Enter Roche

Our group had just finished taking care of some highway bandits when suddenly out of the woods, Zandarr appeared. He had been tracking Kentaro down after Kentaro's sudden disappearance and finally caught up to him. The group was delighted to have their half-elf ranger back with them. They explained the situation with Cerano, the captive elves, and quickly were on their way again to try and find the gnome tinkerer and enlist his aid for Cerano.

A new companion


Even though the group was mounted, it still took a few days to get to the location where they were told to meet up with the gnome tinkerer. During this time, Zandarr decided he wanted to obtain an animal companion to train. Each night he set out a few traps to see if he could capture something. On the second night, he found an eagle captured in one of his traps. He promptly set out to start training it.

Enter Roche


When the group finally made it to the location that they were informed of, they found in front of the cave a lone elf

sitting among malformed machinery and broken metal parts. As they approached, he introduced himself as Roche, an Acolyte of the Rai Tau. The group was extremely taken back by this at first as they remembered that they were wanted by the Rai Tau for very large sums of money. They were even more taken back

when they noticed Rai Tau corpses among the refuse that seemed to surround Roche.

Roche requested to hire them as escorts for him as he wanted to explore the depths of the cavern before him as he was doing research on animating inanimate objects. He explained that the clockwork creations that lay destroyed at his feet were interesting, but lacked any higher level sophistication and wanted to see if there was something better further in the cave. It was not until he offered lucrative payment did the group agree to assist him in his quest.

Tick Tick Tock


As the group entered the cavern, they noticed rusted metal doors that were closed and needed to be forced open. The heavy groan and creek of the doors opening removed any ideas of sneaking into the cavern. As the entered, they were suddenly seemingly under attack by a pair of three-legged clockworks and a pair of smaller orb shaped clockworks.

The group exhaustively fought the machines until they were able to put them down for good. Roche did not once lift a finger to assist them.