| Captain Marsh |
So after flushing the evil quasit Erylium out of the mysterious temple beneath Sandpoint, the party of adventurers known as the White Yeomen found that the local notables -- even those they trusted -- were eager to hush up the affair.
Letting on that Sandpoint has a goblin problem is one thing. Letting on that there may be an active cult to Lamashtu lurking about murdering people and covering noble folk in melted glass -- that's quite another.
So it was agreed that the Black Arrows would provide security for a while and the monks from Windsong Abbey would take on the task of locking down the underground temple, capping its entrances and keeping an eye on any mysterious activity.
Meanwhile, Shalelu Andosana would monitor activities at Thistletop, where the mysterious figure Nualia is believed to be hiding out with a group of goblin henchmen.
The White Yeomen would head off on a side-trek on behalf of Sandpoint's Mercantile League, working with officials in Magnimar to reopen the trade route via river to the city of Kaer Maga.
So..the group sets off by ship from Sandpoint to Magnimar and in the night is set upon by a mysterious faceless horror that grapples the summoner and flits up with him into the sky.
Using a magical tracking device provided to them by Judge Ironbriar, the group follows the summoner first to Magnimar and then into the slum of Underbridge. There they are ambushed by a group of queerly garbed men wearing hideous masks and wielding war razors.
These fiendish murderers keep muttering about the "Skinsaw man."
The group fights off the attackers and recovers the summoner, who was being held as bait. They discover that the summoner has a seven-pointed scar branded on his cheek.
After recovering a bit back at their ship, the group sets out for a night of revelry in Magnimar. One rogue matches wits with a Varisian card sharp, breaking even in a game of "Magnimar shuffle." A barbarian wrestles a hill giant on a bet -- and loses badly.
The magus, meanwhile, heads into the Capitol District and finds an arcane book store with a tome that appears to be a somewhat bastardized grammar of words made up of runes like the ones seen in the temple of Lamashtu and other sites around Sandpoint.
Next week, the adventure continues with the group selling some magical items, and buying trade goods for the journey by river to Kaer Maga. Their first challenge? Helping a group of troglodytes overcome a band of boggards, in exchange for free passage for Magnimarian traders passing near the Mushfens.