After camping out for the night the party depart early and head for Dougans hole. Finding the place leveled every building is a smoking mess of destruction.
As they stand around surveying the destruction and deciding where to go next a three sleds appear from the depths of the swirling mist.
The human driving the center sled is bundled up against the cold and as she removes her face wraps she introducers her self as Vellynne Harpell, a wizard and scholar who has been trying to track down the party.
The other two sleds are manned by Icewind kobolds who fuss over the straps and cargo as the part talks to Vellynne. She explains that she is seeking a magic book and needs their aid. Nogok states that if she can help them end the destruction of Ten Towns they will help her find the book.
She says that Ten Towns have fallen and whoever is left are headed to Bryn Shander to try and seek refuge and or make a final stand against the dragon, they ask that she helps get them to Bryn Shander and she agrees in return they need to help her get the book.
Etch asks where this book might be and she says on Auriels island. She loads them up onto sleds and they head to Bryn Shander where they find more destruction but also spot the dragon in the center of town. They head there to confront the beast.
As they start to fight it they discover that when the party is close to the dragon that it has the ability to effect who they fight, Throt and Nogok face off, the summoned giant vultures that Kurash created also start to fight.
Etch and Nox find a supply of heavy whaling nets down an alley way and Nox flys one to the roof of the closest building, attaching it to the roof to help others climb up. Etch joins him bringing another net with him and they work out how to get the net onto the dragon so they can fight it, they get its attention and it comes up onto the roof after shrugging of a thrown net. Nogok snaps out the dragons influence, and misty steps up to the roof landing on its back.
Mochi joins them up there and they work on netting the beast, it uses its breath weapon and does some damage to most of the party, Throt in his rage races to find a way to the roof to take down Nogok, as he finds his way up there the party by now have done significant damage to the dragon who decides to return to the forge for repairs,
As it flys away with Nogok on its back it spins to drop him off and he crashes to the ground.
As the dragon leaves the people who were hidden in basements and buildings emerge, celebrating it leaving.
The Speaker of Bryn Shander and Nimsy the speaker of Lonelywood approach the party. They thank them for thier efforts and ask about how things played out at the stronghold. As the party explain Nogok tired and injured starts to rattle off in extreme detail about what happened, The Speaker places one of her advisors infront of Nogok so he can continue talking, as she asks a different advisor something and turns to the party, we believe that the Dragon has returned to the forge for repairs, and as the party have destroyed the forge the threat is gone. She advises that she will call the militia from the Ten Town'ers and mount an offensive on the the stronghold to eliminate whatever Duergar remain.
They ask Nimsy what of Lonelywood.....She sadly explains that the fishermen saw the attack on Easthaven and were able to return and get everyone out of the town and into the forest. The town was leveled when the dragon struck but all the people survived. ...The bar and its contents burned to the ground.
The party realize that Alfred, the White Moose head and their hopes and dreams of propriety have been burned in the wake of the Dragons path of destruction.
The party try to work through what is next for them after taking a moment to grieve for their loss. Deciding to seek out the book with Velynne seems like the right thing to do and they ask her some more questions.
She explains that there is a lost city of the Nethrlyese under the Reghed Glacier. Her research has lead her to believe this is the source of all magic in the forgotten realms and likely contains artifacts more magically powerful than anything else around. She tells how she had a Professor Orb (nicknamed Professor Skant) who helped her determine the book was on Auriels island, and that recovery of the orb and the book would enable her to open an entry in the Glacier and access the city. This is the path to ending the Rime and defeating Auriel. When the party ask of Auriel she says that any God hiding among mortals is running from something and must be harboring a weakness, so yes she believes they are able to defeat her.
They ask of the book and she tells of the Codicil of White a book held by Auriel worshippers containing powerful incantations and ceremonies which are not available anywhere else.
The ask about how to get to the island and then Throt recalls the talking whale and they plan to go and seek that out as a mode of transport.
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