We fight off the Bugbears in a room resulting in Yrdlyn and Pearl being taken down. Glittr manages to revive them back to life.

• • • Caulkin pretends to be Blotus and enters the break room. We learn that Glassstaff is a caster type and mostly stays in his study. Caulkin continues to speak with them in the lounge. 

    • The baby goblin, Droop, wakes up and tells us that the Bugbears were attacking it. He tells us that Glassdoor (Glassstaff) is in the Manor and we can lead us to him. Ari performs an insight check and learns that Droop is an innocent baby and we believe him. Droop leads us to a secret room where Glassdoor is located.

We go back to the original hallway, seeing a dark-colored human with a Glasstaff in the chamber. We battle briefly but he surrenders and tells us that he was told to attack us by the Black Spider. He shares that the Black Spider is a drow and he is searching for Wave Echo Cave for the Forge of Spells which can create powerful items. The Black Spider found out about our guild through Goblins who informed him of our presence.

• • • Plot Twist: Glasstaff is Yarno. He works under the name Glasstaff and is in charge of the Red Capes and was instructed to attack Phandalin. 

    • Caulkin finds a wooden chest a silk pouch with 5 x C?? (10 g each), 2x15 gold each, 1 pearl x 50g, 2 scrolls, and a Glass Staff. On his desk we find a scroll and message written on it.

    • Yarno also shared that the Black Spider wants to stop our group.

In the study, Ari and Caulkin investigate and see a table with an alchemist table. There is a book on the table in a language that Ari does not recognize. Ari hears a voice that says “My blood wakens. I have waited centuries for this moment. Drink my child, drink!!!”

• • • Ari feels her crescent dragon scale on her face become warmer and start to glow red, which Caulkin and Pearl see. Pearl is not affected in the same way that Ari is.

    • Pearl recognized potions of invisibility that were attempted to be brewed. 

      • There are 3 bottles of something (see an apothecary or alchemist), one of them is for Ari to drink. Caulkin chooses to hold the potion so as to not cause the dragons harm. 

As Pearl walks back into the bedroom, the Prince of Frost appears before Pearl. He is a 7’ foot creature that looks familiar to Pearl. No one else seems anything, but they all feel a chill in the room. Pearl and The Prince [her “friend of a friend”] speak. A book glows blue and falls to the ground that The Prince showed to Pearl. He states, “This is how bargaining works, isn’t it?” And then vanishes.

• • • Glittr feels the chill and sees Pearl go and picks up the fallen book. The title of the book is Shadow Fell. Pearl, proficient in Arcana, on reading the title of the book, she realizes that Shadow Fell is another lane of existence that mirrors the one we are currently in. It is the dark parts of the plane of existence we are currently in. 

We take the secret passage to leave the Manor with Yarno and Droop alongside and head back to Phandalin at around 4pm

Summary

•  We fight off Bugbears and meet Droop

• We briefly fight with Glassstaff who turns out to be Yarno, who was instructed to attack us by The Black Spider

• The Black Spider wants the Forge of Spells in order to create powerful items which is rumored to be in Wave Echo Cave