Episode 4

The adventurers have sifted through the loot and supplies they found, and not wanting to forget the task at hand start looking through the rest of the cave for Gundrin and Sildar. Led by their charmed goblin, they make their way to the section of the cave where the rest of the goblins relax and take breaks. There they find an unconscious Sildar who has been seasoned and oiled for the night's meal, but no sign of Gundrin. Getting him cleaned off and waking him up, the party gets confirmation from him that he and Gundrin were ambushed on their way to Phandalin. However, Gundrin was taken somewhere else completely. With nothing else to go off of, they load the supplies, loot, and Sildar into their wagon and head out. Aside from catching up to Sorrel and Lith and riding alongside them, the rest of the journey is calm and uneventful.

As Sildar rests and heals on the trip, he reveals that there are two other Rockseeker brothers he works with that recently found a map to Wave Echo Cave, the hiding place of the long lost Phadelver Mines. The map was in Gundrin's possession on the trip, but the bugbear took it and had it sent to the chief of the thuggish Cragmaw clan in a place called Cragmar Castle somewhere not far from Fandelin. Sildar leaves it up to the party to decide how they will proceed with this information, but he suggests if they want to help further they should stick around until he can get an update from his contact within the city, Iarno Albrek.

They finally arrive in the developing city and decide to rest and split up for a bit. Sildar goes in search of Iarno, Cid explores an odd bookstore and gets an intelligence boost from a particularly old tome, Dubh talks about being raised by wolves to some of the very interested tavern wenches, and Wapiti sings about their recent trip at the tavern to earn some extra gold. Cid makes her way back to the group and in the tavern sees a hungover wizard, so hoping to learn more from a fellow magic user she speaks to him. He turns out to be not too bright, and mistaking her for the devil he tries to impress her but utterly flops. He does manage to create a familiar and the two of them start doing shots while Cid steals a scroll from his bag and joins the rest of the party.