The Return of the Ring

Leaving the gnome tower, the party descended from the mountains toward Mirror Stone to relieve the people’s concern over the undead invasion. Finding an orc near death on the trail, the warden granted his near kin’s last wish for a honorable death before setting the party on a path of revenge against the spiderish beasts that had waylaid the warrior. That battle finished, the party arrived in Mirror Stone to find the village barricaded against haphazard kobold attacks. 

After convincing the elders that the village was safe from further attacks, the party stumbled upon the miserable tale of a drunken elderly dwarf with the penchant for relieving himself without much consideration for property or person. Damlil Broadtoe explained that he had followed his great granddaughter, Worlanda Roundhead, up the Harrow river, trying to rescue the girl before she found trouble over her rather large head. It seemed the girl had won a treasure map after a long night of Three Foot Gambit. With a close friend along, the young dwarf left her clanhold in search of the treasure. Sadly, the two dwarves fell in with unscrupulous adventurers who stole the map for themselves and left the girls battered and alone in the middle of the wilderness. Never one to back from a fight, Worlanda refused to follow her friend back to the clan, deciding instead to chase after the thieves to retrieve her property.

Hearing of his granddaughter’s fate, Damlil took up his shield and hammer and tried to follow in her tracks. But old age and rough country left the man humbled and beaten in Mirror Stone. The party found the once great warrior in a drunken stupor in a pile of hay soaked with his own urine. Agreeing to take up the dwarf’s cause, the party made ready to attempt the Black Barrow Hills after the young dwarf.

Wanting to wrap up a loose tie before heading out, the party investigated the mystery behind the ring missing from dead Joshua’s finger. After questioning several of the villagers, the party discovered that a man named Galvean had drugged the local responsible for watching over Joshua’s body the night the ring went missing. Rummaging through the man’s house, the party avoid a well hidden trap before finding a stash beneath a loose floorboard and recovering the ring. Unfortunately, Galvean escaped into the dark night after loosing a bolt into the warden’s arse.

After returning the ring to Alicia Greenleaf, Joshua’s granddaughter and the ring’s rightful owner, the party began rounding up information about the Black Barrows before beginning a trek into the hills.