Rise of the Rune Lords or so they think

Game Master nightdeath

Bilgo or so they think, stirs and wakes up. He rub on his eyes and sit up and sees Gimpy and Vidas already awoken. He then see the elf. Erm, where am I?

Vidas groans as the rocks pelt him.He gets up,heads to the armory get equips himself with a reasonable amount of loot.

Having waited long enough, your eleven hirer beckons with a long limbed fingers sending a table to be set with a map and another to be laden with food and drinks covered by a barrier. The scent of roast meats and other delicacies fill the air.

"Come to this table, once you understand your task I'll shall let you have your fill before sending you to where you must go."

Pointing to the map.
"I have need of an item within this place, I care not what you do within but I want that item. It'll be placed within a golden box warded with gylphs. I would suggest not trying to open it. Bring that box to me. Any other spoils within this place is yours to do as you wish."

Steepling his fingers, he looks at you and smiles. A smile of a predator..........
"Do you accept?"

Vidas lets loose a hearty chuckle.
"what else do I have to lose?"
Yet deep down inside, he is wary of his beneficiary.
sense motive: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Mysteries to unravelled! I'm in!!

Vidas thinks the Elf is rather shifty but seems to be abit on the shady side though his words ring true.

Lep bursts out of the roast boar on the neighbouring table. His person, covered with the stuffing of the boar, resembles that of a strange monstrous bring, birthed from the insides of a carcass.

Giggling, he exclaims, "Map was right! To have pleasure, must be bare!"

Gimpy is attracted by the smell of roast meats, and ignoring the elf totally, he immediately goes straight for the food, running into the barrier helplessly and wailing until the elf lowers it.

"Gimpy wants fud!!!!!!!!"

The Elf sighs and with a gesture lowers the barrier. It seems that these bunch of unlikely adventurers can be very single minded... He waits for them to finish their meal partaking of none and drinking from his wine glass only.

Vidas takes a look at the spread infront of him.thinking ahead,vidas grabs a collection of bread,cheese,salted meats and sweets and stuffs them into his pack.He turns to the motley party and remarks:
"we'll need yummies guys.i advise you to do the same."
then he turns to the elf
"Gracious host,I hope yer don't mind me"
vidas aims to get extra trail rations by taking the food

Wherp dou we set ourf? (when do we set out?)
Bilgo tries to speak with the amount of food in his mouth.

Those food grabbed won't last long enough to be trail rations.

The elf sits quietly sipping his wine glass and refuses to answer until his guests have eatne their fill and cleaned up. He seems amused at your actions.

Bilgo swallowed the last bit of food in his mouth and turn to the elf "so? When do we set out?"

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The Elf points to a ruby.
"As soon as you have taken your fill and are ready to listen to what needs to be done."

Bilgo turns towards the ruby where the Elf pointed. "Beautiful ruby" "May I hold it?"

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Vidas grunts and shoves everything he's grabbed into his mouth,unwilling to admit defeat.he grabs a leg of lamb and more roast beast and walks towards the ruby,eager to know what's going on.

The elf smirks as he twirls his ruby on its chain.
"Ruby? What ruby? This is not the ruby you are seeking for."

Waves of fear enamanate from the elf, bringing images of prancing happy little ponies prancing about, a rainbow with walking bears with pictures on their bellies.
DC 25 will save from Bilgo please

will saves: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

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Bilgo is frightened away from the elf who seems fearsome indeed as, his eyes becoming little more than pin pricks of twinkles......

The elf ends the spell quickly enough.
"Are you ready to listen now"

Bilgo runs away and cower at a corner of the room... "sure sure.... I am listening!"

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"What about the rest of you?" smirks the elf as he waits for your answers.

Gimpy not notice what is going on. Gimpy is very very full, and very drunk. He begins dancing on the table, leg of lamb in one hand and chicken drumstick in the other. His pants are for some reason on his head like a hat and he's prancing up and down giggling as he shovels as much as he can into his tummy.

After a while he stops, and a wave of discomfort crosses his face. As his green skin turns a shade of grey his features curl up into an unrecognizable scrunch as he lets out the biggest and stinkiest fart ever known to man. With a grin on his face he hops down from the table, and resting against one of the table legs, falls asleep.

Vidas catches a whiff of the stink and darts for a candlestick.lifting it off of the table,he ignites the fart that explodes in a great ball of fire. Turning to the elf,candlestick in hand and one of his sleeves on fire,he nods.
"I'm listening. Where to now boss?"

Lep takes the stuffed intestines and throws them vertically upwards. He takes a step back and lets it fall in a pile. Then he takes sauce and pours it on the pile ofintestines, lubricating them such that they slide past each other and level themselves on the gsound in a single layer.

Gazing at the mess in consternation, he looks up and responds, "The entrails say yes!"

The Elf laughs.
"For now you may refer me as 'Lantern'. My employer requires you to do the following;
Ensure that the one known as Ameiko gains control of the place known as Glassworks. There should be a deed that will prove it. Eliminate all other claimants as you see fit.
Find out who'e washing the Sheriff's clothing?
Find me this box" He waves his hands as a picture of an ebony box appears, engraved with runes that twist and turn in normal sight. Always changing and forever in flux.

Another snap of his fingers and a bone whistle drops onto each of your laps.
"When you are done, blow a tune in it and I'll have you all brought back here."

Seeing that all of you are clear or not, he snaps his fingers and the world blurs and changes.

You find yourselves in someplace strange, no longer where you started at. (A1)

Lep looks around, studying his surroundings, while babbling off the elf's instructions to no one in particular.

"Ameiko must win! Find Sheriff's laundry! Find the Runed Box!"

"Sucks...I'm starting to get sick in this teleporting around. Hey you guys... Step on it. We have much to venture!" after which Bilgo gives Gimpy a soft tuck to wake him up.

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Gimpy awakens, still in a daze but immediately sobers up when he realizes he can't smell the yummy meats. "Where foooood?" He says, sounding awfully pitiable, as if he hadn't eaten for days. His tummy gives out a rumble in response. "Nonononononononono!" He shouts, angrily stamping on the floor.

"well,we're already here,so I don't see why we shouldn't explore."
Vidas chuckles and opens the first door.

"Youngster... Always so impatience" Bilgo stands up and walk towards the door. [b]"come Gimpy, let's see what food we can salvage here" (Goblin)

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Gimpy is annoyed, but what Smelly says has it's merits. He tucks the whistle in his loincloth for safe keeping and draws his shortswords, just in case...

Silent as death, he keeps to the shadows, almost as if vanishing into the darkness.

stealth: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (13) + 22 = 35

At A1.
This room contains a shop where customers can browse the various glassware produced here. Bottles, windowpanes, and glasswork art are the primary contents.

Vidas sweeps over the glassware with glee,looking for bottles and flasks to hold his alchemical fluids.

Vidas is able to find 20 such vials.

Vidas grabs 16 of them,for no particular reason.
hint hint
"Yoink!"
He then moves over to the side door leading to A2 and waits for the party to finish

Gimpy impatiently taps his foot, as he presses his back to the wall. Slowly, he creeps up to Vidas, and declaring the human cover, he checks for traps on the door before opening it.

perc: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

The door is trapped with 2 traps.
One seems to have a glowing Gem in it, the other seems to trigger off on something.

Calling to mind the clarity of the void, Lep reaches out to touch Gimpy. For the first time, they see him speak coherently as his eyes glaze over to become two onyx orbs, with specks of white that look like stars in the night sky.

"See what my mind sees! White against black, no grey, only the clarity of contrast!"

Lep attempts to cast guidance on Gimpy, if the latter lets Lep's touch connec.

Gimpy giggles gleefully, and does a strange jig as he fiddles around with the traps. He thinks it be funny to play a trick on the hooman bean, and tries to get the trap to go off HARMLESSLY in the hooman's face.

disable device on magic w guidance: 1d20 + 17 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 17 + 1 = 30
disable the other trap: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (2) + 17 = 19

Gimpy thinks Gimpy has done it and now the door seems as if it's safe but only for the next one to try opening. Gimpy does notice that the nice gem melts as Gimpy is finished.

shit. Sounds like fireball gem to me
All this while. Bilgo is scribbling on his book and talking to himself.

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Gimpy looks at the human bean, and in his cheesiest, nicest, creepiest smile ever, says sweeetly "Ish okay now. You can go."

Then he slinks back into the shadowwwwss.

stealth: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (2) + 22 = 24

Vidas grins and thanks gimpy
"my thanks friend.now let's get this door open."
With a firm hand on the door,vidas pushes hard.

A click is heard as a spring loaded with nothing rams hard into Vidas midsection. Non Lethal 1d10 ⇒ 6 Followed shortly by a 'Twang' as an arrow flies at Vidas, Arrow trap Non-Lethal 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 101d6 ⇒ 4 narrowly missing Vidas by an inch.

The door opens revealing a narrow corridor.
Refer to Map. Where to next?

Pointing at Vidas, Lep giggles to himself.

Vidas snorts as traps spring on him.vidas opens the door to A2, expecting less than 50 armed bandits.or a major demon lord.
"my lady pharasma,if thy will be done.please thee dead." vidas mutters,resentful and bitter.

Gimpy howls with laughter as Vidas gets hit by the modified trap. He falls over on the floor rolling around holding his sides, giggling to himself. After a while he stops and gets back to his feet, tears in his eyes.

He sees Vidas snort, looking very angry and grumpy. Gimpy feels bad. He slides over to the hooman's side and tugs at Vidas shirt. With wide puppy dog eyes he looks at Vides "...Gimpy sowwyy..."

Vidas finds nothing but stores here.

Bilgo simply follows behind the party scribbling on his notebook of every detail :

Trap with a red gem found.. The gem somehow melted.
Dumb human just got pranked by smart goblin.
Room empty... Wasted effort.

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Vidas snorts as he exits the store.
"perhaps I was wrong to trust a goblin in the first place."
vidas wanders over to the second door on the otherside of the corridor to A3 and pushes the door.