Chapter 3: The Search for the Stone

Plot points/Scenes

The group began by searching for clues as to the identity of the Aouli who was killed outside their tavern. They traveled to the guard station where they reunited with Knuckles McGruff , recently released from prison a changed man, and talked with some of the other eyewitnesses and discovered that two other people were involved with the explosion. Someone else was chasing the Aouli and took something from his body after he died and limped away. In addition a puppet of some kind, sitting on the rooftops, threw a bead of fireball which caused the explosion.
The group followed these leads and visited the temple of Sankal , the god of creation. There they met Nym who was a Nimblewright, a mechanical construct who lived at the temple. Nym had tried to create a friend and built a new nimblewright but it had escaped.
Back at the tavern they met a young Aouli named Lani who was friend of the Aouli killed in the explosion. She mentioned that he was a courier for Lord thomas Neverkeep an impoverish lord and grandson to the previous duke of Rivenlock . The group decided to pay Neverkeep a visit.
He told them how the Crocodile Posse and other factions within the city were searching for a mysterious stone that held the location and key to a vast vault his grandfather created. His grandfather had brought shame to his family by embezzling vast sums of gold and hiding it away. He mentioned that his sources say that their had been strange activity around the Grenhal villa and that it was rumored that a limping and charred man entered there earlier today.
The party investigated and found the Grenhal family who claimed to have been held hostage but their story didn't add up. Eventually they got to the truth and found that Lady Grenhal had been working with the Crocs to get the stone as she was trying to gain favor with the Cassleanter family who were behind everything. They realized that she had taken the nimblewright and sent it with the stone to the Casselanter mausoleum. They raced there too late. At the Mausoleum they found the bodies of three cultists with one survivor. She told the party how they had been betrayed and the rest of the cultist took the stones to their hideout at on old mill. She showed them where to go and the group arrived in time to see three devils taking a package from the cultists and flee over the rooftops towards the Casselanter estate. The group quickly dispatched of the cultist and raced to the estate. Finding that thinking and caution were getting them nowhere fast they broke into the estate and began searching. They were met by a group of guards and Lord Casselanter himself who proved to be a strong magic user. In the end the group was captured and surrendered to the guards.
Diaz meanwhile had been searching for members to help start a fencing school. He learned of the pary's goal to confront the the Casselanters and began to worry when they never returned...

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Parent Plot

The Adventures of Bosh, Diaz, and Ka'uhane