Bloodtusk’s keelboat The Chellish Devil weighs anchor and sets off on the river journey first thing in the morning after the dwarves arrive.Captain Bloodtusk makes it abundantly clear on the first day that they are not idle tourists; Halgra negotiated working passage for the dwarves, and they must make themselves useful while aboard. Bloodtusk expects everyone to help row the riverboat as well as perform other duties. The jobs include Cooking, Fishing, Lookout, Rowing, Sounding and Stable Mucking.
The dwarves paid for Bartimaeus Baedard passage so he didn’t have to do any jobs so he could work on crafting magic items.

As the Heroes began to do their jobs on the first morning of the trip, Thorin fell into the river while fishing and was attacked by multiple crocodile. Ash tried to catch the boat on fire with produce flame.
Thorin brought the dead crocs on board so the ship was eating well for a couple days.

As the next day came on the boat was attacked by a pack of River Drakes trying to steal one of the war rams. Thorin cleaved the Alpha Drakes head off ending the threat. The dwarves stopped the boat and raided the lair of the Drakes.

Bakkara, The Horror from the Mwangi Expanse “escaped” his cage and attacked the crew of the boat, he was restrained after the request of the Captain because it being valuable merchandise.

Leading our heroes to begin to investigate a possible saboteur, they found a secret smugglers hold and bilge that Melira had stowed away in and was trying to kill the heroes. An epic battle erupted on the bottom of the boat with Melira and her snakes.
The heroes were victorious against the saboteur.

The boat the next day was scheduled for a stop and a deliver good to a Knights of Ozum waystation. The station was under attack by orcs and wolves the dwarves cleared them out after a difficult fight.

In the middle of the night before the heroes left to sail down the River Esk Brantos Calderon wakes them with urgent news.

Katrezra needs to see them immediately over visions he is having. As the dwarves come to the Sanctuary they are met by the crippled half orc. He says he has been having visions that have been troubling him and he wants to tell them before they leave.

The main point from each of these visions were:

Agrimosh

There is another

A Giant Riding Dragon over a Great Cathedral

Beware of The Harbinger of Decay

Unite the Family

After he explained the visions and his interpretations he left the dwarves to their own devices.

The Heroes are summoned to meet with the Council of Defenders. The group is led by Halgra of the Blackened Blade the Council of Defenders is worried that the town’s orc troubles are far from over. Thanks to the heroes, the orcs’ hill giant chieftain, Grenseldek, was unable to recover the items she sought from Uskroth’s tomb, and the council fear another attack on Trunau in the near future. To that end, Halgra asks the dwarves to go to Grenseldek’s lair—an abandoned outpost near the River Esk called Redlake Fort—and deal with the giant chieftain and her orc tribe before they can attack Trunau again. Due to their recent heroism during the orc raid and in Uskroth’s tomb, Halgra believes they are best suited to this task, as Trunau’s militia and citizenry are needed to rebuild the town’s defenses after the orc attack.

Halgra introduces the Silvermane to the council, Silvermane is mute, and communicates through a form of sign language that Halgra can understand and translate.
With her help, Silvermane tells the council and the dwarves about the Vault of Thorns, a demiplane created by the druidic Council of Thorns, of which he was once a member. The entrance to the Vault is located within Ghostlight Marsh, a swamp to the northeast surrounding the confluence of the Kestrel and Esk rivers. Silvermane informs them that the Vault contains a cache of items that can help in their fight against the Twisted Heart menace, though he has no specific details about the items. To find the Vault of Thorns, the dwarves should look for a marker in the form of a circle of thorns carved into a stone near the banks of the River Esk. This marker will put them on the right path through the swamp to find the Vault, but the entrance to the demiplane is hidden. Silvermane informed the heroes that the Ghostlight Lantern that he let them use during the raid is key to entering The Vault of Thorns. According to Silvermane, if the husk of a dead will-o’-wisp is placed inside the lantern, the lamp will produce a beacon that points to the circle of standing stones that marks the Vault’s entrance. Once the they reach the druidic circle, they need only wash the supernaturally fueled lantern’s light over the central standing stone to open the portal into the Vault of Thorns.

Halgra informs the dwarves that she has already secured passage for them aboard a keelboat that regularly plies the rivers of southern Belkzen. The riverboat’s captain, a
half-orc named Raag Bloodtusk, has agreed to transport them to Ghostlight Marsh and then up the River Esk to a location near Redlake Fort in exchange for the their efforts in helping sail the boat and defending it from any dangerous river denizens. Halgra explains that overland travel to Redlake Fort would be foolhardy and dangerous, as it would take them right through the orc-infested Hold of Belkzen. Bloodtusk’s riverboat, on the other hand, is well known among the orc tribes along the river, and the gladiator-turned-riverboat-captain enjoys rights of safe passage from these tribes’ chieftains, which makes a river journey far safer than traveling overland. Before they left, Halgra gave them a letter of introduction to give to Bloodtusk, who is waiting for them on the southern bank of the Kestrel River.

After the heroes captured Skreed and turned him over to the authorities, they had a couple days of peace as they attempted to identify the magic items with the help of Agrit Staginsdar. They were able to identity everything besides the artifact hammer. The dwarves were summoned to speak with Ormrok Stonehammer about the coming future and the will of Torag. For the mission they are about to undertake they are the chosen ones of the clan. They were each given a sacred brand that helps the communicate with each other and answer the call of Torag as needed.

On that evening Skreed was to be hung from his neck until he was dead. As he was being hung Thorin and Ash spotted a suspicious woman in the crowd. They ran her down Thorin cornered her but she was able to become invisible and escape from the party.