November 3rd, 2019

Mare, Itinerantur 7th, 1193 (continued)

We arrive to a set of ruins that have clearly be overcome by nature.  We decide to investigate just enough to bed down for the evening.  Samjogo stops Graynor for walking into a bear trap and we look around the main room and find:

  • Barrels 10x
  • Cooking Kit
  • Heat Stone
  • Vial
  • Larger Vial

We here a noise in the night, but it appears to go away after we are all awake.  A short time later, the noises resume.  This time we head outside to investigate and find a kobold and two goblins.  Kobolds are interested in traps of all sorts, perhaps this explains the bear trap.

Terra, Intinerantur 8th, 1193

Building 1 – Temple

Camael and Graynor search the temple for items left behind.

  • Incense sticks 10x 10gp
  • Thurible 50gp

Building 3 – House

Ceiling is collapsed, but we can still enter.  I step in a bear trap

  • Pyrography Kit 1gp
  • Smoked Goggles 10gp
  • Tinder Twig 1gp
  • Bear trap 1gp
  • Map appears to be over 1000 years old, but the paper seems new
  • Scroll case with arcane spell 25gp

Building 4 – House with boarded up and windows

This home is noticably colder than the other:

  • Magnesium 1gp
  • Heat stone 20gp
  • Broken Astrolabe normally 1000gp
  • Extremely old clothing

Building 5 – House with blackened and cracked walls

This house contains some vermin, two spiders.  It looks like some books where piled up and set on fire.  The remenants of the books seemed to be scratched out, before they were burned.

  • Small vial
  • Magnesium 1gp
  • Broken Sextent normally 500gp

Building 6 – Workshop

This workshop is in better repair than most of the buildings.

  • Thick leather 3gp per sq yard 30x
  • Cold Iron Ore 9gp per pound 100x
  • Animal glue 5sp
  • Masterwork stonemason’s tools 50gp

Building 7 – Store house

This storehouse has broken cabinets.

  • Bear trap 2gp
  • Chain 10ft 30gp
  • Climber’s Kit 80gp
  • Common Dungeoneering Kit 15gp
  • Survival Kit 5gp
  • Grappling Hook 1gp
  • Rope (hemp) 50ft
  • Tindertwig 1gp

We spiral out from the town looking for other clues.  We see a bunch of tracks that appear to be patrolling, way before us.  We head back to the temple to perform once last check.

  • Hidden bookshelf with scraps of burnt paper and binding
  • Grand orrery 1000gp
  • Starcharts 200gp
  • Pendant with strange symbol (holy symbol)
  • Small box

We also find a secret door with a staircase leading down.  There is a stone ring on the wall with a strange writing on it.  After searching, Graynor notices that the ring rotates and a silver shimmery surface appears over the ring.  A rock tossed into the ring doesn’t appear on the other side.  After much discussion, we toss food, then ourselves through the gate.  Runes appear periodically throughout this strange new area.  Sand blows across the ground forming miniature dunes.

We rest that evening in the temple.  We are assaulted on 3rd watch and after a stunning series of victories by the goblins and kobolds, they drag Graynor’s lifeless body out of the temple.

Forte, Intinerantur 9th, 1193

It takes a few hours, but the party is able to track down the trail of these bandits.