Help Gnomenguard

Howdore, Siegrane, Pip and Caldae follow the gnome Fibblestiop into the wilderness towards Gnomenguard, as Osha and Alleraia take Droop and head back towards Phandolin to pay a visit to Garaele. Fibblestib leads them to a path that he says leads to Gnomenguard. Caldae hears a small screeching noise, and Fibblestib says it is the sound of one of his people. Howdore crashes through the underbrush towards the sound, as the sounds of low deep voices breaks into the silence. The group finds themselves in a clearing and see a pack of four orcs harassing some gnomes. The orcs intend on attacking the group, but before they have a chance Howdore charges them. The orcs draw their weapons, and the battle begins.
 
One of the gnomes named Dabbledop yells out to Fibblestop when she sees him. Howdore avoids the first orc's axe, but the other one stabs Howdore with his spear, as Siegrane shields Howdore from the other attacking orc. Caldae tells the group that she wants one orc kept alive so that they can question it after battle. Then she wildshapes into a Raptor. Caldae raptor charges the orc that is holding Dabbledop. As Caldae raptor approaches, the orc tosses the gnome to the ground, and blocks most of Caldae's attack, so she only causes 11 damage. Fibblestop reaches into his pouch and throws a round object into the group of orcs causing a cloud of smoke to surround them. Siegrane attacks next with his hammer, but a boulder is in his way and he misses. At the same time Pip draws his bow and takes aim at one of the orcs, missing with the first arrow that hits Seigranes hammer, but the other arrow embeds itself in the orcs should causing 6 damaage. Howdore destroys one odf the orcs with his great axe, angry about being wounded earlier in the battle.
 
Dabbledop ducks behind a rock trying to hide from the battle. One of the orcs attacks Siegrane, but misses as Siegrane ducks behind a boulder. Another orc swings at caldae raptor, but she easily hops out of the way causing the orc to bury his weapon into a mound of dirt. Caldae raptor swipes out with her claws at the orc who has his weapon stuck in the ground catching him in the shoulder and spinning him around causing him to lose hold of his weapon. She then pounces on his back pinning him to the ground and mashing his face into the dirt, holding him down by the neck with her teeth. Siegrane windmills his hammer up into the ball sack of one orc, causing it to double over in pain and take 10 damage.
 
Pip pulls out his bow again as he watches Siegrane smash the orcs testicles. He takes a shot at the orc, but the orc is still bumbling around attending to his crushed nuts, and the arrow misses. Meanwhile, the smoke cloud has cleared, as Howdore prepares to attack another orc. He charges at the orc with his great axe as a battering ram and slamming him into the boulder., and crushing him dead. Howdore stomps on the broken body, making sure it is dead. Dabbledop is terrified of this weird violent giant and his friends, so she runs away from the area.
 
Caldae raptor shrieks into the orcs ear that she has pinned to the ground, and the orc growls back at her as she releases his neck and takes off after the orc that is trying to get away. She is unable to catch him and he escapes out of the clearing. Meanwhile, Siegrane tries to contain the orc leader that Caldae had previously been restraining. The leader is trying to get up from the ground, so Siegrane throws his javelin at him aiming for his calf muscle., which causes him to fall back down to the ground.
 
As the battle ends, Fibblestop starts calling out for Dabbledop. Pip informs him that she was scared, and ran off, to which Fibblestop says, "shoot, well there goes the keys" to the workshop. Siegrane interrogates the orc, intimidating him with his helmet with red eyes. The orc said they were after THE BEACON, so sort of magic. The causes Fibblestop to gasp in fear., as he seems to know what the is. Siegrane asks how many orcs there are, and the leader tells him 2 dozen. He finds out BORDEN is leading the raid of Gnomenguard to find the beacon. Siegrane gets all weird and decides to shove the javelin into the orcs throat killing him. Caldae comes out of wild shape and hits siegrane on the head with her staff to berate him.
 
Siegrane asks Fibblestop why they are so afraid of the orcs getting the Beacon. He says it's a source of magical power. Caldae asks if the beacon is a physical object, to which Fibblestop answers "yes and no". It's very important to Gnomenguard and has been in their possession for hundreds of years and it is a mystery how the orcs even know of its existence. Caldae begins tracking Dabbledop, who has run off. She picks up the trail, following it into the shrubbery. Eventually they come to a large tree where they hear the sounds of someone sobbing. Caldae approaches her and startles her. Siegrane pushes Fibblestop forward to talk to Dabbledop.
 
Caldae asks Dabbledop about the beacon, and she gets very upset that the group knows this secret. She tells Caldae that she and Fibblestop are the guardians, it holds all the magic of gnomenguard and it's very powerful and has been a secret for many hundreds of years. It is kept in a protected place, but not the workshop, a much safer place. The gnomes have no type of military, as they aren't fighters, but tinkerers. She has a gadget on her wrist to tell time, and after looking at it suddenly takes off saying it's time to go back as it has been 2 and a half hours. The group follows her in the direction of Gnomenguard. Siegrane asks if the city has already been taken, when they had left they hadn't breached the clifftop entrances yet, and hopefully hadn't gotten to the throne room and their king. siegrane asks if there are any gadgets to help fight the orcs.
 
They eventually reach a stream that winds it's way around and includes an enormous loud two tiered waterfall in the mountains. There is an odd colored pool of water collecting at the end of the stream, and in the vicinity they hear a lot of grunting noises. Upon closer inspection they find an orc encampment. There is a large orcish female warrior maiden. There are a lot entrances to tunnels in the cliffside. Fibblestop indicates that they need to get up to the top of the cliffs, as it appears the defenses have been breached. There is a bear that they need to get past, so stealthiness will be key.
 
Unfortunately, the group draws the attention of the orcs as they try to sneak , but unfortunately they are seen and the orcs charge across the field towards them....
 
BACK TO OSHA AND ALLERAIA
 
Alleraia and Osha arrive at Sister Garaele's house to try and get help for Droop, but after knocking twice and finding the door locked, they realize she isn't home. They decide Osha will take Droop to Adabra and Alleraia will go to the inn to question Toblin about Sister Garaele's whereabouts.
 
Osha arrives at Adabra's and asks her for help for Droop. Adabra agrees to let Droop stay in the barn, because the other's in the household aren't comfortable around goblins. She suggests sister Garaele might be in the Inn having lunch and promises to take care of Droop while we look for more help. Osha pays Carp a copper coin to help his mama keep watch on Droop. Osha heads back to meet Alleraia at the Inn.
 
Alleraia walks into the Inn finding Garaele having lunch at the Inn. Garaele looks at Daran's map. See's ICE SPIRE peak which is the highest peak in the sword mountains and dragon's live in the highest peaks of mountains. Osha returns to the Inn and rushes Alleraia and Garaele back to Adabra's to help Droop, interrupting the conversation about the map. They find Adabra fussing over Drroop and having no luck. Garaele looks Droop over and says it is as she fears that he's in a psychosis. she asks what we have encountered recently. Alleraia shows her the orb which she identifies as an UNDYING ORB. it shows vestiges of past events and spirits. It taps into energy sources everywhere. We tell them all about how we found it among the beloingings of the elves who died in Axeholm fortress. Garaele thinks she knows who the owners were and they were going to use it to revive someone . Perhaps Siggy??
 
She says she has a theory about what happened to Droop and have we come across any large spiders lately. Alleraia pulls out the black spider statue with the red ruby eyes, causing Garaele to be very interested. She inspects it and then hands it back. She says we are dealing with a rare species of spider with toxins that can create a deadly and powerful neurotoxin that can cause memory loss, hallucinations, psychosis. The only solution and cure for it is an extract from an incredibly rare tree called GULTHIAS tree that only grows in the most evil and corrupted areas of forests.
 
So it appears that the poison Osha unleashed in the caverns is this very neurotoxin. Garaele suggests that we track down Glasstaff and try to find an antidote for the poison. Follow the mountains until the valley comes to a head to find Gnomenguard. Osha and Alleraia head back to the Inn to get some rest before going towards Gnomenguard to meet up with the rest of the party.