's father and Talden's son, if they can investigate his father's house and find the same burn marks again. Bryn tells them that his father also owned a cabin in the forest, but hasn't been there in years. The group asks is they can see the cabin and Bryn agrees. Later that day they learn that the keys to the cabin have been stolen. They hurry to the cabin and find that it is empty and abandoned. Brakathar find strange mushrooms covering the outer back wall of the cabin and warns the rest that something is up. Inside the cabin are some loose floorboards. Ub breaks some to reveal a stone stairwell leading down into darkness.