If the woods were treacherous, the town maybe more so. What will our adventurers learn from Bondi the gate guard? Will he spill any info about Umber Awshucks the Surveyor? Will our adventurers find Mick's lute and missing magic long sword in Umber's home or office? Who has sent the four toughs out into the streets at night to confront our heroes? 

For this second season, we join a new party in the Realms. Fence, an Elven monk; Crenshaw Jones, a boy investigator with the powers of a sorcerer; Claren, a human warrior druid; Tharivol, a roguish Eladrin with visions of becoming a zookeeper; and Mick, a Dragonborn bard have found themselves being drawn into the mysteries that surround Woodwall, a small hamlet, south of Merport.

After having learned that a "Cave Beast" is terrifying both the residents of Woodwall and the refugees fleeing Lake Port, Fence, Crenshaw, Claren, and Mick have journeyed with the surveyor Umber Awshucks out to where the little gnomish merchant Tampani Meadowlark disappeared.

Near that spot they have discovered the lair of some spiders and the treachery of Umber.... Will they survive the spiders? What clues are there about the attacks of the "Cave Beast" in Umber's betrayal?

Having left the Boarskye Bridge, our adventurers journey out into the Serpent Hills and arrive at the Entrance to Diderius Tomb. Soo-Ree, Arvel, Immortalia, and Seithr fight the flock of vultures that seems to be feasting in the ruined south tower.

Meanwhile, Urmas and Milden continue to approach the two statues guarding the entrance to Diderius Tomb. The statues speak and Urmas and Milden respond....

Meanwhile (x2), Quinn, Caleni, Katlego, and Mechazim move rocks in the other tower ruin. Mechazim becomes a mini legend, and soon Caleni and Quinn go spelunking down a well shaft..., and make a frightful discovery at the bottom....

Back at the Flying Gherkin, Caleni has been drinking and Kat has been entertaining what was originally a small, but is now an increasingly large, group of curious nomads. Katlego has set up on the Gherkin’s balcony and is entertaining the crowd with renditions of “The Vomiting Bear” and other traveling songs. Kat rocks out on the lute -- and is joined by drumming from the crowd.

The rest of the party journeys to the second market square and then on to the Boarskye Bridge. Caleni decides to fly the Gherkin…. Perhaps it’s his drinking all morning or perhaps it’s the natural 20 Andrew rolled, but whatever happens, the Gherkin responds as if it Milden were piloting it -- The Flying Gherkin makes its way to the Boarskye Bridge without stepping on a single person or tent.

At the Boarskye Bridge, there is an amphitheater and it becomes clear that Simon would like Katlego to perform at the opening of the Festival of the Boars. (The original performer leaves somewhat crestfallen). The festivities go well until the sacrificial boar begins to charge across the bridge, and Kat realizes the boar is to be killed. Will the music stop? What will Quinn and Immortalia do? Will the party dishonor themselves among the nomads of the Farvast? Will Katlego's songs become the stuff of legend? Will Bolo, Lobo, and Simon reveal whatever it is they know about the Tomb of Diderius and the way through the Serpent Hills? 

Using Legend Lore, Urmas has a vision of a mage’s palace built into the side of a red cliff, a narrow suspension bridge over a gorge and a tent city, more red cliffs and a wide, wide plain....

Setting off from Nordhaus, the party must seek The Tomb of Diderius. Milden takes the wheel of the Flying Gherkin, and the heroes fly to Steamhill. They have dinner with the ghost "Tess-who-stares-at-the-heavens-forever-and-ever" and then fly across the Farvast plains.

At the Boarskye Bridge, they discover a tent city, where a festival is about to begin....

What happens when Immortalia, Arvel, Milden, Caleni, and Katlego wake up in the Bent Gear Inn & Lounge? Can Immortalia find a taxidermist who can manage to stuff and mount a red dragon head? What magic items and new weapons will the party find in the shops at Nordhaus? What new weapons are Quinn and Tazio inventing? Can Soo-Ree get a deal on potions and some new armor? What upgrades are in store for the Flying Gherkin? Diderius’s Tomb and the red cliffs where Caleni believes Severin is hiding await the party.... are they ready to go?

Can the Lake Port gnomes attach a tour boat to the Flying Gherkin? What does Caleni learn in Dee Kirche’s Root Cellar about Severin and the Cult of the Dragons? Will the party discover more about Tiamat's followers by stopping at Steam Hill? Does the ghost Tess "who stares at the stars forever" know something about -- or someone at -- Diderius Tomb? Will Allison Montmarte build a flight suit or a glider for Arvel? 

Back in Nordhaus, our heroes catch up with the merchant-blacksmith Tazio and talk about cannons, magic emblems for Seithr’s platemail, and enchanted weapons. They visit the Bent Gear Tavern and meet a mysterious and silent gnome Estelle of Saltmarsh....

Our group of erstwhile adventurers, played by the HAUS Rules Gaming Collaborative, find themselves in the gnomish and halfling City of Lake Port. We start this actual play 5e D&D podcast in the middle of the action. 

We learn the answers to the following questions: Can Urmas, an earthborn dwarf, Immortalia, a silver dragonborn, and Arvel, an avian elf, repair the Flying Gherkin? Can the DM and players explain what the Flying Gherkin is?

Does the Gherkin's pilot, the dark gnome, Milden actually know how to fly when sober? What does the gnomish Commander Feather van de Beek know about the three dragons? What news does she have about the “Sea Bees,” the dwarven engineers, from Nordhaus?

What will Soo-Ree the gnome and Katlego the human bard learn when they travel to Town Hall and deliver seed packs to Mayor Ada Pearlman? If you like  gnomish cataloguers and prophecies about the alfalfa and barley, "hayseed” and “straw” this episode is for you! A quirky introduction to the Realms. Why not start here?

There's the return of a PC the silver dragonborn sorcerer Pangloss, who helps his old companions along by revealing what he has learned about the mysterious Scrying Bowl -- and about those cleverly named dragons, those clutchmates, Nietzsche, Fahrenheit, and Kierkegaard the Sermon.