D&D at the Games Tower

W ith one bandit remaining, the adventurers began to surround him.  Balderich leapt up to join the fray having been feigning unconsciousness.  Try as they might, they could not finish the bandit while he dodged around the cage, then attempted to escape.  They eventually battered him within an inch of his life.  He surrendered and begged for mercy.  Jarlier took the Tricorne hat from the bandit.  Meanwhile, Smiley took the other Tricorne hat from a dead bandit and investigated the unconscious heavily armoured fighter.  The fighter was Constable Harburk,  and Smiley successfully healed him after a few attempts.  Smiley also checked out the bandit's wagon, finding a wooden box with a piece of cheese on top and a mouse inside.  Feeding the mouse cheese, Smiley discovered that it would perform a trick.  He named the mouse Ratty. Following the battle, the party focused their attention on the creature in the cage.  Skonn was first to recognise it as an Owlbear.  Drowyn asked the captured

The party fought the Black Earth priest, Larrakh; except for Arnogal and Baphomet who stayed hidden in the shadows and Kilnaar who guarded the entrance to the chamber.  The priest proved a tricky opponent to hit but was eventually defeated, with Skonn cleaving the priest's leg clean off.  On his corpse the party found four shaped metal bars.  Drowyn recognised this as the distinctive currency as trade bars from the city of  Mirabar .  Skonn took the priest's glaive and Jarlier donned the priest's splint armour.  Finding nothing else of note the party left the cavern taking Baragustas with them. Chamber of the moving stones The tunnel exiting the caves led them to a quarry on the outskirts of Red Larch.  A sign reading "Mellikho Stone Works" marked the boundary of the quarry.    Baragustas had implicated  Mellikho  i n the murder of the travellers found in the caverns.  He also claimed she  was one of the town elders and a member of the Believers.   Ahead a