The party wakes up to the sound of Swag being attacked by a honey badger outside.

Encounter:
Honey Badger

Yens and Sariel are casting magicks to aide Swag while Alain crossbows it. Yens uses a force orb on the window, which creates a giant hole in the wall, which he refers to as a “wizard portal”. The honey badger digs into the dirt and kicks it up at Swag’s face. It escapes and the characters make no move to follow to finish it off.

Meanwhile, Rick is comatose inside the inn. Gennal is trying to heal him, but critically fails, missing Rick and hitting the pillow instead. It changes into a goose.

Encounter:
Goose

Gennal has made the goose down whole again, and it’s not happy. Rick wakes up from the goose biting his ear and begins to fight the angry bird. He finally throttles it and shoves his fist down its throat, then proceeds to punch his goose covered fist into the wall. Needless to say, he has goose for breakfast.

Following Kelldan’s information from the night before, the heroes enter an old town that lies in ruin. Rubble fills the streets and the buildings are quite dilapidated. This is the town of Saleria. There is an old temple here, but it has long since been abandoned.  This was one of the first places Galbatorix attacked when he defected to evil. The people never had a chance against him and his dragon. Many hid in the temple, praying their god would save them. Few survived.

The building entryways are mostly blocked, but there is a glint of light from the entryway to the temple, the only building not blocked by rubble. As they reach the steps of the temple, rats begin scurrying out of the shadows of the temple, rushing toward them, their high-pitched squeaks loud amidst the otherwise quiet ruins.

Encounter:
4 Giant Rats
2 Rat Swarms

They enter the temple, but it’s dark and they can’t see anything. It smells of mold and decay. Rick activates a sunrod and light fills the room. There are piles of bones against the walls, a few torch sconces, and an old shrine with a dusty golden ark in front of it. There is an opening in the wall toward the back of the room. The party works together to push off the lid of the ark. The lid clatters to the floor, the sound echoing ominously. Inside the ark, they find some gold, jewels, and a wand with a sapphire in the tip. But before they can inspect it further, they hear soft scraping and rusting around them. The bones are coming together and rising up, forming full skeletons.

Encounter:
4 Decrepit Skeletons
2 Skeletons

After the skeletons are defeated, the party inspects the ark some more. They find a holy symbol of life and bracers of perfect shot.