The Cusp of Sunrise

4 March, 596

The previous night, the party receives a personal invitation from Celeste to attend a dinner party at the Cusp of Sunrise, an exclusive dinner club for nobles. She won't explain what this is in regards to, but she does promise a profitable proposition will be made.

The next day, our heroes do some shopping, buying some fine clothes so they will not stick out at the Cusp. Alastriel spends the day teaching Symon a spell (magic missile). She discovers that the boy has an attention span problem, and it takes him longer than usual to learn what she teaches him. Meanwhile, Kyladrian join the Thorsen cousins in an early start at the bar.

That evening, Serro, Baxtor, Sonja, Alastriel, and Danielle attend the party, and are shown in to the building. Alastriel,. Danielle and Serro lose themselves in the library, where many historical books on Cauldron can be found. Baxtor sits at the bar and has a brief chat with Vhalantru, while Sonja observes the dice game at the gambling tables.

Celeste eventually arrives and takes them into a conference room where they meet an old decrepit dwarf named Davked Splintershield. Davked offers the party a small fortune to venture into the Underdark and find his son Zenith, returning him so that he can make ammends before his death. Davked has found through divinations that his son is being held prisoner in a kuo-toa prison named Bhal-Hamatugn. The party agrees to seek out the captured dwarf and return him to Cauldron.