Episode 1: The Salvaged Job

You spend the quiet evening by the comfort of a warm fire. The hot meal drives away the cold of the nearby tomb, and settling into your bedrolls you are afforded a few silent moments of reflection from prior events. The horses and Maribel are fed and secure in their tethers.

Some of you spend some time inspecting the items you've collected from the sepulcher. Kalis discovers that the sharpened rod of wrought iron with ivory marble recovered is a Wand of the War Mage +1, and the robe is a Robe of Protection. Daniel finds that he holds a magical Dagger +1. Maenor realizes that the cloak is a Leaden Cloak. As for the sword, he understands that it is a magical blade with a heightened affinity for elves. The longsword makes him rather uncomfortable to be around it, but there's no intelligence behind the hatred, rather a strong aura surrounds the edge that makes Maenor's elvish blood cringe.

Eventually, sleep takes you as the outside chill is kept at bay.

You take turns on watch, and each of you notice that the white-haired goblin doesn't sleep. It maintains its own watch along with you, stoking the fire and observing the surroundings in quiet meditation. It does not talk, and gently shushes any of your attempts at conversation as it insists you all get your rest.

The white-haired goblin stirs a light stew of leftover game and tubers. "Eat. When you are ready, I will take you to the lair of the dog-men. I know of a secret entrance that connects to their underground home. It lies in the desert, perhaps a day's travel from here."

"I do not know anything about the tomb, save that it was home to an unseemly and dark entity," says the white-haired goblin. "The tomb itself was already ancient when I learned of its location many seasons ago.

"If you wish to go back and return whatever you have found, it is your decision. If you wish me to accompany you, I can."

The white-haired goblin opts to remain at the camp with your horses and waits for your return.

Travel through the tomb is uneventful given that you had cleared many rooms of the undead. The wight's armor of broken leathers still remains, though the ashes of the creature itself appear to have been scattered or blended into the general dust of time.

Kalis doesn't see anything out of the ordinary that hasn't already been discovered. It seems the only secret door was the one leading to the room with the four stone chests. He tries to make sense of Maerathol's words in their brief conversations, and surmises a hypothesis that it was one of the four brothers from the story depicted in carvings. He has little to base this on and can only rely on the assumption that since the being was ancient enough to have witnessed the internment of many in the tomb, it may have been the first. This hypothesis is buoyed by Maerathol's sarcophagus being located at the deepest point, likely in an attempt to seal it away as far as possible.

Coda is able to return the golden mask, balancing it up on the mummified corpse.