We attack the spiders, with several members of the group being poisoned and Ari falling unconscious. We kill them off and Ari says, “is this a dog?” Caulkin takes a fang and Yrdlyn takes venom from a spider to add to her poison kit. Brylwynn recognizes them to be giant spiders which attack with poison and webbing. 

• She gets to coat a weapon with poison (1d6 of poison damage [bonus action] for 6 weapon strikes or 15 arrows.

• Ari walks into a building and finds a cocooned corpse. 13 gold and 35 silver short sword and studded leather armor.

We find the old abandoned shop we are looking for. We walk in and find a wooden case containing the Gold Necklace with the Emerald Necklace.

Pearl asks Brylwynn to read the book we found back in the Manor. It is written in Dwarvish. She identifies it as a journal outlining someone's experiments.

• We explore an old abandoned building that appears to be an old Smithy shop. We stumble upon 2 zombies in the shop and a fight ensues. We kill the zombies and investigate the shop and find nothing helpful. While investigating the shop two strange men approach us and speak to Pearl and ask who we are.

We learn they are interested in learning about dragons and show an interest in Ari after she overshares with them everything about her existence. Pearl tells them we are not interested in them and they return to one of the buildings to the east.

We explore the north east portion of the town which appears to be the town square. There is a wooden statue of a warrior holding a sword and shield. Pearl recognizes the statue as Palin, an old hero of Neverwinter.

• While exploring a building we get attacked by creatures that turn to smoke when we try to strike them. Yrdlyn’s wild shape of snake does no damage. In the middle of combat the Ari Snatchers return and grapple her south and away from battle. We kill off the last of the smoke creatures and then attack the snatchers. 

During his turn, the leader who we spoke to before yelled “Glory to Tiamat!” and tried to surrender.

We accept his surrender, because he has a better outfit, but attempt to get more information out of him. He tells us he’d planned to use Ari as a bargaining chip with the dragon. Tiamat is the leader of dragons. We decide to kill everyone as they attempt to run away. Caukin kills the leader last.

Ari and Caulkin shake down the bodies, and find a stoppered vial around the neck of the leader. Ari notices all the men are wearing the same outfit and the same masks on their face. The masks look like. We take their masks and jackets so we can fit in later. Glitter gets the cleanest one.

In the Black Cloak’s headquarters, Glitter finds three diamonds (100 gold pieces each) and an extra outfit so he can make Droop a hot new Fit.

We go up to their barracks in disguise and find a bunch more Dust Bunnies. Yrdlyn turns into a gigantic snake.We kill everyone inside.

We’re off to Cragmaw Castle, south of where we are.