October 14

Group interrogates Jarvis and Bianca Demort → associates of Duncan Witherborn
- Woody casts Zone of Truth to keep them from telling lies
- They tell us Jolanna Felzum is the head of the Masquerade → cult
- They collect blackmail on people in the town
- They own a brothel → The Silken Singlet
 
Guards show up lead by Lareece
- Lareece tells Maisie she will take the 2 into custody and asks for her help with another investigation
- This is a private matter TOP SECRET
- Helmet worn by founder of Coldhaven was stolen from Emerald Keep
- This is seen as a symbol of the Marcounts authority used in ceremonies and important meetings
 
Lareece tags along with us to the final place of interest from the note.
- Maisie is suspicious about Lareece’s intentions
- Lareece listening to us talk about the information we have gathered, tells us the Erish Campaign happened in the Winterwolf Mountains
 
ARRIVE at Omar Sevilles House
It is a very pretentious looking house
Maisie pulls bell at the gate and Omar comes out to see who it was → sends servant out to bring us in
Inside
House is full of artwork
There is a missing painting → thin outline where painting was hung for a long period
Told guards and been waiting for response
Painting → Helmfast’s reckoning on the snowcapped peaks
Lucreaous Tombness (i think this was the artist?)
Depicts Helmfast slaying rat beast
Helmfast is founder of Coldhaven
Omar noticed a cat (black with white spot) in his house and when he shooed it out and came back the painting was gone.
Gabe finds a Mordric coin under the carpet
Woody interrogates the staff
 
Lareece gets a carriage to take us back to the keep to investigate the stolen helm. → Maisie goes off on her own to talk to Lucia
The crew walks through caverns with images of Coldhaven history on the walls
Woody sees one that has Kempur and Lewyln fighting demons back to back
Gabe finds another Mordric coin at the crime scene
Darmey finds a hidden door while inspecting the walls
There is another coin
Woody uses his Divine Sense and sees nothing beyond the door
Lareece has a faint glow on her (as do Woodys elf friends and gabe)
The group goes through the door.
Path splits and Darion leads us down the most traveled path he can see.
While walking, Darions foot catches on a small porcelain rat statue of a rat half buried in the ground
Feels heavier than it should be
Something chunky can be heard rattling inside
Found gold bar worth 250GP
Tunnel leads out to driftwood row
Darmek gets the feeling no one has used this path in awhile
LONG REST
24rd of Hazeltide in year 1318 (moon ?) - Lunasdae
 
Darion and Woody go to Kempur’s temple everyone else goes to Nightbreeze and Associates
 
Everyone meets up at the temple
Darmek attempts to find the helm using Locate Object
Woody Blesses him
Helm pings southwest and underground
Leads us to a heavy industrial part of Coldhaven
Gabe goes out into town
 
Group arrives at Griss Mill
Woody knocks → no answer
Maisie picks the locks and Woody attempts to open the doors
Mysterious man appears behind Woody and puts his hand on his shoulder to stop him
Tells us not to go in because it will “lead to our deaths”
He introduces himself as Ben Brogan a handsome thief who stole all the objects we had investigated
Ben tells us the rat ogre is in the mill (HUGE rat)
Chief of one of the rat clans (Scaberous) is in the mill and very dangerous
Pigeon from Gabe flies by with the Potion of Unguent Timelessness
 
Group walks into the Mill
Darion and Maisie find ground up bone
We go down stairs where Darmek last felt the helm ping
Woody tests barn door and gets burned
Maisie finds a ward of burning hands
Ben turns off all traps and investigates ahead with cat familiar (black with white spot
 
COMBAT!!
Woody jumps across the Mill mechanisms by jumping off his horse Esroh (Mid jump, VERY COOL lol) and puts down the rat ogre with a Divine Smite
Ogre does a NAT 20 saving throw and pops up knocking woody down
We beat them but a cultist and the chief escape through a hole with the helm
Darion unguents the rat ogre
 
After Combat
Darion follows throught the hole and catches the nightfang cultist but not the chief
Nightfang surrenders
Continues further in the tunnel and finds room full of bones and finds things collected by flimflam and the helm
Also treasure?