At Way Inn point of interest, Pearl stumbles onto the trail and runs into Brylwynn and Glittr. The three friends catch up and decide to head to the Inn together for the night. In the Inn, the three friends catch up. In the Inn, Brylwynn looks around and sees Bendryck. He shares that it was a lie, that no one has been fleeing Waterdeep. He shares that Lord Farquad has her parents held captive. Brylwynn recounts her journey of leaving Daggerford in the middle of the night to escape Farquad. She believes the Wizard Elador is the true reason that her husband turned evil. Brylwynn asks Pearl and Glittr to join her on a quest to rescue her parents in Daggerford. We share our P.O. box with Bendryck so he can write to us. Upon rescuing her parents, we will send them to The Way Inn as a meeting point.
Daggerford is just south of Waterdeep along the Swordcoast.
The next morning, the three of them gear up to head north and save Brylwynn’s parents from Lord Farquad. The journey to Daggerford is uneventful. Brylwynn, the Lost Lady of Daggerford, covers her head with a scarf to hide her identity. She knows the location where her parents are being held within the city. With some sneaking and lying tactics, the three of them manage to sneak into the Keep and get up to the 3rd floor. A fight ensues and on his last dying breath, the Elador says that “Brylwynn was supposed to be a gift and prove my worth to Laeral.” On his dying breath, he casts fireball and ignites the room. Glittr knows that Laeral is the Lord of Waterdeep and has only returned within the past year. Behind a bookshelf, at the bottom of a pit, Brylwynn discovers her parents and family, chained to the wall. She talks with her family as Lord Farquad runs into the pit, coming face to face with Brylwynn.
Brylwynn speaks with Lord Farquad about Elador's betrayal and his kidnapping her family. He brings up 80 gold worth of gemstones as payment. In the Inn, Brylwynn and her family play Go Your Own Way, as the Amber Jaws have an impromptu reunion. Her parents pull her off to the side and speak with Brylwynn about Larael wanting her captured. Brylwynn has a heartfelt conversation with her parents about her splitting off on her own for now.
As they leave town, they come across Caulkin who is on this way to Nightstone. As the 4 of them group, they hear bells ringing from Nightstone, signaling danger is coming!
Yrdlyn runs into Ari. Yrdlyn, Rand, and Ari speak with a soldier who lets them know a band of orcs is heading right towards the town. They build a makeshift bridge with wood from downed houses and buildings. The soldiers climb the watchtowers of the fortified town looking east as Orcs head towards the city. The soldiers share that they typically ring the town bell during an attack like this, which may discourage the orcs from approaching the city.
In the bar, Caulkin comes across Larisya, who is doing a rendition of Stevie Nicks. She quests Caulkin with finding Harshnag, a notorious harper frost giant. Queen Neary did not appear for her regular meeting and Harshnag went out to investigate, finding this suspicious. She also relays to him rumors coming from the SE; the Seven Snakes of the Zhentarim are becoming rambunctious in the area, especially in Nightstone. She needs Caulkin to get information for her. Caulkin heads towards Nightstone as well and runs into the remaining party members.
Caulkin, Pearl, Brylwynn, and Glittr all make their way towards the city, using the ringing bells as a guide. After climbing over the wall, the group convinces a local guard to let the drawbridge down, reuniting the group. The guard shares a brief history of Nightstone and informs everyone that the nightstone in the center of town was recently stolen by the Cloud Giants. As the orcs siege the town, a large battle breaks out on the south of town. As the battle ends a voice calls out, “Help me! Help me please.”
Guest Star - Cristina. The group runs towards the sound of the shouting. We see a large, firbolg, cow-like paladin with floppy ears, red-purple hair, with thin silver fur. She’s about 7’5” in stature with a sword strapped to her back. She is on the other side of the moat as the group approaches the drawbridge. Seraphine introduces herself and shares with us that the Nightstone villagers are in a cave up north. We head up to the cave, just a mile north. In the cave a fight with an ogre ensues. At the end of the fight the group carries onward, deeper into the cave, as Ari swims in dirty pond water. At a deep end, the group gets attacked by a Black Pudding. We move to a different room and find a large bootyhole in the ground. We find the townspeople and Ari informs them that their town is safe and free from ogres. We lead the townsfolk out and one of the farmer’s children thanks Ari for saving their lives.
Tasks: Come speak with so and so when we return to town for the night.
We fight off goblins, throwing one in the bootyhole. “Where there’s a crack, there’s a hole.” Ari recognizes the dead body is Darthag Ogre, the head of the Lionshield Costern of Nightstone. Exploring rooms, we find a chest containing: 12 gold, 55 silver, 87 copper, a beautiful pair of salt and pepper shakers (25 g combined, a leather case of thieves’ tools, and a small symbol of Mikikey carved of wood and gold (50 gold), and a scroll (A scroll of locate object.) We find a room full of baby goblins who we made orphans, but retrieve the remaining goblin with the broken clavicle to take care of the children