Session two - Nichodranas Rumble

Our day began with a druidic friend of drez, who casted a spell through which he summoned a portal to another place in a tree. quite a magic feat, i'll have to have him teach me that.
 
We stepped through the portal and blinked, before us was the blue paradise ocean near nichodranas.
We did a quick walk over the beach, which lifted our spirits after those damned goblin assasins.
Reaching the city, we quickly headed over to a bar, the withered bitch inn, the weathered bird inn, we're still not clear on what the crude sign says.
I naturally did a little performance to get some quick coin and put people in a good mood. I believe i saw Tallis up to her old tricks once again, as several patrons were missing some coin.
I spoke with some orcs, who apparently just made it to the city. i had scared them slightly with talk of the tremmors..
Some people were gambling, i joined the table and after raising the stakes won the game in one round. they were slightly suspicious.. but a hero does not have need for petty coin. i offered to give it all back and then some, for information about the tremmors.
Apparently the city has been sending tide priests to bless the land and sea, hoping for the quakes to stop.
 
Al'akir found information about a woman who kept ranting that her husband had disapperead.. apparently around the time the tremors started. she apparently wanted people to look into the disappearance and a nearby mine.
 
Cassius, Dormund and i headed into the city to look for a priest, hoping to get more information.
This is where we met father Ronan. he wanted us to do him a favour, to go to a mine and check in on some friends of his in the mountains. many poor people had not returned from a job assisting a prospector. apparently a new mining site was found, around the same time as the tremors started happening.
 
Al'Akir spoke to the woman, apparently, father Ronan was the man responsible for the many job offers.. he lied to us in our face, but we don't yet have evidence of this for the guards. he's on the shitlist.
 
We then spent the night at the Pickled turnip tavern, where im pretty sure Billy stole from Tallis.
Cassius used magic freely in a somewhat crowded bar.. he got many nasty looks. i spoke to him about his free use of magic, and cautioned him against the prejudice surrounding magic. he said he already knew.. but i should keep an eye nontheless.
 
Early in the morning, we headed to a man named Murice the dwarf, a man with many tales of islands, jungles and the sea. i asked him to be our guide into the jungle.. but the man was asking a LOT of cash for his services. I decided we were better off on our own, with our money safely in our pockets.
We headed into the jungle, which actually went quite quickly.
At night, we were ambushed by some four legged scaled creatures.. incedentilly.. i had just joked about large lizards with big fangs to Dormund.. i'll have to convince him im in fact not able to see the future.
 
We made it further through the jungle, and finally found the mine we were told to seek out..
 
Before we could investigate, we were spotted. i bluffed my way into the walled off camp, but did not have enough information to get us some safety in it.. we were ushered into the mine at boomstickpoint.
Three large openings, each warded by three arcane sigils. The first room we found ourselves into is where we found mining equipment and a note in some unknown elven texts. i casted a casual spell, allowing me to read the text. it spoke of the blood of the faithful to break the wards, a beacon, and the luxon.