The Journey from Breland to Darguun

All the members of the party, except Dinnek, met at the prearranged time to begin their journey to Darguun in search of more goodies for Lady Elaydren d'Vown of House Cannith. The mode of transportation, boat. LeiAna received a note telling her that a Half-Orc would meet her at the boat to accompany the party on what was likely to be a dangerous mission.

So the party got on the boat and they were resting below deck when some noises awakened several members of the party. The first ones up woke the rest of the party and proceeded to the main deck to see what was going on. The crew of the boat, including the navigator were under attack by six undead beings (not sure what they all were.) In short order all members of the party were on deck using their various skills to defeat the undead. Most of the crew were killed and Ortel, the Warforged fighter, was badly damaged by one of the big undead before Nox, the Changeling cleric cast rebuke undead caught three of the five in her spell. Then she commanded them to jump overboard. Luckily, Shump, the Half-Orc barbarian got an attack of opportunity on the big undead and "killed" him before he jumped overboard. Someone cast a healing spell that caught everyone except Shump, who was behind a barrier fighting a particularly nasty undead thing. Ranged attacks from Isolde, the Elf rogue, Brenys, the Elf ranger, and LeiAna, the Human Artificer, brought down one of the three remaining undead. Shump killed the undead he was fighting, bringing the remaining total to only one undead. A combination of Qiang's fists of fury and Shump's brute force knocked the last undead overboard. When the battle was done, several members of the party noticed some phenomenon at the rear of the boat, but no one could really explain it.

The rest of the sea voyage passed without incident and the party finally arrived at Rhukaan Draal. They entered the marketplace, with its contingent of mostly goblinoid street vendors selling whatever one might want to buy. The party thought this might be a place to find their contact, Failin. Information on the contact was not forthcoming, despite Shump's best efforts to "haggle" with the vendors. Several other deals were made for food and weapons, however. In a last ditch effort, Ortel and Shump grabged a young goblin and asked for information on the whereabouts of Failin. The young goblin, obviously scared, mumbled something about the Clenched Fist Tavern. Ortel shoved a silver piece into the kid's mouth and let him go. Then they left the market.

Unsure what direction to take to get to the Clenched Fist Tavern, the party headed toward a tower and were approached by a group of three Hobgoblins, accompanied by the goblin child who had been accosted in the marketplace. A battle ensued and in short order Qiang was lying unconcious on the ground and most of the party's hp was pretty low, Ortel had received even more "life"-threatening damage, and Shump was raging. Two of the hobgoblins fell and the third, significantly injured, ran away like a little baby. The young goblin had fled soon after the fight errupted. The party looted the bodies and were about to leave when local law enforcement showed up. A brief explanation and little bit of flawed, but well meant trickery on the part of Ortel allowed the party to escape the hand of justice. Additionally, the discovered the location of the Clenched Fist Tavern... in the complete opposite direction.

Arriving at the tavern, Ortel proceded to yell the name Failin until the man produced himself. The party bought him a drink and paid him loads more money than he was worth to take them into the Mournlands to a place called the Rose Quarry. Failin and the party left the tavern and were immediately accosted by two more hobgoblins, something with a ranged weapon, and some kind of goblin-ish passerby who wanted in on the action. Apparently, Failin owed them some money or something. Failin quickly disapparated and left the fighting to the rest of the party. The two Hobgoblins were cut down, as well as the thing with the ranged weapon. The passerby admitted that he was just passing by and ran off.

With no more trouble, the party shortly arrived at a cliff where Failin had hidden his cart. He said something in Draconic and the cart appeared.