Session 18: Into the Rose's Den Report

General Summary

Oolor 19: After the fight with the crazed Peryton the group skinned the creature. Most of the meat of the creature smells off, as if it was already spoiling. While examining the metallic map found before Flinair casts translate, enabling him to read the ancient dwarven letters running up the side of the map. It translates roughly as "Zen Dalin" (Zeen Day-line). Sven tells the group, rather cryptically, that it seems to be a dead dwarven hold, and a dead hold is a danger to the world. Not only that, but his family descends from the former residents of that hold, he believes.
Oolor 20: A couple of hours after noon the group spots two large wolves in the distance, seemingly headed straight for the group. As they near the party can see that they have the same bloodshot eyes as the peryton from the day before. Their witness hides beneath the wagon, guarded by his two mercenaries, as the party dispatches the dire wolves. While they are able to collect the pelts, these wolves also smell as if their meat has already soured somewhat. The group debates sending Rheihanna into the city, since she is unknown to the Yellow Roses (so far as they know).
Oolor 21: The group travels through the day, stopping a mile or two away from the city of Magera.
Oolor 22: Rheihanna and Hobar, both unknowns here, go in to meet D'Or. She has trouble believing who they are, having had many false leads and bad information come her way lately. When Hobar swears a god oath to the Morninglord she decides to trust them. She sends them out to bring the group in through a postern door on one of the wall towers (3rd tower east of the gate). She is waiting there for them, with another guard, and tells the group that she is glad to see them. They tell her a bit of their information while walking back to her home with her, where Borsino (the accountant informant) will be hidden. She bids them to do what they can to curtail the thieves' guild activities, as much as possible before the first court appearance.
Oolor 23: It is just after midnight on the morning of the 23rd. No one has slept, but there is work to be done. They find the safe house described by Borsino. Jarvis walks around both the larger main building and the smaller, long second building. He finds the windows dark but opaque, and doesn't se or hear anything obviously marking out the building's use. However, while circling he managed to trip over a rock and make a bit of noise. Jarvis suggests they assault the smaller building first, and the group agrees. First Jarvis checks the main door of the larger building, finding and disarming an alarm trap