Story 1: Here There Be Gerblins

Here There Be Gerblins is the first story arc of The Balance Arc, and also of The Adventure Zone. It follows the Tres Horny Boys on their first adventure, which includes goblins, jack-hammer robots, and the destruction of an entire town.

Summary
Started off with us adhering to the adventure book. The three of you had to prove your salt. You were hired to transport belongings from Neverwinter to. He had a ward named Barry Bluejeans. You found that they were attacked by gerblins and abducted. You reached a cave that housed the gerblins that attacked them and you met Klarg, the Bugbear leader of the band and Yeemick[sic], his second in command.

You were embroiled in Yeemick's[sic] plot to overthrow Klarg who, in turn, just murdered Yeemick[sic]. Taako charmed Klarg, (and we learned later, apparently permanently) to learn that, who wanted to use him to unlock Wave Echo Cave,. You rescued Barry Bluejeans who told you how to access the cave using Merle, who's Gundren's[sic] distant cousin, using Merle's blood.

After fighting through the strange fauna and machinery of Wave Echo Cave, you meet a few interesting individuals inside, including Killian, who is an extremely capable Orc woman who warned you not to meddle in her own pursuit of.

The three of you, with Killian and a worse for wear entered the vault in the middle of Wave Echo Cave, not before Taako finds a powerful umbrella-shaped staff on a skeleton wearing. Inside that vault, you find

stopping a convoy of Orc slavers and you free Kurtze, who is a young Orcish boy whose encampment You rescue him from a cage, although he leaves without thanking you. In Barry warns you that  Killian summons a glass spherical vehicle from the sky which you ride up to a hole in the Moon.

- Griffin's summary from The "The Adventure Zone" Zone, transcribed by Reddit user MooseEatsBear.

Characters

 * Ruby
 * Barry Bluejeans
 * Yeemick
 * Klarg
 * Killian
 * Spider Bryan
 * Renee
 * Kurtz
 * Renee
 * Kurtz

Locations

 * Neverwinter
 * The High Road
 * Goblin Cave
 * Cragmaw Hideout
 * Wave Echo Cave
 * Sword Mountains foothills

Deaths

 * Multiple Goblins
 * Multiple Wolves
 * Multiple Slimes
 * Multiple Unidentified Bandits
 * Multiple Unidentified Orks
 * Yeemick
 * Spider Bryan
 * Tharden Rockseeker
 * Nundro Rockseeker
 * Barry Bluejeans
 * Nundro Rockseeker
 * Barry Bluejeans

Loot

 * Umbra Staff
 * Magic Boots of Striding and Springing
 * Enchanted feather duster

Long-Term Significance

 * Merle debatably loses his hand axe.
 * Taako casts Charm Person on Klarg.
 * The group attracts the attention of Killian, and
 * Taako carries a