Session 1: Make contact with Bhjurba's Den

Using his fist like a hammer, Magnus breaks the lock with a loud CRACK. Wood is no match for a determined adventurer! The heavy silence returns to the destroyed room, and Magnus pulls the drawer open. Inside the locked drawer is a locket and what looks like a journal or diary. The three of you crowed around as Leilara flips through the pages.

From what you can gather, Caulder was a very good chemist that often explored outside of Bhjurba's Den to look for special herbs. Though it's a diary, it's mostly about his work. He has detailed his discovery of a few ruins, caves, and rock formations. However, Caulder's notes begin to focus on a particular cave he dubbed the "Singing Cave".

After visiting the Singing Cave his notes about work become very short and vague, but every so often he'd write pages detailing every single aspect of the cave. He recorded plants, minerals, wildlife... Was he looking for something or was he just bored?

Caulder often mentioned a strange humming or murmuring sound inside the cave. What started as a "slight sound" had evolved into "gibbering" and then finally into "speaking" near the middle of the journal. His penmanship also began to suffer, and each turn of the page brought more ecstatic descriptions of the cave. Until finally, you come across and single phrase scrawled over two pages.

I FOUND IT

Followed by a few pages of repeated phrases. "Must test", "Safe underground", "Blinding light", and "Dungeon in my mind in my dungeon". Eventually the scrawling becomes too hard to read, and the last few pages are just torn paper and spilled ink.

The locket isn't anything fancy, but it must have meant something to Caulder. Inside is a picture an old picture of a pretty half-elf woman with dark hair, and a phrase etched in elvish.

The party earns 300 XP for discovering a lead to a quest that has irrevocable consequences! Hooray!