11 Horisal 835

Early morning of Horisal 11, in the Jolly Dwarf Inn, Amadi and 24601 are approached by Elro Aldataur, the community leader of Raska, a small village between Raska Lake and the Lucidian Ocean.

“Your friend Esteban has highly recommended you two as capable go-getters hungry for coin. I’m Elro Aldataur, the community leader of Raska. I’m afraid my village is in great danger and I need help. It seems a disease or curse is affecting some of us, and I’m afraid it could spread.”

Seivarden, sitting in the same inn, couldn’t help but overhear this conversation and showed his interest. The 3 men are hired by Elro to find out what is infecting his citizens: Urgon died yesterday, and turned into a wooden statue, and another Dwarf called Tulgi Lutan is also showing signs of this disease or curse, whatever it is.

Elro takes the 3 to the funeral of Urgon, where they find Theraerys, sobbing at a wooden statue of a Dwarf. Theraerys says a prayer for his friend, and before the body is lowered into the grave, the statue is investigated with little result. This isn’t any magical or natural disease our heroes have ever seen before.

The decision is quickly made to visit Tulgi at her cabin. They find an unfriendly welcome at a locked door, but by naming Urgon’s name and the disease, Amadi can persuade her to let them in. They find out that she came to Raska a few years ago with her sister Hulil, sent by the Myriad to keep an eye out for Ki’Nau relics. When Urgon came back from Urukayxl and sold his treasure to Verla Pelc, she saw her chance and burgled the place. She gave everything to her sister but kept a dagger, which she reluctantly gives to Amadi.

Next stop: Pelc’s Curiosities, where they hear suspicious activity inside. Seivarden sneakily looks inside and sees 5 hooded Elfs ransacking the place. Combat ensues, which they win with 3 bandits ending up in chains. After the bandits are questioned, they are stripped naked and set free. They give the following information: they were sent here by Hulil to search for any potions or scrolls or other magical means of healing, as she’s infected with a strange disease. Hulil is hold up at a cave to the south, called the Sticky Cave. The lifeless wooden statue of an Elven women is found in the back room of the store.

The group searches Urgon’s (ransacked) cabin where they find a receipt of the items he sold to Verla, as well as a silvered maul and suit of splint armor. They also find tracks leading to Tulgi’s cabin: she searched the place last night hoping to find any information about the disease or curse which now infects her.

Tired and spent after the battle in Pelc’s Curiosities, our heroes decide to spend the rest of the day in the Jolly Dwarf before they head out to the Sticky Cave tomorrow. Inside the inn Seivarden has a good conversation with Esteban where he shares some of the details about his order and blessing, putting the distrustful Amadi (at least somewhat) at ease.