Chapter 2

**Silverdale's Lost Decade**

The Town of Silverdale (on the way to Skyreach): The party stayed at the Enchanted Grove in the city of Highreach after their venture through the Dwarven mine. Upon waking, they found their goodberries and made their way to the stables. Grief felt that he should negotiate a longer rental time of the horses, since the existing arrangement didn't allow for any delays.

The Stable Master by the name of Elias  offered the extension in return for the party delivering a sack to the town of Silverdale, a small village along the road to Skyreach. Lyall expressed great reservations about accepting such a minor task but Grief dismissed him as being overly suspicious and K.K. didn't want to get involved. So, the party accepted and journeyed along the road to Silverdale.

Along the way, shortly outside of Silverdale, the party crossed paths with two elves wearing ministerial garb of Highreach and with telling black ribbons that indicate their membership in a mysterious Elven organization. Grief knows this organization to be affiliated in some way with the Highreach Holocaust and believes them to have murdered his father and siblings just before his birth and related this information to his travelling companions. The two groups met one another icily but passed in silence along the road.

Upon arriving in Silverdale, Lyall met a young dwarf named Cliven Wildbeard. He said he was 70, stayed in a very well appointed room. He assisted Lyall in stabling the horses for the evening and Lyall tipped him generously. Meanwhile, Grief cast disguise self and took the visage of one of the elves he had passed. Despite wearing civilian clothes and bearing no black ribbons, Pennyfeather Wildbeard reacted particularly hostilely, teleporting across the room and holding a knife to Grief's neck.

Grief immediately dismissed his disguise, begged forgiveness, and delivered the bag. That evening, he performed music for the tavern while Lyall and K.K. had some light conversation with the other tavern residents/townsfolk.

In the morning, the party met Lejandra, ordered an excess of bacon for K.K. and departed. They journeyed for a day and then camped. However, when they awoke, they were back in the Frozen Rose. When they interacted with Lejandra, it was apparent that she had no recollection of meeting them.

After making no headway with Pennyfeather or Lejandra, Lyall stormed off to the government building but lost his nerve at the entrance. Grief and K.K. investigated ultimately finding a hidden door behind a bookshelf, a box with a broken lid, a spell book, and no documents more recent than 10 years. Furthermore, the record of birth for Cliven would have placed him at 80 years old instead of 70. Lyall correctly deduced that the town was living a decade in the past and perhaps was groundhogging. He carved initials into a tree stump to test his hypothesis and, in the morning, the initials were gone.

The party made their way back to the Frozen Rose to discuss matters. They met with little information except that maybe something has to do with Mayor Gilroy Silverbeard.

The party made their way to Silverbeard's farm and encountered a simple farmer who ultimately shared that he had recently broken his watch given to him by a mean lady from a swamp several days' travel to the east of Silverdale. Grief quickly discerned that it was a magical watch and the troupe set about attempting to repair it with lackluster results.

The next morning, the party debated whether to attempt a ride to Highreach to repair the watch but Lyall dragged them to the blacksmith who was able to cast a simple mending spell on the watch and seemingly repair it. The blacksmith, Gerrick Stoneguard seemed to be aware that he had been in a time loop for 10 years but was mostly chill about it. Lyall and K.K. immediately began whispering that he must be another Titan. Indeed, there appear to be different sets of bracers for different guardians/titans/council members.

Indeed, Gerrick's discussion of history suggested that he had been involved in foundational events of Eldoria. Grief accused the two of being superstitious. Grief then asked the wizard if he recognized the spellbook he had found and returned it when the wizard stated that it was his brother's spellbook. Having heard that the blacksmith had been executed for failing to pay a 2 gold tax (from Pennyfeather), Grief attempted to give 2 gold to the blacksmith but the blacksmith revealed that he was quite rich, so it must have been some other blacksmith.

With the watch fixed and the temporal magic suffusing the town dissipated, the party endeavoured to return the watch to Mayor Silverbeard.