As the Guardians of Hope exit the abandoned tavern, they run into Heian, Dante's long lost cousin he hasn't seen for well over 25 years. Being a hunter, Heian has recently left his tribal ways and sought into the city in order to experience some more exciting than chasing of raiders and hunting for food. After a quick talk with Dante about everything surrounding the Guardians, he decides to tag along - for now. They all return to the Fallen Dragon Inn.
18th day of Breeze in Sun Descending, Year of Priest's Defiance
The next day, the GoH immediately set to work on finding out more about Haittin and the mysterious map. Haittin proves to be a dead end (or several, rather) as no one knows anyone called thus, and certainly not a noble. Vis-vis the map, Argul prove to be helpful, as he explain them how to use the map to find a hidden city in Under-Tyr.
As Kalten's entrance to Under-Tyr is quite far away from the area that they need to explore (below Noble's District), they investigate further, and find a guy called Maruuman, whom Po intimidates enough for him to spill the beans on yet another entrance to Under-Tyr.
19th day of Breeze in Sun Descending, Year of Priest's Defiance
At evening, they pass down to Under-Tyr, using the not so hidden passage on the Merchant Square in Noble's District.
They expertly navigate Under-Tyr, and soon arrive to a long deep shaft that leads to the entrance of the hidden city. Or rather, what parts of the city that hasn't been buried by a collapsed cave ceiling. As they approach, Po conjures his newest friend, and sent it in to scout. He got a mental overview of the dark cave, showing him a temple, a library, a palace/mansion, a huge well and 3 distinct areas with small (normal) houses.
As they moved in, they got attacked by two flying globs emitting weird colors, two Fell Taints. They were dispatched easily, and the Guardians of Hope arrived at the city. They stealthed to the temple, to avoid more taints (as they could see plenty floating around in the darkness) and entered the broken down temple. Down the stairs they went, where they got trapped in a corridor with the walls closing in on them while bolts were continually fired at them from secret holes in the walls. Things were getting iffy. Aram was trying to break one door, helped by the council of Amanda, while Po and Dante were trying to disactivate the trap with the (shitty) council of Heian. They managed to stop things before anyone died, and found a mausoleum with a coffin. Inside the coffin was a steel greatsword, which turned out to be able to speak.
My name is much to long and complex for you to pronounce mortal, but you may call me Neb.There was some debate back and forth, and Aram claimed it. They did manage to uncover that it formerly belonged to something called a paladin, named Cherratin.
As they exited the temple and headed for the well, they ran into two more taints. Again not a difficult fight, but slowly they were getting tired, that was for sure. Amanda participated again, seeming to enjoy ordering people around.
Arriving near the well, they were in for a surprise. A huge tentacled horror, bigger than an elephant popped to the top of the well and began lashing it's tentacles at the Guardians. It was a hard fight, with Dante going down for count, but in the end, the beast died, and almost managed to drag down Aram as it fell down the deep well.
At this point, the Guardians of Hope were exhausted, and decided to head back to the temple to rest.
20th day of Breeze in Sun Descending, Year of Priest's Defiance
The next morning, they went back to the well, failing to stay concealed, they ran into a couple of taints more. Dispatching them quickly, they arrived at the well, where Aram climbed down and spent a couple of hours chopping up the monster in order to search for valuables. His hard work was met with luck, as he found 3 rings, worth 1000 gp (all in all).
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