Open Threads

Every loose end and stated next step the crew has left in its wake — newest first.

Session 2026-08-12

Copy Kuyrl's map before starting any fight — the trade offered is a copy from Zephyros's rune book for a copy of the map.
Extract Kuyrl, his wife and his son. Explicitly do not pay Brindle; the debt is engineered never to clear.
A giant is needed to open the way at the Oracle, which makes Kuyrl — or Harshnag — necessary rather than merely useful.
Find a diviner to trace the warlock who bent Umberlee's power at the inn.
The deep speaker — the Cult's orders defer to it, the drowned all dream of it, and Toz dreams of it and has told nobody.
Klauth, the Old Wyrm of the North, is a lever nobody has pulled; the Nandar heir could lift Hal's curse without the ride to Nightstone.
A dead innocent lies on the docks, killed by the crew's own thunder, in a city whose watch already tried to detain them once.

Track down Yackerty in the Trades Ward and win a Harper teleport to Silverymoon.
Find Harshnag and, through him, the Oracle — then a giant's conch.
Court a dragon ally: Old Gnawbone in Kryptgarden Forest, or the copper Vexalanthus on the High Road.
Talk to Brindle Stormtide about a new ship, and check on the goliath at the gate (a traveler from Cormeer, name unknown).
Figure out who sent the white-eyed thralls, and what "offer" the voice in Toz's dreams keeps pressing.
Toz has Valkur's scripture to study; his water-dreams and the presence beneath the sea remain unresolved.

Find Queen Guh, and learn why the giants are being driven to gather for her.
Golden Fields is, for now, holding — twice raided since the crew arrived, and twice still standing.

Shalvis is dead in the street — the crew still doesn't know he served the Zhentarim, and Kella, asleep beside him at the inn, wakes to find him gone.
Giants are inbound on Golden Fields, and the crew spent much of its magic on the warm-up.
Miros survived the night, but only just; Lifferloss and two of his treants were scorched, and the grove was stripped of its magical produce.
A grateful survivor promised "an extra something" for the defense — a reward still to be collected.
Villager casualties and a burned house are on the ledger; the town's lazy guard and the breach in the wall remain a problem with worse on the way.
One bugbear slipped away in the inn-yard mist, and the raider bent by Naxene's Suggestion may still be wandering off.

Carry Naxene's letter to Chazlauth in Waterdeep.
Seek out Harshnag — start with his statue in Waterdeep and the scattered remnants of Force Gray.
In Silverymoon, find Baros Ravenkind for the silver eagle messenger to Zephyros.
Keep an eye on Golden Fields: the giants will be back, the guard captain is lazy, and the abbot is asleep at the wheel. The new shepherdess also bears watching.

The Eye of Annam. Zephyros's vision points the crew here before they face any giant lord. Location unknown; the oracle there can answer any question they bring.
The half-dragon's purpose. He was not the dragon's pawn — he had his own aims, possibly involving the tower itself. His vial of ash, his Draconic notes, and the blue dragon sigil ring are all unread clues.
Toz's drowning god. The malevolent presence in his dreams claims his sea-god has abandoned him and is courting his worship. The connection to his lost ship, the True Hand, remains unspoken.
Goldenfields ahead. The walled farming town lies within sight; the crew has not yet entered it.

Pressing on toward Goldenfields, still inside the unnatural storm, with worse rumored to be following the gargoyles in.
Zephyros awaiting answers from his contacts on the other planes about the ominous tidings.
Toz holding the new wind-chalk and the player map of Faerûn; Fiz with his giant-rune primer; Eno with a one-use bronze griffin figurine and a budding rapport with the tower's flock.
The mystery of the sealed second floor and the runed sphere that steers the castle still unexplored — Zephyros's privacy on both points untested.

Board Zephyros's flying tower and let it carry them toward their next lead.
Triboar remains the strongest thread — the contact there reputedly knows about the genie bottle.
Golden Fields was named as a nearby alternative stop.
Acquire a giant lord's conch shell if they ever mean to reach Hekaton's daughters at Maelstrom.
Hal still carries the cursed crypt-sword; finding a way to lift or live with the curse is open.
Aganor survives but her soul is forfeit and a cambion may yet return for her.
Xolkin's Zhentarim ties and his grudge against Kella are unresolved.
The DM noted the prologue has ended — Storm King's Thunder proper begins now.

Aganor's promised help is now owed and uncollected — what she can actually do for the crew remains to be seen.
Corvin's rule sits uneasy with Daphne, Xolkin, and the Delfryndels; whether to back him, undermine him, or simply move past him is an open question.
The cursed sword is in Hal's hands. The nature of the curse, and what it costs him to keep wielding it, are not yet known.
Two larger threads point outward from Nightstone: frost giants harrying Bryn Shandar, and fire giants digging at Triboar and the Golden Fields. The crew has destinations to choose from.

Travel north — through Waterdeep, then on to Triboar — to find Derothra Shendrel and the genie's name.
The black ooze still hangs in its stalactite; Windraven's warning about it is unresolved.
Molak stays with the surviving villagers, who now have to decide whether to try Nightstone again with the Zhentarim squatting in it.
Snigbat is with the crew as a scout, angling for a spiked club and a place in the crew.
Word from Molak: hill giants have been raiding silos down in the Golden Fields.

The stalactite at the heart of the cave still hums with evil; Windraven's divination pointed straight at it.
Xolkin and his bandits remain in the Nightstone inn, and his flying snake now knows the crew's faces.
The goblin boss and the deeper cave were left unexplored — the crew withdrew with the villagers rather than press on.
The djinn-bottle for Molak is still undelivered.
The Kella bounty (Darkhope; father in Darkar/Yartar; grandfather Teldor) is on the table if the crew wants to pull that thread.
Daniel Windraven and the Emerald Enclave are now a friendly contact tracking giant movements across Faerûn.

Find Molak himself — alive, dead, or fled — and hand over the bottle he paid for.
Open the chest in his quarters and decide what to do with his tapestry.
Follow Kella's trail into Ardeep Forest, toward the cave the rider's captain believes she was taken to.
Work out who is throwing boulders at ships and villages both, and why goblins, wargs, and a battered orc warband are converging on Nightstone at the same time.
Learn the name in the bottle before someone under pressure speaks it blind.