It's been a couple of months and the town has been recovering and growing since the attack. Investors from NeverWinter have accelerated the town's development with their funding, once news of the Forge of Spells was spread.
An Autumn Festival was held and the heroes were honored for their continued defense of the town in a ceremony where their exploits were read aloud to numerous cheers. There were even statues of the party constructed in the town square. OneShoe insists that his statue is still being built, but there is no sign of it yet.
The town voted to grant Reiner the ruined keep to turn into a stronghold/monastery. Builders have asked for Reiner to provide plans for its construction, and his portion of the mine profits will begin funding it's construction.
Innil and Vendel have also been offered properties in the town, perhaps in the woods next to the farm for a more natural theme.
Funerals were held for Tharden Rockseeker and Marigold in the new town cemetery. In other news, it has been rumored that Halia Thornton seems to be trying to use the recent events to blame Sildar and is trying to get an election for town master to be held.
The party also met Gwen Rockseeker, cousin of the Rockseeker brothers, whom came for the funeral and explained a lot of local history of this area of the Sword Coast.
The party rode off towards Gnomengarde on their own horses and soon came upon the ruins of an old village on the side of the road. They encountered two strange goblins with glowing green eyes and psionic powers. After being thrown around by the telekinetic goblins, the party defeated them, but were quite baffled by these new foes.
After following the map to Gnomengarde, the party followed the stream and it led to a large cavern filled with a lake and two islands of giant mushrooms that were being harvested by spider-like machines. They were question by two comical guards and were allow into the gnome settlement and they encountered various gnomes engaged in amusing antics.
They fought a mimic disguised as a barrel and barely avoided being attacked by an auto-reloading crossbow machine. They also encountered crab-barrel excavation machines, one of which as driven by a drunk gnome that sped around the complex. OneShoe also tried to drive one of the machines, but ended up crashing it.
A female gnome named Nyx tormented the characters with bad mushroom puns, but did agree to show them around the place, and eventually show them where the king resided.
The king was quite mad and had glued his assistant to a chair, as he thought he was the Queen, and wanted to protect them from the rug that supposedly tried to eat the King.
They also learned that something had sucked the brains out of two gnomes and they suspected the shape-shifters.
The party eventually cured the King of his madness and showed him the dead mimic. They also used white mushrooms to remove the psychedelic effects of the wine, which also helped the King's mental health. The King agreed to the pact with the Dwarves at the Forge of Spells, and gifted the party some magical items in thanks for helping the King.
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