Honorbound: Episode 03

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==Recap==
The adventure starts with the party in the Redbrand hideout. Fenrick is missing. Motton and Peter explore a connecting room to the entrance, finding a pit trap. They then move to the guard barracks, finding a small pouch with 33 silver, an eyepatch, and a set of semi-precious stones. Motton swipes the stones before Peter sees them, while Peter is excited about the eyepatch. The party starts to returns to town, when most of the village is gathered to cheer their victory. Sildar also greats them, and is upset when reading the letter the party found about Glasstaff. The party goes to the orchard to talk to Edermath, who seems to know too much information. Motton becomes increasingly irrate and demands answers to how Edermath knows so much. After a few terse moments, Edermath and the party part ways. The party discusses their next course of action, and decides to go the bar to seek information. The bartender tells them a Druid has more information about the forest surrounding Cragmaw Keep. The bartender then insinuates that Motton's aunt is sleeping with the druid, which causes Motton to become very angry and grab the bartender's balls. He squeezes them until the bartender passes out. The party then goes to the Miner's exchange seeking a guide to the forest. They receive a quest to retrieve a spellbook from the wizard tower in Thundertree in exchange for the guide. The party, resigned to the fact that all the information they need is in Thundertree, decides to travel there next. They run in Fenrick, who now has splint mail armor. He offers to pay for a guide into the forest, and the party rests at Motton's aunts house. The party tests their potion and figures out it's a potion of invisibility. They also identify two of their scrolls, one which is Augury and the other being Fireball. The next day they hire the guide, and find out the leader of the Miner's exchange is a member of the Zhentarim. The party buys rations and sets out for Cragmaw keep.
The party reaches the keep without incident, and Fenrick engages him in a conversation about Goblin numbers in the woods. Motton and Peter see this as suspicious, and Motton accuses the guide of setting an ambush. The guide denies it, and after a moment the party is convinced he is telling the truth. It's at that moment the arrows fly from arrow slits in the towers of the castle. Fenrick takes a hit as the party storms into the castle, splitting up and taking out the goblins on either side. Peter notices a tripwire that leads to a pit trap. Motton cuts the wire, and a bell starts jingling. Fenrick moves into the next room and finds three goblins, which are quickly dispatched by the party. They move through a crawl space into a darkened room to find 7 more goblins and a goblin leader, and Fenrick rushes into the room, taking multiple hits. He immediately kills the goblin leader as Motton rushes in between the archers. The goblins are able to drop Motton, but Peter brings him up with a spell. The party slowly dispatches the rest of the goblins, and takes a short rest.
The party moves forward to the east, finding a large open area with rubble from the ruined castle. They find a side door to the castle, unlock it, and then proceed to the east again. They find the guard barracks, with 2 hobgoblins in it, and engage. Fenrick drops one as the other runs away for reinforcements, drawing the Black Spider into the fight. Fenrick takes a large blow and deals one in return, as the rest of the party rushes into the next room. The party damages the Black Spider, as a large bugbear steps from behind a table with Gundren and threatens his life. The Black Spider runs away as the large bugbear cuts the dwarf's neck. Fenrick rushes to engage the bugbear while Motton chases after the Black Spider. Peter attempts to heal Gundren, but he has bled out. Motton shoots the Black Spider, which turns into a Doppleganger. The bugbear calls out and a wolf enters the fray from the other room, but misses Peter. The bugbear smashes Fenrick and brings him down. Peter heals Fenrick as the party frantically battles the enemies. Peter casts a spell to paralyze the bugbear, but he goes down and the spell ends. Motton kills the bugbear and goes to engage the wolf, but is also brought down. There is now a wolf on top of a halfling on top of a dwarf. Fenrick pours a healing potion down Peter's throat, who then heals Motton, who then kills the wolf. The party takes a rest.
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