Session V

## *The Great Herald*

1. The party has a conversation about Velos and decides their next course of action. They ultimately decide to return to Shiv’s camp in order to investigate Shiv’s (headless) body and retrieve the documents they left at the camp.
2. During Theron’s watch the first night, Theron notices a group of patrolmen armed with scimitars patrolling the desert. When Theron was investigating, he was noticed by the patrolmen. These patrolmen approach Theron and ask if the party was the one who killed Gimley Goldbeard. Fortunately for the party, the patrolmen tell Theron that they were grateful that Gimley  met his demise and asked the party to meet with their boss Corinthine Battlebeard in a week.
3. The following day, the party finds themselves with a diverging path. One, a 40 foot cliff, and the other, a rocky path. The party decides to take the rocky path. The party meets some trouble on this path as Edwin falls. Luckily Brigitte is able to cast feather fall on him before he hits the ground, allowing him to catch himself. The party all make it up to the top of the path, meeting face to face with the burnt walls of Shiv’s camp.
4. In the ruined camp, the party finds the remains of their handiwork being picked over by vultures. The party finds Shiv’s headless body, but they also notice that farther up the hill, where the tent once stood, rested a pile of smoldering ash. Looking at the remains, they come to the conclusion that this was burned separately from .Upon investigating further, the party finds nothing of note. The party retrieves Shiv’s body and makes their way back to Gnomeregan.
5. The group talks with Kevi when they get to Gnomeregan. Kevi leads the group through a hospital, passing several gnomes who have some subsistence problems, into a morgue. Here they meet a gnomish woman by the name of Cindy. Kevi asks her to investigate the body. As she removes the rags covering Shiv’s body, a putrid smell fills the room.
6. The party leaves the body with Cindy as they tell Kevi about the meeting with Battlebeard's men. Kevi suggests that the party help the Battlebeards establish power in Nograak Kadrel in order to clear their names.
7. Seeing that some members of the party are in dire need of sleep, Cidy directs them to an inn near the entrance to the city by the name of the Geartwist inn. Before the party makes way to their rooms \_\_\_\_ stops them and tells them about their missing son, Owen, and asks for them to look out for him on their way to Battlebeard, if they find and return Owen, they will be rewarded handsomely. The party finally gets some decent rest, seeing a bed for the first time in over a month.
8. The party all explore the marketplace. Theron goes to a jeweler in search of a pearl. He agrees to acquire 2 bars of gold in exchange for the pearl. While going through the market the whole party except for Gaziath notices a hooded figure no larger than a dwarf grabbing a gnome. Edwin hurls a eldritch blast at the figure, pushing the figure to the ground, enabling the crowd of gnomes to draw their weapons and capture the kidnapper. One of the guards approaches Edwin and asks that though he does appreciate Edwin’s help, that Edwin does not attack anyone within the city again. Kevi finds the party within the commotion and asks what happened. The party relates the story to him and he leads them to the dungeon where they can watch the figure be interrogated. The prisoner mentions a name, Gath’Aya, and is referred to as an “it” and “they”. The prisoner also says that they are given orders to the Vellos by the *Great Herald*. “Go out to the north, in the mountains, seek for the cave”
9. The party goes into the cavern and the “cultists” are mumbling in Abyssal, and the party witnesses a purple mist surround the man in the middle and tendrils appear, slowly making their way towards the gnome in the center. Combat begins and the party is successful and they rescue Owen.