Following the last expedition into the Weirding Caverns, a conversation in-earnest strikes up in the public room Under-Star, where the mother-of-pearl-sheen of the inside shell of the Mother Whelk shines back candlelight like the passing of the stars at night ... Bartholomew Pettibone and companion Heijo managed to find Torkol, one of the Surivors of the Tel, and also draw into their circle Persephone of the Kantor Kabljauhof ...
A kind of excitement animates the conversation, collating information disparately dis-covered by different expeditions: "Do you think the Old Pale Worm is the strange serpent we encountered?" "... There's something other than Klackons down in the Sixth House inside the Great Spire ..." &c.
Ultimately, Torkol admits to his curiosity about the Weirding Caverns, into which he and his companions have not yet delved, and so he suggests the gathered company continue the explorations into the caves begun last week ...
Altogether, the company agrees, and they are seen to make their way from Cothon-Under-Star, strengthened by hiring a couple of footmen from amongst the lesser taverns nearby, and thence make their way through the streets to the Gate of Mourners to make their way east unto and into the Tel al Safina ...
- Bartholomew Pettibone (magic-user 1)
accompanied by Gan ad Din (footman) - Heijo (magic-user 1)
- Torkol (magic-user 1)
accompanied by Stout of Auk (footman) - Persephone (fighter 2)
accompanied by Finbar the renyu
The company returned later in the day, Gan hauling sacks heavy with treasure while Stout carried his master Torkol, wheezing, sweating, and pallid ...
Returning to the public room Under-Star, the company set Torkol up "comfortably" with cushions and made sure he could continue to breathe while they counted out the treasures they had retrieved from the Weirding Caverns ...
Claiming a verbal agreement that he was to receive an extra share, Stout of Auk took more than a typical "footman's" share and then went forth to enjoy the night; meanwhile, Gan ad-Din reveled in the sense of his own heroism and risk in recovering the treasure--"Without Gan, how would we enjoy the continued pouring of all these amphorae of wine??"
A kind of narrative can be pieced together between what Stout and Gan tell--delving in the Weirding Caverns, the party came to a dead-end occupied by another group of "adventurers" of rather smaller and stranger stature than their own party. Some kind of deal, knowledge for treasure, was offered, and it was partially successful in the revelation that "a Great Evil" dwelt in a nearby cavern.
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After further negotiations broke down, further explorations ultimately ended up in the nearby cavern where "a Great Evil" resided, and this was revealed to be a pair of pallid walking fungal trees. Gan was able to collect treasure from the floor of their chamber, while others fought them off; but Torkol got a lungful of spores from one of them, hence his much weakened state ...
Treasure
- 86 gp, 92 ep, 3595 sp
- 1500 gp from gems x3 (500 ea.)
- 900 gp from a pair of "divining rods" made of braided silver and electrum
- 1000 gp from a set of damaged ceremonial armor
- a mysterious metallic sphere the size of an eyeball with a black "lens" on one face and a small stud opposite
- 3892 xp from treasure
- 1090 xp from "Great Evil" x2 (500 + hp ea.)
- 455 xp from renyu x4 (100 + hp ea.)
- 100 xp to each character for interaction with the Zoq-Fot-Pik
- 194 gold to both Stout of Auk and Gan ad-Din (both are claiming "double footman-shares")
- 876 gold to each player-character (Bartholomew, Heijo, Torkol, Persephone)
- 1459 xp per player-character
- the strange metal sphere
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