A brief recap:
While returning from a shopping trip to Silverhaven, a group of youngsters from Springley Downs (a tiny hamlet in northern Escanthia) discovered a dead man lying in the road. In his saddlebags they found a strange stone with unusual writing and diagrams on it; they also met up with a young dwarf who had been tracking an "evil shaman" who had decimated his tribe's village.
Meanwhile, another group of youngsters discovered a strange creature buried beneath a magical spring. They managed to wake it up, and it began to speak of the memories of dragons.
The two groups met up at the Laughing Arms Inn & Tavern, where they bemoaned being marginalized by the adults of the town. Hearing sounds of battle from the nearby church, they exited the inn and were attacked by the dead man from the road, who apparently was walking again (as well as breathing fire, attacking with ram's horns, and moving faster than humanly possible). The man seemed to focus on the stone he had been carrying on his saddlebags.
After defeating him, they rushed to the church to find it burning from an attack by the shaman who had destroyed the dwarf's village; this madman had also killed the elven wizard who had been teaching a few of them. Once again the adults trivialized the group's experiences.
Fed up with being treated like incompetent children, the group snuck out of town in the middle of the night, taking the strange stone (which seemed to have a fragment of prophecy scribed upon it) with them. They traveled back to Silverhaven, looking for information on the man and his travels.
At the Sleeping Wolf Inn, one of them impersonated the dead man and went up to his room to collect his things; the others intimidated the innkeep and discovered that the man's horse had been rented from Hurg Doolin's livery stable, and that Master Doolin was rather put out that the dead man (named Sarkha Khatyan) had ridden the rented horse away from town in a different direction each day (at least, for the week since he'd arrived in Silverhaven).
What shall our intrepid youths do?
((Legion & Snowy just came downstairs, and are free to share their findings with the rest of the group.
I've posted the Silverhaven Map and the map from Khatyan's room in the Campaign Info thread.))
