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Thursday Night Pathfinder: Finishing off the Beholders and Meeting Some Old 'Friends'

The party was facing down one last beholder.  Victaerrus charged and attacked but missed.  Calleel cast a spell and in a moment of great power, killed the beholder outright.  The party went on to loot the beholder caves of many pieces of equipment.  They helped the kobolds and several slaves as they looked for an exit.  Below in the dark throne room they found a quickly fading portal.  It took them back to the surface.

Above ground, they landed on the top of the temple.  There was much rejoicing by the gnomes.  Palarandusk and Elminster appeared, commented a bit on the new party, scared the new 16 year old party member, and took the mace.  Word was that they were to return after a week.  In the meantime they had other troubles.

In the local tavern, they walked past the hundreds of years old painting of the party that entered the temple.  Few were left.  The toll was high.

Ahkra, Corrail's cousin, was there, waiting on them.  She brought word from Sheena.  The mage had picked up an army of 400 in Candlekeep aboard the Zelbinion warship and was headed to the Thornhold.  Sheena was going to try to take control of the Celestial Kyte to help them.

Meanwhile, Victaerus had a tap on her shoulder.  It was her mother.  She had been taken prisoner at Candlekeep.  The dragon's army now had Neverwinter several days under siege.  She managed to escape, but Victaerus's father was still a prisoner.

After cold ale's around the table, Felix focused on gathering items from their excursion and selling them off.  The gnome city was buying up equipment at good prices, so there was good gold to be collected.

For 1000 gp, the party hired the local mage to teleport them back to the Thonhold to begin preparations for the arrival of the Zelbinion.

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Over the next week of in-game and out-of-game time, the players are readying their plans and defenses.  In the next session, the Zelbinion warship will arrive at port.

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