10 Raan - Amber coloured water

Week2: 25/2/09
EXP rewarded: 260

Synopsis
After a nights rest the group headed up river to where the headwaters started - A large lake, swamp area. It was clearly obvious that the water had been receeding for several days at least judging by the dry cracked mud leading to wetter mud near the waters edge. out in the dim light there were a number of islands, one of which had a faint reddish glow emanating from it.

The group headed over to a small boat and given it could'nt take everyone split up to cross to the large island with the glow.

Encounter 1
Kahylan, Serenity and Reidran headed across the swamp in the boat. A rope was tied to the rear end to allow easy retrieval so others could follow. Mid way across, which was slow going, undead creatures where spotted resulting in a battle which saw several of the group getting wet, diseased and the boat destroyed. However the foes fell easy enough when hit however they were accustomed to fighting in water.
Once over, searching the corpses, a clasp was found bearing the initials of a famous adventuring / mercenary group. possibly one or the other of the two groups that had been approached by Lord Amber in the past.

Encounter 2
With the boat gone the group took to a number of small island stepping stones to cross. Ironically this would have been the easiest way across thanks to the rope fastened between each island. Obviously someone had used this route before, at least once. Part way across the group straggled between the mainland and the various islands and undead attacked again. The battle was easier this time and the group fought to gain the island.

Encounter 3
The obolesk was not the source of the red glow (it glowed green from the mosses on it) rather the fire that had been left to burn low was the source of the reddy glow. Investigating the obelisk seemed to point it to be the marker of the tomb of a lost emperor (probably predating the 5 nations) The group spent several hours trying to work out how to open the damned thing, eventually culminating in Kahylan cutting her hand and laying it on the obelisk and Valend then finding some point or other which he pushed causing it to open and reveal steps down