Date: 3/9/05

XP Awarded: 1,500 (to 6th level characters), 1,250 (to 7th level characters)

Start: The forested hills outside the mythal protecting Silverymoon, seven days after Midsummer

Wrapping the slain dwarf’s body in a blanket, the adventurers drag the carcass of the displacer beast to the gates of Silverymoon, where they explain the story of the battle many times to several groups of suspicious officials. After an hour, they are allowed entrance to the city and take the dwarf’s body to the Steel Serpent Smithy, which they find closed up. Hoping to find dwarves who know the deceased, the group stops at the Hammer and the Helm, but find no help. Proceeding to the city’s mausoleum, they notify the clerics there that the Knights in Silver may be stopping by to investigate the body.

After returning to the Golden Oak, Theodar composes a message to High Mage Taern via Deleron, Keeper of the Vault of Sages. That evening after dinner, a traveler arrives and gives the party a mysterious message - they are to investigate the disappearances and ensure they do not continue. The messenger shows a signet ring with the seal of Silverymoon as proof of the source of the message.

The party wastes no time in traveling to the nearby darkened Steel Serpent Smithy, where Iax peers into the darkened building through sooty windows. Theodar detects several powerful sources of evil inside, so the party goes around to the back of the building. After Fei uses magic to battle-ready the party, he uses more magic to force the back door open. Rushing in, Theodar finds an angelic being consorting with a group of three bearded devils in the midst of an area of magical darkness. Caught them by surprise, the party storms in and seals off the exits. Fei’s magic slows the devils so that they are not serious threats, and their glaives are ineffective against the protective magic covering Iax. Celowin’s arrows have limited effectiveness against the devils until he finds the right ammunition to use. The angelic being’s form changes to that of a beautiful woman in spiked leather armor with batwings. Her fanged mouth spits instructions to the devils in a language the party doesn’t understand, before conjuring a powerful cloud of living evil that engulfs the party. Theodar charges forward and wounds her with powerful smites, so the entangles him with a magical rope that wraps itself around his arms and legs, hindering his movement.

Meanwhile, outside Fei hears spellcasting and looks up to see dusky flying sorceresses just before he his magically held by their spells. Inside, Iax’s maul is quickly destroying the devils, and Theodar is pressing the attack against the Erinyes devil. As she teleports away, she spits out a promise, “Tonight I shall have what I came to get!” and her echoing laughter fades. One of the newly arrived sorceresses flies past Celowin and zaps one of the devils with a spell to prevent him from teleporting before Celowin’s arrows destroy him.

With the devils in sight gone, a thunderous crash is heard from the front of the building. Fei frees himself from his paralysis and rushes around to see what is going on as Iax and Theodar go to investigate. As Theodar opens a door, a lightning bolt blasts it apart and tears through the adventurers behind it. Iax starts to charge the flying sorceress with his maul raised, but Theodar holds him back after it appears that the lightning bolt was a mistake. In the back, Celowin angrily confronts the flying sorceress who seems to be searching for something. She says that she is a Daughter of Mystra, that the devils are servants of a renegade spellcaster from their circle, and that the renegade stole a powerful magic mirror that she used to conjure the devils. With that explanation, Celowin starts to help her search the smithy, but finds only large black feathers on the floor, along with some gems and platinum. In the front, Theodar grabs the spellcaster by her wrist and drags her to the back of the smithy, struggling. As the whistles of the Knights in Silver are heard in the distance, the Daughters become increasingly anxious to leave. Finally they agree to go with the party as long as they leave before the Knights in Silver arrive.

Fleeing through the alleys, the group leaves the scene just before the first guardsmen arrive, and take the still struggling sorceresses to Teshura’s nearby house overlooking the river Rauvin. There the sorceresses are interrogated and more of the story is revealed. The circle of female spellcasters is from western Amn, far to the south. Wrell, the one who held Fei and blasted Iax and Theodar with lightning, doesn’t speak Common, while Xara seems to be slightly more diplomatic. The renegade sorceress, Merenith, is somewhere in the city, but the Daughters don’t know where. They do know that the Erinyes, Stefar, seems to be seeking something hidden in one of the towers of the Halls of Inspiration. After a time, the party detects that they are being scried upon, and shortly after a knocking is heard from the door below. The spellcasters are released, and the sorceress who knocked on the door is heard to ask whether the party should be killed. Escorted by a group of about seven other sorceresses, Xara and Wrell disappear into the moonlit streets of Silverymoon.