The adventure starts off with characters accepting an invitation to meet with Balabar Smenk, Mine Baron and scoundrel, to discuss one of his properties, the Dourstone Mines. Smenk was in trouble as he unwittingly and foolishly found himself in business with members of a cult dedicated to Maldrinax, the Demon Queen of Chaos*. The cult was using the mines for dark purposes. Balabar felt that further association with the cult was both bad for business and detrimental to living a long and healthy life. Balabar wanted the characters to eliminate the cult from his mines and was offering a hefty reward to do so.

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Characters accepted Smenk's offer and proceeded to the mines where they found cultists, along with a tribe of allied grimlocks. In ancient tunnels and catacombs the characters fought several battles against the grimlocks. In an old temple the characters fought a spellcaster known as the Faceless One and his minions. In the end, the party persevered.

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* Coincidentally (?) you saw murals of Maldrinax and her minions fighting the Wind Dukes of Aaqa in the Whispering Cairn

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* More evidence of the Morwenna’s dragon egg is found. The first is this paragraph in a half-written letter:

As for your inquiry concerning the egg, I had originally planned to send it to our people in Hommlet, but decided to send it directly to the Fane with several of my trusted servants. The egg is still viable and is an excellent specimen.

The characters have no idea where “the Fane” is. However, they also find a map that shows the Kingdom of Furyondy and a town called Hommlet circled with the words “Old Castle N.E.” written next to it.