Lost Mine of Phandelver - Session 7 - Wave Echo Cave

 After returning to Phandalin from the quest to kill Morag, the hirelings were paid for their service, and the family of the fallen was paid his share by Reiner.  The party restocked their supplies and headed off with the recovered Gundren to Wave Echo Cave, in which they hoped to confront the Black Spider and find the Forge of Spells at last.

After traveling the fifteen miles to the entrance, the party entered a large cavern and soon discovered the body of Thordin, Gundred's older brother.  Gundren was obviously devastated and took his brother's body back to Phandalin for burial.  The party continued to explore the cavern after wishing Gundren a safe journey and offering their condolences.

Soon the party was stalked by an Ochre Jelly that had attempted to ambush Marigold as they explored some interconnecting Dwarven mining tunnels.  They were able to elude the blob when Reiner blocked its path with an oil flask thrown in front of it.  The party continued exploring and came across a fishy smelling lake at which point they decided against not using OneShoe to look under the murky depths.  

Shortly thereafter they came upon a small barracks of BugBears and a battle ensued, with the BugBears losing the fight, but inflicting enough injuries that the party decided to long-rest in the secured barracks.  

The next day they continued northward and came across another large cavern with some BugBears working to clear rocks at the bottom of a gorge, whilst one BugBear supervised from the top of the cliff.  

The party snuck past the BugBears this time, and came across a room containing none-other than Glasstaff, the Redbrand boss that had escaped in session 3, as he had fled to this throne-room containing a giant statue of a Dwarven mining diety.

Another vicious battle broke out as Glasstaff was cornered and threatened to finally deal with the adventures for good.  The wizard summoned three giant spiders and ordered them, along with his two personal BugBear guards, to attack, as he himself turned invisible.  The party eventually defeated two of the giant spiders and the BugBear guards.  The third spider attempted to flank the party through a side-tunnel, which also brought a third BugBear into the fight.  

These were also defeated and the party turned their attention to Glasstaff, whom had fired magic missiles at Innil.  She cast silence into the room and detect magic, which both prevented further spells from Glasstaff, and showed his location due to his magic staff's aura.  

The evil wizard was captured and tied up. The party then discovered the last Rockseeker brother, Nundro, in a locked room, which they used for another long-rest to heal.