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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 164069" data-attributes="member: 93">Old Kentfield Country Estate, June 7th, AE 420The party quickly moves the Jalea-statue onto the hobgoblin’s pirate ship (which is named “The Bloody Bucket,” or so the red painted letters on the back proclaim) before the reduce spell wears off.  Aris’ hawk familiar is circling outside, above the manor house, and through his empathic link, Aris can tell that Kentfield’s ship has dropped anchor and moved to pick up Lord Kentfield, Quinn, and the troll, and are now loading up the rowboat on deck.“Jovah, what happened with your dimensional fold?” Reana asks.“I don’t know,” the gnomish priest answers.  “It’s possible to use a dimensional anchor to stop things like that, but someone would have to target me, maybe someone invisible in this cavern…  I don’t like to think that someone could have warded the entire cavern with it!”Gavin is trying to figure out how many men it will take to man the Bloody Bucket.  There are eight oars, and a single mast on the forty-five foot vessel.  Sir Brennen suggests that the party could sail it pretty well, although a larger crew would be able to get more speed out of her.“How about Kentfield’s ship, out there?”  Gavin asks Brennen.“Hmmm…” Brennen does some thinking.  Kentfield’s ship is a fast, almost yacht-like two-master.“At least twelve,” he says.  “Maybe more.  Maybe lots more.”“Well, what do we do now?” Jovah asks.  “Stay in here with the roof falling down, or sail on out and maybe fight off Kentfield and his ship?”They decide to wait a little while.  They get the ship ready, and row her out to the inside edge of the waterfall. Aris watches the ship through his link to his hawk.  Kentfield’s men sail out to about a half-mile off shore, and drop anchor again.  After two hours, they are apparently satisfied that no pursuit is forthcoming, and raise anchor and sail off east, in the general direction of Ulfang.“I say we sail around to the dock, load Jalea up on the dock, and go up and check out the manor house more closely,” Brennen says.“Spoiling for fight there, Brennen?” Jovah asks wryly.“Trying to avoid one, actually,” the Sword of Kelanen replies.  “Don’t forget there are Sahuagin involved in this mess, and if they show up while we’re on ship we could be in trouble.”“Good point,” Jovah concedes.  “Let’s check the house.”Brennen and Anthius stay behind to watch the boat and Jalea while the rest of the group heads back up to the manor house.  Small tremors occasionally rock the cliff and the plateau beyond, and when they get close to the house they notice two things. First, the water level on the lake beyond the house has dropped nearly five feet in the past few hours, and secondly, there are cracks in the foundation of the manor house itself.“I bet this place will eventually just fall into the sea,” Aris says.Soldago looks to see if there is anything in the water, and stops short.“What is it?” Reana asks.“Look out there, past the lake,” Soldago responds.They look out into the valley beyond the lake.   The valley stretches several miles to the north before beginning to climb into the far southern edge of the Endicott Mountains.  Dotted throughout the valley are about two dozen low mounds, perhaps fifty feet on a side, marked mostly by variations in the grass cover compared to the rest of the valley.“Good lord,” Jovah says, disbelievingly.“Mass graves,” Aris states dryly.“Enough evidence now?” Gavin asks Corwin.“I think I’ve seen more than enough evidence to this point,” Corwin replies.  “This may help us convince other people, though…”</blockquote>

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