The day started out simply enough, each of the adventurers arrived in the town of Brindol.  They had each heard the large Dwarven city, Overlook, was in need of any able-bodied individuals to help the Farstriders, Freeriders and many other adventuring parties fend off frequent Orc attacks.

While in route, however, they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Brindol was under attack!  A Hobgoblin raiding party laid waste to the town!  The party managed to save countless lives as they fought off the advancing Hobgoblins and their kin.  Though the town had suffered massive property damage (both from the Hobgobins themselves and from blowing up a cart full of oil themselves), Brindol seemed safe at last.

It was only the next morning the yet-to-be-named-adventurers learned the full extent of the Hobgobin attack.  They were under the orders of a warchief named Sinruth who had stolen many of the town's treasured items as well as kidnapped a number of villages.  The group had also learned every one of the stolen items was tied to another Hobgoblin uprising lead by a group calling themselves The Red Hand of Doom.

The group received further information from a captured Hobgoblin, who told the group Sinruth was operating out of a long forgotten keep called Rivenroar.  Having no one else to turn to, Brindol's town counsel asked the adventurers to travel to Rivenroar and save their kidnapped villages.

The group set out that afternoon and found their way into the keep, even though they received poor information from the captured Hobgobin as to the whereabouts of Rivenroar.  Inside, they found it guarded by a number of Hobgoblins, Goblins and other nasty critters.

Quickly, however, they made their way downstairs and freed one of the villagers: Adronsius, the Dwarven Alchemist.  He informed the group that a number of other villages were indeed also held hostage here in Rivenroar, though he could not tell them where they were being held captive.

Moving on, they made their through the keep and found a strange one-way portal.  The portal showed a strange castle sitting in a dismal swamp within the Shadowfell.  As the group was examining the portal, a Ochre Jelly and Wights traveled through into the material world and quickly attacked them!  It was an incredibly close battle, leaving them badly bloodied and bruised.  But they were alive!

And that is where the adventurers left off their first session.  What will come next for them?  Will they make it out of Rivenroar alive?  And what of the other prisoners?  Only time will tell!