Endur's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil

[Paxus Asclepius]

"That rooster isn't what it seems. The cat knows something it can't tell us, but it's clear there's something amiss here."

 

[Endur]

After Belaver's comments, Lenya does not see anything special about the Rooster.

Raner, however, notices that the Rooster seems to have a scaly tail like a snake and his wings lack feathers. Almost as if the Rooster is half-draconic or has been mutated by magic.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"All right..." Craven says, sounding a bit exasperated. "Ok, the cat doesn't like the rooster. Then let's go the other way."

 

[Pyrex]

Raner nods toward Belaver, "He's right. Take another look at tha' chicken. I 'avn't seen one with a tail like that before."

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Belaver does as Craven suggests: goes the other way, and right quick.

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah shrugs slightly and follows Belaver.

 

[Endur]

The party moves away from the Rooster.

The party travels about four hundred feet down the corridor in the other direction and the tunnel opens into a small natural cave. Hidden by boulders, the cave mouth lies by the riverbank about a quarter-mile from the moathouse.

Watching carefully for the Dragon, the party heads back to Hommlet.

The party crosses the ridge that overlooks the moathouse without incident.

As you are crossing the ridgeline, you look down and see a pair of wagons and half a dozen people coming towards you from Hommlet.

The first wagon is thirty or so feet in front of the second wagon (3 people riding in each wagon, each wagon has one person wearing simple robes between two armored warriors equipped with missile weapons). Each wagon is pulled by two work horses.

Elmo, wearing a plain brown robe in the style of the Old Faith, calls out to you from the first wagon. Two armored warriors wearing helmets and their eyes scanning the sky are in the wagon with him.
"We were worried about you. Old Del said he saw a Dragon. Did you find anything in the Moathouse?"

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

A flash of pain crosses Craven's face as he shifts his sad burden. "Yes, we saw a dragon, it drove us into the moathouse. Luckily we found another way out, so be wary. Underneath the moathouse we found ghouls, ghasts, evil cultists, and things of terrible evil magic. Three of our number died braving the place, and all of us were wounded. We're returning to bury the dead and tend to the living."

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

“I'm afraid, Spugnoir was also amongst the casualities, and there is much more to tell, which should not be spoken loudly,” Lenya adds.

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah watches the others disinterestedly. He occasionally places the back of his hand against his forehead, as if to check for fever.