Saralas: Session 25

26 Elesias

• We get the door open with a clever mage hand and we fight the guy. Resda wants to talk to him but Korag just kills him.
• Karthos as a bear pushes the door open. There's a bed and a desk. There is a glowing object emitting a color shifting light.
• There are crystal shards on the desk as well. Karthos investigates them and they look like volcanic glass and feel magical.
• The paper is a letter written in Duergar. Min reads it. "Brother, you will find me on the frozen ferry in Easthaven. From this new base the search for black ice continues. Long may our father reign over this dark land. Signed Dirth".
• The item under the sack is the lantern from the inn.
• Resda looks at the black ice and says "these are medicre specimens". Several of the pieces are ordinary glass, but three of the pieces are genuine black ice. It is malleable and incredibly strong and is resistant to magical attack. They hold spells, just like we found under the bed of the speaker in Caer Dineval.
• We take a little rest and Wodna shows up. She's been selling potions to the Duergar because she wanted them to kill the cultists. Resda says she is working on a way to kill the cultists. Wodna produces an apple and offers one to Resda, who accepts.
• Karthos makes the seeds in her apple grow, she is annoyed at him.
• Resda seems fierce about wanting to kill the cultists. Wodna assumes she is stupid, and says "you kill them. with your weapons." Then she wanders off.
• I lower the bridge.
• We check the other door out of the main room. It's a mostly empty room with windows looking out over the stronghold entrance. THe next room in an armory. Not much here, no arrows. I decline to take a javelin.
• The tunnel leads to the bunker we saw outside. It is empty.
• Everyone is dead, we long rest uneventfully. The party votes to go after Garrett.
• Morning of the 27th
• We search around for likely climbing routes. Eventually we find two tents in the snow. There is a sled, and hitched to the sled are 5 dead sled dogs. They look like they froze to death.
• The tents contain some bedding, not much else. I don't find any notes or journals. Along with the sled dogs I find two small crates under the sled. It looks like one contained provisions that the dogs ate, the other contains enough rations to feed four people for three days. No sign of people.
• The terrain is treacherous and there is really only one logical way to go up. We see some goats and go past them.
• As we go there is an avalanche. We run as fast as we can to clear the avalanche. Lucky.
• Slightly further along the path we reach a steep snow covered incline covered in jagged rocks. Lying facedown in the snow is a humanoid in bloodstained cold weather gear. It's a dead man fitting the description of Garrett. He left a note saying that he held on as long as he could and he loves his husband. The final word on the note is yeti.
• We debate for a while, eventually concluding that we should bring him back to Targos if we can. While we're doing this, two huge crag cats jump out. We kill one and the other runs off.
• Also we forgot Resda exists for 2 hours.
• We find a cave. I sneak into the room to the north. The room is filled with bones. There is a bear corpse. The head of the bear has been stuffed into a niche in the wall. There is also the corpse of a dead goliath, and several dead goats. Niches in the wall hold 7 humanoid heads.
• While we are talking, a person appears in the passageway. They are laying on their back, their arms are outstretched up in the air. It's like an invisible thing is dragging them.
• The person is freezing cold and injured, but alive. It's a halfling woman. We decide to leave the cave to find a place to talk and find out what happened. Her name is Perilou Fishfinger. She was given as a toy to a yeti child that was playing with her, like a ball.