Owls in the mist Report

General Summary

A little more than a day out of Utford, the Five Fingers rejoin the path through the Ravenwood. They are soon greeted with a fork in the road - left or right. Choosing the left fork takes them into an area of the Ravenwood where a battle had been fought at some point in history. A strange eeriness hung over the battlefield and remnants of bones and old weapons still jutted from the earth. But the dead remained quiet and the party passed through. With night closing in they happened upon Perrin Mishala, a sage studying the owls of the Ravenwood. He asks for silence as the party moves past so as to not disturb any giant owls that might be coming to his feeding station. This conversation proves educational to Thomas Marchant , who has never seen an owl of any size before and terrifying to Marble, who is now convinced he will be carried away by a giant owl at any time. The evening passes without Marble being carried away and by the middle of the next day the Five fingers arrive in Utford. The reception they receive there is a little frosty. It seems trust for adventurers is at an all time low in Utford as the town reeve, Conne, has disappeared in the company of some adventurers and not returned. He was originally seeking to locate a giant scoby that had escaped the cluthes od Edwas, owner of The Half Full Tankard. It appears the combination of wine yeast and Ut nuts may have produced some sort of monstrous creature. A party of adventurers arrived telling Conne they had seen the scoby up near The Undercrypt of Nyala the Lunatic and they would help him track it down. That was 3 days previous and, although Conne had not returned his eagle, a constant companion had - wounded. The townsfolk were very suspicious of further adventurers and feeling vulnerable without their reeve. Zuri Brawnanvil - the spiritual leader of the village challenged the party to go and find the reeve and so off they went! After another eerie day of mist, this time of the mundane variety, the Five fingers finally met some of the Owls of Ravenwood. Under the effects of a spell Alok Ravaralei was able to converse with the seemingly woke owls who granted the heroes safe passage to the Undercrypt.
Arriving at the crypt, hot on the trail of the Scooby, the Five Fingers find the crypt is unsealed and a recently killed and looted body lies without. Entering the crypt they find a dank, dark place with strange maddening symbols carved into the walls.
This is their first dungeon.
Travelling a short distance within the party is confronted by a collection of strange bobbing eyeballs that, for the moment, seem to be following them from a distance. They also encounter a poisoned door that is successfully disarmed before leaving them face-to-face with the first of the crypt’s occupants...