Session 14
Gnolls!
After returning to Caer Konig, you met up with an unusually sober Trovus - the town speaker - who informed you of threats to the north and south. The northern threat involved Duergar and missing items, but offered little in the way of imminent danger or reward. The southern threat, however, promised both, as a band of gnolls had been seen straying far from their cave home in an area dubbed the Cackling Chasm, killing residents of the towns. The speaker offered 10GP per gnoll head as a reward.
One roving band was seen during your rest, and most of the group were killed, though a few did escape the encounter. The next morning your party traveled the chasm to confront the warband and found the unexpected - a group of pitiful, miserable-looking gnolls, freezing and starving and wanting nothing more than to leave this bleak, frozen region. The group was able to communicate just enough to understand that if Chyzka - the pack leader - were killed then the rest would voluntary leave. The party obliged and killed Chyzka while the remaining gnolls cheered.
While the gnolls gathered their things to make good their exodus, the party found a berserker locked in a cage in the far area of the chasm. The berserker was similar to those encountered during Jarlaxle's 'spirit vision', and the party killed it and Cornelius took the dead creature's javelin.
