* The sheriff insists that he’s saving the town
* The follower of Amanautra is already dead
* Cloak warns the sheriff that going against a lawful god will mean a bad end
* One of the sheriff’s men sneaks a note to Sous that reads, “The speaker is missing.”
* A younger Drow appears to not be convinced so we tell him to meet up with us later
* The Druid goes off to heal herself and leave for Good Meade
* We leave the square
We visit the Town Hall and the guards tell us the speaker went missing after the Coldlight Walkers attacked the Eastern Gate and the House of the Morning Lord
* They also tell us Easthaven has banned all magic and religion
* Cloak makes the guards cry by actually being nice to them
We arrive at the Eastern Gate and start helping the survivors of the attack in any way we can
* We also do some anti-propaganda against the sheriff
* Sous and Yukon find the dead body of the speaker
* She looks like she died fighting. She’s completely frozen and has taken a lot of bludgeoning damage
* The guards take her body away saying, “You know what that means… the sheriff is next in line.”
We exit the Eastern Gate to have a serious discussion
* The party has a difficult decision to make and, as bad as the sheriff is, we don’t think we can save the town
* Lohengrin is upset about it but still thinks the greater good is to solve the real problem of the Frostmaiden
* We also see that, from the damage to the gate, it was hundreds of the Frostmaiden’s forces that attacked the city
We check out the Temple of The Morning Lord
* Copper is burying the body of Fredrick mumbling, “Mishan should have known better.”
* We break the news to Copper about Macreadus dying but we’re vague about the details
* He has nowhere to go so we send him to help Dree back in Goodmeade
We check on Scramsax and Mishan at the Inn
* There are guards by the door and the only lights on are in the upper rooms
* They’re on house arrest because of Mishan
* The Cold Walkers didn’t attack all at once but amassed at the east gate over time
* They got hurt when they left the eastern gate to bury that body for us
* Thankfully, Scramsax and Mishan aren’t worried about what they’re going to do to stay safe
* Sous remembers his dwarven box and asks Mishan if she knows Dwarvish. She does! She speaks Bill Bobson’s name in Dwarvish to the box and it opens to reveal a single page of Billy Bob Bobson’s journal.
* Abby reveals that the sheriff signed the contract that allowed McGonnigaul find and smuggle the people we found on her list. The sheriff believes he is “saving the town” by doing this.
We decide to stay the night and leave in the morning to broker peace between the Goliath clans