Exploring Underneath the Ramshackle Smith

**Story Arcs**

###### **A HAVEN AWAY FROM THE HEARTH**

The next morning, as the two eat breakfast paid for by Ashes, the goliath paladin notices the lady who bought the hourglass from Eul as she busses tables and brings them over to a sink behind the counter. Ashes attempts to make conversation with the woman who keeps silent until provoked by her boss, the innkeeper Mia.

She finally begins to speak to Ashes instead of holding her tongue, and Ashes learns that she is a religious follower of Oghma. She kept this to herself and does not speak much for fear of harm coming her way from trauma from the attacks from 20 years ago, which scarred Jaskir and ruined the Church of Oghma in its wake. She purchased the relic as a token of worship, and seems extremely grateful to be in possession of it.

She also diluges information on a lost relic known as the Gold Star. Ashes recalls that he handed off a book with a similarly titled name to Lawretta Stowen, a book which was written in draconic that she was in the process of translating into Common.

##### 🐀**JASKIR PEST CONTROL - CHAPTER 2**

###### **ROSCOE'S ROD-END'S GUARANTEED QUALITY**

Returning home, the duo see Peepo writing away inside a book before closing it and facing them. The duo say hi and check in on the damage done by the poison in the basement.

They head down and are immediately greeted by a swathe of dead rats of various sizes from small to large, and not wanting to start rifling through corpses and poision, Bogladin opts to call in the pros to clean up this mess. He goes up and within a few minutes, comes back with Rimmy from Roscoe's Rod-Ends; the young man who polymorphed himself into a rat to scout out the rat den connected to their basement.

He wolf whistles with excitement seeing the poison work, and quickly dons a pair of gloves and begins to salvage the remaining poision dust and starts to carry away the dead corpses outside. He does not charge a fee, but he takes the poision back without even asking if he could have it.

##### 🕳️**THE UNDERBELLY OF JASKIR - CHAPTER 3**

###### **PLUNGING BACK UNDER THE CITY STREETS**

Ashes and Bogladin decide to explore some more inside the sewers that they had absconded from, and they convince Peepo to tag along too. The trio head back down the ladder and progress further into the sewers.

Ashes and Peepo work together to clear some rubble blocking a gate from moving, and after clearing the way they approach a long hallway which has a unnaturally carved out, man made looking cave blocked off by a latched gate. Ashes and Bogladin head the cries of a weak sounding crow.

Bogladin sticks his hand through the gate and is able to unlatch the lock, letting the gate swing open to reveal what looks like to be some sort of homebrewer's den.

###### **GAMIN NOBLEBRINGER'S DEN**

Inside the den the trio find an assortment of loot and materials, but also the unfortunate sight of a long dead dwarven man and the fading image of a crow that is stuck inside a feces covered cage, starving and sickly looking.

Ashes finds an array of leather bound notebooks, written by presumably the dwarf, who was named Gamin Noblebringer. A collection of three notebooks, the handwriting is in Dwarven inside two of the books, and the last one is a sketch book filled with various anatomical sketches of various creatures that seem to be found inside this sewer system, as well as an occasional drawn piece of pornography depicting nude females of various races, mostly tiefling.

##### ☀️**THE ASCENDANT GOLIATH - CHAPTER 7**

###### **GUIDED TOWARDS THE LIGHT**

Ashes decides to cremate the decaying, forgotten body of the dwarf using the nearby fireplace, and sends him off with a prayer from his faith of Lathander.

##### 👥**MAIN GROUP - CHAPTER 12**

###### **TAKING INVENTORY**

The trio decide to head back home instead of pressing deeper into the sewers, and thus make their way out via the ladder, and back to the street facing the main entrance of their home the Ramshackle Smith. Silent Peepo heads inside their shared home to begin reading and writing something into what looks to be a personal diary.

Ashes and Bogladin decide their plans with each other, and decide on Bogladin hiring some movers to help carry things out from the dwarfs hideout and into their home, while Ashes goes towards to speak to the mayor about her progress in deciphering the book that she was given, the Gold Star, a tome written in Draconic.

The two split up and head their separate ways.

**Story Arcs**