Heart of the Machine

Our heroes set themselves up around the main common room near a soaked in blood stain awaiting the ghost. At midnight, complete with spooky fanfare the ghost of Jazid al Hamid appeared, the merchant who had built the building and ran a business there until his family and eventually he himself were slain by the Shadow Thieves 100 years ago.

Ed the vermin catcher wisely decided to parley with the ghost (which could have easilly killed the entire group) and they discovered it was tethered to the place by a unique bit of jewelry that belonged to his wife. A combination ring/bracelet device that signified marriage in Calimshan. It was obvious that he wanted this jewelry back.

The ghost then departed, leaving the group to obsessivly search the building room by room. They found no wedding gear but did find some minor loot and discovered that their well went far, far deeper then they realized. After some discussion in the morning the group split up and went researching. Half went to the Temple of Lathander for a divination and Craig went to the hall of records to dig up what he could (mostly alarming information about Trask and Hammerfall).

The temple crew was more successful, gaining some clues to the wedding bands’ current location. The group met up at the building ready to make some forward progress. During the day more stuff had arrived and the place was teetering on the edge of being livable. Frank’s wife had delivered breakfast (unseen) to the group as well and Frank the smith himself as well as Royce the priest of Lathander were amazed the group had lived through the night.

(to be continued)