Familiar Bane Enters their First Tomb

The group met Captain Haydon. He is looking for a map to find a gem. He thinks some magical gem is causing the curse. He wants his troops to stop dyeing. He was so unique in not liking the curse. The pirate captain cat was looking for a secret magical entrance to a tomb. Tink never trusts cats and he could not find any room to trust this captain. We agree to search for this tomb, but he was not going with us. 

Qawasha drew a rough map of the mesa in the wet soil. Bugsy wanted to investigate the temples. If he was building a tomb they would be beneath a temple. Qawasha said they were new, being constructed for the future town of the mesa. Hooman went into the map. He mentally walked about. He looked around the group. Keeping his voice low so Haydon could not hear him, “If I was going to place a tomb up here, I would do it at the head waters of this river.”

The group headed north first to not give away the direction they were actually heading. The turned west. An Alligator was ahead. Bugsy and his mentor or sorts, prepared spells to defend the group. Artichokes dashed over to the beast killing it with her monk like attacks. This area was the main area for two huge elephants. These were not familiars like Suasoon. These were huge beasts. They were angry and charging towards the group. Fog rolled in to mask the group at Tink’s control. 

One of the elephants charged left and ran directly into Arichoke. The other stumble through the fog to headbut Hooman. Bugsy healed Arichoke, running off to the north as he did. Undril ran up to heal Hooman. With a touch of her hand, he was healed. She left herself vulnerable and took the main charge of one of the trunked beasts. She died on the spot. The other, possibly the mate stepped on Qawasha ending his life on the spot. 

Fearing these creatures, the group ran off to the north. Maybe Haydon would be halted by these creatures if he follows this way. Heading deeper into the jungle to the west they came across a small camp. Just beyond the camp, the group found a large door. Searching the camp, signs of Haydon’s men were found everywhere. It was no surprise to Tink that a cat would lie about knowing the location of the hidden temple. The only question was why he would lie. None of his people were there. 

Beyond the locked door was a chamber. Inside there were three statues. There were small nooks all over the room. The statues looked almost too perfect with no chisel marks. They were a farmer, a soldier and child. The child was missing an arm. They all looked like items could be added to them. Artichoke found an arm and other object while searching the nooks. 

Bugsy grabbed the arm and placed it on the child statue with reckless abandon. He stepped back expecting it to explode. Off to the left a door slid open.