12. Exploding People Report

General Summary

13th Eyre, 998 YK, very early morning

• They take K'zzal back to the Clifftop Adventurer's Guild.
• They long rest, so it's no longer early morning.
• They get paid by Lhara for the bounty on K'zzal. She tells them she doesn't have anything suitable for them right now, but she'd get in touch when she did.
• The party make their way down to High Walls, where they are ambushed by a group of cultists. The cultists politely declare their intention to kidnap Terfel Glas and kill the others.
• The cultists are push overs, but it turns out they have a spicy secret. They sometimes explode???
• Even though the party manage to take a couple of them alive, only one actually survives after all the exploding.
• The survivor was a man named Zhare, who was approached by a skinless man and told to kidnap Terfel. Warden gave him some money and told him to go, and stay out of trouble.
• Terfel went and told Teral ir'Soras about the corpses and the damaged tents from all the explosions. He said he'd sort it.
• The party took the single intact corpse to the area where they've set up their tents. Warden examines the corpse, but is unable to work out what it is.
• Terfel has a chat with Daine about the kalashtar who saved him, Lakashtai. He shows the party a green crystal, which Lakashtai left at his bed side after awakening him.
• Kalshana feels pain and fear from the crystal, but no one else can.
• Daine tells them that he first met Lakashtai in a gambling house in Hareth's Folly named the King of Fire.
• Warden  starts talking about his "friends", confusing everyone. He says friends are all around, and demonstrates this as a rat approaches the party and then speaks common. ???
• "Your aid of Valerya Hooke was appreciated. If you need a favor from her new family, whisper it to the wind. We will find you." says the rat. How strange.
• They decide to go visit the kalashtar district. They go up into the upper city and ask for directions, and are told that the kalashtar community is in Overlook.
• They make their way there, and as they head north to where the kalashtar are supposed to be, Warden and Kalshana spot a black heron.

Rewards Granted

• 200 gp