Linjal, Endings 6th (continued)
Uwem offers her and her tribe's allegiance to us
we request their trackers to look for other people from Cadyn
We inform them of our intent to visit the Staerten pa Slootten
Uwem will provide guides
Should take two days
We avoid other travelers
Travel is pretty uneventful
See some strange animals
Drommer, Endings 8th
Cross the river
Our guides, Garn and Urmook, appear pretty nervous once the tower is in sight
they will go no further
The area appears as a dark hemisphere on top of a hill about a mile away
When we arrive there's pretty much a section of land that is in night time during the day
One strong magical aura, nothing like we have seen before
The tower is two stories, not in good condition
we don't cast traditional shadows in here, like reverse shadows instead
Really dusty inside, looks as if nothing has been here in a long time
Upstairs we find some garrison orders about protecting a mine
Basement is a larder full of rotten food
Find a guidestone that has been toppled over
so there may have been a road around here at one point
it does mention Trifinian, a city we know of to the east
it also points out the direction of the mine, so we'll try to find that
We find the mine, looks like some gnoll bandits have taken the place
the first one we encounter flees inside when he recognizes us
The gnolls do begin to talk once Marcellus initiates conversation
a bugbear does the talking, his name is Thaggun
aside from the gnoll and Thaggum there's also some orcs and hobgoblins
Marcellus engages in mostly small talk with Thaggun
Anton takes a closer look inside
the mine entrance has collasped
Marcellus's conversation with Thaggum almost turns violent, but he is able to diffuse it.
We decide to dig into the mine and see if we can clear a hole
it takes a couple of hours but we find a way in
We trigger a haunt upon entering
a haunt could be the lingering effect of a catastrophic event
Find bags with some silver ore in them
may be a silver mine
Encounter and kill 4 orc skeletons
used to be miners
looks as if something has chewed on the bones
maybe about the size of a dog
Find some non-animated skeletons arranged around a large pit
some have charring and more bite marks
3 ghouls attack us
we kill them
We find a lot of mined silver ore
several veins of ore too
Down another tunnel we walk through an improvised fortified area
blood trail going another direction
Find a ring of plentiful hunts in the nearby camp
In another room a skeletal warrior thinks he is in the Hadraen empire
he has no idea about the cave in
we try to parlay, it doesn't work
we end up killing him and his minions
his axe is a brutal 1 battleaxe
We cleanse the mine