It was a pleasant evening stay at the Ghallanda Inn, I always do enjoy the niceties offered by the halflings. However, I must not forget my mission. I have been working on something, tinkering and building. I think the designs are ready, now I just need to build it. I think it will be very useful, and I think Kodiak will like it. I'll need to get back to my shop soon to build it. My associates and I gathered for breakfast, heavy eaters many of them are, but generally enjoyable. The inn was already fairly busy, given the early hour. Among the crew I noticed a couple of Dwarf travelers. Odd that they found themselves in this bar, at this time. I wonder if my father sent them. I tried to give them a good impression, but I for their intentions. Are they here to end my work? Henry (Butterball) proved a valuable source of information, knowing where to find Alden d'Orien , in the Mithral Tower, who was also fond of Unicorns. A Halfling Cassandra helped to guide our way to Mithral tower. Alden was fairly easily accessible, along with his Kalashtar assistant. Tari took the lead in speaking with Alden, and we learned a great deal. Simply, Alden was in over his head and got caught in with some bad people. His son Caden was indeed taken. I advised Alden that he needs to improve his security, I expect him to contact House Kundarak soon. We were directed to a lift that would take us deep into the bowels of Sharn . We did encounter a noble couple, a secret encounter which they were none too happy that we interrupted. Sadly, their names meant nothing to me, but I do know that they were royalty, the ir ' in the name gave that away. I will need to keep an eye out for them, in case they make trouble for us in the future. With some investigating (and some help form the little Gnome Gnipity , we were able to fix the lift. It opened into a massive ruin, were we were quickly ambushed. I was completely caught unaware and fell before the goblins before I could blink. It was moments later that Sonn (I believe it was him) brought me back from the brink of death, it was an experience I will not soon forget. I must repay him for his kindness. After defeating the goblins, we found Caden wounded and ill-treated. We returned him to his father where we were granted 35 GP each. We learned of a half-ogre named Gara who seemed to be the ring leader of this operation. Gara appeared to have threatened Caden to force Alden to dig deep beneath Sharn . Gara appeared to be looking for old magical schema's. I have learned much of this during my training (in fact, it's exactly what I'm building now, I hope the schema works). Looking for a schema deep within sharn cannot be good. Alden advised us of a safe house, somewhere in Tavick's landing, as well as specifically stating that Gara is expected to be leaving via Lightning Rail in the afternoon. We had precious little time, so we immediately set out to find Gara. On route, Vilroy brought a sky coach with her to pick us up, offering to take us to Terminus station. At first, things appeared normal, but things became strange very quickly. She didn't appear to know things she should have, and she claimed to have told us things that she couldn't have possible known. If she did know these things, then she set us up. If she didn't know these things, then she's an imposter. I drew my crossbow before anyone else noticed. It certainly drew surprise from my colleagues, but they quickly caught on. I don't know what happened to Vilroy . She may be dead. Vilroy was a changeling , and was arranging an ambush. Gnolls few in and started raining arrows down against us. We were fighting for our lives. We worked together, helped each other, and I think we grew closer together as a team. I stood side by side with Kodiak, a beast of a man who isn't afraid to get into it. I respect him for that. He can teach me a great deal. The sky coach almost crashed, luckily I was able to gain control of the coach, enough to keep it stable. We may need to find out who it belongs to, and ensure we return it, with an appropriate finders fee of course.
