Session - 6/20/24

The Investigation of the Redbrand Camp

Snow and Tauriel advanced ahead to find the Redbrand camp and investigate it. They discovered it and disguised themselves as new recruits. Using these disguised they were able to get into the camp and shown around by a Redbrand named Brand. Snow spoke with another member named Bracher who talked about why he was here and that the leaders of the Redbrand had promised them land after they fought off the current villagers of Phandalin. They discovered that there was approximately 45 Redbrand around the camp, very well defended, and set up inside the solid palisade. They discovered a back door out that was closed.

While they were there they learned that the Redbrands were supposed to swap out with the redbrand at the manor today but the returning redbrand were late. Snow volunteered to go investigate and see what happened. She went to the groups camp a mile away instead and told them about everything.

While there they heard a person crashing through the woods nearby and Snow, Arwen, and Grug all gave chase.

The Killing of Glassstaff

The 3 party members chased the figure through the woods, shooting arrows and javalins at him. Grug hit him with a javalin and injured the runner but he kept gaining ground from them. The runner hit Snow with a hold person that temporarily stopped her from chasing. The chase continued though and the chaser kept going. Arwen wildshaped into a wolf and ran him down. Grug hit him with an arrow that broke his concentration and freed Snow. Then they fought, beating him down as he fired magic after magic at them. Finally though he fell though and erupted into a series of bubbles which Arwen popped.

The Dream Ambush

At the exact moment that the bubbles popped all the party members fell unconcscious and woke up in another scene. Looking down on a small campfire with 6 people around it, each party member was looking a from different vantage points and in bodies not their own. The ambush was sprung and the party attacked with it alongside what appeared to be their companions.

The ambushed fought but were quickly cut down. One ran away and cut their own neck while screaming in Abyssal. From their falling body sprung a giant rock and dirt monster that immediately sunk into the ground. The party and their new companions fought bravely but were slowly killed. As they fought and died, wearing down the rock monster slowly, the world began to fade to black and the party members caught site of a large gray creature standing watching them. The creature had green eyes and tentacles spewing from its mouth and stared at them as everything faded to black.