- entered scout area first
- scouts attacked, Lyrian gracefully parkoured onto the roof and took one out
- Velara followed onto the roof and attacked one
- The scouts targetted Velara and almost took her out
- Ferinthria cast an effective fireball, taking out two and injuring one
- Lirielle tried to knock one off the roof with a firebolt, but didn’t quite succeed
- Momeline hid with the hammer
- Dravencoles killed the last one with sacred flame
- Lirielle gave Velara a healing potion
- Momeline returned the hammer to Dravencoles
- They approached the next area where the cultists were about to sacrifice the halfling commoner
- Momeline sneak attacked and ran and hid so fast they couldn’t see what hit them
- Lirielle and Ferinthria did effective damage with magic missiles
- Cultists tried to hold Lirielle, but she used her portent die to save (she had a vision of this earlier)
- They defeated the cultists and saved the commoner, who decided to come with them
- They ran into Lieutenant Marvos, and convinced him to let them go
- They saw a sandstorm approaching and sandwalkers coming, Marvos told them he couldn’t leave
- They went into the well to flee, Lyrian stayed behind
- At the bones in the desert, the argument happened, but the party revealed to Velara, Finn, and Tilly that they had the crown.
- They agreed to go to Balandel, though Velara isn’t happy about it.
- Momeline put on the crown, experienced the story, and nearly died from the psychic damage. She recognized that this was the last moments of the previous bearer from whose skeleton she removed it.
- They rested for the night and continued on.
- In the forest, they were ambushed by elves. They didn’t fight back, but Tilly gave them a secret codeword “The blue bird chirps softly” and they were taken to an audience with Queen Aelra Sylanthiel. She gave them the quest.