Session II: back under the Haunted house

General Summary

Big fight with alerted smugglers, led by Sanbalet, and the PCs won. Whimbrel, Zaria, and Grogu nearly died. One smuggler captured. The dishwasher captured earlier had escaped, though.
A sailboat was pulled up inside the lowest cave that led to the sea, so it was used to take all of the wounded, prisoner, and some of the recovered goods back to town.
Next morning (20th Patchwall), everyone took that same boat back to the house. The bodies were still where they had fallen, which seemed odd. These were buried at sea, while the remainder of the recovered goods were loaded into the boat.
A more careful search of the large cellar turned up a magic user's room (Sanbalet) and his books. In the room beyond the big cellar, they found a wine cellar (empty except for one bottle), which had an older, armored, body in it-- the late Sir Aramil Meliamne-- inhabited by swarms of rot grubs! His body was buried in the garden outside, and his arms kept for later return to his family.
Going upstairs, they scoured the ground floor, finding little but dust.
They sailed back to town for the night.

Report Date

10 Dec 2021

Primary Location

"Haunted" house

Secondary Location

Saltmarsh