RotDQ: Episode 18

Days Seventy-Three (1st Eleint 1489)
47th day on the Road.The party continue along the road to Waterdeep. with the wagon train. The party have been fired from being for Beyd Sechepol. Beyd Sechepol's wagon is under attack by Endercaps and Spiders. The party stand idly by as Beyd Sechepol's new guards are slaughtered. When Beyd Sechepol agrees to paying the party x5 wages, they join the fight against the venomous enemies.

Trior slays a Ettercap with his spiritual weapon. Korbal Tallfort arrives on the scene and helps the party in their fight. The second other Ettercap flees from Trior. Maven Mirkana kills the spider and finds out it was named Tim. The other giant spider attacks at Maven and knocks him out. Trior rushs over and save Maven and kills the other Giant Spider. Solania arrows the Ettercap to death. The party fights the last Ettercap and Korbal gets the killing blow.

Korbal hires the last pretend adventurer as a 2nd Squire, and renames him Streaks.

The wagon train starts up again and travels down the road again for another 4 hours. That evening one of the cultists comes up to the tavern wagon with the crowd of others, and watches the party.

Trior talks with Maven about his concerns. They decide to leave the cultist alone.

That night a cultist gives Maven a note, it says he can join the cult tomorrow at midnight. He is told he can bring his friends.

Days Seventy-Four (2nd Eleint 1489)
Day 48 on the road. Maven tells the party about the invitation. They agree to come with Maven during the event.

Near midnight the parchment turns into a magical arrow pointing in a direction. Maven leads the way the arrow is pointing. After 15 minutes away from the wagon, the party arrives at a clearing where there is a barrel. There is a book on top of a barrel. Maven is suspicious of the book, gusts it onto the ground. The book, written in Draconic, "Initiation Rites" and in Dwarvish it says "The Mountain Warrior's Path". Maven inspects the barrel and confirms it is empty.

Maven opens the book and a ring of frost explodes out in a 60-foot radius. Everyone is knocked out except Korbal, and Navi is killed again. Korbal goes to heal up everyone up.

The party head back to their wagon. On the way Trior notices 2 men waiting in ambush. The party attack the ambushers. Korbal gets knocked out. One attacker is knocked out. Maven puches the other attacker in the testicles. Trior stabilises Korbal then knocks out the other attacker.

The party search the attackers and there is a description of Maven on it. The alive attacker is tied up and Trior takes him up. The party interrogate him. He got the note from Longnose. Korbal then has Streaks execute the prisoner.