Special Tasks Unit

The Special Tasks Unit exited the Wave Echo Cave to find that winter had arrived in the northwest, with several inches of snow on the ground.  Carrying Gundren's dead brothers Tharded and Nundro, you made a brief stop in Phandalin to procure a horse and wagon (Gundren paid), and Gundren arranged with Daran Edermath, the ex-Guardian, to take a few good men to Wave Echo Cave to guard it until Gundren could arrange for a security contingent.  You then proceeded to Neverwinter, to the Rockseeker compound.  Gundren expressed an intention to go to the Cathedral to see about the resurrection of his brothers (though this has not yet happened).  Melori took ill and was indisposed during the journey north, and was taken to her room in the Rockseeker Compound to recover.  News of the World:  Reading the Neverwinter News, you discovered that Reidoth - the druid you had encountered in Thundertree - had been arrested and was scheduled to be publicly executed in five day...

A motley group of adventurers known as the Special Tasks Unit , in the employ of Gundren Rockseeker, owner and operator of Rockseeker Enterprises, based in the northwest metropolis of Neverwinter, set off toward the end of summer in 1027 post Adelia to bring a load of supplies to Barthen's Provisions in the town of Phandalin, and to meet up with Gundren, who had gone ahead with a companion - Sildar Hallwinter.  Gundren had told you that something big was afoot. Ambush Before reaching Phandalin, you discovered the dead horses of Gundren and Sildar's, who had apparently fallen victim to an ambush.  Shortly thereafter you yourselves were ambushed by a group of goblins.  You defeated the goblins, capturing one, who told you he was part of the Cragmaw clan, that they were working for Klarg, and that they had been told to kidnap Gundren and turn him over to agents of "the Black Spider." He also confessed that their hideout was in a cave a mile away.  You strung him up...