A box? You’re searching for a Box?

[S­cu­pi Province, Sh­ios(8) 1024]

“A box? You’re search­ing for a Box? That old codger over there is sit­ting on one.”

Ian rec­og­nizes the “old codger” as the one who gave him lousy di­rec­tions to the Mines of Mad­ness. Di­rec­tions that end­ed him up at Vervigis’ doorstep near­ly a year ago.

You don’t have a a lot of lead­s, and meet with lit­tle suc­cess. Most peo­ple don’t have a clue. Ones that might de­ny it, tell you to for­get about it and go back to rob­bing tomb­s, or worst start ask­ing ques­tions about you, what you know, how you know it and if you’d mind sub­mit­ting to a spell or two.

Trypho is nowhere to be found. Hyr­mi­na is con­cerned to hear your tale of meet­ing him be­tween Sil­ver­town & Mine ram­bling about go­ing East to find the “ar­ti­fac­t”. She coun­cils you to search for him no fur­ther but if you do learn any­thing con­tact her. Trypho’s fel­low priests are not sur­prised that he has gone “mad”. “Pres­sures of lead­er­ship are too much for some to han­dle.”

You learned that Kir­phis came to Scu­pi be­cause the ar­ti­fact was stolen. That he and his Jug­ger­nauts are gone from Sil­ver­town for long pe­ri­od­s. You know he vis­its the rest of Desert Con­dor on the Ka’im Mesa and sus­pect he trav­els deep in­to the bad­land­s.

You know two things oth­ers do not. You know what the gi­ants that at­tacked looked like and you have seen darn close paint­ings of them in the Ophid­i­an’s Tomb.