The story so far

Timeline

Every session in order, with the moments that mattered pinned where they happened. 25 recorded moments across 9 sessions. Follow a place to find it on the map; follow a session to read the full recap.

April 27, 2026
Session 0Session Zero
Characters finalized, house rules set: no Neverwinter, no ammo or weight tracking, level cap 6.
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April 27, 2026
Session 1The Road to Phandalin
The party forms on the road, takes the Gnomengarde quest, hears the first dragon rumors, and kills a boar at midnight.
Phandalin Wayside Camp
- EncounterThe Gnomengarde contractPhandalin
  The party works the quest board, meets the Quest Master, and takes the job: warn the gnomes about a dragon. A strange figure watches from the inn.
- BattleThe boar huntWayside Camp
  Barnaby’s Dragon’s Breath and Sage’s reluctant finishing arrow. Dinner, preserved.
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May 15, 2026
Session 2Dax Joins
A wounded fighter amid five dead orcs joins the party, Gnomengarde is explored, and Facktoré opens fire.
Wayside Camp Gnomengarde
- EncounterDax joins the partyWayside Camp
  Found wounded amid five dead orcs, on a parallel contract to Gnomengarde. Joined cautiously.
- BattleFacktoré’s ballistaGnomengarde
  An unhinged gnome shoots Thom with a crossbow ballista. Slept, tied up, robbed of 10 gold by Bean — then freed by Rut.
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May 18, 2026
Session 3The Mimics
A paranoid king, a bound queen, a goopy rope bridge, and two very real mimics. The contract is delivered.
- BattleTwo mimics in the storeroomGnomengarde
  King Korboz’s paranoia proves not entirely unfounded.
- EncounterThe contract deliveredGnomengarde
  The Guildmaster’s contract reaches King Korboz; Dax receives a sealed envelope as proof of the completed trade.
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June 22, 2026
Session 4Back to Phandalin, and a Squeeze
Harbin pays out and posts two contracts, Thornton reveals a Zhentarim pin and crossbows, and two manticores meet the party at Umbrage Hill.
Gnomengarde Wayside Camp Phandalin Umbrage Hill
- OmenCrossbows at the Miner’s ExchangePhandalin
  Guildmaster Thornton reveals a Zhentarim pin and forces a paid intel-sharing pact at crossbow-point. Bean lifts Harbin’s private notes on her.
- BattleManticores at the windmillUmbrage Hill
  Two manticores. Dax burns an Action Surge, Barnaby shields him, Bean and Sage land the kills. The windmill mostly survives.
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July 14, 2026
Session 5Adabra, Orcs, and the Temple of Abbathor
Adabra refuses to leave, an orc camp is bypassed, and the party splits jellies (literally) in a ruined temple to the god of greed.
Umbrage Hill Dwarven Excavation
- OmenOrc encampment spottedOrc Encampment
  Day-old tracks, then Sage and Hamish confirm a large camp down a split trail. Bypassed — for now.
- BattleThe jellies of AbbathorDwarven Excavation
  Slashing splits them (Dax proves it the hard way). Thom’s Wild Magic Surge ages him years; Bean lands a natural 20. One more jelly waits in the rubble.
- DiscoveryThe coffer and the necklaceDwarven Excavation
  A hidden coffer of gemstones the dwarves don’t know about, and a gold necklace overwritten in ancient Dwarvish: “This is what happens to those who displease me.”
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July 24, 2026
Session 6Doors, a Broken Deal, and Seven Orcs
The last jelly falls, the temple gives up its dead and its ledger, the dwarves walk away from the deal — and seven orcs come up the canyon looking for a new fort.
Dwarven Excavation
- DiscoveryThe last jelly, and the doors behind itDwarven Excavation
  The final jelly splits once more and dies. Behind a third secret door: a cave-in, a crypt, a vestry, and a sleeping chamber with a longsword that never rotted.
- EncounterThe deal breaksDwarven Excavation
  The party lies to Norbus and Dazlyn about the haul. Bean pays out five gold of her own. The dwarves strip their camp and leave without a word.
- BattleSeven orcs at the gateDwarven Excavation
  A raiding band scouting the ruin as a fort. Dax funnels them through the entrance hall; three of the party go down. Their leader knew him by his work at Gnomengarde.
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August 25, 2026
Session 7The Hidden Chamber, a Debt Paid, and a Dragon
The last room in the temple gives up an emerald and a written blessing to rob the place, a dead dwarf is carried home to his brother — and the dragon stops being a rumor.
Dwarven Excavation Umbrage Hill Phandalin
- DiscoveryThe hidden chamberDwarven Excavation
  Rut burrows through the rubble as a giant badger into a sealed round chamber. Lifting the emerald detonates the statue holding it; working the gearing under both pedestals opens the alcove, its last offering chest, and a note releasing whoever survived the room.
- DiscoveryThe cat distribution systemUmbrage Hill
  A panther walks out of the underbrush on the road north, straight for Sage. He had been asking every animal on the road where to find her. Hamish lowers the bow.
- OmenDazlyn on the roadUmbrage Hill
  One of the dwarves face down with an orc javelin in his back and a sending stone in his fist. His brother answers on the other stone: bring him back to Phandalin, and pay me what you owe.
- EncounterAdabra leaves the windmillUmbrage Hill
  The dragon never moved her. The orcs do. She packs her brewing equipment and walks to Phandalin with the party — hours before the hill is destroyed.
- EncounterA debt paid at the barPhandalin
  Harbin pays 105 gold and says nothing about the body in his bush. Norbus gets his brother, 25 gold, 70 tarnished silver, and — privately, from Dax — another 15 and an offer of work.
- OmenUmbrage Hill is gonePhandalin
  A man runs into the crowded inn with a report he has just been handed. The hill was attacked. It was a dragon. There is nothing left of it.
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September 4, 2026
Session 8The Town Finds Out, a Deal in the Dark, and a Trap Door
The dragon news gets out, Harbin puts a hundred gold on learning what the guildmaster wants — and two invisible thieves standing in her office get it for nothing.
Phandalin
- EncounterThe town finds outPhandalin
  The inn comes apart over the news from Umbrage Hill. Under the noise, one question keeps surfacing: did Harbin know?
- EncounterA hundred gold on the guildmasterPhandalin
  Harbin admits every job so far was a hunt for a weapon to kill the dragon, and that it has turned up nothing. He puts 100 gold on the table for anything about what Holia Thornton is planning.
- EncounterA deal in the darkPhandalin
  Caught outside the Miner's Exchange and walked in, Dax sells Thornton the orc band's heading for 50 gold and is warned off — she knows where Harbin sends them, and she would start with the wizard.
- OmenSoon Harbin will be outPhandalin
  Invisible in her office, Thom and Bean hear the guildmaster tell her people she means to be town master, and that anyone caught sniffing around again dies.
- DiscoveryThe trap doorPhandalin
  A hatch in the floor behind the desk seals flush and vanishes. Bean picks it open anyway, and the two of them climb down a ladder into cold stone.
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