Sensing a bit of hostility and tension in the room Null tries to spark up conversation with the guards but gets brushed off with a cold shoulder. Flynn tries with another guard and gets a similar response. Flynn uses an Arcane eye to get a sneak peek at a notebook the guard has been writing in and sees he has been tasked with keeping track of the Ashen Company's movements.
They do establish this place is big and that there's a daily get together and debrief each evening, as Flynn hatches a plan for a big speech Latharial returns to ask for help.
A recon team of 13 has been attacked on their return to base, they can't come any closer lest they give away the location so we need to get to them - Latharial also notes it wouldn't do their reputation any harm. The Ashen Company head out to meet up with Jennik the leader of the group and the agreed countersign "where do we roam?" "wherever the wind blows" firmly in their minds.
An hour up the coast they find just four survivors surrounded by cultists; short work is made of them but most of them sacrifice themselves to call forth a deadly blizzard and three ancient white dragons.
Well shit, lets get to fighting. Cade thinks on his owlbear claws and transforms the survivors in to giant eagles, giving them the health and speed they need to flee the immediate danger whilst the group lay in to the dragons, thankfully they aren't quite as legendary as Nassandrial but there's still three of them, Evening the odds Berrick transforms in to a blue dragon and lightning blasts two of them whilst Flynn paralysis another and Flynn finishes two of them.
Two down, one to go...