Day Three

Tomas met us in a tavern where he told us that they found the goblin’s headquarters. He thinks that the tribal leaders are there. The goblin army is elsewhere, so now would be a good time to attack the leaders. They will pay us 150 GP each to do this. He gave us a map that shows us going past Briarhill, past the Bugbear’s cave and to a fort.

We left Wellune and travelled Briarhill. We examined the Mayor’s house again, but found nothing.

We then walked to the goblin’s fort and proceeded to invade.

In one room, we found scrolls with orders for raids as well as some maps. These had all been sealed with wax, but were broken. We also found a paper with some unbroken seals on it.

We killed a few goblins and hobgoblins. Eventually, we made our way to the mess hall where we fought and slew fifteen goblins and emerged victorious. The mission was accomplished. We left for Wellune.

On our way back to the city, we found a survivor from Briarhill named Edwin. We told him that we would help him get to Wellune.

Further on our way, Tomas found us. He said that Redbeard thinks that the mayor of Briarhill was involved in the goblin attacks. He said that he will take us south to where the mayor is so that we can catch him and bring him to justice.

Tomas led us to a clearing with a large cliff wall in it. There was graffitti all over the wall. We went over to it to read it. It looked like goblin scrawl. Suddenly, Tomas cast Web on us from a wand. We were all stuck to the wall.

Tomas said that we were supposed to die in the attack on Briarhill. Redbeard wanted us to perish so that the national army would be sent out to deal with the goblin problem. Then, he would take control of them and use the army to overthrow the rule and take over the nation.

Tomas slew Edwin. Some of us broke free from the web and attacked Tomas. He lost an arm vanished. We lost all of our loot except for a few weapons and the one paper with unbroken scrolls.

We decide to head to the capital and press our case for action against Lord Redbeard.

Day Two

We left the inn and walked through town looking for attackers. We fought and killed nine goblins.

Then we noticed that new fires were erupting on the far side of town. We ran over there and saw a small army of around 70 goblins hacking apart the dead. The village was lost.

We fled town and ran to the west. The mayor had said that their cave was this way.

We found a cave, but all that was inside was a bugbear. We demised it. This was clearly the wrong cave. We spent the night there.

In the morning, we saw plumes of smoke from many cookfires in the distance. We waited for them to go away.

We made our way back to town and it was completely destroyed, except for the mayor’s house. There were 15 or so survivors in there. We escorted them back to Wellune. We also found that the goblins came from the north and left to the northeast.

We talked about the situation amongst ourselves. We think that the mayor was involved in the goblin raids. We are also suspicious of Lord Redbeard, since these attacks are happening all over the place.

Thomas found us and paid us for our services. We told him about our suspicions. He said that he would inform Lord Redbeard. He said that Lord Redbeard has more work for us. We accept, thinking that if we stay close to the situation, we may find some answers.

Day One

Five travellers met in the Grey Goose Inn in the town of Wellune, Cormir. We were eating, drinking and swapping tales.

We introduced ourselves as:

Laranthir, a bard

Tambar Ghavir, a cleric to the Morning Lord, Lathandar

Vicathyra, a sorcerer

Hilda, a barbarian

Silatas, a ranger

As we enjoyed ourselves, we noticed a strange man watching us. We beckoned him over. He introduced himself as Thomas, clerk to Lord Redbeard, who had a request for us.

Thomas took us to see Lord Redbeard. He explained that the area has been attacked frequently by marauding bands of goblins. He was hiring people to travel to the outlying villages to protect them for one month at a time.

We agreed to help. We were sent to the village of Briarhill, about 40 miles away.

On the first night of our journey, we were attacked while we slept by a band of nine goblins. We slew them, taking only minor injuries ourselves.

Upon examination of the bodies, we noticed that they were carrying well made short swords, such as the kind made by humans. Also, each of them wore studded leather armor with an X adorning the nape of the neck.

We thought it strange, of course.

Eventually, we arrived at Briarhill and talked to Mayor Jelson. Apparently, the goblins have a cave nearby that they use as their base of operations. The issue forth from there every few days to raid the village.

We decided to go have some food and drinks at the inn. After that, we were going to ask around town for some information about the inside of the cave. We were planning to travel there the next day.

However, while we ate, we heard shouts and screams from outside. Briarhill was under attack.

An Apology

I have been lax in my duties of recording the campaign. I just can’t keep up with all of it, what with everything else I’ve got going on. So, I’ve missed a lot of stuff. From now on, the things I note here will be significantly briefer. This will allow me to still record our adventures and hopefully not fall behind again.

In brief, here is what we’ve accomplished:

We met with a scholar that wanted us to retrieve a sacred dagger for him and his society to study. It was located in the tower of Kimrey the Mad, a long dead mage.

We acquired the item and returned it to the scholar. He has another quest for us, a new item to collect. This is our next task.