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15 Elient - Day 01 - Red Larch - Clinker's Departure

Waking before dawn, Clinker quietly gets dressed, leaves a note on his bed for his friends, and stealthily makes his way out of the inn at Red Larch to just catch the first glow of morning sunrise as he gathers the cart and oxen from the stables and heads north.

He feels guilty and more alone than he has felt in a long time. He has grown too used to companionship, and he takes out his flask of Ol' Death Whisper to help numb the pain, and he turns his thoughts to the problems ahead. He needs a plan, and he needs help, The Owlbear League were not willing to help take the remaining gold from Dretchroyaster, so he needs some mercenaries. He has the gold in the North Coast Trader's Bank in Yartar, to buy mercenaries, he just has to find some, which shouldnt be difficult in Yartar - check.

He has the League's bag of holding, but he will need a way to move ten times that amount, so he needs a team of oxen and carts and chests or something magical like a portable hole, but they are rare and expensive - more gold than he has. Maybe he can rent one, but that is still a - problem.

He has the map of the lair of the dracolich, and some knowledge of the layout, but what has changed, and what have they not seen yet? There are the teleportation portals they found, but they seem risky, what if it takes Clinker and mercenaries right to the dracolich - unknown

Then there is the little problem with the dracolich - how can they get in and grab the gold? Does the dead dragon ever leave? Do they need a distraction? Can they somehow tunnel underneath? What if they used the Hydra? Could they get the hydra to attack it, or at least distract it?

The day is spent with these and other thoughts on the road to Yartar, and he beds down for the night at a popular encampment in the Sumber Hills between Red Larch and Westbridge.

16 Elient - Day 02 - Sumber Hills

22 Elient - Day 08 - Yartar

Clinker spends the morning inquiring at several establishments about mercenaries available to hire for travel to a dangerous location. He gets some rumors, but nothing concrete, so is distracted deep in thought when he is sacked from behind and knocked out...

MORE TO COME

That night in his room at the inn, Clinker makes some preparations, given the corner he has been put in. He writes a quick letter and drops it in the message box to Seraphina, a member of the Owlbear League.

Seraphina, I am in Yartar and was kidnapped temporarily by some sort of shady gang. The leader is named Russia and he runs some sort of mercenary group. We are going after Dretchroyaster's gold, I don't think I have a choice at this point, but I may need help if they try to rob me at the end of the job, or even worse, kill me. If I disappear, please come and kill the villainous bastards for me - Clinker

Clinker puts the message in the magical sending box which will deliver it to the Owlbear League. Next he writes another letter and has a page at the inn deliver it to the temple of Tymorra, and the high priest Bodal Bosk.

High Priest Bosk, this is Clinker the rock gnome who helped recover your diamond staff from the clutches of the dragon cult and the dracolich in the Lost Peaks of the High Forest. I have been sort of kidnapped by a mercenary group lead by a human named Russia who is in Yartar, his team is Egis a lionen, Shen an earth genasi, Valeria an aasimir, Boris and ????. We will be returning to the caves of the dragon cult to get the gold the dracolich protects, but I suspect a double-cross at the end. I would not want to give up information on the diamond staff and its current whereabouts, but I might be forced to if my life depends on it. If you could speak to the authorities and have this Russia guy locked up, it may save us both. - Clinker

Clinker then tries to get a final night of rest before leaving for the Lost Peaks.

23 Elient - Day 09 - Yartar

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