Episode 6: All about those bones

Its been awhile for this story hasn't it. It only runs every other week, and we had several scheduling conflicts. This party pack is made up of:

Bucky, our friendly neighborhood Goblin of the fire-bombing persuasion

Wazboot, our steady Human cleric

Fallos, the outgoing Halfling swashbuckler

Splint'r, the rat-folk monk with whom we do not have a common language

Kajar, the Half-Elf summoner, along with his crazy looking eidelon

Ashryn, the scarred and stoic Elven fighter

After saving the town of Sandpoint from some dratted goblins we were sitting down in the local inn for some tasty food when the Sheriff arrives asking for our help in the graveyard, saying that Father Zantus thinks it's probably nothing but it is urgent. So we get back up, Splint'r looking quite sad at leaving the food, and follow the Sheriff.

As we're walking to our destination, the Sheriff strikes up a conversation, seeing how he doesn't recognize us beyond the events of today. Trying to get to know the strange heroes in town. So he asked what we were doing in Sandpoint, Ashryn responds with we are researching your government. He starts to look concerned, then asked where we're from so we clearly state we're from Cheliax*. He looks really uncomfortable and delicately asks if we were here on the Cheliaxian government's behalf. Fallos smooths things over explaining we're here to research their government to replace the Cheliaxian government when the time comes. He visibly relaxes at that and states that he was hoping that it was something seditious. Bucky responds with seditious? That sounds delicious!

He leads our party back to the new cathedral, then around the back side to the entry to the grave yard. There we find Father Zantus all flustered and stammering, talking about how there's noises coming from Father Tobin's tomb. Not being from this area, we ask who Father Tobin was. Father Zantus tells us that he was his predecessor, and passed away when the cathedral was burned to the ground, this is the new cathedral. So Father Zantus stays at the entrance to the graveyard and the Sheriff escorts us to where Father Tobin's tomb is since we wouldn't know.

Splint'r* gets Bucky's attention, then reaches over and touches one of the nearby grave stones and states "Boom Bad". Bucky, he just looks confused, so Ashryn says I believe Splint'r is saying blowing up tombs is bad. Bucky, he's still confused, but follows Splint'r up the little path to Father Tobin's tomb. Fallos follows along as well, and all 3 are being stealthy.

Only they're not stealthy. Not sure why Splint'r wasn't stealthy, but Fallos is too buzzed to stealth. Seeing these 3 diminutive souls trying to sneak up on the tomb, the Sheriff asks if this was normal for this group. Ashryn responds with she's not sure about Splint'r as she just met him, but the other two yes this is not a surprise.

Upon their arrival at the tomb and a little investigation they realize the door is slightly ajar and there are foot steps around the outside of the tomb, so they proceed up to the door to listen in. They don't hear much and can't see anything so Bucky starts to open one of the doors to discover a pair of skeletons.

However the two skeletons did not last long. As Bucky and Splint'r stood there bug eyed, Fallos tried (and failed) to attack, followed closely by Kajar's eidelon who completely demolishes both of the skeletons.

So the party goes into Father Tobin's tomb to investigate proper. No other creatures to be had, and Father Tobin's remains are missing. Splint'r goes around the small tomb studying the walls, then shakes his head. Someone finds a set of robes and Bucky realizes they're goblin necromancer robes.

We retreat back outside and inform the Sheriff that Father Tobin's remains are missing, then start tracking the footsteps. Those led us to the town wall, so Ashryn bends down and hoists Bucky up on top of the wall. As she's dealing with Fallos patting her and going me too me too, Bucky reports that he can't see where the footsteps are going. So she tells Bucky to come on back down. So what does he do? Take a flying leap at her. Luckily for him she caught him.

The Sheriff then thanks us for our help and states he'll send out town guard tomorrow to try to track the footsteps, and asks us to not share this news in town. We agreed that would be wise. He also asked if he needed us tomorrow he could call on us, so we told him we'll be at the Rusty Dragon Inn. After rejoining Father Zantus and informing him of what happened, we returned back to the Inn to find it was rather a bit later than we had realized. The food had been cleaned up and the tavern shut down, she was just clearing the last of the plates, so we went up to our rooms to rest for the night.

Unfortunately for Ashryn, memories of her past decided to invade her sleep.

And that's where we left this crew, Ashryn having a nightmare while Splint'r meditates and the rest of the group sleeps.

* Cheliax is an evil government. Not just oppressive, they literally have deals with demons and devils and worship evil things.

* Splint'r speaks a few languages, as do most of us, however there's no overlapping language and Splint'r doesn't speak the common tongue. There will be much miming in the future.