***Complete*** The party was approached by Manistrad Copperlocks with a sensitive matter concerning the Copperlock Mine. Rumors of an issue proved true when Manistrad Copperlocks confirmed that her people had encountered trouble while opening a new shaft. Given that the normally insular and tight-lipped dwarves rarely let information escape their hold, she has grown concerned about the presence of one or more leakers among the miners. Knowing that Gellan Primewater has been trying to weaken her position on the Council and opposes the dwarves' support of King Scotti's plans for Saltmarsh, she asks the PCs to discreetly investigate the matter.
After descending into the mine, the PCs dispatched some giant rats, only to soon engage in a desperate melee against a shadow. Lacking the armament to pierce its spectral form, the party relied on smart tactics and the generous use of Shardona Lightbright's wand of magic missiles to defeat it.
The party then encounters an injured dwarven miner named Torvig, who informs them that he and his mining team broke into a passageway leading to the Underdark. They were quickly overwhelmed as goblin attackers pressed their advantage. He urges the party to help him close the opening. After a desperate fight against the goblins—particularly the powerful goblin shaman—the party hastily used the mining blasting powder to seal the mine before a large group of goblin reinforcements could descend upon them.
Grateful, Manistrad Copperlocks pays the party their agreed-upon sum and warmly offers to work with the group again in the future.