Chapter 4: Adventures in Blingdenstone

Everyone but Mai'ngor and Elfog head back to the main city, and are stopped at the guard post by Sark, the one who put the bounty on the Medusa, "How'd things go out there? Kill that stone-cold bitch?" he asks, then chuckles at his little joke.

Sark looks confused at the hostility for a moment, then realizes what you said. A hard look comes over his face, "Get a priest!" he shouts at one of the other guards, who immediately runs off to find someone to help.

Soliin and the runner soon return with a pair of priests. They nod politely, but waste no time, "Lead the way. The longer he is cursed, the harder it will be to reverse!"

The follow the group back to the Medusa's chamber and immediately begin setting up; Lighting candles, drawing rune circles around the petrified Tikbalang, and offering prayers to their gods. It takes a couple of hours of tense waiting, but eventually Mai'ngor stumbles forward and falls to his knees, gasping for air.

The priests takes shuddering breaths, "You were deep in the throes of the medusa's curse, but I've never heard of it being so hard to break... Something is wrong with the magic of the Underdark..."

Most of the things in here are rotted beyond real usefulness, but there are five of the silk dresses on the rack that appear to be in very good condition and may be worth a lot of money.

The party is led back to the meeting chamber, with the representatives of the varios factions still in attendance. As you enter, all heads turn to look at you, obviously in anticipation of the news you bring. Gurnik stands, "Well, how did it go? Is the stone cleansed?".

You can all sense some of the tension ease out of the room and they breathe a collective sigh of relief.

"Wonderful! You have greatly aided in the effort to take back control of Blingdenstone proper and we cannot thank you enough, Dorbo says gratefully, "Once this is over, we will ensure that you find your way back to the surface world. Now, if Sarith proves half as competent as we think him to be, he should be back soon with news of Entemoch's Boon. Now, you may take some time to rest up, we will have need of you soon, I am sure."

With that, you are led to a series of rooms in a quiet corner of the residential area of Blingdenstone.

Hunter is easily able to find Stool's lodging (Hint: She's sharing it with him by his request), and is able to learn that the Diggermattocks do indeed know the location of Neverlight Grove and will be happy to get him an escort back there when this is all done and over with.