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Return to Ten Towns
The party returns from Solstice Island and heads through Ten Towns as premonitions of Auril's Eternal Winter begin to manifest. They stop in the ruins of Bremen, parlay for potions with Naerth in Targos, and patiently listened through the misadventures of T-Rex and Copper at the Hooked Knucklehead in Bryn Shander. Here they convene with the Elk King's shaman, Mjenir, from whom they receive visions of the frozen waterfall at the Evermelt... and of troubles on the road ahead. The party makes one last detour in Easthaven, heading onto the ice of Lac Dinneshere to delve for the wreckage of the Howling Wind. They fight coldlight harpies and find treasure, as well as the abberant body of the White Lady herself.

Return to Ten Towns

#TheRimeoftheFrostmaiden Recuperating at Angajuk's Bell, several sensitive folk approach them with visions of dreams. Dreams of endless night. Dreams of icing death. Dreams of a storm descending on Icewind Dale like nothing before. Looking out into the Sea of Moving Ice, the chill in the air begins manifest. Dawn seems to falter.
#TenTownsThings The party takes their sleds into Ten Towns for a final visit before setting out to Reghed Glacier to use to Codicil of White. Coming into the ruins of Bremen they note of quite little left. Five Tavern Center is a pile of rubble, though some settlers are clearing the ash. Buried Treasures, the inn belonging to Cora Mulphoon, is gone. Its sign lay grimed in the sleet and ash. Its owner is no more. In Targos, Crank uses his sway with Naerth Maxildannar to procure various healing and resistance potions. A bit of insight shows that Naerth no longer sees his boy Crank as a pawn. He sees him as a threat.
#TenTownsThings At Bryn's Hooked Knucklehead, the party arrives only to clear out some rabble from their own tavern. T-Rex -- now wearing a top hat -- has been dealing with some "really cool dudes" including a guy named Lefty. This has been a resounding success for the tavern in all the wrong ways. T-Rex may or may not be involved in gang activity, and may or may not realize the issue. He has been telling you all about it on the sending stone, or the "talky rocky" as he calls it. But as it turns out Copper swapped it out with an ordinary rock a while ago.
#ReghedTribes The shaman of the Elk King, an old man named Mjenir was seated with Copper in the Hooked Knucklehead. His dream, he said, had grown vivid. And he was not alone. He was a grim, desolate winterscape. He also saw the coming of the heroes from Solstice Isle with a means to shatter the frozen ice at Reghed Glacier and enter into a darkness within. While Mjenir knew not what lied ahead, he did receive visions of the Tribe of the Tiger halting the path of the party. Given that the party aided them in the Trial of Endurance, and given their mutual feelings against the Frostmaiden's deathly manifestations of winter, he saw this as an omen to guide and aid the party. The frozen water, he said, lied at the foot of the Evermelt.
#WreckOfLacDinneshere #battle Crank has never let go the shipwreck in Lac Dinneshere. This would be the remains of the Howling Wind whose chardalyn figurehead drove its sailors mad ten years ago. Making their way onto the ice, the party divines the location. They fight off some coldlight harpies, a dread sign of the coming deepwinter. Crank, Tetro, and Oona dive in the murky waters while Fern and Gadget remain on shore. While the divers manage to find a lockbox in the deep, those above water begin hearing an eerie rhyme across the waters. It's the poem of the White Lady. Worrying for those below, they peer into the water only for the aberrated body of White Lady to plunge outwards. Her weirding glare begins to simultaneously horrify and sap the life out of them, but the team puts her down. The bulk of her being withers into the skeletal remains of her former self, finally at rest. For now.

XP

Total XP: 35000

500 ~ #WreckOfLacDinneshere COMPLETE

Loot

T-Rex's stash of gems from Lefty ~ divided among the party
2 Beads of Force ~ Lac Dinneshere ~ Crank, Gadget
Ring of the Ram ~ Lac Dinneshere ~ Gadget, gave to Oona
Scroll of Fireball ~ Lac Dinneshere ~ Fern
500 gold ~ Lac Dinneshere ~ Equally divided