We return to our adventure with the group sifting through their young ward’s feces after she swallowed a potentially hazardous/magical red gem, which the group had found floating around a decaying corpse sitting on a throne.
The orphans continued to be tied together to prevent them from running away and getting hurt. But they have been fed good meals and taken for walks outside of the tower, though within the walls of the grounds.
Sven was nominated to use his hooves, as it seemed more sanitary, to go through the poop.
The gem was recovered, the team rejoiced, and set off for a visit to Xylarthan’s tower. The orphans joined, still attached to one another, for safety, and sat on Sven’s back.
As the adventurers travelled through the bar they again announced that they would be looking for their lost hired men. While also pointing out that the children were being safely cared for. Other patrons seemed suspicious and wary of the group.
Xylarthan did not know anything about the gems specifically outside of the fact that they were magical. He moved them around his head and showed the group that they floated around his head as well.
He offered them 250 gold pieces per gem.
Ember took a gem to see if the gems would float for her as well. They did.
The group however still voted to sell the gems and allow Xylarthan to study them.
Xylarthan also expressed some serious concerned for the safety of the orphans. He offered 50 gold per orphan but was denied. The group is intent on training the children with a skill for adventuring. And may possibly need their assistance in the dungeon at some point.
When that was settled they returned to the dungeon to begin their search for a connection between the current dungeon and the section where the Mushroom people lived in hopes of connecting all of their current maps.
It was decided that it would be safer for the group, with the children on Sven’s back, to go down the spiral staircase in the old Goblin Battle room. It was determined the room was safe after Ember listened at the door and it appeared the living gargoyles had left the room. The group did find the body of Ernie, a former hired man, and Ember took his spear for “protection”.
They reappeared at the bottom of the stairs in the church room with the “butt plug” idol, which was also empty.
It didn’t take long to move through to the “Slug” room where the adventurers opted to go through the southern door across the water. They walked down the corridor until it turned off to the west and followed along that way, hoping to bypass the heaviest amounts of fungus and reach the far western areas previously unmapped.
The hallway spilled out into a large room, too large to see all of the details but there was a large pool in the center, about 10 feet from each wall, and within the pool was 12 bathing, laughing, goblins. They were naked.
The group cringed a little and then skirted around the edge of the room, hoping to avoid being noticed. There was a wide corridor on the north wall that the adventurers aimed for but they did not escape the goblin’s notice.
Things quickly escalated as the goblins started climbing out of the pool. Theodora stepped forward to cast sleep as they moved toward their weapons and managed to put 9 of the 12 to sleep. The team then fought the final remaining goblins. Ember hit one while the rest of the team moved forward. Theodora cast burning hands, killing the remaining goblin and burning the other two. They chose to flee.
The group did what they do best and went through other people’s possessions. The goblins had with them a small decorated chest. There was an old crank on the side. Inside of the chest was 3000 silver pieces, which were loaded into Sven’s saddle bags.
When the crank was turned the chest played a haunting melody, which no one recognized. It too was loaded up.
Journeying down the northern corridor the team came to a room where the water continued to flow. Continuing north they came to the passage that had been filled with an almost moving, slithering, fungus and turned to the east instead. This brought them to another turn and another corridor, closer to the Owl Bear’s nest. And then they stumbled upon their former hired men; Dingle, X, Y, and Z. They were processing some trauma and dealing with a massive amount of shit.
The group removed them from the dungeon as they had always stated that they would, fulfilling that promise. And in their guilt spent 750 gold (!!! WTF) on food and drinks, and I can only assume some kind of “entertainment” in hopes of placating the men and helping them feel somewhat better.
- Theodora
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