Day 26-27 of the campaign, the 17-18th days of the month of Hammer, 1492 DR. The moon Selûne is waxing crescent.
- Ratimir, Sven, Trill, Ligs, and Cuso descended from the Hedgerow and arrived on the Middle Wyrmtooth Glacier.
- Lohte discovered that the goblin trail to Karkolohk diverted far onto the glacier to avoid avalanche zone.
- Just like back at the Cackling Chasm, another boulder broke loose from the ridge and rolled straight for Ligs. He dodged the rock and the group followed it as it rolled onto the crevasse field. It dropped into a crevasse and disappeared without a trace.
- The party walked 1/2 mile out and made camp inside Ratimir’s Leomund’s Tiny Hut for the night.
- Cuso secretly gave Ratimir one of the bombs she and Trill had recovered from the dead goblins on the Hedgerow.
- Ligs took first watch and promptly fell asleep. He had dreams of Selûne’s eyes watching him from the sky and heard her say “Change is the only constant”.
- He saw flashes from his life, including teaching a young Graendel Granitefist to shoot a bow, the druid Tolben bringing him back to life after the battle with Icingdeath, and a night with Oyaminartok at Caer-Bannog.
- At the end of the vision he saw black fingers reaching from beneath the ice – Ator’s Fingers.
- He was shaken awake by the sound of huge flapping wings. Icingdeath perched somewhere nearby on the glacier and spoke to Ligs directly, the dragon’s voice echoing from the scales of Ligs’ armor.
Icingdeath paid Ligs a visit, and the party discovered a lost dwarven delivery expedition.
Ahnvae Daoin! Vanyali gyz Khazâd…the dwarvish words a poison upon my tongue. I can smell you, covered in dwarvish filth. Wearing my scales…AS IF YOU HAD THE RIGHT!
“I followed you to the Vale where you hid behind the half-breed bastard…and now beneath the Frostmaiden’s veil. Well, no longer. I know what you seek. I have what you want. I have taken the Jarlmoot. I will be there.
I am patient.
I will wait.
You…will…COME.”
- The next morning, Lohte led the party across the treacherous crevasse fields.
- Cuso spotted a goblin tundra wagon – similar to the one the Dawnbringers captured and renovated into the Bone Machine – traveling west toward the trail leading from Middle to Lower Wyrmtooth Glaciers on Dumathoin’s Ridge.
- Sven, Ratimir, and Cuso fell through a weak section of the glacier. Ligs dugs his hammer into the ice and arrested their fall.
- Cuso discovered an old frozen dwarf delivery sled at the bottom of the crevasse.
- Ligs set a rope up top and the party descended to investigate. Ligs recognized the sled as a design that was used over a hundred years ago. They found three dead dwarves that had died from the fall and then frozen in place, one of which had recently been broken into several pieces and was wearing only a thin undergarment. The sled had been carrying a number of crates that had all been busted open. They recovered a dozen large mithral ingots packed in wooden slats from one crate.
- The other crates listed their contents as “Mithral Armor, Steel Forge Weapons, & Miscellaneous Items Recovered from Underdark” though nothing was found in the crates.
- Lohte noticed a series of draconic tracks leading away from the sled into a labyrinthine section of ice caves and crevasses.
- As they made their way through the icy passages, yet another boulder broke off from somewhere overhead, descended into the crevasse, and rolled straight for Ligs. This time, the party laid weapons to it and quickly pulverized the rock. Once destroyed it mysteriously left no trace.
- The party followed the tracks and encountered a well-camoflaged Coldscale Drake.