Session Nine – Chapter 3-A

6 Kythorn. The unnamed proprietors of Trollskull Manor:

• Asked Tally to have his contractors begin all remaining repairs, upon which they were surprised by . . .
• An explosion just down the street. Brushing off minor damage, Thiel and Tart managed to save Tally’s wife and one of four halfling children who had been perfoming on the street corner that morning. Shhh-Thwip followed a suspicious child while Thiel and Tart checked out the scene for clues, quickly realizing that one of the victims, a male gnome, was clutching a dagger and had a purse full of gems, which they seized as “evidence” while pretending to offer medical care. Two human victims were wearing black leather and had snake tattoos.
• Upon futher questioning, the suspicious child turned out to be Uhok, the tortle boy who the party had met the other day when he accidentally blew up his room. Uhok revealed that he had been hiding when someone dropped a piece of jewelry from the roof. Satsfied that the two explosions were apparently a coincidence, the party seized the necklace of fireballs as “evidence” and questioned the other witnesses, who revealed that (1) a mechanical puppet creature was seen on the roof just before the explosion, and (2) a third leather clad man was seen fleeing the alley.
• Tart’s frankly astonishing urban tracking skills allowed them to follow the trail of the man until he apparently hopped a coach. With that lead closed, the party headed to the Temple of Gond to see if the artificers there had more information on the construct. Nim, a nimblewright at the Temple, informed them that he had created a unit who had fled. Valetta, the High Priestess, ordered Nim to provide the party with a nimblewright detector, and offered to reward the party if they could find and destroy the nimblewright.
• After detecting a few nimblewrights in the Dock Ward and being satisfied those were not the unit in question, the party continued to search late into the night, getting a hit at Gralhund Villa in the North Ward. Alerted by Noodle that there was a battle in progress inside the Villa, the party entered, only to be set upon by three animated shadows . . .