The Forgotten Shrine and Cnut’s Sacrifice
Story Discovery: The Heart of Flame
- Players were told the farmer’s story of The Heart of Flame
- Learned about Cynric the Brave and The Everflames
- Discovered how Cynric found courage against Orcus’s shadow wolves
- Story revealed the persecution of Everflames in modern times
The Forgotten shrine to The Four Puzzle
- Used knowledge from the story to identify The Four for the dial puzzle
- Discovered the missing green stone had been fashioned into a crown worn by the goblin leader
- Successfully opened the door to the loot room
Shrine Discoveries
- Found the skeletal remains of Brother Hance
- Barnaby read the Dead Preachers Journal
- Learned about undead attacks from Gorrmoth’s Tower 41 years ago
- Used diary knowledge to find the secret compartment in one of the statues
Loot Acquired:
- Dead Preachers Journal
- Scroll of Protection from Evil
- Holy Symbol of The Four (25gp value, advantage on Religion checks)
- Ceremonial Dagger of Arrako (+1 dagger,
Quis adipiscing non) - Ancient offerings (50gp total)
- Healing Word spell scroll
- Feather Fall spell scroll
The Kord Family History
- Diary revealed the tragic story of the Destroyed Kord’s House
- Learned about Jason Kord and Emma Kord bringing their child for healing 40+ years ago
Tracking Marvin the Owlbear
- Party decided to find and recruit the owlbear to help kill the bandits
- Tracked owlbear prints to the Bandit hideout - a cave system beneath
Incididunt sunt adipiscing - Found the owlbear sectioned off in a smaller part of the old mine
The Cave Encounter
Strom, Blastran Starweave, Cnut, Barnaby, Bronn
Owlbear Negotiation
- Bronn used potion of animal speaking to communicate
- Woke the hungry, sleeping owlbear
- Offered rations but owlbear bit their hands while eating
- Successfully convinced owlbear to join their attack on the bandits
The Battle in the Mine
Initial Strategy
- Saw the bandits sorting their rubies out of their stash
- Barnaby launched first in a mine cart, zipping past bandits
- Rest of party charged in with the owlbear
- Blastran Starweave provided ranged support from an overlook
The Tide Turns
- Early success turned to disaster
- Cnut fell while helping Barnaby
- Barnaby abandoned Cnut - refused to heal him, left him to die
- Mad Nash revealed as a fierce giant lizard man with golden eyes
Tragic Escalation
- Mad Nash’s Javelin of Lightning threatened both Marvin the Owlbear and Blastran Starweave
- Bronn heroically stepped in to deflect some damage
- Bronn and Blastran Starweave all went down in the fight
- Mysterious goblin (likely from shrine) harassed party then vanished
The Owlbear’s Death
- Mad Nash brutally killed the Marvin the Owlbear
- Stabbed and lifted it into the air before ripping it in two
- Attempted escape by climbing cavern wall
- Brought down by javelin and magic missiles
Casualties
- Cnut: Failed death saving throws, bled out on cave floor - DEAD
- The Marvin the Owlbear: Brutally executed by Mad Nash - DEAD
- Mad Nash - DEAD