And so off we went to Winterhaven in search of a death cult that was doing bad things. There was the note, the church warnings, maybe something else. But we were all at least partially to totally convinced there were very bad things happening in Winterhaven and we should stop them.
But first, we were ambushed by kobolds on the road. Other than being slightly irritating by running from me and chasing poor Izzy around, we defeated them easily.
Winterhaven is a strange little town. I don't recall the specifics, but the bartender didn't know anything about a death cult. The patrons of the bar didn't. The town leader denied such a possibility. The town historian said a death cult in Winterhaven would be impossible, but suggested we come back the next day after he'd had time to do some research.
Izzy had met an acquaintance of his in the bar. He'd gotten some clues about a kobold hideout. He'd gotten this information from someone who had something to do with his past. I don't know how this woman was in a bar in frozen Winterhaven, but I've learned not to look gift badgers in the eye, if you know what I mean.
However, the lack of information from anyone about the death cult was fishy; Very, very fishy. Especially the old historian. How could we be getting reports from elsewhere about this cult but not in the town. How could the historian have no information at all?
We decided he was very suspicious and I sent a couple of us back to him to investigate, even though it was late. Izzy, Findel and Listillin were in charge of that. They went out and attempted to interrogate him some more. They didn't give details, but I believe he merely locked his door and went up to his tower.
We gathered back together and discovered we had all of one clue, and that was from a very drunk Izzy. The location of a kobold lair that may or may not have anything to do with all of this. We would venture there in the morning.
It was not a long journey to the southeast, just a few hours. On the way, we were ambushed by kobolds. Kobolds ambush us a lot, with very little success. It was much like the previous ambush where I didn't do much but chase the bad kobolds chasing our kobold. We defeated them in short order and continued on down the road and then through some light forest to where we were told there were koblds.
There were kobolds!
We almost stumbled upon them as we were moving as silently as we could through the woods. Fortunately, we spotted them before they spotted us. There were about fifteen of them in a wooded meadow with a stream below a moderately noisy waterfall. They weren't on the alert, but they were armed and we could be spotted, even if just accidentally, at any moment.
We attacked!
And we defeated them handily. Our time working together was starting to show. With Idria firing gigantic columns of light into groups of them, with Izzy providing a steady barrage of arrows, and me and Listillin fighting in melee, we routed them pretty clearly. One ran to the waterfall yelling he was going to warn the others, but was brought down before he could get close.
We spent a couple of minutes catching our breath, then sent Izzy into the waterfall into what looked like a cavern.
It was another kobold ambush!
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