conversations: human
conversations:  During their travels the bold adventurers Dorium and Hogard find themselves in the isolated village of Haanex and spot a handbill recruiting the services of adventurers.
  
  They enquire for more details at Veoden's tower, a clumsy, flimsy affair of wood, stone and brick that leans at several odd and unstable appearing angles.
  
  the wizard Veoden tells them a long and detailed story of the meteorite that fell from the sky over 100 years ago. due to the enormous value of skymetal this meteorite represents many searched for the fallen star but no one had been able to locate it, none that is except perhaps one, A man named Dairoo was found just west of town, almost dead from wounds and exposure. He claimed that he had found the star but that it was guarded by wizards and monsters.
  
  Dairoo carried in his pockets a few bits of an odd, silvery metal that the town blacksmith could not work. No matter how hot the forge, the metal refused to melt. Dairoo would only say that the metal was not worth the evil that he had seen to claim it and refused to tell a soul where it had been found.
  
  Dairoo died shortly after, many say from a disease or curse, a curse that seemed to be passed down from father to son in the dairoo line for many years but rumour says that something else was also passed down, a map, a map that might hold the location of the fallen star itself!
  
  The last of the Dairoo line has fallen victim to the curse and he was buried with the map but fear of the Curse has outlived the Dairoo line and no one wishes to risk the curse enough to claim the map for their own.
conversations: only1doug:
conversations: human
conversations:  Dor and Hog agree to collect 1 lb of Starmetal for a payment of 150gp, and head to the graveyard to retrieve the map.
  
  They find the gate locked and scale the 6' high walls with ease (easier for Hog than for Dor, but Hog's help gets Dor over the wall). The intrepid pair check the mausoleum but find nothing inside except skeletons... Skeletons which do not rest easily and instead attack the intrepid pair only to find themselves quickly shattered.
  
  Dor leaves a presitdigitation cleaning up the mausoleum while they search for Artuur Dairoo's grave, which they find in just an hour and swiftly excavate using spades lent to them by Veoden. The casket that they unearth is wrapped in chains and secured by two stout locks so Hog snaps the chainsand opens the coffin. Artuur's withered corpse is a disgusting sight but the pair steady their stomachs and Dor snatches the map from Artuur's deathgrip...
  
  Which leads Artuur to awaken from his rest and attack the graverobbing pair, an attack which leads to his rest becoming final.
  
  with the map retrieved the pair decide to rest for the night in the (now clean) mausoleum, and gather up the coins that Dor's prestidigitation spell has conveniently gathered up for them.
conversations: only1doug:
conversations: human
conversations:  In the morning Dor and Hog set out to follow the map to the starmetal, eventually finding themselves overlooking a large crater with a 3' boulder at the center.
  
  The pair see a cave entrace within the crater and a hut at the edge and decide to examine the boulder up close.
  
  the boulder appears to have been mined to some degree, some of it remains but much has already been removed. While they examine it 10 Goblins emerge from the caves and Hog starts chatting with them.
  
  The Goblins do not seem impressed with Hog's smalltalk and the pair are asked to leave, they retire to the edge of the crater to discuss their options and then return to talk more with the goblins, Hog challanges the tribes chieftan for leadership but the Goblins decline the honour of being lead by an Orc and Hog and Dor retreat again, this time to examine the hut.
  
  The hut's door is chained shut from the outside with a solid lock at the front. Hog decided to try and break the door but it didn't open so he attempted to burn it down instead, an effort that would have eventually succeeded except for the interruption of the Goblins, 20 of them now sending a volley of arrow flying toward Hog. a massive melee followed which resulted in Dor being knocked out and hogtied and Hog defeating or scaring off the remaining goblins.
conversations: only1doug:
conversations: human
conversations:  Hogard decides to try untie Dorium and then proceeds to try smash the door down.
conversations: Toffeeplum: