Barrow of the Ogre King

Armed with Curuvar's information, the party left the following day to explore the Barrow of the Ogre King and find the goblin lair.

The raiding party left a trail that was easy to follow and led to the dwarven ruins of the barrow. Negotiating a pit trap at the entrance, the party then fought their way through the remaining goblin defenders to descend to the catacombs. At the bottom they found the tomb of the Ogre King, where Sancossug - the goblin shaman - was involved in a ritual. The party defeated him and then determined the ritual was unlikely to succeed.

They found the ogre's remains in a sarcophagus and noted the skull had been fashioned into a crude mace - also a magical weapon. On Sancossug they found a message scroll, written by an educated hand in common tongue:

Set your clan against the humans in the valley, cause mayhem and disrupt their lives in every way you can. Soon the Red Fangs will strike north, so your cause will aid our future success. There are other allies nearby who also further our cause, but I you send this barrel of alchemical fire to assist your endeavours. R.K.