Bounty Hunters - Session 26

Over the Mountain and Through the Woods

They ask some questions of Alarick's corpse.
- [ED: insert answers and questions here once i get chatlog, at least one key takeaway is that any Goodly Races who exist in this realm mostly do so at the pleasure of Mother Lorinda]
They give him a proper burial, accelerated greatly with mold earth. Peter spits on the grave.
The party votes to take the shorter-but-probably-harder path through the mountains.
A few days pass in travel through rugged terrain. The views are breathtaking: Valleys to the South, a Lake to the West, snow-capped peaks to the Northeast
They reach a gorgeous, snow-fed lake. They move to rest by it, but Bern spots that there are a few dozen tiny, invisible creatures hanging around that might be indisposed to their presence. They give them a pass.
It gets very cold as they get higher up. They have to slow down to handle levels of exhaustion from the cold.
It mostly just takes time. They make it through to the valley that Peter thinks has the Inn they seek.
Reaching the lake, they're about to follow it Northward, when they notice a cave system.
Reasoning that the fae they seek lie underground, they might as well check it out.

Peter holds the lantern of revealing and is told to not expose himself to anything too crazy.
A short ways in, they encounter a mess of corpses, including one of a dark-skinned elf. There are no markings on any of the bodies.
- Two very fancy daggers stand out.
- Whip moves in to investigate. A series of holes sucks are in a whistle, stopping his lungs from working. In a mild panic he searches the body, forgoing some care. He comes back with the two fancy daggers, and a scroll.
- The daggers are not magical, but are clearly valuable. He hands one to Bern and keeps the other. The scroll, he hands to Madrin.
They continue into the cave. A chasm filled with fog cuts off one passageway. Following it the other direction, they find a room.
- It is very cold, -30 degrees F. The ice is thick, and easily supports their weight.
- Despite its incredible sturdiness, the party avoids the ice regardless. Bern notices corpses in it, but nobody else manages to make them out.
Session ends here.