RotDQ: Episode 22

Day One Hundred And Four (30th Eleint 1489)
It is late at night. The party are in the Carnath Roadhouse and have found a trap door down to a tunnel inside a Strong Room. Trior Hizon wants to deal with the Cultists in the Roadhouse, so they party leave the trapdoor to deal with them, with Solania guarding the trap door.

The party ambush some cultist as they sleep, but they end up waking the others and a fight breaks out. Bog Luck is called for and comes over to join the fight. Knight Shart is thrown off the balcony and is badly injured. Croak appears in a magical portal and helps out the party in the fight Eventually all the cultists go down.

The party go searching the dead and Bog Luck's room. They find a note thanking Bog Luck for his work maintaining the tunnel. Croak finds a chest, and when he gives it to the others it is empty. Korbal Tallfort gives Bog Luck's weapons to his squires.

The party head downstairs to look at the wagons. They hear crying from the stables. In the stables are 3 dead children, a crying child and a crying cultist. The cultist is the one who attacked Maven for killing her husband, locked in the stables as a punishment by Bog Luck. Maven magic missiles the cultist to death. The child says the other children were killed by ghostly rats, Trior's spectral guardians. Trior doesn't own up to his collateral damage.

Croak brings out a bag of holding to carry the belongings in the wagon. Trior wonders if the bag of holding was in the empty chest. Croak empties the bag of holding to find 3 dead bodies inside. Croak makes up a story about why the bodies were in there. The party take all the treasure and gold from the wagon.

The party go into the Strong Room to have a long rest.

Day One Hundred And Five (Highharvestide, 1489)
It is early in the morning. Croak is on watch and hears a dragon land outside. He wakes the party up as the dragon is enraged at the empty treasure wagon. The party flee though the tunnel. The tunnel isn't very long and they exit the tunnel and see an adult black dragon tearing the roadhouse apart.

The party flee away from the roadhouse down a trail. They come across an empty camp in a clearing where there are 3 dugout canoes. The party don't want to rest here, still fearing the dragon, get into the canoes and head down stream.

They head up stream and run into 3 other canoes full of 9 lizardfolk.