Ganbataar woke to find himself sore, hung over, and filthy. He also found a confused note with many crossed-out bits written from Kyann, from which he was able to gather that she had gone adventuring to someplace called 'Creekend'.
Before heading after her, he decided to get cleaned up at the local bathhouse. Afterwards, he met Mitmet the gnome, who was still angry about having been defeated in combat. Mitmet made vauge threats, calling Kyann a 'Stupid girl' and saying he wouldn't forget this. Ganbataar completely failed to make the connection that the raven following Mitmet around was his familiar.
On the road to Creekend, Ganbataar came across the aftermath of the earlier bandit attack on Kyann and Pearl. Unnaturally grown plants, stone walls knocked over, and a badly injured halfling bandit tied to a tree. Not knowing what had actually happened, Ganbataar freed the bandit and gave him a sip of a healing potion. The halfling - introducing himself as Finntram Underroot - claimed to be the victim of a bandit attack himself, and claimed that they had beaten him, tied him to a tree, and taken his dog. He declined the offer of heading in to town with Ganbataar, but instead pleaded for the return of the dog, saying he'd meet back at the same spot in a day.
Meanwhile at the tiny and not very interesting town of Creekend, Kyann had become bored with whatever boring thing Pearl and Flambe were off doing, and was playing with her Dire Corgi, Bloodthirst the Murderator. Bloodthirst spotted Ganbataar into town and they headed off to greet him. What followed was a confused conversation where Ganbataar told her about the halfling he had assisted, and then Kyann told him her side of the fight and what had really happened. Ganbataar was furious about having been lied to, but also not happy that the bandit had been just beaten up and left out in the woods, and tried to explain notions of justice and law to Kyann. Kyann had been learning about this thing called 'thinking' from Pearl, and shot down Ganbataar's plans to free all the Dire Corgies from captivity. They did decide that Finntram's offer to meet in a day to get his dog back was probably a trap, and decided to set up an ambush of their own.
Cedric the fighter rejoined them at this point. He showed them the way to the tomb where he'd seen the goblins, although he wouldn't accompany them all the way there. At the site, up a trail into the hills, they found a metal door in a cliff wall.. The door was surrounded by worn masonry and unnaturally overgrown grass. Something was moving in the tall grass. Kyann told Bloodthirst the Murderator to go kill it. Ganbataar investigated and found an unusually tiny goblin - about 9 inches tall - trying to defend its treasure-hoard of three gems and a half-eaten chipmunk. He grabbed and threatened the tiny creature, and then felt like a bully for attacking something tiny that hadn't actually done anything to them. They released the magically shrunken goblin, which grabbed its treasures and slunk off to hide in the underbrush.
They turned to the door itself. It was solidly made, of metal, and had a well-built lock. There was some damage to the door, a scorch-mark made by lightning or something that had slightly damaged it. Ganbataar turned over some statues and stones, and found a small gem but no key. With no other way to open it, he decided to use his great monk strength to smash it open, which he was eventually able to do. This actually impressed Kyann.
Next week: Return of the other two PCs, and then a dungeon crawl!