4708 Neth 20th Korvosa

Early AM
The pcs return to Zellara's house to sleep for the night. Early in the AM the Andrian and Brunt return to Castle Korvosa to return the Queen's stolen brooch. Riley, Carufinwe, and Toka remain at Zellara's house.

Early PM
Andrian and Brunt are in the front of the line and after explaining the reason for their visit they are allowed in to see the King Eodred Arabasti II and Queen Ileosa.


After a lengthy audience with the King the pcs are given the award of 1,200gp and a suit of dwarven armor and a huge spiked adamantine hammer. The two pcs are left with the Seneschal Neolandus Kalepopolis to discuss "Vorel's Legacy". The Seneschal agrees to warn the Cerulean Society about this new weapon possessed by the Red Mantis and he then passes Andrian and Brunt to Field Marshal Cressida Kroft. The Field Marshal gives the pcs an assignment as per the king's orders. All 4 pcs travel to meet with the shaman of the Skoan Quah Thousand-Bones.

There the PCs learn that 1,000bones' grandson Gaekhen was slain by an angry mob and that in order to prevent a war the pcs must recover the body from the Gray District.

PM
The pcs enter a broken mausoleum and follow a stair case into a cavern complex. The pcs are attacked from two sides by skeletons animated from an ossurary and they easily slay 25 skeletons. Then pcs simultaneously attack two groups of elite goblins, one group of commandoes and a group of archers.


Despite being out numbered the pcs manage to easily defeat goblins due to Andrian's stealth and Brunt's new armor. After allying with the 4 remaining goblins the pcs determine that there is an otyugh nearby and it proves to have the legs and waist of Gaekhen the Shoanti.


The pcs battle the otyugh and slay it with little difficulty. The pcs then by pass a necomantic skull trap and battle a powerfully muscled goblin weilding a battle-axe and his two pet stirges. All three are quickly dispatched. Led by the goblins the pcs confront the dreaded Cabbage-head. This creature appears to be an ogre with misshaped head.


Andrian surprises Cabbage-head and Riley uses a spell to knock it into one of the prison-pits. The ogre falls into the pit crushes a helpless shopkeeper. The ogre battles the pcs with only his head and shoulders above the pit. The creature nearly kills Andrian but cannot stand before the combined power of the adventurers. Andrian finally slays it by punching a dagger into the small brain.

After finding a collapsed tunnel the pcs locate a huge patchwork zombie locked in a storage closet they had previously bypassed. The creature is missing most of one arm and when it sees the pcs it scoops up an arm covered with blue tatooes and attacks using the arm as a club. The creature is no match for the combined might of the party.

Then the pcs enter a room used to animate undead and golems. Bruntalmar attempts to coup des gras a patchwork creature laying on the table but only angers it. At first it appears the patchwork zombie is too much for the pcs but a few telling blows from
Andrian and Carufinwe disable the creature and it soon falls apart. Brunt points out that the head carries a scar under one eye as should the head of Gaekhen according to the description provided by 1,000 Bones.

Then the pcs pass through what appears to be the subterranean bedroom of the arch-necromancer Ralth. Brunt uses divine magic to destroy a female zombie that appears to have been the concubine of the deranged necromancer. Lastly the pcs finally encounter Vreeg the goblin leader and apprentice to the dreaded Ralth. The goblin is apparently adding Gaeken's severed arm to a pile of animated limbs created through the use of vile necromancy.

Bruntalmar blocks the crawling pile of animate limbs and defeats it with the aid of the other pcs. Andrian battles the goblin wizard Vreeg and easily defeats him despite the blinding magic used by Vreeg.

late PM
The pcs gather the pieces of Gaekhen and loot Rolth's lair. First they drop off the loot to Zellara's house. This includes an extensive necromantic library and a full set of surgical equipment. Then they return Gaekhen's body to 1,000 Bones. 1,000 Bones thanks the pcs and tells them that if there is ever a conflict between the Shoanti and Korvosa again they should seek him out. After all this the pcs decide to attempt to return to Cressida to tell her of their success and to turn Vreeg over to her but by now it is past midnight.

Gaedren Lamm's treasure

Treasure:
6 pouches with 50 copper each

(all of the following in Gaedren’s treasure chest wrapped in cloth and tied with twine)

a teak tobacco case inlaid with bits of jade, gold ingot (chelaxian) 350gp weight
a scrimshaw of a kraken with garnet eyes
a silver ring with an inscription (for Emmah the light of my nights)
a nude statue of a succubus carved of ivory
an adamantine arrowhead
a +1 holy symbol of shelyn made of abalone shell
one potion of your choice
another magic missile wand
a valuable crystal vial containing an alchemical mixture of your choice
Gaedren’s head should you choose to retrieve it (likely to be a reward since he was wanted by the Cerulean Society)
Zellara's head pickled in brine with the lips sewed shut

AND a jewel encrusted golden brooch with a broken clasp which is obviously the MOST valuable piece. It appears to be a stylized depiction of an imp and a pseudo dragon locked in mortal combat in a yin and yang fashion. The dragon’s eye is a large amethyst and the imp’s eye is a large emerald. The reverse side bears the inscription “to my beloved Ileosa, forever first in my heart”.

4708 Neth 19th Korvosa

Early AM
The pcs wake up at Zellara's house and Andrian claims that she wants the part to follow. After having breakfast and walking a couple of miles the pcs arrive at a small fish processing plant that makes "dock dumplings". Andrian asks the invisible presence to scout ahead and then he claims that the presence wants them to enter the front door. The pcs feed and then battle a large and aggressive starving mutt. after some more scouting the pcs come to a large room with 5 captive street urchin thieves and their captor a large and powerfully muscled half orc wielding a triple flail by the name of Giggles.


The half orc is slain before he has a chance to hurt anyone. For reasons known only to him Riley magic missiles one of the urchins in the leg knocking him unconscious. The other urchins panic and 2 fall through the large square hole in the floor and one is eaten by a shark before she can be rescued. Following directions given by the urchins the pcs follow a dock out to a dilapidated ship called the Kraken's Folly. On the ship the pcs are attacked by a swarm of dream spiders and their mother. Riley uses magic to shove the swarm off the deck and into the water. The pcs finally reach the lair of the thief master Gaedren Lamm and his two henchmen the halfling thief Hookshanks and the failed wizard Yargin.

Riley casts a sleep spell that turns the battle into a slaughter though Yargin does manage to get off an acid wall spell before he is slain. Gaedren is ironically slain by his own pet crocodile. The pcs find Gaedren's treasure which is considerable given his low end enterprise. As such this must have been treasure accumulated over a lifetime of thievery. Also the pcs recover Zellar'a head withe the lips sewn shut and pickled in brine. Andrian decides to cut the thread binding his grandmother's lips and to cremate her head. This releases her spirit and she is no longer tied to the land of the living. After searching through the treasure Andrian realizes the the brooch belongs to the Queen.

Early PM
Before dealing with the brooch issue the pcs see that Lamm's orphans have a safe future. The ten orphans that can pass for Chelaxian are taken to an orphange and the two that look Varisian are taken to the Pantheon temple priest of Torag.

Late PM
After a debate Andrian and Brunt decide to return the brooch to the queen. They head to Castle Korvosa and wait in line but all petioner are sent home because of the late hour before their turn in line. Meanwhile Riley and Carufinwe head to the elven enclave to purchase elven magic items.