MOOR'S END - 3

In which respects are paid to Devedos @ the Church of the White Widow - Locals of Moor's End take notice of Kruger's burning shop - The party returns to the Caves at sundown...

PARTY CAST:
Gileegan, hobbit thief - MN
Jin the Cautious, monk - RM
Farley, dwarf fighter - MF
Renfro the Regarded, magic-user - MIA
Mattie the Mournful, cleric of the White Widow - NPC
Link, neanderthal - NPC

ENCOUNTERED NON-PARTY NPCs:
Brother Lennox - Church of the White Widow
Random townsfolk on street

Feeling a ripple in the Order of the Guiding Star, Jin the Cautious arrives in Moor's End just in time to help Gileegan, Renfro, Mattie & Link transport & bury their friend Devedos @ the Church of the White Widow. Brother Lennox performs the ceremony & the party donates 30 gold to the church. It is a solemn affair. So much so that Gileegan is moved to remind the party why they were first called here: to help the church locate the diamond spider that was stolen & moved into the caves @ the edge of the moor. After the ceremony the party walks for a bit down the strip of town, many townsfolk coming out & watching the smoke envelope Kruger's shop. The party asks one man what is going on, & sure enough, he simply confirms the rumor that Kruger's place is up in flames, etc. Renfro assures the party that he has discretely hidden Delilah (Kruger's two-handed sword) under a bed in the common room of the Forgotten Worm Inn. As darkness descends, the party decides to return to the caves. Jin wishes they had a fighter among them, & as if the Guiding Star was listening, the Furthermoor Adventure Express (FAE) screeches up & out tumbles Farley the Dwarf, eager to join the party for a crawl.

It's around 8 PM by the time Mattie is locating the secret entrance to the cave, the party moves into the narrow cave single file, Link, Farley, Jin, Renfro, Mattie w/ lantern, & Gileegan in back. After a bit of weaving through narrow cave passages, they come to a dead end, where they search around for a good thirty minutes, but notice nothing, they then search the walls as they backtrack when Link signals back that something is there ahead of them...  A goblin has turned around, walking away from them.  Gilleegan pushes through & sneaks after the goblin & backstabs it, easily taking it down. He searches the body to locate a small pouch holding 11 sp & 1 gp, also in the pouch is a scrap of paper w/ something in goblin written on it. Jin reads the note: MARKET, 16TH DAY, BEFORE SUN, OUTSIDE CAVES - the party backtracks a bit more then moving south & coming to the room they previously fought the giant rats, the opened chest on the ground.  They are reminded of Devedos.  They pass the room & move west where they come into a circular room, about 15' in diameter, cave room w/ a large cone of white rock in the middle of the room w/ smooth rounded bottom. Gilleegan pushes the rock & it teeters a bit, then sways & then stops back in original position. Farley pushes the rock harder, noticing that it is chalk.  W/ the harder push, when tottering, the base reveals a gap below where they notice something shiny. They use Farley's crowbar to hold the chalk over to where they are able to pull 300 sp & 30 gp from below. Farley chips off some sizable pieces from the top. Others follow suit. Farley crushes some into a dust & puts it in a pouch. The party moves on, traveling west, the cave corridor growing a touch wider, they come into another similar cave room, about 15' in diameter. There is a pool of dark liquid in the western third of the room, surrounded by a thin strip of cave. Jin probes the water w/ his staff, & about 2-3' down the staff pushes into something. He tries jiggering it out, but nothing gives. He decides to simply step into the water & reach down for it. He pulls up two bags filled w/ silver, 250 sp each. The party redistributes the silver from the soaked bags & decides to move into the northern passage which narrows & winds a bit until it narrows to almost 2 feet wide & then opens into a fairly massive, compared to what they have seen up to this point. Also, this room, though still "cavey" shows signs of construction/manipulation. It is a sizable room, about 30' wide in places. Two passages lead from the room, to the NE & NW, & between these passages are two closed door on the NW wall. Also, as the party moves into the room, they notice about 20 large, clear bubbles floating about the room, moving slowly & erratically. Farley moves to one of the bubbles & pops it w/ his rope. Nothing seems to happen, the bubble just disappears w/ little noise or effect. Farley then goes about whipping around half the room until only about ten bubbles remain. Moving closer to the doors, he finishes off the rest of the curious bubbles & the party focuses on one of the wooden doors that is stuck shut. After numerous tries, Jin does a cartwheel & kicks the door open. They move into a narrow cave passage & into a small 10' cave room beyond where lining the walls & ceiling is a strange, silver fuzzy growth of some sort. Farley scrapes @ the growth w/ his crowbar & suddenly finds himself holding a solid, silver crowbar. For the next thirty or forty minutes, the party goes crazy on turning various items to silver & while this is going on, Farley takes watch down the opening when he notices a Giant Gecko slithering in he throws his electrical spear, kills the Gecko, then chops its head off & throws it @ the silver mold therefore now having a solid, silver Giant Gecko head. W/ all their new silvery stuff, the party moves back out into the large room & then goes to work on the other door. Farley busts the door in & doing so hears some rattling & then sees a skeleton w/ a sword quickly moving his way down a narrow passage. He holds his shield up & tries to keep the skeleton at bay but takes one stab, 3 damage, in doing so. The party then, one-by-one takes turns as they kill one skeleton @ a time, everyone crucial, Gil, Jin, Link, even Mattie, until theyve destroyed 4 of them, Farley doing in the last, removes its skull from the rest of the bones & takes it into the silver room & turns it to silver. In the main room, Jin & Gilleegan relax & split one of the mushroom caps that Devedos found in the Jungle Room...

10:40 PM, Thursday, 14th day of the month of the Hummingbird, Moor's End, Furthermoor