I hadn’t put my notes for my Ruins of Intrigue Campaing up, so here’s the story up to where I started writing blog entries.
The players arrived in Serathis (1st day of Sixthmonth) and were accosted by Jared who offered to show them around the city. They turned him down and took lodgings in the Slumbering Serpent. They were greeted there by Gaelean Lorekiss, the innkeeper.
After a fight with some thugs in a side street (NPCs from The Giant’s Map web adventure) in the Slums of Serathis, the PCs were called in to meet Kaelys. She told them that the marble hand of a statue had been stolen from her. One of the thieves died in her traps. The thief was dressed in rags and had a tattoo of a rock held between two stylized hands on his right palm. Kaelys offered a significant reward for the return of the hand or the entire statue.
The PCs went deeper into the slums and met Faela. They were impressed by her work among the unfortunate and plan to set up a training center there. She suggested they check out the Stone Keeper ravers.
Second Session (2nd day of Sixthmonth) The players hired Rin-Goras to head up thier project. They also interviewd a nervous sibbecai, Tosh, and a shady human, Gunter, for the job. Rin-Goras is doing the job over 10 weeks, at 1,200 gp/week. This is payable every week in advance on Waterday. He will train any in the neighborhood who care to work as part of the project.
The PCs wandered around a bit, visited the Black Pyramid, saw Stomper pass then went to fight the ravers. They ran into Night Stalkers lurking around. Justin found a parchment in an old library. There was a pretty fair fight and the PCs returned to their headquarters to rest for a day tended by Faela. They woke up ready to go on the 4th day of Sixthmonth
Third Session
The PCs went back to the Stonekeepers hall. Jaimie and Faith were hypnotized by an allip’s murmur for a number of rounds during which Justin and the allip flailed at each other ineffectually. Jaimie beat the crap out of a chest and found a gem, a blink dog statuette, and a stick. The stick radiated some strong magic. They went back to rest. Faith and Justin went to the tower of boundless knowledge and met Sa-Arren who told them that the Black Pyramid is deadly. Faith dazzled the faen who was taking the registration for explorers, Gelias. She left the stick with him to identify. Justin is studying the parchment they found.
Fourth Session
The party fishished off the ravers and the nutty memelith and gave Kaelys the statue. Then they did some research in the Giants’ Hold and discovered that the statue was of a celestial. The party ran from a five-headed hydra and fought a small group of bandits. Then they went looking for bandits and got their butts kicked so they ran away.
Fifth Session
Sam and Michelle joined the group. They met the group while being attacked by spine hounds. They sold three spine hound pups to Kerlon’a. Bolstered by their new friends, they decided to take on the bandits again. They beat the bandits, chasing off the leader, Harold and two of the bandits. In the headquarters they found a letter signed with a Bloody Hook and letter refering to the Shadow. Justin and Sam explored and found a tunnel beneath the headquarters. They went north and found a storeroom with tunnels branching off northwest and northeast.