EXPEDITION: 28th October 2025

Expedition notes

The party are joined by a pair of thieves, each new to the depths of Stonehell, Lacrymosa and Shanks Armitage. The party set out to the dungeon determined to find the Kobold market. Shortly after entering Stonehell they speak with a Kobold work crew and, in return for a favour banked by the kobolds, get detailed directions to the market.

They find the bustling market on the first floor of the dungeon, and discover that it's a neutral zone. There are diverse members of various tribes, gangs and posses all trading and talking together here (peace is enforced by a weapons check at the entrance but also, given how puny kobolds are, by a mutual understanding of the market visitors). There are orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, and other more unusual humanoid races never before seen by the members of the party.

Shanks Armitage gets a kobold haircut to try and become a la mode in the eyes of the kobolds who appear to maintain the dungeon. He also makes tentative first steps towards his (perhaps ill advised?!) quest to find a kobold to be his romantic partner. Surely this won't end well.

The party find that the market is home to a slave auction, and confirm that a human magic-user that could well be Tugel the Mystifier is for sale. They meet the proproeter and overseer of the market, Trustee Sniv, and meet the information broker Frater Silcon (of the Temple of Megaluno) tasked them with delivering a letter too. She is called Lachesis, and is tall, well dressed and clearly a gorgon (her veil isn't as effective as she'd like to think). She is accompanied by bodyguards and, shortly after receiving the letter, departs into the depths of Stonehell.

The party takes advantage of the safe haven that is the kobold market, and spends gold to spend the night in the inn within the market. It isn't nice and it isn't comfortable, but it IS safe (for now), and it's nearer than the surface.