"These townspeople stare allot" I mumble to myself over a tankard of ale. I’m not sure if it was me or the teifling that they were gawping at the most but it wasn’t helping my mood at all. After helping myself to the roast boar provided by the innkeeper I noticed Tanyth leave us to it and go up to her room. I’d have thought that she was used to the staring by now.
A scream is heard outside. Everyone quickly rushes to the door to find a woman carrying a girl from her home, crying “Can’t someone help me. Abbie won’t wake up.”The party mage Albertus takes a look at the child; the veins near its eyes taught and stretched with an unwholesome colour. “Dark magic!” he announces.This first mother is soon joined in a chorus of parents whose children have the same symptoms. They cry of a curse put upon them.
More people arrive and blame if firmly put upon the recently abandoned mine as the source of this foul magic. We offer our services to investigate and after much criticizing from the townspeople it is agree that we would be awarded 100gp. The town elder takes us to his home and tells us that four miners disappeared recently and no one is willing to find out what happened.
The local wizard seems uninterested in finding the cause. The only other issue of note is the wagon that turned up on the edge of town a couple of days ago.We start with the wagon and the human woman Ululume knocks the door and lies blatantly to the occupant that she wants her future read. After some minutes there is a mighty explosion and the occupants are thrown from the cart; the spell didn’t go well it seems. She did learn that the Waggoner warned the townspeople of ill visions he had had but they went unheeded.
Next we see the local wizard who refuses to investigate the recent troubles without payment. I’m surprised the locals put up with such a mercenary in their midst. Should he require my help in the future I will have to think long and hard on my answer.We hire a coach to take us to the mine and the quest is off to a bad start. The elf woman Aeilbeth climbs down her rope, followed by Ululume; Tanyth however falls right down the 50’ shaft. “That has got to hurt” I think to myself, looking down into the darkness. I’m extra careful about my climbing but the wooden beam holding the rope breaks and I fall the same way; to top it all the beam lands on me at the bottom. I was right it did indeed hurt… a lot.
Our luck changes and we find a working oil lamp. With me leading the way we travel down the wide mine tunnel and soon find ourselves entering a cavern. Four creatures are sitting at a table with candlelight distracting them from our lamp. They seem intent on a dice game so Aeilbeth and I spread out ready; Ululume isn’t as patient and charges forward skewering one of them dead before the realize she is there. Tanyth blasts with her dark powers. Aeilbeth kills two quickly. The last runs away shouting alarm as another two run into the candlelight. I swing about with my glaive but this small creatures are agile than they seem and I do nothing to aid the battle. To my shame the women finish the last two off and in the silence that follows distant drums begin to sound…
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