I will preface this episode with a warning: it will be a little anticlimactic, through nobody’s fault but the universe’s. My group plays online, on account of my living on a different continent to everyone else. And due to the nature of technology, this can result in the occasional hiccup. Like when your internet goes down right before you’re about to start playing D&D, and is out for half the session. Like today.
What I was told I missed, when I eventually managed to join the game, was the systematic extermination of any and every living (or unliving) thing in Wave Echo Cave, up to the point the group found a wraith that asked for the removal of a nearby Spectator, implying that it would leave so long as the Spectator was gone. I joined when the group was just about to enter the lair of the Spectator.
Mercenary went in first and… convinced it to leave. She explained that the cave had been abandoned for centuries, and the Spectator evidently decided that meant its job was done, because it poofed out of existence, back to wherever it came from. We explored the area it was guarding, found some cool stuff, took a short rest, and then returned to the wraith, who refused to also leave the cave. So we killed it. It died way easier than we expected it would.
And that was it. The cave was clear, we left, buried Cardigan, and celebrated. The others tied up some loose ends and were approached by various NPC’s for various reasons, and I, as a newcomer, was involved in none of it. The last thing we did was plan out next step. It looks like, after perhaps a little downtime, we’re heading to Waterdeep…
So yeah, not a lot, thanks to my missing most of the good stuff. We got through the module, but as yet, I still haven’t made it through a full story arc with a single character, in any campaign. And let us not forget, the spectre of the curse still looms. I suspect there are some interesting times ahead.