. Caves of Chaos

After a brief rest the adventurers decide it would be best to find the remaining slaves. They head back to the Horned Hold confident that they have grown enough to lay waste to what ever they face.
They try the same trick again to enter the complex, but it doesn’t work. They manage to storm the gate and attack the Orc guards, but one gets away. They kill the rest and rush into the complex. They find nothing, but stop at the bridge. Last time they had tried to cross they were attacked by animated crossbows. They cross carefully to find the door on the other side locked. Mathers teleports to the other side of the door and gets attacked. The rest of the group manages to smash the door down and a quick battle ensues. The Ogre that chased them out last time gets his come uppance and is dispatched quickly. They continue on to the Ogre’s sleeping quarters. They find dozens of crates stacked up against one door leading out of the chamber. The other door leads to battle with
Fight with Murlkemor


Karl gets thrown into fire.
Mathers goes for a walkabout.
Talk a long time about what to do next. Finally decide to go through door
Holy crap big tough guy and more guys,
Lots of pushing into pits.
Find the slaves. Try to get them to leave. We have a cleric down.
Have to run for the hills again. Back to Seven Pillared hall, take Panril to bar. Then take him to priest to get resurrected. Rest of group goes to sleep in Inn. Darkface hears noise outside the hall. Opens door to find group of Duergar and Duergar spell mage from the Horned Hold busting into the room beside theirs. Starts to attack. Yells across the hall to wake the Halflings.
Heads back into his room to waken Mathers. Gendar wakes grabs his staff, tells his dog to stay and wakes Rayrond up by slapping him with the staff. Rayrond dreams that he jumps up out of bed and immediately tosses a chair throught the window. He then wakes up and quietly gets ready to battle. They dispatch the duergar soldier quickly then finally get the mage.

Must clean up bodies, make reparations to the inn operators and guests, get Panril and figure out what to do next.


Brugg shows up in the inn to find out what all the noise is. He spits on one of the Duergar and says “Orontor wants to see you in an hour, take these bodies to the storeroom in the custom house.”
They do their best to clean up as a couple of the other patrons of the inn look on from the door ways of their rooms. Rayrond stays behind due to his many injuries as does the hyena.
The party meets Orontor in his office. He asks how their mission to find out what is happening with Paldemar is going. In response Gandor slams the severed head of the demonic gnoll Maldrick onto the desk then snarls “We have to go back to find the slaves, and then we will continue to find out what is going on with your mage buddy Paldemar, and if I find out that you have anything to do with Paldemar or the slave trade I am coming back here to get you.”
Orontor tells them that he has a secret to reveal to them. He is impressed with their work so far and trusts them enough to let them know that the other mages are basically on sabbatical with their various areas of research and will be gone indefinitely. He is hoping the rumours about Paldemar are false because he could use his help in running things at the Seven Pillared Hall. He reminds them that he will reward them handsomely for confirmation of Paldemars involvment in any illicit activity and he will have Brugg bring them something to help them on the next stage of their investigation. They take their leave and head back to the inn for some rest.
They wake up and head first to Gendar’s Curios and Relics. Gendar the drow with an eyepatch offers to trade them a set of good quality thieves’ tools, a wand +2 and a potion of healing. Then they visit The Deepgem company to replenish expendable weaponry and Gandor selects a very nice set of Hide Armour. They also leave Ulthand the old dward all of their gems. He will appraise them and provide them with their equivalent value in gold coin.
Next they head to The Temple of Hidden Light to retrieve Panril. He is chatting quietly with the priestess Phaledra, but is happy to see them. Then back to the inn for a very large breakfast. Erra Halfmoon seems to be in a bitter mood and doesn’t speak to them.
Brugg appears and tosses them a small leather bag. “Bring those back when you are done.” He growls.
Inside the bag are two golden medallions shaped to resemble tears.