It happened on Garren's watch ...
A fog rolled in through the swamp, it barley touched the high ground the Hero's claimed for camp. Two creatures of unknown make fought for dominance just south of camp. The Hero's could barley make out the silhouettes as the beasts fought. They were huge. A man could fit in a foot print lying down.
While the hero's watched the fight, a party of four dwarves crawled into the camp hoping to find safety in numbers from the battle royal just a couple 100 yards away. They said there were two Orc clans on the higher high ground on the other side of the bog. Each clan was cheering on a different beast.
Eventually one of the beasts gave in and walked away from the fight. The Winner soaked in the glory; the victorious clan threw gifts and prizes down to the beast. Both beasts eventually left the bog through different portals.
One dwarf said they were giants. While another said they were demons. And a third dwarf said they were giant demons. The fourth dwarf stayed silent and stroked her beard. In truth no one but the orcs know what the beasts really are. The fourth dwarf did say the orcs follow Orcus. The dwarves left early in the morning.
The next night the Hero's found the path to the Tomb of Chaos as their map suggested. They watched three squads of Gnolls march away in different directions in the flat land just below the path. As the Hero's approached the path, the saw at least two gnolls on watch. Deni and Darrin snuck up within mere feet to only spring a trap as they walked into the space of a Putrid Haunt lying in wait. The pair fought hard and almost killed Darrin. Garren came to the rescue. He healed Darrin and went to work on the Haunts with the Xanthos blade. Eventually the Gnolls and the haunts were dispatched, but one runner got away.
The Hero's approached the Tomb at night. They met little resistance. The statues outside the tomb all had gems for eyes.
When the heroes entered the tomb they were ambushed by Gnolls using a weapon built by the Exacting Machinations Incorporated over 2000 years ago. The weapon saturated the area with 100s of arrows. The party was skewered. They fought and won. They pulled the arrows from their flesh and destroyed the additional magazines of arrows for the unbreakable weapon. It was to big to carry.
Chanting started in the next room. When the PCs entered they set off a sigil which gave them disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws and held them in a hold person spell. Deni, saved. The rest did not. Fang slit Louissa's throat opening a portal to the Elder Elemental Eye. A Quaist came over and snatched the Elemental Spell Book, Journal and drawings held in the Amulet of Binding. The items were tossed into the portal. Garren broke free and attacked Fang. But Fang had a talismen. When Garren drew blood with his sword, he lost experience instead of damaging Fang. Eventually Fang was slain. The Quaist fled through the portal with Fang's body.
They rescued the Dwarves of Ballentine Creek.
The hero's returned to Duskhollow to find it burning.
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