Chapter 17

Our heroes had awoke from a quiet night after their merry feast with a small nomadic goblin clan.

The next morning they began their hike to the a safe house belonging to the Horizon Walkers.

Their journey was interrupted by a random encounter group of halflings and humans fleeing a gnoll raiding party. After dispatching the gnolls, the party learned that the refugees had been been part of a trading caravan that was attacked in the night by the gnolls. The party tried to hole up in a clearing, but found themselves attacked by an ooze, so booked it on to the next town, called [WHAT WAS IT CALLED? PLS EDIT IF YOU KNOW]. They dropped off their wary, beleaguered charges and then headed back south again to go to the safe house.

To find the way to the safe house, they had to use a strange device Cesta Melora had in his duster, a rodent skull on the end of a strip of leather, which pulled in the direction they were to travel. After getting lost once, they finally reached the safe house, and met Melithar there, a human magic user who dressed kind of like she was on her way to Woodstock, and didn't take things very seriously. She also seemed more than a little nuts, which she and Cesta informed the party was because of spending too much time in the presence of an Eye of Briesmonis.

The Eye of Briesmonis, as it turned out, was an enormous eye suspended in the middle of the strange shack that was the safehouse, caged in iron bindings with arcane runes on it that looked vaguely familiar to Scourpax, although he couldn't remember exactly where he knew them from.

A magical conference among all the Eyes of Briesmonis controlled by the Horizon Walkers took place, and everyone got to briefly meet Leela (Lenny's sister), as well as The Wizard (the obnoxiously mysterious leader of the Horizon Walkers), and some other horizon walkers. The conference was interrupted by screams that coincided with some party members seeing shadows moving about. During the commotion, Helike stuck a pin into the eye, at which point Melitta suddenly fell unconscious.