This an adventure log for the Middle Kingdom Campaign.
Session: 2 January 2021
Varis (Sam), Shmoo (Bryan) and Keldee (NPC) and Bill Trend (NPC) continued on to the find and investigate the ambush sites. They made it to the approximate area by around noon with plenty of light left. Bill told them that the militia had broken into 10 patrols of about 10 militia members each. They had then gotten on line about a quarter of a mile apart and moved forward towards the mountain looking for hostiles.
It was while the militia was moving forward that the first patrol on the far left of the line had disappeared. Better said, they had been attacked and all had gone missing. Then the fourth patrol from the left had been attacked and two had survived and escaped. From this attack the survivors had mentioned kobolds speaking elvish.
The party decided to try and find the ambush site of the first patrol. They appeared to find the site, but only found a small torn cloth low in a tree of one of the militia members. There were signs of broken branches and some slash marks on trees and bushes where they believed the ambush took place, but nothing that gave them a clue of what happened.
They decide to then head off to find the second ambush site. With the help of Bill they finally found the site after another hour or so of searching. As they were searching this site they saw a deer run past them in fear and then heard large footsteps coming up behind the deer. The party prepared for battle when they saw an ogre coming through the woods with a large club chasing the deer. With the ogre was several kobolds mostly armed with swords and bows, but one who appeared to be a magic user of some type. Using the terrain and the trees the party ambushed the kobolds and ogre. The party quickly slew several of the kobolds, but the magic user ran while the party was slaying the ogre. Shmoo chased the magic user and finally killed him before he could escape. After the battle they discovered that one of the kobolds was still alive. The party also learned that the kobold could speak rudimentary elvish.
The party interrogated him and found out some useful information. The kobold promised to give the party important information on the evil activities going on if the party would let him go. He promised he would go away and not bother anyone again. Reluctantly the party agreed. The kobold told them that there was a Dragonborn warrior and a kobold wizard attempting to raise a dead dragon. They had a lair in the mountain and were collecting materials to affect the raising of the dead dragon. They were going to do it at the next full moon which would be in two nights. Varis gave him a silver piece for his information and used a spell to track that silver piece. The kobold left and did so moving in a direction away from the mountain and the villages.
The party was left with a decision to make.