Chapter XIX: Bringing back Arnie

The party was recovering from the dragon attack the previous night. Kristandra, Astorio, and Ormul attempted to butcher a part of the fallen dragon to make use of the corpse. Ormul was able to gather enough materials needed to reincarnate Arnie Palmer, the town clerk who had been murdered by Channer.

After spending the better part of the day gathering materials and assembling them into a new body for Arnie, which was primarily made out of the Ormul mud statue at the entrance of town, Arnie's body was retrieved and the town gathered to witness his reincarnation. Arnie was reborn as a youthful Half-elf and thanked the party for bringing him back.

The celebration was interrupted by screams outside of town along the road to South Face. A group of hobgoblins riding worgs were pursuing the fleeing residents of South Face. The party attempted to intervene and stop the hobgoblins, but several of the refugees were killed before the attackers were defeated.

The party was interrogating one of the defeated hobgoblins when the hobgoblin responded in Channer's voice. Channer invited the party to surrender the Spear of Brackesh, or see their town destroyed. The party sent a signal indicating their agreement to the terms, while Ormul and Metamorpheus scouted the surroundings. From their vantage points above they noticed the smoldering ruins of South Face, and a series of boulders crashing down upon Faceless Mountainton. Using the form of an eagle to investigate the source of the boulders, Ormul discovered a small group of giants throwing the boulders at the town. He returned to the party to report the results, and the party rushed back to town to protect the townsfolk.