Flint

Ven 28-29, 2424 - Session 2 - A Strange Happening

Last thing I remember was the lights going out and fainting. We came too shortly after with no sign of the demon eyes that fled the cave as we smashed the idol. I wonder what that was all about??
We decided to just headed back to town to collect our coin for a job completed. We arrive at the Ox and Lantern and there is some todo happening in Heartwood Square with lanterns and congregating. We meet up with Thadric and the rest of the Cobalt Bazaar to inform them of what transpired.
As we talk about further employment with the caravan as they prepare to set of on the morrow, we are approached by an older woman accompanied by some of the farmers. She introduces herself to the group and tells us the town wishes to thank us for the work we have done to ensure their protection with a nice feast and room and board for the night. We step out to the square where there is a little celebration set up for us.
There were priests and merriment and even a fancy duck, Susan(not the real one), that was actually a druid playing games with the local kids.
We spent the night enjoying some libations, music and nourishment while getting to meet some of the local notables.
I found some interested farmers who I conversed with about the sciences and chemicals that could be helpful as pesticides.
Unbeknownst to me at the time but Amari and Z'ed had wandered off to take another look at the ruin circle. Laslyn curiously followed them into the darkness of the night. There, after a practical joke was played on them, they officially met Thalara the Druid Furbolg. She has no love for the Syndicate what with their deforestation and negative influence on the region's flora and fauna. She carries a skull she talks to that she calls Manito. A bit eccentric and strange that girl is.
After some time the trio rejoined the festivities with their new friend. Laslyn pulled me aside and caught me up with the encounter they just had.
We enjoyed the party into the late hours of the night.
We were awoken abruptly to alarm bells ringing in town. Amongst the panic I heard shouts that a group of kobolds were attacking the outskirts of the town.
We ran to meet them head on.
We came upon a group of 10 kobolds in the fields.
Strangely they were attacking and killing each other. They seemed confused or taken over by some strange force. We saw the same demonic eyes show from behind their own. What is happening here!?
We took care of the "threat" but it seems they more or less took themselves out. After the conflict the other smaller groups seemed to flee. As opposed to the previous group from the day before who came from the north these seemed to have come from the western hills.
We found one unconscious that Laslyn took to question when he came to.
It seems the strange eyes give them some kind of power now that the dragons have left.
He, who goes by Snikt, seemed confused and out of sorts about the attack and said something about "the eyes were angry" and they were compelled to fight.
He kept mentioning the "Smart ones" who sound like magic users or elders of some sort. One of them named Grekin introduced them to the "eyes" for power.
As we questioned him the same eyes shown through his eyes and he started snapping and biting out at us. He started flailing and literally broke his own neck in the process. Whatever is going on doesn't want us getting too close.
We decided then to head west and track them into the hills.
We followed a creed to a large cave mouth which looks much larger then the caves from yesterday.
Outside there were a group of cloaked and hooded figures under a tree. Upon noticing us there was a flash and smoke and two disappeared into the surrounding.
The two that were left in the smoke cloud were left disoriented. Z'ed rushed and jumped on the scrawny one on the ground.
He turned out to be a young boy from town we met last night. The other a toad looking fella named Fendrel. On his cloak, the insignia of the The Sable Horizon Syndicate!!!!