LRC:Defeating the Kocraken

Shannon is ready for the mines

Robhim animal companion

Robhim almost misses the train to the mines while he communes with nature.

Lukas: Grass, Vine, what'll be next, Root, Weed, Kudzu or Bush?

Brennel scalping tickets

After informing the Harpell School of Wizardry of the assistance needed by the dwarves, Simon and Brennel headed back to Stout's Inn. Not long after leaving Scarletstone, a messenger delivered a note from Roscoe to Brennel, asking if Brennel could see him.

Roscoe offered Brennel a chance to scalp some phony invitations to the upcoming gala. Brennel thought a moment before accepting 10 invitations.

He spent time scalping 4 invitations: one at Stout's Inn, two at the Gilded Blade, and one to the owner of the Sharp Edge. With the remaining invitations, he contructed a fake advertisement sign at a local inn offering the patrons to "Please Take One". Returning to the inn the next day, the invitations were all gone. Brennel pondered if he should have saved a couple invitations for the party. (The scalping isn't common party knowledge.)

At the Mines

After defeating the cokraken the party discovers that the "doors" seem to have no hinges, or even a hint of an opening. It is as though they are false doors(not confirmed) carved from a solid wall of adamantine. The dwarves intend to either breach the wall or dig under it. Ruha believes this to be the entrance to a maze encountered adventurers on earlier quests invoving the rings of power.

DM note: The Magic Mouth that spoke at the door was in Abyssal.

Back in the city

Watch members have to guard the gala

Lukas Turns out I've been given an invitation to the upcoming Gala. I'm glad I was issued clothes worthy of the event. I've got a bad feeling though. Just a nagging little gut feeling that something will happen there, for good or ill.

Simon: Ahh... High Society. I look forward to ze affair even though I shall be working. I must acquire some new attire, and zis "uniform"... blech!...it fits like a burlap sack! (Simon shudders at the irony) I must get it tailored. If any of you plan on crashing ze event, I shall certainly look ze other way. However, I am not so sure Timmie will be so savvy. Disguises may be in order. Besides it would be kind of you to provide me with plausible deniability.

Brennel and Roscoe's conversation

At Stout's Inn, Roscoe took Brennel aside and had a conversation in Halfling. Afterwards, Brennel informed the party that Roscoe heard of a halfling accompanied by an orc, who were looking for Simon and claiming to be friends of his. He also said they claimed to be looking for him for over a week. Simon claimed not to know either of these people.

Talking with Ruha

Lukas: Finally! Some actual information on the devil elves. They sound like tough SOBs if you don't know much about them. At least we know something more than we did before. Unfortunately it is very disconcerting to find out that devil elves can alter their appearance to "blend in". So there very well could be devil elves among the watch and the nobility. Crap. At least Ruha likes us. I wouldn't want to be on her bad side.

Brennel: I don't think Ruha likes us. I think she's just merely repaying us for setting her soul free. But I like her. She really knows how to show some flair (flare).

Simon: Oui, it is bon to finally get some good information, mon ami. Although aside from ze history of zis island, she told us little we had not already surmised. It frightens me to know zat Ruha's sorcerous powers come from an ancestry of djinn. It is my theory zat ze devil elves wanted to use her soul as either a component for a spell or to power some other great magic. Any soul would be a powerful component, but to require such a potent genealogy... surely we are dealing with powers far beyond our own. Alas, one step at a time, oui?

Simon Says, er, has friends looking for him

Brennel: Sneak Attack!