The Mystery in the Mere: Stuck in the Mud Report

General Summary

Glen of Aloevan: Glorandal Sylharice invited The Gatherers to stay as guests for one extra day as they fashioned Mithral breastplates for Datari, Len and Venyla.
  Selmes Dragesh waited with for them and escorted them back to the Dancing Dell.  Along the way they stumbled upon a young Green Dragon hunting in the Ardeep and were forced to fight and kill it.
  After a night of recovery and story sharing in the Dell, Selmes took our heroes to the head of the Ardeep River and provided them with a boat that had been recovered from a Nightstone crew.
  Nightstone:
  Velrosa Nandar greets The Gatherers warmly: proclaiming them Heroes and giving them 100PP (1000 GP) and a Bag of Holding as well as a letter for Laeral Silverhand. It is a letter of commendation for the Party. She announces they are honorary guardians (and citizens) of Nightstone. They are welcome back anytime.
  At the celebration party Bellanocta noticed the town's Tiefling midwife (Destiny Agganor) behaving strangely followed her back to the home she shared with her son (Grin).  The Gatherers saw that the home rune bordered door represented in the note found in the Ardeep Ambusher's camp.  In the house they found 500GP, two symbols of Asmodeus and instructions in Infernal on hiring the Drow Assassins. After detecting then dispelling magic it was revealed to have been penned by Vierasti.
  The Gatherers chose to take the Agganors back to Waterdeep.
  Waterdeep:
  The Gatherers headed straight to the offices of Esmae Burke.  They hand over the Agganors who are escorted away.  Esmae then listens to their tale of the Ardeep and the encounter with Embrae Aloevan which revealed the location of the Chosen simple Sentient Weapons Renaer Neverember revealed Vierasti needs as part of it's nefarious plan.  Embrae gives them the Bag of Transference for putting the sentient weapons in. It is a one way "bag of holding" that will deposit the Chosen Weapons in a safe inter-dimensional space that Laeral Silverhand , Vajra Safahr and/or Esmae Burke can access.