Mirtul 30

Mirtul 30, 1370:
    High = 35, Low = 15
    No precipitation
    Wind gusting to 3 mph from the prevailing direction.
    Cloudy.

    First Captain Tranjer Rolsk comes out to ask the party their
    business.  When they mention mining he says no travel is allowed
    to mines, Apparently they have an arrangement with the dragon,
    Iceclaws.  They stay off the rest of the island and pay tribute,
    and he allows safe passage in and out of the village along a
    defined corridor.  Maanamere asks for a "permit", haggling occurs,
    180gp change hands.  The party may go to mines for now as long as
    they don't get caught.

    Crew goes drinking.

    That night, Brogan borrows the gargoyle ring and summons a
    gargoyle.  Then Henkles, Brogan, the gargoyle and Darius head
    along the trail indicated by Rolsk.  It winds along the west side
    of the nearest spur of Ice Peak mountain for 2.5 miles, ending at
    an abandoned mine that has been boarded up.  The boards are old
    enough that the party can slip inside.

    Behind the boards is a 10' wide tunnel that runs ENE into the
    mountain for about 500' before ending in a 20'x20' room with a 10'
    wide shaft in the middle.  It looks like there might have been a
    winch attached to the ceiling at some point in the past, but it
    has long since fallen out.  There is a wooden ladder leading down
    into the shaft, but it looks dubious.  They drop a light button
    in, which falls 500' and shatters at the bottom.  Darius casts
    Fly and heads down to have a look.

    The shaft ends in a 30'x30' room with tunnels leaving to the NW
    and SW.  In the room are some full sacks, an old pickaxe and a
    rusty mining cart.  Darius doesn't have time for a good look
    though, because 3 giant spiders come out of the NW tunnel and
    chase him back up the shaft.  With much help from Henkles and
    Brogan, the spiders are killed near the top of the shaft and
    plummet to the bottom.
      1950xp to Brogan, Henkles and Darius for turning spiders into
        projectiles

    Darius goes back down and summons a kobold to check the sacks.
    They are 5 sacks of 20-30lbs of rock and corstal fragments.  Each
    sack is likely to yield about 10 lbs of corstal if carefully
    picked through.  The sacks themselves are covered in spider guts
    and kinda gross, as is the room.

    They head back with the sacks to report what they've learned.