The party meets in the tavern in the morning where the talk of the town is an ominous, perfectly circular storm cloud hanging over the land thirty or forty miles to the southwest of town.  The decide to investigate, Nahala gives Captain Mills a dirty look while leaving town which totally fails to both Captain Mills at all.

Roughly halfway towards the storm cloud the party encounters a phase spider which they defeat without too much difficulty, Mito poisons several of her arrows with its venom and Gary crafts a javelin out of a leg and poisons the rest of his supply of javelins.  While trying to craft a container to hold the remaining venom, Elmer manages to completely cover themselves in spider web.

They party approaches the area shadowed by the cloud and just as they step in, lightning strikes the ground ahead of them and two floating orbs of lightning are left in the wake of the lightning strike.  The party defeats them and gets a pair of black sapphires, worth a 1000G total or 250G per person.

The party decides the cloud is the product of a giant, dire groundhog named Pucksquatney Phil and try to intimidate him (or the cloud?) by yelling at it.  In doing so, they manage to summon a priest of the Storm King. Mito tries to explain that they’re amateur meterologists, which fails and combat ensues. They end up killing the priest who has a dagger worth 1000G or 250G per person.  Gary eats him, carrying parts of the corpse most of the way back to town “for a snack on the way”.