Session Eight (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

Session 8

In this session the party grew larger and entered into a dwarvish tomb. The party got themselves ready for a celebration in the church of Baldric for finding the Crown of Baldric. They were being watched during the celebration by a crowd in awe because of what they had found in the sewers. In the crowd looked to be an short elvish rogue and and a portly looking robed man.

They had piqued the party’s interest especially when the rogue blundered on pickpocketing a coin purse from a man. The elf started to sprint off with Galron furiously chasing behind shouting “THIEF!”. The portly man cast some mystical lights in the air to distract the crowd from what had just happened. The rest of the party had noticed the man do this and told him to stop his friend. As he yelled to the elf to stop, he kept running while Galron was trying to keep sight of him.

The man ended up introducing himself as Faldspar to the rest and had arranged to meet at the Cock & Bull tavern. Faldspar ended up finding his companion and took a wagon ride to the tavern. There the elven man introduced himself as Tarion to the bartender and introduced Faldspar to her, whom she blushed at.

Back at the celebration, Galron met up with the party again and entered the church. While Thorfus, Galron and Axel were busy talking to noble men and gorging themselves on seafood Ir’alle was in a corner shying away from people as he wasn’t in the mood to speak. Galron saw that after a while and asked Ir’alle if he wanted to go back and get a drink at the Cock & Bull tavern. The left the celebration and took a wagon ride back. Axel and Thorfus had ended up leaving an hour later

As Ir’alle and Galron made it back to the tavern, Galron had yelled “First 8 rounds on me!” and spent 2 gold on drinks for the people in the bar. As he was passing drinks out to people he saw the thief who he had been chasing. Tarion ended up convincing Galron that he had not tried stealing anything. However he wasn’t fully convinced and kept his on him for the night. Thorfus and Axel made it back to the tavern and ended up sharing a drink with Faldspar and deciding that tomorrow they would discuss how they would be tested. While Tarion went outside and started to sing melodiously to people as they walked by and made a pretty penny. Galron mesmerized by the singing tried to sing as well but it made people walk on the other side of the road.

While everyone went to bed Tarion had snuck out of the private room shared with Faldspar and not so sneakily went into the common sleeping room. He leaned very closely to the nearest man’s face to see if he was asleep, which he was not. After making it seem that he was just making sure his “snoring” wasn’t keeping anyone up before he retired for the night.

In the morning everyone had breakfast except for Tarion whom snuck out the window as Faldspar left the room. After breakfast everyone went to the townhouse to discuss the plan and what to do for the day. Once it was decided to go back down to the sewers the party set off to go grab some assistants.

At the sewer hole Thorfus had spotted a suspicious man looking the other way and ended up approaching him. After talking to him he ended up joining on the expedition. Once the party was down in the sewers they followed the marks that were left behind. The party encountered goblins that Thorfus talked to, there was a new goblin chief that requested their presence.

The party followed a goblin covered in red tattoos whom brought them to a door which the goblin ended up doing a specialized knock to be let in with the rest of the party. Thorfus had a long conversation with the new Goblin Chieftain. He had explained that if the man they brought with the party tried to leave to not let him past and also that they are always welcome in the goblin territory. The Chieftain ended up as well talking about how the dwarves from the past had created goblins out of man so that they could dig for the dwarves. As the dwarves disliked to dig and instead enjoyed crafting.

After the conversation the party was shown the route to the dwarven tomb with a goblin guide. There were more markings on the wall except non of them had an X on them. After the goblin and brought them to the tomb they looked down on a 12 feet drop to see dwarven sarcophagus’s. There was a faint but steady hum coming from the tomb . The party nailed down a piece of rope and had Tarion go down half way, using his infravision saw that, that the walls were strangely warmer than anything else in the room. After going back down we sent him down again with a light and he had seen that there was a banner with what looked like a council of dwarves. The sarcophagus’s had intricate clockwork looking designs that made them look like they could move. The floor was also oddly clean except for the corners where there were some rusty cogs and springs. The party sent down the suspicious man first.

What will happen to the party as the enter into this unexplored region, will they get out with riches or will this be their tomb with the rest of the old dwarves?

Kim can get the next one if she wants haha.