Lone Lore

Arriving in Helm's Hold, Lucien immediately returned to where he remembered his home being, and found it abandoned. The larger home it sat next to, the home of Triton and the Tonar family, also seemed abandoned. He decided to head to the only other person's home he knew, Elizabeth. Luckily, he found her here. "Lucien! I never thought I'd see you again!" Elizabeth quickly explained to Lucien that his family moved away from the Tonar home after some weird stuff started going down between the Lord and the Lady. Rumor had it that Lady Nyer Fencoria had moved away from the castle after things grew tense between her and Lord Prildaal Tonar. Prildaal had not been seen outside the castle since. Some townsfolk had even said that they still hear yelling coming from the inside of the castle late at night, but for the most part everyone believes it's completely abandoned. Thanks to Elizabeth, Lucien knew the location of his new home, and he urged the party to come with h...

Adonis was woken up by a gentle tapping sound on his window. Someone was throwing pebbles at the glass. He crept out of bed and carefully peered out of the inn's small, curtained window. It was Haara, who quickly spotted him, and waved for him to come down. She had a basket of sorts near her. Adonis decided to go see Haara. Before leaving through the window, he left a sign so that Dhrys would know he wasn't in any danger. Upon reaching Haara, Adonis found she wanted to spend some quality time with him, since things had gotten a bit out of hand the night before. She also had brought him a gift. "Good morning Galanodel! I was going through some old notes of mine, and I found this. I thought it might help you figure out your origins." With a wry smile, Haara handed  Adonis a page ripped from a book. The page had an image of a humanoid arm with its skin jagged and raised in a repeating, spiky pattern. Adonis read the following: Magical Augmentations:  With recent innovati...

The next morning, the party woke up to find Adonis missing, his room empty and undisturbed other than a chair facing the door with a silver potion atop it. Dhrys recognized this chair placement as a message in Theives' Cant, basically stating that Adonis was gone, but there was no need for worry. With a free day ahead of them, the party decided they wanted to do some shopping, then take on one of the missions given to them by Haara. Lucien and Kimberly made some purchases at the general store, then found a small magic shop called "M's Wondrous Wares". There, they met an odd woman with purple hair, who offered them a wide array of magical items to purchase. Kimberly settled on buying some potions. Everyone having checked out the wares at this magical pop-up shop, the party decided to move onto the mission that Haara had given them: to investigate the disappearance of two of her adventurers. The party quickly made their way to the cave entrance south of Phandalin, then ...

Bidding the Cult of the Dragon adieu, the party began to walk into Phandalin. The town consisted of forty or fifty simple log buildings, some built on old fieldstone foundations. Old ruins—crumbling stone walls covered in ivy and briars—surrounded the newer houses and shops, showing how this must have been a much larger town in centuries past. Some newer buildings were set on the sides of the road, which widened into a muddy main street of sorts. Oddly enough, some ruins appeared newer than others. Many people looked up as the party approached, but all returned to their business as they went by. Galanodel asked around for his friend, Trym, but no town-goers seemed to recognize the name. Speaking to a barkeeper, he described how his friend looked: halfling woman, dark hair, dark eyes, a minor green tint to her skin. The barkeeper recognized who he was asking for immediately, but she noted that he was describing Phandalin's sheriff, Haara. She could be found in the Townmaster's H...

Castellan Cressaro led the group through the castle. They passed many giant-sized rooms housing art, giant-sized furniture, and other odds and ends. Descending multiple sets of giant stairs and moving through long, spacious hallways, the group finally reached the ducal chambers. "I have no interests in the matters of smallfolk." Duchess Sansuri turned down the party's request to use her conch of teleportation . The party tried to reason with her, explaining their purpose in bringing down a blue dragon that was aiding in overthrowing the storm giants. However, Sansuri made it clear that she would rather aid in this overthrow than help the "puny" party restore the Ordning. She ordered her castellan to block the exits and commanded the party to surrender. The party was quickly thrown into a room with many humanoid-sized cages. Chained to the wall and floor was a bronze dragon, one that the party had not seen for some time. Felgolos, the Flying Misfortune, was muzzl...

Multiple dwarven guards greeted the party as they approached. After hearing the party explain the assassination plot against the king, the dwarves explained that the adventurers would be allowed within the city as long as all non-dwarven members wore coverings over their eyes. "Only the dwarf may proceed without a blindfold." Cleverly disguised as a dwarf, Kimberly was the only party member allowed to proceed with sight. Delsephine, who was previously following the party, seemed to have disappeared into the shadows. Dhrys, tailing the party, saw that she entered the front gate through a discreet tunnel and observed the appearance of her contact: a feminine presenting drow. The party was led into the citadel by two guards. Following closely behind, Dhrys saw other dwarven guards start following behind the blindfolded party. They were led down a series of tunnels and hallways, past some openings and gathering areas, and finally down a darker passageway. Dhrys crawled up the wal...

One of the prisoners, the moon elf woman, let the adventurers know that she was a princess named Halani Meliamne and that she wanted to return to the Moonwood, the home she was taken from. She said that while she would not be able to give the adventurers anything beside her gratitude, she could promise safe deliverance of the other prisoners to the nearest town. As a result, the airship set off to the west, towards the Moonwood. "I do actually have something to offer. I have information." Along the way to the elves' home, the princess spoke up once again. She informed the adventurers of a plot that the yakfolk were involved in. The yakfolk have an ability to possess other creatures, and within the last week, they possessed some dwarven prisoners and sent them towards Citadel Adbar, reportedly to assassinate the king. With this news, the party decided that they would head to Citadel Adbar directly following dropping the freed prisoners in the Moonwood. On the way to the Mo...