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Since the gates of Oldtown close at dusk, the totally inconspicuous party decides to hide out near the fortified manor house, Luckily, it is on a lot that has not been tended to in years, so the weeds are quite tall and provide ample cover from casual passers-by. They spend the evening hunkered down, hoping no one calls the guard to investigate why a bunch of murder hobos are lurking in the darkest of the hillside thickets.
Finally it is dark enough and the group approaches the structure and does a quick once ’round to see if there is an obvious back door to exploit. It seems the house was built for defensibility so no entrances are visible. Now the question becomes – through the front door or up the outside wall?

Fingers is given a spider-climb spell and scales the wall, trailing a leng...

The party lounges about a bit and considers options. It looks like they’ve been put into play on the chessboard, but for whom and to what end…none can speculate. Well, they all can speculate, but choose to avoid that line of conversation. By and by – as they pass another evening in the tavern next to their flophouse – they are contacted by the armorer’s apprentice. It seems he is upset and wants to piss off the lover that jilted him. Saif lover is involved in a fencing and smuggling operation, and the blacksmith’s buddy tips off the group as to a chest being moved through the sewers by ogres, on its way to the docks. The ogres are supposed to bring the chest to a wagon that will be parked in the alley down the street from the flophouse (how convenient!).

The group spends the next three d...