Adventure 2 Recap - Arrested

Our party Of intrepid heroes, Not able to believe their luck at getting back most of the treasure, find it about to get a whole lot worse. They are Surrounded by mounted town guard, and dragged off to Amberglen Gaol, charged with tomb robbing. They are then thrown in the cells for the night to await the arrival of an Elven emissary the next day. During the night K'Thraak tries his Lockpicking skills on the cell door, With a dagger. This proves to be unsuccessful, But not the worst thing to happen this night, As cookie Demonstrates with his unique singing voice. Having failed to escape, the party decides not to try again, and await the Elven Emissary Niverelle Pemira. He arrives the next day, and proceeds to question the party, cookie tries Unsuccessfully to Deny the accusations, Nearly landing the party in more trouble, But finally Jeanne convinces Niverelle Pemira that they have been Duped. Niverelle Pemira Then agrees to release the party on condition that they regain the Lost piece of jewellery From Caryn Boltan. The party reluctantly agrees, and sets forth.
Firstly the Party search his room, but it is impossibly clean, the only thing in it is a spare red robe. They then set off north, and after a brief discussion with Sindrel Tybar (H.E ranger, Near Amberglen), they head north. 2 Days of Successful Tracking later Aspen successfully leads them to a seemingly deserted House in the trees. But eagle Eyed (or Rat eyed) K'thraak spots snatches of light under the door and curtains.
The party split with K'thraak sneaking his way in through the back door, and successfuly killing a CHEF! Cookie follows on behind, whilst Jeanne and Aspen take the front door. The party successfuly clear the ground floor of four Enemies all wearing wooden Five petalled flower emblems. K'thraak Smells something burning from the floor above. Quickly heading up the party discover a Burnt journal, treasure, and a letter which somehow got missed

On entering one of the rooms, the party came face to face with Caryn Boltan, and after a viscious fight in which Aspen went down to Burning hands spell, Caryn Boltan finally Fell to The others. K'thraak Gained a magical ring, and an iron five petalled flower brooch, and the bloodied party made its way back to Amberglen. Having relayed the news back to Niverelle Pemira. the party learn the Location of Blackthorne Keep. 2 weeks north upriver through the Marsh, which supposedly is the home to Lizardmen. They also learn that Chill news is a group of Busy bodies in the kingdom, who paint signs on buildings demanding Freedom for some island or another, but its been a while since they've done anything, so it was assumed that whoever did the painting had just given up.
The Party Decide to buy Various mounts who naturally required hats! with Cookie buying a ten gallon, K'thraak a Fez, Jeanne a Fedora, Fortunately Aspen seemed to keep his sanity, and just bought barding. The Town children were however delighted at these funnily dressed horses, and the Crazy Horse Hat party of Adventurers as they will now be known in Amberglen were formed.