CLOSED! Rhun's Greyhawk OMEGA Game (ToEE)

[Dog Moon]

Deren looks around, eyes scanning the surrounding walls, nervousness apparent in his features. "I know they're around here somewhere," he murmurs quietly. "So uh since we all know this area, anyone of a slightly larger size want to lead?" he asks.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Zirat nods and takes the lead in the direction of the main commander quarters, spiked chain in one hand and potion of "magic weapon" in the other, ready to pure the blessing oil on his chain if necessary

 

[Rhun]

Proceeding slowly and vigilantly, you soon find your caution unnecessary. Apparently, this "Master" decide that discretion was the better part of valor and fled the dungeons beneath the moathouse. Of course, the fact that you slew or routes the majority of his forces may have something to do with his withdrawal.

Reaching the bandit's headquarters, you find a series of four linked, but now empty chambers. Everything that was once here is now gone. Deren spends some time looking at the floor, and can tell that the remaining bandits apparently took some horses and a cart, loaded them up, and left via a passageway that leads back up to the surface several hundred feet away from the moathouse proper. They have at least a six hour headstart on your group, and seem to have headed in a northeasterly direction.

The only thing of interest you find in the area is a tattered peice of parchment left on the floor. A hastily scribed note in the common tongue reads:

"Heroes of Hommlet:

You have made an enemy this day, the likes of which you have never seen. I shall be patient, and rain misery and torments upon your very souls before I release you, slowly, to the black despair of death. We shall see each other, very soon...

Lareth, Master of the Moathouse"

 

[Dog Moon]

Deren sighs. "Well, at least we don't have to fight anything today. They're too far ahead to catch up to," he says, "But should we follow their tracks?"

 

[Dichotomy]

"I think we should. If their carts are heavily-laden, they will move slower than we will. We may close the gap some. At any rate," Aeron says resolutely, "it would be better to meet this Lareth on terms of our choosing, rather than his."

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Ciaran nods. "Come, let us grab our steeds and ride out to meet him. Time will only give the coward a chance at growth."

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Zirat

But to where it leads?
Zirat asks no one in particular
I sense a trap.

 

[Rhun]

OOC: Your PCs all know that the closest place that Lareth could travel, besides to Hommlet, would be to the village of Nulb to the northeast. If they are using a laden wagon, you may be able to catch them on before they get there. The ruins of the Temple of Elemental Evil are also supposed to lay somewhere in the vicinity of Nulb.

 

[Dog Moon]

Deren thinks for a moment and then says, "I assume there's only two places they're going to: Nulb or the Temple. Either way, I don't think we should let them alert any others to our presence. If we need to go to Nulb to figure out where this Temple is, I would rather not have the chance of getting knifed in the back increased by this Lareth's warnings. I say we hurry up and attempt to catch them."

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Zirat nods in agreement.
I say chase and punish!