I hope I'm not confusing things here, but I recently learned another part of the tale of the adventures of those fellows back in Parabor and I will here related it ...
You may remember they consisted of the following:
Vansee Muffiecats - the cleric
Fanny Bag - the halfling rogue
'Brian' - the dragonborn paladin
Steven - the wizard
Now they were joined by two others who had apparently been out of town when Elaria died. These were Dorgen Slowind, a dwarf and Morga Harrot, a teifling.
They were all old friends so together they set off to the nearby forest on the third leg of their quest. There were attacked by wolves on the way, but they soon saw them off.
Deep in the forest they came to the grave of a woman who had once been an old friend of Elaria and I'm ashamed to say I have forgotten the name of.
The grave was haunted by the lady's ghost and before giving her share of the tiles she insisted on testing all six of them.
Morga had to play her best tune, but sadly it wasn't good enough and she was punished with a ghostly touch. Vansee had to a short lecture on medicine and this impressed the ghost.
Next up, Brian had to tell a horror story, but she was not impressed.
Fanny had to not fall off a log, a task that she performed with consummate ease.
Steven had to do something magical but it did not impress the ghost lady and he was also
punished.
In the end though, on balance, she agreed they were who they said they were and handed over her portion of the vault tiles and they headed back to Parabor.
Once they had sorted themselves out they headed to the final location mentioned in Elaria's will, a set of caves in the mountains.
This turned out to be the lair of some kobolds and they were not accustomed to receiving visitors.
In the fighting that followed Steven managed to put three of them to sleep. When Brian went over to finish them off though he fell into a pit trap.
The others helped him out and they continued on their way. At the next cave they met a kobold shaman and again Steven put him to sleep before he could do much harm. Moving into the cave Dorgen was captured in a cage of bones and at the same time a giant spider dropped from the ceiling.
It shot some webs at Steven but was hit by a powerful Guiding Bolt fired by Vansee. Brain then moved in and used his flaming breath to finish it off. Brain then also killed off the sleeping shaman.
In this cave they found some coinage and the last of the vault tiles.
And so they returned to Parabor for the final time and used the tiles to open the vault of Elaria. The doors opened and they walked down into a stone chamber in which were three pedestals on which lay a sword, a chest and a journal with a pearl on it. At the back of the room was a large map.
As they walked towards the pedestals an image of Elaria appeared before them and said, 'If you are my students and you are down here, then I am probably dead. All is explained in the journal and on the map.'
She went on to tell them that her real name was Elaria Dawnforge and that she had changed it to escape from a band of necromancers. All her other companions had been killed off and she alone had escaped. As she went on a voice behind them said, 'Touching...'
Shocked they turned round to see none other than an aforementioned necromancer, by the name of Drazal Vibbin and four summoned skeletons.
Vansee attacked first and hit the necromancer with a Guiding Bolt. Brain breathed fire onto the skeletons. The others attacked. The fighting was one sided and the skeletons were quickly destroyed. Random blasts of energy hit people as the fighting went on, a rather hap hazard defence feature of the room.
Once the necromancer was also dispatched the heroes dusted themselves down and went to look at the journal...
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