Part 3: The Spider's Web

You all leave the druid's house and head north to a fork in the road. Following the road to the east there is a path that leads south to what looks like it may have been a shop at one point (6 on the map). It is not totally ruined yet, but you can see that the roof is collapsed in places. Across the street, to the north is a winding path, overgrown with brush and grass. At the end of the path you can see a tower, which you've been informed houses the dragon (7 on map).

As you head along the path to the east you reach an intersection going north and south. There are ruined buildings in either direction. Aoth knows that the cloaked figures seem to be staying in a house to the south. Following Aoth you pass a small building to your left, the walls are crumbling and the roof is beginning to sag, but you can see a faded sign out front with the symbol of a potion bottle on it. This is likely the shop that you were told about (9 on the map).

Kama sees nothing amiss outside of the building, and hears no sound at all from within.

The door opens with a loud creak and Kama steps inside to look around. This ruined shop is cluttered with sagging storage shelves and broken furniture. Shards of glass and pieces of pottery glint in the weeds and rubble next to rotted books and casks.

Kama, following Mirna's instructions, searches below the shelves, finding a secret compartment after a few minutes of looking. He opens the compartment to find a small jewelry case. Inside the case is a gold necklace with a fine emerald pendant (worth 200 gp).

The party heads back out and along the southern road. You pass a building with a wide chimney and rotted piles of firewood sitting outside. Kama, at least, is able to determine that it was a smithy in its day.

The road turns to the east and you make your way through the ruins of what was once a house that has collapsed partially into the street. Up ahead you can see a small farmhouse. This small farmhouse appears to be just another empty home at first glance. However, all the doors are shut and windows shuttered.

As you approach you hear a light clunk from inside and then the sound of something shushing the noisemaker, then it is suspiciously silent inside.

The door opens a crack and a young man peeks through and looks around to make sure you don't have any allies in hiding, then opens the door. "Is there something we can help you with?" he asks. Now that the door is open, you can see that his cloak is indeed fashioned to look like a dragon's wings when he opens his arms wide.