Scene 3 - The Ardeyn Run

Why don't we get search checks and The Strange checks from those of you so inclined?

Their names are irrelevant, but their story catches your ears nonetheless.

The Queen, the old one not the proper one, chased through here. She was alone, but well armed, and in Royal qephilim armor. She spent the evening with their band of Black Moon Explorers. When she found out about the strange device Lucious had grabbed from the Pyramid, well she got very irate and queenly. There was an argument, then she drew her blade, and Lucious activated the thing, shooting her with it like a weapon. She turned all black and shiny, but survived somehow and ran off. The man gestures, pointing north. "That away."

"Well, we and the boys didn't like that much. We struggled with Lucious but he got the drop in us, threatened to take us all out. He backed off then grabbed all the talbuks and rode off toward Mount Merid. We looked for her a bit, but only found signs of that sirrush, so we came back and camped here and then that thing attacked."

He bows lightly to you all. "We owe you our lives."

Vinny gets a nat 20. He finds tracks of the sirrush, that lead him back to its nearby but cleverly hidden lair. Do you dare enter it?

The path of prints leads too a small cave, cleverly hidden. Within, you smell the warren of a predator along with something else, root and disease.

The nest is small, tight, and the huge lizard had to squeeze and scrape inside, leaving small scales and that black ichor on the rocks.

Inside, you find stacks of crates of food, jugs of wine and mead, and numerous baubles including 53 coins (crowns). Three items that draw the eye are: a piece of leather with a burned in rune; a circlet with a red gem; and a lance carved with runes naming the Seven Incarnations of Ardeyn.

Is Micah using the Twist: Understanding?

Micah's use of the Twist makes identifying the cypher automatic. (+1 xp)

Vinny ids the Circlet (+1 xp)