Tenth letter home.

Dearest Mother,
 
I just received your message before going on another mission. I am without word for what happened to you and father. I had no idea the family was doing so bad that he had to do that. I pray to Skerrit that things will come around and the family will regain its honor. If you ever need money let me know. I am making good money as an adventurer.
 
I also have some sad news. I have been cursed by Tiamat. I had a dream with her and she tempted me with power if I would help corrupt our wizard, Erik. When I refused, she empowered by bloodwell vile but every time I cast I spell, I am compelled to say, “hail Tiamat, queen of the dragons.” I fear this is a curse that is beyond our power to cure because it was given to me by a goddess.
 
More sad news, my friend Nomag has left our group. After losing his arm, he has not been the same again. He is retiring from adventuring and setting down from what he told me.
 
But I need to talk to you about the mission we just went on. Mother I do not know what to think right now about Isondale and Mordredia, but I fear everything we know about them is a lie. As you know they are both preparing for outright war. The day we left for our mission, Isondale marched an army to Dewbreak and basically took over the city. Mason, our artificer, saw that his father in law was leading the army. They talked a little about what was happening and we decided we needed to leave town quickly or they might try to conscript us into the army. Pierce, our rogue, told us as we left town that he received a message about some refuges that were in a slave camp that needed our help.
 
On our way to the camp in our spelljammer, we got attacked by 8 wild drakes. It was an easy fight really. We had a new person join up with us, Severus Snake. He is a bard by trade but has a history of being a cleric. Both him and I used some mind controlling spells and dropped most of the drakes out of the sky. Our druid, Scree, turned into a flying dinosaur again and attacked them head on. She got into a little trouble but I casted Tasha’s Hideous Laughter and it let her go and fell to its death.
 
The next day we found the camp. We landed our spelljammer a little ways away from it to be safe. We made plans on scouting out the area and planning to get the refuges out at night. Mother you will not believe what we learned but I promise it is the truth. You must pass this information on to the counsel as soon as you get this letter. This volcano slave camp is being run by Isondale! They are using elementals and devils to operate the camp. They even have a young red dragon on staff there. They are in Isondale uniforms and everything. The slave camp is run by a Rakshasa. They are keeping people from Mordredia there against their well to mine iron to help with the war effort.
 
We made a plan to try to pose as new slaves and get into the camp to free the refuges. While we were planning, the young red dragon found us. Thankfully Severus tricked him into thinking we were on patrol and that we are new guards. We got very lucky and we executed our plan. We got into the camp without problem because our rogue changed into a guard and our bard was able to bluff his way in. We gave all our belongings to our druid who can change into objects. She turned into an Isondale badge for the bard to use
 
We got into the camp and found the refuges. We broke out of the cells they put us into because our Erik turned himself invisible and used magic to make a copy of the keys. We polymorphed the guard into a turtle so we did not have to kill him. There was also an ogre in the slave pens that we wanted to free but we realized quickly that it would not be a good idea and we trapped it behind a wall of earth. We thought it would be a good idea to put the turtle in there also but the ogre tried to eat it. Which turned it back into the guard and he killed the guard. We used a portable hole to put everyone inside and we quickly excepted the camp and got back to our ship.
 
We went to Reverhaven to drop off the refuges. We saw a camp from Mordredia around the city. We were afraid there was no way to walk all of them into the city without a problem. Our rogue kept saying there was nothing to worry about. As we approved some soldiers stopped us. The rogue showed them a badge and they let us through. We later learned that he was a high ranking spy for Mordredia. After the refuses were set free in town, we were told we are heroes of Mordredia for what we had done. The rogue leveled with us about everything he had been doing and the truth about Isondale and Mordredia. We were all in shock. He said we would be returning to Mordredia and said we would be free to stay along with Mordredia. He told us that everything we learned about Isondale was a lie. They had been enslaving Mordredia’s citizens for years and that our rogue was once one of their slaves at the camp we freed the refuges from. We told him we needed some time to think about what was happening. Our artificer sent word to his wife that she needed to leave Isondale and travel to Frandyln were her family has a house to be safe.
 
As we left the place that we dropped off the refuses at and received our reward, trouble struck. The Rakshasa and the young red dragon had followed us and attacked. The dragon hit all of us we its fire breath. It hurt a lot. The Rakshasa mind controlled our rogue. The bard tried to counterspell it but was unable to. I used a twinned Tasha’s Hideous Laughter on the dragon and it but both saved. I quickly cast silvery barbs on the dragon and it failed its save. They both came crashing to the ground and we got into a battle on the ground. The rogue attacked our fighter and almost killed him before we freed him from the mind control. We quickly learned that Raskshasas are immune to all but the most powerful spells which we did not have. So the spell casters of the group focused on the dragon while the fighter hacked away at the Raskshasa. We got nervous during the fight but just as we freed our rogue, the Raskshasa died and turned to ash. The dragon, which has been laughing the whole fight was freed from my spell and tried to run away. The fighter finished it off with one great blow.
 
We are not sure yet what we are going to do about this information of the slave camps being run by Isondale. For the time being, we are staying here in Riverhaven and collecting our thoughts. Personally, I would love for us to return to Frandyln and we start helping my people and let Isondale and Mordredia fight it out. Please let me know as soon as you can about what the council has to say about Isondale running slave camps. I saw them first hand, I know they are real. Again, you must tell the council and convince them of the truth. I do not want me see my people get into a war to help Isondale if everything we know about them has been a lie. at the same time I am sure most of the people of Isondale do not know about the slave camps so marching to war against them would be wrong also. If only the rest of the world would see things like us Fey do then we would not be in this problem right now.
 
I must go mother, I need to find work for the week. I think I will make a few potions at the local herbalist shop here in Riverhaven. Things are going very well between Temperance and me. I hope you can meet her soon. Until then, I love you mother and be safe.
 
-Your Son,
-Fip Goldscale.