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The party flee from retribution before exploring some more
| Score: 257 | 02/23/20 |
07/07/42 Aper Tertius (morning)
Batthu summons a floating disk to help carry Cefesee and Tian. After some tending, the pair awaken and the group search Sulla's (the dead dwarf) pack. Here they find a key and proceed to break the coded note from the previous temple (from The Shepherd). It reads "Gather the temple locations and all shall be revealed".
They see Kam in vulture form scouting for them. She spots them and moves away. The group follow after, looking for her camp. Not far beyond where they had fought, they find a ruined village being used as a camp by around a dozen smugglers (including Kam, Wesley and their ranger companion). Seeing them preparing for the Great Storm, the party seek the other end of the stone path they found. It leads to the river and, below it, a temple.
Some spider climb later, the group begin exploring the hidden, riverside temple. Some exploration shows it to be a temple to the Eagle headed god (Ahom). Batthu finds engravings of the Eagle greeting the Cat headed god, one of the masses bowing to the eagle and one of the eagle sitting as judge.
They find a number of primitively made traps and a strange mask that causes fear to anyone who sees it. Batthu comments that "I'm not going to wear it, that's how you end up possessed".
Belam believes he sees a ghost-like dragonborn but, after a short chase, it turns out to be a small, golden kobold called Glint. He was brought here by his 'master' who died of illness some time ago. They were charged with guarding the temple by their god (presumably a gold dragon).
Glint now occupies the tomb of the last pharaoh blessed by the eagle. He's piled up the wealth of the temple into a nest and lives here next to a de-powered flying carpet.
Glint is question and remembers some lore passed on by his master. Namely that the eagle leads to the cat that leads to the crocodile that leads to the hyena (or jackal, depending on the source). He says the way is mapped by the 'way of stars' and prepares to show them the main area of the temple.