Session 20 - A Recap (FINALLY)

    This session started out with the group receiving an offer of employment and a request to appear at the towns court for the trial of Bascom Yates.  The party began by doing some investigating and ultimately learning that Bascom Yates killed Emory Steele for a strange item pulled from the ocean which he then sold to Prardo for a hefty bag of coin.  They also learned that Prardo was under arrest for possession of magic items. This information was obtained by visiting Bascom Yates in prison and tricking him into believing that a candle they had would cause him pain if he lied while in it's lit presence. 

     At Bascom Yates's trial the party convinced the judge to post-pone his execution as his testimony may be needed in the future to arrest Prardo.  The judge agreed and sent Bascom back to the prison.

    Later Bl'nx wanted to find out what that evil aura in the ocean was so the party hired a sailor and sailed out to the point where it was strongest.  Saloch cast water breathing on the party and wildshaped into a shark.  The party sank to a depth of 500 feet where they discovered an ancient lizardfolk temple inhabited by Kuo-Toa.  In the main hallways they were forced to fight with some mad Kuo-Toa and defeated them soundly.  Futher into the temple they found a strange ritual being performed by Kuo-Toa clergy which involved chanted around a large suspended light while hitting it with lightning bolts.  Each lightning bolt only seemed to make it bigger.

      The party fled from the temple and decided to investigate the offer of employment they had recieved.  The address marked took them to a house in the upperclass district where they met a man who wanted to hire the party to track down Fernmire's ambassador to the Lizardfolk in the swamp.  While they were searching he also asked them to obtain a strange substance call quintessence for him and offered a large sum of money for any that they could find. 

     The party purchased two rowboats and four oars and set out to the Fernmire Bog