Episode 3: Golden Eyes Close (1/24/2023) 

Golden Eyes Close 

Our heroes returned to Bur Boldor after their victory in the mine. However, their rejoicing was tempered by their growing suspicion that Caldor Doragaen's motives were malicious. They confronted Caldor Daragaen at the Doragaen Mining Company where their suspicions were validated in his summoning of undead to fight them. After slaying him in battle and Bjorn rage-kissing Delilah Applebottom (Doragaen's secretary), the party brought his Caldor's ring into the city for more information. Their keen investigative skills brought them to the footsteps of the Temple of Abbathor-- dwarven god of greed and death. They met Natalia, Priestess (and babysitter) of Abbathor, who confirmed that the ring they held was a Ring of Abbathor and informed the party that minor cults pop up from time to time but that the city guard squashes them. They then brought the ring and their testimony to Captain Borreanas of the Bur Boldor City guard who gladly thanked them for their service. They were rewarded with gold and a Certificate of Good Citizenship from the city of Bur Boldor.

Weary from battle, but wanting to return to the festivities of Mirkarkden, the party returned to the Doragaen Mining Company's office to invite Delilah Applebottom only to find one of her brothers who said that they'd disposed of the bodies and skeletons on the grounds of a certain understanding between Captain Borreanas and Delilah. So, they returned to Mirkarkden on the promise that Delilah and her brothers would meet them there to celebrate. Upon entry to Mirkarkden, the festivities came to a halt as a strange, fiery portal opened up in the Festival Plaza of Mirkarkden. Cultists, a chained devil of some sort, and Ileana the Queen of Crows stepped out. "It worked. He will be so pleased." She said. To his horror, Lucky sees the vision of his sister as one of the devil's chained captives. Terrified, one of the townspeople staying on the upper floors fires the first arrow at Ileana. She retaliates with a slew of fireballs from her cultists as the Emerald Inn goes up in flames and the town gives way to chaos!