Phandalin in danger

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My friends and I don’t trust the mayor, so we go ask him why he choose Tzernoth (necromancer) to be his successor.
On our way to the mayor’s house we see a strange man leaving the mayor’s house, followed by the necromancer. We wait ’til they are out of sight.
We knock on the mayor’s door and he seems very irritated. We ask him why he wants Tzernoth to be the leader of the city, he answers no one else is capable to protect this city. He tells us he will stay the mayor, but Tzernoth will become the Lord of Phandalin. “It’s very late, so goodnight!”, he says and slams the door.

We go back to the Alderleaf farm, where we keep watching the mayor’s house. Suddenly, we see that strange man again! He puts a letter in the mailbox of the mayor. Stabby is too curious and runs stealth to the mailbox to get this letter. He doesn’t pay attention, so instead of taking that one letter, he takes all of them. Once returned to Vorpalith and me, he opens the letter. A purple substance drips from the letter on Stabby’s foot. It burns trough Stabby’s shoes and he loses his little toe.

The substance even burns trough the floor. Mw. Alderleaf is not happy and throws us out of her house.
Vorpalith, Stabby and I decide to go to the manor, so we could open the letter more carefully. Vorpalith opens it, but the letter wasn’t readable anymore. The only thing we could see was a picture of a black sphere, it looks like the sphere we found at the Dragon Cult house.
Suddenly we hear noises, we see Tzernoth (necromancer), the strange man and the mayor standing outside at the mayor’s house. The strange man points at the mailbox, the mayor shrugs and gives the impressions he doesn’t know what the strange man is talking about.
We know they’re talking about us, so we keep waiting while the necromancer is looking around and keeps watching the manor. Stabby decides to burn the letters. Luckily, no one can see the fire and the smoke.
We kept waiting, until the strange man and the necromancer left.

We go to the center of the town and we see Leah riding on her horse. She comes towards us and asks “Are you guys ready? We’ll talk about the letter later.”
Stabby and I each get a pony, named Sugarmane and Lollyflop, while Vorpalith gets a horse named Pinkypoep (= Pinkyass).

My imagination of our ponies =)

We arrive at a place, where the road is blocked by demons. Leah explains that there are three portals, two little ones and a big one. She asks us to climb downstairs, while they try to defeat these demons.

We climb down and see one person standing at a portal, next to the portal there are three posts, where are standing four persons around each post with their hands towards it.

Then we see a cart with humans on it, a big beast pulling the cart. That one person standing at the portal start killing the people, their blood flows to the portal and thanks to their blood the portal keeps growing.
Stabby attacks the one person (@ portal), Vorpalith and I assist. We kill this person, but also his blood flows to the portal. Vorpalith runs to one of these posts, the people standing there run towards Vorpalith and explode. Stabby does the same. I don’t want to get damage, so I create an illusion of myself with my Druidcraft. These three posts collapse, but the portal keeps growing because of all the blood.The big beast pulling the cart comes back, at that moment Leah and her group run towards us. We manage to kill the beast and we start riding, until we stumble upon a wall made of ivy. There is something behind this wall, Vorpalith and I yell at Leah we need to stop. Stabby sticks his head inside and stands face-to-face with a skeleton minotaur.

We all storm inside, Leah starts fighting the skeleton minotaur and we decide to help her. Stabby tries to backstab but the minotaur gives him a knock, causing him to fly backwards between evil minions. Vorpalith runs to Stabby to go help him.
Stabby sees the big portal with a wizard standing in front of it, he takes his shortbow, climbs on the shoulders of Vorpalith and attacks. Stabby gets severely injured, falls unconsciousness down from Vorpalith’s shoulders and gets a fire cage around him.
I saw it all happening and run to the wizard. Vorpalith gets charmed by this wizard, but I manage to kill the wizard in time. He falls dead, together with some of the minions. All the blood flows to the portal.
I find a red dagger inside the wizard’s cloak.
Vorpalith tries to save Stabby, with no success, it’s a magical cage. We stand powerless, while Stabby is dying.