Teilnehmer:

(1) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 1
(1) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 1
(1) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 1
(1) Yaidz - Kylan Bloodchaser - Goliath - Cleric 1
(1) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 1

Starting the Adventure:

The players have come to Bryn Shander at the behest of Speaker Duvessa Shane and the Council of Speakers to aid Ten-Towns. Shortly after arriving, the party has encountered a wounded Crag Cat, that has made its way into town in desperation for pray and begun eating away at a frozen-to-death fishermans corpse and bounty. The party managed to dispatch the beast non-lethally and released it into the wilderness.
Sherrif Markham Southwell, alerted by the fleeing bystanders, has commended the party for their quick and sensible judgement and initiative and offered to accompany them to the town hall meeting.

Quests:

Main-Story Quest: Cold-Hearted Killer
A serial killer has descended upon the Ten-Towns. They have slain three prominent figures in three separate towns: Bryn Shander, Easthaven, and Targos. They leave a distinctive calling card in their victim’s chests: a knife, made entirely out of black ice. With the Ten-Towns divided by the stress of the Rime, concerned officials stand little chance of stopping the killer in time before they claim their next victim.
Hlin Trollbane, a retired veteran and bounty-hunter, has taken it upon herself to investigate the recent murders because no one else—not even the Council of Speakers—can be bothered. She has asked the party to help her take down her only suspect: a man named Sephek Kaltro.
“Sephek Kaltro works for a small traveling merchant company called Torg’s, owned and operated by a shady dwarf named Torrga Icevein. In other words, Sephek gets around. He’s charming. Makes friends easily. He’s also Torrga’s bodyguard, so I’m guessing he’s good with a blade."
“His victims come from the only three towns that sacrifice people to the Frostmaiden on nights of the new moon. This is what passes for civilized behavior in Icewind Dale. Maybe the victims found a way to keep their names out of the drawings and Sephek found out they were cheating, so he killed them. Maybe, just maybe, Sephek is doing the Frostmaiden’s work."
“I followed Torg’s for a tenday as it moved from town to town. Quite the devious little enterprise, but that’s not my concern. What struck me is how comfortable Sephek Kaltro looked in this weather. No coat, no scarf, no gloves. It was like the cold couldn’t touch him. Kiss of the Frostmaiden, indeed."
“I will pay you a hundred gold pieces to apprehend Sephek Kaltro, ascertain his guilt, and deal with him, preferably without involving the authorities. When the job is done, return to me to collect your money.”
Reward: 100gp

Sidequests:

Foaming Mugs. Three frostbitten shield dwarves approached the characters in the snow-covered street, Hruna, Korux and Storn. They were due for an iron shipment for their forge, the "Blackiron Blades", but on their way from Kelvin's Cairn got ambushed by a peticularly violent Red Yeti. Their brother Oobok got brutally killed and now they're missing 600 pounds worth of iron for Bryn Shander forges. She promised the party a bag of gems worth 50gp each per Charakter, if they agree to bring back the missing sled and wares. After being held off for a few hours by a blizzard, the party found Oobok's body, aswell as traces of the sled and around half a dozen goblin tracks left in the snow. Having dealt with the looters, Goblinboss Izobai surrendered and begrudgingly fled with the survivors to their fortress of Karkolohk.
Treasure: Izobai carried two potions of animal friendship and a sealskin pouch containing 13 sp, 25 cp, and a bone whistle (1 sp). The other goblins carried 37 cp in sum.
Reward: 5 gems worth 50gp each and 10% discount at the Blackiron Blades.
"The friendship of the dwarves of Icewind Dale can also be a boon in these harsh times."
...
A Beautiful Mine. Speaker Duvessa Shane has hired the party to help with problems around Ten-Towns for a pay of 10gp per tenday. She recently has recieved a request for help from Termalaine, where Kobolds have taken over the local gem mines and tasked the party to travel north-west to investigate the issues.
...
Lake Monster. Rumors from Bremen about a strange sea monster have reached Bryn Shander and Duvessa Shane has tasked the party to go and investigate around Mear Dualdon.
...
Mountain Climb. The party overheard a group of fellow adventurers (Mokingo - male goliath warrior, Astrix - female tiefling wizard, Perilou - female halfling cleric) talk about a goliath werebear named Oyaminartok, who might have some information about what has befallen Icewind Dale. They are currently on their way to Targos.

Loot so far:

52,85gp per Person
2x Potion of Animal Friendship
each charakter recieved a trinket from the rollable Table in Appendix A
...
Beru Chillwind Akannathi -1 Level in Hexblade warlock recieved:
Oyaminartok's Legacy. This pole has a metal hook and a reinforced iron tip to break ice and provide additional safety when hiking through glaciers or steep mountain passes. There is a small indentation on the middle handle that, when pressed, extends a fishing rod at the bottom.
Temperate. The bearer suffers no harm in temperatures as cold as −20 degrees Fahrenheit or as warm as 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
[This item is RaimundoO's Pact weapon and does not exists as a magic item outside of this Hardcover. It is just fun flavor.]

After having completed 1 Sidequest in service to Bryn Shander the party has reached 2nd Level!

Loot

• 52,7 GP (Gehaltszahlung)

Teilnehmer:

(3) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 3
(3) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 2/Warlock 1
(3) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 3
(3) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 3

Loot:

10gp/Person weekly payment by speaker Duvessa Shane
1x Lockbox, containing 92 gp, 76 sp, 125 cp, and seven gemstones worth 10 gp each

Story:

The party has made their way back to Termalaine on their way to Lonelywood, trying to investigate about the frost druids that seem to stir unrest in Ten-towns. Stopping by their friends Martas home, the Eastside Inn, they found that Trog's caravan was currently in town and decided to pay them a visit.
Torrga Icevein's caravan consisted of three heavily laden dogsleds, each one pulled by six friendly sled dogs. One sled carried provisions and supplies for Torrga, her team, and her dogs. It flew a flag bearing the company’s emblem, a gold wolf’s paw on a black field. The other two sleds transported goods for sale, including cut wood, flint and tinder, flasks of whale oil, blankets, furs, rations, bottles of wine, casks of cheap ale, fake medicines, and vials of poison (used primarily for killing vermin).
Torg’s was an outdoor shop. Goods were unpacked and displayed in crates, with small canopies to keep the snow off them. Most of Torrga’s goods were stolen or fenced, and she sells them for double the normal price. She has a protection racket that earns her a little coin on the side, and she also commits murders for profit on the sly.
Torrga is interested only in profits, turned a blind eye to Sephek’s murderous escapades, and tried to help him as best she could without endangering her own life.
Sephek Kaltro was a well-built man in his thirties. He had an olive complexion, dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, and no facial or body hair. He dressed in a stylish vest with matching pants and boots, similar in style to those worn by mariners of the southern Sword Coast, but wore no armor or cold weather clothing and didnt’t appear to be armed. His most striking feature were his eyes, which were as blue as a frozen lake.
Because he was doing the Frostmaiden’s work, Sephek didnt’t care about getting caught and wasn't shy about admitting his guilt. In combat, he wielded a magical sword and magical daggers made of ice that he could conjure at will. He was also able to freely teleport short distanced in the snow and his wounds healed in the cold outside.
As Skalli sank her teeth into the mans throat, a blood-gurgling laught escaped Sephek: “You may destroy this mortal vessel, but Ten-Towns will not escape the Frostmaiden’s embrace. My sister will see to it!”
When Sephek drew his last breath, a cloud of icy vapor escaped his body and dispersed into the night.
Torrga and her bandits, seeing no use in a continued fight, struck a deal with the party. Coin, in exchange for leaving her and her crew well enough alone and keeping their pretty little mouths shut. Otherwise the party might find themselves being unable to buy something they need or denied lodging at a local inn because the merchant or proprietor don’t want to earn Torrga’s everlasting enmity. The charakters wisely accepted.

Loot

• 50 GP
• Grey Bag of Tricks

Teilnehmer:

(5) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian - none
(5) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin - none
(5) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger - none
(5) Frederick - Elric - Human - Wizard - none
(5) Echo - Osric Whisperwoods - Habling - Twilight Cleric - ?

Loot:

200gp
1x Potion of Healing
1x Potion of Greater Healing
1 Common magic item of choice for every charakter
Bag of Tricks (Gray)
Adventuring Gear (Wondrous Item)
This ordinary bag, made from gray, rust, or tan cloth, appears empty. Reaching inside the bag, however, reveals the presence of a small, fuzzy object. The bag weighs 1/2 pound.
You can use an action to pull the fuzzy object from the bag and throw it up to 20 feet. When the object lands, it transforms into a creature you determine by rolling a d8 and consulting the table that corresponds to the bag's color. The creature vanishes at the next dawn or when it is reduced to 0 hit points.
The creature is friendly to you and your companions, and it acts on your turn. You can use a bonus action to command how the creature moves and what action it takes on its next turn, or to give it general orders, such as to attack your enemies. In the absence of such orders, the creature acts in a fashion appropriate to its nature.
Once three fuzzy objects have been pulled from the bag, the bag can't be used again until the next dawn.
Dzaan's Spellbook
A worn book with a red leather cover and yellow pages. The edges of the pages are stained with dry blood. The writing inside suggests the book is nothing more than a poetry anthology. However, it’s actually the spellbook of a Red Wizard of Thay named Dzaan. The book’s true contents are hidden by an illusory script spell.
After the book was confiscated by a member of the town militia, it was brought to the Town Hall, where a clerk saw fit to place it in this library for safe keeping. Casting dispel magic on the book ends the illusory script spell placed upon it. When the illusory script spell ends, the book’s true contents are revealed. It contains the following spells:
detect magic, disguise self, illusory script, magic missile, silent image, arcane lock, blur, invisibility, knock, levitate, mirror image, phantasmal force, fireball, major image, sending, slow
arcane eye, confusion, hallucinatory terrain, phantasmal killer, animate objects, conjure elemental, mislead, seeming
Vellynne Harpell's Spellbook
Vellynne’s spellbook has black leather covers around pages of ragged parchment, all wrapped in a crimson sash. The necromancer’s personal sigil is written in goat’s blood on the title page. The tome contains the spells: false life, find familiar, protection from evil and good, shield, Tenser's floating disk, blindness/deafness, magic weapon, bestow curse, remove curse, polymorph
[Vellynnes book is granted access to, not looted!]

Story:

Fated Allies: The Council of Speakers

After gathering the Council of Speakers and setting a base of operations in Bryn Shander, Ten-Towns is gathering allies across Icewind Dale. The party is promised 100gp from each of the smaller towns, 300gp from each of the larger towns and 500gp from Bryn Shander, should Ten-Towns survie the duergar attack and their Chardalyn Dragon.
The charakters have advanced to chapter 2!

Teilnehmer:

(4) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 4
(4) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 3/Warlock 1
(4) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger: Beastmaster 4
(4) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard: School of Evocation 4
(4) Echo - Osric - Stout Halfling - Cleric: Twilight Domain 4

Loot:

135gp for completing "The White Moose"
1x Potion of Vitality
1x Potion of Resistance (Radiant)
1x Spell Scroll Moonbeam
1x Spell Scroll Comune
...
An unstrung bow was found in the tombs.
Rae'shalare, Warrior's Lament
Weapon (longbow), uncommon
You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Proficiency with a longbow allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.
Notes: Bonus: Magic, Damage, Combat, Ammunition, Heavy, Range, Two-Handed
[This Weapon serves as C0ldW0lfs 5th Level "Choose a magic item", per Adventurer's League rules in accordance to the Player's Guide]

Story:

The heroes have defeated Ravisins and accessed the Mirror of the Full Moon. While the moon dial lights its frame, the mirror functions like an crystal ball of scrying. The mirror is held to the wall with sovereign glue and can’t be removed without shattering it.

“Gaze upon your own face and have seven questions answered.”
1. Sahnar demonstrated how the mirror functions by using it to glean information about his descendants whereabouts and wellbeing. His halfelven grandson lives happy and well.
2. Aerlyn asked how her father was faring. He is well, but surrounded by mysterious men, wearing amulets made of black ice in the shape of a sword. He's serving food, tending to someone imprisoned.
3. Beru asked "Who am I?". The vision showed his birth to him. Has ancestry, his mother. It showed how he was cast into the icy lake for being to fragile of a goliath son. How he was saved by a werebear goliath and then brought to Bryn Shanders orphanage. And it showed him Helm, the God of Vigilance, who beckonned him to "protect them...".
4. Skalli asked how to end the Everlasting Rime. She was shown two Visions. First there was a gnome, dressed like a teddybear, asking for assistance and then a single ray of sunshine, falling onto a lonely Black Cabin beyond the woods. The second showed to her a massive glacier, unpassable by mortal means. The vision turned back t'wards an island deep in the sea of moving ice, which houses a fortress in the image of a crowned skull. A book clad in white in their hands, an old woman with white hair and an eyepatch and three kobolds in a trenchcoat. And finally just standing behind herself, Elric. As she was about to take her hand away from the mirrors surface, two icy blue eyes stared back at her, slowly freezing the edges of the mirror: "There you are..." The Frostmaiden has layed eyes on them.
Before fleeing the evlen tomb immediately, Aerlyn quickly used two more questions on the mirror, not letting the chance to unravel at least some of the unfolding events pass them.
5. Aerlyn asked about all the Chardalyn they've encountered on their journey so far. They saw duergar, stealing away in the dark of night. Bringing chardalyn to a hidden fortress deep in the mountains. They saw them forging weapons of war and a gargantuan construct, a dragon made entirely of chardalyn.
6. Aerlyn asked about the Everlasting Rime. She saw a giant woman with an owl mask and a staff with a chardalyn crystal on top of it. She mounted a massive predatory bird, flying into the night sky and casting some manner of spell, emboldening the endless snowfall.

Sahnar then urged the party to move along. They made their way into the wood, towards a frozen river. There they stumbled upon the crashside of a dogsled and a Halfling, burried head frist into a mount of snow. Osric Whisperwood was a member of another adventuring party hired by Duvessa Shane. They had been looking into climbing Kelvins Cairn and speaking with Oyaminartok, a werebear goliath and local legend said to have unique insight into the happenings of the dale. Sadly they were ambushed by a yeti in a blizzard. Osric had fled the scene together with 2 dogs to go and get help, buth got lost in the storm.
As they were gathering their wits, Auril herself appeared before the heroes. She spoke to them, offering sweet eternity as part of her eternal garden of ice and the beauty she's bring. Not understanding how these mortals couldn't fathom her work and ideals. She adsressed Skalli one last time before disappearing into the snow, the the lights came creeping in. A small army of Coldlight Walkers was approaching them, wounding them severely, almost killing some. (7th question answered) They managed to flee only by Sahnar's timely arrival. He had used the last of the mirrors power to see a way to save them from this doom, only to realize a sacrifice need be made. He joined onto the battlefield with a Forbiddance spell at the ready, which he had cast on his way and struck down against the undead, subsequently ending his own existance along with theirs. "Fly you fools...".

Loot

• 25 GP
• Scroll of Moonbeam
• Scroll of Commune
• Potion of Radiant Resistance
• Potion of Vitality
• Rae'shalare, Warrior's Lament (Longbow +1, Level 5 Item)
• 20 Silver Arrows

Teilnehmer:

(6) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian - none
(6) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin - none
(6) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger - none
(6) Frederick - Elric - Human - Wizard - none
(6) Echo - Osric Whisperwoods - Habling - Twilight Cleric - ?

Loot:

25gp
Horn of Blasting
Wondrous item, rare
You can use an action to speak the horn’s command word and then blow the horn, which emits a thunderous blast in a 30-foot cone that is audible 600 feet away. Each creature in the cone must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 5d6 thunder damage and is deafened for 1 minute. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t deafened. Creatures and objects made of glass or crystal have disadvantage on the saving throw and take 10d6 thunder damage instead of 5d6.
Each use of the horn’s magic has a 20 percent chance of causing the horn to explode. The explosion deals 10d6 fire damage to the blower and destroys the horn.

Story:

Quest: Jarlmoot

Teilnehmer:

(4) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian 3/Druid 1
(4) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 3/Warlock 1
(4) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger: Beastmaster 4
(4) Frederick - Elric - Human - Wizard: School of Evocation 4
(4) Echo - Osric - Stout Halfling - Cleric: Twilight Domain 4

Loot:

10gp/Person
1x Potion of Invisibility
One pair of Ice-Troll tusks
Scrimshaw of a spouting whale, a smiling fox, a pair of dancing hares, and a walrus with the words “BIG LOVE” carved into it.
Astrix' leather-bound spellbook, which contains the following wizard spells: Alter Self, Cloud of Daggers, Comprehend Languages, Detect Magic, Expeditious Retreat, Scorching Ray, Shield, Suggestion, and Tenser’s floating Disk.

Story:

Back at Nimseys in Lonelywood the party could finally catch some breaths, exhausted and cold and finally take a deserved long rest. The next morning moods were grim. The party had lost Chonk, Berus axebeak, to the Coldlight Walkers. Trying to help sooth the characters woes, Nimsey offered her best halfling hospitality, but to little awail.
She told them of Jarlmoot, an ancient ritual ground of Frostgiants, who ruled this land a long time ago. Some manner of test and insight might be acquired there, aswell as an old relic hidden there. She also was able to tell them a little more about Oyaminartok, the werebear goliath and her clan, going around the dale and helping those in need. Surely, if anyone, she knows how to help them. After collecting themselves and deciding their next steps, the party set on going north, to Kelvin's Cairn and try to save Osrics old party members and their survival guide, before cutting east and checking in with Aerlyns father, to settle some long standing worries she's been harboring.
The Icewind-Kobold were given the deed to the Ramshakle Inn to make their new home and keep it for the charakters.
Quest: Mountain Climb
Osric and his party, Mokingo Growling Bear Akannathi (male goliath warrior), Perilou Fishfinger(female halfling cleric) and Astrix (female tiefling wizard), hired the help of Garret Velryn, a survialist and moutain guide, but were ambushed by a yeti in a snowstorm
The characters managed to get a badly hurt Garret and deeply exhausted Perilou down from the mountain and to their save encampment. Sadly Mokingo was already half eaten and his head mounted like a trophy among others. Astrix in her panik fled UP the mountain, instead of down and froze to her death. On the mountains peak they found her, kneeling frozen in front of a long extinguished fire, next to another corpse, that of a once very popular dwarven daredevil with blue boots.
Auril in her Frostmaiden form greeted the party, frozen in shock. She beckonned to the lands below and its pristine beauty. It seems that, for now, she's more interessted in what these "heroes" would do next, than anything else and expressed once more her lamenting Skalli's growing effort to evade her. She gidted them with advice before parting:
"Exist as long as you can, by whatever means you can. Only by enduring can you outlast your enemies." "Your compassion makes you vulnerable. Let cruelty be the knife that keeps your enemies at bay."

By the Frostmaidens grace the party has reached 5th Level!

Teilnehmer:

(3) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 3
(3) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 2/Warlock 1
(3) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 3
(3) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 3

Loot:

20gp
1x Spell Scroll: Animal Friendship
Ring of Warmth
Ring, uncommon (requires attunement)
While wearing this ring, you have resistance to cold damage. In addition, you and everything you wear and carry are unharmed by temperatures as low as −50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Story:

The party have made their way onto Maer Dualdon in search of the lake monster as Tali, the half-elf reasearcher requested. “Perhaps this unending winter has affected its eating habits or demeanor in some way.” Waiting and fishing for knucklehead trout, the charakters were able to gather some information on the beast from the local wildlife and identified it as an awakened plesiosaurus. When the monster attacked the party tried to reason with it peacefully.
A reptilian head at the end of a long, slender neck rises out of the cold, dark water. The creature gazes at you intently and says, in Common, “I’m listening.”
The plesiosaurus answered straightforward questions and knew the following information:
It used to just swim around the lake and eat fish. The human who gave it this gift was named Ravisin and claimed to serve the Frostmaiden. Ravisin said it must do it's part to help the Frostmaiden, who wants the people of Bremen to suffer. It didn’t want to be a stupid beast again. (The plesiosaurus didn't know enough about druidic magic to know that its awakening is permanent.)
The plesiosaurus revealed that Ravisin instructed it to spread fear among the town’s fishers. The plesiosaurus or Nessie, as the party named it, doesn’t know where Ravisin came from or where she is now. The sharacters however have heard of rumors regarding a White Moose, terrorizing Lonelywood.
The plesiosaurus was afraid to stop what it was doing because it feared the druid might take away the gift that has been bestowed upon it. After convincing Nessie that its awakening is permanent, the plesiosaurus promised not to attack any fishers from the villages anymore.
When the characters made it back to Bremen’s docks, Grynsk showed up soon thereafter, eager to see how many knucklehead trout they caught. He honors his agreement, paying 5 cp per fish. Tali was eager to see the characters and gives the party a spell scroll of animal friendship and a pouch containing 5 gp as thanks, then headed toward Buried Treasures, the local Inn, to pore over the notes. The inn caters to treasure-seekers, specifically ones who pan for treasure along the riverbank in warmer weather. During the winter, this establishment has few, if any, visitors. The middle-aged innkeeper, Cora Mulphoon, treats her guests like royalty while trying to conceal the fact that she currently is barely making ends meet.
While resting and celebrating their success, the party have met with Marta Peskryk, a willowy teenager, innkeeper and bard of "The Eastside" Inn in Termalaine. She was down in Bremen to collect medicine for her bedridden father, Clyde, a retired fisherman.
Marta sang a peculiar song to herself:
Ahead of winter’s wind she came—
The lovely woman with no name;
Draped in a fur-lined cloak of red,
To the icy lake she fled;
The wind pursued her all the same—
As sure as night she’s dead.
She explained to the party that fifty years ago, a mysterious woman in a fur-lined red cloak stopped at the Eastside on her way to Lonelywood. Because the woman was alone and frightened, the innkeepers—a pair of retired adventurers who happened to be Marta’s grandparents—tried to console her. The woman gave them a ring as payment for their hospitality. Not long afterward, a howling wind burst into the inn and tossed the woman about like a rag doll. The innkeepers intervened, giving the woman time to escape. The evil wind battered Marta’s grandparents unconscious before resuming its hunt. That was the last anyone saw of the woman.
Marta wore the mysterious woman’s ring (which she had inherited) around her neck on a chain. It is a ring of warmth, and Marta gifted it as a good luck charm to the charakters when she was convinced they were helping t bring an end to the wintry curse that besets Icewind Dale.
Cora broke down in front of the party later the next morning while serving breakfast, unable to contain her worries. She explained briefly that her adult son and only child, Huarwar, used to help with the chores until two months ago. Her son had joined a search party to find Speaker Shalescar after he went missing during a blizzard one afternoon. The speaker was brought back safe and sound, but Huarwar got separated from the others and didn’t find his way home until the following morning. He had frostbite and could barely walk.
Over the next few days, Huarwar displayed a meanness toward his mother that was uncharacteristic. The change in his demeanor started after Cora found what looked like a shard of black ice in her son’s room. Huarwar snatched it away and threatened his mother with bodily harm if she touched it again.
The next day, two tieflings (a male and a female) arrived at the inn and offered Huarwar sanctuary in their castle. He left with them willingly, taking the shard with him and telling his mother that he would never return. The tieflings wore amulets that looked much like the shard in Huarwar’s possession. Cora misses her son terribly and she hopes he is still alive. She recalls that one of the tieflings mentioned a castle, and she knows that there are only two castles in Ten-Towns: an intact one in Caer-Dineval and a ruined one in Caer-Konig.

Spell components

• 2x Find Familiar Kits (2x 10 GP)

mundane

• Sling (0,1 GP)
• 5x Sling Bullets (5x 0,04 GP)
• Potion of Healing (50 GP)

Potions

• Potion of Healing (50 GP)

Mundane

• Tent (2 GP)
• Antitoxin (50 GP)

Teilnehmer:

(3) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 3
(3) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 2/Warlock 1
(3) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 3
(3) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 3

Spellcasting Sercives:

-450gp Greater Restoration
Mishann [House of the Morninglord]

Story:

The Party have rushed back to Bryn Shander, arriving late in the evening. Hoping to reverse the aging effect of Janths horryfying visage on Elric, they made their way to the House of the Morninglord. Inside they met with sister Mishann, a priestess of Amaunantor. who aspires to see the sun regain its rightful place in the sky over Icewind Dale. She calls Amaunator “the Morninglord,” a name that southerners use to describe Lathander, a god of the dawn and rebirth. Mishann views Lathander as a usurper of Amaunator’s light and doesn’t like it when people confuse the two deities.
She's was able to aid the party in reversing the ghosts effects on Elric via a Greater Restoration spell, however she was unable to provide free charity to the charakters, as all the money collected through temple services currently is needed to provide for the community and help foster the local orphanage, run by the House of the Triad.
Mishann rents her attic to a pessimistic rock gnome tinkerer named Copper Knobberknocker, who begrudgingly helps with services and chores. The two argue incessantly.
While not being able to offer more aid to the party at the moment, Mishann assures the party she will call on them, when an opportunity arises to help ten-towns and offer more readily available help, once possible.
In Targos the party has encountered a large crowd of people, gathered around the frozen and impaled corpse of their former ally, Kylan Bloodchaser. The charakters convinced the local guard to keep the remains of their dead friend and see to it, that he recieves a propper burial. Stopping by the towns store they met the scarecrow-like owner Jestin Hunrae and refilled their supplies.
Jestin currently has one arm in a sling, seemingly due to an accident with a colliding boat from Termalaine, however the Party harbors suspicions about the verasity of this statement. Towns Speaker Naerth Maxildanarr and his Sheriff Skath have won their positions fairly, because of his popularity with the fishers, but he holds trade in Targos in somewhat of a stranglehold.
Arriving in Bremen, the party has made contact with one fisherman named Grynsk Berylbore, a shield dwarf who owns a pair of rowboats tied to the docks and at first mistook the charakters for fishers and Tali, a gender non-binary half-elf researcher, who is in Icewind Dale to study how changes in climate alter the nature of the animal wildlife. They have begun to make plans on how to approach the Lake Monster living in Maer Dualdon, that has been attacking and sinking fishing boats.

bought

• 2x Potion of Greater Healing (bought - -200GP)
• Summon Beast Component (bought - -200GP)

Loot

• Amulet of Health
• Blessing of the Morninglord: You gain 10 temporary hit points each day at dawn.

Teilnehmer:

(1) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 1
(1) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 1
(1) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 1
(1) Yaidz - Kylan Bloodchaser - Goliath - Cleric 1
(1) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 1

Starting the Adventure:

The players have come to Bryn Shander at the behest of Speaker Duvessa Shane and the Council of Speakers to aid Ten-Towns. Shortly after arriving, the party has encountered a wounded Crag Cat, that has made its way into town in desperation for pray and begun eating away at a frozen-to-death fishermans corpse and bounty. The party managed to dispatch the beast non-lethally and released it into the wilderness.
Sherrif Markham Southwell, alerted by the fleeing bystanders, has commended the party for their quick and sensible judgement and initiative and offered to accompany them to the town hall meeting.

Quests:

Main-Story Quest: Cold-Hearted Killer
A serial killer has descended upon the Ten-Towns. They have slain three prominent figures in three separate towns: Bryn Shander, Easthaven, and Targos. They leave a distinctive calling card in their victim’s chests: a knife, made entirely out of black ice. With the Ten-Towns divided by the stress of the Rime, concerned officials stand little chance of stopping the killer in time before they claim their next victim.
Hlin Trollbane, a retired veteran and bounty-hunter, has taken it upon herself to investigate the recent murders because no one else—not even the Council of Speakers—can be bothered. She has asked the party to help her take down her only suspect: a man named Sephek Kaltro.
“Sephek Kaltro works for a small traveling merchant company called Torg’s, owned and operated by a shady dwarf named Torrga Icevein. In other words, Sephek gets around. He’s charming. Makes friends easily. He’s also Torrga’s bodyguard, so I’m guessing he’s good with a blade."
“His victims come from the only three towns that sacrifice people to the Frostmaiden on nights of the new moon. This is what passes for civilized behavior in Icewind Dale. Maybe the victims found a way to keep their names out of the drawings and Sephek found out they were cheating, so he killed them. Maybe, just maybe, Sephek is doing the Frostmaiden’s work."
“I followed Torg’s for a tenday as it moved from town to town. Quite the devious little enterprise, but that’s not my concern. What struck me is how comfortable Sephek Kaltro looked in this weather. No coat, no scarf, no gloves. It was like the cold couldn’t touch him. Kiss of the Frostmaiden, indeed."
“I will pay you a hundred gold pieces to apprehend Sephek Kaltro, ascertain his guilt, and deal with him, preferably without involving the authorities. When the job is done, return to me to collect your money.”
Reward: 100gp

Sidequests:

Foaming Mugs. Three frostbitten shield dwarves approached the characters in the snow-covered street, Hruna, Korux and Storn. They were due for an iron shipment for their forge, the "Blackiron Blades", but on their way from Kelvin's Cairn got ambushed by a peticularly violent Red Yeti. Their brother Oobok got brutally killed and now they're missing 600 pounds worth of iron for Bryn Shander forges. She promised the party a bag of gems worth 50gp each per Charakter, if they agree to bring back the missing sled and wares. After being held off for a few hours by a blizzard, the party found Oobok's body, aswell as traces of the sled and around half a dozen goblin tracks left in the snow. Having dealt with the looters, Goblinboss Izobai surrendered and begrudgingly fled with the survivors to their fortress of Karkolohk.
Treasure: Izobai carried two potions of animal friendship and a sealskin pouch containing 13 sp, 25 cp, and a bone whistle (1 sp). The other goblins carried 37 cp in sum.
Reward: 5 gems worth 50gp each and 10% discount at the Blackiron Blades.
"The friendship of the dwarves of Icewind Dale can also be a boon in these harsh times."
...
A Beautiful Mine. Speaker Duvessa Shane has hired the party to help with problems around Ten-Towns for a pay of 10gp per tenday. She recently has recieved a request for help from Termalaine, where Kobolds have taken over the local gem mines and tasked the party to travel north-west to investigate the issues.
...
Lake Monster. Rumors from Bremen about a strange sea monster have reached Bryn Shander and Duvessa Shane has tasked the party to go and investigate around Mear Dualdon.
...
Mountain Climb. The party overheard a group of fellow adventurers (Mokingo - male goliath warrior, Astrix - female tiefling wizard, Perilou - female halfling cleric) talk about a goliath werebear named Oyaminartok, who might have some information about what has befallen Icewind Dale. They are currently on their way to Targos.

Loot so far:

52,85gp per Person
2x Potion of Animal Friendship
each charakter recieved a trinket from the rollable Table in Appendix A
...
Beru Chillwind Akannathi -1 Level in Hexblade warlock recieved:
Oyaminartok's Legacy. This pole has a metal hook and a reinforced iron tip to break ice and provide additional safety when hiking through glaciers or steep mountain passes. There is a small indentation on the middle handle that, when pressed, extends a fishing rod at the bottom.
Temperate. The bearer suffers no harm in temperatures as cold as −20 degrees Fahrenheit or as warm as 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
[This item is RaimundoO's Pact weapon and does not exists as a magic item outside of this Hardcover. It is just fun flavor.]

After having completed 1 Sidequest in service to Bryn Shander the party has reached 2nd Level!

Loot

• 52,7 GP (Gehaltszahlung)

Teilnehmer:

(3) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 3
(3) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 2/Warlock 1
(3) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 3
(3) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 3

Loot:

10gp/Person weekly payment by speaker Duvessa Shane
1x Lockbox, containing 92 gp, 76 sp, 125 cp, and seven gemstones worth 10 gp each

Story:

The party has made their way back to Termalaine on their way to Lonelywood, trying to investigate about the frost druids that seem to stir unrest in Ten-towns. Stopping by their friends Martas home, the Eastside Inn, they found that Trog's caravan was currently in town and decided to pay them a visit.
Torrga Icevein's caravan consisted of three heavily laden dogsleds, each one pulled by six friendly sled dogs. One sled carried provisions and supplies for Torrga, her team, and her dogs. It flew a flag bearing the company’s emblem, a gold wolf’s paw on a black field. The other two sleds transported goods for sale, including cut wood, flint and tinder, flasks of whale oil, blankets, furs, rations, bottles of wine, casks of cheap ale, fake medicines, and vials of poison (used primarily for killing vermin).
Torg’s was an outdoor shop. Goods were unpacked and displayed in crates, with small canopies to keep the snow off them. Most of Torrga’s goods were stolen or fenced, and she sells them for double the normal price. She has a protection racket that earns her a little coin on the side, and she also commits murders for profit on the sly.
Torrga is interested only in profits, turned a blind eye to Sephek’s murderous escapades, and tried to help him as best she could without endangering her own life.
Sephek Kaltro was a well-built man in his thirties. He had an olive complexion, dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, and no facial or body hair. He dressed in a stylish vest with matching pants and boots, similar in style to those worn by mariners of the southern Sword Coast, but wore no armor or cold weather clothing and didnt’t appear to be armed. His most striking feature were his eyes, which were as blue as a frozen lake.
Because he was doing the Frostmaiden’s work, Sephek didnt’t care about getting caught and wasn't shy about admitting his guilt. In combat, he wielded a magical sword and magical daggers made of ice that he could conjure at will. He was also able to freely teleport short distanced in the snow and his wounds healed in the cold outside.
As Skalli sank her teeth into the mans throat, a blood-gurgling laught escaped Sephek: “You may destroy this mortal vessel, but Ten-Towns will not escape the Frostmaiden’s embrace. My sister will see to it!”
When Sephek drew his last breath, a cloud of icy vapor escaped his body and dispersed into the night.
Torrga and her bandits, seeing no use in a continued fight, struck a deal with the party. Coin, in exchange for leaving her and her crew well enough alone and keeping their pretty little mouths shut. Otherwise the party might find themselves being unable to buy something they need or denied lodging at a local inn because the merchant or proprietor don’t want to earn Torrga’s everlasting enmity. The charakters wisely accepted.

Loot

• 50 GP
• Grey Bag of Tricks

Teilnehmer:

(5) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian - none
(5) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin - none
(5) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger - none
(5) Frederick - Elric - Human - Wizard - none
(5) Echo - Osric Whisperwoods - Habling - Twilight Cleric - ?

Loot:

200gp
1x Potion of Healing
1x Potion of Greater Healing
1 Common magic item of choice for every charakter
Bag of Tricks (Gray)
Adventuring Gear (Wondrous Item)
This ordinary bag, made from gray, rust, or tan cloth, appears empty. Reaching inside the bag, however, reveals the presence of a small, fuzzy object. The bag weighs 1/2 pound.
You can use an action to pull the fuzzy object from the bag and throw it up to 20 feet. When the object lands, it transforms into a creature you determine by rolling a d8 and consulting the table that corresponds to the bag's color. The creature vanishes at the next dawn or when it is reduced to 0 hit points.
The creature is friendly to you and your companions, and it acts on your turn. You can use a bonus action to command how the creature moves and what action it takes on its next turn, or to give it general orders, such as to attack your enemies. In the absence of such orders, the creature acts in a fashion appropriate to its nature.
Once three fuzzy objects have been pulled from the bag, the bag can't be used again until the next dawn.
Dzaan's Spellbook
A worn book with a red leather cover and yellow pages. The edges of the pages are stained with dry blood. The writing inside suggests the book is nothing more than a poetry anthology. However, it’s actually the spellbook of a Red Wizard of Thay named Dzaan. The book’s true contents are hidden by an illusory script spell.
After the book was confiscated by a member of the town militia, it was brought to the Town Hall, where a clerk saw fit to place it in this library for safe keeping. Casting dispel magic on the book ends the illusory script spell placed upon it. When the illusory script spell ends, the book’s true contents are revealed. It contains the following spells:
detect magic, disguise self, illusory script, magic missile, silent image, arcane lock, blur, invisibility, knock, levitate, mirror image, phantasmal force, fireball, major image, sending, slow
arcane eye, confusion, hallucinatory terrain, phantasmal killer, animate objects, conjure elemental, mislead, seeming
Vellynne Harpell's Spellbook
Vellynne’s spellbook has black leather covers around pages of ragged parchment, all wrapped in a crimson sash. The necromancer’s personal sigil is written in goat’s blood on the title page. The tome contains the spells: false life, find familiar, protection from evil and good, shield, Tenser's floating disk, blindness/deafness, magic weapon, bestow curse, remove curse, polymorph
[Vellynnes book is granted access to, not looted!]

Story:

Fated Allies: The Council of Speakers

After gathering the Council of Speakers and setting a base of operations in Bryn Shander, Ten-Towns is gathering allies across Icewind Dale. The party is promised 100gp from each of the smaller towns, 300gp from each of the larger towns and 500gp from Bryn Shander, should Ten-Towns survie the duergar attack and their Chardalyn Dragon.
The charakters have advanced to chapter 2!

Teilnehmer:

(4) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 4
(4) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 3/Warlock 1
(4) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger: Beastmaster 4
(4) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard: School of Evocation 4
(4) Echo - Osric - Stout Halfling - Cleric: Twilight Domain 4

Loot:

135gp for completing "The White Moose"
1x Potion of Vitality
1x Potion of Resistance (Radiant)
1x Spell Scroll Moonbeam
1x Spell Scroll Comune
...
An unstrung bow was found in the tombs.
Rae'shalare, Warrior's Lament
Weapon (longbow), uncommon
You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Proficiency with a longbow allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.
Notes: Bonus: Magic, Damage, Combat, Ammunition, Heavy, Range, Two-Handed
[This Weapon serves as C0ldW0lfs 5th Level "Choose a magic item", per Adventurer's League rules in accordance to the Player's Guide]

Story:

The heroes have defeated Ravisins and accessed the Mirror of the Full Moon. While the moon dial lights its frame, the mirror functions like an crystal ball of scrying. The mirror is held to the wall with sovereign glue and can’t be removed without shattering it.

“Gaze upon your own face and have seven questions answered.”
1. Sahnar demonstrated how the mirror functions by using it to glean information about his descendants whereabouts and wellbeing. His halfelven grandson lives happy and well.
2. Aerlyn asked how her father was faring. He is well, but surrounded by mysterious men, wearing amulets made of black ice in the shape of a sword. He's serving food, tending to someone imprisoned.
3. Beru asked "Who am I?". The vision showed his birth to him. Has ancestry, his mother. It showed how he was cast into the icy lake for being to fragile of a goliath son. How he was saved by a werebear goliath and then brought to Bryn Shanders orphanage. And it showed him Helm, the God of Vigilance, who beckonned him to "protect them...".
4. Skalli asked how to end the Everlasting Rime. She was shown two Visions. First there was a gnome, dressed like a teddybear, asking for assistance and then a single ray of sunshine, falling onto a lonely Black Cabin beyond the woods. The second showed to her a massive glacier, unpassable by mortal means. The vision turned back t'wards an island deep in the sea of moving ice, which houses a fortress in the image of a crowned skull. A book clad in white in their hands, an old woman with white hair and an eyepatch and three kobolds in a trenchcoat. And finally just standing behind herself, Elric. As she was about to take her hand away from the mirrors surface, two icy blue eyes stared back at her, slowly freezing the edges of the mirror: "There you are..." The Frostmaiden has layed eyes on them.
Before fleeing the evlen tomb immediately, Aerlyn quickly used two more questions on the mirror, not letting the chance to unravel at least some of the unfolding events pass them.
5. Aerlyn asked about all the Chardalyn they've encountered on their journey so far. They saw duergar, stealing away in the dark of night. Bringing chardalyn to a hidden fortress deep in the mountains. They saw them forging weapons of war and a gargantuan construct, a dragon made entirely of chardalyn.
6. Aerlyn asked about the Everlasting Rime. She saw a giant woman with an owl mask and a staff with a chardalyn crystal on top of it. She mounted a massive predatory bird, flying into the night sky and casting some manner of spell, emboldening the endless snowfall.

Sahnar then urged the party to move along. They made their way into the wood, towards a frozen river. There they stumbled upon the crashside of a dogsled and a Halfling, burried head frist into a mount of snow. Osric Whisperwood was a member of another adventuring party hired by Duvessa Shane. They had been looking into climbing Kelvins Cairn and speaking with Oyaminartok, a werebear goliath and local legend said to have unique insight into the happenings of the dale. Sadly they were ambushed by a yeti in a blizzard. Osric had fled the scene together with 2 dogs to go and get help, buth got lost in the storm.
As they were gathering their wits, Auril herself appeared before the heroes. She spoke to them, offering sweet eternity as part of her eternal garden of ice and the beauty she's bring. Not understanding how these mortals couldn't fathom her work and ideals. She adsressed Skalli one last time before disappearing into the snow, the the lights came creeping in. A small army of Coldlight Walkers was approaching them, wounding them severely, almost killing some. (7th question answered) They managed to flee only by Sahnar's timely arrival. He had used the last of the mirrors power to see a way to save them from this doom, only to realize a sacrifice need be made. He joined onto the battlefield with a Forbiddance spell at the ready, which he had cast on his way and struck down against the undead, subsequently ending his own existance along with theirs. "Fly you fools...".

Loot

• 25 GP
• Scroll of Moonbeam
• Scroll of Commune
• Potion of Radiant Resistance
• Potion of Vitality
• Rae'shalare, Warrior's Lament (Longbow +1, Level 5 Item)
• 20 Silver Arrows

Teilnehmer:

(6) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian - none
(6) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin - none
(6) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger - none
(6) Frederick - Elric - Human - Wizard - none
(6) Echo - Osric Whisperwoods - Habling - Twilight Cleric - ?

Loot:

25gp
Horn of Blasting
Wondrous item, rare
You can use an action to speak the horn’s command word and then blow the horn, which emits a thunderous blast in a 30-foot cone that is audible 600 feet away. Each creature in the cone must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 5d6 thunder damage and is deafened for 1 minute. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t deafened. Creatures and objects made of glass or crystal have disadvantage on the saving throw and take 10d6 thunder damage instead of 5d6.
Each use of the horn’s magic has a 20 percent chance of causing the horn to explode. The explosion deals 10d6 fire damage to the blower and destroys the horn.

Story:

Quest: Jarlmoot

Teilnehmer:

(4) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian 3/Druid 1
(4) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 3/Warlock 1
(4) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger: Beastmaster 4
(4) Frederick - Elric - Human - Wizard: School of Evocation 4
(4) Echo - Osric - Stout Halfling - Cleric: Twilight Domain 4

Loot:

10gp/Person
1x Potion of Invisibility
One pair of Ice-Troll tusks
Scrimshaw of a spouting whale, a smiling fox, a pair of dancing hares, and a walrus with the words “BIG LOVE” carved into it.
Astrix' leather-bound spellbook, which contains the following wizard spells: Alter Self, Cloud of Daggers, Comprehend Languages, Detect Magic, Expeditious Retreat, Scorching Ray, Shield, Suggestion, and Tenser’s floating Disk.

Story:

Back at Nimseys in Lonelywood the party could finally catch some breaths, exhausted and cold and finally take a deserved long rest. The next morning moods were grim. The party had lost Chonk, Berus axebeak, to the Coldlight Walkers. Trying to help sooth the characters woes, Nimsey offered her best halfling hospitality, but to little awail.
She told them of Jarlmoot, an ancient ritual ground of Frostgiants, who ruled this land a long time ago. Some manner of test and insight might be acquired there, aswell as an old relic hidden there. She also was able to tell them a little more about Oyaminartok, the werebear goliath and her clan, going around the dale and helping those in need. Surely, if anyone, she knows how to help them. After collecting themselves and deciding their next steps, the party set on going north, to Kelvin's Cairn and try to save Osrics old party members and their survival guide, before cutting east and checking in with Aerlyns father, to settle some long standing worries she's been harboring.
The Icewind-Kobold were given the deed to the Ramshakle Inn to make their new home and keep it for the charakters.
Quest: Mountain Climb
Osric and his party, Mokingo Growling Bear Akannathi (male goliath warrior), Perilou Fishfinger(female halfling cleric) and Astrix (female tiefling wizard), hired the help of Garret Velryn, a survialist and moutain guide, but were ambushed by a yeti in a snowstorm
The characters managed to get a badly hurt Garret and deeply exhausted Perilou down from the mountain and to their save encampment. Sadly Mokingo was already half eaten and his head mounted like a trophy among others. Astrix in her panik fled UP the mountain, instead of down and froze to her death. On the mountains peak they found her, kneeling frozen in front of a long extinguished fire, next to another corpse, that of a once very popular dwarven daredevil with blue boots.
Auril in her Frostmaiden form greeted the party, frozen in shock. She beckonned to the lands below and its pristine beauty. It seems that, for now, she's more interessted in what these "heroes" would do next, than anything else and expressed once more her lamenting Skalli's growing effort to evade her. She gidted them with advice before parting:
"Exist as long as you can, by whatever means you can. Only by enduring can you outlast your enemies." "Your compassion makes you vulnerable. Let cruelty be the knife that keeps your enemies at bay."

By the Frostmaidens grace the party has reached 5th Level!

Teilnehmer:

(3) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 3
(3) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 2/Warlock 1
(3) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 3
(3) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 3

Loot:

20gp
1x Spell Scroll: Animal Friendship
Ring of Warmth
Ring, uncommon (requires attunement)
While wearing this ring, you have resistance to cold damage. In addition, you and everything you wear and carry are unharmed by temperatures as low as −50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Story:

The party have made their way onto Maer Dualdon in search of the lake monster as Tali, the half-elf reasearcher requested. “Perhaps this unending winter has affected its eating habits or demeanor in some way.” Waiting and fishing for knucklehead trout, the charakters were able to gather some information on the beast from the local wildlife and identified it as an awakened plesiosaurus. When the monster attacked the party tried to reason with it peacefully.
A reptilian head at the end of a long, slender neck rises out of the cold, dark water. The creature gazes at you intently and says, in Common, “I’m listening.”
The plesiosaurus answered straightforward questions and knew the following information:
It used to just swim around the lake and eat fish. The human who gave it this gift was named Ravisin and claimed to serve the Frostmaiden. Ravisin said it must do it's part to help the Frostmaiden, who wants the people of Bremen to suffer. It didn’t want to be a stupid beast again. (The plesiosaurus didn't know enough about druidic magic to know that its awakening is permanent.)
The plesiosaurus revealed that Ravisin instructed it to spread fear among the town’s fishers. The plesiosaurus or Nessie, as the party named it, doesn’t know where Ravisin came from or where she is now. The sharacters however have heard of rumors regarding a White Moose, terrorizing Lonelywood.
The plesiosaurus was afraid to stop what it was doing because it feared the druid might take away the gift that has been bestowed upon it. After convincing Nessie that its awakening is permanent, the plesiosaurus promised not to attack any fishers from the villages anymore.
When the characters made it back to Bremen’s docks, Grynsk showed up soon thereafter, eager to see how many knucklehead trout they caught. He honors his agreement, paying 5 cp per fish. Tali was eager to see the characters and gives the party a spell scroll of animal friendship and a pouch containing 5 gp as thanks, then headed toward Buried Treasures, the local Inn, to pore over the notes. The inn caters to treasure-seekers, specifically ones who pan for treasure along the riverbank in warmer weather. During the winter, this establishment has few, if any, visitors. The middle-aged innkeeper, Cora Mulphoon, treats her guests like royalty while trying to conceal the fact that she currently is barely making ends meet.
While resting and celebrating their success, the party have met with Marta Peskryk, a willowy teenager, innkeeper and bard of "The Eastside" Inn in Termalaine. She was down in Bremen to collect medicine for her bedridden father, Clyde, a retired fisherman.
Marta sang a peculiar song to herself:
Ahead of winter’s wind she came—
The lovely woman with no name;
Draped in a fur-lined cloak of red,
To the icy lake she fled;
The wind pursued her all the same—
As sure as night she’s dead.
She explained to the party that fifty years ago, a mysterious woman in a fur-lined red cloak stopped at the Eastside on her way to Lonelywood. Because the woman was alone and frightened, the innkeepers—a pair of retired adventurers who happened to be Marta’s grandparents—tried to console her. The woman gave them a ring as payment for their hospitality. Not long afterward, a howling wind burst into the inn and tossed the woman about like a rag doll. The innkeepers intervened, giving the woman time to escape. The evil wind battered Marta’s grandparents unconscious before resuming its hunt. That was the last anyone saw of the woman.
Marta wore the mysterious woman’s ring (which she had inherited) around her neck on a chain. It is a ring of warmth, and Marta gifted it as a good luck charm to the charakters when she was convinced they were helping t bring an end to the wintry curse that besets Icewind Dale.
Cora broke down in front of the party later the next morning while serving breakfast, unable to contain her worries. She explained briefly that her adult son and only child, Huarwar, used to help with the chores until two months ago. Her son had joined a search party to find Speaker Shalescar after he went missing during a blizzard one afternoon. The speaker was brought back safe and sound, but Huarwar got separated from the others and didn’t find his way home until the following morning. He had frostbite and could barely walk.
Over the next few days, Huarwar displayed a meanness toward his mother that was uncharacteristic. The change in his demeanor started after Cora found what looked like a shard of black ice in her son’s room. Huarwar snatched it away and threatened his mother with bodily harm if she touched it again.
The next day, two tieflings (a male and a female) arrived at the inn and offered Huarwar sanctuary in their castle. He left with them willingly, taking the shard with him and telling his mother that he would never return. The tieflings wore amulets that looked much like the shard in Huarwar’s possession. Cora misses her son terribly and she hopes he is still alive. She recalls that one of the tieflings mentioned a castle, and she knows that there are only two castles in Ten-Towns: an intact one in Caer-Dineval and a ruined one in Caer-Konig.

Spell components

• 2x Find Familiar Kits (2x 10 GP)

mundane

• Sling (0,1 GP)
• 5x Sling Bullets (5x 0,04 GP)
• Potion of Healing (50 GP)

Potions

• Potion of Healing (50 GP)

Mundane

• Tent (2 GP)
• Antitoxin (50 GP)

Teilnehmer:

(3) Arikatzi020 - Skalli "Frostgaze" - Shifter - Barbarian lvl 3
(3) Raimundo - Beru Chillwind Akannathi - Aasimar - Paladin 2/Warlock 1
(3) C0ldw0lf - Aerlyn Fuyu - Eladrin - Ranger 3
(3) Frederic - Elric - Human - Wizard 3

Spellcasting Sercives:

-450gp Greater Restoration
Mishann [House of the Morninglord]

Story:

The Party have rushed back to Bryn Shander, arriving late in the evening. Hoping to reverse the aging effect of Janths horryfying visage on Elric, they made their way to the House of the Morninglord. Inside they met with sister Mishann, a priestess of Amaunantor. who aspires to see the sun regain its rightful place in the sky over Icewind Dale. She calls Amaunator “the Morninglord,” a name that southerners use to describe Lathander, a god of the dawn and rebirth. Mishann views Lathander as a usurper of Amaunator’s light and doesn’t like it when people confuse the two deities.
She's was able to aid the party in reversing the ghosts effects on Elric via a Greater Restoration spell, however she was unable to provide free charity to the charakters, as all the money collected through temple services currently is needed to provide for the community and help foster the local orphanage, run by the House of the Triad.
Mishann rents her attic to a pessimistic rock gnome tinkerer named Copper Knobberknocker, who begrudgingly helps with services and chores. The two argue incessantly.
While not being able to offer more aid to the party at the moment, Mishann assures the party she will call on them, when an opportunity arises to help ten-towns and offer more readily available help, once possible.
In Targos the party has encountered a large crowd of people, gathered around the frozen and impaled corpse of their former ally, Kylan Bloodchaser. The charakters convinced the local guard to keep the remains of their dead friend and see to it, that he recieves a propper burial. Stopping by the towns store they met the scarecrow-like owner Jestin Hunrae and refilled their supplies.
Jestin currently has one arm in a sling, seemingly due to an accident with a colliding boat from Termalaine, however the Party harbors suspicions about the verasity of this statement. Towns Speaker Naerth Maxildanarr and his Sheriff Skath have won their positions fairly, because of his popularity with the fishers, but he holds trade in Targos in somewhat of a stranglehold.
Arriving in Bremen, the party has made contact with one fisherman named Grynsk Berylbore, a shield dwarf who owns a pair of rowboats tied to the docks and at first mistook the charakters for fishers and Tali, a gender non-binary half-elf researcher, who is in Icewind Dale to study how changes in climate alter the nature of the animal wildlife. They have begun to make plans on how to approach the Lake Monster living in Maer Dualdon, that has been attacking and sinking fishing boats.

bought

• 2x Potion of Greater Healing (bought - -200GP)
• Summon Beast Component (bought - -200GP)

Loot

• Amulet of Health
• Blessing of the Morninglord: You gain 10 temporary hit points each day at dawn.