TCoS (The Crown Of Souls)

Here I will post the summary of the current situation in the campaign. As easy reference to jump in.

 TCoS chapter 1: The mayor of Bree invited the knights of Knights of Eriador to investigate a kidnapping. The militia was stretched out with increased bandit activity and so he was looking for external help.

Two weeks ago some of us rode to Bree to assist the mayor. A doctor was kidnapped out of his , somewhat luxurious, townhouse. He was a well to do citizen of Bree. The mayor was nervous about it being a well to do citizen.

We investigated the crime scene and tracks led to an old wall part where the bandits escaped with ropes, fleeing into the country side. Gathering some of our knights and the captain of the guard, we went on the next day to track them. Finding them holding up on a hilltop. They had build a palisade and defenses and were with more than we could handle. This was no ordinary group of kidnappers.

So we asked for help from the militia of Bree and the next day we organized our stealthy assault on the encampment. some of us were wounded but we successfully rescued the doctor, who was still alive although bruised.

But we witnessed a most peculiar thing. Some bandits, those shouting orders, wore red stone necklaces. When they fell in battle the stone glowed slightly on its own and burst in a thousand tiny shards. I brought some of these shards with me in a pouch and gave them to Leothross to examine.

We brought the doctor back save and sound though. That was, at the time, the task at hand.

 TCoS chapter 2: The whole kidnapping incident was strange.  Especially because there was no reason to kidnap the doctor unless for the ransom money. "The bandit activity in the countryside has been escalating recently as well and perhaps it is linked": says the cpt. He knows we are no investigators but If there is dirt under the mattress he wants it found. (Or perhaps he hopes to claim the property if the good doctor has something to hide.)

KoE has agreed to investigate the house and made a "cunning" plan. Finding a drunken man named Braiden they drugged him and called for the Dr. Meanwhile the newest member 'Nem' slipped into the Dr's house and found a hidden compartment wherein lay a key. Using the key on a locked chest she found scrolls that may reveal something. But the doctor may discover the missing scrolls soon or the broken compartment. In the historical house of the KoE headquarters  Leothross and Drangan try to decipher it, eventually going to the Scholars of Bree in secret to find more about it. But Alas, Leothross decides Rivendell will be the only place to really get to the button of these highly cryptic scrolls (part of a book).   They journey to the beautiful city beyond the Trollshaw.