All though it was a terribly close call with against the red caps, with all members of the writ sorely wounded, it turned out to be a profitable one.
After slaying the red caps, we searched their lair under the great tree. We found two items of particular significance.
The first was a diaroma of the great tree, surrounded by redcaps and a female figure made of twigs and moss, staked with nails. Adela was able to determine that it was being used to drain the tree of life force and transfer it.... somewhere. By removing the nails (and Adela decapitating the miniature redcaps) Evangeline informed us were successful in halting the transfer - hopefully the great tree can now recover.
The second was the demon statue the kobolds had been sent to recover. Adela informed us there was absolutely nothing magical about it. Mikmek agreed to wait until we had a chance to rest, and then he would lead us to his village.
After a refreshing night's sleep at the Lowdragon farmstead (where we reached a deal allowing us to use it as a rest station) we headed off to the Sootscale kobold village, which was located in a cave by the river. Once there, we gave the demon statue to the chief, who smashed it and urged his people to slay the shaman (or so we gathered, none of us able to decifer their hissing). Swept along with the crowd, we helped defeat the shaman, who we discovered (after reading his diary - written in elven) that he was a polymorphed gnome who was using his position to try to get the kobold tribe to get themselves killed - what a jerk!
More interestingly, it appears to be built in an abandoned silver mine, meaning that, once the tribe has recovered, we might be able to get the kobolds to mine it for us.
On the way back, we made a discovery that makes the silver mine somewhat less important - a cave rich with gold veins. We'll need to keep this information secret until we are in a position to guard and exploit this find.
We also sought out and defeated some large spiders - about the size of hunting dogs. Turns out Elezny is afraid of spiders - who would have guessed?
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