Brokk is still talking with the Heathen, who says that his name is Geeves.

The barman takes the rest of the group through a door behind the bar to meet Mr. Kellerman. They see two people in the room behind, a fat bearded man with a well-muscled man beside him with a wooden peg for a foot. The shutters are closed and bolted behind them. The man with the peg foot introduces himself as Kellerman.

Jean inquires about a job and Kellerman says that he has information on a diamond called the Blue Flame that has been lost for some years. He asks if the group is interested and they hem and haw a bit. He seems unwilling to divulge anything without confirmation that they will take the job. He says that the job pays 200 crowns.

Jean discusses with the group and he says it does pay quite well and it would give him the opportunity to go through the countryside. However, it will be tougher since the man doesn’t have a map.

Jean assures Kellerman that we’re sincere and that we’ll take the job. Kellerman agrees and begins telling us about the blue flame. Otto Kessler is the man who stole the gem, but he is now deceased. After the theft, he hid the jewel and supposedly never told anyone where. He says that his friend Bruno (the man sitting next to him) has cast some doubt on the claim. Bruno was the chief torturer to Count Von Drachensburg who captured one of Kessler’s old companions. Bruno interrogated him but didn’t tell the count. The man said that Kessler’s daughter named Annalisa, now known as The Black Arrow, knows the location of the gem. Bruno came to him and told him about it. Kellerman used to lead the Black Arrows before he lost his foot and knows where their hideout is.

The Black Arrows are in a castle deep in the forest, which is secret. He knows of a secret passage into the keep that he will tell us so we can gain entry. Once inside we’ll find out from the Black Arrow where the jewel is, then let Kellerman know. The castle is 35 miles north of here and there is a hollow oak tree 100 yards southeast from the entrance that leads to the dungeons. Jean freehands a rough map of the area for us.

Kellerman agrees to pay our room and board while we are here. Tobruk asks if he wants to buy the tortoise shell that we have and he declines. It’s too late to set off for the castle tonight, so we stay at the inn for the evening.

The route is slightly winding past a toll bridge and then later a bridge that goes across a large chasm. We’ll continue from there to the forest and castle.

We are reveling through the evening and one of the well-armed men from the corner come over and demand that we come to speak with their master. Most of the group declines even though they are urging insistently. Brokk and Geeves agree and go upstairs. The others go next to the remaining guards in the taproom so they will be at a tactical disadvantage. They order ale for the guards.

Inside the private room upstairs, it has a similar layout to Kellerman’s office. We see a gentleman leaning against a table and four more guards. He introduces himself as Count Amadeus von Drachensburg. He asks us to find the leader of the Black Arrows, named (unoriginally) The Black Arrow. He is offering 500 crowns for the head of the Black Arrow — on a silver platter. He even gives us a platter. We start asking more questions about where this person is, or who he is, and he says that he has no information. He says that we can find the band of rogues almost anywhere around here. We continue asking and he kicks us out of the room. As they go back downstairs, Brokk and Geeves comment on what a good negotiation they’ve done.

Meanwhile the other party members have been feeding the guards ale and they are stone drunk. One of them vomits and passes out, and the other thinks that Tobruk is his best friend. The man says that he is from Drachensburg, 20 miles east of here.

We retire early to our rooms and Tobruk takes first watch in the hallway. We stoke the fire and cover the windows. Maruviel is on third watch and hears a window crashing, and also someone laughing maniacally and saying “My friends, your time has come!”

Vedasi awakes to see a bomb with a lit fuse in the middle of the room. He quickly grabs it and throws it out the window and hears a bang and a scream. Jean is also awake and comes to the window with his bow ready, but he doesn’t see anyone. Geeves in the other room wakes up as well.

Geeves, Vedasi, Maruviel and Tobruk go down to the courtyard and see what remains of the man who let the group back to the back room and Vedasi had shown his back to him. They find some loot from him including a couple of bombs.

We decide to leave early since most of us are already up. We pack things and have some breakfast before we head out. There are enough horses for all of us and Geeves’ old mare goes along as a pack horse.

We pass the toll bridge and come to the river without difficulties. The river starts to go downhill to a chasm and there is a rickety bridge that spans the chasm. We go across and soon we are at the hollow oak where we need to enter. We go in and follow a tunnel, and at the end see a flagstone. By lifting it we see a tunnel ahead of us. Vedasi hears a scratching sound. We see a long reptilian tail and whatever it is appears to be walking on two legs away from us. The thing is about five feet tall.

Tobruk is shoved up into the cavern and he attacks the lizard. Brokk goes up after him and hits him with his sword. Jean pops his head up through the hole and covers us with his bow. They see guards above and both Jean and Vedasi fire arrows into him. A couple of guards appear Tobruk smites the lizard down to the ground and as he reaches up to swipe at us, Brokk cuts his right arm clean off, killing the lizard and sending a spray of blood up at one of the guards, blinding him.

The guards try to swipe at us through the grating above, but it is 10 feet and their swords can’t reach the diminutive dwarves. One of them takes an arrow in the leg and goes down. The other one, not being very smart, opens up the grating to try and attack us. As soon as he opens it, Vedasi puts an arrow in his head.

We climb out and search the dead guards. They have some money, armor and shields as well as a ring of keys. There are bows and quivers of arrows as well. Jeeves and Brokk take the armor and shields, and Geeves takes one of the bows. We also take the black masks, but they smell awful. We open up the cell furthest away from the room’s door and put the dead guards in there. Also, we hide the body of the lizard in the pit.