New Beginnings

We started our day just outside the explorers guild ready to embark on our journey. There has been a rash of burglaries as of late and a large number of items have been stolen form the town. We head inside to register our new group and meet our liaison David who issues us some gear and gives us our first task. To investigate the burglaries and recover the lost materials where possible. Tweet finds a partially collapsed hole in the back of the Guilds storeroom leading outside, where Rusty picked up the trail of an Aberration moving towards the Deep Road. We follow the trail which ends abruptly at the mouth of the Deep Road, looking for clues we scour the area and Jeremiah hears from a guard that one of the older guards used to speak of this spotted quadrupedal beast that used to dart in and out of the deep roads at night, Rusty recognizes this beast and says he saw something similar eating scrap metal on the outskirts of the grasslands. Knowing this Tweet using his bird knowledge uses ball bearings to lay a trail of "lead-crumbs" to hopefully lure it further away from the city. We hear a scratching behind but when we turn there is only a large hole in the road, and all the lead-crumbs leading up to it have been eaten. Fearing for his life Rusty leaps onto a pile of stones while Tweet cowers behind me. The beast erupts from the ground and nearly takes a bite out of Rusty, Jeremiah tries to calm the beast which works for a second but a rune branded onto its forehead ignites and sends it into a rage. We manage to defeat the beast where it begins to dissolve into a pile of ash before exploding into flames. We managed to find the lost items but everything made of metal had been chewed and destroyed, only the rations were recoverable which Kaden in an impressive feat of strength lifted the full crate of 300 days rations onto his shoulder and carried it all by himself back to the Explorers Guild. Impressed with our work David makes us full members of the guild, grants us some additional items and asks us where we intend to explore first. We settle on Xarnen and set off south-east to see and explore the melted city. -Session End-