The Lord of Fallcrest, impressed with our work so far, asks us if we would like a disused building at the north end of town to use as our base of operations. We agree and thank him, though it sounds like the place needs a lot of work.

The Lord of Fallcrest gives us a wagon and two horses so we may track down a woman named Treona who can help us get the Dwarven scroll translated. She lives beyond the Ogre Fist Hills.

We crack on to Treona’s tower. During the trip it is raining heavily. We see a lantern in front of her house. Telrun suddenly notices that we are being followed and that they are moving to attack us. They appear to be wolves, and Telrun manages to calm them before they can attack. He gives them meat and they decide not to eat us.

We go to the tower and meet Treona. She reads the note and goes pale — a person named “Dreus” wrote the note, saying that Vekna is coming to destroy Fallcrest. Dreus is a woman that Treona knew. Her mentor, Katenthes, was also the mentor of Dreus. They lived in this tower. Dreus coveted Katenthes’ power and slew him using dark magic, then fled.

Treona asks us how we came across the note and we explain. Suddenly there is a loud noise as Finnan tries to break in to the tower and a trap goes off. He jumps into the river to avoid being discovered. We say that we don’t know who may have tripped the trap. Erik excuses himself to heal Finnan, and we explain that he was outside with the wolves.

Treona tells us that an artifact called the “Slaying Stone”, of which there is one left in the world. They were from the city called Kiris Dan. Now the city has been overrun by goblins, and there are 3 possible places it may be. The old library, an old temple or the Kiris estate. We are given a magical scroll that can be read to activate as a homing beacon to help us find it. We must bring the stone back to Treona for her to destroy or use it ourselves when we find it. We must get it before Dreus does — she may want to use it on the Lord of Fallcrest.

Finnan offers that he knows a lot about goblins; he was captured by them. Goblins are cowardly and weak, and will follow any bully like Hobgoblins or Bugbears. They typically follow Bane as a god.