Rivenroar

Quick Ben recalled that Rivenroar castle was reputed to lie to the south, the former home of a powerful family, however it had fallen in to ruins centuries ago. What was not widely known was that the family had built a series of catacombs beneath the castle in which it interred it's dead and that of other powerful families in the area.

Garig bristled as the mention of the Bloodreavers as he had encountered them in the past when he unwittingly participated in the trading of slaves to them and was keen to settle a score.

After a short journey south the party located the entrance to the catacombs.

The entrance chamber was guarded by hobgoblin soldiers and goblin sharpshooters, there were also two fire braziers which slid up and down tracks on the floor.

After defeating the creatures the party headed west where they discovered the hobgoblin's sleeping quarters and had another fight with a group of angry hobgoblins supported by goblin sharpshooters. When the battle turned against the humanoids the goblins tried to flee down a corridor jumping over a series of pits. However, Nalklyr's well aimed crossbow bold eliminated any chance of escape.

The next room central feature was a projected image of a nefarious Castle surrounded by swamp. As the group investigated an Ochre Jelly slithered out of the portal and proceeded to attack the group, the situation was made worse when a pair of spectres materialised within he room and joined the fray. After a tough fight the group took a short rest and pressed on.

In the following chamber they were attacked by two evil gnomes and some strange fiery crablike creatures flinging flame an magma. Although the gnome invisibility presented some problems the party emerged victorious. One of the passages from the room lead to some cells where Nalklyr found a prisoner - a sage name Valthurn. Valturn explained that all the Winterhaven prisoners had been split up and moved in to separate areas. He thinks Silvanna Wrafton, the towns former innkeeper is being held downstairs in a chamber near a spiral staircase and suspects that Rond Kelfem, the captain of the guard maybe dead as he told Valturn a couple of days ago he planned to overpower his ettercap guards. Thuran Kelfem (Rond's son is also a prisoner). A search of the room revealed a magical longsword and 260 gold in one of the alcoves.

With Valthurn in tow the party headed up some stairs to a chamber covered in spiderwebs which was home to a group of ettercaps. This lead to a particularly tough fight, compounded by the ettercaps liberal use of webbing and poison. A search of the room revealed the corpse of Rond Kelfam webbed to the wall and a pouch of residuum and 100 gold and 200 silver. The group then decided they would have to recuperate before pressing on any further. It was decided the safest place to do this would be outside of the catacombs where they rested up and contemplated their next foray.