The Search for Nathaniel Begins
Azros hadn't burned the body.
He hadn't even bagged it. Miscommunication, he said. The wood-elf came with you.
You bought a donkey-cart and named the donkey Mud. Lessie confirmed his name on the road by asking him directly. Mud has a voice like Eeyore. He is not very bright. Lessie told him this kindly.
Moist turned into a Bloodhound and took the trail south-east along the High Road.
You passed monks of Ilmater heading the other way, toward Yartar. They told you about a grizzly scene up ahead. They didn't want to talk about it.
You found it on the cliffs above the Mere of Deadmen. Five dead goblins — Nathaniel's last stand. He'd taken out five of them before they'd taken him. Then something else had carried him off down the road. Lessie talked to the buzzards. They said "green meat."
You followed the trail. Cart-tracks went dry — someone had started covering them. Dhuxtyn found a trapdoor. Ubys found a stashed cart full of stolen goods. Lessie found a much larger entrance off the road, twelve feet across, thirty feet deep.
AC lit a torch and went down. You followed.
Twenty-five feet in, a door. Moist reached for it.
The roof came down on top of you.
Five of you ate dirt. Lessie sang the earth out of her own way and freed herself; KeYs and Falkor pulled the rest of you out. By the time anyone could see straight again, five Goblins were already shooting at you from the dark.
Dhuxtyn painted them green with Faerie Fire. Lessie called up a Unicorn spirit. Moist summoned a Phoenix that teleported by burning. Ubys cast a Guiding Bolt at a sniper and critted — forty-six points of radiant damage in one strike.
KeYs hammered through the rest. Falkor bit. AC marked, struck, and moved. By the third round, all five Goblins were dead.
You stood in the silence after, breathing dust.
The door was still there. Something had carried Nathaniel through it.
Next session: what's behind the door.