Session 2 Notes

DM recap
We begin in the clearing where Val has just raised the dead trader to speak. As they discuss next steps, Kibeth, Val's mastiff familiar (who we forgot), finds a piece of shredded armor in the bushes. Concerned for their health, the group decides that they can't rest here and travels back towards Thundertree an hour or so, just to clear the area. The group talks amongst themselves, learning a bit more about Val's family job. As they enter the clearing, the Doctor removes her helm for the first time, revealing fiery red scales and beady piercing eyes.

They set camp, Dungar going to sleep as the Doctor makes some tea for the wakeful folks. The Doctor offers Thorn a jay, which she immediately makes a Jeffrey by sprinkling her own leaves on it. Doctor admonished the elf, then went to sleep. Val and Thorn chat a bit about what happened to "Thistle." It's all dark and bad, but Val really hopes to meet her one day. With that, Thorn goes to sleep.

Val's watch passes uneventfully, but when she goes to wake the Doctor the dragonborn is wracked with a nightmare or vivid dream.

Upon wakening, the Doctor goes to sit by the fire and pray, but nothing further comes to her. She wakens Thorn for her watch, and goes back to sleep. Thorn takes her watch, sitting comfortably against a tree, when an acorn bops her head and falls into her lap. She looks up to see the fattest squirrel looking down at her, chittering welcomingly and then bounding off into the forest. Thorn follows the squirrel, convinced its her family calling her home. As she runs out of camp she stumbles over Dungar, waking him up just in time to see her departing form in the woods.

Dungar rallies the party to give chase, pursuing their friend to a strange grove where they enter a force field separating them from "here" and "there." As they try to figure out what's going on, a soundless Val gesturing from the other side, a voice booms out from deeper within calling to Thorn. She's immediately enraptured, and makes her way towards the voice without her companions. Everyone follows, leaving a confused Val outside. They come across this very dead looking elf and four followers, claiming that Thorn should be amongst them. Battle ensues!

The party emerges victorious, collecting a valuable looking shortsword, a potion of antidote, and 100gp (split evenly-ish). The Doctor investigates the ossified bones littering the glade and receives another vision from the woman she now knows is Linu Laneral - a hero of Neverwinter who made her repose in the Wood as a symbol of the bridge between faiths and cultures that make up the Sword Coast, more important than ever in times of collective strife. Linu shows the Doctor where her grove is, pleading for her aid once more. The Doctor removes her helm once more, and gives the group her name for the first time - Yglesia. The group decides that they will make their way to Thundertree--Guil casting the deciding vote-to recover and regroup. The rest of the Wood, and the agents of Luskan yet await....