The Day After

“The Day After”
Rise of the Runelords episode
Episode no.	Episode 5
Date	2008
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Dorothea Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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In this chapter the heroes recuperate and start looking for clues.

The Day After

I hurt a little all over this morning when I woke up after the big fight. We who fought together met up and hung out. We took it easy talking all morning. Aldern Foxglove who's life I saved yesterday by killing that monstrous giant dog, showed up and invited all us girls to go hunting the next day. Then there was some commotion, and when we checked what it was it turned out that some elf scout called Shalelu Andosana had come back from running around in the woods keeping an eye on the goblins. She went to the sheriff and we followed her in. The Sheriff greeted us and said that it was good we already were there so he didn't have to send for us. He sent for the Mayor though. The elf told us a lot about all the goblin tribes around here.

The elven ranger Shalelu Andosana.

There are five of them.

• The first is led by someone called Bruthazmus. I think that one was a bugbear.
• Second is led by Big Gurtmurt. I didn't really pay attention to all she said about them.
• Then there's Ripnugget whose tribe had a lair called Thistletop.
• Koruvus led a tribe called seven teeth or something.
• The last one licked toads in a swamp where a cannibal goblin called Vorka tried to eat them.

I'm guessing the last ones are losers.

The one we killed yesterday was called Gortmurt. Not that that makes much difference.

I juggled a bit with some apples that where in a bowl in that room. The sheriff told us he was going to Magnimar tomorrow to ask for more guards until the goblin problem is solved. He asked us, as the big heroes we are, to help keep an eye open for trouble. We told him we would and that we would especially keep an eye on a suspect we have that might be the human helping the goblins from within the village. The meeting was over and I put back an apple in the bowl and kept the others as lunch.

We thought that we should start looking for traitors right away so we went to the Rusty Dragon to see if any one had heard anything. They greeted us as the big heroes we are, that saved the entire village from being overrun by all the goblins. I told them the story once again of how we realized that there were goblins in the boneyard that no one else had noticed and how we saved most of the remains of Ezakien Tobyn. As Nathaniel wasn't there I took both his and my place in the story and told it climbing the chairs as ladders up onto the table posing as the wall where I and Velicia fought imaginary goblins.

It was easy to get food and drinks after that show. Dorothea really likes beer. Then we asked the others at the inn for stories but those were mostly of how stupid the goblins were, like when some goblins crept into the bonfire while others set it on fire. Someone heard about how several mills had burned down and suspected the Scarnettis to be involved. But there were no strange humans lurking in shadows helping the goblins. It was late at night before we turned in.