Hardcore Heroes: Episode 15

Recap

 * The party arrive in Anvil. They find out Kel Dadrin and the Baroness are dead. The town outside the Keep is operating as normal.
 * Malakai and Van realise that Lucio has gone missing and panic. They send Little Jimmy, the Dogs and Jeeves away with the carriage and some gold to be safe. The pair then scout around town. They discover that Lucio hasn't sold them out, but was just off getting drunk.
 * Malakai, Van, and Lucio pretends to join the the Bastards of the Firewood. They meet Kel Zeren, who welds the Moonblade scimitar and wants to know their movtives. Van uses a version of the truth, that they were exiled from Shirebrook by the nobility, even after all their good deeds, and don't respect the existing power structures anymore, and wish to meet Kerak and see if he is better.
 * Kerak tests the pair with the Baroness Beatrix Valmont's 18 year old daughter, Sella. He tells Malakai to cut off an ear. He does so. Kerak heals it back on. Van fails the test and is kicked out. He heads to meet with Jeeves and the others.
 * That night, Malakai sleeps the guard outside the Sella's room. Then he casts invisibility on her and walks out the keep with her.
 * Malakai and Sella make it to the village and they flee in the carriage to the abandoned temple village.
 * Lucio is left behind in Anvil.
 * The party heads towards Hillsborough instead of overland to Shirebrook in order to avoid pursuit.
 * The carriage comes near a Hobgoblin camp. Malakai fireballs 7 Hobgoblins. The rest of the Hobgoblins try to escape, but only one escapes the party.
 * Van arranges for little Timmy to have his rat-lycanthropy curse removed.
 * Malakai is stabbed one day when checking the Docks, Malakai's dogs kill the assassin in one bite to the neck.
 * After a trip by sea, the party returns to Shirebrook, Van gives Jeeves 100g. Malakai claims 50g is from him.
 * Van, Malakai & Sella Valmont enter the keep and Baroness Valmont pardons them.