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Aulderik leads the caravan crew (including Eero, Flip, Ibin, and new Tempus paladin Ardo of Chelimber) back to Llorkh before the weather gets bad at Dragonfang Mountain. Along the way they stop at a Zhent fort, fight a foul beast in the night, find a gnome hamlet, and see some sheep farms. With every active character in Llorkh at the Manticore's Muse, they exchange maps and rumors. Aulderik visits a local priest of Mystra, then takes the party northlefterly to re-clear the wizard bolthole known as Haronin's Folly, a ruin with an air-filtering system in an otherwise miasma-choked valley. Strange groundhogs are sighted across the river constructing what looks like a small human-style home. The party explores the ruin of Haronin's Folly (see episodes 94-95), and discover that the Yellowbone goblins are once again using it as a lair. Some books are retrieved, and the party heads back to Llorkh, stopping to meet some dwarven prospectors at the farmsite formerly infested with doppelgangers.

Tals leads Neville and Lysander as they investigate other Red Wizards in Llorkh. They are hot on the trail of Elzid, who seems to be courting a local farmer's daughter, when they discover that his tower has recently exploded. They rush to investigate, and deal with some old-school traps and a malicious imp as they piece together what happened to the Red Wizard and whether he has any connection to the dastardly Tharidun Mirza.

While the dwarves are off getting Vint Westland reincarnated, trouble is brewing in Llorkh when the head of security for the Manticore's Muse is slain under mysterious circumstances. Kain leads VS, Neville, and Tals on a hunt for the killer that will take them to hidden corners of Llorkh! VS recruits for his cult of Grandfather Eelism along the way, and they meet an unexpected ally who serves a mighty power in the Greypeak Mountains. It seems the dwarven portal network is under observation by others, including the agent of a sapphire dragon and the nefarious Red Wizards of Thay!

After we recount some Rooms and Teams, Vindalf leads our dwarven explorers Vint, Jendri, Gemwin, and Hokan into the mysteriously abandoned Greywatch, rumored to have been an early casualty of demonic invasion in Ammarindar. After a brief examination of a side entrance, they go in past shattered stone, iron, and adamantine doors to a large room where they are attacked by demons: a howler, a twisted demonic ettin, and a hook-headed babau demon. Gemwin takes on the ettin while most of the rest of the group takes on the howler, and the babau tries to escape and warn its master, the "Spine Feaster" about the dwarves. Vindalf drops a wall of ice that divides up the battlefield, Vint dies terribly from the howler's keening sonic attack and vicious bite, and Hokan looks like he will soon die too, so Vindalf tries to keep Hokan alive while Jendri shoots eldritch blasts and Gemwin lays into the ettin and babau. The party is victorious, but flees the complex with enough parts of Vints body that they hope to be able to reincarnate him by bringing him to the druid Bariq in the west. They retreat to Llorkh and vow to return with their higher-level characters soon.

We regale Judd with various tales of the campaign from before he joined us, and he tells us the story of the Donkey Murder Trial. Bonus content only for our Platinum Patreon Members (which is everybody, there is no Patreon)