Paradoxides has now learnt Mass Teleport. To celebrate he transports a small party to a cave deep in the Shiehelion range of the Edgewere Mountains. The party includes one of a band of new Sequarl huscarles, a nuggety warrior called Gamrick who carried a battleaxe and wore a hauberk, along with Salrod and Grettir himself. The cave had once been the den of a band of ogres that Grettir, Paradoxides, Gadan and Kinness had extirpated back in 685 (C12). As they had been en route to the Lands of Dust, they had buried the loot in the forest nearby. The plan was to explore this deep wilderness, recover the loot they had buried in haste almost four years previously and perhaps find a good ambush spot to prey on passing giants, ogres or orcs.
Searching around the area they encounter a campfire ghost – perhaps a lost legionary from the time of the building of the Black Road. Then a more hostile undead emerges from a dark lake. After talking to a friendly satyr, called Kanyas, the party find the spot where they had buried the treasure. They conclude the forest all around to be too thick and tracless for setting an ambush, so return in the manner they had arrived.
D-11
OE Date: February 688
Characters: Grettir, Salrod, Paradoxides NPCs: Gamrick
Real World: When – Spring 1991; Where – Berkeley