Griell sells her goblets at the exchange.

 "There is one more thing I would like to do before we meet Gundren."

Melandra leads the group to meet with  Mirna Dendrar. She knocks the door and when the woman answers she returns the necklace she had recovered. The party go inside to share a pot of tea and tell stories of their adventures.

 After a time Kara stands.

"Thank you for your hospitality Mirna, but we must meet with Master Gundren."

They take their leave and head to the Townmasters Hall where Sildar and Gundren await.

 "Good morning all! I trust you rested well."

SIldar throws five large coin sacks on the table, "To our first order of business!"

 "Ah added a wee bit mah'self"

Gundren gives them all a broad smile.

 "It was a pleasure to do business with you Master Rockseer."

 "There's more business yet lass, if you'll have it."

Gundren walks over to the table in the middle of the room where the map to the Wave Echo Cave sits. "This Black Spider fellow cant be having mah mine. Ah mean to secure it and claim it first an if you'll all help there's a ten percent share in it for ya."

 "A generous offer. I would also like the right to study the forge itself..."

 "O'course o'course. Well what say you all?"

 "I say when do we leave?"

 "That's the spirit lass."

Gundren takes a seat at the table. "We leave at first light."

The group eat together and discuss their plans for travel.

 Kara turns to Sildar.

"So what of the prisoners? Did we learn more?"

 "They are heading north for trial."

He shakes his head, "We did not learn a great deal other than the fact that this Black Spider is a Drow."

 "Makes sense. The doppleganger we fought was disguised as a Drow."

 "Well it looks like we have a little time to prepare. Shall we?"

The group head out into Phandalin to make their final preparations before starting out the next day.

Travel : 9

The party take their rest and come the morning they set out with Gundren to find the caves.

 As they walk Gundren begins to look troubled.

"I worry for my brothers." He admits. "Nundro and Tharden should have been back days ago."

The journey through the hill country passes without incident and by late afternoon they arrive at the supposed site of the Wave Echo caves.

The entrance tunnel leads into a large cavern supported by a natural pillar of rock and containing three stalagmites. In the western part of the cave, behind the column of rock, are three bedrolls and a heap of ordinary supplies—sacks of flour, bags of salt, casks of salted meat, lanterns, flasks of lamp oil, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead for at least a week.

The north-eastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east.

 "No!"

Gundren runs to the dead dwarf, tears filling his eyes. "It is Tharden, the poor bastard."

 "We are so sorry Gundren."

 "The Spider will pay for this!"

They help Gundren prepare and cover the body.