Lost Mines of Phandelver, Episode 5

After a night’s rest, the party sets off to find Agatha. They find her in the woods, a day’s travel northeast of Phandalin. They give her a silver comb as offering, and ask her the location of an old spellbook. Agatha doesn’t have it; she gave it to a necromancer named Tommy Twotone a century ago.

 

The party makes their way to Old Owl Well, where they find an old watchtower. When they approach, zombies pour out. The zombies are stopped by a human necromancer, Hamun Kost. He offers them a reward for the elimination of the orc raiders on the Triboar Trail: the location of Cragmaw Castle, where Gundren was taken by the goblins.

They defeat seven orcs and an ogre on the trail, and learn the location of the castle. Upon entrance, the party is attacked by goblin archers through arrow slits in the walls, and again in the main hall. They find small groups of goblins and hobgoblins throughout the castle, as well as an owlbear trapped in a tower, before finally finding the bugbear captain and a doppelganger in the king’s quarters. The party defeats them, revives the unconscious Gundren, and returns him to Phandalin.