• Travel to Lon’s Thicket, and experience the suspected trap being setup for Sheila G.

Events

• We leave our small encampment on the hill, and travel the short distance to Lon’s Thicket. It’s a small villiage, with a single large road through town, and a shabby half-wall around it. At the highest point in town is a manor, to the sides of which are cottages. On the north side is a villiage green, and more cottages, with something that looks like a graveyard and a relatively large chapel.
  • The villiage green has a large, relatively recent pit dug in it. The doors look like they were damaged. Overall, the villiage looks abandoned.
    • The pit in the villiage green is possibly/probably a mass grave.
    • It looks like there were recent campers.
    • It looks like the mass grave was recently disturbed, and added to.
  • A quick glance around shows signs of activity at some of the cottages near the graveyard.
• We opt to investigate the manor. It’s a three-story manor house, with a slate house and wooden construction. The paint was nice, but is faded. The front gate is broken, laying on the ground. Around the house are black gum trees, which are non-native to the area. A motif along the house also in the style of gum trees.
  • The front door is locked. Taliah picks the lock, and we enter. We see a front hall, with a very soiled carpet covered in obvious blood stains. An archway ahead leads to a staircase, with a door to the left and right, and empty coat hooks on the wall.
  • (Front Door -> Entryway) We head left. Another bloodstained carpet. Several portraits on the walls, with a large one above a hearth; the face is torn away. A door leads towards the back.
    • The over-hearth portrait appears to be of a humanoid, human or elven, not halfling or dwarven. A well-dressed figure, with a silver pinky ring.
    • The 8 smaller portraits are all half-elves and elves, living up to 500 years ago. The further back, the more elven.
  • (Front Door -> Entryway -> Left Room) We continue through the doorway heading back. There is a winerack, many folios, and a cask.
    • The wine is mostly red; the cask is definitely empty.
    • The folio is records for the wine: when it was bought, who bought it, where it was made.
  • (Front Door -> Entryway) Heading back to the entry way, we head through the right doorway. There is a short hallway, with 3 closed doors on the right, and on the left is an open door to a kitchen.
    • Behind each of the 3 closed doors is a small room with a bed, decanter, and chest.
  • (Front Door -> Right Hallway -> Kitchen) It’s a kitchen. There’s some moldy stuff. Behind a small door is a stairwell heading down.
  • (Front Door -> Right Hallway -> Kitchen -> Cellar) We descend, and see a collection of barrels and crates.
    • Harvey investigates one, and finds moldy garlic. In a second, water.
    • There’s dripping in the corner.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well) We ascend the stairs. At the landing is a door with a window out to a back patio. Along the walls of the lower stairwell are portraits. At the top of the stair well are more portraits burned.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well -> Upstairs) We head left, into a ballroom. We see blood stains, that have been poorly cleaned. There is an exit to an outdoor balcony, overlooking the left-side of the house.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well -> Upstairs) We head right, into a well-appointed dinning room. It was somehow damaged, but an attempt was made to reset everything properly. There is wooden furniture, where is more-or-less should be, but no cutlery or decorations. There are scuff marks on the ground, but no blood. There are no exits.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well -> Upstairs -> Third Floor) We continue up, and as ascending, Jeff flies in front of Sheila G’s face, warning her not to go to the third floor. At the top is a long hallway, with 2 doors on the left, and 1 on the right.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well -> Third Floor) Checking the first door on the left is a relatively undisturbed child’s room.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well -> Third Floor) The door on the right reveals a room full of broken furniture covered in canvas. Seems most, if not all, of the furniture from the house has been moved here.
  • (Front Door -> Stair Well -> Third Floor) The final door, second on the left, is the master bedroom. A four-post bed, a writing desk with a pile of burned papers on it. Otherwise it appears undisturbed.
• Harvey and Boobons explore the furniture room on the third floor. The remainder of the party explores the grounds. While we wander around, two half-elves from the Verdant approach us from the road, and introduce themselves as Gronell and Roe. They ask if Sheila G is the same.
  • Reggae Tony and Gronell talk briefly about the enchanted door. Roe asks why we are travelling with one of the tainted. Sheila G understands this to be a slight against Taliah.
  • Sheila G announces we’re leaving. Boobons rejoins the group, and Harvey stays behind to continue digging in the furniture room.
• We head past the villiage green, with the mass grave. Past some cottages, and towards the chapel that looks kind of like a mauseleum.
  • While passing the cottages, Roe stops in briefly, and returns with 8 more elves. One has a purple robe with gold stars and moons on it, carrying a staff, and with golden hair. Boobons suspects this is a wizard elf of Rivethane. The remaining elves he identifies as being from the artic northlands. Those elves are generally unfriendly towards everyone, in a murderous way.
  • One of the northern artic elves introduces her as Bologniah, and asks Sheila G to accompany them to the door to help open it.
    • Withatwist and Boobons ask Bologniah a bunch of questions, and she is generally disinterested in interacting with them. Instead, she asks and gestures Sheila G to join her towards the door. Sheila G insists on some questions being answered.
      • Sheila G asks about the door. Bologniah believes it was a recent addition to the chapel. She believes the door is sealed, and that a lineage of local rulers is needed to open the door.
      • Sheila G asks why this group is even here. Bologniah replies that whatever is behind the door she believes to help elven kind. She doesn’t know exactly what’s behind the door, but she has reasons to believe it is important. Possibly ancient tools from their race.
      • Sheila G and group insist it is important they know the details. Bologniah seems slightly disappointed. The wizard, however, is very excited to explore the notion. Sheila G asks for just the Cliff’s Notes. Bologniah stifles a laugh at the notion. The wizard starts lecturing.
        • After 5 minutes, he’s done explaining what he’s about to explain. Sheila G is wildly impatient. Withatwist and Boobons are excited to hear more.
      • Sheila G cannot take the lectures, and asks Bologniah for the Cliff’s Notes. Bologniah believes that within the chapel, which she explains is a building designed to hold and protect important items, may be tools and artifacts stored from their elven ancestors, possibly back to the oldest of the elves, which may be help them fight off impending evil.
      • Taliah and Boobons decided to follow-up with the wizard for more information. He explains that both Lon’s Thicket, and Cherry Grove, were formed around a chapel-like building. Notably, the settlements formed after whatever projects of the chapel-like buildings were established to pursue. The wizard believes there was a pre-existing reason to settle here. Possibly, there were practicioners of great magic here, and the ancestral elves found them, and established a project here to learn more.
    • Taliah fetches Harvey, and the group heads to the chapel.
• A large, marble building. There is a silver-sheened rune-covered door, with gum-tree and leaf motifs decorating the moulding. To the side, there is a large, obvious button.
  • Withatwist pushes the button, and nothing happens. Sheila G pushes the button, which vibrates the door a bit, but nothing else happens. Sheila G has intuited that she must press the runes in a specific order, then press the button, but feigns ignorance.
  • Eventually, she “concludes” the door must be shrouded in darkness, and so the group disperses until then.
• For the day, Harvey returns to explore the furniture; Withatwist and Boobons speak with the wizard about the history and theories of Lon’s Thicket; Sheila G and Taliah go to investigate the mass grave.
  • Harvey does furniture stuff.
  • Boobons and Withatwist get a day-long lecture.
  • Taliah and Sheila G dig up a mass grave, finding a an undead abomination. Taliah is confused why it looks so deformed. The wizard wanders along, and explains the undead were dealt with when the group entered town. He suspects they are so deformed from the violence.
    • Pressed a bit further, the violence the wizards mentions he suspects was politically motivated, as the previous town leaders were known to be somewhat nasty.
• Sheila G and Taliah return to the door before night time. There we find the wizard, Boobons, and Withatwist talking. There was also an arctic elf standing nearby. Sheila G yells at the arctic elf to “Go Away!”. They do, after a short delay.
  • Sheila G tells the wizard to be chill, then performs the steps necessary to open the door. Once open, she insists the wizard goes first, and we move in. Boobons sends Harvey the news.
• Entering in, there is a stairwell down, with magically lit walls, to a hall with a ceiling that is vaulted in a way Paul refuses to explain. There are doorways on the left and the right, and double-doors at the end of the hallway in front of us.
  • Taliah pokes her head to the left, and finds another hallway with several doors on the left, and alcoves on the right.
  • The wizard, and the rest of the group, moves to the double-doors at the end of the initial hall. He opens them, finding a spiral staircase downward, and moves that way.
  • Boobons seals the initial hall off, at the bottom of the stairwell, with a wall of iron. While doing this, something happens, causing Boobons to lose control of himself.
  • Down the spiral staircase, quite a ways, is another room similar to the one upstairs. On the left and right are large archways leading down significant hallways. At the far end of the room is a large, glowing archway.
  • Taliah checks the right direction, upstairs, and finds a mirror of what she saw to the left. She moves to regroup the party.
  • The group moves through the large, glowing blue archway. The wizard, and Boobons, believe the archway is purposefully glowing to indicate a purpose, it being dimensionally locked, preventing any teleportation or planar movement into or out of the room.
  • Within, a circular room, with a table and slightly raised platform, upon which is a stone stool. Around that, are more stools. There’s nothing on the table. Around the circle, on the walls, are more archways, each more normal sized. The exception being a circular doorway, immediately to the left of the large glowing entrance arch.
  • The wizard moves through the circular entrance, and the group follows. This tunnel proceeds slightly down, curving into a half-moon room. There are several podiums, with elvish writing that seems to magically scroll along the surface. It is displaying the output of a divination spell tied to an artifact.
    • After some review, Boobons reads the writing to be describing several things: depth, heat, and tensile strength. He suspects it is the readout from a drill operating somewhere.
  • Taliah leaves to explore, heading back to the large, second basement hall, and exploring the left corridor (from her original approach). Moving to the end, she finds two large doorways: one in front, and one to her right. Going through the door in front of her, she finds a room full of mechanical pieces. Notably, there’s a significant amount of large chains. She spends time investigating.
  • From the half-moon room is another exit, a wooden door with a metal doorknob. Checking behind, there’s a rough-hewn hallway. Boobons suspects the marble rooms were magically constructed, and that this hall is what was originally here. Moving down the hall leads to another door, with a plaque that reads, “No Arcana Beyond This Point.” Trustacious suspects it means the area is covered in anti-magic. Withatwist confirms this, after walking into the area with his everburning torch, and the torch going out.
  • The wizard lights a lantern, and Withatwist lights a torch. Harvey takes the lantern, and the wizard is suddenly spooked by Sheila G, and doesn’t want to continue further. Harvey and Withatwist enter, finding a roughly-hewn circular room with a pipe made of brass sticking out of a wall. In the center of the room, there’s a significant hole, of maybe 50-foot diameter. There’s a construction atop it, of adamantine girders, with two chains snaking down into the pit: one of adamantine, one of living metal. The wizard fully withdraws, initiative!
    • Harvey, moving at actual incredible speed, interveneing with and stopping the wizard from moving away.
    • Sheila G moves right up next to the wizard.
    • The wizard moves slightly closer to Sheila G, away from Harvey, and casts gaseous form. Sheila G tries to smack him, but misses.
    • Harvey and Stackor fuck around a bit. Sheila G attempts to dispel Trustacious’ gaseous form, but hits something else.
    • The group chases the gas.
    • Boobons has a conversation in his mind with whatever is controlling him, which turns out to be Bologniah. She threatens to throw The Grey into the giant pit in the anti-magic field, unless Boobons agrees not to interfere with Bologniah’s group’s entrance into the chapel. Boobons counters that he doesn’t know motives, doesn’t know who the group works for, and thus cannot know for certain that he even should allow them in. Bologniah grows tired of waiting, and tosses The Gray into the room.
      • Harvey interrupts mythically, moving to Boobons and striking him with a stunning fist, stunning him.
    • Sheila G dispels successfully the gaseous form. Trustacious falls to the ground, still an elf, looking just like before. Withatwist charges at Harvey, trying to break up the fight, but failing to hit him. Harvey tries to shove Stackor into the anti-magic room, but falls 5-feet short. Bologniah, through Boobons, agrees to return Boobons to his own mind, in exchange for not killing Trustacious and opening up discussions.
    • Sheila G tries to grapple Trustacious, but he avoids her and withdraws away from the group. The rest of the group kind of fucks around, and Sheila G then successfully grapples Trustacious. On following turns, she drags him towards the room. Trustacious does break free, and Boobons and Harvey calm shit down. Combat mostly resolves.
  • Meanwhile, an arctic elf wanders into where Taliah is working, and asks about what she found. She informs him, and they begin taking inventory.
  • Back downstairs, Trustacious continues tensely standing around. The party manages to avoid immediately restarting combat. Eventually, Trustacious walks away, and the party remains at the hole.
• We call it here, with ambitions to explore the remainder of this compound.

Player Characters

• Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sheila G, cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
• Harvey, birdman monk of many styles (Mike)
• Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
• Oliver Withatwist, “fae-priest” of Count Ranalc and the Twilight Court (Dan)

Locations

• A hill on the outskirts of Lon’s Thicket.

NPCs and Notable Characters

• Reggae Tony
• Bologniah, the “leader” of Reggae Tony’s group in Lon’s Thicket.
• Gronell and Roe, two half-elves of the Verdant, working with the Lon’s Thicket group.
• Trustacious, the Rivethane wizard working with the Lon’s Thicket group.

Other Notes

• Jeff: “The koans of the mind cannot be translated by another.”
• The drill used to make The Bore is the exact same size as this hole.

• Travel to Lon’s Thicket, and experience the suspected trap being setup for Sheila G.

Events

• The party is split! Harvey and Stackor are in the temple of the Fossilized King, fighting some nasty undead giants, and a weird, indescribable mollusk. Taliah is being approached by three Garuda, because she refused to hand over her piece of charcoal. Sheila G and Oliver Withatwist are on their way from the garuda chief back towards Taliah.

• Inside, combat continues! Boobons fireballs the indescribable mollusk; Harvey beats on a giant; the mollusk wails on Boobons and grapples him; the giants kind did stuff to Harvey.

• Outside, combat begins! Taliah is shot by a bunch of garuda; Sheila G flies over and casts shield other on Taliah, and also drops off Oliver; Oliver stands around like an idiot.

• Back inside, more combat! Boobons breaks the grapple and runs away; Harvey beats on giants some more; giants beat on Harvey.

• Outside! Taliah throws away her piece of charcoal, calls the bird people stupid, and runs for the hills; some garuda continue to pepper Taliah; Oliver and Sheila G move towards the hills too.

• Inside! Boobons casts cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; the mollusk moves closer but otherwise does not act; Harvey beats on giants; the giants miss Harvey.

• Outside, the group makes it to the hills. The garuda do not pursue.

• Inside, Boobons casts another cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; Harvey punches nasty undead giants; giants miss Harvey; the indescribable mollusk gives Boobons some more bad touches.
  • Boobons casts some scorching rays at the gross mollusk, finally destroying it; the mollusk dies and erupts in a fountain of blood; Harvey punches giants; giants miss Harvey.
  • Boobons coughs up disgusting black blood, and magic missiles one of the nasty giants, and it falls to gross, nasty pieces.
  • Combat over! Victory!!

• Inside, with combat finished, Harvey and Boobons seal the tooth in a corner, then seal the temple entrance. They then dimension door away, and meet up with the group. Taliah and Shiela G give Boobons a quick check-up, and determine he’s got a disease.

• We book it towards Lon’s Thicket. Camping in the hills for the evening, we help Boobons heal up a bit, and then continue moving towards the Thicket. As we move, we see an obvious camp on a hilltop, but ignore the camp and keep moving. We leave the hills to dry plains. Boobons determines that the weather patterns of these badlands makes no sense, but they’ve always been this way, so whatever. That evening, we see lights in the distance, which we presume are the elves at Lon’s Thicket. Finally, we shall arrive!

Player Characters

• Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sheila G, cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
• Harvey, birdman monk of many styles (Mike)
• Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
• Oliver Withatwist, “fae-priest” of Count Ranalc and the Twilight Court (Dan)

Locations

• North-north-west of Flint, at a chasm with the temple of the Fossilized King.

NPCs and Notable Characters

• Reggae Tony

Other Notes

• Dan’s characters are definitely on a boat which is currently docked at Lon’s Thicket.

• Travel to Lon’s Thicket, and experience the suspected trap being setup for Sheila G.

Events

• The party first hunts down Harvey. Bubons Sends a message, and we go to meet him at his inn.
  • On the way, Naynay gets Sheila G’s attention by throwing a clam shell at her head.
  • We get to the inn. We find Harvey. Harvey joins the group! Reggae Tony tags along for funsies tho.
• The party splits up! Sheila G, Harvey, and Reggae Tony head to the Temple of Cayden Calien. Boobons and Gartug head to House Goremon to checkin.
  • Goremon! The frame of the Space Laser is beginning construction. In order to facilitate construction fully, proposition to move construction from the shipyards to the siegeworks. This will necessitate Council involvement, but at this point it seem inevitable.
  • G! Arrive at the Temple, and find Celia preaching to some novitiates. Sheila G interrupts, to get updates.
    • Learn that the cult of socothbonoth has been mostly dismantled by the police.
    • Learn that none of the newbies can establish a divine link with Cayden Calien
    • Learn about Nataliah’s imprisionment.
• Boobons and Gartug head towards SG’s Temple. SG and Co. head to the guard station where Taliah’s being held.
  • Nataliah was given some leeway while imprisioned, and she finished her first construct: a Graven Guardian of Brigh. Taliah agrees to join the party again, since she otherwise wouldn’t be allowed to wander around.
  • G steps outside, meets up with the rest of the gang, and syncs up with Naynay. We learn that the former cultists are being coerced into significantly worse cults. Naynay gives us a sign of Shubnigaroth as indication of the new cult.

• Sheila G meets with the head priest of Gozreh to discuss next steps for dealing with hunting down the Subnigaroth cult. She also gets a cool little bangle.

• Gartug takes Chuck to Sheila G’s temple to help guard the place.

• The next day, the Party hops a teleport to the Flint Pits. Bubans has a small mishap, and we wind up in an abandoned village. The buildings are partially collapsed, and designed for creatures larger than us. In the distance can be seen the tops of ziggaurats. Beneath us is a broken cobblestone road, and it looks like once upon a time it was planed straight and level. Harvey determines this is one of the forgotten cities of the Cyclopean Empire. Evidently this is severely dangerous territory, filled with untold riches and portals directly to the Underdark. We decide to ignore the call of adventure, and teleport properly to the Flint Pits.

• We arrive at the Pits. The Earth reminds Boobons to do his thing. Harvey convinced Boobons to do the thing. Nataliah tries to get the murder rock for her own ends, but everyone refuses. As we argue constantly about what to do with the radioactive rock, a cloaked lady stumbles out of one of the caves, and instantly recognizes, and calls out to, Sheila G.
  • She informs G of the recent horrors and problems. Nothing really happens.
  • We move north! Current plan is to return the rock? Sure.

• While traveling, we encounter very little trouble. We run into some weird flying leather sacks, Yrthaks. Later, we met with a cliff giant named Kobonabon, who provides us some information.

• We rest for the evening, and approach the canyon in the morning. Above the canyon, eagles and giant eagles are flying. In the canyon, there is a river. There is a rather large cave opening, and along the face of it are big pillars that look kind of like big teeth. Beyond, something glimmering in the darkness. There are winged humanoid figures flying within and above the canyon, with more in small alcoves carved into the rock along side the cave entrance. We agree to try and open discussions with the figures, the garuda.
  • Sheila G tries to get the attention of some. A few garuda notice, and one of them shoots an arrow into the ground before us. It has a streamer with writing on it, which reads, “IF you value your life, go somewhere else.” Taliah considers that discussions over. Sheila G tries again.
  • Harvy and Boobons dimension door into the cave entrance. At 40 feet inside, they find a set of rough stairs descending into darkness, with glittering rocks nearby. Behind them, a garuda notices and attacks. Initiative!
    • Boobons turns invisible and moves into the cave.
    • Harvey just runs really fast into the cave.
  • Sheila G successfully gets the attention of one of the garuda, and discusses more with them. He asks to speak with their leader, and this one tells her where to go. Taliah agrees to just hang back.
  • Harvy and Boobons find where to put the rock. They also find a portal to the plane of earth, and some mean looking weirdos. Initiative!
  • Sheila G talks with the chief. He performs some interpretive dance, and uses a metaphor. Sheila G sends this information to Boobons.
  • Back to combat! Harvey and Boobons beat up some undead giants and weird fleshy spiky balls. Eventually Boobons receives a sending, which doesn’t really help him.

  • Some garuda notice Taliah and approaches. He asks if I have any rocks. I say no. He asks if I’m lying. I ask him to wait, check my bag, and produce a piece of charcoal. The garuda demands the charcoal. I refuse. It threatens me. I put away my charcoal. It signals for attack. Reggae Tony runs for the hills. I throw up my hands in frustration and walk towards the hills.

  • We call it for the night!

Player Characters

• Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sheila G, cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
• Harvey, birdman monk of many styles; and Reggae Tony, a psychic weirdo (Mike)
• Gartug, a dwarven brawler; and Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
• The Twistfuck, “fae-priest” of Count Ranalc and the Twilight Court (Dan)

Locations

• Rhyme

NPCs and Notable Characters

• Master of the Dojo
• Naynay, former cult member and current dojo member
• Kobonabon, the cliff giant traveler and wanderer we met on our way to the Temple of Ayrzul

Other Notes

• Sheila G has weird-looking boots.
• The undead giants are n a s t y.

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• Boss. Fight. Time. Baby!
  • Sir Beat declares Sister Clemence his target for Smite Evil and unleashes some holy projectiles! Fallen Damian Smites Sir Tern, critically striking and downing him! The demon Sister Clemence closes with Sir Beat and engages in melee.
  • Outside, Stackor hears something and thinks something’s wrong. He tells Smokey to go check on the temple, and Dimension Door’s to the inn to fetch Jack Flint. Smokey and Jen Erica casually stroll to the temple, and ask Sir Dunce to get Sir Beat. He initially pushes back gently, since Sir Beat asked for privacy, but Smokey insists, and Dunce agrees to check.
  • Sir Beat steps back, and unleashes more holy arrows against the demon Clemence. Fallen Damian moves in and smites Sir Beat for massive damage. Dunce opens the door, Italian Spiderman’s the scene, and moves in to engage the Fallen Damian. Smokey and Jen Erica enter the fray! Smokey engages in melee combat with the demon Clemence. Jen Erica magic missiles the demon Clemence. Stackor tells Flint, and Flint rides in force towards the temple. The demon Clemence suggests that Dunce kill Sir Beat.
  • Sir Beat steps back, and downs Sister Clemence, but takes a strike from the mind-controlled Dunce. After, Dunce shakes off the suggestion. Fallen Damian moves and engages Sir Beat: a potentially fatal strike is lessened by heroic defiance, and the follow-up misses! Dunce bends and lays on hands to Sir Tern. Smokey engages smacks Fallen Damian a bit. Jen Erica tries to boneshaker Fallen Damian, but fails. Stackor returns, and sees what’s happening.
  • Sir Beat steps back, and strikes at Fallen Damian. Damian moves forward, and strikes Sir Beat down. Sir Tern stands, lays hands on himself, and activates his divine bond! Sir Dunce swings at Damian, but misses horribly, instead landing his axe in Beat’s corpse. Smokey engages Damian, but misses. Jen magic missiles Damian. Stackor attempts to hold Damian, but it fails.
  • Sir Tern declares Damian his smite, and moves to engage, but misses! Damian and Smokey continue to melee. Jen Erica moves into melee, and vampiric touches Damian, with little effect. Stackor tries again, and successfully holds Damian with a persistant mythic spell.
  • Sir Tern places his sword on Damian’s neck, and advises him that the fight is over. Smokey wraps his iron rope around. Dunce requests Sir Tern behead him, and after a brief consideration, Sir Tern agrees. Damian is beheaded. Combat over.
• Unknown things
  • Who hung the Altasian soldiers?
  • Who killed the market guards?
  • Who was leaving those weird gems around?
  • Who vivisected the miner?

• Sir Tern explains to Flint the combat, and Stackor is quick to follow-up and fill in any details. After a brief discussion, Flint thanks us for our actions, and asks us to leave sooner-than-later. Tern, initially conflicted about the unfinished judgement against the cultists of Arconis, for likely hanging the Altasian soldiers, agrees to leave, but asks Flint to pursue that justice. Flint seemlingly will do no such thing.

• We loot Fallen Damian’s belonging, selling what we don’t keep, and then leave.

• The next day, Stackor gets a sending from Sheila G, asking him where he is, and saying she’s going to Lon’s Thicket. Stackor agrees to meet back in Rhyme, and then returns.

• Side Story Done!

• Back in Rhyme, with the main party, Stackor/Boobons and Sheila G meet up on the docks. Boobons tries to convince Sheila G not to go to Lon’s Thicket, because it’s obviously a scam. G thinks that’s the best way to deal with the scam. We decide to talk with Harvey, and that is where we will start next time!

Locations

• Flint

Player Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beet, paladin of Iomedae (Thans) [Dead :(]
• Ignis “Geo” Joe, an oread shaman (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Burren “Smokey” Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of “eee eee” and stuff (Dan)
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

NPCs

• The Damerrich Former Representatives
  • Fallen Damian, a blackguard
  • Sir Dunce, a paladin (still at the start, at least)
  • Sister Clemence, a demon in disguise
• Jack Flint

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• We made plans for this week!
  1. The party heads to speak with Jack Flint. We will try to convince him to accept a local position of leadership.
  2. Presuming we can, we leverage him to make public announcements that we are seeking out a nightmarish creature, to destroy it.
  3. Some remaining resources:
     • The priest of M’har, resting-ish at the inn.
• Sir Beet and Smokey stay behind at the temple of Damerrich, while Stackor and Sir Tern head to Pate’s Manor.
  • We are escorted inside by the guards, and brought to speak with Flint. When we arrive, Flint is donning his armor, and informs us that there is a creature in the second mine.
    • The story is that a thief was caught in the mine. As they were trying to escape, they were ambushed by a creature which emerged from the ground, killed the thief, and ate the gems he was carrying. The creature is described as short, squat, and with long arms.
  • Stackor compels Jack to take up a position of leadership. Jack agreed, so long as we dealt with the creature. We also update Jack about the army.
  • We depart to deal with the monster.

• Meanwhile, back at the temple, there is no significant activity.

• As we depart, we hear what sounds like a violent struggle coming from Jack’s room. We rush in to find Jack squared off against the man who was previously helping to don his armor. Combat!
  • Stack casts Hold Person on the assailant! He is held.
  • Flint leaves to fetch restraints. The assailint breaks free, and strikes Sir Tern.
  • Sir Tern retaliates, downing the assailant. He then stabilizes them, and Stackor and Flint tie them up.
• Stackor summons phantasmal steeds, and we return to the temple. With the group fully assembled, we head to the mine.
  • Along the way, we see an old woman packing a rather large bundle. Stackor considers this odd for something to happen at so early in the morning, and we stop to discuss.
    • The lady informs us she’s intending to give an offering to the lake guardian. We know of a Shrine Lake; 3 days walk away. All checks out. Smokey flips her a coin, and we continue.
  • We approach the mine. There are a few guards, and we introduce ourselves and our intent. The guards are acting strangely, and we realize they have no intention to allow us entry. Sensing hostility, Sir Tern commands them to stand aside or be put down. Combat!
    • Sir Beet delays, Stackor Magic Missiles one, Sir Tern swings but misses the other. That other swings and misses Sir Tern! Sir Beet tries to shoot that other, but fails. The first charges Smokey, and strikes. Smokey retaliates, striking back fataly!
    • The second continue the fray! Sir Beet turns his legs into pin cushions. The rest of us try to subdue the creature non-lethally. Eventually we do. Sir Tern manacles him, and we enter the mine.
  • We enter, through a narrow walk way. We come to some store rooms, and investigate. Within, we find the thief unconscious and tied up.
    • Checking inside some of the crates is iron slag. Inside the barrels is water. Sir Tern grabs some rope and a pick, and we continue.
  • We continue, and come to a fork: left, forward, or right. We move left. As we move, a hideous creature swims out from the ground, and starts biting on Stackor. Combat!
    • Stackor identifies this as a Nightmare-Creature Xorn: a squat, symetrical, earth-planar thing. It is albino, loves gems and precious stones, and are generally intelligent. This one, however, is an evil creature from the plane of dreams, and will not be reasoned with. Combat!
    • The creatures chomps on Stackor for quite a bit of damage. Stackor uses some dimensional movement to shift away, and strikes back with a magic missile. Sir Tern moves to engage, and immediately loses his sword. Sir Beet shoots it with arrows of smiting. Smokey stabs it, striking it down!
    • We field-autospy it, ensuring it is properly dead.
  • We scour the remainder of the mine, offering gems to all the dark corners, but no further creatures assault us.
• We take the creature’s corpse outside and burn it. We take the unconscious thief, as well as the one dead guard, and the remaining unconscious guard, we head back to town. The guards and the thief are delivered to Pate’s mansion. We explain the events.
  • We notice that there are many folks vapidly wondering around town. Evidently, they were puppets of this creature.
  • We speak with Flint, updating him. He is obviously opposed to the army’s presence, and to taking this leadership position, but is resigned to this fate.

• We return to the Spout House Inn to rest. On our way we find an orc looting belts and coin-purses from the helpless citizenry. We subdue him, and return with him to the Spout House. The orcs there here of the crime, and cut a finger from the captured orc. We all agree that is sufficient.

• Smokey and Co. spend a few hours finding sane citizens to help corral the deranged citizens to safety. After, we rest. While resting, Jack Flint and Stackor ride out to meet with the army. Flint makes the following demands: Sir Damian must stand trial for his actions; the Altasian army must not enter flint. Colonel Syrup agrees to the terms, and provides a letter of acknowledgement to Flint that the army supports his position. At Jack’s request, the army stops their move towards Flint. Refusing any additional assistance, Jack and Stackor return to Flint.

• As we all awaken for the day, in evening, we prepare to approach the paladins of Damerrich, to convince Sir Damian to stand trial. Considering the citizenry, it is likely the town would not be happy should a trial find Sir Damian innocent. Jack Flint is hoping to use this trial as proof that he will enforce justice.
  • Sir Tern’s approach is to appeal to Sir Damian’s noble sense of justice. To ask him to acknowledge that he has slain an innocent man that was possessed by a nightmarish creature. We will advise him to plead guilty to this crime, and to seek atonement from Damerrich, the only source of justice that is appropriate to judge Sir Damian.
• We approach the Temple, and enter to speak with Sir Damian. We appeal to his sense of justice, and explain that due to the nightmare-creature’s influence, he may have been confused.
  • As he turns for confirmation from Sister Clemence, she admits that she lied. With a wave of her hands, she reveals her influence over the temple as a Priest of Sifkesh. Through poisoned words, she casts doubt into Sir Damian’s mind, and with smoke from his hands he drops his holy weapon of Damerrich. It would seem the paladin is no longer in his favor.

Locations

• Flint

Player Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beet, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Burren “Smokey” Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of “eee eee” and stuff (Dan)
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

NPCs

• The Damerrich Representatives
  • Sir Damian, a paladin, and the leader
  • Sir Dunce, a paladin
  • Sister Clemence, a cleric
• Jack Flint

Other Notes

• STAND ASIDE!!

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• After speaking with Sister Clemence, we made our way to the victim’s house. It is also the old witch’s house. The house shows signs of struggle, with everything tossed about.
  • We try to get information via Survival, but don’t pick up anything. We take our time and loot the house, looking for anything suspicious or noteworthy.
    • No money, at all. No currency of any kind. There are decent house goods, some changes of clothes, some hand tools. Some candles, some chalk.
  • We decide to return the next day

• We return to the inn and rest. Stackor casts Magic Circle Against Evil, and we all huddle around. Sir Tern, Sir Beet, and Stackor all have no trouble sleeping. Smokey gets stuck in a nightmare, but Sir Tern lays his hands upon him, aiding his in escaping. He suffers some CHA damage.

• We descend to the wake. There are family members huddled in corners, talking among themselves. We also spot one of the Altasian scouts, looking very nervous.
  • Sir Tern speaks with Flint. He asks about Kinnsly, and Flint confirms he was a miner. Generally, Kinnsly wasn’t special, though he did have a reputation for poorly treating women.
  • We distribute roughly a year’s worth of wages to the miners’ families.
  • We catch up with the scout. He reports that the others of his group went out on patrol earlier and have not yet returned. He is going to lock himself in the room, and if they still do not return by tomorrow, he will return to the army.
• We head to the Temple of Damerrich. The guards look a bit battered, presumably from combat.
  • The guards report they were injured in combat on patrol with Sir Damian. They apprehended a murderer and sorcerer, and had to fight with a mob. Sir Tern and Sir Beet heal their wounds.
  • We move inside. Sir Damian is praying. Sir Dunce is with Sister Clemence, getting on his armor. Sir Dunce is recovering
  • Sister Clemence informs us that she questioned the corpse, and from that got the name of the supposed person responsible for killing Kinnsly: Jeff Tomeson, a rabble-rouser, possessed with “strange ideas”, fervently against the Altasian crown. Sir Damian went to arrest him, Jeff resisted, Damian slew him, and then had to fight through a group of Tomeson supporters. We get Tomeson’s home location, on the east side of town.
  • We wait briefly for Damian to finish praying, and ask him about the combat earlier. We learn that Tomeson was likely using compulsion magics to enthrall the mob to his assistance. Due to the nature of the encounter, Damian and his companions had to retreat quickly, and had to leave any investigations and the body behind. From his demeaner, it is obvious that Damian is frustrated that he had to leave all this behind, and also that his current responsibilities are not desired.
    • We conclude that, probably the best way to avoid any further problems, is to get these guys the fuck outta Flint.
• We head to Tomeson’s house, taking some back-ways.
  • We find many edible herbs in the front garden. We don’t see anyone. The front door is locked, and there are wooden shutters on the windows. Knocking, there is no answer. Wandering around, there is no back door, and no unshuttered windows.
    • Stackor knocks the front door open. We enter
  • We find a well-organized and cozy home. There’s a well-stocked pantry, a bunch of political science books, and a small shrine to Cayden Calien. The house otherwise shows no sign of a struggle.
    • We spend a thorough time searching the house. We find a small, hidden compartment in an herb chest. Inside, there is a single gold ring; it is non-magical and unremarkable.
    • In the trunk, is a stone sword, a bag of currency, and then a collection of odd items: a bundle of hair, a small pin, some bands of fabric. This, turns out, is marriage momentos. Some of them are now broken. There is also a small portrait, presumably of the man’s wife. Together, with the hair, is likely a funeral momento.
• We decide to head back and question the Damerrich paladins. We take the main road back. In a small side street, near the Tomeson’s house, we find two of the Altasian scouts, hanged and defiled with tar. A third of the scouts was hogged tied below them with a note. In a poorly-spelled scrawl, it declares “How’s this for a law? An eye for an eye. Here’s two for two.”
  • While we find this, we hear screams from the direction of the Damerrich temple.
  • We take down the scouts, and bring them and the remaining living one back to the inn.
    • At the inn, we find things in disarray, and are informed that words and tempers flared, and an angry mob moved towards the Damerrich temple.
    • Stackor teleports himself and the scouts back to the army. The remainder of the party moves to try and pacify the mob.

• Stackor updated Syrup on the situation in Flint.

• Back in town, the party approach the city of Damerrich. The street is littered with dead. Sir Dunce is sitting on the steps of the temple, honing his axe, silently. Across the street is a single gibbet, with a single noose.
  • Despite Sir Tern’s calls for vengeance against the Arconis worshippers, Sir Beet suggests we seek to establish a local lord and some degree of order. The embers of vengeance burn low, but do not extinguish.
• We make plans for next week:
  1. The party heads to speak with Jack Flint. We will try to convince him to accept a local position of leadership.
  2. Presuming we can, we leverage him to make public announcements that we are seeking out a nightmarish creature, to destroy it.
  3. Some remaining resources:
     • The priest of M’har, resting-ish at the inn.

Locations

• Flint

Player Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beet, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Burren “Smokey” Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of “eee eee” and stuff (Dan)
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

NPCs

• The Damerrich Representatives
  • Sir Damian, a paladin, and the leader
  • Sir Dunce, a paladin
  • Sister Clemence, a cleric
• Jack Flint

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• After saving Jack from the wights, we continue forward. We head towards where the miners generally don’t go. As we approach, we find a straw pallet with a dissected corpse. There are various vials and jars surrounding the corpse. There is a coin purse, along with several notes and a coil of grey rope, in a small cubby near the pallet. At the foot of the corpse is a book.
  • Smokey takes the coin purse; there is 12 gold in it. He also takes a coil of rope.
  • Stackor investigates the book. It is written in Aklo. It talks about some kind of ritual, mentioning corpses and stars. It will require more research.
  • Stackor also investigates the notes, also written in Aklo. It’s a journal, detailing ambitions to leverage the Dark Tapestry for revenge. The notes are in a different handwritting than the book.
  • Investigating the corpse, it has been freshly murdered and cut open; sometime between 24 and 48 hours ago.
• Heading the other way, we find where the miners were working. Here we find a cage, with a canary inside. The canary is clearly undead, and aggressive.
  • Sir Tern murders the bird with a Lay on Hands.
• We return top-side, and update Jack Flint.
  • He provides us with the contact for the undertaker, Garfield.
  • Sir Tern gathers up the dissected corpse, as well as the remaining non-wight corpses, onto a cart, and we head to Garfield’s.
• As we approach Garfield’s place, we hear hysterical laughter from nearby. Sir Tern stays to guard the corpses while the remainder of the group goes to investigate.
  • The group heads towards the laughter. Stackor notices smoke coming from a dark house. He casts knock, and inside the group finds a terrified family. A boy wielding a broom handle, and a man in a night shirt wielding a sword, rush towards the party to defend their home.
  • The group left the family alone and returned to Garfield’s.
• While the group was home-invading, Sir Tern met with Garfield. Garfield seemingly assumed Sir Tern had murdered all these people, and hurridly moved the corpses into his cottage. As we discussed more, the remainder of the party joined.
  • Garfield has a lot of taxidermied (and partially) animals. He also has a number of nooses. One of them has a monkey’s skeleton hanging in it.
  • Garfield cannot identify the corpse, and looks somewhat horrified at it’s appearance. He suggests asking the mine foreman, Pate or Jack Flint.
  • Generally speaking, Garfield is a suspicious man, and certainly worth some additional investigation. Smokey buys the monkey skeleton from him.
• We take our corpses and head to Pate’s Estate. The guards welcome us in, and notify us that Pate is awake, but the mine foreman doesn’t stay here, and that Jack Flint is currently recovering.
  • We are escorted into a sitting room. A butler offers us “Yah-yah bush” tea; Smokey gladly accepts.
  • Pate joins us, and is immediately taken aback by Stackor’s appearance.
    • Pate evidently killed the previous owners of the mine, who were “inbred and dangerous” dwarves. He thought we may be here to kill him. He explained that he killed the dwarves about 1.5-2 years ago. He has been having bad dreams for the past week.
    • Pate’s suffering from some derangement. He probably has significant CHA drain from the bad dreams. Regardless, he’s able to identify all the miners and the desicrated corpse, one Bruce.
    • Sir Beet lesser restores Pate’s CHA damage, and he regains a degree of sanity. He explains a bit more about current circumstances.
• I think some other stuff happened here… We talked with Sister Clemence about something. And we got the non-desicrated corpses to Garfields for processing.

Locations

• Flint, specifically in the mines

Player Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beet, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Burren “Smokey” Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of “eee eee” and stuff (Dan)
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

NPCs

• Jack Flint, and his mercenaries. At least, the ones that are still human. And alive.

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• The oread awakens. He reports he was the priest of M’har for his community, responsible for pacifying his plane and stopping his awakening. He has asked to join us once we move on, as his place in Flint seems now absolved.

• We head out for our night-time rounds around Flint. We first head towards the market square.

  • As we move towards the market square, we see what appears to be another group heading out on patrol: some townsfolk, and Sir Dunce.
    • A flurry of stones comes from a nearby alley, and bounces off Sir Dunce’s armor. He cries out to halt, and charges into the alley way with the townsfolk. Their light sources wink out, too quickly.
      • We move to assist and investigate!
      • Blunt quickly discovers unnatural Darkness in the alley way.
      • Stackor casts Daylight on Sir Tern’s armor. Sir Tern moves into the alley way.
      • We uncover Sir Dunce flanked by two dark folk. The townsfolk are dead.
      • Sir Beat shoots one down. It dies, and explodes in a blinding flash.
      • Stackor Magic Missile’s the remaining one. It stays standing.
      • Sir Dunce stumbles past Sir Tern out of the alley. Sir Tern closes and finishes the remaining dark folk. It explodes in a blinding flash.
    • After the combat, Sir Tern helps with Sir Dunce’s poison, and Blunt then escorts him back to the Damerrich stronghold. We look around and investigate. Stackor levitates above the area, and notices that there are only a few places lit in town: The inns, the Damerrich stronghold, the market guard’s tower, and an excessive number of torches around the mine. We head to the mine.
  • At the mine, we come across warhorses tied outside, and two guards in chainmail with sword and shield surrounded by a crazy amount of torches.
    • The guards are members of Jack Flint’s men. After some extremely capable discussions from the group, we learn that there seems to be some odd antics afoot in the mine. We offer to assist and investigate. Flint and some men moved into the mines to investigate.
    • We move in. After some attention, we notice combat coming from below. We encounter some miners retreating, and a man dragging a make-shift stretcher. He reports of undead further ahead.
    • We come across the undead, Wights. We engage!
      • Stackor fireballs the undead, destroying one outright.
      • The remaining two move to engage. The first charges Sir Tern. It smacks me, and I slay it.
      • The second charges Sir Tern, but misses. Jen Erica magic missile’s it. Smokey moves up and strikes it down.
    • We leave the corpses, and hustle along. We come across more survivors; Sir Tern helps one up with a Lay On Hands. We continue.
    • We come across Flint, holding off a handful of wights, and a particularly nasty looking undead. We engage!
      • Stackor fireballs a group, taking out a few.
      • Sir Tern moves in, as does Smokey. The wights continue striking at Flint, but the big bad moves against Tern.
      • Big bad smacks Tern, Tern smites in return, as does Beat. The big bad gets decimated by holy fury.
      • We wipe out the remainder of the wights.
    • Flint catches us up on situation, and we decide to move further into the mines to uncover any remaining threats.

Locations

• Flint

Player Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beat, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Burren “Smokey” Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of “eee eee” and stuff (Dan)
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

NPCs

• The Paladins of Damerrich
  • Sir Damian, the leader
  • Sir Dunce
  • Sister Clemence
• The market guard

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• We move into the third, and only remaining cave, at the Flint Pits. It is a hollowed-out hill, with three humans working at stations. Two are working on boulders, one is working on quarts. There’s an old oread man moving pots in the back. There are some enchanted items, as well as some stone swords.
  • Sir Beat approaches the oread, inquiring. The oread explains the pots of fill of lapis lazuli, mixed with water, to make a dye. The weapons are for sale.

• Seeing no more need to stick around, we head back to Flint. We discuss destroying the artifact on the way. Stackor says he’ll handle it.

• We return to Flint proper. A young boy throws some mud at Tern, and another cries out “Death to Tyrants!” Checking on our horses, they are well stabled and fed. We consider pursuing the mines; there are three of them: 20 minutes east outside town, a communal in town, and one west outside town.
  • We drop off the unconscious oread in my room, and I leave him a note informing him that he’s in The Spout House in Flint, safe, and that he was rescued by Sirs Tern, Beat and Blunt; the wizards Jen Erica and Stackor. We will return to this inn by nightfall, and would like to speak further. There is a meal awaiting you downstairs. Pay no heed to Blunt’s excessive incontenance.
  • We go to the Temple of Damerrich, to introduce ourselves and gather information.
    • As we arrive, a paladin of Damerrich is standing over a man, and accusing them of aiding in the murder of three men. He introduces himself as Sir Dunce.
    • Sir Damian is the head of their order in town. There is also a Sister Clemence.
    • We move into the Temple proper, seeking Sir Damian and information.
      • Evidently, the paladins of Damerrich stayed behind based on a plea by some town’s folk that their neighbors were sacrificing children to dark powers. The reporters of this trouble are still around.
      • Arconis the Child-Slayer is revered here, partially (possibly) due to the “over-reach” of the Kingdom. This cult is lynching without judgement or prejudice nightly.
        • Their followers, once they murder a suspect, will tar the face and especially tongue.
      • Recent plague of nightmares; possibly related to Nyarlethotep, who sometimes resides in the Dreamlands.
      • Mines: the one in town is communal, primarily copper; the east-most one is owned by Pate, and is a richer copper vein; the remaining mine to the west is also owned by Pate, and produces generally small precious stones.
      • Asking about Jack Flint: local legend, rich, saved people and brought them here from Baron Steppenbro’s collapsing empire. Though considered a hero due to his actions, his heroic nature is not certin; he abandoned his post, and should be charged accordingly (according to Damian). Damian’s superior advised discretion, so as not to further garner distrust among the locals.
      • Perhaps monsters in the streets, as there are murders every night, especially targetting followers of Damerrich and even the market guards.
      • One of the market guards was murdered last night. We decide to question them.
  • We head to the market. We take a small detour to investigate a marked building from Damian’s map. We briefly question an old lady, who doesn’t really tell us much. I give her a copper piece.
  • We get to the market. The guards are on-edge, weapons at the ready.
    • The murdered guard, Franklin, decided to visit his family, instead of staying in the tower with the remainder of the guards. He was stabbed excessively.
    • Asking about previous religions before Arconis, we are told of two older religions and their shrines. One is located near northern entrance to town, and the second near the copper smelters.
  • We head to the smelter to visit the old shrine. It is a small, mud-brick enclosure full of copper figures, dedicated to Torag. The figures all had small, charred nooses. Stackor and I clean up the shrine a bit, and a forge-worker wanders over to speak with us.
    • He offers work at the forges to Stackor, if he’s interested. We chat a bit about any religions. The second shrine is dedicated to Cayden Caylien.
  • We head to the northern entrance, and the shrine of Cayden Caylien. At one point, it was a wooden stand with mug stands, and a barrel of beer for distribution. The mugs are gone, the stand is snapped in half, the barrel is busted. Inside it is an unnatural, evil stone.
    • Stackor identifies that the stone will erase your memory, and also cause you to seek out and murder anyone who bears a resemblance to the market guards. It caused the shadows to fall in wrong directions.
    • Stackor shatters the cursed stone, and mends the shrine. The shadows return to normal.
• We return to the Spout House to rest until evening. Stackor teleports to Rhyme, and the Sheila G’s Temple looking for Celia; she is out until evening, according to a guard. He then teleports to House Goremon, asking around for a loan. He realizes, far too late, he doesn’t need nearly as much money. He grabs all his stuff, and teleports back to Flint.
  • We were attacked during our rest by a Nightmare, seemingly extra powerful. This creature can trap dreamers in their sleep, and drain them of the charisma. When they awaken, they are puppets of the Nightmare.
    • In order for it to attack us, it has to know about us. Someone in town presumably told it about us. The range of the Nightmare spell, though, is unlimited.
  • The oread awakens.

Locations

• The Flint Pits, a communal mine a few hours north of Flint
• Flint

Player Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beat, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Baron von Testicles (Dan) [Absent]
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

NPCs

• The Paladins of Damerrich
  • Sir Damian, the leader
  • Sir Dunce
  • Sister Clemence
• The market guard

• Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

Events

• We move into the hamlet proper. The workers scurry away, but we manage to convince one to wait and speak with us.
  • She informs us she works to please the Ayrzul worshippers, to protect her from the Mhar worshippers, who would tie her to a bonfire in sacrifice.
    • That’s enough evidence for Sir Tern; judgement time.
• We move towards the cave with smoke and chanting.
  • We first come across some “workers” (read: slaves) maintaining a fire. We engage the task-master, and a mephit flies in to hamper us further. With little trouble, we dispatch the enemies, and free the workers.
  • Stackor smothers the fire using stone shape. As he does so, we are set upon by additional enemies.
  • Sir Tern moves to engage, and eventually emerges from the smoke to discover a Bushyasta, a div from the outer planes of evil, standing astride an unholy altar. We smite that sucka and his corrupted Mhar-worshipping oread wizard friend.
  • Surveying the place, we discover an imprisioned oread, that Tern begins nursing back to health. We find much loot, which gets distributed or readied for selling. Finally, we remove the cauldron and destroy the altar.
• We move into a second cave.
  • Within, there are scurrying workers, and an oread that approaches, named Brother Opal.
    • We learn that this reason knows of and respects the power of the Fossilized King, Ayrzul, though they do not worship it. Previous to Mhar’s increased worship, the focus on Ayrzul was also less, but with Mhar’s increased worship, Ayrzul’s following became more fervent.
  • We are led to Prophet Pumice, the keeper of the oracle. He described his position.
    • This causes some hesitation to just smite the bitches.
  • We decide to visit the oracle of this cave. As we descend, there is a massive ape skull revealed from the cave wall. It has many offerings in it’s hanging-open mouth, and is surrounded by magical torches. It emits a significant evil aura. Prophet Pumice suggests avoiding provocative questions.
    • Tern first asks what should be done to establish order and a reliable trade stop for the army in Flint.
      • The oracle suggests that no standing army will ever be safe in Flint. We must be sure that the army visits, takes what it needs, and moves on. This will be the only way they will be safe. To achieve this, we need someone motivated by wealth, but never the strength to oppose our army, calling the shots.
    • Stackor asks who in the Dark Tapestry is coming to destroy this planet, and how to stop them.
      • The oracle says there are many powers from beyond racing for this world. The oracle told us the name of the fastest, but Prohpet Pumice did not understand it. The impression is something vast and much greater in scope than it’s competitors, though also the least in terms of position.
        • Stackor further interprets this to possibly mean Nyarlathotep
    • Stackor next asks about the status of the Verdent, and if the army will find allies there.
      • The oracle simply says that the progeny obey the elders. Pumice explains further that the elders in this case are also given an astral significance, related to being of the stars. Thus, elders of the stars, or from the stars.
    • As Stackor steps back, a voice rings out from the skull. Speaking in Terran it says, “Boobons listen well, I do not care what happens to the people here, but I care about the green stone. If you return it to my temple to the north, and seal my temple from prying eyes, I will give you the weapon you need.”
      • Pumice the Prohpet informs us the green stone is upstairs, and he’ll give it to us. It is an artifact of the Fossilized King, taken from a temple to the north in Felgrithe Canyon, by pilgrims long ago.
    • Tern steps up asking about the evil released from the mines in flint, and for assistance defeating it.
      • The oracle is silent, and Pumice explains it is probably time to save questions for later and depart. He advises, if we do return, not to ask the same questions. (Good thing there’s a record of them eh?)
  • Returning to the monk chamber, Prophet Pumice brings forth a significant fang-shaped green stone, which we obviously identify as a giant irradiated rock.
    • Stackor teleports back to House Goremon in Rhyme, drops all the stuff from his Bag of Holding in his room, teleports back, and puts the giant radiation rock into the Bag of Holding by itself.

Locations

• The Flint Pits, a communal mine a few hours north of Flint

NPCs and Characters

• Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
• Sir Beat, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
• Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
• Baron von Testicles (Dan)
• Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

Other Notes

We all grew as people today. Bill learned how to properly say “Remove Radiation” properly.