Episode 5.6

Ernie, Brad

Venturing once again into the slavers compound, the monk and the cleric again found two groups of gnolls battle each other. They again attacked the leader, who turned into gaseous form and fled. The gnolls turned on the two adventurers, but were no match for them. After the battle, Ernie realized that “JG” was the initials of the elvin vampire bard that hey had previously encountered (see episode 5.2 and 5.3). They surmised that JG had gotten into the compound somehow, created at least one vampire spawn and instructed it to start fighting amongst the gnolls. Ernie now took it upon himself to make sure to destroy the gnoll vampire.

Farther on, they found the frost giant and one of his polar bears in a stand-off with another group gnolls led by one of the winter wolves. The fight between the two groups began, but the party decided to fight the gnolls first. Ernie started by turning undead, assuming that one of the gnolls was the gnoll vampire that they had been looking for. He was surprised when the winter wolf was destroyed. The gnolls immediately became confused and stopped attacking the frost giant. The frost giant assumed control of the gnolls, ordered them to drop their weapons and then to go wait for him in the barracks. He then parlayed with the party.

Talking to the frost giant, whose name was Fargost, they learned that the mine was ruled by a very large, old female white dragon named Taragazon Blight. The gate to hell that had been mentioned actually led to the area where they had killed the misshapen dragon (see episode 5.4) Taragazon carried the key to activate the gate on a necklace the she wore at all times. Fargost hated Taragazon and they convinced him to join them in their attempt to kill iher.