Back in Pilferreach

After
meeting Brand outside the crime scene, the party accepts her invitation back to
the orders small keep on the outskirts of the town. There they regaled her of the
events from when they last saw her, first accepting the mission to deal with
the necromancer (The Doctor) in the north to them destroying Balthazar and all
the important bits in-between. The party are told about Baraka the Grandmaster
of the Order of Deneir securing his defences as creatures were spotted in the
forest between the order’s tower and Pilferreach, Brand told the group that she
dispatched some members of the order to scout the forest.

The group
decide on heading south towards Perinoss, hoping to deal with the second member
of the Burned Company however a vision from Erebos showing an attack on a group
of paladins from Felix’s point of view. Then seeing through Morgrove’s eyes
Felix’s body impaled to a tree similar to how Myserios was impailed by Drogon’s
thunderwave attack before seeing Myserios himself and being taken away and
knocked unconscious.

Ansem had a
dream depicting him standing on the outcrop of a large precipice, whilst the
moon reaches its zenith in the sky a large meteor, similar to the one that soared
in the sky at his birth, came crashing down upon him roaring a horrible sound
before impact. Ansem then woke up in a cold sweat along with Erebos, they quickly
went and woke Brand who then ordered the party to investigate the woods via the
ancient landmark “Giant’s Throne” which bared the same hallmarks as Ansem’s
dream. Brand left immediately for the fort to request reinforcements.

On the road
the party fought a Famorian before arriving at Giant’s Throne, the set-up camp
beneath cliff and organised a night’s watch. Ansem quickly fell asleep and after
a few switches of the nights watch Erebos took his turn, as he was mesmerised
by the glow of the fireflies which were dancing around the fire. Suddenly Ansem
awoke feeling like he was holding a red-hot iron, holding his hand in pain he
realised the moon was almost at its zenith and ran up the hillside to scale up
towards the same precipice from his dream.

Upon reaching
the top he saw the figure of man admiring the view to the north. He turned showing
his face and to Ansem’s surprise Gambion Everspire was standing in front of
him. Gambion offered Ansem a deal, either to join him as allies and survive the
coming apocalypse or to reject the offer and see his friends killed by Gambion’s
soldiers who were hiding below surrounding the campsite. Ansem declines Gambion’s
offer and attacks him, Gambion orders the attack on the party, Salazar starts climbing
the cliff face to attack Gambion as he starts transforming into an ancient gold
dragon. Hobgoblins attack the party before Gambion swoops down immolating them
all with his fiery breath. Dusty is destroyed with Salazar holding onto Gambions
tail and being thrown off and crashing through the treetop canopy with Drogon
and Erebos falling unconscious.

Ansem preys as
hard as he is able and sees the image of a woman with long black hair, her face
obscured by a white hood, wearing white and gold robes. She tells him to bide
his time. With that he accepts Gambions deal.