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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9535721" data-attributes="member: 7045072">The party's plans were complicated after the ancient lighthouse they had been exploring was set aflame in the night. Exploring it some days later they discovered that the tower had apparently been burned clean, presumably by local owl worshipping cultists enraged by the party's killing the monstrous "Death Owls" within. The shrine below appeared undamaged, though the smugglers who had a landing and storage spot in a nearby sea cave were gone.  Several dead owl cultists, torn and bitten were scattered around the entrance of the shrine however. Entering the shrine after making appropriate offers to its patron the Drowned Emperor (Imperial Saint of nautical disaster) the party moved quickly through the shrine, but was interrupted by a group of owl cultists entering behind them.  The angry hoots and cryptic pronouncements did not scare the party who using a pair of intimidating spells managed to cow the bird worshippers into fleeing. Enemy driven off the party moved deeper into the shrine to negotiate with it's guardians who they had previously agreed to kill the Death Owls for.  The pair of ancient sea-dead were dismissive of the party's claims to a reward, but when the dead's honor was questioned they gave the party some jewelry and told them they could loot a body in the shrine that wore a magical glass cutlass.  Taking their rewards and returning to base, the band then met with a representative of the smugglers, also unhappy at the party's shenanigans in the lighthouse ... the cult not only burnt the tower, but also the goods that the smuggler crew had hidden within.  The party was able to negotiate a deal with the pirates where they gave them 2,000 GP and a fancy spy glass as a friendship pledge and agreed to work with them in the future.  Taking three bricks of black lotus (a dangerous narcotic) that they had previously bought from the smugglers the party returned to an ancient library within the abandoned monastery of Mt. Sainte Bec. They used the drug to "fumigate" several book shelves for pests at the behest of the spectral librarian and then spent several hours in a narcotic stupor. Finally returning to their base camp ashore the party completed their expedition with no losses, the gain of a magic sword, and no combat.</blockquote>

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