Session Summary 2

Crown of the Kobold King: Part 1

Two months after the events in the last adventure, the group is brought together again by circumstance. Last week, the orphanage outside of Falcon's Hollow, Elara's Halfway House, burnt to the ground. The town guard searched the area, but there were no survivors of the blaze, and no cause for the fire was found.

After an afternoon at the local tavern, Thaelyn stops by Andrea's house to pick up his daughter. Andrea is a local teenager, who makes a copper piece here and there by babysitting local children from her parents house. Thaelyn arrives at her house to find that his daughter, Bailey, ran off with some of her friends and Andrea has been unable to find her. Thaelyn leaves angry, and storms through the streets looking for his daughter. On the way, Varak, Mailee and Lilith are brought into the search.

After badgering a group of children to tell them where his daughter went, Thaelyn gets a lead. A group of kids including his daughter has gone to the orphanage to spend the night on a dare. Thaelyn leads the rest of the group down the road to the Orphanage.

Upon arrival, they find the area empty, except for the burnt shell of the halfway house. After searching the area, they find a trapdoor in the center of the ruins. After busting through the trapdoor, and clearing the room of the swarm of spiders that occupied it, the group finds that the cellar was used as some sort of torture chamber. The dead body of Elara lies on the floor, not killed by fire, which has mostly left this cellar untouched, but by a bite of some sort on the throat. Her wedding band is missing from her finger. A pair of silver daggers and a bag full of garlic on a table in the cellar makes the group suspicious of vampires.

They carry the body of Elara from the cellar and plan to take it back to town, when Mailee spots some sort of blue fabric in the nearby woods. When she inspects it, she finds an abandoned campsite. The blue fabric was a tent that has now been shredded on the ground. There are signs of struggle everywhere, with scraps of clothing and blood littering the area. Lilith spots a few reptilian scales on the ground, and Mailee identifies them as kobold scales.

Something moves in the woods and catches Mailee's eye. She chases after it. Thaelyn is overcome by grief when he sees a scrap of his daughters dress on the ground. Mailee catches up to the figure moving in the woods, and finds that it is a young girl, scared and hungry.

The girl seems to be afraid of Mailee, but runs back to the rest of the group. Thaelyn approaches her and asks about his daughter. She tells him that a group of children were here, but they were taken by kobolds. The girl says her name is Jeva, and that she lived at the orphanage and survived when everyone else was killed. Thaelyn notices a necklace around her neck. When he asks to see it, the girl gets defensive. Thaelyn rips the necklace free and finds a wedding band hanging from the end of it. When the girl gets more defensive, and the group realizes that Mailee was carrying the garlic, Thaelyn suspects the girl of being a vampire.

His suspicions are confirmed when she knocks him to his back and attempts to tear out his throat. The group quickly comes down upon her and ties her up. She reveals what she knows about where the kobold's took the children: the dwarven monestary that the group is familiar with from their last adventure. After this information is given, Mailee puts a spear through the vampire's skull.

The group makes their way to the dwarven monestary, and then down the stairs in the back, which they last saw their friend Gurtlekep descend. At the bottom of the stairs a group of kobolds work collecting obsidian from a broken statue. After attempts to negotiate with the reptiles fail, the group is forced to chase down and kill the kobolds. Two of them remain alive long enough to tell Thaelyn that the pink-skinned younglings have been taken below through a well in the back of the complex. The group plans to make their way further into the dungeon.

Next Game: Saturday 11/17/2007
Level: 3