Thread 4, Chapter 4: The Demonskar Legacy
Tygot Mispas, a 120-year-old halfiing retired from adventuring for two decades, owns a small but well-stocked antiquity shop on Lava Avenue, "Tygor's Old Things' specializes in nonmagical art objects gathered from across the known world. Tygot himself has excellent commercial contacts in the capital city of Sasserine, and frequently buys old documents and art objects from local adventurers. His shop is a two-story structure with a small fiat on The upper floor and a we11- organized business area on the lower. The main shop itself contains an impressive assortment of less valuable antiquities, mostly vases, statuettes, small furniture, and tapestries.
When the cousins arrive, Tygot recognizes them as the heroes who saved his shop from the floods and greets them warmly. An old-looking dog teleports over to Magnus and sniffs his hand lazily. Tygot respects the heroes enough to skip his usual attempt to palm off the first piece of junk at hand, and invites them inside for a cup of tea and a private chat. His office is neatly fitted out with fine, human-sized mahogany furnishings.
Tygot is content with idle chit-chat, but when the cousins ask him about Alek Tercival, Tygot becomes more animated. He says that the paladin is an interesting supplier of his shop, and a good friend to boot. As far as he knows, the paladin tithes one tenth of his treasure to the church of St. Cuthbert and puts the rest aside for some purpose. Whenever he found an objects on his journeys, he invariably came here to sell them for cash. Tygot keeps a meticulous register of his acquisitions, and can easily track down all of the objects that Alek brought in over the last month. He knows Alek found them in the Cauldron region, but Tygot has no idea where any of them originally came from.
The plate draws Zaichus' attention. A rectangular plate of silver etched with odd figures and ciphers A crude map and a few notes in Giant are scratched into the opposite side of the plate, which would be smooth otherwise. These scratched notes seem to be quite recent, bur the plate itself has a definite aura of ancient weight about it. Zaichus reads a scroll of Comprehend Languages and reads it; he learns that it is from an ancient society of powerful spell-casting creatures. He identifies the six-armed figures as spell weavers and the humanoid figures as ogres. The spell weavers' leader is depicted on the right side of the place; he holds something referred to as the "Starry Mirror" above his head. A string of ciphers under the depiction of the Starry Mirror represent numbers. These numbers are, in order, 3, 4, 5, 1. 2, and 3.
On the left Side of the plate, three scenes are depicted. These three scenes should be read from bottom to top. The bottom scene depicts the ogre slaves of the spell weavers toiling to build the planar travel installation. The next scene up depicts the same ogres, empowered by the Elixir and granted great strength to aid in their work. The topmost scene shows the planar travel installation in its completed glory.
The scratched map on the back needs more context to be understood, but Zaichus does spot one thing: a statue of a headless demon is said to stand on the banks of the Red River to the southwest of Cauldron.
The party purchases the plate from the halfling and thanks him.
21:45, Today: 4-Zaichus Hope rolled 26 using 1d20+17 with rolls of 9. Knowledge: Local. – 26
21:41, Today: 4-Zaichus Hope rolled 36 using 1d20+17 with rolls of 19. Benny. – 36
21:40, Today: 4-Zaichus Hope rolled 27 using 1d20+17 with rolls of 10. Knowledge: nature. – 27