Like most of the desert, Boartore has changed, trees and brush starting to grow when just a few weeks ago it was only sand. 

We meet up with Garhopper and tell him of our adventures and destroying the Sun Lich.  We tell him of Rory and the artifact he is looking for and Garhopper says it is the Crown of Claws.

Chillax tells us that it is a three-week journey to Grimgold who is in the mountains, on the way to the City of Warmth and we should leave by morning light as we are still being hunted for the staff.

The Baron requests we visit him, and we find him quite dapper, a change from the wrinkled old prune we met weeks earlier.  His ring really does make him young.  He says he has a job for us while we are on our way, that he has a missing shipment of logging equipment that was supposed to come from the Sea of Princes on the ship Golden Eagle.  If we have time, he would like us to investigate and would give us 2,000 gp.  He gives Oberon a sending stone to tell him if we found the equipment…he warns we can only send a short message to him (24 words).

We shop for our journey and as we leave Glam’s Emporium, we are beseeched by the bird devils that Wave tricked with his staff…and they brought friends.  But Boartore is full of Adventurers Guild members – and the devils are brought down.  Garhopper warns us we will be hounded until we destroy the staff and urges us to make haste to the Grimgold.  He doesn’t have to tell us twice.