Wil and the crew return to Xorvintroth with supplies, via teleportation, to find the Harper safehouse in disarray and Harper agents either fighting each other, sunken into despairing torpor, or hallucinating and weeping uncontrollably. With the help of Tua, Amri, and Salros, we find and calm Zehira, bring Remalia out of her delusions, tend to the junior harper agents, and then witness Soggy Wren grab a telepathic artifact crystal and sprinted off into the city at a speed that's nearly impossible for a Tabaxi.

Only one of the several artifact pieces is still in the lab, a daggersized shard of silvery metal that telepathically introduces itself to Wil as "Rudrum" and offers Wil a bargain: Additional power to destroy evil while they are together, but some of Wil's perception and memory will be reduced while the bond is in place. Wil takes the bargain, though it never seems to come into play.
Rudrum is one of 6 slivers of a key that keeps an ancient lesser Evil locked in magical ice, but that ice cage is failing and Rudrum insists we must find Wren and the remaining slivers to prevent invasion by the far realm creature.
The adventurers set out to find Soggy Wren and the crystals that Wren took, but not without resistance.
In the end, all six pieces of the Crystal form a singular keystone that Wil is able to use to release, then immediately banish The Shadow In The Ice to the far realm without loss of life on Toril.

*Used 1 potion of Vitality.
Gained one Potion of Speed & (1) Spell Scroll 8th Level (Sunburst)

Story Award: Wren's Fate

Wren was captured by star spawn, but remains alive.

Story Award: The Stars Are Right

You helped the Painter find the information hidden in the pattern, and they’ve disappeared into Xorvintroth to use it.

Wil and some of their travelling companions are returning to Candlekeep when they see an immense purple dome shroud the castle library. The party was tasked by Lady Remalia Haventree to probe the catacombs beneath CandleKeep, searching for the silver dragon that is set as guardian over the caverns. The dragon has been trapped in a sickly green rime, the apparent work of a Far Realm entity called Father Lymic.
Retrieving an informant from Waterdeep further improved their chances of success.
A Far Realm-warped beholder attacked just outside the walls of Candlekeep. It remained out of most of the heroes' reach until Wil was able to leap from the roof of a nearby outbuilding and grapple the aberration to the ground.
After quelling a trio of arcane tomes run amok, the adventurers found the source of the violet dome over the library fortress: an aboleth with unexplicable powers gained in the Far Realms. It too attempted to remain out of reach, but the sorcerer's magics and a few well placed slings & arrows from Wil and Geran the Bard felled the creature at the last.
Gained a potion of Invulnerability

Story Award: Favor of Dar’lon Ma

You accepted Dar’lon Ma’s magical aid and he’s marked you as a reasonable ally.

Story Award: State of Candlekeep

You defended Candlekeep against the incursions of the Far Realm and the Tenebrous Creed, however, the toll was great. Bowed but Not Broken. The librarians were able to assist you in your quest against Szass Tam.

Dispatched to Candlekeep to recover some research before a group of Thayans, the party finds themselves up against an Eldritch horror, a half dozen Shadows, and two shadow-wielding monks. Though it took nearly everything the adventurers could bring to bear, they won out and banished the vile creature back to the Outer Planes.

Hired to find six ships that had gone missing between Luskan and Neverwinter. While looking for information around the port, Wil is asked by a farmer to watch a cart and horses. What was agreed to as a friendly gesture leads to the city guard arresting Wil and team for stealing the cart. The confusion cleared after the owner verifies our innocence after some hours.

Inquiring with the Harbormaster and a sailor that recently left the crew of the Graceful Dancer, we learn that a sallow faced, tattooed man has hired Captain Quint and the Graceful Dancer to capture merchantman ships and return the prizes to an island called Isolation. Isolation is a rarely charted active volcano 4 days' sail from Neverwinter.

Making use of the ship provided to us by Zehira, we are able to find Isolation Isle, rescue some two dozen sailors from cells in the side of the volcano, then execute the Thayan conjurer and his apprentices, the Pirate captains, a dozen of their crew and a Fire Elemental.
While there, we met the three individuals who had framed us with the stolen cart and swiped the port manifests of the 6 ships we were trying to trail. It seems the Harpers had set them on a similar assignment to our team. They freed a number of prisoners and secured the village and port on the island, allowing us to retreat quickly once Harlequin & Fushigoro figured out how to set off some elemental devestation orb and drop the island back into the sea.

gained potion of Heroism, Elixir of Health, Ammunition (crossbow bolt +1) x3

Legacy event: Bond of Fellowship

You encountered three Harper agents during your time in Isolation:
• Amri Thistlebrick
• Salros Eventide
• Tua

Legacy Event: Redspear’s Ring

Northlander captain Carys Redspear has given you one of her arm rings, which her crew will recognize should you ever cross paths.

A stressed Zor of the von Zinklestein merchant house retains the assistance of some adventurers to check in on a country estate that's fallen out of communication with the Mulmaster-based House.
Wil is among the group that discovered the manor under the control of the daughter and the Fathers nowhere to be found. The juvenile was attended only by a butler who seemed to comply with her every whim; the manor house was covered in chalk drawings and other evidence that the undisciplined child was in charge. After a tea of sugary treats, Abby invites her new friends to play games before she would tell us where her fathers had gone. After hide-n-seek and a bit of sparring, Abigail gave Wil two bracelets of twisted thread, one red & one blue, as proof of their friendship.

Just after sundown, Abby escorted us toward the family crypt. Immediately suspicious of this, Wil made a small excuse for using the dimmed sunblade as their light source. Abigail brought us into the undercroft to meet "Auntie Magdelena" who immediately hissed at the presence of sunlight and revealed a vampire's fangs.
the adventurers faced a variety of enemies as the vampire had a flesh golemn, two bodaks and a few animated statues as protective minions. The foul creature fled when the last of her minions were slain.
It was then we realized that young Abby had been bitten and turned. Wil made a vow to abigail's fathers that they would either find a means to cure Abigail before she fully turned or she would do as her oaths to Kelemvor required.

+587 gp reward for services rendered, paid to silver 4 daggers and a rapier -500gp

Story Award: Gratitude of the von Finklestein Family. You have made an ally of the von Finklestein Family. You may use this favor to gain a spell scroll with a Player's Handbook wizard spell of 3rd-level or lower,... (2nd option N/A. Wil is not a caster.)

Wil is travelling with a motely collection of travellers on the road from Ylraphon to Mulmaster, when they happen upon a mage of the Mulmaster Cloaks and a fist of Soldiery executing a halfling that carries an intricate sword. Reosera, a sorceress of great strength with ice and water magics, destroys the attackers, but the doomed halfling was dead before they hit the turf.

Teleportation magics deliver Rastol Shan, Senior Cloak of the Mulmaster High Cloaks has been tracking this sword, because the Sword of Selfaril's pommel holds the trapped soul of Selfaril Uomodolphin, a Mulmasterite High Blade deposed by his brother 100 years ago.

After Rastol Shan performs a ritual to shatter the gem, he hires the group to escort the weakened High Blade into Mulmaster to a respite hidden in the sewers under the Wink and Wave, a dancehall.

Wil guarded the recovering High Blade while other members of the group made contacts within the city, gaining support for Selfaril to overthrow the sitting High Blade, who is a puppet of the church of Bane.

In a climactic show, Selfaril Uomodolphin challenges the High Blade Jaseen Drakehorn, defeating her in a duel with the subtle assistance of the Nobles, the City Watch, Sark Tolliver, and the Mulmaster Beholder Corps as they countered the interference of the Red Wizards, several Cloaks, and Cult of Black Earth.

Soleil Finchfib, faithful priestess of Shiallia (exarch of Mielikki) and resident of Silverymoon, was tasked by her forest deity to recover and return the ashes of Tick Tary Tanner, a gnomish wizard of the Emerald Enclave and progenitor/martyr of the Red War that destroyed Mulmaster. After tracking down the Red Wizard thief, Soleil enlisted the help of Wil, a Dwarven heavy named Ping, a confusing sorcerer named Raksha (with his familiar Coral), and a druid of suprising ability, named Orry.

We convinced the thief to tell us what happened with the urn, and found that Tanner had been reconstituted and raised as a greater zombie by the foul villain, Szass Tam. Tracking down the animated remains of the poor druid Tanner, we dispatched him. Yet, our attempt to recover the corpse were thwarted when a magic user cast a passwall on the street where they stood, dropping them into the sewers below.

The trip through the sewers concluded in a tearoom of all places. We made the acquaintance of Thelma Scrollroller there. After an inexplicable attack by aThayan Wizard astride a young black dragon, we had to face a harsh reality that the gnomes' ashes could not be restored to the urn. Our best option was to burn the pile, dragon and all.

Story Award: Woodland Hospitality

Shiallia, the Daughter of the High Forest, owes you for helping out Soleil—regardless of the outcome. Small woodland animals of the High Forest treat you like royalty.
Gained scroll of protection (from undead)

During a time that Wil is sojourning with Jaxx the ever-sleepy bugbear, Ember the Imbiber, and Aravahn, Cleric of Corelleon, undead attack their caravan in the hills between Hillsfar and Mulmaster. The revenant's last whisper is of the treasure of Solina, an item named the Dawnfire.

We discover a Zhentarim agent amongst the caravan members who is in posession of a sunblade named Dawnfire. The priceless treasure was uncovered in a Zhent archaeology (cough, grave robbing) expedition; this culprit has been pursued for days by the revenants of the paladin order who once guarded the holy weapon.

We come to learn that two members of the caravan have been taken back to the Barrows of Solina and Jaxx the ever-resourceful Bugbear uses a bead from a blessed necklace to turn us to vapor so that we may travel faster than the winds. Moving so quickly, we find ourselves stopping at a local farm for directions, where Grandfather Murphy Cord tells us two of the Cord's children are now missing from that area. Wil promises the village elder that they will enter the mounds to look for the children and mount a rescue if they are able.

Within the barrow, the adventurers discover all four missing persons on trial for the crimes of the single Zhentarim thief. In order to protect the innocent Cord children, Wil invokes trial by combat and faces the revenant of Alisandre Solina, paladin and Lady Arbiter of the Order of Dawnfire.

Wil fights their finest duel yet, parrying or avoiding all but a single critical stroke from the storied warrior, and that fearsome and lethal blow only mitigated with their adamantine armor and a careful Warding Maneuver.
After much swordplay, Wil manages to disarm Dame Solina of her greatsword and Alisandre yields. Before she retires to Celestia, her last wish is that we bring the Barrow down to lock in her foe, the frost giant death shaman Vornjolnir the Harrowed King.

As we approach to the second warding stone to begin the implosion, a vile devourer rises from the red rime of the floor above. Necrotic waves and punishing strikes knock Wil unconscious, but Jaxx the ever-faithful Bugbear brings them to their feet with the use of that same blessed necklace of prayer beads. Reeling from the fiend's onslaught, we manage to dispatch it and escape the collapse. The only items Wil and Jaxx the ever-industrious Bugbear could save from the barrow of Solina are the sunblade Dawnfire, and a tapestry with the ancient order's emblem.

Thankful that we have saved the mortals, the children are returned home safe (if a bit traumatized.) Wil declines the offered reward of these good and humble folk.
Wil and Jaxx the ever-pragmatic Bugbear do, however, turn the grave robber over to the Order of the Gauntlet and Harpers for interogation, sentencing, and/or prisoner exchange with the Zhentarim.

Story Award: Solina's Blessing

In the event that you come across Vornjolnir's machinations or the Harrowed King's relics, know that Solina’s blessing is upon you.
* Gained a Potion of Superior Healing

Sent by Malkyn Fenris, a High Harper and the self-proclaimed "Archmage of Phlan", to search the Thayan Embassy for the master cryptographer Thessyl'k, stop his work to decipher the Lost Journal of Karsus and remove the time paradox created when Szass Tam brought the Lost Journal from the past to Mulmaster.

• 1 potion of greater healing

Story Award: Thwarted the Devil’s Plot.

The group accuses Norre, a Thayan Ambassador of a plot to overrun Hillsfar with a demonic army.

Story Award: The Crazy Squirrel.

Clad in shiny plate armor, this adorable squirrel is often seen holding what appears to be an acorn. However, upon closer inspection, one will notice it is holding a 20-sided-die.
If killed or reduced to 0 hit points, The Crazy Squirrel can be recalled via find familiar, and uses the statistics of a cat from the Monster Manual. It has proficiency in all gaming sets. The shiny plate armor has no effect on the Squirrel’s AC.

Story Award: High Blade in your Debt

You prevented an alliance between an efreeti pasha and the Cult of Reborn Flame, you rescued Selfaril Uomodolphin from a mental prison woven by a hag coven, and you prevented Mulmaster from being engulfed in lava by the Black Phoenix.
For these deeds and more, the High Blade of Mulmaster is in your debt. With his city overrun by Thayans, Selfaril cannot repay that debt now, but perhaps that may change one day.

bought 4 daggers

Story Award: A Lich's Secret

When going through Selfaril’s memories of the past, you discovered Rastol Shan’s secret. He is a lich who was formerly Thurndan Tallwand, the Senior Cloak who betrayed Selfaril Uoumdolphin on behalf of his brother Rassendyll. What you do with this secret is up to you.

Story Award: Favor of House Peytir

By redeeming Ardet Peytir, you have gained the favor of House Peytir and, with it, the approval of many of the anti-Thayan political factions in Mulmaster. Your Charisma checks to interact with Cloaks as well as Mulmaster nobles who are not aligned with Thay are made at advantage.

Story Award: Blessing of the Ki-Rin

You have helped the Ki-Rin and its allies on the Moonsea. It may choose to bless you with celestial aid down the road. This can only happen if you once again choose to help the School of the Swift Horse.

Downtime Activity (Completed): Saved the School. Having aided the school in a time of great need, you are welcome to stay with them for a time. If you spend 5 downtime days training at Swift Horse, you train your spirit to make one future Wisdom saving throw with advantage, which causes this benefit to disappear.

Dispatched by the Harpers to infiltrate theThayan-held, Netherese-built city of Xorvindroth in the Thundering Peaks of Icewind Dale. This city has been transmuted to green glass by the unholy touch of Father Lymic's influence. Our mission is to infiltrate, discover a defensible position with potential for an observation point, and create a teleportation circle so the Harpers can begin to establish a forward operating base.

The infiltration at the front gate went completely pear-shaped, with the group fighting the Thayan gate detatchment during a blizzard and within a tunnel with an anti-magic zone as a primary defense. Through a survey of 4 potential locations for the Harper base, the party came in combat with an otherworld aberration like nothing any of us have heard of in all our adventures, nor the reports from our factions.

So much of the city's walls and infrastructure has been transmuted to green glass that threatens the viewer's desent into bouts of mind-warping madness. What has not been transmuted is still more chilling and uncanny still, much of it a remainder of the dying days of a Netherese metropolis warped by Our Planes abberations.

The team, especially the paladin Jewels, the mage Dresden, and Tordak, a cleric of Clangeddin, acquited itself well, locating a teleportation circle in a cavern beneath the remains of a clockwork academy that will suit the Harpers' needs and yet all seeminglynot drawing the notice of the Red Wizard forces and none descending into long term madness.
Found (1) potion of Vitality, (1) potion of comprehension, (1) Spell scroll of Teleportation Circle

Story Award: Xorvintroth Base Security

You secured the hidden base against discovery by the Red Wizards and against being breached by wandering dangers. Gave the set of magic-draining statues to the star spawn
• Destroyed the fog-generating pods.

Wil and the crew return to Xorvintroth with supplies, via teleportation, to find the Harper safehouse in disarray and Harper agents either fighting each other, sunken into despairing torpor, or hallucinating and weeping uncontrollably. With the help of Tua, Amri, and Salros, we find and calm Zehira, bring Remalia out of her delusions, tend to the junior harper agents, and then witness Soggy Wren grab a telepathic artifact crystal and sprinted off into the city at a speed that's nearly impossible for a Tabaxi.

Only one of the several artifact pieces is still in the lab, a daggersized shard of silvery metal that telepathically introduces itself to Wil as "Rudrum" and offers Wil a bargain: Additional power to destroy evil while they are together, but some of Wil's perception and memory will be reduced while the bond is in place. Wil takes the bargain, though it never seems to come into play.
Rudrum is one of 6 slivers of a key that keeps an ancient lesser Evil locked in magical ice, but that ice cage is failing and Rudrum insists we must find Wren and the remaining slivers to prevent invasion by the far realm creature.
The adventurers set out to find Soggy Wren and the crystals that Wren took, but not without resistance.
In the end, all six pieces of the Crystal form a singular keystone that Wil is able to use to release, then immediately banish The Shadow In The Ice to the far realm without loss of life on Toril.

*Used 1 potion of Vitality.
Gained one Potion of Speed & (1) Spell Scroll 8th Level (Sunburst)

Story Award: Wren's Fate

Wren was captured by star spawn, but remains alive.

Story Award: The Stars Are Right

You helped the Painter find the information hidden in the pattern, and they’ve disappeared into Xorvintroth to use it.

Wil and some of their travelling companions are returning to Candlekeep when they see an immense purple dome shroud the castle library. The party was tasked by Lady Remalia Haventree to probe the catacombs beneath CandleKeep, searching for the silver dragon that is set as guardian over the caverns. The dragon has been trapped in a sickly green rime, the apparent work of a Far Realm entity called Father Lymic.
Retrieving an informant from Waterdeep further improved their chances of success.
A Far Realm-warped beholder attacked just outside the walls of Candlekeep. It remained out of most of the heroes' reach until Wil was able to leap from the roof of a nearby outbuilding and grapple the aberration to the ground.
After quelling a trio of arcane tomes run amok, the adventurers found the source of the violet dome over the library fortress: an aboleth with unexplicable powers gained in the Far Realms. It too attempted to remain out of reach, but the sorcerer's magics and a few well placed slings & arrows from Wil and Geran the Bard felled the creature at the last.
Gained a potion of Invulnerability

Story Award: Favor of Dar’lon Ma

You accepted Dar’lon Ma’s magical aid and he’s marked you as a reasonable ally.

Story Award: State of Candlekeep

You defended Candlekeep against the incursions of the Far Realm and the Tenebrous Creed, however, the toll was great. Bowed but Not Broken. The librarians were able to assist you in your quest against Szass Tam.

Dispatched to Candlekeep to recover some research before a group of Thayans, the party finds themselves up against an Eldritch horror, a half dozen Shadows, and two shadow-wielding monks. Though it took nearly everything the adventurers could bring to bear, they won out and banished the vile creature back to the Outer Planes.

Hired to find six ships that had gone missing between Luskan and Neverwinter. While looking for information around the port, Wil is asked by a farmer to watch a cart and horses. What was agreed to as a friendly gesture leads to the city guard arresting Wil and team for stealing the cart. The confusion cleared after the owner verifies our innocence after some hours.

Inquiring with the Harbormaster and a sailor that recently left the crew of the Graceful Dancer, we learn that a sallow faced, tattooed man has hired Captain Quint and the Graceful Dancer to capture merchantman ships and return the prizes to an island called Isolation. Isolation is a rarely charted active volcano 4 days' sail from Neverwinter.

Making use of the ship provided to us by Zehira, we are able to find Isolation Isle, rescue some two dozen sailors from cells in the side of the volcano, then execute the Thayan conjurer and his apprentices, the Pirate captains, a dozen of their crew and a Fire Elemental.
While there, we met the three individuals who had framed us with the stolen cart and swiped the port manifests of the 6 ships we were trying to trail. It seems the Harpers had set them on a similar assignment to our team. They freed a number of prisoners and secured the village and port on the island, allowing us to retreat quickly once Harlequin & Fushigoro figured out how to set off some elemental devestation orb and drop the island back into the sea.

gained potion of Heroism, Elixir of Health, Ammunition (crossbow bolt +1) x3

Legacy event: Bond of Fellowship

You encountered three Harper agents during your time in Isolation:
• Amri Thistlebrick
• Salros Eventide
• Tua

Legacy Event: Redspear’s Ring

Northlander captain Carys Redspear has given you one of her arm rings, which her crew will recognize should you ever cross paths.

A stressed Zor of the von Zinklestein merchant house retains the assistance of some adventurers to check in on a country estate that's fallen out of communication with the Mulmaster-based House.
Wil is among the group that discovered the manor under the control of the daughter and the Fathers nowhere to be found. The juvenile was attended only by a butler who seemed to comply with her every whim; the manor house was covered in chalk drawings and other evidence that the undisciplined child was in charge. After a tea of sugary treats, Abby invites her new friends to play games before she would tell us where her fathers had gone. After hide-n-seek and a bit of sparring, Abigail gave Wil two bracelets of twisted thread, one red & one blue, as proof of their friendship.

Just after sundown, Abby escorted us toward the family crypt. Immediately suspicious of this, Wil made a small excuse for using the dimmed sunblade as their light source. Abigail brought us into the undercroft to meet "Auntie Magdelena" who immediately hissed at the presence of sunlight and revealed a vampire's fangs.
the adventurers faced a variety of enemies as the vampire had a flesh golemn, two bodaks and a few animated statues as protective minions. The foul creature fled when the last of her minions were slain.
It was then we realized that young Abby had been bitten and turned. Wil made a vow to abigail's fathers that they would either find a means to cure Abigail before she fully turned or she would do as her oaths to Kelemvor required.

+587 gp reward for services rendered, paid to silver 4 daggers and a rapier -500gp

Story Award: Gratitude of the von Finklestein Family. You have made an ally of the von Finklestein Family. You may use this favor to gain a spell scroll with a Player's Handbook wizard spell of 3rd-level or lower,... (2nd option N/A. Wil is not a caster.)

Wil is travelling with a motely collection of travellers on the road from Ylraphon to Mulmaster, when they happen upon a mage of the Mulmaster Cloaks and a fist of Soldiery executing a halfling that carries an intricate sword. Reosera, a sorceress of great strength with ice and water magics, destroys the attackers, but the doomed halfling was dead before they hit the turf.

Teleportation magics deliver Rastol Shan, Senior Cloak of the Mulmaster High Cloaks has been tracking this sword, because the Sword of Selfaril's pommel holds the trapped soul of Selfaril Uomodolphin, a Mulmasterite High Blade deposed by his brother 100 years ago.

After Rastol Shan performs a ritual to shatter the gem, he hires the group to escort the weakened High Blade into Mulmaster to a respite hidden in the sewers under the Wink and Wave, a dancehall.

Wil guarded the recovering High Blade while other members of the group made contacts within the city, gaining support for Selfaril to overthrow the sitting High Blade, who is a puppet of the church of Bane.

In a climactic show, Selfaril Uomodolphin challenges the High Blade Jaseen Drakehorn, defeating her in a duel with the subtle assistance of the Nobles, the City Watch, Sark Tolliver, and the Mulmaster Beholder Corps as they countered the interference of the Red Wizards, several Cloaks, and Cult of Black Earth.

Soleil Finchfib, faithful priestess of Shiallia (exarch of Mielikki) and resident of Silverymoon, was tasked by her forest deity to recover and return the ashes of Tick Tary Tanner, a gnomish wizard of the Emerald Enclave and progenitor/martyr of the Red War that destroyed Mulmaster. After tracking down the Red Wizard thief, Soleil enlisted the help of Wil, a Dwarven heavy named Ping, a confusing sorcerer named Raksha (with his familiar Coral), and a druid of suprising ability, named Orry.

We convinced the thief to tell us what happened with the urn, and found that Tanner had been reconstituted and raised as a greater zombie by the foul villain, Szass Tam. Tracking down the animated remains of the poor druid Tanner, we dispatched him. Yet, our attempt to recover the corpse were thwarted when a magic user cast a passwall on the street where they stood, dropping them into the sewers below.

The trip through the sewers concluded in a tearoom of all places. We made the acquaintance of Thelma Scrollroller there. After an inexplicable attack by aThayan Wizard astride a young black dragon, we had to face a harsh reality that the gnomes' ashes could not be restored to the urn. Our best option was to burn the pile, dragon and all.

Story Award: Woodland Hospitality

Shiallia, the Daughter of the High Forest, owes you for helping out Soleil—regardless of the outcome. Small woodland animals of the High Forest treat you like royalty.
Gained scroll of protection (from undead)

During a time that Wil is sojourning with Jaxx the ever-sleepy bugbear, Ember the Imbiber, and Aravahn, Cleric of Corelleon, undead attack their caravan in the hills between Hillsfar and Mulmaster. The revenant's last whisper is of the treasure of Solina, an item named the Dawnfire.

We discover a Zhentarim agent amongst the caravan members who is in posession of a sunblade named Dawnfire. The priceless treasure was uncovered in a Zhent archaeology (cough, grave robbing) expedition; this culprit has been pursued for days by the revenants of the paladin order who once guarded the holy weapon.

We come to learn that two members of the caravan have been taken back to the Barrows of Solina and Jaxx the ever-resourceful Bugbear uses a bead from a blessed necklace to turn us to vapor so that we may travel faster than the winds. Moving so quickly, we find ourselves stopping at a local farm for directions, where Grandfather Murphy Cord tells us two of the Cord's children are now missing from that area. Wil promises the village elder that they will enter the mounds to look for the children and mount a rescue if they are able.

Within the barrow, the adventurers discover all four missing persons on trial for the crimes of the single Zhentarim thief. In order to protect the innocent Cord children, Wil invokes trial by combat and faces the revenant of Alisandre Solina, paladin and Lady Arbiter of the Order of Dawnfire.

Wil fights their finest duel yet, parrying or avoiding all but a single critical stroke from the storied warrior, and that fearsome and lethal blow only mitigated with their adamantine armor and a careful Warding Maneuver.
After much swordplay, Wil manages to disarm Dame Solina of her greatsword and Alisandre yields. Before she retires to Celestia, her last wish is that we bring the Barrow down to lock in her foe, the frost giant death shaman Vornjolnir the Harrowed King.

As we approach to the second warding stone to begin the implosion, a vile devourer rises from the red rime of the floor above. Necrotic waves and punishing strikes knock Wil unconscious, but Jaxx the ever-faithful Bugbear brings them to their feet with the use of that same blessed necklace of prayer beads. Reeling from the fiend's onslaught, we manage to dispatch it and escape the collapse. The only items Wil and Jaxx the ever-industrious Bugbear could save from the barrow of Solina are the sunblade Dawnfire, and a tapestry with the ancient order's emblem.

Thankful that we have saved the mortals, the children are returned home safe (if a bit traumatized.) Wil declines the offered reward of these good and humble folk.
Wil and Jaxx the ever-pragmatic Bugbear do, however, turn the grave robber over to the Order of the Gauntlet and Harpers for interogation, sentencing, and/or prisoner exchange with the Zhentarim.

Story Award: Solina's Blessing

In the event that you come across Vornjolnir's machinations or the Harrowed King's relics, know that Solina’s blessing is upon you.
* Gained a Potion of Superior Healing

Sent by Malkyn Fenris, a High Harper and the self-proclaimed "Archmage of Phlan", to search the Thayan Embassy for the master cryptographer Thessyl'k, stop his work to decipher the Lost Journal of Karsus and remove the time paradox created when Szass Tam brought the Lost Journal from the past to Mulmaster.

• 1 potion of greater healing

Story Award: Thwarted the Devil’s Plot.

The group accuses Norre, a Thayan Ambassador of a plot to overrun Hillsfar with a demonic army.

Story Award: The Crazy Squirrel.

Clad in shiny plate armor, this adorable squirrel is often seen holding what appears to be an acorn. However, upon closer inspection, one will notice it is holding a 20-sided-die.
If killed or reduced to 0 hit points, The Crazy Squirrel can be recalled via find familiar, and uses the statistics of a cat from the Monster Manual. It has proficiency in all gaming sets. The shiny plate armor has no effect on the Squirrel’s AC.

Story Award: High Blade in your Debt

You prevented an alliance between an efreeti pasha and the Cult of Reborn Flame, you rescued Selfaril Uomodolphin from a mental prison woven by a hag coven, and you prevented Mulmaster from being engulfed in lava by the Black Phoenix.
For these deeds and more, the High Blade of Mulmaster is in your debt. With his city overrun by Thayans, Selfaril cannot repay that debt now, but perhaps that may change one day.

bought 4 daggers

Story Award: A Lich's Secret

When going through Selfaril’s memories of the past, you discovered Rastol Shan’s secret. He is a lich who was formerly Thurndan Tallwand, the Senior Cloak who betrayed Selfaril Uoumdolphin on behalf of his brother Rassendyll. What you do with this secret is up to you.

Story Award: Favor of House Peytir

By redeeming Ardet Peytir, you have gained the favor of House Peytir and, with it, the approval of many of the anti-Thayan political factions in Mulmaster. Your Charisma checks to interact with Cloaks as well as Mulmaster nobles who are not aligned with Thay are made at advantage.

Story Award: Blessing of the Ki-Rin

You have helped the Ki-Rin and its allies on the Moonsea. It may choose to bless you with celestial aid down the road. This can only happen if you once again choose to help the School of the Swift Horse.

Downtime Activity (Completed): Saved the School. Having aided the school in a time of great need, you are welcome to stay with them for a time. If you spend 5 downtime days training at Swift Horse, you train your spirit to make one future Wisdom saving throw with advantage, which causes this benefit to disappear.

Dispatched by the Harpers to infiltrate theThayan-held, Netherese-built city of Xorvindroth in the Thundering Peaks of Icewind Dale. This city has been transmuted to green glass by the unholy touch of Father Lymic's influence. Our mission is to infiltrate, discover a defensible position with potential for an observation point, and create a teleportation circle so the Harpers can begin to establish a forward operating base.

The infiltration at the front gate went completely pear-shaped, with the group fighting the Thayan gate detatchment during a blizzard and within a tunnel with an anti-magic zone as a primary defense. Through a survey of 4 potential locations for the Harper base, the party came in combat with an otherworld aberration like nothing any of us have heard of in all our adventures, nor the reports from our factions.

So much of the city's walls and infrastructure has been transmuted to green glass that threatens the viewer's desent into bouts of mind-warping madness. What has not been transmuted is still more chilling and uncanny still, much of it a remainder of the dying days of a Netherese metropolis warped by Our Planes abberations.

The team, especially the paladin Jewels, the mage Dresden, and Tordak, a cleric of Clangeddin, acquited itself well, locating a teleportation circle in a cavern beneath the remains of a clockwork academy that will suit the Harpers' needs and yet all seeminglynot drawing the notice of the Red Wizard forces and none descending into long term madness.
Found (1) potion of Vitality, (1) potion of comprehension, (1) Spell scroll of Teleportation Circle

Story Award: Xorvintroth Base Security

You secured the hidden base against discovery by the Red Wizards and against being breached by wandering dangers. Gave the set of magic-draining statues to the star spawn
• Destroyed the fog-generating pods.