Goro the Barely Serene Log

2026-07-06 — Defiance in Phlan

Intercepted the sale of a red dragon egg, marking the merchant for tracking by the Harpers, and defeating a gang known as “the Welcomers”.

Magic Items: Potion of Healing (Consumable)

2026-07-20 — Secrets of Sokol Keep

Discovered the mystery behind the lighthouse outage on Thorn Island atop Sokol Keep. Destroyed an evil idol of Dagon and the undead it animated. Recovered Igan Sokol’s murdered corpse, arrested the murderer, and rescued trapped Black Fist guards.

Magic Items: Potion of Healing (Consumable), Wand of Magic Detection (Uncommon)

• 2026-07-21 Purchase Equipment — Adventuring gear: Yklwa.

2026-08-17 — Shadows over Moonsea

Investigated coastal attacks and a rumoured ghost ship, tracking clues from Phlan’s leaders to a secluded island village. A little girl and her blind goat led the party to the island’s “forest spirit”—actually a lemure guarding a pact in which the villagers traded their souls to Tiamat. After dispatching the fiend, the party faced a black ghost ship crewed by disguised kobolds of the Cult of the Dragon, led by Master Ixas, and defeated them in battle.

Magic Items: Ring of Evasion (Rare)

• 2026-08-19 Trading Post — Ring of Evasion → Staff of the Woodlands: Peer: Self / Kragor Grimstride. Source: DDAL07-08.
• 2026-08-20 Locate Animal + Animal Friendship — Giant Wolf Spider: Found a giant wolf spider in the forests outside Phlan and befriended it.
• 2026-08-21 Awaken — Giant Wolf Spider: Cast Awaken on the giant wolf spider, granting it sentience. Bestowed upon it the name “Charlotte” and the ability to speak Primordial (Aquan).

2026-08-31 — Dues for the Dead

Entered the catacombs underneath Valhingen Graveyard at the behest of Doomguide Yovir, cleric of Kelemvor. Found and destroyed several ghouls and zombies. Permitted a gang of the Welcomers to escape after returning their ill-gotten loot. Discovered the lab of Rorreth, Red Wizard of Thay. Defeated his retinue of kobolds, skeletons, and Thayan Knight. Uncovered Rorreth’s ambitions to overcome Phlan with undead in order to locate something known as the “Pool of Radiance”.

Consumed: Potion of Healing

Magic Items: Goggles of Night (Uncommon)

• 2026-09-01 Purchase Magical Components — Battle Familiar: Diamond (25gp).
• 2026-09-12 Purchase Magical Components — Continual Flame: Ruby dust (50gp).
• 2026-09-12 Purchase Equipment — Adventuring gear: Unworked lapis lazuli (5gp).
• 2026-09-12 Continual Flame — Lapis lazuli pendant: Cast Continual Flame on lapis lazuli and crafted it into a pendant on a leather strap.

2026-09-14 — The Courting of Fire

Enlisted by the Lord Sage of Phlan to find the thief of several tomes from Mantor’s Library. Discovered that the thief, Spernik, was connected to the Cult of the Dragon, and had fled to the subterranean ruins of the Temple of the Scale. Spernik’s plot included recovering a relic—a huge scale from an ancient red dragon—and using it to gain favor with a Scorlworyx, a red dragon living in the Dragonspire Mountains. After defeating a troop of Spernik’s kobold minions in the Standing Stones, and eliminating a trio of oozes within the ruins, Spernik was found face down, dead from traps he’d sprung attempting to access the relic. Confronted the wight guarding the relic and sent it to the afterlife. Recovered the relic and the tomes, and turned them over to the Lord Sage.

Consumed: Potion of Healing, Scroll of Goodberry

Magic Items: Ring of Fire Resistance (Rare)

• 2026-09-15 Trading Post — Ring of Fire Resistance → Ring of Spell Storing: Peer: Robert / Aegis Wardlock. Source: DDHC-TFTYP-4.

2026-09-28 — The Scroll Thief

Incomplete: Knight Aleyd Burral of the Black Fist enlisted us to investigate more thefts around Scholar’s Square, with Mantor’s Library involved once again. Scribe Master Cassra Brandywine, who answers to the library’s Head Curator, Master Opanrael, called them a “raid of the town’s knowledge”. Questioned the victims of the three book thefts: Aya Glenmiir (a treatise on the Weave), Marten Foss (a memoir of Ren o’ the Blade), and Agin Lamarck (“Lords and Lineages of Phlan”). Found blue ink at every scene. At Aya’s, the thief had picked a chest lock and used a scroll of dispel magic to get past the wards on her door and windows; the spent scroll’s vellum came from a shop we recognized. The stolen treatise included a section on banishment magic—useful to anyone wanting to undo a banishment. Marten told us the story of the Pool of Radiance and of Tyranthraxus, a daemon who had possessed a bronze dragon. Glevith of the Welcomers had been following us; we ambushed and grabbed him at the teahouse. He told us that one of their own, Abber, had turned out to be a member of the Cult of the Dragon; they cut his throat once they found out, but not before learning that Abber had a contact in Mantor’s Library. Abber had carried a note signed “B”, in the same blue ink and on the same vellum. Goro sent a rat to spy on Cassra’s office. Learned that two library staff, Ellison Berenger and Garda Greenleaf, had gone missing, along with some scrolls. After 3h of play, we did not yet catch the Scroll Thief.