Ember, Mors, Sarco, Torrek, Cirrus

Day 1

• Stayed at cottage overnight. Uneasy silence with Mors this morning
• Frosty, chilly, dark morning
• Teleport to RemNaf - birdnado as performed by Mors
• Take Leontari, travel by air
• Han mentions dealing with undead problem in east, haven’t heard from orc tribes in the mountains for a while
• Ember and Cirrus roll excellent nav checks
• Camp 7,-19

Day 2

• head straight to cobbles haven
• Recently killed undead around entrance to Balinsdale hold - CH unaware, Archie unaware.

Day 3

• begins to rain today
• Arrive at CH - is growing in size (~100 ppl), becoming overgrown with plants
• Stay here for night

Day 4

• head to 10,-27
• Stormy night
• Torrek sees gnolls on the move at night

Day 5

• Big rainy day, gradually worsening storm
• Fly over the lake
• Dwarf tavern closed, ferry and chain gone, chain snapped in middle - single chain link very large
• I go up to investigate why tavern closed
• Open door slightly, door is unlocked - unusual
• Accidentally slam the door shut
• A crazy massacre has taken place inside the tavern - party of dead
• Not undead
• Corpses all a couple days old - very recent
• Occupants were in the middle of what they were doing - caught unawares
• A lot less bodies than there should be
• Throat slashed from behind - taken by surprise, mostly bladed weapons, some arrows through necks and backs, obvs murdered from behind. Starts on far side of tavern, some ppl running towards door. On far side where other exit, door and wall missing w no sign of debris inside tavern. Bodies were dragged out of tavern through this way. Many ppl wearing boots moving through, doing the dragging, more likely humanoid than gnoll. How many bodies missing? hard to say.
• Horses in the stables are zombies
• Brother’s spellbook was taken - by someone trusted/familiar to him?
• We are first ones to stumble across this
• Voyce’s soulsight picks up no souls at all
• Bad storm hits us
• We stay in the basement overnight
• Alvarion warns of gnolls that have found and are eating the dragon
• Torrek and Ember unearth some loot overnight

Day 6

• Still stormy and windy
• Alvarion stays to bury the bodies, we head off briskly
• Find a tribe of gnolls ritualistically eating the dragon’s body
• Ember fires off warning shot, speaks to gnoll matriarch, little old lady (Sazo), convinces them to hand over body, peaceful
• Ember lets Torrek and I attempt to take a scale
• Make preparations for the night, barricades etc
• Time paused - pcs will be staying here for pt 2, have deadly fight ahead