Session 7 - The Next Day

Some of the party decides to visit the Diamond Lake Interfaith Friends Breakfast Circle with Deacon Fry to get some sense of rumors and happenings and are greeted by Ord of Oghma, the cleric of the Foursworn, the visiting adventuring party from Baldur's Gate. He puts the group a little on the defensive by being inquisitive and curious about their activities and in return Deacon Fry attempts to encourage him to have the Foursworn head north to the Serpent Hills to investigate the unkillable undead, with middling success.

Afterwards the party regroups and scouts the Dourstone Mines, a tightly guarded mine in the northeast hill of town, and decide to try to bluff their way in as exploratory orefinders. Ragnolin himself considers their offer but doesn't seem quite convinced to let them run amuck in his mines with total freedom, and upon insisting he inspect their equipment (illusioned on Marvin the Mule to look like pickaxes and lanterns), Mesmer distracts him with a Tasha's Hideous Laughter on a guard and the party slips in.

Descending down into the mines, they uncover a guarded passage leading to a shaft down into a grand intersecting cave of glowing crystals and growths, where a small group of kobolds guard a gondola structure leading further off. Deacon Fry cows the kobolds with some bombast and lightning and the party convinces them to watch the mule while they enter the gondola and investigate the "hand" and "death" temples the kobolds spoke of. The gondola leads to a massive cavern illuminated by an earthvein chasm, with three temple entrances on the opposite shelf surrounding a sinister black pool. A number of kobolds on the temple grounds spot them and several take wing to investigate, but a sleep spell causes them to plummet into the chasm below. The rest of the kobolds lob slings and alchemical bombs at them but are ultimately overcome, and the party arrives at the temple entrances to decide what to do next.