Adventure Synopsis
The Reckoning begins with the PCs witnessing the mugging of Jemar near the Black Dragon Inn in Clerkburg. The PCs are expected to rescue Jemar at which point he will explain to them that he has been soliciting mercenaries to rescue the failing Brendigund house by retrieving treasure from the Cairn Hills. Tle suspects that Auldon will have more details regarding precise location and if the PCs agree to help will give them Bedilund's letters.
Upon arriving at the merchant's home at an appointed time that evening, the PCs will meet Auldon, and present their suspicions that his family has hidden a valuable heirloom and other treasure near a mine in the Cairn Tlills Auldon Will share his information from Effimus' diary. Despite this, he will be skeptical, but willing to undertake anything that might help his situation at no cost to him. Tle will tell the PCs they can keep anything they find except the "heirloom'. Tle will give the PCs directions to the mine and suggest that they stay to stay at the Last Chance Inn on the border of the Cairn Tlills, approximately one day's travel from Greyhawk.
Upon arriving at the Last Chance Inn, the PCs will be greeted by the innkeeper and offered a room and a meal They will be treated to entertainment from a local bard who sings a ballad chronicling some of the legends of the Cairn Hills. A raid by a local band of humanoids on the inn's livestock interrupts the song. The PC's can opt to partictpate or watch the ensuing battle. The next morning they will travel to the Brendingund mtne and find that only the barn and a rough hole in the ground remain. The PCs will have to use their wits and the search skill to locate the secret entrance to the cairn, which is below one of the horse stalls.
Once the PCs descend into the cairn, they will enter the Chamber of Sighs- This room was used to conduct services for the ancient folk who built the cairn- The only exit from the chamber is a hole in the floor that was clearly used to lower sarcophagi into the crypt below. The crypt below is filled with twelve sarcophagi and several skeletal defenders. After defeating the skeletons, the PCs will need to open the sarcophagi until they find one with a secret passage into the treasure rooms below- In the sarcophagi with the secret passage is the perforated body of Uncle Stoat and his diary. Once the PCs navigate the trapped sarcophagi, they will enter the treasure rooms and find that all are empty except a small one off to one side. This room contains only a stone pedestal at the far end with the Necklace of the Forlorn Cairn resting on it After acqutring the Necklace, the PCs will return to the surface and begin their journey back to Greyhawk Since the mugging, a local opportunist named Bwirse has been shadowing the PCs. Tle has hired some inept mercenaries to attack the PCs and attempt to steal whatever treasure they have retrieved from the Cairn Tlills. This attack will take place while the characters are on their way back to the Last Chance Inn. Bwirse hired the mercenaries in Greyhawk and they are supposed to meet him at the Black Dragon Inn in Greyhwak in five days- The mercenaries will describe htm as a scholarly looking human who gave his name as Gwier When the PCs reach Greyhawk and Auldon's home, he will ask them to give him whatever treasure they found at the mine. Auldon will appraise the items and ask to hear their tale before sending them on their way with everything but the necklace.
The Necklace of the Forlorn Cairn is worth 20,000 gold orbs, the masterwork long sword is worth 315 gold orbs, and the Thunderstone is worth 30 gold orbs.
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