Abridged (WIP)
- gang takes a short rest in the cave
- Ysgarlad takes Korgar’s Greatclub
- Ysgarlad punches the collapsed rocks, to no avail
- provokes liri into using her transform skill, Liri transforms into a mouse
- the gang hears cackling coming from deeper in the cave
- they decide to walk down the path leading deeper into Gloomstone Cavern
- as they keep walking they hear the cackling get louder and louder
- they come to a fork in the path
- the left fork leads upwards, has light, has water trickling down
- the right path leads further downwards, darker, can hear the cackling coming from the right path
- gang decides to head down the right path, Liri transforms back out of mouse form due to the intense smell of blood coming from the path
- they arrive at another opening, the cackling loud, and two more voices
- They see Mother, Mother’s Servant and Amara who is being tortured by Mother’s Servant “meat for mother”
- they are spotted by Amara, who pleads them to help with her eyes, and warns them about Mother
- gang devises a plan
- Woo and Brogan will sneak around Mother and assassinate Mother’s Servant
- Ysgarlad throws Liri in rat form, who hits the wall, distracting the servant as he looks to nab the rodent
- they manage to sneak past and kill the servant successfully, using Orson’s Shortswords
- Mother is demanding more food
- Brogan fails to catch the servant’s head before it hits the ground, causing Mother to look in their direction
- Woo successfully deceives Mother by imitating the servant
- Amara starts panicking as they do this, Brogan manages to calm her down before cutting her free
- she collapses
- Brogan gives her a piggy back as they start to sneak back past Mother
- they get midway past mother before Brogan slips on a rock
- he manages to catch himself, but Amara lets out a yelp, causing Mother to become wary again
- Mother demands more food, trying to work out what is infront of them, she thinks its Korgar
- Woo manages to deceive Mother yet again, this time by imitating Korgar, telling Mother she will have more meat soon
- just as they get back to the entrance to the lair, the gang bolt
- as they run away they hear Mother running rampant, confused as to what has been going on
- they run all the way back to the fork, and head up the left fork before stopping
- they get to the hidden waterfall entrance, where Amara is put down to rest
- Liri transforms into a bird to work out where Rorkard is
- Woo washes Amara’s wounds with water from the waterfall
- Ysgarlad starts talking to Amara to work out what happened
- discovers that Amara is an adventurer from the Bay of Groves
- she got tricked by Kiara in the exact same way that the gang did, however she knows nothing of Lunette Emberfall
- explains that her entire party was killed and eaten, but they kept her alive and ate her flesh
- she doesn’t know for how long
- Liri comes back and says she found the way to Rorkard
- gang follows Liri
- in the forest they get ambushed by a group of Bugbears
- they throw javelins and arrows, but the gang manages to successfully avoid any damage
- just as combat is about to start, Liri flies in, glowing purple, and screams at the monsters to leave her friends alone
- the monsters eyes go from glowing red to glowing purple, and they turn around and scatter into the forest
- Liri falls unconscious as the gang is confused to what just happened
- gang makes it back to Rorkard, quickly seek out a healer to help Amara
- they head to Spirit Reader Shanya’s
- Shanya agrees to help, on the condition that Liri stays outside
- Ysgarlad heads outside with Liri
- Shanya gets Woo to aid her in healing Amara
- asks Brogan to leave as they undress Amara
- they heal for a while, in the meantime Ysgarlad and Brogan are worried about Liri
- Brogan concludes there is nothing wrong
- Liri starts snoring faintly
- Woo tells the gang that Amara is stable, and takes care of Liri while Brogan and Ysgarlad go inside to talk to Amara
- Ysgarlad and Amara talk more about Kiara, amara says she is too weak to even wield a sword at the moment
- Ysgarlad swears to Amara that they will find and get their revenge on Kiara
- Amara stays with Shanya for the evening
- The gang heads back to the Rocky Refuge to look for kiara
- as they enter they recognise the back of a girl’s head, who is sitting far at the back of the inn by a window
- Sarmon walks over and stops them by the entrance
- Ysgarlad and Sarmon argue about the money that the gang owe him
- get into a heated argument
- Ysgarlad intimidates Sarmon and gets him to fuck off
- in the meanwhile the entire inn has turned to look at who was arguing
- the girl in the back was Kiara, she sees the gang, looks in shock, and jumps out the window
- Ysgarlad runs to the same window, and dives out, landing on his stomach and sliding in the mud
- Brogan and Woo exit the inn, to look for kiara aswell
- all of them see Kiara jump above ysgarlad across onto another nearby roof
- Kiara is hopping across the rooves of Rorkard
- Woo fires magic missiles at kiara
- the first one hits her shoulder, but she blocks the rest with a counterspell magic shield
- Ysgarlad pulls himself onto the roof, and starts jumping after kiara - he screams her name
- by this point she has disappeared off of the rooves into the back alley of Rorkard
- Brogan runs to where they last saw her
- Woo heads back inside the inn with Liri and starts talking to Gaffot
- Brogan and Ysgarlad arrive at the same spot, Ysgarlad jumps off of the roof into the alleyways
- they follow the droplets of blood from Kiara’s shoulder, until they reach a storm drain
- the blood heads into the drain
- they decide to head back to the inn
- the gang discusses with Sarmon about Kiara’s antics
- he says he had no idea
- tells the gang that Kiara pays him patronage, so he never suspected much
- he remembers seeing her sidling up to travellers whenever they got to Rorkard
- he never saw the same travellers twice
- they speak about Orson Emberfall
- Sarmon tells the gang that Mirabel Emberfall, Orson’s wife lives down by the entrance on the right side of the river
- sarmon agrees to extend the time on their debt while they are dealing with kiara
- they pay to stay at the inn, 5 gold each
- Ysgarlad plans to meet Mirabel Emberfall in the morning
- Woo plans to send a message to Post Mortem about the supposed Rorkard thieves guild in the morning
Our story continues in Chapter 7 - Morgrith’s Final Banquet…