Hamish

One of the party’s two wood elf rangers, Hamish handles the scouting, the tracking, and — when the longbow isn’t enough — the leaping-in-with-a-shortsword.

Notable deeds

• Spotted the wild boar on second watch the party’s first night out (Session 1).
• Took an interest in the mushrooms growing in the Gnomengarde pond and learned how to harvest them from the gnome farmers (Session 2).
• Helped Sage partially disable Facktoré’s crossbow ballista (Session 2).
• Recognized Guildmaster Thornton’s dragon pin as the mark of the Zhentarim (Session 4).
• Scouted ahead with Sage and confirmed the large orc encampment down the split trail (Session 5).
• Poured longbow fire into the original wall jelly all fight, then leaped in with his shortsword for the final kill (Session 5).
• Found two secret doors in the temple’s main chamber, then went to investigate a glint in the rubble — which turned out to be one more ochre jelly (Session 5).
• Sheathed his bow, ran, jumped, and drove his shortsword up into the last jelly clinging to the ceiling. Wore most of it home (Session 6).
• Picked Rut up by the tail and nearly lost a finger for it (Session 6).
• Lifted a holy symbol off a skeleton in the temple crypt — a jeweled dagger on a silver chain reading “Greed is good.” He carries it (Session 6).
• Told Norbus and Dazlyn the party had found “not much. Jellies.” (Session 6).
• Took a javelin in the orc fight and went down; came back up on a healing potion Thom delivered by mage hand across the room (Session 6).
• Hauled the orc dead off one another to get at their packs, and turned up rations, ten gold, and a child’s doll with its head torn off (Session 7).
• Read the orc leader’s sheepskin map of the Sword Coast: raid targets along the Triboar Trail and the High Road, around Leilon, and near Phandalin, with a preference for mountainous ground (Session 7).
• Found the gearing sunk beneath both pedestals in the wreckage of the hidden chamber and worked the mechanisms until the alcove opened (Session 7).
• Scouted the road north with Sage, confirmed the main orc body had moved west, and drew on the panther coming for her — then lowered the bow (Session 7).
• Pried Dazlyn Grayshard’s stiff fingers open and took out the sending stone (Session 7).
• The only one who could hear anything in the panicking inn. Picked the town’s mood out of the noise one thread at a time, down to the question that mattered — “Did Harbin know?” (Session 8).
• Spotted the dark-clad figure making for the Miner’s Exchange, and tailed him through the alleys to the back door (Session 8).
• Rode Barnaby’s shoulders at the high back window three times: saw the single candle and the man they had followed; then Thornton grinning at whatever she was being told, and the second guard coming around the building. The third attempt left him sitting on the dragonborn’s shoulders instead of standing, able to see only the tops of the heads inside, with no leverage to pull himself higher and the crown of his head showing in the glass (Session 8).
• Was knocked flat by Phantom, who had found him and Barnaby in the dark and wanted Sage to know it (Session 8).
• Climbed down a dragonborn’s scales and got clear without being seen at all (Session 8).
• Took up a watch on the Exchange from inside one of Phandalin’s burned-out houses, and rested as much as anyone rests sitting up in a ruin (Session 8).
• Asked what Thornton wanted with the orcs; Thom could offer only his interpretation of the papers he had glimpsed (Session 9).
• Bought a whip for 2 gp and helped Bean and Rut examine the six dead orcs on the mine road. The cold damage looked like white-dragon work (Session 9).