Friends Departing: 9/9/00

I will sum up...
-We have all gathered together again in Devarnish at the request of Mrs. Dorne. Her son is our friend.
Emil Dorne is dead!
-Thon works at the Crystal Moon Inn.
Grunk runs a "locksmith shop".
-We all go to Mrs. Dorne's to "console" her. She shows us the equipment that was on Emil when he rode back in to town--half dead. (See file1 for contents of "equipment").
-Kire, our minstrel, read from Emil's journal.
-Kire next goes to the Temple of Tritherion, where Emil's funeral will be held, to "gather information"
-I digress. Before going to the temple, we agreed with Mrs. Dorne to investigate the circumstances of Emil's death.
-Back to the Temple. While Kire talks to the priest, Grunk irritates them by trying to steal the alms. Grunk is thrown out of the temple.
-Meanwhile, Thong unsuccessfully tries to arrange provisions for the funeral ceremony.
-Darien "collects" in the inn while the (?????) go shopping!
-Grunk, unbelievably goes back to the temple to sift for information. "I have ways." -Grunk
-Grunk takes the chalice from Emil Dorne to the Antiques Roadshow. Asks Leigh Keno if there are any people "out of town" -wink, wink
-Kire writes a song about the ???? of Emil Dorne.
-Night falls. Thankfully.

Next Day: The Funeral. Everyone buys various modes of transport. A funeral pyre is set in the middle of the temple.
-Guess what… They torch him.
-Thong hands out fortune cookies while Kire starts setting up a “benefit concert” for Mrs. Dorne.
-Grunk, unbelievably, goes up to “schmooze” the priest of Tritherion for support in our mission of vengeance. He gets put off till the next morning.
-Kire, Elia, and Thong discuss provisions for the benefit concert. Elia and Thong cook while Grunk and Kire perform.
-Provisions, horse and [unknown words] bought for our journey to THE HOLE.
-As we leave town, Kire almost gets bucked off his horse.
-Traveling South, we come upon the abandoned Inn that Emil discussed in his journal.
-First party name suggestion: The Shit Burners!!!
-We decide to spend the night in the Inn.
-As we explore the Inn, certain “difficulties” were had opening a certain door…
-Grunk finds a weak spot in the floor…and falls through. Then falls through the ground floor. Stupid Grunk. Now we have a smelly half-orc with us.
-Kire, Thong, and Darien go to the cellar to retrieve Grunk. While in the cellar, we discover the office of the proprietor, one Bola Kladish (we learned this from the ledger in the office).
-Opening a door in the office we set loose two undead innkeepers!!! -glass arrows After some initial setbacks, we used good teamwork to dispatch the stinky foes.
-We sleep.

DAY TWO
-We decide to take 3 casks and one bottle of 30 year old Iron Mead!!!
-Kire walks around in a daze while trying to discern if the Inn is magical. -And finds a faintly magical (abjuration) curtain! Kire puts it in the cart.
-Immediately after leaving the Inn, we came upon a fork in the road. Eldar the Paladin surmises from Emil’s journal that we should take the road to the East.
-We reach a copse of trees toward the end of the day.
-We camp.

DAY THREE
-Nothing happens.

DAY FOUR
-We reach a fork in the road and spend a great deal of time debating which way to go. After we take a vote, we decide to go South…
And find…
THE HOLE…