Session 5 Notes

Having cleansed Linu's Repose, the group takes the opportunity to rest and recover. Dungar reaches out to his grandmother for information on the Many Arrows, revealing his ancestry in connection to the warrior lineage. She also warns that if the Many Arrows have stretched outside their domain, only war can follow.

Awakening, the group goes into the cave in the grove where they discover a battered and abused Celene, the Dominatrix from Madam Ambrosia's Salon. She tells them of how she was kidnapped from Neverwinter, a loose end from Zhentarim entanglements targeting Lord Aralest. Rumor holds the nobleman is supporting the Sons of Alagondar, her task to reveal his conspiracy until she was replaced by...his wife. Spirited away to the Wood, her rescue sparks her desperate request for the party to take her to Helm's Hold.

Upon arrival at Helm's Hold, they rebuff her pleas to be taken straight to the Cathedral, and instead go to the Gauntlet and Growler Inn. There, Celene takes her leave while the others entertain the empty room and discuss happenings amongst themselves. The one patron, an elderly patron named Yornick, tells them of the Ashmadai, a cult bent to the service of Asmodeus that once capture the Hold and corrupted its prize artifact, transmuting it into pure essence of the God.

The session ends with the party in the common room, determining what to do next....