Voices in My Head Telling Me Not to Burn Everything Down

So after we dispatched the Aernea, Obegard informed us that he felt his pendant somewhere in this city. We resolved to set off immediately to track it down.

At this moment, a woman emerged from Durthen's room. I didn't know what the deal was, but she claimed to be from Obegard's guild. Obegard didn't seem to be suspicious of her claims, and that was good enough for me. She told us that her name was Woe, or was it "Whoa".














We followed Obegard to the house where his pendant was, and Obegard, being the voyeur that he was, eagerly volunteered to conduct a little lookie loo into the man's home. Unfortunately for us, the resident was prepared for such peepers, and somehow detected Obegard and began clearing out his goods. We quickly moved in to surround him, but this guy was more slippery than Borrow after a day of midget oil wrestling. We eventually caught up to him, and much to my disbelief, the others allowed him to keep his undoubtedly-ill-begotten goods. We also figured out that this man, Finn, was tasked with forging some papers for a ship set to leave dock this very morning. At this point we also suspected that someone was pulling our strings -- Obegard probed the man's thoughts, and it appeared that he really didn't have an idea how the pendant got into his possession. It seems that we were being led toward this ship, but by whom?

To cut a bit of a long story short, Ili used my hat of disguise and pretended to be Finn to deliver the forged documents, to the ship, which were crewed by a bunch of nasty looking humanoids. We stayed in contact with a telepathic bond, and though Ili wasn't able to gather much information, Borrow went in next, transformed into a cloud of vapor indistinguishable form the fog that permeated throughout the docks. He was able to gather some information about the cargo the ship was set to carry, but he wasn't able to figure out what it was, so we finally sent Obegard in to hopefully shrink the crate and bring it back with us for further examination. Unfortunately, Obegard went in the wrong way, and set off an alarm spell. I was about to cast a Flame Strike to create a distraction, but the others told me not to do it, so I backed off. Too bad, because I could have really crippled that ship. Obegard managed to steal the crate and teleport back to our room, where we met with him a little while later.

We didn't have much time before the captain of that ship came knocking at our door. I don't know how he managed to find us, because we never told Finn about where we were staying. Durthen and I had a chat with the beast, and I have to say that Durthen wasn't the most discreet of individuals, he pretty much spilled the metaphorical beans right away, and if it weren't for Obegard's timely Detect Thoughts spell, I fear that we would have let him get away. By carefully asking the right questions, I was able to get the captain to think about exactly why he needed the forged documents -- namely that the cargo was poisoned potions! With our goal accomplished, we let him take back his crate, with the intent that we'd warn the destination city of the tainted goods before they arrive. We also learned of this "Basc" company that apparently had initially supplied the goods.