IronFort: CavesAndCrawlers002

Fire in a Bottle

: Part of this adventure is taken from [Dungeon] xx and this write up will contain spoilers, if your referee is likely to run adventures from Dungeon please read no further.

: There is a celebration held for MrYoung and AelfricSmithson after there defeat of the monster.

: The inn keepers son GeveryChambertain asks to join the group. Because of his injures AelfricSmithson stays in FoglyOnSea to recover.

: MrYoung and GeveryChambertain after acquiring some supplies and a hunting dog set off after the halfling merchant, GrubbyQuickeyes.

: They track him north though a pass in some hill where they come across a large lion watching the path, after they have past he roars and then follows.

: The continues and then are attack by three more lions and a manticore. GeveryChambertain kills a lion and badly hurts the manticore whilst being badly hurt himself. The lions make a run for it.

: The manticore returns to it's perch and pays the group off to leave it alone.

: In the bounty is a gold vase which contains an entry that tries to get out, they wait until the evening and then let it out.

: The bottle contains the efreti LordStarLight, he offers a boon if they will sware loyalty to the FirePrince. The both do {MrYoung gains an AMP, GeveryChambertain gains a FireyCleaver?}

: They next day they continue to the next town on the coast, LastPortByMyrr. They find that the halfling has been there but left very early in the morning. AelfricSmithson throws an impromptu 'brunch party' for the local halfling community. The local Magistrate, JusticeTarbis, arrives and tells them to stop disturbing the peace. It seams that he and his two body guards have some form of power. The magistrate is bought off with a find bottle of mead.

: The pair then track GrubbyQuickeyes and discover that he has attempted to leave a confusing trail. After spending 3 hours they find that he has double backed and gone someway up a stream. With the dog they follow his now much reduced sense into MyrrWood. It seams like that the wood is attempting to threaten the party. As they have gone about 500m into the wood it starts to get very dark and foreboding. A figure of an old man forms from the ground and asks why servants of fire are entering the wood. They say that are follow a thief. The man tells them to leave and he will investigate the halfling.

: They leave MyrrWood and after a while GrubbyQuickeyes comes running out of the forest trified. He see his trackers and attacks them. His arm is cut off my GeveryChambertain and the thrown into the wood. {This arm is gathered by something} GrubbyQuickeyes surrenders and then tells a sop story about being press ganged by the Orks. The party desiced to take him back to FoglyOnSea for trial.

: The group then scout around town LastPortByMyrr and head back across the pass to FoglyOnSea. That night TheArmie, a strange abomination made up like an annenamuy with arms, which has follow the group, attack them. They distract it with there evening food and run off into the night.