- Servant of Marquis Marquaad comes to the CCMB for help
- Was transporting an important item for the Marquis, and was ambushed
- Party finds the site of the ambush, but no signs of battle
- Party finds the Marquis’ soldiers who staged the ambush to desert
- Convinced the soldiers to give the CCMB the empty box, which was returned to the Marquis
From Roll20:
- A servant of Edgar Marquaad of the Eastern March, Kingdom of Torveldes burst through the door in a panic
- Merric manged to calm him down and sell him a cup of ale
- Servant explains that he was transporting an important item for the Marquis
- Was ambushed by bandits
- Ran away, leaving the guards behind
- Asks group to retrieve the chest
- Group wonders if the guards are in cahoots
- Find site of ambush
- Site is strangely empty of signs of a battle, minus the broken down door of the carriage
- Try and track the missing wagons, but loose tracks in other wagon traffic
- Eventually find tracks leading to an abandoned Greek temple in a mountain
- Encounter Zeus statue with lightning bolt. “Only the least sinister shall pass”
- Merrick tries to pull the lightning bolt out of the statues hand with Mage Hand
- Spesof & Tittlin get zapped
- Sneak past along the right (dexter) wall
- Jump over a grate in the floor, walk past random teardrop shaped columns
- Encounter Poseidon statue with animal tiles. “My favoured children shall bring you through”
- Step on correctly associated animals to get passed
- Tittlin almost Prince of Persia’s past the animal pressure plates, just avoids getting washed away, hears an unlucky fish hit one of the columns
- Encounter Hades statue in a pit surrounded by skeletons and dead animals. “Welcome to my kingdom”
- Tittlin contemplates jumping the 30 foot pit
- Merrick uses mage hand to drop a lit tinder in the pit
- The CO filling the pit lights on fire, clearing the pit
- Merric & Tittlin see how much of the pit they can wall run past, neither gets more than halfway
- Group walks through now empty pit
- Briefly see someone running away through the dark tunnel ahead
- Encounter Marquaad’s soldiers (8+captain Mattias), already on guard
- Learned
- The soldiers deserted due to mistreatment
- The servant’s name was Jeffrey
- The Marquis does not tolerate failure
- The soldiers were planning the sell the item for food/money
- Convinced the soldiers to give up the itemless box of rocks, to return to the Marquis
- Scout stopped hiding, Tittlin tried & failed to convince her to give him her boots
- Learned
- Gave box of rocks to a grateful Jeffrey
- Divied up reward & XP
- Tried and failed to gamble