Disposable:Thornkeep/1 Frog Dinner and A Handjob

Starring: Azaven (Tim H.), Grog (Andrew), Seeker of Knowledge (Tim W.), and Randi (Jess)
Guest Starring: Pair of goblin rapists; Iliara Starcloak (of the Goldenfire Order); Toomdar (one-eyed bartender of the Thirsty Ogre)
Challenge: Two King's Guard tracking the group down; Gray Ooze
Location: The Thirsty Ogre Inn; Greenforest Inn; Callanro House; Goldenfire Tower; Thornkeep dungeon
Date Played: 21 Apr 2013

Arrival in Thornkeep

Grog: We're lucky that those idiot thieves mistook our prison wagon for trader's caravan. We easily gave the constables the slip as they dealt with the bumbling fools. I thought about ditching out the other escapees, but they might prove valuable if I need to distract anyone they might send to track us...

Exploring the Town

Grog: We arrive in town. And what a town! This is my kind of place... A place I can disappear into. A place I can find "work" & maybe a new crew. We stop at the first watering hole we see called the "The Thirsty Ogre Inn". They have food at a good price so I have my meal there with the others. We decide to find out a little more about the town so we listen to what the locals have to say. I overhear two talking about activities happening in an unoccupied house.

If there are people squatting there, nobody'll probably miss them...

Grog and Randi investigate the Callanro House

Grog: Randi has decided to join me in checking out this Callanro house. A letter on the front & back door say it's owned by the Greenforest Inn. I sneak in a window & see signs of a struggle, but otherwise the place seems to be empty. We hear the door open & some lady say she's from housekeeping walk in so I jump under the bed. Randi seems to have the same idea.

We would have been fine there except some cobwebs fell by Randi's face, & he yelled & bolted like a bat out o' hell. I take it as my cue to leave as well & pull up my cloak to hopefully keep the housekeeper from being able to give a good description of me as I run out.

In the market, we run into some of the constables that were taking us in. I pull Randi with me into an ally, & we do our best to blend into the locals.

Found by the King's Guard

Grog: We catch up to Azeven the Mithril Mage... (What a pompous name!) after we get a message from a messanger boy. Apparently, he's too good to stay at The Thirsty Ogre Inn & is now staying at the Greenforest Inn. Whatever. We go to talk to him at this new inn.

We get there & just begin talking about going into the dungeon to pay off Randi's keg tab when the constables show up. I jump out of a window to escape them & run into the busy market area. I didn't get far enough as I get tackled from behind & put in chains.

They tie me up in a room at the Greenforest Inn. Apparently, there is no jail here. When I'm just getting comfortable a little goblin comes into the room & starts hacking at the pillar they've tied me to. It, of course, comes down & I'm barely able to get my gear & out of the room before the room collapses on itself.

I go to meet the others at The Thirsty Ogre...

Perhaps A Dungeon We Will Seek

Grog: We decide to head out to the Dungeon that night. The constables won't look for us there, & it'll get the task done. In the first room of this place, we find a pool of mysterious black almost-water. I go around to open one of the doors while the guy who calls himself the "Seeker of Knowledge" goes around to the other doors. I hear a yelp & see him being attacked by a tentacle. The group gathers up & kills it, but it exhausts us to do so. We decide it may be a job for the morning, but the Mithril Mage suddenly jumps into the pool & comes up with cuts... & a pearl. A beautiful, possibly-valuable pearl...