The Valley of Ends

The shadowspawn appears behind the nightmares near Salys. Gotch picks Fear as his choice of creatures.

Chilling Rend. Melee Weapon Attack: 25 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 + the spell’s level cold damage.

The shadowspawn then uses its bonus action to hide: 6 (It can hide in dim light as well, which is the same as what Gotch's feat allows.)

Extra cold damage would be 3, so add 3 to the above.

if it's in Melee with the Nightmare, it is in bright light due to illumination of the Nightmares. It died so doesn't matter.

Salys - due to reach of the nightmare, there is no way out of melee with either one. 

Disvadnatge for first shot: 25 (second shot is just a miss

Salys takes out his pistol and fires shots at the rider at blank range, managing to hit them with the first shot but the nightmare rears up in reponse to the thunderous bang from the gun, knokcing Salys' second shot into the mountain side. 

Onyx aback wards toward Resfae nad away from the battle as he takes aim and firing into arrow into the riuder's back, knocking him forward off the nightmare onto the ground dead, his soul absorbed by the lantern. The second arrow going to the steed.

Resfaen turns around as the riders and steed reappear and she move towards them. A little disappointed as Onyx's arrow takes away her target and she strikes the Nightmare instead with her axe with a accomapnying flash of smite onto the nightmare.

Gotch summons a Shadowspawn commands to striming the nightmare. The steed lets out a roar one would never hear from a horse as it drops to the ground dead before the Shadowspawn seeks shadows to try and hide.

The remaining nightmare seems to take in lack of allies before disapepars in a puff of smoke and a smell of brimstone. After a few minutes of silence, the party determies the Nightmare has run away. 

Out of combat. 

Anyone want to do anything or new direction or just continuing down the path?

Onyx will look through the corpses, if they wear anything usefull or if he can recover a few arrows. Investigation 19

Resfaen will stand guard while the other search and gather themselves. She will also look inward and see if there any any other threats around and will also go and retrieve her Javelin.

Using Divine Sense.

Searching through the rider robes, Onyx finds about 9gp, very chipped useless daggers and a strange meTal rod that seem to have a feather etching and the word 'Reincarnate' in elvish written on it.

Resfaen senses the elemental around her, moving in and out on the edges of her sense but unseen.

I will take everything and show the rod to the others, if any of them got an idea what that may be.

Onyx shows the rod to the party but they can't make sense of it nor they figured, stopping in middle of the middle while under watch of elementals to cast Identify would be less than safe. Getting back onto their mounts, the party continues down the path, searching for a safe spot to set up camp. Going down the winding and hilly path, the wolves are quite uncomfortable as the heat seems to increases the ground becomes more jagged.

 Instead of finding just a clearing in form of another watch tower of stone but an small camp of , the party upon cautiously opening the main gates open find an empty foritified camp site with several buildings guarding a large cave entrance. 

Gotch starts to cast tiny hut as the others look around the fortified camp. he will stop the ritual if they come under attack.

Resfaen, axe at the ready, will slowly start to search the exterior of the buildings for any sign of life. Looking through any windows and checking to see if the entryways are locked if there are any.

Perception: 10

Onyx stays with Gotch making sure no one sneaks up on them. Perception 25

Salys will recast see invisibility and take a quick look around the immediate area, retreating back to the dome as soon as it is raised.

Perception: 17

With many the party looking around, Gotch looks and finds a good spot for his tiny hut. The party finds the site is empty beisde them and Salys likes to add through seeing invisibility, there are winged long nosed goblin like creatures flying around the party in and out of Salys' sight limits. The night passes without event and nothing comes out of the cave entrance through the red glow emitting from the cave entrace shows it will a warm journey inside.

How do you wish to proceed?

Once we are set up, could Gotch take a look at the rod and cast identify on it?

Beside that, Onyx is ready to go into the cave.

"Area seems clear for now, except those miserable elementals swirling about. When we are ready do you want me to lead us into the cave?" Resfaen asks.

Gotch attempt to cast Identify but finds it's strange as rather than a flow of information, he gets a female gravelly voice in his head "Hold this and speak the elvish word of Reincarnate. What happen should be fun. Don't worry it should be temporarily,"

Seeing no other paths, the party investigate the cave entrance to find their Dire Wolves would not to be able to fit within the tunnel comfortably as the cave netrance starts large but quickly narrows down into a medium size tunnel.  Leaving the wolves outside? the party moves into the tunnel carefully. The tunnel is an eerily red glow throughout the tunel. The tunnels opens up slight to a T function but no siugns differing the two directions. 

Which way would the party like to go?

Gotch tells the others what he learns from the rod. "I'd suggest tossing it into a lava tube and just forgetting about it." He says as he hands the rod back.

Resfaen looks both ways down the tunnels then shrugs, "Left?" she asks.

Salys considers Gotch's suggestion with the rod, "I don't recommend using it, but we might be able to find a buyer. Left works. I'll cover the rear."

"Fine with me." Gotch agrees. He falls back to just in front of Salys, wishing to be near the back of the group.