Session 7 24-26/5/4726 AR RL 5

24/5/4726 AR Patrolling the log flume at night, fight and kill 3 hellhounds and a bugbear. Get striking shortsword.

26/5/4726 Deliver supplies to lumber camp, meet dwarf at Maunder bridge, camp attacked, kill 2 dwarves 2 hellhounds 6 giant rats. Attack Maunder castle, kill ooze and skeleton, defeated and flee. Surviving dwarves abandon the castle. 

Keshani Account 

1. Vesper/Keshani (Judith)

2. — 27/05/2026, 08:50

   Corporate Raiders Following our successful mission for Magaloy, we meet up with Klorte Hengus at the lumber mill and prepare to stake out the area of the flume where the attacks had occurred. We do not have long to wait – Lurok the Bugbear and three hellhounds arrive and are quickly dealt with. Klorte tells us that the Korvosa Consortium has been trying to buy up lumber interests in the area and we wonder if this might be related. Oloria seeks us out and asks us to deliver supplies to the Ingleholtz Lumber Camp, offering us 25gp for the task. The size of the payment makes us think we’re going to be walking into significant trouble… On the road we meet with Kotgar the Dwarf and his pet leopard. Grognar chats companiably with him and we hear that Kotgar works for the Korvosa Consortium to keep things safe. He adds that they have taken over the previously abandoned Maunder Castle and names their group as the Leadbetter Lads. We bid him farewell and continue on our way. At the Ingleholtz Lumber Camp we meet up with the foreman Jollibin Urtpel and note that many of his men are injured and the camp is damaged. We start to make plans to set an ambush for any attackers that evening, but Grognar notices we are being observed. The scout notices that his presence has been spotted and he calls in reinforcements. Two dwarves lead the attack: Hargrist, a priest of Asmodeus, and Omblin, the rogue who had been watching us. They are backed up by hellhounds and brimstone rats.
3. In the ensuing fight three of the loggers are killed but we are ultimately victorious, chasing down and killing Hargrist as he tries to flee. The grateful loggers pay us a bag of silver coins and present Keshani with a Bracelet of Dashing. With the supplies safely delivered to the camp, we turn our attention to Maunder Castle. In the undergrowth nearby we find the body of one of the loggers – the camp cook who had tried to escape and get help. Just outside Maunder Castle is a lean-to which seems to be the base for Kotgar and his leopard. The castle itself is small – little more than a tower and a courtyard. The entrance to the courtyard is barred by a portcullis so Keshani and Valeros easily scale the wall to enter. Although she had initially intended to search for the mechanism to open the portcullis, Keshani is distracted by a box wedged between the broken legs of a statue above what had been a fountain. She goes to investigate but the ooze creature living in the bowl of the fountain attacks her. Valeros tries to help but is attacked by a gargoyle that had detached itself from the structure above. The door of the tower opens and more enemies emerge: Kotgar and his leopard, and a dwarf necromancer with a group of skeletons. Grognar scales the walls to reinforce us while Kyra supports us by casting spells through the portcullis. The fight does not go in our favour… Despite the ooze, the leopard and the skeletons being defeated, and the gargoyle nearly shattered, all three of us bear serious injuries while the two dwarves are barely scratched. Relying on our agility we disengage, retreating back over the castle walls. The dwarves clearly had no illusions that they would be able to catch up with us on foot so we are able to make good our escape.
4. Returning later with reinforcements from Otari we find they have abandoned the castle. The box that so interested Keshani proves to contain the Deed to Maunder Castle and a valuable signet ring, as well as a magical Climbing Bolt. With the Deed in hand and the castle having been abandoned for some time, Valeros decides that it would make a good home base.