Special Tasks Unit

On the Road The Special Tasks Unit, for now including a dazed and confused Melori, spent 4 days on the Triboar Road, heading east.  The trip was mostly uneventful, though the party did notice, and successfully avoid being noticed by, a Chimera out on the hunt over the hill country to the south of the road.  The STU also realized that some type of travelers were following them on the road, usually one or more miles behind them.  On the morning after the Chimera encounter, Flippy crept up on them and discovered that the travelers appeared to be some type of circus, being drawn by 8 elephants (which Flippy had never seen before). Triboar Nights Pushing themselves a bit, the group arrived in Triboar at night, to find the town filled to the brim with all manner of folk, merchant wagons filling the various caravan yards, and seemingly everyone in the midst of celebration and revelry, with music and dancing in the streets and overflowing taverns. Making their way to the Triboar ...

Into the Forest The morning after the battle with the hunting party, the Pixie Glowbeam led the Special Tasks Unit through the Neverwinter Wood to the stream that would lead to the enchanted spring.  She told the group to follow the stream no matter what transpired, and that Dryads may try to keep them from progressing.  She, meanwhile, would go ahead to let the other Pixies know that the group was coming and that they had helped her.   The first night in the Wood, Micah was once again visited in her dreams by a presence that claimed to be a deity, and the true source of Micah's divine magic.  This being, who claimed to be Mishakal, a goddess of healing, whose aspects were known by other names by the various races and peoples of this world.  Mishakal told Micah that Mystra had been murdered several hundred years ago by an evil god called Cyric, who had since usurped and impersonated Mystra to wield power over Fronland.  She mentioned some kind of gate ...

Fancy Meeting You Here As the Special Tasks Unit returned to Phandalin from the dragon hatchery, they encountered another party heading the opposite direction on the Triboar Road.  This turned out to be none other than their old companion Tsara Reedlocke, who was traveling to Triboar with her hired bodyguard, a half-orc named Grunk.  After the roadside reunion and the sharing of the news of Melori's death, they agreed to travel together to Phandalin, where the party hoped to find some way of contacting someone who could help them find someone who may have magic powerful enough to return Melori to the living. Helpful Hints The party paid a visit to Sildar Hallwinter at his manor house.  He informed them that, before he had departed, the monk Leosin Erlanthar had arranged for horses for the party, to aid the journey to Triboar. Sildar had no clues to bringing back Melori, however.   The party sought out Sister Garaele, who was overseeing repairs to the town's new ...

Melori's End? Following the battle in the room that appeared to be some sort of shrine, Tevana disappeared once more - drawn back through a planar portal to somewhere beyond this dimension. The Special Tasks Unit returned up the stairs to the Kobold barracks for a short rest. After regaining some health, they returned to the shrine room, where they examined the carved dragon reliefs on the walls, the large statue of a five-headed dragon emerging from a volcano, and a small chest placed in front of it. Flippy ascertained that the chest was trapped somehow. Inspecting the bodies of the fallen enemies, however, a key was discovered carefully hidden in the folds of Frulam Mondath's robe. Using the key seemed to disarm whatever trap there was (the STU also discovered small holes in the gullets of many of the black dragon heads around the room), and the chest revealed a string of pearls (300 gp), a gold-and-sapphire ring (900 gp), and a pouch containing a half-dozen masterfully ...