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A quick jaunt to Good Sundries allowed the party to identify the magic items that they had recovered: a bowl of water making, a dagger of returning, a web wand, and a magic doorknob. The party traded a handful of the items to Timith for healing potions. They then returned to The Last Chance and settled up with Timith. Finally, in their travels about town they found handbills stating that the Polonian Governor was offering a reward of five thousand gold pieces for the returned return of the crated object that had been looted from the ambushed Polonian squad. A subsequent foray into the military encampment along the docks offered no additional information.
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The party headed east for a day and a half before finding the site of the ambush. The bodies had already been looted of valuables, but the bodies and the majority of their armaments remained untouched. Corliss grabbed a the cloak and helmet of a legionnaire for future use while other others discovered a few scuff marks and tracks of a crate being dragged off into the wilderness. The party following this trail for a few hours before finding a small manor home hidden in the woods. The home was build of red brick with a red tile roof and arrow slits for windows. Ser Shadow deftly climbed atop the roof (and Rhagal scrambed scrambled after him) in an attempt to find an alternate entry into the manor. While atop the roof they realized that the center of the manor home had a large open courtyard with two half-orc guards, The pair leaped down and struck from behind, dispatching the guards before they could raise the alarm. However, the two rogues found themselves stranded with no obvious next move.
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