Story Award: Stung by Greed. (removed) You were stung by greed, and your soul has been infected by the deadly sin. When you’re in the presence of great wealth (in the form of coins or gems/jewelry worth over 1,000 gp), you are stunned until the end of your first turn, as your mind reels at such great wealth. This can be removed with a remove curse.

Kalte returned to Stagwick, where he led a group of adventurers to meet Frontier Scout Wum Burdun. Wum introduced us to a Frost Giant named Scövja Thurfurst whose son had been abducted. Wum suspected a group named The Bloodriders, a militia of Stagwick veterans who hate giantkind. Scövja has agreed to give Wum 5 days for us to recover her son, Burleigh.
While inspecting the site of the attack, we recovered evidence that the Bloodriders ambushed the giant, and then along the trail, a murdered Bloodrider killed by a human's knife.

The group convinced the Bloodrider Commander Scarn Mikel to release Burleigh, but Bloodrider Captain Cathica Lygia staged a coup and attacked us as we were returning to Stagwick. we cut her and her cohort down, saving Burleigh.

Story Award: Frontier Friend By convincing Scarn Mikel to let Burleigh Thurnfurst go peacefully, the Blood Riders gain a new respect for the Frontier Scouts. As a result, the riders stop bullying the scouts and they stay out of one another’s way. As long as you possess this story award, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) and (Persuasion) checks made to influence any member of the Frontier Scouts.

Story Award: Hated of Surtur. For thwarting Baron Ugarak’s plans in the Molten Vault, you have earned the ire of Surtur, god of the Fire Giants. Fire Giants who see you sense a deep and abiding hatred which can be quelled only through your painful death. You have disadvantage on any social checks with fire giants and they attempt to kill you as quickly as possible in combat, even at the expense of other foes.

SEER charges the band of adventurers to seek out the stone giant Kryshilir at the Seven Stones. He will give us guidance in finding Hotun-Shûl and once we find it, we must learn what they can about the frost giant Jarl Ryndölg and his ancient, powerful axe called Øksavmakt.

+ potion of Fire Giant Strength, portion of Superior Healing
* Downtime Activity: Student of Stone. Illsenstaad has chosen you and you alone to complete his life’s work and put his soul to rest. By spending a total of 365 downtime days (these need not be spent all at once) possessed by Illsenstaad, allowing him to tell his stories and carve them into the living rock of Hotun-Shûl, you gain the Student of Stone story award. If you are a dwarf, possess the Guild Artisan (mason or stonecutter) background, or are otherwise proficient in mason’s tools; you complete this in half the normal time.
* Downtime Activity: Dreamwalker. Kryshilir has taught you to look beyond the veil of the world and navigate your dreams. By spending 25 downtime days, you travel to the Seven Stones and meditate under Kryshilir’s whispered guidance. Upon completing this downtime activity, you gain the Dreamwalker story award.

Story Award: SEER’s Delivery Service. You successfully delivered the rune tablet into the hands of the Lord’s Alliance for study, much to their gratitude. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPC members of the Lord’s Alliance. Additionally, you gain disadvantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPCs that specifically oppose the Lord’s Alliance.
Story Award: Heroes of Citadel Adbar. Your brave rescue of the Frostbite Platoon has earned you fame and favor within the dwarven citadel. While the citadel normally shuts out visitors, you are granted access to the citadel’s upper reaches. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with dwarves from Citadel Adbar, regardless of where you travel.

Kalte and a few companions are summoned by King Hartwick and SEER to rejoin the defense of Stagwick, as Jarl Ryndolg's giant army has laid siege to the Hartsvale region. Uli of the Frontier Scouts reported a powerful creature in the area around Middle Spire, with a lot of game found rent asunder and consumed raw. SEER has concerns that this could be a powerful creature summoned by the sounding of Hartkiller's Horn and the adventureres are asked to investigate to ensure it is not going

En route to the Spires, we are ambushed by a Frost giant, an ice spire ogre, and two orogs from the top of a cliff. Climbing the 35' shelf in plate was more effort than Kalte could muster, so after cutting down the frost giant, he watched Torrik the Barbarian clean up the remainder.

On top of Middle Spire, we discovered a skeletal giant gobbling venison from a score of felled deer and mountain goats. To our suprise, he was the Hartkiller, son of Annam All-Father and the demigod namesake of Hartsvale. It seems that it was not only living giants who felt the call of the Horn. He asked us to help him find more to eat so he could regain his strength in order to defend Stagwick and Hartsvale.

The group tracked the gargantuan Beast of Talos, a legendary remorhaz that felt no pain from fire, ice, lightning, nor thunder. It ate two of the less experienced in the party, but they were saved before death by digestion. Dragging the massive creature back to Hartkiller was troublesome, but it was the protein he needed to make his defense of Stagwick and slay Jarl Ryndolg, shattering his alliance of giants.

We found a dagger of venom in the side of the beast. Perhaps I can find someone who wants it.

A few days after the exploration of Durlag's Tower, Hsing finds the group in Beregost. He frantically reports that he was seperated from SEER while exploring the ruins of Ulcaster's school of magic and he cannot locate her.

We set off to find SEER, and on arriving, witness three stone giants killing traveling priests of Lathander that had stopped at the ruins to rest. Moments later, Kalte blacks out. When he comes to, Broca, Flagg, and Dusk tell him that he was possessed by the spirit of Ulcaster himself. Ulcaster asked the group to locate the magic jar where his spirit has been hidden away, then to find where his followers interred his body in the crypts below.

Pushing aside a stone cover, we make our way into the cellars and dungeon of the old school of magic. We discover the expected undead, with Kalte dispatching a half-dozen vampire spawn and a handful of wraiths with little trouble. Dusk, Broca, and Flagg put down as many and a pair of oozes as well. In a space secreted behind a panel in Ulcaster's Lab, we were able to restore the archmage to his body from the jar, effectively resurrecting him.

Following the other tunnel, we discover SEER is enthralled by a vampire named Levanna, which we quickly dispatched by Dusk turning Flagg invisible and the ranger and bard assassinating the vampire's physical form in seconds. A wizard named Max and previously unknown to the group, created the sunlight needed to utterly destroy the nightwalker before she could misty escape.

SEER seems weakened, but not permanently harmed. We took her back to Beregost to recover.

+ 1 potion of Superior Healing. Kalte also exchanges some of his coin to take his payout in the form of a ruby-and-emerald-encrusted ivory statuette of a wizard, worth 1,500gp and a jade statuette of Mystra with seven pearl stars, worth 250gp.

SEER sends us back into the space beneath Ulcaster's ruined arcanum to clear out the pirates and looters sent by Baron Rajiram. They are seeking Ulcaster's personal library and chambers, which he had placed in a secret demiplane.
The combat is less than challenging as the master thieves, swashbucklers, and mages sent by the Baron are easily dispatched, even when sent at us a dozen at a time.
The shield guardians, golems, and spirit naga are equally easy to remove.

*+ potion of healing (superior)

SEER calls the team to her tower, briefing them on the reappearance of the Isle of Xxiphu. Baron Rajiram’s forces have begun to explore a mysterious island. She believes an aboleth artifact is warping the Weave of Magic and is the Baron's likely goal. After allowing the group to select additional gear, she introduces us to a flight of bronze dragons that will take us to the island.
The dragons deliver us to sea elves in the ocean near the island. They tell us that their princess has gone with a vanguard, give the adventurers potions of water breathing, and the underwater infiltration begins. Entry is denied by a number of sahaugin and their giant sharks. In the last chamber before the surface of the island, the crew finds the Princess of the sea elves being tortured by sahaugin and free her.

Story Award: Purple Crystal of the Isle These crystals are columnar in nature; long slender
prisms of a translucent purple mineral. The crystals detect as magical and radiate conjuration magic. Detailed investigation determines that they are not native to the Prime Material Plane, instead being formed by a manifestation of the Far Realm. The crystals can focus psychic energy, with a particular application to the control of constructs.

Story Award: Stung by Greed. (removed) You were stung by greed, and your soul has been infected by the deadly sin. When you’re in the presence of great wealth (in the form of coins or gems/jewelry worth over 1,000 gp), you are stunned until the end of your first turn, as your mind reels at such great wealth. This can be removed with a remove curse.

Kalte returned to Stagwick, where he led a group of adventurers to meet Frontier Scout Wum Burdun. Wum introduced us to a Frost Giant named Scövja Thurfurst whose son had been abducted. Wum suspected a group named The Bloodriders, a militia of Stagwick veterans who hate giantkind. Scövja has agreed to give Wum 5 days for us to recover her son, Burleigh.
While inspecting the site of the attack, we recovered evidence that the Bloodriders ambushed the giant, and then along the trail, a murdered Bloodrider killed by a human's knife.

The group convinced the Bloodrider Commander Scarn Mikel to release Burleigh, but Bloodrider Captain Cathica Lygia staged a coup and attacked us as we were returning to Stagwick. we cut her and her cohort down, saving Burleigh.

Story Award: Frontier Friend By convincing Scarn Mikel to let Burleigh Thurnfurst go peacefully, the Blood Riders gain a new respect for the Frontier Scouts. As a result, the riders stop bullying the scouts and they stay out of one another’s way. As long as you possess this story award, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) and (Persuasion) checks made to influence any member of the Frontier Scouts.

Story Award: Hated of Surtur. For thwarting Baron Ugarak’s plans in the Molten Vault, you have earned the ire of Surtur, god of the Fire Giants. Fire Giants who see you sense a deep and abiding hatred which can be quelled only through your painful death. You have disadvantage on any social checks with fire giants and they attempt to kill you as quickly as possible in combat, even at the expense of other foes.

SEER charges the band of adventurers to seek out the stone giant Kryshilir at the Seven Stones. He will give us guidance in finding Hotun-Shûl and once we find it, we must learn what they can about the frost giant Jarl Ryndölg and his ancient, powerful axe called Øksavmakt.

+ potion of Fire Giant Strength, portion of Superior Healing
* Downtime Activity: Student of Stone. Illsenstaad has chosen you and you alone to complete his life’s work and put his soul to rest. By spending a total of 365 downtime days (these need not be spent all at once) possessed by Illsenstaad, allowing him to tell his stories and carve them into the living rock of Hotun-Shûl, you gain the Student of Stone story award. If you are a dwarf, possess the Guild Artisan (mason or stonecutter) background, or are otherwise proficient in mason’s tools; you complete this in half the normal time.
* Downtime Activity: Dreamwalker. Kryshilir has taught you to look beyond the veil of the world and navigate your dreams. By spending 25 downtime days, you travel to the Seven Stones and meditate under Kryshilir’s whispered guidance. Upon completing this downtime activity, you gain the Dreamwalker story award.

Story Award: SEER’s Delivery Service. You successfully delivered the rune tablet into the hands of the Lord’s Alliance for study, much to their gratitude. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPC members of the Lord’s Alliance. Additionally, you gain disadvantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPCs that specifically oppose the Lord’s Alliance.
Story Award: Heroes of Citadel Adbar. Your brave rescue of the Frostbite Platoon has earned you fame and favor within the dwarven citadel. While the citadel normally shuts out visitors, you are granted access to the citadel’s upper reaches. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with dwarves from Citadel Adbar, regardless of where you travel.

Kalte and a few companions are summoned by King Hartwick and SEER to rejoin the defense of Stagwick, as Jarl Ryndolg's giant army has laid siege to the Hartsvale region. Uli of the Frontier Scouts reported a powerful creature in the area around Middle Spire, with a lot of game found rent asunder and consumed raw. SEER has concerns that this could be a powerful creature summoned by the sounding of Hartkiller's Horn and the adventureres are asked to investigate to ensure it is not going

En route to the Spires, we are ambushed by a Frost giant, an ice spire ogre, and two orogs from the top of a cliff. Climbing the 35' shelf in plate was more effort than Kalte could muster, so after cutting down the frost giant, he watched Torrik the Barbarian clean up the remainder.

On top of Middle Spire, we discovered a skeletal giant gobbling venison from a score of felled deer and mountain goats. To our suprise, he was the Hartkiller, son of Annam All-Father and the demigod namesake of Hartsvale. It seems that it was not only living giants who felt the call of the Horn. He asked us to help him find more to eat so he could regain his strength in order to defend Stagwick and Hartsvale.

The group tracked the gargantuan Beast of Talos, a legendary remorhaz that felt no pain from fire, ice, lightning, nor thunder. It ate two of the less experienced in the party, but they were saved before death by digestion. Dragging the massive creature back to Hartkiller was troublesome, but it was the protein he needed to make his defense of Stagwick and slay Jarl Ryndolg, shattering his alliance of giants.

We found a dagger of venom in the side of the beast. Perhaps I can find someone who wants it.

A few days after the exploration of Durlag's Tower, Hsing finds the group in Beregost. He frantically reports that he was seperated from SEER while exploring the ruins of Ulcaster's school of magic and he cannot locate her.

We set off to find SEER, and on arriving, witness three stone giants killing traveling priests of Lathander that had stopped at the ruins to rest. Moments later, Kalte blacks out. When he comes to, Broca, Flagg, and Dusk tell him that he was possessed by the spirit of Ulcaster himself. Ulcaster asked the group to locate the magic jar where his spirit has been hidden away, then to find where his followers interred his body in the crypts below.

Pushing aside a stone cover, we make our way into the cellars and dungeon of the old school of magic. We discover the expected undead, with Kalte dispatching a half-dozen vampire spawn and a handful of wraiths with little trouble. Dusk, Broca, and Flagg put down as many and a pair of oozes as well. In a space secreted behind a panel in Ulcaster's Lab, we were able to restore the archmage to his body from the jar, effectively resurrecting him.

Following the other tunnel, we discover SEER is enthralled by a vampire named Levanna, which we quickly dispatched by Dusk turning Flagg invisible and the ranger and bard assassinating the vampire's physical form in seconds. A wizard named Max and previously unknown to the group, created the sunlight needed to utterly destroy the nightwalker before she could misty escape.

SEER seems weakened, but not permanently harmed. We took her back to Beregost to recover.

+ 1 potion of Superior Healing. Kalte also exchanges some of his coin to take his payout in the form of a ruby-and-emerald-encrusted ivory statuette of a wizard, worth 1,500gp and a jade statuette of Mystra with seven pearl stars, worth 250gp.

SEER sends us back into the space beneath Ulcaster's ruined arcanum to clear out the pirates and looters sent by Baron Rajiram. They are seeking Ulcaster's personal library and chambers, which he had placed in a secret demiplane.
The combat is less than challenging as the master thieves, swashbucklers, and mages sent by the Baron are easily dispatched, even when sent at us a dozen at a time.
The shield guardians, golems, and spirit naga are equally easy to remove.

*+ potion of healing (superior)

SEER calls the team to her tower, briefing them on the reappearance of the Isle of Xxiphu. Baron Rajiram’s forces have begun to explore a mysterious island. She believes an aboleth artifact is warping the Weave of Magic and is the Baron's likely goal. After allowing the group to select additional gear, she introduces us to a flight of bronze dragons that will take us to the island.
The dragons deliver us to sea elves in the ocean near the island. They tell us that their princess has gone with a vanguard, give the adventurers potions of water breathing, and the underwater infiltration begins. Entry is denied by a number of sahaugin and their giant sharks. In the last chamber before the surface of the island, the crew finds the Princess of the sea elves being tortured by sahaugin and free her.

Story Award: Purple Crystal of the Isle These crystals are columnar in nature; long slender
prisms of a translucent purple mineral. The crystals detect as magical and radiate conjuration magic. Detailed investigation determines that they are not native to the Prime Material Plane, instead being formed by a manifestation of the Far Realm. The crystals can focus psychic energy, with a particular application to the control of constructs.