White Plume Mountain 5e

Characters:
Richard: Garl Glittergold - gnome cleric
Tytalus: Half-Elf Sorcerer
Boss Bedlam: Momso the Tongue Butcher - Human Barbarian
Angelos - Frappy the Wood Elf Monk
Francis - Keleon the Wood Elf Monk
Zachary - Dorryn the Gnome Ranger
Karim: - Euriel the High Elf Wizard
Clint - Niblick the Dwarven Fighter

You and your fellow adventurers have just arrived at the foot of White Plume Mountain. Standing there in a vast area of dismal moors and tangled thickets, you wonder what it was that persuaded you to join up with the others.

Thinking back to the fateful conversation you had five days ago with a seemingly rich merchant, you look down at your empty coin purse and remember the promised pay off. 10,000 shiny gold coins. You hope the rumors of the once-feared Keraptis are just rumors.

Looking down, you re-read the cryptic scroll that was given to you:

Search ye far or search ye near,
You’ll find no trace of the three
Unless you follow instructions clear,
For the weapons abide with me.

North past forest, farm, and furrow
You must go to reach the feathered mound.
Then down away from the sun you’ll burrow—
Forget life, forget light, forget sound.

To rescue Wave, you must do battle
With the Beast in the Boiling Bubble.
Crost cavern vast, where chain-links rattle
Lies Whelm, past waterspouts double.

Blackrazor yet remains to be won
Underneath inverted ziggurat.
That garnered, think not that you’re done,
For now you’ll find you are caught.

I care not, former owners brave,
What heroes you seek to hire.
Though mighty, each shall be my slave
Or vanish into the fire.