[IC1] Pool of Radiance

[Thanee]

Inside the City Hall the adventurers find a spacious reception room, dominated by a large desk, where a clerk is currently shuffling through a small pile of paper. Two guards are positioned further inside, flanking a door leading deeper into the building.

Once the clerk, a short, stocky human, has noticed the visitors, he looks up to them and greets them in a friendly but hurried voice, putting the papers aside for the moment.

“Welcome, welcome to the New Phlan City Hall! Come inside, please. How can I be of service?”

 

[Mista Collins]

"Well we are here with some information about the Valhingen Graveyard and would like to collect on the reward posted," Selvaggio says to the clerk sitting at the desk. "But I think some of my companions can better describe what we found."

 

[Voadam]

Kordunn bows formally. "Thank your for your welcome. We have been to the graveyard in response to the council's postings and bring back eye witness accounts of undead therein."

 

[Thanee]

“Undead!? Oh, goodness, as if we didn't have enough problems already. So the suspicions have turned out correct then, guess we should have known. That's no good news, but still the council has to hear them. How bad is it? Oh, and as for the reward, I will fetch it from the council's treasury in a minute.”

 

[Scotley]

Eldwyn Halfling

Eldwyn steps forward to answer the question. "Outside the gates we were attacked by a Wight, skeleton and zombie. They were carrying unusally fine weaponry and I fear they may have recently fallen. As we entered the graveyard itself we were subjected to a magical display of weather and fog that obscured our vision and a large number of undead seemed to come from a tomb or other structure based on a scraping noise we heard. They seemed to use complex tactics trying to pin us down and surround us, which is out of character for what are commonly called 'mindless' undead. They must have been directed by a more powerful undead or necromancer of some sort. We were able to retreat from graveyard and almost immedately the pursuit stopped and the weather returned to normal. The numbers facing us were too great for our small band."

 

[Krug]

Oog shakes his head vigoroulsy as Eldwyn speaks.

 

[Thanee]

The clerk seems a bit overwhelmed with all the information, and maybe a little bit frightened, but when Eldwyn is finished, he looks at the other halfling, who is shaking his head, and asks: “You want to add anything?”

 

[Voadam]

"The walking dead had the look of once being human, not humanoids."

 

[Thanee]

“Good. I will inform the council of your sightings and the disturbing news and fetch your reward right away. Please wait a moment, I will be right back.”

The clerk vanishes through the guarded door and muffled voices can be heard from beyond. A few minutes later he reappears with a large pouch full of coins, which he hands over to Eldwyn.

“The council is grateful for your risky undertaking and as a sign of gratitude has doubled the reward for you brave souls. There is still much to do here in Phlan and we need every helping hand offered to us.”

 

[Scotley]

Eldwyn Halfling

"Excellent, our thanks to the council. I hope we can continue to be of service." He looks at the others expectantly. If no one has anything to add he will lead the others out.