May 10th, 5977KR

The brave heroes have come from their homes to answer the call of adventure in Vhara. Traveling far, they came to Barrowdown and came to the Green Mountain Tavern to speak with Bren of the Vharan Nationalists. There, they accepted a contract to retrieve a statuette for the Nationalists from a Mulhorandi excavation site. They traveled several hours and reached the excavation site. They waited until cover of darkness. Elijah, the Natalese Ranger, and Leshrac of Krondor scouted the camp, and located the entrance to the excavation site. Eli hear some talk of goblins coming from the Mulhorandi soldiers. Returning to their party they relayed what they had found. As the party crept to the entrance, the Mulhorandi scouts were alerted to their presence. However, they could not see them in the darkness. Cunning Carl Fizbittzer, used a disguise self spell to become a goblin while the rest of the part fled to the entrance. He allowed the Mulhorandi a brief glance of himself, before slipping into the mine with his party. Their Mulhorandi pursuers stopped at the entrance and dismissed them as a few goblins. Once getting inside, the heroes stopped and caught their breath. Carl lit a torch, while Eli searched the passages. They discovered a passage in the eastern part of the caves with a corpse in leather rags and 3 monstrous centipedes. They charged into the room. Burk smashed a centipede in half with his axe, Carl split one with a bolt from his crossbow, and Leshrac dispatched one with his rapier. Afterwards, they searched a leather pouch on the corpse and found a jetstone and a vial of reddish liquid. Burk appraised the jetstone and estimated it to be worth 168gp. Malenroe cast detect magic and ascertained that the vial was a magical potion. Moving on, the heroes entered a goblin warren and fought a fierce battle against six goblins. During the battle, Burk was nearly slain, but the quick actions of his comrades saved him. Eli's valiant fighting skills slew many goblins, and Mallenroe's magic missile was instrumental in dispatching foes. With four goblins dead and one under Mallenroe's sleep spell, the PC's used a clever ruse. Shouting "use the goblin melter" in Goblin and bluffing, the PC's caused the last standing goblin to flee. Eli chased him down, tackled him, and tied him up. The PC's tied up the sleeping goblin and drug it back to the room where they had encountered the centipedes and brought the other goblin as well. They interrogated one of the goblins, and learned the location of the statuette they were seeking, the goblin chief, and the goblin's storeroom. During the interrogation, however, the goblins broke free of their bonds and were slain while fleeing. The PC's collected the goblins' scalps to claim the Vharan bounty on goblins (of 5gp each). Then, they rested in order to recover all of their spent spells and allow their fighters to recuperate. The night passed without incident.