User:Lhynard/Projects/Imago Deorum/Campaign outline/Summary 1

Dates
Hammer 12 – Hammer 22, 1372 DR

Summary
While Jayce arranged a job for them as mercenaries to defend a caravan on the way to the Trade Way, Belvin and Leokas calm a wild camel in an open pen and are rewarded by being given the animal, which Belvin names "Kamil". After dinner, they learn that the little daughter of the family is missing. The PCs track her path and face a giant monstrous scorpion. After slaying it, they find the girl&mdash;in shrunken form&mdash;within a suit of plate mail buried in the sand. Very confused, they returned the child to her mother, and she returned to her normal size. The parents begged the PCs not to tell the caravanners of any of this. The next morning, Jayce, and soon the others, meet a large brass dragon named Sseth. After he talks them nearly to death&mdash;during which time they learn that the nomads they had met on the journey were likely jann&mdash;they are excited to find out that he has seen the goblinoids for which they are searching. He offers to track them for the PCs if they enter what he believes to be a recently uncovered ruin of a fragment of the Harem Palace of Calim and return with an artifact for his museum. When she departs for her "perfuming", the PCs take the opportunity to explore further. They find the remains of her chambers and in it a magically sealed urn. Prying open the urn, they find a Shunnari's journal inside, preserved by magic for thousands and thousands of years.
 * The PCs travel down the Calim River by barge to Keltar. While camping one night, they are raided by gnolls but are victorious.
 * They enter Keltar and make there way toward Southeast Sabban but are waylaid by a gang of juveniles. After soundly defeating them, they are arrested by the amlakkar for disturbance of the peace.
 * They are delivered to the "Amlak Arcane" of Keltar, Xaros Tenseal. He questions them and warns them against el Ashnarti. Then he offers them the job of tracking down the escaped goblinoid slaves, who have fled into the Calim Desert.
 * The PCs set out from Keltar with the camel train of Asref yn Effen el Pashar. They find and kill the first escaped slave, a bugbear who had murdered and eaten a family of farmers, before arriving at a caravanserai for the night.
 * The PCs enter the Calim Desert. They encounter a band of desert raiders and defeat them.
 * That night, they arrive at an oasis where a family of nomads live and are treated as welcome guests. The men in the family are unusually tall and large.
 * The caravan continues its journey west. They are ambushed by a wyrmling brown dragon hiding beneath the sands. After slaying it, they explore its tiny lair and find a magical periapt. In its belly, they find another efreeti bottle like the one they already bear.
 * On the sixth day of travel, they reach the Teshyllal Wastes. On the seventh, they reach the ruins of Teshyll, only a few hours from the Trade Way. Asref and the caravan leave them, and they make camp.
 * The PCs enter the fallen tower, where they discover evidence of the goblinoid slaves having sheltered here recently. They proceed through the sideways tower until they reach a staircase going deeper under the sands.
 * Going deeper into the Harem Palace, they encounter and take captive one of the escaped slaves, a bugbear named Rhok. Rhok informs them that one of the two hobgoblin leaders, Gnish, was eaten by the brown dragon. The two leaders had been telling the escaped slaves that they were chosen by the god Allu. Rhok is scared about the large number of rats in the ruins and more so of a strange "black, little monster" with long arms that strangled Rhok's hobgoblin partner.
 * The PCs soon encounter the monster that Rhok feared and manage to slay it. (During the fight, Belvin also executes their bugbear prisoner.) They decide to return to the surface to end their explorations for the day.
 * The next day they discover how to reach an even lower floor of the ancient harem. They encounter and defeat a wererat. They are also detected by the ghost of a jhasina, who approaches them.
 * Jayce bravely tries talking with the ghost. Her name is Shunnari. She was a jhasina of Calim himself but does not realize that she is dead.
 * The PCs return to the surface, where Sseth is delighted at their find, since he is so fond of history, and her diary provided the only visual description of the great djinni Calim Sseth had ever read. He believes that their actions have freed Shunnari to at last go to the Fugue Plane. He also informs Belvin that he talked to Kamil and the camel reports having bad dreams with what Sseth assumes are crocodiles in it. Sseth then flies off to search for the goblinoids, while the party makes its way to the Trade Way.