The adventurers have made it into the Shlyappa zwerc enclave and are shadowed by a mysterious dwarf soon after: lysyy the hat merchant. He pleads with them to investigate the strange happenings in his storeroom, and the PCs find a bit of dust (as well as a deadly earthen mimic!) that can only lead to the Granite Grotto. The party uncovers P.R.A.N.K.S.T.E.R. smugglers in the unique cavern and would put an end to the illicit operation right there, but are held at bay by ignis the stonespeaker.
Though the trail is momentarily lost, a young dweorg boy flags the adventurers down and directs them to a side tunnel where the criminals fled. Unfortunately the dwarf reveals itself as a lethal and maddened gitwerc underterror not long after and when the PCs catch up to the P.R.A.N.K.S.T.E.R.S. the ne’er-do-wells cause a cave-in that threatens to kill everyone! Finally after prevailing against these deadly challenges, the adventurers take one last long walk through tunnels before emerging in a marsh somewhere in Aventyr.
Stealing Stones has been designed with a sandbox approach and there are several other articles to use when running this part of the AaWBlog Adventure Path [the first post tying this month together is located here. —MM]. Six dwarves—all whom once knew Doc—lost their lives in or near Shlyappa and many of them are still tethered here, haunting the numerous passages and tunnels (and ideal for a sidequest of a GM’s devising: sneezing bell haunt, Bailey’s hat, graceless cackle haunt).
Of course we’ve also got traps galore (the replacement hat trap, festering crown fireball trap, hat rip trap) as well as a treatise on Subterranean Adventures by Justin Andrew Mason, and then of course, several new magic hats (infested tam o’shanter, maculos mask, Klavekian mining cap). Unlucky adventurers may even pick up the cursed amber attenuator somewhere along the way and have an even tougher time in the zwerc enclave!
It’s been an exciting build-up and we’re steadily moving toward a crescendo, so make sure to join us throughout August as we take the party through the Vast Swamp of Aventyr in Bogs of Bane!
CURSED AMBER ATTENUATOR
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One particular zwerc mage could not forgive his rival for stealing a spell of his invention, taking so great an umbrage that he crafted a contraption that saw him instantly banned from 
KLAVEKIAN MINING CAP
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DOC THE UNDERWORLD HORROR CR 10
When the PCs catch up to the smugglers one of the hirelings chucks a single potion bottle filled with an explosive concoction that deals 3d6 concussive damage (DC 20 Reflex save for half damage) to any creature within 30 ft. of where it lands (just past the last member of the party). The sudden explosion causes the Amber Road behind the adventurers to collapse in an undulating cascade of stone as the space first expands and then collapses into a finite point; they are all cut off from
The adventurers recover the crate holding the Shlyappa ore when the smugglers have finally been dealt with and with no other options available, follow the Amber Roads forward. After 1d4+1 hours of hiking the tunnel leads to a shallow cavern with an opening leading out into a swampy terrain: the Vast Swamp. The mouth of the cavern is fairly well obscured by the vegetation of the exterior landscape, and the PCs may find the location a relatively safe place to set up camp and recover from the trauma of the collapsing Amber Road and nightmarish encounter they experienced within.