Solsta Vinder is worried. Her Husband has been drinking more and more while their surviving daughter is spending less and less time at home. She is looking for help to see what her daughter Shayliss is up to.
Glorkus has been encouraged by the adventurers to rebel against the leader of the goblin ghoul tribe lead by Ripnugget
Research
Hellstorm Focus (5/5)
Local sage Brodert Quink is the most knowledgeable source about Thassilonian ruins and lore in town; he’d surely know more about this thing!
For many years, the ruined tower known as the Old Light was thought to have been an ancient collapsed lighthouse, but now that more has been learned about ancient Thassilon, the Old Light has been revealed to have once been known as the Hellstorm Flume, a powerful weapon used by Runelord Alaznist to protect her nation’s eastern border with that of Runelord Karzoug’s nation of Shalast. Despite its name, the Hellstorm Flume had no direct association with Hell itself—it was so called for its ability to emit a flume of searing fire at extraordinary range to blast approaching armies with a devastating inferno.
The strange stones below the Sandpoint Cathedral are magically linked to the Hellstorm Flume still, despite the tower’s ruined state—it appears that the stones were used to activate, focus, and aim the Flume’s fires, but the magic remaining within the stones today is barely enough to maintain the link to the Old Light… as long as they remain in their current, decrepit state.
The Hellstorm Focus once controlled the Hellstorm Flume, but it also served as a teleportation circle. The other end of its portal is either destroyed or inactive, but if one could adjust the Hellstorm Focus toward conjuration magic and away from evocation, it could theoretically be linked to other inactive teleportation circles.
If the Focus were to be repaired, it could activate the Flume but would not be able to direct or control the flames with the tower itself in ruins—instead, the fire would blanket out from the Old Light and incinerate Sandpoint and much of the surrounding land! The PC also discovers the method to refocus the Focus’s energies away from the Flume and toward other inactive teleportation circles
The Pit (3/5)
The Pit is a mysterious open shaft in the heart of the rocky escarpment known as Devil’s Platter; it’s located just over 2 miles to the southeast of Sandpoint.
The safest route to the Pit is to take the Lost Coast Road south to Cougar Creek Road. Then, follow the road southeast past Trennel’s Farm and Sarl’s Farm, and turn east along Wisher’s Trail. Upon reaching Wisher’s Well, head north; the rise up to Devil’s Platter is rough but climbable there. The Pit itself is about a half-mile north of the climb. Locals mention that Brodert Quink likely knows more about the Pit, and if he doesn’t, there’s surely more information among his collection of old books.