Uktar 25

Uktar 25, 1369:
    High = 35, Low = 15
    Moderate precipitation (up to 3/4" rain or 2" snow) starting @ 8:10am
    Wind gusting to 48 mph from the north.
    Partly cloudy most of the day.

    Henkles went to the watch and eventually ended up talking to
    Marthraren Urmbrusk, the Magistrate, about the incident.  He was
    carefully vague about the nature of the item in question.  The
    party posted a reward of 1000gp "plus Ursula" for the capture of
    Rabairnil.  He agreed that AFAL would go to watch the drop point
    with an escort unit from the City Watch.

    The party decided to save the last of the healing herbs and let
    Cassie recover with Dexter's care alone.

    Stewart picked up his completed padlock at The Golden Key Shop and
    used it to lock the wine cellar door.  He gave one key to
    Gulkker.

    Most people went over to the City of the Dead and after much
    searching found the grave of Mirin Bloodbrand in a releatively
    open section of the cemetary with no large tombs within a few
    hundred yards, just gravestones and the occasional tree.  A few
    others went to the market and bought a set of windchimes similar
    to the Chimes of Dusk (5gp from Party Treasure), into which they
    shoved a firetrapped pillbox (which they warned the Watch about).
    They put the chimes in a sack along with a mouse with some spell
    Mike made up cast on it.

    That evening, the party gathered in the area of the grave.  Steve
    and Narthan both had Invisibility and Kiss of
    Strength cast on them and were hidden close to the grave.
    Narthan had also cast Protection from Fire on himself
    earlier.  Stewart and Denyae were stationed on top of one of the
    nearest tombs.  Everyone else (including Gomsha and the Watch) hid
    behind tombs.

    At the specified time, Henkles and Ursula took the bag to the urn
    beside Bloodbrand's grave and put it in.  Then they hid behind
    gravestones about 100 ft. away.  They waited as it got darker and
    then were suddenly attacked by 4 bugbear skeletons that had
    apparently been hiding in trees nearby the whole time.  Like the
    skeletons that had attacked the party in Silverymoon and near the
    Tower of Loss, these skeletons had been coated with a gray 
    substance and iron plates had been bolted to their bones to
    strengthen them.  Ursula ran away while Henkles stayed to hold
    them off.

    Realizing that infravision was useless anyway, Stewart slung a
    light button over to the urn so that Denyae could watch it.  In
    the mean time Narthan joined the melee and Darius cast Magic
    Missile on one of the skeletons.  Unfortunately, his spell
    went awry and he ended up surrounding the combatants with a
    circular Wall of Fire.  This caused some damage to Henkles,
    but Narthan, protected by his spell, made use of the flames and
    dragged grappled skeletons back and forth through them for maximum
    damage.  Afterwards, the Watch explained to Darius that he would
    be paying for the landscape damage (75gp, paid).  The party
    declined to cover that from party treasure.
        1200xp to Darius, Denyae, Dexter, Henkles, Narthan, Steve,
                  Stewart, Ursula and 4 members of the City Watch
               for enhanced bugbear skeletons

    The party kept up a watch on the urn, but nothing else happened
    that night.