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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3404185" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 25 Aftermath: The Worm's Rampage</strong></p><p></p><p><em>7th of Richfest (continued). </em> After being informed that Tarric and Alexander were dead, the party members were understandably in no hurry to climb up the Rope of Climbing and join them in the Worm's gullet. However, there was little time to grieve. Killick announced to the other party members that he had fought a particularly nasty blob-like creature with tentacles and spell-like abilities in another room. The party formed up to take on this new challenge. However, after cautiously advancing into the room with the large urn, the blob creature was no where to be found.</p><p></p><p> Once the party was convinced that their flank was not threatened by a new foe, they made their way up to the Arena to assist in destroying the Apostle of Kyuss. By the time the party made it up to ground level, the Worm had already slithered out of the Arena (causing damage to the stands as it left). They could see that the creature was now about 100 yards away, leaving destroyed buildings and crushed people in its wake. Once every few seconds, as if on a grisly schedule, the gargantuan creature's maw dipped down to swallow someone whole. The party could also see about 25 people in the air above the creature. Some of these were spellcasters shooting flame, electricity, and energy down on the worm. Most of these attacks simply dissipated against the creature's hide, but some found their mark and seemed to damage the creature. As the party moved to follow the Worm, they noticed that the leader of this small band of airborn spellcasters was Eligos. A surprisingly large number of the flyers seemed to be fighters wielding bows, raining down a fire of arrows and bolts down on the creature. The party was unable to see any sign of Celeste.</p><p></p><p> The party had difficulty catching up to the Worm, as it moved surprisingly quickly for such a lumbering abomination. However, the Worm's apparently unending hunger for humans slowed it down considerably. Alees and Katawan finally got into crossbow range and began firing. Alees found that her bolts were significantly more effective than Katawan's. The Worm had extruded a series of tightly packed tendrils all over its body that seemed to absorb the damage from normal missiles. However, ammunition from magical bows like Alees's seemed to get through this protective layer. </p><p></p><p> Eventually, the Worm began to realize that the damage it was taking from the skies was starting to add up. It tried swallowing some of the flyers but found them to be out of range. So, in order to strike at them, it disgorged the contents of its stomach in a spray of acid that instantly killed a number of the flyers. As the bones of the humans the Worm had eaten fell to Oerth, they animated, becoming Spawn of Kyuss. Up until this point, Alees and Katawan had more to do because they were able to strike at the Worm with their ranged weapons. But now that there were undead to fight, Killick and Thorash went into high gear. While all the members of the party were staying a safe distance away from the Worm, Killick and Thorash did what they could to destroy the dozens of Spawn of Kyuss that were now marauding through the streets of Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p> This running battle through the city was incredibly chaotic, with townsfolk screaming and running in every direction. Eventually, Killick and Thorash were separated. Killick looked over his shoulder and saw that Thorash was gone. However, Killick had no time to go looking for his dwarven comrade. He continued fighting the Spawn on the theory that Thorash could take care of himself.</p><p></p><p> Eventually, after about 30 minutes of all out warfare and destruction, the Worm slumped lifeless to the ground, crushing one last house in its death throes. Hunting down and destroying all of its Spawn of Kyuss took significantly longer. All told, the Apostle of Kyuss had caused extensive damage to the city of Greyhawk unlike anything in Greyhawk's history. Many of the dead had simply been unable to get out of the Worm's way and were crushed by the enormous weight of the supernaturally quick monster. Others had been swallowed whole and turned into Spawn of Kyuss. Still others had been killed by the Spawn of Kyuss who rampaged throughout the city after being expelled from the Worm's gullet. Many buildings had simply been flattened by the undulating movements of the gargantuan monster. Others were in flames, either as collateral damage from Fireballs or from lanterns that had been knocked over. Desperate people wandered aimlessly in all directions, looking for help or looking for loved ones. The 7th of Richfest would be remembered forever in Greyhawk as the day of the Worm's Rampage.</p><p></p><p> Soon after the Worm died, Killick linked up again with Alees and Katawan. He asked if they had seen where Thorash had gone. They had not. Killick instructed Alees and Katawan that Alexander and Tarric could be resurrected, but only if their corpses were recovered. He set them the task of trying to find which of the new Spawn of Kyuss bore their former comrades' belongings. Meanwhile, Killick would help to triage the town's wounded. He made sure to mark with ink all those who had been wounded or killed by the Spawn of Kyuss, since they might become infected and rise again as additional Spawn.</p><p></p><p> Eventually, the four surviving members of the party met up with each other once again. Killick asked where Thorash had gone, and he said that he had chased some rampaging Spawn down an unfamiliar alley. Once the Spawn had been dealt with, he found that he had lost his way. He made his way back to the party as quickly as he could. Alees and Katawan had been successful in recovering the bones of their former comrades. Because they were undead, Alees and Katawan had identified them by the items they still wore. Most of their magical items were still intact, but it looked like the metallic items that they had been carrying took significant damage from the powerful necromantic acid in the Worm's stomach. The magical short sword that Alexander had been carrying had been reduced to a useless hunk of twisted metal. Tarric's magical shield and his bastard sword had been similarly destroyed, along with the handaxe that he had used in the last seconds of life in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the Worm's gullet. (Tarric's magical full plate armor, which had previously looked shiny and new, now looked blackened and pitted. However, it still seemed to function at full strength. Tarric's back-up magical longsword was apparently saved by being in its sheath throughout the ordeal.) There was no sign of Celeste, nor was there any sign of her powerful Mace. </p><p></p><p>Finally, Eligos found the party. He expressed regret at the news of Tarric and Alexander's demise, but the scope of the city's destruction was so great that the wizard found himself too shocked to shed any tears over the loss of these dutiful heroes. He reassured the party that, when the current crisis was over, he would do whatever was necessary to bring Alexander and Tarric back from the land of the dead. When he was informed that there was no sign of Celeste, he took the news in stride. He commented that she was a very resourceful individual, and he would not assume she was dead until the fact had been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt.</p><p></p><p> Soon thereafter, the party's services were commandeered by the City Watch to help organize emergency food and shelter for those displaced by the disaster. (Thorash and Alees seemed somewhat reluctant to offer their services for free, but they decided not to make a fuss about it under the circumstances.) They were placed under the command of a familiar face, Captain Auron, the man who had taken their doppelganger into custody in the Foreign Quarter. The decision was made to use the Arena as the city's base of emergency operations. Anyone looking for lost family members was to report there. Similarly, the homeless were told to bed down on the sand of the Arena floor. Although some people were wary of returning to the location from which the Worm had sprung, there wasn't any other realistic choice for a venue that could accommodate such large numbers of people. </p><p></p><p>Knowing that she was infected by Kyuss worms, Alees asked Thorash to memorize Remove Disease at dusk and cast it on her. He did so, and she felt the tiny movement of worms inside her body cease.</p><p></p><p> After working with Captain Auron at the Arena into the wee hours of the night, the party shambled wearily back underground to loot the areas that they had been forced to leave behind so quickly the previous morning.</p><p> </p><p> <em>1st of Reaping (early morning)</em>. Although the party-members were bone-tired, they began looting the sub-basement area where they had fought the cleric of Kyuss and its minions the previous morning. The party quickly noticed that the place was not in the same condition that they had left it. The most obvious sign of this was an open secret door across from the Kyuss mosaic in the room with the large urn. They also found that a previously unopened door at the end of that hallway was now open. The room itself was apparently a latrine, but inside the room was a headless corpse. Killick determined that the body - a human female - had already been a zombie at the time that it was beheaded. With her photographic memory for swag, Alees was able to tell that some items were missing from the evil cleric's body as well as from the ornate trunk. (It was apparent to Alees that someone had been in a hurry to rifle through everything.) The cleric's holy symbol, ring, belt pouch, potion, and his glowing club were gone, and the cleric's cloak was missing its brooch. In addition, the spoon, a potion, the dust, the money, and the gems were all gone from the trunk. The following items of value were left on the evil cleric: 2 scrolls, a wand, magical chainmail, magical shield, and a strand of beads. Inside the trunk, the party found 3 scrolls, seven blocks of incense, a wand, and 3 vials of oil. As Alees searched the rest of the complex, the only other valuable items she found were two giant emeralds that had formed the eyes of the Kyuss wall mosaic. She also noticed that the curtain that had obscured the urn from view before Killick pulled it aside was made of spider silk and was sheer on only one side (allowing one to see through the curtain from one direction but not from the other). Alees was sure that the curtain must also be valuable. </p><p></p><p> The party followed the newly discovered secret passage and found that it ended in the basement of Loris Raknian's private residence on the Arena grounds. His residence had clearly been ransacked for portable valuables, as much of value that was not portable had been left behind. It was apparent to everyone that Raknian had liked to live in style. All of the residence's amenities and appointments were of the finest quality. There were several large portraits of himself throughout the residence, showing a strapping young gladiator in various action poses with scars running across and down the left side of his face. Although Alees grabbed a couple candlesticks and a silver serving tray, most of the rest of the furniture and decorations were too large to carry out easily. Also, the party didn't want to get charged with looting in a time of emergency, so the party left the remaining valuables in the house (much to Alees's consternation).</p><p></p><p> The party decided to take their newly acquired loot back to Eligos's house. When they arrived, he agreed to identify their swag at the earliest reasonable opportunity and discreetly asked for the return of the items he had lent them. Once the Rod of Cancellation, the Ring of Wizardry, and the Pearl of Power were returned, Eligos instructed his elfservant Pollard to show the weary adventurers to a large guest room. They fell instantly to sleep on cushy feather beds and slept through most of the day.</p><p> </p><p> <em>2nd of Reaping</em>. When the adventurers came downstairs early in the morning after sleeping most of the previous day, Pollard informed them that the master was away on important city business. However, since inn-space in Greyhawk was being commandeered for use by all the refugees, it would not be possible for them to retain their rooms at the Crooked House. Consequently, Master Eligos had invited them to stay with him while they remained in the City. Pollard also informed them that the master had seen to the identification of the items they had recovered. The items the party had lifted from the cleric were: a Scroll of Restoration (11th level), a Scroll of Heal (11th level), a Wand of Inflict Moderate Wounds (5th level), a suit of Chainmail +1, a small wooden Shield of Light Fortification +1, and a Necklace of Prayer Beads (containing a bead of healing). The items the party had lifted from the trunk were: a Scroll of Death Ward, 2 Scrolls of Ethereal Jaunt, 7 Blocks of Incense of Meditation, a Wand of Restoration (36 charges), and 3 vials of Oil of Gentle Repose. The party had most of the day free to try buying and selling objects. (However, with the city in a state of chaos, it was sometimes difficult to find the items/vendors that they wanted to buy/sell from.)</p><p></p><p> Later in the day, Eligos returned with an aged cleric carrying a number of scroll tubes and wearing a holy symbol of St. Cuthbert. Eligos said this man would cast the spells necessary to bring Tarric and Alexander back from the dead. The cleric asked the party to lay the remains out on separate tables. He then asked for some privacy, saying that the process was a delicate one and that he needed to commune with his god in peace. Eligos insisted that he had paid good money for these Resurrections, and he demanded to observe them to ensure that they took place smoothly and without a hitch. Reluctantly, the cleric allowed Eligos to stay and observe, but he insisted that all others must leave. About a half and hour later, Eligos and the priest emerged from the room, followed by Alexander and Tarric, who were greeted heartily by their grateful partymates.</p><p></p><p> His business being concluded, the cleric of St. Cuthbert was shown to the door, and Eligos got down to business with the party in private. He informed them that the City's best estimate of the final death toll resulting from the Worm's rampage was 524. Along with the damage to the Greyhawk Arena, 67 buildings had been destroyed or severely damaged, most of them homes and small businesses near the Arena. Eligos also informed them that the Ruling Oligarchy had placed the City Watch on alert, looking for them. Apparently, the Ruling Oligarchy wanted to interview the party about their part in the disaster. Officially, the party was to be treated as potential witnesses, i.e. as "persons of interest." However, Eligos shared his concern that the Ruling Oligarchy may be looking for a scapegoat, so he was not sure whether to advise the party to submit themselves to the interview or go into hiding. He pointed out that with all the local churches aiding the Oligarchy's investigation into the matter with divination spells, it would probably only be a matter of time before the authorities located them. </p><p></p><p> When asked where the party might go from here, Eligos noted that the only remaining lead the party seemed to have was the note that they had found in the Doppelganger's lair that referred to a meeting place "beneath the cold forge". Eligos said that he knew of a blacksmith's shop called the Cold Forge, so the meeting place that the note referred to could be in the sewers (beneath it). He suggested that if the party chose to remain in town, checking out that lead should be their next mission. However, he left the decision whether to stay in town up to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 3404185, member: 8951"] [b]Session 25 Aftermath: The Worm's Rampage[/b] [I]7th of Richfest (continued). [/I] After being informed that Tarric and Alexander were dead, the party members were understandably in no hurry to climb up the Rope of Climbing and join them in the Worm's gullet. However, there was little time to grieve. Killick announced to the other party members that he had fought a particularly nasty blob-like creature with tentacles and spell-like abilities in another room. The party formed up to take on this new challenge. However, after cautiously advancing into the room with the large urn, the blob creature was no where to be found. Once the party was convinced that their flank was not threatened by a new foe, they made their way up to the Arena to assist in destroying the Apostle of Kyuss. By the time the party made it up to ground level, the Worm had already slithered out of the Arena (causing damage to the stands as it left). They could see that the creature was now about 100 yards away, leaving destroyed buildings and crushed people in its wake. Once every few seconds, as if on a grisly schedule, the gargantuan creature's maw dipped down to swallow someone whole. The party could also see about 25 people in the air above the creature. Some of these were spellcasters shooting flame, electricity, and energy down on the worm. Most of these attacks simply dissipated against the creature's hide, but some found their mark and seemed to damage the creature. As the party moved to follow the Worm, they noticed that the leader of this small band of airborn spellcasters was Eligos. A surprisingly large number of the flyers seemed to be fighters wielding bows, raining down a fire of arrows and bolts down on the creature. The party was unable to see any sign of Celeste. The party had difficulty catching up to the Worm, as it moved surprisingly quickly for such a lumbering abomination. However, the Worm's apparently unending hunger for humans slowed it down considerably. Alees and Katawan finally got into crossbow range and began firing. Alees found that her bolts were significantly more effective than Katawan's. The Worm had extruded a series of tightly packed tendrils all over its body that seemed to absorb the damage from normal missiles. However, ammunition from magical bows like Alees's seemed to get through this protective layer. Eventually, the Worm began to realize that the damage it was taking from the skies was starting to add up. It tried swallowing some of the flyers but found them to be out of range. So, in order to strike at them, it disgorged the contents of its stomach in a spray of acid that instantly killed a number of the flyers. As the bones of the humans the Worm had eaten fell to Oerth, they animated, becoming Spawn of Kyuss. Up until this point, Alees and Katawan had more to do because they were able to strike at the Worm with their ranged weapons. But now that there were undead to fight, Killick and Thorash went into high gear. While all the members of the party were staying a safe distance away from the Worm, Killick and Thorash did what they could to destroy the dozens of Spawn of Kyuss that were now marauding through the streets of Greyhawk. This running battle through the city was incredibly chaotic, with townsfolk screaming and running in every direction. Eventually, Killick and Thorash were separated. Killick looked over his shoulder and saw that Thorash was gone. However, Killick had no time to go looking for his dwarven comrade. He continued fighting the Spawn on the theory that Thorash could take care of himself. Eventually, after about 30 minutes of all out warfare and destruction, the Worm slumped lifeless to the ground, crushing one last house in its death throes. Hunting down and destroying all of its Spawn of Kyuss took significantly longer. All told, the Apostle of Kyuss had caused extensive damage to the city of Greyhawk unlike anything in Greyhawk's history. Many of the dead had simply been unable to get out of the Worm's way and were crushed by the enormous weight of the supernaturally quick monster. Others had been swallowed whole and turned into Spawn of Kyuss. Still others had been killed by the Spawn of Kyuss who rampaged throughout the city after being expelled from the Worm's gullet. Many buildings had simply been flattened by the undulating movements of the gargantuan monster. Others were in flames, either as collateral damage from Fireballs or from lanterns that had been knocked over. Desperate people wandered aimlessly in all directions, looking for help or looking for loved ones. The 7th of Richfest would be remembered forever in Greyhawk as the day of the Worm's Rampage. Soon after the Worm died, Killick linked up again with Alees and Katawan. He asked if they had seen where Thorash had gone. They had not. Killick instructed Alees and Katawan that Alexander and Tarric could be resurrected, but only if their corpses were recovered. He set them the task of trying to find which of the new Spawn of Kyuss bore their former comrades' belongings. Meanwhile, Killick would help to triage the town's wounded. He made sure to mark with ink all those who had been wounded or killed by the Spawn of Kyuss, since they might become infected and rise again as additional Spawn. Eventually, the four surviving members of the party met up with each other once again. Killick asked where Thorash had gone, and he said that he had chased some rampaging Spawn down an unfamiliar alley. Once the Spawn had been dealt with, he found that he had lost his way. He made his way back to the party as quickly as he could. Alees and Katawan had been successful in recovering the bones of their former comrades. Because they were undead, Alees and Katawan had identified them by the items they still wore. Most of their magical items were still intact, but it looked like the metallic items that they had been carrying took significant damage from the powerful necromantic acid in the Worm's stomach. The magical short sword that Alexander had been carrying had been reduced to a useless hunk of twisted metal. Tarric's magical shield and his bastard sword had been similarly destroyed, along with the handaxe that he had used in the last seconds of life in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the Worm's gullet. (Tarric's magical full plate armor, which had previously looked shiny and new, now looked blackened and pitted. However, it still seemed to function at full strength. Tarric's back-up magical longsword was apparently saved by being in its sheath throughout the ordeal.) There was no sign of Celeste, nor was there any sign of her powerful Mace. Finally, Eligos found the party. He expressed regret at the news of Tarric and Alexander's demise, but the scope of the city's destruction was so great that the wizard found himself too shocked to shed any tears over the loss of these dutiful heroes. He reassured the party that, when the current crisis was over, he would do whatever was necessary to bring Alexander and Tarric back from the land of the dead. When he was informed that there was no sign of Celeste, he took the news in stride. He commented that she was a very resourceful individual, and he would not assume she was dead until the fact had been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt. Soon thereafter, the party's services were commandeered by the City Watch to help organize emergency food and shelter for those displaced by the disaster. (Thorash and Alees seemed somewhat reluctant to offer their services for free, but they decided not to make a fuss about it under the circumstances.) They were placed under the command of a familiar face, Captain Auron, the man who had taken their doppelganger into custody in the Foreign Quarter. The decision was made to use the Arena as the city's base of emergency operations. Anyone looking for lost family members was to report there. Similarly, the homeless were told to bed down on the sand of the Arena floor. Although some people were wary of returning to the location from which the Worm had sprung, there wasn't any other realistic choice for a venue that could accommodate such large numbers of people. Knowing that she was infected by Kyuss worms, Alees asked Thorash to memorize Remove Disease at dusk and cast it on her. He did so, and she felt the tiny movement of worms inside her body cease. After working with Captain Auron at the Arena into the wee hours of the night, the party shambled wearily back underground to loot the areas that they had been forced to leave behind so quickly the previous morning. [I]1st of Reaping (early morning)[/I]. Although the party-members were bone-tired, they began looting the sub-basement area where they had fought the cleric of Kyuss and its minions the previous morning. The party quickly noticed that the place was not in the same condition that they had left it. The most obvious sign of this was an open secret door across from the Kyuss mosaic in the room with the large urn. They also found that a previously unopened door at the end of that hallway was now open. The room itself was apparently a latrine, but inside the room was a headless corpse. Killick determined that the body - a human female - had already been a zombie at the time that it was beheaded. With her photographic memory for swag, Alees was able to tell that some items were missing from the evil cleric's body as well as from the ornate trunk. (It was apparent to Alees that someone had been in a hurry to rifle through everything.) The cleric's holy symbol, ring, belt pouch, potion, and his glowing club were gone, and the cleric's cloak was missing its brooch. In addition, the spoon, a potion, the dust, the money, and the gems were all gone from the trunk. The following items of value were left on the evil cleric: 2 scrolls, a wand, magical chainmail, magical shield, and a strand of beads. Inside the trunk, the party found 3 scrolls, seven blocks of incense, a wand, and 3 vials of oil. As Alees searched the rest of the complex, the only other valuable items she found were two giant emeralds that had formed the eyes of the Kyuss wall mosaic. She also noticed that the curtain that had obscured the urn from view before Killick pulled it aside was made of spider silk and was sheer on only one side (allowing one to see through the curtain from one direction but not from the other). Alees was sure that the curtain must also be valuable. The party followed the newly discovered secret passage and found that it ended in the basement of Loris Raknian's private residence on the Arena grounds. His residence had clearly been ransacked for portable valuables, as much of value that was not portable had been left behind. It was apparent to everyone that Raknian had liked to live in style. All of the residence's amenities and appointments were of the finest quality. There were several large portraits of himself throughout the residence, showing a strapping young gladiator in various action poses with scars running across and down the left side of his face. Although Alees grabbed a couple candlesticks and a silver serving tray, most of the rest of the furniture and decorations were too large to carry out easily. Also, the party didn't want to get charged with looting in a time of emergency, so the party left the remaining valuables in the house (much to Alees's consternation). The party decided to take their newly acquired loot back to Eligos's house. When they arrived, he agreed to identify their swag at the earliest reasonable opportunity and discreetly asked for the return of the items he had lent them. Once the Rod of Cancellation, the Ring of Wizardry, and the Pearl of Power were returned, Eligos instructed his elfservant Pollard to show the weary adventurers to a large guest room. They fell instantly to sleep on cushy feather beds and slept through most of the day. [I]2nd of Reaping[/I]. When the adventurers came downstairs early in the morning after sleeping most of the previous day, Pollard informed them that the master was away on important city business. However, since inn-space in Greyhawk was being commandeered for use by all the refugees, it would not be possible for them to retain their rooms at the Crooked House. Consequently, Master Eligos had invited them to stay with him while they remained in the City. Pollard also informed them that the master had seen to the identification of the items they had recovered. The items the party had lifted from the cleric were: a Scroll of Restoration (11th level), a Scroll of Heal (11th level), a Wand of Inflict Moderate Wounds (5th level), a suit of Chainmail +1, a small wooden Shield of Light Fortification +1, and a Necklace of Prayer Beads (containing a bead of healing). The items the party had lifted from the trunk were: a Scroll of Death Ward, 2 Scrolls of Ethereal Jaunt, 7 Blocks of Incense of Meditation, a Wand of Restoration (36 charges), and 3 vials of Oil of Gentle Repose. The party had most of the day free to try buying and selling objects. (However, with the city in a state of chaos, it was sometimes difficult to find the items/vendors that they wanted to buy/sell from.) Later in the day, Eligos returned with an aged cleric carrying a number of scroll tubes and wearing a holy symbol of St. Cuthbert. Eligos said this man would cast the spells necessary to bring Tarric and Alexander back from the dead. The cleric asked the party to lay the remains out on separate tables. He then asked for some privacy, saying that the process was a delicate one and that he needed to commune with his god in peace. Eligos insisted that he had paid good money for these Resurrections, and he demanded to observe them to ensure that they took place smoothly and without a hitch. Reluctantly, the cleric allowed Eligos to stay and observe, but he insisted that all others must leave. About a half and hour later, Eligos and the priest emerged from the room, followed by Alexander and Tarric, who were greeted heartily by their grateful partymates. His business being concluded, the cleric of St. Cuthbert was shown to the door, and Eligos got down to business with the party in private. He informed them that the City's best estimate of the final death toll resulting from the Worm's rampage was 524. Along with the damage to the Greyhawk Arena, 67 buildings had been destroyed or severely damaged, most of them homes and small businesses near the Arena. Eligos also informed them that the Ruling Oligarchy had placed the City Watch on alert, looking for them. Apparently, the Ruling Oligarchy wanted to interview the party about their part in the disaster. Officially, the party was to be treated as potential witnesses, i.e. as "persons of interest." However, Eligos shared his concern that the Ruling Oligarchy may be looking for a scapegoat, so he was not sure whether to advise the party to submit themselves to the interview or go into hiding. He pointed out that with all the local churches aiding the Oligarchy's investigation into the matter with divination spells, it would probably only be a matter of time before the authorities located them. When asked where the party might go from here, Eligos noted that the only remaining lead the party seemed to have was the note that they had found in the Doppelganger's lair that referred to a meeting place "beneath the cold forge". Eligos said that he knew of a blacksmith's shop called the Cold Forge, so the meeting place that the note referred to could be in the sewers (beneath it). He suggested that if the party chose to remain in town, checking out that lead should be their next mission. However, he left the decision whether to stay in town up to them. [/QUOTE]
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Menexenus's Age of Worms Campaign Journal
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