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#8 - Angajuk's Bell and Dark Duchess - 12 January 2025

Atiq questioned the barbarian and uncermionusly killed him. When the others woke up they each plundered the corpses for Tiger Tribe clothing. They set camp and took a long and wecoming resty. However, during the night they were disturbed by a visit from Avernus, as Azazel hade some words to exchange with Graxian Graxian. 

When reaching Angajuk's bell they befriends some of the local fauna, fights off three vultures and kills five whale hunters, which makes them good friends of Angajuk who promptly takes them to the shipwreck, a ship named Dark Duchess.

Already onboard is an Ice Troll. After carefull planning and with great prowess, they kill. A great victory.

Quest (Caer-Dineval, Graxian Graxian): Azazel wants Graxian to kill all Knights of the Black Sword in Caer Dineval, since they worship Levistus and it would look bad upon the pact to align with his worshippers. Suddenly this became quite paramount.

#7 - The Tundra  - 8 December 2024

On the tundra they were caught in a blizzard. Attacked by ferocius gnolls and disposed of them. Met some hunters from Ten Towns who told them about Angajuk's Bell for easier travel to the pirate ship. They changed their course and were promptly attacked by Reghed barbarians from the Tiger crowd. All but Atiq were downed. 

#6 - Easthaven ferry,  - 3 November 2024

They attacked ambushed the Duergar hiding in Easthaven ferry. While they celebrated with the townsfolk, several rumors caught their attention.

Decisions were made to investigate the pirate ship location in search for treasure.

Quest (Icewind Dale): Frost giants ruled this land long ago. Their leaders, the jarls, would meet atop a hill to the west to settle disputes. Their thrones still rest on that hill.

Quest (Icewind Dale): Head northwest out of Bremen, an' you'll see a pirate ship frozen in the ice less than a quarter mile from shore. No one's sure where it came from, but it's not goin' anywhere so long as this dark winter lasts. I bet its hold is full o' treasure!

Quest (Easthaven): Some fishers have gone missing on Lac Dinneshere, and she wants the characters to take a boat and search for them. She knows where the fishers like to fish and urges the characters to search that part of the lake first.

Quest finished (Easthaven): Duergar infection in Easthaven.

#5- Clearing Duergar - 1 September 2024

Cleared the rest of the outpost, even killed some spore servants. They also found rolled-up map of Icewind Dale that marks the location of every Ten-Towns settlement, as well as the locations of the duergar outpost near Kelvin's Cairn and Sunblight, the fortress hidden in the mountains. All of the place names on the map are written in Dwarvish. 

They are celebrated as heroes in Caer Konig.

Quest finished: Thievery troubles in Caer Konig. 

#4 - More kills and documents found. - 29 Juni 2024

They continued through the outpost, obliterating all resistence. On the leader they found a letter: "Brother, You will find me on the frozen ferry in Easthaven. From this new base, the search for chardalyn continues. Long may our father reign over this dark land! Durth".

Quest (Easthaven): Duergar infection in Easthaven.

#3 - Kalvins's Cairn, Targos, and Duergar Outpost  - 19 May 2024 

While resting after the crag cat fight another adventurer arrives, Beulf Stonefoot III, who had the same mission as the adventurers. They decide to team up. Garret wants to rescue his companions, so the continue to ascend upon the cairn. After sneaking into a yeti cave, they manage to avoid the yeti couple residing there and rescue Perilou Fishfinger, a halfling woman who was part of Garrets party. At the top of the cairn they found another member of her party frozen to death.

Beulf have at earlier visited the Bruenor clan in Dwarven Valley, and in exchange for lodging the adventurers take upon themselves to investigate the Duergar outpost close to Kalvin's Cairn. This is also tied to the thievery troubles in Caer-Konig. They infiltrate the outpost through a frozen underground stream, but manages to alert a caged ogre zombie and are attacked by two enlarged duergars. One is killed, and the other is scared away by Beulf and his divine magic.

Quest (Folllow up) - Keegan Velryn wants us to find his husband, who went missing when he guided some adventurers to Kalvin's Cairn.

#2 - Caer-Dineval, Caer-Konig, and Kalvin's Cairn  - 13 April 2024 

When asking around the only inn in Caer-Dineval we are told that there are no lodgings, maybe at the castle, where Speaker Crannoc resides. However, no one has seen him for a long time. We get the impression that the inn-keeper, Roark, wants us to investigate, without saying it straight. When approaching the castle we are stopped at the gates by guards wearing amulets in the shape of swords. We are not let in. We later learn that they call themselver The Black Swords. 

Desperate for somewhere to spend the night we break into the boarded up inn of Dinev's Rest, alerting no less than six duergars hiding inside. They chase us through town, up to the castle, where guards from the castle join the fight until all of them are dead. We get invited to the castle and get our own lodgings there. We met their leader, a tiefling named Kadroth and saw Cora Mulphoon's son Huerwar in the company of a tiefling named Fel Suparra.

After settling in, we had an audience with soothsayer of The Black Swords, Hethyl Akorran, who told us of a seriuous duergar threat to Icewind Dale. She died after she told us. 

The next day we set of to Caer-Konig. We met the speaker, Trovus who told us about the thefts in the town, and we decided to help. We hire proprietor of Frozenfar Expeditions, Atenas Swift, and his sledhounds to follow the tracks leading from the town, as well as taking is to the basecamp where the expedition of Garret Velryn from Targos travelled.

Following the tracks the thieves left, we come upon an outpost carved out of a hillside. We see no movement, but decides to leave it until later.

After reaching the basecamp and resting, we start climbing Kalvin's Cairn. After escaping an avalanche, we come upon a fallen climber. It is Garret, who is quite exhausted. Right when we start helping him up, we get attacked by two crag cats, a fight which we win!

Rumors heard (Caer Dineval) -  In Caer-Konig, local establishments are beset by vandals and thieves that skulk about unseen. The town speaker, a dragonborn named Trovus, could really use some help catching the interlopers.

Quest (Caer-Dineval) - Xardorok Sunblight, a duergar warlord, will conquer Icewind Dale unless the characters defeat him. Xardorok has a fortress on the surface, hidden in the Spine of the World. It contains, among other things, a forge powered by the still-beating heart of a red dragon. Xardorok has a plan for the systematic destruction of Ten-Towns, which the characters can discover if they search his fortress. The characters will die if they face Xardorok too soon. They must test their mettle against the horrors that haunt the farthest reaches of Icewind Dale before they can hope to survive the perils of Xardorok's fortress.

Quest (Caer-Konig) - "The town has had some thievery troubles. No one's seen anything, really. Just the other night, the lantern over at the Northern Light was stolen. Cori won't let me hear the end of it because I haven't been able to find those responsible. Not yet, anyway. But I have a knack for this stuff."

#1 - Bryn Shander, Targos, Bremen and Caer-Dineval  - 5 April 2024 

In Bryn Shander we met Hlin Trollbane, a shield dwarf and retired bounty hunter. She wanted us to track down and kill a suspected murders, Sephek Kaltro who travels with a small trading caravan, owned by a dwarf named Torrga Icewein. We travelled to Targos, and then Bremen where we stalked Sephek and killed him in a barn. Quickly fleeing Bremen the following morning we set sights on Caer-Dineval. On the way we were attacked by two Crag Cats, and when one was killed, the other fled. We ended the day by sleeping in an outhouse in Caer Dineval.

Rumors heard (Bryn Shander) -  In Bremen, fishers are being terrorized by a monster that lives in Maer Dualdon. Strange that none of the other towns on that lake have been harangued by the monster.

Quest (Targos) - Keegan Velryn wants us to find his husband, who went missing when he guided some adventurers to Kalvin's Cairn.

Quest (Bremen) - Cora Mulphoon's son has been gone for two months. After an expedition to find the missing speaker of Bremen, he came back changed, and eventually left for a "castle", with two tieflings.