After clearing out the mine, we return to Sir Jack and inform him of the situation. The market guard check the market for any jet, but find none. After some discussions with Pate, we then move back towards the Spouthouse. On the way, some guards mention they’re looking for a witch, and also that an unusually tall guy was in town recently. We follow-up on the tall-guy rumor, settling on him as the “traveler” mentioned in the journals and other books found in the mine with the lunar wights. We learn that a girl in town massaged his feet, and we go to question her. At her home, we find a wight, and indications that a mule was recently galloped out of town. We pursue out of town, with SG flying and finding a lady riding a mule. He speaks with her, and after some back-and-forth, she runs. After some further confusion, eventually the entire party reconvenes at the crossroads outside Flint, where SG first discovers the lady, dead, with her guts ripped out in an attempt to spell a message.
SG scrys on Green Guts, but it fails. She next sends a message to Gene Erica von Illamage, first requesting a meeting to negotiate releasing Green Guts. Gene Erica replies, “What’s the goblin’s name? Where were they captured?”. SG follows up with another sending, providing Green Guts’ name, and that she has a guess as to where; Gene Erica replies, “Where do you guess?” SG sends one final message, with all information, and Gene Erica says he’ll look into it.
Taliah decides to focus on some improvements to her construct. Gartug tags in!
Boobons teleports us back to Rhyme into SG’s temple. There are a bunch of folks there. We learn some updates about Greenguts. We rest for the evening in SG’s temple, and the next morning SG goes out to buy some charged ectoplasm for her plane shifting adventures.
Plan for next session is to teleport back to our previous location, studied by Boobons, and continue towards Stormheim.
20 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon in the Boneyard.
We go talk to the Ratcatcher’s Guild. We show them the rat, and tell them where it was found, and urge them to be careful.
Last session, we finally entered into the enchanted door at Lon’s Thicket, discovering an entire underground facility. There was some fighting, and some mind-controlling. After a brief scuffle, we are now out-of-combat, and exploring. Meanwhile, Taliah is taking inventory.
The party is split! Harvey and Stackor are in the temple of the Fossilized King, fighting some nasty undead giants, and a weird, indescribable mollusk. Taliah is being approached by three Garuda, because she refused to hand over her piece of charcoal. Sheila G and Oliver Withatwist are on their way from the garuda chief back towards Taliah.
Inside, combat continues! Boobons fireballs the indescribable mollusk; Harvey beats on a giant; the mollusk wails on Boobons and grapples him; the giants kind did stuff to Harvey.
Outside, combat begins! Taliah is shot by a bunch of garuda; Sheila G flies over and casts shield other on Taliah, and also drops off Oliver; Oliver stands around like an idiot.
Back inside, more combat! Boobons breaks the grapple and runs away; Harvey beats on giants some more; giants beat on Harvey.
Outside! Taliah throws away her piece of charcoal, calls the bird people stupid, and runs for the hills; some garuda continue to pepper Taliah; Oliver and Sheila G move towards the hills too.
Inside! Boobons casts cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; the mollusk moves closer but otherwise does not act; Harvey beats on giants; the giants miss Harvey.
Outside, the group makes it to the hills. The garuda do not pursue.
Inside, with combat finished, Harvey and Boobons seal the tooth in a corner, then seal the temple entrance. They then dimension door away, and meet up with the group. Taliah and Shiela G give Boobons a quick check-up, and determine he’s got a disease.
Sheila G meets with the head priest of Gozreh to discuss next steps for dealing with hunting down the Subnigaroth cult. She also gets a cool little bangle.
Gartug takes Chuck to Sheila G’s temple to help guard the place.
The next day, the Party hops a teleport to the Flint Pits. Bubans has a small mishap, and we wind up in an abandoned village. The buildings are partially collapsed, and designed for creatures larger than us. In the distance can be seen the tops of ziggaurats. Beneath us is a broken cobblestone road, and it looks like once upon a time it was planed straight and level. Harvey determines this is one of the forgotten cities of the Cyclopean Empire. Evidently this is severely dangerous territory, filled with untold riches and portals directly to the Underdark. We decide to ignore the call of adventure, and teleport properly to the Flint Pits.
While traveling, we encounter very little trouble. We run into some weird flying leather sacks, Yrthaks. Later, we met with a cliff giant named Kobonabon, who provides us some information.
Some garuda notice Taliah and approaches. He asks if I have any rocks. I say no. He asks if I’m lying. I ask him to wait, check my bag, and produce a piece of charcoal. The garuda demands the charcoal. I refuse. It threatens me. I put away my charcoal. It signals for attack. Reggae Tony runs for the hills. I throw up my hands in frustration and walk towards the hills.