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The World

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Nasar: /* The World */

== The World ==
This game world is a direct extension of its history. In a broader context, the game world is a continent shaped much like Australia but approximately the size of Asia, Europe, and northern Africa combined. There is a mountain range near the east coast that winds up from the southern coast to about ¾ of the way up the continent and then curves sharply east to the coast. Along this sharp curve there is another, oddly straight mountain range that continues almost perfectly north to the coast. Together, these mountain ranges isolate the northeast corner of the continent, an area about the size of China and roughly square. This area is known as the civilized lands. 
 
[[Image:World.jpg|left|thumb|The World]]
 
Just over 1000 years ago the world suddenly became profoundly more dangerous. The details of how and why vary from culture to culture, but they all agree on the timeline and the sharpness of the change. Several cultures and powerful figures banded together and retreated to what is now known as the civilised lands. In the process of their retreat, a great magic was worked upon the land and the artificial northern extension to the mountain range was created from open plains. This was a formidable magic that cost the vigour, health, or even lives of countless powerful magicians, clerics, and druids and it scars the land to this day. Many creatures and most plants that grow in the artificial mountains are somehow different. The least of these manifestations is the unusual number of albino ravens. One of the greatest manifestations is the [[Living Forest]], a section of deep woods on the slopes of the mountains with a very large treant population. Despite its ill effects, the artificial mountains ensured the future of the people of the civilized lands as they passed the years between then and now in a constant state of war along the borders, but relative safety within. 
 
Then, about 60 years ago it became obvious that something had changed. For whatever reason, the constant siege of the mountain borders had dribbled off and, although far from safe, the civilized lands were no longer under siege. A few intrepid souls even ventured beyond the mountains to found settlements and explore forgotten lands. This has continued for 3 human generations and, although many settlements have fallen to the dangers that remain, others have thrived. The border towns that once served as supply routes and relaxation areas for weary soldiers have now become thriving centres of trade. Many governments have been weakened or even fallen, now that they are not propped up by the constant threat of an external enemy and have to deal with their internal problems. Even more shocking to the world of the civilized lands is the discovery of wild tribes that have survived the times of chaos as nomadic peoples or even small city-states. Though few in number so far, they are common enough that all who live in the borderlands have seen at least one pass through, clearly agog at the peaceful splendour of the civilized lands. 

a test

Which Quest is Best

2013-12-29T18:06:10Z

Nasar: /* Session 11 - Oct 21, 2012 */

===Session 1 - ''Sept 25th, 2010''===

Started after [[Troubled Fey]]

The group needs to figure out how to get back into [[The Principalities]] by way of [[The Keep]], as well as figuring out what to do about the two major paths in front of them.

(Contributed by Alex, tweaked by TJ)

The group headed back towards [[The Keep]], passing near [[Muka'l]], and decided to check for information....

The party went to the town of [[Muka'l]] (well [[Conner]] and [[Blue Wood]] and [[Gol]]
stayed outside near the [[Awakened Forest]]) and checked the mail. The town
was crowded, chaotic, with a siege mentality (and lots of opportunistic
pickpockets - [[Gweara]] lost a dagger). The party members going in gave their
names and were "flagged" as potential recruits and given identifying
bracelets to wear to keep them from being troubled while waiting for an
interview with the town leader (or so they thought!). Mail for
[[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] was nothing special from his distant silver dragon kin,
but [[Lady Naomi]] hoped he could come home soon. Then the leader of the
town (old man) came and with a custom mass charm got [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]]
to agree to help the war effort vs. Orcs. [[Laran]], already juiced up with
diplomacy, convinced the others (except Willow). [[Willow]] "agreed" to get
the rest of us outside and then explained what had happened and that the
amulets did not come off. We talked about ways of removing the amulet
and [[Willow]] disappeared!

So [[Gol]] created a lot of copies of a diplomatic agreement (worded by [[Blue Wood]]) along the tunes of "we don't have much time for this - we have
other very pressing issues, but if you release our friends we won't
waste your resources releasing them ourselves, and we will kill the orc
leader and/or 5000 orcs". [[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] airbombed [[Muka'l]] with the leaflets...

Meanwhile, [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]] were calming the crowd, and [[Bash'yrr]] and
[[Gweara]] were making war-related preparations (glyphs of warding, covered
oil trenches, etc.). [[Willow]] was imprisoned and PISSED!

The old man talked to [[Laran]] and was convinced that we were honourable
and let them all go, meeting all the conditions (no amulets, no charms,
etc.). [[Willow]] removed the charm anyhow on [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]] (but [[Bash'yrr]]
was so convinced by [[Laran]]'s silver tongue that he is still a true
believer). So we made more war preparations. [[Conner]] flew SW to see
what was to be found and flew back and later realized there was a light
to the south that wasn't dawn. Probably orcs will be here in a few days.

[[Blue Wood]] helped make a moat, I believe that they've split a creek/river to go around both sides of the city? 
[[Willow]] helped with wells, a secret tunnel to the [[Awakened Forest]], and a deal with the [[Awakened Forest]]. 
[[Dawn Brother]] agreed to take in the townsfolk if necessary, but at the price that 1 in 10 would not leave. 

Currently we have the old man's coin which we can use to talk with him
(and he apologized to the group, BTW, but he was desperate - other
adventurers either wouldn't help without an exorbitant fee lied about
helping and then took off). We may or may not take up the amulets again
(we would have a way to remove them if necessary, and they could be used
to pull us back to the town's relative safety as we would be monitored
by the townsfolk). Not sure if the device would work on 4500 lb [[Blue Wood]].
[[Blue Wood]] thought that [[Willow]] should decide whether to use the
amulets or not, to make up for the loss of freedom she suffered earlier.

We think that the orcs number about 10 000 and have a common brand
(perhaps [[Laran]] could try a bardic knowledge check?) and likely a strong
leader that may or may not be an orc. They are organized, raiding areas
for food/supplies first with scouting parties, razing settlements to the
ground, etc. Conner voluntarily relinquished control to his silver
dragon ancestor to use his expertise in town defending and orc army killing.

===Session 2 - ''Dec 12th, 2010''===

We decided to make a fake fort with illusions and earth spells and stuff
about a day out of town. Blue Wood borrows Conner's hat of disguise to
look like a statue of Corellon Larethian the elven god. The ground is
hallowed.

Conner does a scouting mission. Orcs are in armies and have scouts
riding wolves bigger than worgs. Conner tries to kidnap a scout, no
luck (and we find out amulets don't take passengers anyhow).

Conner and Willow do a night mission and cause a little havoc with fire
spells and ravenous jaws or something like that. Seems to cause a
commotion. We find out the leader wears adamantine armour, is larger
than the average orc, and possibly has a portable anti-magic zone.
Wields a great sword?

The central orc army keeps the other ones in line and from fighting each
other.

The plan is to cause trouble at the fake fort when they arrive, harass
the orcs, kill a lot of them, maybe take out the leader. If that
doesn't work, teleport back and then town evacuates to awakened forest
while we take off back on track for the larger mission. We will give it
the old college try, as they say.

Blue Wood can meelee with the anti-magic guy, but probably shouldn't
while spell-slingers are in his carrying basket (unless they are so high
off the ground they are out of the zone). I guess I could trample over
and past him though. Likely the teleport amulets don't work in the
anti-magic zone, so be careful! Conner could also do a flying charge
with a long large pointed lance/spear/etc.

===Session 3 - ''Feb 6th, 2011''===

Sorry if I missed anything. I blame the bad mayonnaise from the night
before.

Ok, Conner and Willow did some recon, realized 2000 orcs were
missing(!), Willow ported to town to warn them, they have a few orcs
skulking around, trying to be seen without being obvious about it, but
only a handful. Then Willow got close but got sniffed out by giant
intelligent fire breathing wolves. One of which ran back to the main
army at the FF (we think). Meanwhile Conner tried to find the tracks of
the 2000 but only found the wolf tracks at least 100 and then they split
up and since Conner is Silver now that is as good as the tracking got.

Back at the Fake Fort (FF) we did more fortifying and trap building and
Laran sang to build up fake stone singing.

Finally everyone got back, we prepped, etc. The battle starts with
trebuchet building by enlarged orcs. Conner and Willow tried some recon
and trebuchet damaging. Killed some orcs but didn't kill any
trebuchets. They came back. Willow fire-warded Blue Wood which came in
handy as the trebuchets started with flaming barrels of smelly burny
oil. No one was seriously hurt but then there were tons and tons of
boulders that we had to wait out until the infantry got close. Finally
they did and Gol nuked a few orcs with fireballs and the traps did a
number on, well, a number of them. Then Conner and Willow flew up again
to see if they could find the BBEG and think they might have a
direction, at least, so Cugdish cast a Fly spell on Blue Wood and with
Gweara and Bashir in her fists Laran, Cugdish and Gol in the basket, she
is flying towards that point, buffed with Freedom of Movement (and
others are buffed too with other stuff).

===Session 4 - ''Aug 28th, 2011''===

We were flying around, [[Conner]] and [[Willow]] up ahead (faster) and noted
that there were 3 BBEGs in armour, not just one, but then they got
caught by a forceweb spell which almost sent [[Conner]] plummetting to the
earth. Conner got a feather fall (and [[Willow]] air elementalled out of
the way) and then [[Blue Wood]] caught up and held up Conner (and there was
a fog cloud, then a windwall, to protect from arrows). But Conner
couldn't get out and died(!) and [[Kiray]] pecked his amulet to take him
back to the village. Willow went too to start a reincarnation and tell
the village to evacuate. Some orcs were inside the windwall and Gweara
and Blue Wood took them out.

Arrows were common, as were a few trebuchets. So after getting of some
spells (like Cloudkill via [[Ash]]) Gol and [[Gweara]] blinked back to the
village. Gweara went to the walls to assess the situation at the
village. Laran was nearly dead but got healed and eventually Laran
left. So we were down to Bashir, Cugdish and Blue Wood. Blue Wood
stepped out of the wind wall but stumbled (oops). Bashir buffed up and
killed an orc. Cugdish dealt a blow to an orc. Blue Wood then flew up,
and Bashir and Cugdish eventually left, that left Blue Wood flying at a
(not the BBEG), and between him and the trebuchets, and a dispel magic
on most of the buff spells on her (including the fly spell, so Blue Wood
fell to earth!), Blue Wood nearly died too, but was able to kill the
BBEG and blink out, taking the corpse of the BBEG with her (but alas
forgot to take the axe which fell from the BBEG's hand).

Back at the village, the evacuation went apace and Willow asked for more
help from the Dawn Brother, and for another 2% (on top of the 10%) of
the population not leaving, there will be aid in getting the villagers
safely to the forest and retaining their identity as the people of that
village ([[Mukal]]). Some fish-tailed elfish fey folk took the children and
small non-humans to safety first. The mayor asked the party for a
distraction while the rest of them escaped.

The bard identified the BBEG as half-hobgoblin, half-XXX (where IC the
bard knows but OOC Joe didn't have his notes with him, so we will get to
that later). The armour was identified as +2 adamantine armour of
invulnerability.

[[Nasar]]/Conner reincarnated, but because the Silver dragon was in
control, it reincarnated in a separate body (half-dragon dwarf) that
flew away but said it would find us later (had things to do, went
invisible, etc.). Nasar came back as a Satyr. While dead and coming
back, Nasar was given a choice of trading Echo of the Ancestor levels
away to the [[Silver]] (who would need them to gain an advantage over the
Red dragon), and gain Sorcerer levels in return. Could be a good deal.
IC this choice was made before Nasar came to life out of the earth, but
OOC TJ has until next session to decide.

Also, OOC [[Laran]] the bard should be one level higher.

For now, [[Blue Wood]] is loaning [[Nasar]] the +1 mithril chainmail of
invulnerability (sizing) but would like it back when Nassar can find
some other armour, as it is hard for Blue Wood to find "sizing" armour.
That said, if Blue Wood is allowed to "pray" the adamantine armour that
no one can wear (but the party could sell) into the sword [[Sentinel]], then
Sentinel (and thus Blue Wood) would agree to just give Nasar the +1
mithril chainmail of invulnerability. Since the party will likely be on
the move soon, no decision has to be made on this yet.

Nasar has also not yet decided on what he wants to be called.

So we fought to defend the village, and although we failed vs. the orcs,
we did some damage and paid a heavy price (come to think of it, losing
[[Nasar]] was kinda like our paying 12%). On the up side, we took out one
of the three BBEGs, and about 1 000 of the 10 000 orcs, and likely will
save 88% of the 4 000 - 5 000 villagers. But we soon have to get back
to the main quest of repairing the broken seals.

As it stands, we are ready to provide some distraction by engaging the
"scouting" orcs and fire-breathing wolves, while the villagers get the
heck out of dodge. Then we have to figure out how we are moving. No
one is high enough level to teleport [[Blue Wood]], for instance, so I guess
we are walking.

Experience Points were not determined.

===Session 5 - ''Sept 05th, 2011''===

We fought the Orc, and the Orc won...

But we got the citizens of Mukal out and into the Awakened Forest and now need to regroup and plan from here...

===Session 6 - ''Nov 13th, 2011''===

We saved the townsfolk and they can shelter in the Awakened Forest
safely for as long as they need to (with the 12% rider of some being
forced to stay in the Awakened Forest forever) and were discussing what
to do when [[Willow]] found out the Mayor would be one of the 12%. Willow
thought the town would need the Mayor and so worked out a trade with
[[Dawn Brother]] and effectively gave up her uncle [[Bashiir]] instead (so in
game terms, Willow will need a new cohort (but we left her in a good
place to get one, as you will see below).

Gol chose to teleport away to the Waterfall temple to do some research.

Then [[Laran]] interviewed "his" dominated orc and we found out that there
were 8 orc hordes dominated by 3 "hands" of a greater being that is
unknown. The "hand" we killed was a half-fiend hobgoblin, but each
"hand" could be different and we never saw the others. Oh, and the 10
000 orcs we encountered were not the main army! This was just to make
sure the orcs weren't attacked from behind in the South before
regrouping (along with another similar army doing the same thing in the
North) at the Orc keep on this side of the pass, with the main army. So
this is at least 30 000 orcs, and maybe 9-10 (or more!) "hands", plus
whoever they are serving. Oh and the orcs killed a long time ago were a
lesser part of one of the 8 armies.

The orc was ordered into the awakened forest. He is still there for now
(a surprisingly good survivor, as a orc scout should be, I guess) but
eventually the domination will wear off (12 days from the casting, I
believe).

[[Blue Wood]] apologized to [[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] for making a rash promise about
killing half the orcs or their leader or saving the town. Clearly,
Willow's scheme of saving the town at a 12% cost was the only feasible
one in retrospect, especially since what we thought were leaders were
only "hands of the leader", whoever that is (a fiend?). The orcs were
too well organized and far too numerous. If we didn't also have the
"Recover the Seals and Save the Universe" quest it would be the greatest
threat to the civilized lands.

Walking back through the pass thus seemed problematic (but it would be
nice to warn [[Murts's Haven]] somehow). We discussed teleport and scouting
for more infor, but alas Blue Wood is too darned big.

***Note: I think I have a way around that -- with the mw scabbard I have
(see below) maybe we could get Gol or someone else at the Waterfall
Temple (see below) to enchant it so be a "sizing reversal scabbard" so
that, at the owner's will when a sizing weapon is drawn, instead of the
weapon changing size to fit the wielder, the wielder changes size to fit
the weapon! What do you think, Joe? Would this work? Would it be not
too costly (I am poor right now, alas)? ***

Anyhow, we decided to go for Cugdish Plane Shifting us to Elysium (using
a tuning fork from Blue Wood's Satchel of Serendipity - she made another
one to return to the Prime Material Plane), planning to do so again to
the [[Prime Material Plane]] and walk from there. The fields of [[Elysium]]
were nice and peaceful. Blue Wood planted 2 dryads there, people
gathered wood (for bows, arrows and a scabbard, and I think Laran
gathered some shavings) and (holy) water there, the hunting was easy
there, everything was nice there. This is where Blue Wood will end up
when she dies, if there still is a universe. Nice to get a preview of
Heaven. Nasar and Blue Wood prayed for guidance, and effectively were
made to feel that we would get some.

The Plane Shift back took us to the Basin, which made Blue Wood scared
of possible evil druids. But we also ended up right were the [[Seal]] at
the Basin was broken, and so were able to gather up all the pieces.
Alas, we got noticed by some crows, which Ki Re noted were not living
crows (undead crows, possibly with detect magic!).

***As we found out later, some evil got involved with undead took an
interest when [[Ehlonna]] guided our Plane Shift here. This had
consequences later, and shows why the gods can't interfere directly too
much -- other gods tend to step in.***

So then began an intense debate (a la telepathy, while we stealthily ran
away) about whether to fight the crows, keep running, or Plane Shift
back with the Seal to Elysium. Eventually running was no longer an
option, as the crows were onto us. Nassar had worries that plane
shifting with an artifact could be dangerous (even dimension dooring
with it caused him a flashback to horrorifying Bad MindFlayer God
stuff). Oh, we found the Seals cannot be detected by any magical means,
and do not transform with a user (not even the broken pieces).

We finally Plane Shifted back. The upside, the crows didn't find us and
the dark druids may not even have suspected that we were there. The
downside, the evil god (not the Bad Mindflayer evil god, but the undead
evil god) tried to redirect the plane shift and almost succeeded, which
would have been very very bad. As it was, we went (randomly) to a
different plane. Thank goodness that Cugdish had a reroll on the
relevant will save due to his luck domain power!

Luck was greatly with us indeed, as we arrived at The plane of [[Moradin]],
dwarven god of the forge! We nearly got attacked as "creatures from the
pit" as we had the stench of that evil god on us (unbeknownst to us) but
with some smooth talking by Laran (even an almost Botch was ridiculously
good!) we told them everything about the Seal and they agreed to have a
look at it. Finally, one of Moradin's children, the demigod of
repairing things, took a few days to repair the Seal (we volunteered
some Elysian holy water to help). After this, we were kindly invited
never to return. Nassar got a lump of mithral (for his cousin, a
Smith). Laran got 8 mithral coins stamped with Moradin's face in
exchange for entertaining the guards. Willow nearly got a heart attack
- as a chaotic thief she was as scared to be there as Blue Wood was in
the Basin.

We got safe passage back to the Prime (we chose the Waterfall temple, as
they would know what to do next) and were told we owed Moradin a favour
(in the form of a quest - he would provide guidance on it later). The
Seal activated upon arrival (it only works on the Prime Material Plane),
and knocked out Nassar, and scared some others, but we got the idea that
the Evil Mindflayer God was angry because he was even more locked up
than before. So now 4 of the 7 seals are active! 3 more to go!

===Session 7 - ''Dec 30th, 2011''===

We talked a lot, blipped over to Murt's Haven via Teleport and are gathering information.
We/Nasar also sent information to Alftis in Dalford and Leriwyn my steward via dreams about the big Orc army etc.

On the way Gol managed to fail on the teleport and ended up outside some other city, before correcting and heading to Murts.

===Session 8 - ''Feb, 2012''===

Headed south, first by teleport then started walking... ended up at a long forgotten outpost in the mountains, where we saw a light... waited outside, were attacked, killed it then started exploring what was apprently the scene of a big battle a long long time ago...

===Session 9 - ''April 7, 2012''===

Marched south, entered a illusioned forest, talked to some Gnomes. Met another keeper of knowledge of the seals. got an escort from her, rode down to the shore partly on the back of a purple worm?
Found the city, saw a dracolich manage to detonate itself against some magic shell.

===Session 10 - ''Aug 26, 2012''===

Game at Peters

What to do? What to do?

===Session 11 - ''Oct 21, 2012''===

Game at Peters

Ok, after a lot of weasel jokes, we tried to get into the sphere.

Trona (minus Sentinel) tried to approach using an arrow of Ehlonna and got blown back for her pains, with all of her other magic items disenchanted (painful, as some of them were sizing items!). She then tried again sans magic items and disappeared. . .

Eventually, Gol (and Ash, who weaseled out of Gweara's grasp at the right moment) and Willow and Laran followed, first trying an anti-magic field (didn't work, and Willow had to struggle to stay out of it), and then just with arrows of Ehlonna (which may have been a placebo effect for all I know, but what the heck, it couldn't hurt). They disappeared . . .

...and all reappeared with Trona the instant after she got in, even though it was 30 minutes apart outside the sphere. We were in a room and there were markings in obsidian. It was some sort of Sistine Chapel to Wee Jas. Willow wanted to mark out route with chalk but circled a sigil and when told by Trona it was an invoking sigil, broke the circle by rubbing it out. Not so good. Willow tried to hide but was grabbed by a being that spoke no language we knew. Laran using Comprehend Languages talked the 8' sorta undead but not really guy down and took responsibility for the chaotic Willow, who ended up with a mark on her forehead that Gol noticed. Anyhow we got to a room (which K'shetanna the long dead mage highlighted for us, and found the dead K'shetanna holding the seal parts together (they were cracked) and we found other items in the room, and Willow picked up a cloak that had souls asking her to join them but made a will save and then Gol picked up the cloak and made a will save. To keep the seal together Willow used some tanglefoot bags - so far, so good. We took 6 major magic items from the room including the cloak and the seal and also some pages about a dragon involved in rituals a blue dragon (get it, breathes lightning, shockwave theory?) which likely is the dracolich outside. So one of the magic items is likely the phylactery. So we take them all out. This involved teleporting Trona into the room (shortest teleport ever!) and then Trona maneuvering and climbing out of the room through the open wall (and a short interlude of Willow's forehead mark burning and her "returning" the cloak and Gold taking it) and then Trona jumping through the sphere with everyone (but no battle basket) . . .

... to meet Nasar on the outside, only 30 seconds having passed for him. So this time stuff is non-linear, as if it wasn't weird enough!

Bad news, the dracolich is now reforming MUCH faster so first we scattered to find out which item it was aiming for. Bad news, it was the phylactery. So Gol (with the artifact dagger) and Willow (with the cloak, seal, and one other artifact, yet to be named (I think that is right, six total artifacts or is it six + seal for seven?) and Laran and Gweara took off, via gem jump, leaving Trona, Nassar (with the mirror artifact) and Shu Yen and their familiars to get the hell out of dodge - with some magical aid (haste on us, ray of enfeeblement and evard's black tentacles on the dragon, whose healing slowed and whose direction vector changed, which Nasar noted the new vector of). We got to the city gates and are about to leave. This took an hour, which might mean 8 years on the outside since the teleport.

So half the party has time to research how to destroy the lich's soul without destroying the seal and otherwise prepare for the dracolich (or something else, maybe having Ehlonna bind the soul like she did with the mindflayer cleric?) and to meet us at the gates of the city as we leave.

I don't know if we did the right thing or not, but I hope we did.

===Session 12 - ''Dec 28, 2013''===

Ok, the recap. The party was split. A Gemjump spell allowed Gweara, Willow (with the Book, the Cloak (of souls), the Seal (a bit cracked)), Gol (with the Dagger, and some pages describing the dragon (and also describing the Seal)) (and Ash) and Laran (with the Flute) to get away, presumably to the Waterfall City (or so they thought . . . ). That left Trona, Shu Yen (and Shem) and Nassar (with the Mirror) (and Ki Re) to run for the gates. Trona, Shu Yen and Shem went through, Nassar was scared of disappearing (being a satyr this incarnation, and therefore fey) and therefore held back a bit to watch the rest of them disappear through the gate first. Then Nassar went through . . .

Into what I will call time period A. In this time period, the city is busy and bustling, there are s kiffs in the water and bored guards on the walls, and they speak a strange language that Nassar doesn't know. The wall is safe to touch (or at least pee on) in this time period, as a kid does the latter. Eventually a translator (the great and powerful Marge) is found, who at least speaks draconic. For a fee, Nassar gets in, but they don't know anything about a dragon attack, nor about anything else Nassar can temporally reference. He sees the temple of ehlonna and then of wee jas and finally of boccob (the latter actually to find out about the Mirror). Nassar then looks in the Mirror and finds himself trapped in a silver room, with a full length mirror on it, and his own satyr face staring back at him, and putting the cloth on the mirror, and a door to the room that has water sounds and distorted singing sounds and he dare not open it, and he is in his original half-elf body (well, soul) . . .

Meanwhile, Tron a and Shu Yen and Shem arrive in time period B. In this time period, the city is busy and bustling, there are skiffs in the water and rather nervous guards on the walls, and they speak a strange language that Trona and Shu Yen don't know. But a common language (Celestial) is found. A limping scarred priest (Marcus) meets them and then another higher priestess (a gaunt woman) negotiates a chance for face time with the high priest, a satyr that has been the high priest of Ehlonna for decades, and instrumental in greatly increasing the power of her church in this city vs. that of other gods, leaving only Hieroneous, Hextor, Boccob, Wee Jas and Kord worshipped here besides that of Ehlonna, the dominant faith. They have never heard of a cataclysm or of a devastating dragon attack on the city. Trona and Shu Yen retreat into the woods that evening and Shu Yen calls upon the Dawn Brother, and to our surprise we get a response (Trona is sucked into a poo l (and some cool fey dancing) and Shu Yen and Shem hang on for the ride). Shu Yen negotiates (for favours to be repaid later?) a way to get back to the majority of the group (we learn that Nassar is separated and too distant even to the Dawn Brother) and Trona basically blabs the entire story of the Seals and Cataclysm to these guys, and while she is "out of it" Shu Yen overhears them planning how to survive the cataclysm (it involves slightly shifting identities - the Dawn Brother isn't exactly the Dawn Brother yet!). This implies that Time Period B is before the Cataclysm. If the satyr high priest is Nassar (or at least using his body), then Time period A is before time period B by decades. But we don't know for sure as to reunite back with the group that gem jumped we go to them via fey dancing. But some of the fey die and we see skeletons and hear screaming and there is smoke and a volcano and we see our friends Gweara, Willow, Gol and Laran and go to them . . .

But previously, Gweara, Willow, Gol and Laran had gem jumped, right? Well something went screwy (the seal cracked, lit up, fired up to the gem, and boom). The party landed on and destroyed some mind flayer church service (yay!) but caused a huge crater in doing so. Willow basically laminates the seal back together, which causes visions of tentacles and of a barrier between them and something bad (the Devourer?). That said, perhaps they are now watched by that Devourer and are attracting its attention. This is time period C and after running from a 3 armed huge giant on a gargantuan bird (at first invisibly, but then some lightning from the sky dispelled that), found themselves near the same walled city as before (so not the waterfall city). This is where Trona and Shu Yen met them.

Now in the distance (1 km) a caravan with wounded and kids needs help (mostly elve s) because they are under attack by three members of the beholder family plus 50 undead (probably under their control). Others are afraid of messing with the time line but Trona is going to save those kids. Also the giant on the big bird spotted us and after taking 66 points of damage from Willow and Shu Yen's flame strike and rainbow blast combo, turned around and threw a large tanglefoot bag at Trona (missed) and combat was joined. Meanwhile Trona has been buffed up (120 hp (vs. fire only), 120 hp (vs. electricity only), plus bardic buffs (+2 attacks, +1 fort save, +4 weapon damage, +2 saves in general, +2 10 sided HD (so +27 hit points!). Everyone in the gem jump original group has allegro (they move faster) too.

So the gang is almost back together except for Nassar, whose body is back in time period A (and maybe B) and whose soul is trapped in the silver mirror room (and who knows for how long, so m aybe Nassar's soul is in time period A, B, C, and more besides!).

Now when is time period C? Well Trona thinks it is the time of the cataclysm, 1000 years ago from the Main Adventuring Time, and after time periods A and B. Evidence, all the tentacles everywhere (including on the giant bird) and the mind flayer cult (worshipping the devourer). Willow thinks is is only 60 years ago from the Main Advenuring Time, also after time periods A and B, when the city was attacked by the dracolich. Evidence, lightning attacks. We will see who is right later, but right now we have a fight on our hands! Also, we are not sure how the time line is screwed up by what happened in Time A or Time B (or what might be screwed up based on what happens in Time C).

At some point, we will get xp, but I have no idea when we will have time to train. ;)

Which Quest is Best

2013-12-28T17:53:16Z

Nasar: /* Session 11 - Oct 21, 2012 */

Which Quest is Best

2013-12-28T17:52:29Z

Nasar: /* Session 11 - Oct 21, 2012 */

===Session 1 - ''Sept 25th, 2010''===

Started after [[Troubled Fey]]

The group needs to figure out how to get back into [[The Principalities]] by way of [[The Keep]], as well as figuring out what to do about the two major paths in front of them.

(Contributed by Alex, tweaked by TJ)

The group headed back towards [[The Keep]], passing near [[Muka'l]], and decided to check for information....

The party went to the town of [[Muka'l]] (well [[Conner]] and [[Blue Wood]] and [[Gol]]
stayed outside near the [[Awakened Forest]]) and checked the mail. The town
was crowded, chaotic, with a siege mentality (and lots of opportunistic
pickpockets - [[Gweara]] lost a dagger). The party members going in gave their
names and were "flagged" as potential recruits and given identifying
bracelets to wear to keep them from being troubled while waiting for an
interview with the town leader (or so they thought!). Mail for
[[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] was nothing special from his distant silver dragon kin,
but [[Lady Naomi]] hoped he could come home soon. Then the leader of the
town (old man) came and with a custom mass charm got [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]]
to agree to help the war effort vs. Orcs. [[Laran]], already juiced up with
diplomacy, convinced the others (except Willow). [[Willow]] "agreed" to get
the rest of us outside and then explained what had happened and that the
amulets did not come off. We talked about ways of removing the amulet
and [[Willow]] disappeared!

So [[Gol]] created a lot of copies of a diplomatic agreement (worded by [[Blue Wood]]) along the tunes of "we don't have much time for this - we have
other very pressing issues, but if you release our friends we won't
waste your resources releasing them ourselves, and we will kill the orc
leader and/or 5000 orcs". [[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] airbombed [[Muka'l]] with the leaflets...

Meanwhile, [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]] were calming the crowd, and [[Bash'yrr]] and
[[Gweara]] were making war-related preparations (glyphs of warding, covered
oil trenches, etc.). [[Willow]] was imprisoned and PISSED!

The old man talked to [[Laran]] and was convinced that we were honourable
and let them all go, meeting all the conditions (no amulets, no charms,
etc.). [[Willow]] removed the charm anyhow on [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]] (but [[Bash'yrr]]
was so convinced by [[Laran]]'s silver tongue that he is still a true
believer). So we made more war preparations. [[Conner]] flew SW to see
what was to be found and flew back and later realized there was a light
to the south that wasn't dawn. Probably orcs will be here in a few days.

[[Blue Wood]] helped make a moat, I believe that they've split a creek/river to go around both sides of the city? 
[[Willow]] helped with wells, a secret tunnel to the [[Awakened Forest]], and a deal with the [[Awakened Forest]]. 
[[Dawn Brother]] agreed to take in the townsfolk if necessary, but at the price that 1 in 10 would not leave. 

Currently we have the old man's coin which we can use to talk with him
(and he apologized to the group, BTW, but he was desperate - other
adventurers either wouldn't help without an exorbitant fee lied about
helping and then took off). We may or may not take up the amulets again
(we would have a way to remove them if necessary, and they could be used
to pull us back to the town's relative safety as we would be monitored
by the townsfolk). Not sure if the device would work on 4500 lb [[Blue Wood]].
[[Blue Wood]] thought that [[Willow]] should decide whether to use the
amulets or not, to make up for the loss of freedom she suffered earlier.

We think that the orcs number about 10 000 and have a common brand
(perhaps [[Laran]] could try a bardic knowledge check?) and likely a strong
leader that may or may not be an orc. They are organized, raiding areas
for food/supplies first with scouting parties, razing settlements to the
ground, etc. Conner voluntarily relinquished control to his silver
dragon ancestor to use his expertise in town defending and orc army killing.

===Session 2 - ''Dec 12th, 2010''===

We decided to make a fake fort with illusions and earth spells and stuff
about a day out of town. Blue Wood borrows Conner's hat of disguise to
look like a statue of Corellon Larethian the elven god. The ground is
hallowed.

Conner does a scouting mission. Orcs are in armies and have scouts
riding wolves bigger than worgs. Conner tries to kidnap a scout, no
luck (and we find out amulets don't take passengers anyhow).

Conner and Willow do a night mission and cause a little havoc with fire
spells and ravenous jaws or something like that. Seems to cause a
commotion. We find out the leader wears adamantine armour, is larger
than the average orc, and possibly has a portable anti-magic zone.
Wields a great sword?

The central orc army keeps the other ones in line and from fighting each
other.

The plan is to cause trouble at the fake fort when they arrive, harass
the orcs, kill a lot of them, maybe take out the leader. If that
doesn't work, teleport back and then town evacuates to awakened forest
while we take off back on track for the larger mission. We will give it
the old college try, as they say.

Blue Wood can meelee with the anti-magic guy, but probably shouldn't
while spell-slingers are in his carrying basket (unless they are so high
off the ground they are out of the zone). I guess I could trample over
and past him though. Likely the teleport amulets don't work in the
anti-magic zone, so be careful! Conner could also do a flying charge
with a long large pointed lance/spear/etc.

===Session 3 - ''Feb 6th, 2011''===

Sorry if I missed anything. I blame the bad mayonnaise from the night
before.

Ok, Conner and Willow did some recon, realized 2000 orcs were
missing(!), Willow ported to town to warn them, they have a few orcs
skulking around, trying to be seen without being obvious about it, but
only a handful. Then Willow got close but got sniffed out by giant
intelligent fire breathing wolves. One of which ran back to the main
army at the FF (we think). Meanwhile Conner tried to find the tracks of
the 2000 but only found the wolf tracks at least 100 and then they split
up and since Conner is Silver now that is as good as the tracking got.

Back at the Fake Fort (FF) we did more fortifying and trap building and
Laran sang to build up fake stone singing.

Finally everyone got back, we prepped, etc. The battle starts with
trebuchet building by enlarged orcs. Conner and Willow tried some recon
and trebuchet damaging. Killed some orcs but didn't kill any
trebuchets. They came back. Willow fire-warded Blue Wood which came in
handy as the trebuchets started with flaming barrels of smelly burny
oil. No one was seriously hurt but then there were tons and tons of
boulders that we had to wait out until the infantry got close. Finally
they did and Gol nuked a few orcs with fireballs and the traps did a
number on, well, a number of them. Then Conner and Willow flew up again
to see if they could find the BBEG and think they might have a
direction, at least, so Cugdish cast a Fly spell on Blue Wood and with
Gweara and Bashir in her fists Laran, Cugdish and Gol in the basket, she
is flying towards that point, buffed with Freedom of Movement (and
others are buffed too with other stuff).

===Session 4 - ''Aug 28th, 2011''===

We were flying around, [[Conner]] and [[Willow]] up ahead (faster) and noted
that there were 3 BBEGs in armour, not just one, but then they got
caught by a forceweb spell which almost sent [[Conner]] plummetting to the
earth. Conner got a feather fall (and [[Willow]] air elementalled out of
the way) and then [[Blue Wood]] caught up and held up Conner (and there was
a fog cloud, then a windwall, to protect from arrows). But Conner
couldn't get out and died(!) and [[Kiray]] pecked his amulet to take him
back to the village. Willow went too to start a reincarnation and tell
the village to evacuate. Some orcs were inside the windwall and Gweara
and Blue Wood took them out.

Arrows were common, as were a few trebuchets. So after getting of some
spells (like Cloudkill via [[Ash]]) Gol and [[Gweara]] blinked back to the
village. Gweara went to the walls to assess the situation at the
village. Laran was nearly dead but got healed and eventually Laran
left. So we were down to Bashir, Cugdish and Blue Wood. Blue Wood
stepped out of the wind wall but stumbled (oops). Bashir buffed up and
killed an orc. Cugdish dealt a blow to an orc. Blue Wood then flew up,
and Bashir and Cugdish eventually left, that left Blue Wood flying at a
(not the BBEG), and between him and the trebuchets, and a dispel magic
on most of the buff spells on her (including the fly spell, so Blue Wood
fell to earth!), Blue Wood nearly died too, but was able to kill the
BBEG and blink out, taking the corpse of the BBEG with her (but alas
forgot to take the axe which fell from the BBEG's hand).

Back at the village, the evacuation went apace and Willow asked for more
help from the Dawn Brother, and for another 2% (on top of the 10%) of
the population not leaving, there will be aid in getting the villagers
safely to the forest and retaining their identity as the people of that
village ([[Mukal]]). Some fish-tailed elfish fey folk took the children and
small non-humans to safety first. The mayor asked the party for a
distraction while the rest of them escaped.

The bard identified the BBEG as half-hobgoblin, half-XXX (where IC the
bard knows but OOC Joe didn't have his notes with him, so we will get to
that later). The armour was identified as +2 adamantine armour of
invulnerability.

[[Nasar]]/Conner reincarnated, but because the Silver dragon was in
control, it reincarnated in a separate body (half-dragon dwarf) that
flew away but said it would find us later (had things to do, went
invisible, etc.). Nasar came back as a Satyr. While dead and coming
back, Nasar was given a choice of trading Echo of the Ancestor levels
away to the [[Silver]] (who would need them to gain an advantage over the
Red dragon), and gain Sorcerer levels in return. Could be a good deal.
IC this choice was made before Nasar came to life out of the earth, but
OOC TJ has until next session to decide.

Also, OOC [[Laran]] the bard should be one level higher.

For now, [[Blue Wood]] is loaning [[Nasar]] the +1 mithril chainmail of
invulnerability (sizing) but would like it back when Nassar can find
some other armour, as it is hard for Blue Wood to find "sizing" armour.
That said, if Blue Wood is allowed to "pray" the adamantine armour that
no one can wear (but the party could sell) into the sword [[Sentinel]], then
Sentinel (and thus Blue Wood) would agree to just give Nasar the +1
mithril chainmail of invulnerability. Since the party will likely be on
the move soon, no decision has to be made on this yet.

Nasar has also not yet decided on what he wants to be called.

So we fought to defend the village, and although we failed vs. the orcs,
we did some damage and paid a heavy price (come to think of it, losing
[[Nasar]] was kinda like our paying 12%). On the up side, we took out one
of the three BBEGs, and about 1 000 of the 10 000 orcs, and likely will
save 88% of the 4 000 - 5 000 villagers. But we soon have to get back
to the main quest of repairing the broken seals.

As it stands, we are ready to provide some distraction by engaging the
"scouting" orcs and fire-breathing wolves, while the villagers get the
heck out of dodge. Then we have to figure out how we are moving. No
one is high enough level to teleport [[Blue Wood]], for instance, so I guess
we are walking.

Experience Points were not determined.

===Session 5 - ''Sept 05th, 2011''===

We fought the Orc, and the Orc won...

But we got the citizens of Mukal out and into the Awakened Forest and now need to regroup and plan from here...

===Session 6 - ''Nov 13th, 2011''===

We saved the townsfolk and they can shelter in the Awakened Forest
safely for as long as they need to (with the 12% rider of some being
forced to stay in the Awakened Forest forever) and were discussing what
to do when [[Willow]] found out the Mayor would be one of the 12%. Willow
thought the town would need the Mayor and so worked out a trade with
[[Dawn Brother]] and effectively gave up her uncle [[Bashiir]] instead (so in
game terms, Willow will need a new cohort (but we left her in a good
place to get one, as you will see below).

Gol chose to teleport away to the Waterfall temple to do some research.

Then [[Laran]] interviewed "his" dominated orc and we found out that there
were 8 orc hordes dominated by 3 "hands" of a greater being that is
unknown. The "hand" we killed was a half-fiend hobgoblin, but each
"hand" could be different and we never saw the others. Oh, and the 10
000 orcs we encountered were not the main army! This was just to make
sure the orcs weren't attacked from behind in the South before
regrouping (along with another similar army doing the same thing in the
North) at the Orc keep on this side of the pass, with the main army. So
this is at least 30 000 orcs, and maybe 9-10 (or more!) "hands", plus
whoever they are serving. Oh and the orcs killed a long time ago were a
lesser part of one of the 8 armies.

The orc was ordered into the awakened forest. He is still there for now
(a surprisingly good survivor, as a orc scout should be, I guess) but
eventually the domination will wear off (12 days from the casting, I
believe).

[[Blue Wood]] apologized to [[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] for making a rash promise about
killing half the orcs or their leader or saving the town. Clearly,
Willow's scheme of saving the town at a 12% cost was the only feasible
one in retrospect, especially since what we thought were leaders were
only "hands of the leader", whoever that is (a fiend?). The orcs were
too well organized and far too numerous. If we didn't also have the
"Recover the Seals and Save the Universe" quest it would be the greatest
threat to the civilized lands.

Walking back through the pass thus seemed problematic (but it would be
nice to warn [[Murts's Haven]] somehow). We discussed teleport and scouting
for more infor, but alas Blue Wood is too darned big.

***Note: I think I have a way around that -- with the mw scabbard I have
(see below) maybe we could get Gol or someone else at the Waterfall
Temple (see below) to enchant it so be a "sizing reversal scabbard" so
that, at the owner's will when a sizing weapon is drawn, instead of the
weapon changing size to fit the wielder, the wielder changes size to fit
the weapon! What do you think, Joe? Would this work? Would it be not
too costly (I am poor right now, alas)? ***

Anyhow, we decided to go for Cugdish Plane Shifting us to Elysium (using
a tuning fork from Blue Wood's Satchel of Serendipity - she made another
one to return to the Prime Material Plane), planning to do so again to
the [[Prime Material Plane]] and walk from there. The fields of [[Elysium]]
were nice and peaceful. Blue Wood planted 2 dryads there, people
gathered wood (for bows, arrows and a scabbard, and I think Laran
gathered some shavings) and (holy) water there, the hunting was easy
there, everything was nice there. This is where Blue Wood will end up
when she dies, if there still is a universe. Nice to get a preview of
Heaven. Nasar and Blue Wood prayed for guidance, and effectively were
made to feel that we would get some.

The Plane Shift back took us to the Basin, which made Blue Wood scared
of possible evil druids. But we also ended up right were the [[Seal]] at
the Basin was broken, and so were able to gather up all the pieces.
Alas, we got noticed by some crows, which Ki Re noted were not living
crows (undead crows, possibly with detect magic!).

***As we found out later, some evil got involved with undead took an
interest when [[Ehlonna]] guided our Plane Shift here. This had
consequences later, and shows why the gods can't interfere directly too
much -- other gods tend to step in.***

So then began an intense debate (a la telepathy, while we stealthily ran
away) about whether to fight the crows, keep running, or Plane Shift
back with the Seal to Elysium. Eventually running was no longer an
option, as the crows were onto us. Nassar had worries that plane
shifting with an artifact could be dangerous (even dimension dooring
with it caused him a flashback to horrorifying Bad MindFlayer God
stuff). Oh, we found the Seals cannot be detected by any magical means,
and do not transform with a user (not even the broken pieces).

We finally Plane Shifted back. The upside, the crows didn't find us and
the dark druids may not even have suspected that we were there. The
downside, the evil god (not the Bad Mindflayer evil god, but the undead
evil god) tried to redirect the plane shift and almost succeeded, which
would have been very very bad. As it was, we went (randomly) to a
different plane. Thank goodness that Cugdish had a reroll on the
relevant will save due to his luck domain power!

Luck was greatly with us indeed, as we arrived at The plane of [[Moradin]],
dwarven god of the forge! We nearly got attacked as "creatures from the
pit" as we had the stench of that evil god on us (unbeknownst to us) but
with some smooth talking by Laran (even an almost Botch was ridiculously
good!) we told them everything about the Seal and they agreed to have a
look at it. Finally, one of Moradin's children, the demigod of
repairing things, took a few days to repair the Seal (we volunteered
some Elysian holy water to help). After this, we were kindly invited
never to return. Nassar got a lump of mithral (for his cousin, a
Smith). Laran got 8 mithral coins stamped with Moradin's face in
exchange for entertaining the guards. Willow nearly got a heart attack
- as a chaotic thief she was as scared to be there as Blue Wood was in
the Basin.

We got safe passage back to the Prime (we chose the Waterfall temple, as
they would know what to do next) and were told we owed Moradin a favour
(in the form of a quest - he would provide guidance on it later). The
Seal activated upon arrival (it only works on the Prime Material Plane),
and knocked out Nassar, and scared some others, but we got the idea that
the Evil Mindflayer God was angry because he was even more locked up
than before. So now 4 of the 7 seals are active! 3 more to go!

===Session 7 - ''Dec 30th, 2011''===

We talked a lot, blipped over to Murt's Haven via Teleport and are gathering information.
We/Nasar also sent information to Alftis in Dalford and Leriwyn my steward via dreams about the big Orc army etc.

On the way Gol managed to fail on the teleport and ended up outside some other city, before correcting and heading to Murts.

===Session 8 - ''Feb, 2012''===

Headed south, first by teleport then started walking... ended up at a long forgotten outpost in the mountains, where we saw a light... waited outside, were attacked, killed it then started exploring what was apprently the scene of a big battle a long long time ago...

===Session 9 - ''April 7, 2012''===

Marched south, entered a illusioned forest, talked to some Gnomes. Met another keeper of knowledge of the seals. got an escort from her, rode down to the shore partly on the back of a purple worm?
Found the city, saw a dracolich manage to detonate itself against some magic shell.

===Session 10 - ''Aug 26, 2012''===

Game at Peters

What to do? What to do?

===Session 11 - ''Oct 21, 2012''===

Game at Peters

Ok, after a lot of weasel jokes, we tried to get into the sphere.

Trona (minus Sentinel) tried to approach using an arrow of Ehlonna and got blown back for her pains, with all of her other magic items disenchanted (painful, as some of them were sizing items!). She then tried again sans magic items and disappeared. . .

Eventually, Gol (and Ash, who weaseled out of Gweara's grasp at the right moment) and Willow and Laran followed, first trying an anti-magic field (didn't work, and Willow had to struggle to stay out of it), and then just with arrows of Ehlonna (which may have been a placebo effect for all I know, but what the heck, it couldn't hurt). They disappeared . . .

...and all reappeared with Trona the instant after she got in, even though it was 30 minutes apart outside the sphere. We were in a room and there were markings in obsidian. It was some sort of Sistine Chapel to Wee Jas. Willow wanted to mark out route with chalk but circled a sigil and when told by Trona it was an invoking sigil, broke the circle by rubbing it out. Not so good. Willow tried to hide but was grabbed by a being that spoke no language we knew. Laran using Comprehend Languages talked the 8' sorta undead but not really guy down and took responsibility for the chaotic Willow, who ended up with a mark on her forehead that Gol noticed. Anyhow we got to a room (which K'shetanna the long dead mage highlighted for us, and found the dead K'shetanna holding the seal parts together (they were cracked) and we found other items in the room, and Willow picked up a cloak that had souls asking her to join them but made a will save and then Gol picked up the cloak and made a will save. To keep the seal together Willow used some tanglefoot bags - so far, so good. We took 6 major magic items from the room including the cloak and the seal and also some pages about a dragon involved in rituals a blue dragon (get it, breathes lightning, shockwave theory?) which likely is the dracolich outside. So one of the magic items is likely the phylactery. So we take them all out. This involved teleporting Trona into the room (shortest teleport ever!) and then Trona maneuvering and climbing out of the room through the open wall (and a short interlude of Willow's forehead mark burning and her "returning" the cloak and Gold taking it) and then Trona jumping through the sphere with everyone (but no battle basket) . . .

... to meet Nassar on the outside, only 30 seconds having passed for him. So this time stuff is non-linear, as if it wasn't weird enough!

Bad news, the dracolich is now reforming MUCH faster so first we scattered to find out which item it was aiming for. Bad news, it was the phylactery. So Gol (with the artifact dagger) and Willow (with the cloak, seal, and one other artifact, yet to be named (I think that is right, six total artifacts or is it six + seal for seven?) and Laran and Gweara took off, via gem jump, leaving Trona, Nassar (with the mirror artifact) and Shu Yen and their familiars to get the hell out of dodge - with some magical aid (haste on us, ray of enfeeblement and evard's black tentacles on the dragon, whose healing slowed and whose direction vector changed, which Nassar noted the new vector of). We got to the city gates and are about to leave. This took an hour, which might mean 8 years on the outside since the teleport.

So half the party has time to research how to destroy the lich's soul without destroying the seal and otherwise prepare for the dracolich (or something else, maybe having Ehlonna bind the soul like she did with the mindflayer cleric?) and to meet us at the gates of the city as we leave.

I don't know if we did the right thing or not, but I hope we did.

Which Quest is Best

2013-12-28T17:51:58Z

Nasar: /* Session 10 - Aug 26, 2012 */

===Session 1 - ''Sept 25th, 2010''===

Started after [[Troubled Fey]]

The group needs to figure out how to get back into [[The Principalities]] by way of [[The Keep]], as well as figuring out what to do about the two major paths in front of them.

(Contributed by Alex, tweaked by TJ)

The group headed back towards [[The Keep]], passing near [[Muka'l]], and decided to check for information....

The party went to the town of [[Muka'l]] (well [[Conner]] and [[Blue Wood]] and [[Gol]]
stayed outside near the [[Awakened Forest]]) and checked the mail. The town
was crowded, chaotic, with a siege mentality (and lots of opportunistic
pickpockets - [[Gweara]] lost a dagger). The party members going in gave their
names and were "flagged" as potential recruits and given identifying
bracelets to wear to keep them from being troubled while waiting for an
interview with the town leader (or so they thought!). Mail for
[[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] was nothing special from his distant silver dragon kin,
but [[Lady Naomi]] hoped he could come home soon. Then the leader of the
town (old man) came and with a custom mass charm got [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]]
to agree to help the war effort vs. Orcs. [[Laran]], already juiced up with
diplomacy, convinced the others (except Willow). [[Willow]] "agreed" to get
the rest of us outside and then explained what had happened and that the
amulets did not come off. We talked about ways of removing the amulet
and [[Willow]] disappeared!

So [[Gol]] created a lot of copies of a diplomatic agreement (worded by [[Blue Wood]]) along the tunes of "we don't have much time for this - we have
other very pressing issues, but if you release our friends we won't
waste your resources releasing them ourselves, and we will kill the orc
leader and/or 5000 orcs". [[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] airbombed [[Muka'l]] with the leaflets...

Meanwhile, [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]] were calming the crowd, and [[Bash'yrr]] and
[[Gweara]] were making war-related preparations (glyphs of warding, covered
oil trenches, etc.). [[Willow]] was imprisoned and PISSED!

The old man talked to [[Laran]] and was convinced that we were honourable
and let them all go, meeting all the conditions (no amulets, no charms,
etc.). [[Willow]] removed the charm anyhow on [[Laran]] and [[Cugdish]] (but [[Bash'yrr]]
was so convinced by [[Laran]]'s silver tongue that he is still a true
believer). So we made more war preparations. [[Conner]] flew SW to see
what was to be found and flew back and later realized there was a light
to the south that wasn't dawn. Probably orcs will be here in a few days.

[[Blue Wood]] helped make a moat, I believe that they've split a creek/river to go around both sides of the city? 
[[Willow]] helped with wells, a secret tunnel to the [[Awakened Forest]], and a deal with the [[Awakened Forest]]. 
[[Dawn Brother]] agreed to take in the townsfolk if necessary, but at the price that 1 in 10 would not leave. 

Currently we have the old man's coin which we can use to talk with him
(and he apologized to the group, BTW, but he was desperate - other
adventurers either wouldn't help without an exorbitant fee lied about
helping and then took off). We may or may not take up the amulets again
(we would have a way to remove them if necessary, and they could be used
to pull us back to the town's relative safety as we would be monitored
by the townsfolk). Not sure if the device would work on 4500 lb [[Blue Wood]].
[[Blue Wood]] thought that [[Willow]] should decide whether to use the
amulets or not, to make up for the loss of freedom she suffered earlier.

We think that the orcs number about 10 000 and have a common brand
(perhaps [[Laran]] could try a bardic knowledge check?) and likely a strong
leader that may or may not be an orc. They are organized, raiding areas
for food/supplies first with scouting parties, razing settlements to the
ground, etc. Conner voluntarily relinquished control to his silver
dragon ancestor to use his expertise in town defending and orc army killing.

===Session 2 - ''Dec 12th, 2010''===

We decided to make a fake fort with illusions and earth spells and stuff
about a day out of town. Blue Wood borrows Conner's hat of disguise to
look like a statue of Corellon Larethian the elven god. The ground is
hallowed.

Conner does a scouting mission. Orcs are in armies and have scouts
riding wolves bigger than worgs. Conner tries to kidnap a scout, no
luck (and we find out amulets don't take passengers anyhow).

Conner and Willow do a night mission and cause a little havoc with fire
spells and ravenous jaws or something like that. Seems to cause a
commotion. We find out the leader wears adamantine armour, is larger
than the average orc, and possibly has a portable anti-magic zone.
Wields a great sword?

The central orc army keeps the other ones in line and from fighting each
other.

The plan is to cause trouble at the fake fort when they arrive, harass
the orcs, kill a lot of them, maybe take out the leader. If that
doesn't work, teleport back and then town evacuates to awakened forest
while we take off back on track for the larger mission. We will give it
the old college try, as they say.

Blue Wood can meelee with the anti-magic guy, but probably shouldn't
while spell-slingers are in his carrying basket (unless they are so high
off the ground they are out of the zone). I guess I could trample over
and past him though. Likely the teleport amulets don't work in the
anti-magic zone, so be careful! Conner could also do a flying charge
with a long large pointed lance/spear/etc.

===Session 3 - ''Feb 6th, 2011''===

Sorry if I missed anything. I blame the bad mayonnaise from the night
before.

Ok, Conner and Willow did some recon, realized 2000 orcs were
missing(!), Willow ported to town to warn them, they have a few orcs
skulking around, trying to be seen without being obvious about it, but
only a handful. Then Willow got close but got sniffed out by giant
intelligent fire breathing wolves. One of which ran back to the main
army at the FF (we think). Meanwhile Conner tried to find the tracks of
the 2000 but only found the wolf tracks at least 100 and then they split
up and since Conner is Silver now that is as good as the tracking got.

Back at the Fake Fort (FF) we did more fortifying and trap building and
Laran sang to build up fake stone singing.

Finally everyone got back, we prepped, etc. The battle starts with
trebuchet building by enlarged orcs. Conner and Willow tried some recon
and trebuchet damaging. Killed some orcs but didn't kill any
trebuchets. They came back. Willow fire-warded Blue Wood which came in
handy as the trebuchets started with flaming barrels of smelly burny
oil. No one was seriously hurt but then there were tons and tons of
boulders that we had to wait out until the infantry got close. Finally
they did and Gol nuked a few orcs with fireballs and the traps did a
number on, well, a number of them. Then Conner and Willow flew up again
to see if they could find the BBEG and think they might have a
direction, at least, so Cugdish cast a Fly spell on Blue Wood and with
Gweara and Bashir in her fists Laran, Cugdish and Gol in the basket, she
is flying towards that point, buffed with Freedom of Movement (and
others are buffed too with other stuff).

===Session 4 - ''Aug 28th, 2011''===

We were flying around, [[Conner]] and [[Willow]] up ahead (faster) and noted
that there were 3 BBEGs in armour, not just one, but then they got
caught by a forceweb spell which almost sent [[Conner]] plummetting to the
earth. Conner got a feather fall (and [[Willow]] air elementalled out of
the way) and then [[Blue Wood]] caught up and held up Conner (and there was
a fog cloud, then a windwall, to protect from arrows). But Conner
couldn't get out and died(!) and [[Kiray]] pecked his amulet to take him
back to the village. Willow went too to start a reincarnation and tell
the village to evacuate. Some orcs were inside the windwall and Gweara
and Blue Wood took them out.

Arrows were common, as were a few trebuchets. So after getting of some
spells (like Cloudkill via [[Ash]]) Gol and [[Gweara]] blinked back to the
village. Gweara went to the walls to assess the situation at the
village. Laran was nearly dead but got healed and eventually Laran
left. So we were down to Bashir, Cugdish and Blue Wood. Blue Wood
stepped out of the wind wall but stumbled (oops). Bashir buffed up and
killed an orc. Cugdish dealt a blow to an orc. Blue Wood then flew up,
and Bashir and Cugdish eventually left, that left Blue Wood flying at a
(not the BBEG), and between him and the trebuchets, and a dispel magic
on most of the buff spells on her (including the fly spell, so Blue Wood
fell to earth!), Blue Wood nearly died too, but was able to kill the
BBEG and blink out, taking the corpse of the BBEG with her (but alas
forgot to take the axe which fell from the BBEG's hand).

Back at the village, the evacuation went apace and Willow asked for more
help from the Dawn Brother, and for another 2% (on top of the 10%) of
the population not leaving, there will be aid in getting the villagers
safely to the forest and retaining their identity as the people of that
village ([[Mukal]]). Some fish-tailed elfish fey folk took the children and
small non-humans to safety first. The mayor asked the party for a
distraction while the rest of them escaped.

The bard identified the BBEG as half-hobgoblin, half-XXX (where IC the
bard knows but OOC Joe didn't have his notes with him, so we will get to
that later). The armour was identified as +2 adamantine armour of
invulnerability.

[[Nasar]]/Conner reincarnated, but because the Silver dragon was in
control, it reincarnated in a separate body (half-dragon dwarf) that
flew away but said it would find us later (had things to do, went
invisible, etc.). Nasar came back as a Satyr. While dead and coming
back, Nasar was given a choice of trading Echo of the Ancestor levels
away to the [[Silver]] (who would need them to gain an advantage over the
Red dragon), and gain Sorcerer levels in return. Could be a good deal.
IC this choice was made before Nasar came to life out of the earth, but
OOC TJ has until next session to decide.

Also, OOC [[Laran]] the bard should be one level higher.

For now, [[Blue Wood]] is loaning [[Nasar]] the +1 mithril chainmail of
invulnerability (sizing) but would like it back when Nassar can find
some other armour, as it is hard for Blue Wood to find "sizing" armour.
That said, if Blue Wood is allowed to "pray" the adamantine armour that
no one can wear (but the party could sell) into the sword [[Sentinel]], then
Sentinel (and thus Blue Wood) would agree to just give Nasar the +1
mithril chainmail of invulnerability. Since the party will likely be on
the move soon, no decision has to be made on this yet.

Nasar has also not yet decided on what he wants to be called.

So we fought to defend the village, and although we failed vs. the orcs,
we did some damage and paid a heavy price (come to think of it, losing
[[Nasar]] was kinda like our paying 12%). On the up side, we took out one
of the three BBEGs, and about 1 000 of the 10 000 orcs, and likely will
save 88% of the 4 000 - 5 000 villagers. But we soon have to get back
to the main quest of repairing the broken seals.

As it stands, we are ready to provide some distraction by engaging the
"scouting" orcs and fire-breathing wolves, while the villagers get the
heck out of dodge. Then we have to figure out how we are moving. No
one is high enough level to teleport [[Blue Wood]], for instance, so I guess
we are walking.

Experience Points were not determined.

===Session 5 - ''Sept 05th, 2011''===

We fought the Orc, and the Orc won...

But we got the citizens of Mukal out and into the Awakened Forest and now need to regroup and plan from here...

===Session 6 - ''Nov 13th, 2011''===

We saved the townsfolk and they can shelter in the Awakened Forest
safely for as long as they need to (with the 12% rider of some being
forced to stay in the Awakened Forest forever) and were discussing what
to do when [[Willow]] found out the Mayor would be one of the 12%. Willow
thought the town would need the Mayor and so worked out a trade with
[[Dawn Brother]] and effectively gave up her uncle [[Bashiir]] instead (so in
game terms, Willow will need a new cohort (but we left her in a good
place to get one, as you will see below).

Gol chose to teleport away to the Waterfall temple to do some research.

Then [[Laran]] interviewed "his" dominated orc and we found out that there
were 8 orc hordes dominated by 3 "hands" of a greater being that is
unknown. The "hand" we killed was a half-fiend hobgoblin, but each
"hand" could be different and we never saw the others. Oh, and the 10
000 orcs we encountered were not the main army! This was just to make
sure the orcs weren't attacked from behind in the South before
regrouping (along with another similar army doing the same thing in the
North) at the Orc keep on this side of the pass, with the main army. So
this is at least 30 000 orcs, and maybe 9-10 (or more!) "hands", plus
whoever they are serving. Oh and the orcs killed a long time ago were a
lesser part of one of the 8 armies.

The orc was ordered into the awakened forest. He is still there for now
(a surprisingly good survivor, as a orc scout should be, I guess) but
eventually the domination will wear off (12 days from the casting, I
believe).

[[Blue Wood]] apologized to [[Nasar]]/[[Conner]] for making a rash promise about
killing half the orcs or their leader or saving the town. Clearly,
Willow's scheme of saving the town at a 12% cost was the only feasible
one in retrospect, especially since what we thought were leaders were
only "hands of the leader", whoever that is (a fiend?). The orcs were
too well organized and far too numerous. If we didn't also have the
"Recover the Seals and Save the Universe" quest it would be the greatest
threat to the civilized lands.

Walking back through the pass thus seemed problematic (but it would be
nice to warn [[Murts's Haven]] somehow). We discussed teleport and scouting
for more infor, but alas Blue Wood is too darned big.

***Note: I think I have a way around that -- with the mw scabbard I have
(see below) maybe we could get Gol or someone else at the Waterfall
Temple (see below) to enchant it so be a "sizing reversal scabbard" so
that, at the owner's will when a sizing weapon is drawn, instead of the
weapon changing size to fit the wielder, the wielder changes size to fit
the weapon! What do you think, Joe? Would this work? Would it be not
too costly (I am poor right now, alas)? ***

Anyhow, we decided to go for Cugdish Plane Shifting us to Elysium (using
a tuning fork from Blue Wood's Satchel of Serendipity - she made another
one to return to the Prime Material Plane), planning to do so again to
the [[Prime Material Plane]] and walk from there. The fields of [[Elysium]]
were nice and peaceful. Blue Wood planted 2 dryads there, people
gathered wood (for bows, arrows and a scabbard, and I think Laran
gathered some shavings) and (holy) water there, the hunting was easy
there, everything was nice there. This is where Blue Wood will end up
when she dies, if there still is a universe. Nice to get a preview of
Heaven. Nasar and Blue Wood prayed for guidance, and effectively were
made to feel that we would get some.

The Plane Shift back took us to the Basin, which made Blue Wood scared
of possible evil druids. But we also ended up right were the [[Seal]] at
the Basin was broken, and so were able to gather up all the pieces.
Alas, we got noticed by some crows, which Ki Re noted were not living
crows (undead crows, possibly with detect magic!).

***As we found out later, some evil got involved with undead took an
interest when [[Ehlonna]] guided our Plane Shift here. This had
consequences later, and shows why the gods can't interfere directly too
much -- other gods tend to step in.***

So then began an intense debate (a la telepathy, while we stealthily ran
away) about whether to fight the crows, keep running, or Plane Shift
back with the Seal to Elysium. Eventually running was no longer an
option, as the crows were onto us. Nassar had worries that plane
shifting with an artifact could be dangerous (even dimension dooring
with it caused him a flashback to horrorifying Bad MindFlayer God
stuff). Oh, we found the Seals cannot be detected by any magical means,
and do not transform with a user (not even the broken pieces).

We finally Plane Shifted back. The upside, the crows didn't find us and
the dark druids may not even have suspected that we were there. The
downside, the evil god (not the Bad Mindflayer evil god, but the undead
evil god) tried to redirect the plane shift and almost succeeded, which
would have been very very bad. As it was, we went (randomly) to a
different plane. Thank goodness that Cugdish had a reroll on the
relevant will save due to his luck domain power!

Luck was greatly with us indeed, as we arrived at The plane of [[Moradin]],
dwarven god of the forge! We nearly got attacked as "creatures from the
pit" as we had the stench of that evil god on us (unbeknownst to us) but
with some smooth talking by Laran (even an almost Botch was ridiculously
good!) we told them everything about the Seal and they agreed to have a
look at it. Finally, one of Moradin's children, the demigod of
repairing things, took a few days to repair the Seal (we volunteered
some Elysian holy water to help). After this, we were kindly invited
never to return. Nassar got a lump of mithral (for his cousin, a
Smith). Laran got 8 mithral coins stamped with Moradin's face in
exchange for entertaining the guards. Willow nearly got a heart attack
- as a chaotic thief she was as scared to be there as Blue Wood was in
the Basin.

We got safe passage back to the Prime (we chose the Waterfall temple, as
they would know what to do next) and were told we owed Moradin a favour
(in the form of a quest - he would provide guidance on it later). The
Seal activated upon arrival (it only works on the Prime Material Plane),
and knocked out Nassar, and scared some others, but we got the idea that
the Evil Mindflayer God was angry because he was even more locked up
than before. So now 4 of the 7 seals are active! 3 more to go!

===Session 7 - ''Dec 30th, 2011''===

We talked a lot, blipped over to Murt's Haven via Teleport and are gathering information.
We/Nasar also sent information to Alftis in Dalford and Leriwyn my steward via dreams about the big Orc army etc.

On the way Gol managed to fail on the teleport and ended up outside some other city, before correcting and heading to Murts.

===Session 8 - ''Feb, 2012''===

Headed south, first by teleport then started walking... ended up at a long forgotten outpost in the mountains, where we saw a light... waited outside, were attacked, killed it then started exploring what was apprently the scene of a big battle a long long time ago...

===Session 9 - ''April 7, 2012''===

Marched south, entered a illusioned forest, talked to some Gnomes. Met another keeper of knowledge of the seals. got an escort from her, rode down to the shore partly on the back of a purple worm?
Found the city, saw a dracolich manage to detonate itself against some magic shell.

===Session 10 - ''Aug 26, 2012''===

Game at Peters

What to do? What to do?

===Session 11 - ''Oct 21, 2012''===

Game at Peters

Ok, after a lot of weasel jokes, we tried to get into the sphere.

Trona (minus Sentinel) tried to approach using an arrow of Ehlonna and got blown back for her pains, with all of her other magic items disenchanted (painful, as some of them were sizing items!). She then tried again sans magic items and disappeared. . .

Eventually, Gol (and Ash, who weaseled out of Gweara's grasp at the right moment) and Willow and Laran followed, first trying an anti-magic field (didn't work, and Willow had to struggle to stay out of it), and then just with arrows of Ehlonna (which may have been a placebo effect for all I know, but what the heck, it couldn't hurt). They disappeared . . .

. . . and all reappeared with Trona the instant after she got in, even though it was 30 minutes apart outside the sphere. We were in a room and there were markings in obsidian. It was some sort of Sistine Chapel to Wee Jas. Willow wanted to mark out route with chalk but circled a sigil and when told by Trona it was an invoking sigil, broke the circle by rubbing it out. Not so good. Willow tried to hide but was grabbed by a being that spoke no language we knew. Laran using Comprehend Languages talked the 8' sorta undead but not really guy down and took responsibility for the chaotic Willow, who ended up with a mark on her forehead that Gol noticed. Anyhow we got to a room (which K'shetanna the long dead mage highlighted for us, and found the dead K'shetanna holding the seal parts together (they were cracked) and we found other items in the room, and Willow picked up a cloak that had souls asking her to join them but made a will save and then Gol picked up the cloak and made a will save. To keep the seal together Willow used some tanglefoot bags - so far, so good. We took 6 major magic items from the room including the cloak and the seal and also some pages about a dragon involved in rituals a blue dragon (get it, breathes lightning, shockwave theory?) which likely is the dracolich outside. So one of the magic items is likely the phylactery. So we take them all out. This involved teleporting Trona into the room (shortest teleport ever!) and then Trona maneuvering and climbing out of the room through the open wall (and a short interlude of Willow's forehead mark burning and her "returning" the cloak and Gold taking it) and then Trona jumping through the sphere with everyone (but no battle basket) . . .

. . . to meet Nassar on the outside, only 30 seconds having passed for him. So this time stuff is non-linear, as if it wasn't weird enough!

Bad news, the dracolich is now reforming MUCH faster so first we scattered to find out which item it was aiming for. Bad news, it was the phylactery. So Gol (with the artifact dagger) and Willow (with the cloak, seal, and one other artifact, yet to be named (I think that is right, six total artifacts or is it six + seal for seven?) and Laran and Gweara took off, via gem jump, leaving Trona, Nassar (with the mirror artifact) and Shu Yen and their familiars to get the hell out of dodge - with some magical aid (haste on us, ray of enfeeblement and evard's black tentacles on the dragon, whose healing slowed and whose direction vector changed, which Nassar noted the new vector of). We got to the city gates and are about to leave. This took an hour, which might mean 8 years on the outside since the teleport.

So half the party has time to research how to destroy the lich's soul without destroying the seal and otherwise prepare for the dracolich (or something else, maybe having Ehlonna bind the soul like she did with the mindflayer cleric?) and to meet us at the gates of the city as we leave.

I don't know if we did the right thing or not, but I hope we did.

Which Quest is Best

2012-08-26T17:07:23Z

Nasar: /* Session 8 - ''Feb, 2012'' */

PreCataclysm World

2012-04-07T20:41:01Z

Nasar:

This is the pre cataclysmic world

Which Quest is Best

2012-04-07T20:27:05Z

Nasar: /* Session 8 - ''????, 2012'' */

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2011-09-06T02:16:39Z

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ie. you can't make a link to New Ballim's Rise, but you can make a link to [[New Ballims Rise]]

== The Adventure Begins ==
We started out at [[The Keep]] and thus began [[The Start]] of [[The Journey]] 
 
Players are currently in the 10 to 12th lvl range 
Last adventure was: [[Troubled Fey]] 
Current adventure is: [[Which Quest is Best]] 
 
Chapter 1: The Chaos of Peace (levels 2 through 6) 
Chapter 2: The Long Shadow of War (levels 6 through 10) 
Chapter 3: Fomenting the Firmament (levels 10 through ??) 
Chapter 4: ?? 

== The World ==
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[[The World]] 
[[The Kingdom of Asgrim]] 
[[The Principalities]] 
The [[Orclands]] 
[[Places]] 
[[Other Realities]]

== The Current Players ==

[[Nasar]] and his trusty cohort [[Gweara]] 
[[Conner]] (alternate name for [[Nasar]]) 
[[Laran]] 
[[Cugdish]](Craig's character) 
[[Trona]] 
[[Blue Wood]] (alternate name for Trona) 
[[Sentinel]] (very intelligent holy sword of Trona) 
[[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
[[Willow]] and her trusty cohort [[Bash'yrr]] 

'''[[Other Players]] (ie. dead/vanished/left etc.)'''

== Group Assets or Objects ==
[[The HearthStone Inn]] - The Inn that a number of members have contributed to 
[[TableCloth]] - The equivalent of a very large bag of holding...

== Important People ie. [[Major NPCs]] ==
[[Minor NPCs]]

== The Eberron Adventure ==

As a side game, we've started up another adventure in the Eberron Campaign Setting, and information for that game will be available at http://eberron.thtree.com . 

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==Updates==
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==Wiki Status and editing notes==
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Note: If you try to build a link with apostophes in it, if there is only one apostrophe, it will fail...
ie. you can't make a link to New Ballim's Rise, but you can make a link to [[New Ballims Rise]]

== The Adventure Begins ==
We started out at [[The Keep]] and thus began [[The Start]] of [[The Journey]] 
 
Players are currently in the 10 to 12th lvl range 
Last adventure was: [[Troubled Fey]] 
Current adventure is: [[Which Quest is Best]] 
 
Chapter 1: The Chaos of Peace (levels 2 through 6) 
Chapter 2: The Long Shadow of War (levels 6 through 10) 
Chapter 3: Fomenting the Firmament (levels 10 through ??) 
Chapter 4: ?? 

== The World ==
Gee.. how do you adequately describe such a large object... ie. Joe's Brain, supplemented by Galen's Brain<G> 

[[The World]] 
[[The Kingdom of Asgrim]] 
[[The Principalities]] 
The [[Orclands]] 
[[Places]] 
[[Other Realities]]

== The Current Players ==

[[Nasar]] and his trusty cohort [[Gweara]] 
[[Conner]] (alternate name for [[Nasar]]) 
[[Laran]] 
[[Cugdish]](Craig's character) 
[[Trona]] 
[[Blue Wood]] (alternate name for Trona) 
[[Sentinel]] (very intelligent holy sword of Trona) 
[[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
[[Willow]] and her trusty cohort [[Bash'yrr]] 

'''[[Other Players]] (ie. dead/vanished/left etc.)'''

== Group Assets or Objects ==
[[The HearthStone Inn]] - The Inn that a number of members have contributed to 
[[TableCloth]] - The equivalent of a very large bag of holding...

== Important People ie. [[Major NPCs]] ==
[[Minor NPCs]]

== The Eberron Adventure ==

As a side game, we've started up another adventure in the Eberron Campaign Setting, and information for that game will be available at http://eberron.thtree.com . 

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2010-12-07T07:39:20Z

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Nasar:

A synonym for the [[Living Forest]]

Which Quest is Best

2010-12-07T05:23:58Z

Nasar: /* Session 1 - ''Sept 25th, 2010'' */

Which Quest is Best

2010-12-07T05:20:01Z

Nasar: /* Session 1 - ''Sept 25th, 2010'' */

Troubled Fey

2010-12-07T05:07:58Z

Nasar: /* Session 16 - Cleanup and Decisions - ''Jul 5th, 2010'' */

===Session 1 - ''Nov 11th, 2008''===

Started after [[Mega Turtles]]

We talk to the Fey near [[Caltha'na'b]], that we had previously encountered when a young girl had gone missing.

We set up a nice little party in the woods and brought along some of the magic wine that we had gotten from the Stalwart adventure. After a while the no longer young girl came along chatting with folks that were not visible. We met up with her and started chatting with her and her friends, toasting chatting, giving them the wine, talking for what seemed like hours through the afternoon and far into the evening... Unbeknownst to us, we had drifted into the realm of the Fey... but we could catch glimpses of our hosts, after several more hours we noticed that our companions and the bard were not around, and couldn't see anyone, we then asked our hosts what world we were in and realized the others had been searching for us. Sadly we had to leave and asked for escort back to the mundane world... The young girl knew the way and guided us back.

We left what was deep night, came through a bush and found it noonish... Upon making our way back to the town, we found that we had been gone for 10 days!!! Needless to say, our friends and companions were very glad to see us again!

Upon checking, we discover that each of those that went into the Fey Realm have each been given a unique item that we think is some sort of special token or key. 
-- [[Trona]] received a wooden dagger. dark, blue-tinged, and fine-grained 
-- [[Nasar]] received a small bark box with a feather inside 
-- [[Millain]] recieved a small crystal jar full of an odourless liquid. It gently swirls, sparlking, and always reflects a forest behind you 
-- <Inn town's priest of Ehlohnna> received a firefly lantern 

The messenger had been and gone, left the message with [[Leriwyn]], indicating that there was definite troubles near [[The Keep]] and [[Living Forest]].

We make arrangements with [[Janosh]] and [[Leriwyn]] to coordinate the construction of [[The Snapping Turtle]].

We finished our arrangements and are waiting for a group put together by [[Lady Naomi]] to be ready before we head off to [[The Keep]], where her folks will stay and we head off to the [[Living Forest]] to find out what is going on with the Fey.

===Session 2 - ''March 08, 2009''===

Presumably we will wait for the group that Lady Naomi is putting together, then head pretty straight to [[The Keep]], gather information there, resupply and head for the [[Living Forest]], possibly dealing with wierdness along the way...

John's character (unknown name right now) joined us at the [[The HearthStone Inn]].

Actually we headed towards [[The Keep]] but had a bit of an adventure with another caravan at a place our caravan camped at one night. Someone stole some supplies, which led to us tracking down the theives, who had a bunch of loot tucked away in a special carpet much like a custom bag of holding. We returned what goods we could to the caravan, and then took the rest, and the criminals off to the next town where we reported eveything... we got to keep the carpet..

On our way we were given the option of escorting a shipment out to [[Murt's_Haven]], which we declined due to timing.

We then continued on our way, and I believe ended up at [[Dallford]] and talked to [[Alfdis]] about supplies and information.

===Session 3 - ''Apr 05, 2009''===
XP: 600 @ lvl 12; 660 @ lvl 11; 730 @ lvl 10; 800 @ lvl 9

I believe we will likely head up to [[The Keep]] after resupplying in [[Dallford]], connect with our friends there and plan the route accordingly.

By default, I am assuming that we will head to [[Muq'Al]] from [[The Keep]] and from there into the [[Living Forest]]. Perhaps we can arrange some contact in [[Muq'Al]] from the Keep in order to get the latest information?

Adventures in [[Dallford]]: 
Trona witnessed a murder in a crowd but was unable to help other than ensuring the body was recovered. 
Gweara saw someone trying to steal Trona's saddlebag. She charged through the crowd on horseback, hurting several people. The thief gave up and ran away but Gwear found and captured him, holding him for the eventual arrival of Trona and the guards. 
The party breifly tried to buy some items from the market but gave up on the slimy merchants to wait for their lunch with [[Alfdis]] the next day. Meanwhile the rest of the party dug up some info on current events, including local trouble with minor Fey. 
The party went for lunch with [[Alfdis]] where they dug up lots of info, met some people who were very interested in their previous adventures in the Orc Lands, and were pointed at: a [[Living Forest]] expert in [[Muq'Al]]; a gear contact locally; and a local minor Fey expert. 
They met with the Local Fey expert and arranged to trade their time for her time the next day. 
They met with the local gear contact, who turned out to be [[Alfdis]]. She arranged for significant gear shuffling and supply for the party, including several rings/collars of sustenance. She also introduced them to [[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
The party opted to stop at this point, leaving time to discuss how to proceed. 
===Session 4 - ''May 17, 2009''===

Stopped in [[Dallford]], got more info, stocked up courtesy of Elftis, met Gal, went to [[Muka'l]], got info on how to get to Waterfalls.

===Session 5 - ''Sept 13, 2009''===

Cleared the infection.
Talked to the two treants
Fought the cohorts

===Session 6 - ''Sept 20, 2009''===

Fought the messed up Nymph and cohorts etc. and then teleported back to the town.
Big fight, stories need to be added.

===Session 7 - ''Oct 18, 2009''===

We train, and we equip and we head back to the woods... and continue the grand adventure...

We also allocated the MVP awards(out of game)

A) circle dance - 300XP -> GAL
B) infested civilian detection 500XP -> Willow
C) defeat nymph's minions etc. 800XP -> Trona
D) defeating the nymph etc.1000XP -> split 50/50 Willow and Nasar

This ended up as a big shopping expedition as we sold the dagger for 6500GP and the armoire for about 54,000 GP... So we got a lot of booster stuff

We then headed back to the previous location only slightly hampered by a minor teleport error, and discovered that there was little trace of the previous battle.

We then headed on and encountered a swarm of infected bugs/fey which we survived courtesy of Willow's wind and Gal's summoning a shelter and a quick fire being lit... then Jungle razing the swarm...

We went further and found a spot and settled in for the night, only to have the door knocked on an hour later.

After some dickering through the closed door we found that these were pretty high up [[Fey]] one in particular being the [[Dawn Brother]] with whom we exchanged much information and got some clues about what is going on. He also shifted us to within a few minutes walking distance of the Elven [[Waterfall City]], and helped [[Willow]] regain her [[Fey]] heritage again.

We checked out the location and bumped into two infected [[Treant]]'s and had to do battle, curing one and killing the other... at the cost of [[Gol]] getting trapped under one and [[Nasar]] becoming slightly infected, but cleared.

We then wandered up to the actual Elven [[Waterfall City]] and it looks like lots of stuff is infected there... so we called it quits for the night/day.

===Session 8 - ''Nov 1, 2009''===

We slept in the rope trick overnight, recharged spells

Via Alex/[[Trona]]:
This session, we fought a blackberry bush! With rabbits in it! One of
them tried to kill [[Willow]]! Then Trona went on watch and sucked at
spotting things (a trend that continued that session), so got suckered
by a squirrel on her back! Killed it but got wormed (sigh) but her
sword could at least remember what she couldn't. Then a crow tried to
get her. Then a deer nearly came to us, with a wormy arrow (great a
wormed archer). But the deer left. Then we ran into a burrowing
mammal. It is like they all saw Disney and got pissed off at it or
something. :)

Then we went closer to the waterfall and found wormed displacer beasts
in the woods (with a BIG mama displacer beast). We tried to outrun them
invisibly while Willow caused a distraction. But they tracked Willow by
scent to the waterfall where we were to meet, so the fight was on
anyhow. So far, the good news is the mama is at the visible worm stage
(so stage 2, one stage from death and vulnerable to a remove curse in an
explosive way). The bad news is that the littler kitties are up the
tree with party members causing all sorts of trouble near the rope
bridge (well, single rope) we want to use to cross over to the cave
behind the waterfall to find out what's what. Oh, and that [[Nasar]] is
(unbeknownst to us) under the control of his EVIL ANCIENT RED DRAGON
ancestor. Yee gawds protect us all. :)

Nasar:

Was climbing the tree/ladder then fell into the maw of one of the beasts (big mamma?) and realized his only chance to escape was to call on his ancestors... unfortunately the '''wrong''' one answered... but she the dimension doored to the top of the tree, then launched a Jungle Razor blast down at the big beast, and is now trying to decide what to do next...

XP:

lvl 10 - 900
lvl 11 - 660
lvl 12 - 540

MVP of 450 points to be awarded

===Session 9 - ''Dec 6th, 2009''===

Where we hopefully finish the battle with the wormed displacer beasts... and get to the other side of the waterfall...

Rough sketch before we forget:

Big mamma wormed displacer beast engulfed the tree... we got out by flying, levitation and greater floating disks

[[Gol]] burned the rope
[[Trona]] got engulfed, fought her way free, aided by a few fireballs from [[Nasar]]/Red and a lightning bolt from [[Gol]],
Big mamma 'dissolved' into the tree...

On the way across, [[Trona]]'s sword noticed Red's evilness, so Red threw an Allip at [[Trona]] to distract her and it basically worked.

[[Gol]] determined that there was part of the surface at least a 40 ft sphere of Anti-magic coming out of the waterfall.

We got to the top of the waterfall cleared ourselves of the worms. Red had to drop the non-detection, but stayed mostly away

On scouting the area, we found heaps of bodies, mostly decomposed ~ 6months old, determined they were defenders, but noticed strange holes in the back of some of the skulls. Tried to find another entrance, no go. Found a place to anchor the rope. Found a place to shelter.
[[Laran]] did a Legend Lore on the site of the ambush and got some info about the battle.

roughly summarized here:

- disguised as trade 
- attack was evil in thought, deed and goal 
- the weaker attackers were used as fodder to wear down the attackers 
- the guardians found till the end 
- innocents who served them were dedicated and strong but could not resist when minds consumed 
- alarm raised too late 
- entrance betrayed 
- guardians failed 

A necklace was found that registered as evil. Red recognized it and gave some sketchy details, as she had a clue about what opponents they might be up against.

The rope was fetched and anchored up to the top.

We sheltered through the night, then tried legend lore on the necklace, no go, and then it was destroyed, and then Red was again detected by the sword... and through another allip, but folks noticed the spell casting... and much telepathic discussion ensued...

We then headed into the waterfall...

First [[Trona]] and [[Willow]], then [[Nasar]]/Red and [[Laran]]

Upon entering the [[Waterfall City]], Nasar returned to the fore, and confused tried to back out, then Red popped back in control, and decided to go on into the Waterfall, figuring she'll get some gain out of it, and wanting to know what is going on.

Once back inside and in the entrance, Trona explained roughly what had happened and that they believe Red was in control.

[[Willow]] went ahead and found some traps, disabling one or two of them

[[Gol]], [[Gweara]] and [[Felix]] are at the top outside the Waterfall...

And this is where we stopped this session...

Oh and XP was awarded:

lvl 10 - 900 
lvl 11 - 660 
lvl 12 - 540 

Bonus points for TJ for Playing 'Red'

===Session 10 - ''Dec 11th, 2009''===

We get to explore the [[Waterfall City]]...

And interesting things happen with [[Nasar]]...

===Session 11 - ''Jan 10th, 2010''===

We explore further into the depths of the [[Waterfall City]]...

Alex's summary:(tweaked by TJ/Nasar) 
Ok, we couldn't get [[Gol]] or his cat out (his prison door control thingy
was busted) but we got a kobold out (after charming him and finding out
things, see below) and granting the kobold the merciful death it
craved. The details, well it looks like: a) An [[Illithid]] ([[Mind Flayer]])
is behind this and is trying to do something with the artifact, probably
in the service of its God, the [[Devourer of Souls]] (this God has been
quiet lately, perhaps bound ages ago by artifacts like this one?), and
b) By the way, this [[Illithid]] was pretending to be the [[paladin]] we met
long ago at [[The_Mine]]! So those kobolds we thought we
had reformed, didn't, the paladin we thought we left in charge, was in
charge the whole time, and the poor miners, etc. that we sent to
resettle the mining town were simply totally screwed! Plus, there was
something weird about the mine that we never figured out, but that the
[[Illithid]] probably did, because they are dangerously smart. Yikes!

So after that bombshell, we rely on [[Willow]] to get out of the prison room
(well, [[Mala]]/[[Nasar]] has to Dimension Door past the door out, because
otherwise she gets bounced back into a prison cell). Then we find more
bodies of elves (alas) that start attacking us (alas!), well , attacking
[[Mala]] mainly. We deal with them and then find out this is where the
children were. Very grim work indeed, putting their bodies to rest.
Then we find a very very very very very trapped door that [[Willow]] deals
with at cost. We decide not to go through until everyone has their
spells back. [[Willow]] the next day tries to gather some poison from a
door trap, but gets poisoned (losing two neutralize poisons, since the
trap resets and she gets poisoned AGAIN!). But we get through. Then
we face a suicidal ghost that [[Trona]] talks down (fairly high diplomacy +
agent of the same god as the ghost = chance of success) so we avoid a
combat and find out that the ghost got frightened and likely mind
controlled to help the attackers breach the defenses. We lay the body
of that ghost to rest and it quiets down a bit. Then we find a
[[Labyrinth]] that likely has the relic in it, and [[Laran]] does a Legend
Lore. Turns out it was build by a minotaur sorcerer, taken over by
dwarves (who added to it), taken over by a follower of [[Ehlonna]] when they
died out, and then left in the care of the follower's acolyte when the
follower died helping to raise the Great Big Mountain Range ([[Scar Mountains]]) wayyy back
in the past to keep the really bad monsters out. The acolyte grew in
power and added even more defenses to the Labyrinth and general area (I
think I get where all these traps came from) and likely put in animals
and plants and such inside to keep the relic safe, but alas the [[Illithid]]
and his metric fuckton of kobold followers breached the defenses and
compromised the legacy.

So we are planning to enter in a reverse V
formation, with [[Trona]] and [[Willow]] as advance points, [[Laran]] and
[[Mala]]/[[Nasar]] next, and [[Gweara]] as the vertex at the back.

We think there could be kobolds, an [[Illithid]] (maybe with class levels, since it seems
capable of illusion and dimension door and maybe fear and charm or
compulsion powers), and possibly warped defenses (more wormed animals,
maybe? Does the memory eating ability of worms tie into the illithid's
eating of brains?). And possibly lots of traps, both magical and
mundane, as set by [[Minotaur]]s, dwarves, paranoid elves, kobolds and an
[[Illithid]]. Oy!

XP 
10 - 1200 
11 - 990 
12 - 720 
13 - 585 

MVP - 500

===Session 12 - Into the [[Labyrinth]] - ''March 28th, 2010''===

(tweaked from Alex's notes)

Before we can head into the Labyrinth....

The party is joined by a half-orc cleric/fighter of Fharlagn called
[[Cugdish]], who had met [[Nasar]] previously and has suffered a teleport
mishap to place him near us. The augury coin gives him the thumbs up
and we start into the maze.

There is a one way doorway that I can go back and forth between but the
party seemingly cannot. On the other side the walls are covered with
giant fungi (edible). I run into two kobolds and one hides while the
other runs to report us. We capture the hiding one but the other got
away . . . or did he? We heard a shriek and went to investigate.

And the monsters literally got the drop on us in a big way, capturing
[[Willow]] and [[Laran]] as well as casting magical darkvision-proof darkness
(thanks to [[Cugdish]]'s Dispel Magic and [[Willow]]s daylight shield, we had a
chance). The fight was tight (it was hard to hurt the creatures
without hurting the people they were enveloping) and Laran nearly died
(-9 hp!) and alas, [[Nasar]]/[[Malaki]] did die. We tracked where the creature
took his body and [[Willow]] reincarnated him.

During the darkness fight, [[Trona]] had no darkvision and so was relying on her sword to tell her where to go. [[Laran]] had no darkvision and had a hand on [[Trona]]'s shoulder. So it really was the blind leading the blind, with the help of a seeing eye sword.

But in surprise [[Willow]] in doing the reincarnation, felt something pulled twice from her...
and believes that two reincarnation/bodies were built...

Now there were some downsides to the reincarnation: Coming back to
life, [[Nasar]] lost both his 12th character level and his 2nd ranger class
level. He also became Large, with corresponding penalties to AC, attack
rolls and hide skill rolls, as well as the inability to use many of his
magical items and a penalty to attack with his with his now undersized
weapons. He has lost some memories, and of course remembers nothing of
being in the maze since [[Malaki]] was in control of his body.

[[Nasar]] came to, in order to find himself in a half-dragon centaur body!

Worse, we find out that not only was it not [[Malaki]], but the evil red
dragon ancestor that was in control of [[Nasar]]'s body the whole time up
to his death, but as it appears that she is no longer with him,
that she has also reincarnated in some as yet unrevealed (but smaller) form and is completely free!
We don't know where she is or what she looks like, but we do know she is powerful and intelligent and
has worked with mind flayers in the past. And we heard a evil laugh in the distance...

[[Nasar]] upon realizing that [[She]] is free, runs off with the goal of hunting her down, but is
talked down before he gets too far... however they do find the spot where the 'other' body came into
being, and [[Nasar]] peels off all the fungi etc. from the wall and stuffs that into a bag in the hope of finding some trace of her to track down.

Oh, and the kobold we captured escaped and may well have reported us to
his mind flayer master. At least he wasn't around for the
reincarnations. :)

Anyhow [[Nasar]] is a bit confused and still getting used to his body so we
are resting up behind a disguised wall of fungus, in the dead end where [[Nasar]] died...
This will be quite the adventure!

XP 
10 - 500 
11 - 350 
12 - 250 

===Session 13 - Wandering in the [[Labyrinth]] - ''April 18th, 2010''===

Into the [[Labyrinth]] we go!

We now have a fair number of Kobolds, 1 MindFlayer, and one Evil Red Dragon in an unknown (but small) body loose in the maze...

XP 
9 - 810 
10 - 600 
11 - 495 
12 - 360 
13 - 260 

===Session 14 - We Found It! [[Labyrinth]] - ''May 24th, 2010''===

We defeated the second big blue guy, and managed to find our way into the heart of the labyrinth

Outside the Mazeheart:

We defeated big bad blue through a combination of a lighting, searing light, some arrows (including an awesome critical hit from [[Cugdish]] ), which knocked it out then Nasar ran up and beat the unconscious body to death, to stop it from healing. We finished opening up the hole, tried to track Willows course and started hammering a hole through the next wall. Eventually [[Trona]] was freed from the spell, and given the time ti took that beast was tough...

Trona and Nasar managed to hack a small hole in the wall enough to see a really big red leg.
Then we got ambushed by another set of demons, a Vrock, one of which apparently used some doubling illusion and got past gweara.
Trona killed them, but it sent off some plant spores which hurt Trona, Nasar and Gweara. Thankfully they were able to endure the pain long enough to resist the plant growth.

Nasar got [[Cugdish]] to put a light spell on a copper coin and launched it through the hole, which gave us some clues about the distances and that somethings might not be affected by the stasis fields. [[Gol]] did some research on the circles. [[Gol]] used an animate rope to latch onto what we thought was [[Willow]], and was able to move her, although slowly, so she wasn't fully in the field... And we noted an arrow suspended in mid-air far in the distance, which over time seemed to move... although extremely slowly.

Nasar and Cugdish then went further long the maze, used an earth elemental to go through the wall and discovered a way around, and we found ourselves at the heart of the maze! So everyone came into the heart of the maze area.

In the MazeHeart:

There was a big archway with a shimmery forcefield at the end and a whole bunch of glyphs and painting that described the raising of the scar mountains.. We determined that the forcefield was the boundary of a time-slowed area, in which there were three groups composed of Kobolds , the Illithid and the defending Elves and clerics... all locked in battle. Time was massively different within the field, with 2 hours outside being less than a round inside... and we could only enter with the assistance of the tokens... so only two of us could be in at one time.

Trona and Cugdish popped inside and shot a few arrows at the MindFlayer and then did some mass healing on the Elves, and started to slowly change the odds in favour of the defenders. Cugdish can move faster with the help of the feather. So we are continuing to play the "Buff Squad" role, but have seriously hurt the Illithid, enough that it has gone invisible or fled the area.

(Courtesy of Alex aka Trona)
Ok, so while [[Trona]] was a statue, [[Gol]], [[Nasar]] and [[Cugdish]] dealt with
the chaos monster (a critical hit from [[Cugdish]] sealed the deal - go
archer cleric! Then we got through one wall, explored a bit, and
Trona tried to get through the next wall. After a while, the others
went around and found an easier way into the room which a hole in the
wall showed to have a big red thing and a lumpy earthy thing that we
assumed was Willow. On the other side, the big red thing was a Balor
and it was bull rushed in stasis by a Chaotic good outsider. (Oh, we
also fought some Vrocks - killed one and two got away). Eventually we
saw the Big Slow Motion Fight between the Illithid and its elite
Kobolds (including spellcasters) and some remaining elves. We fixed
Willow and and with her help freed a 2nd chaotic good outsider (willow
had the good shield that freed people - Trona had a less good shield
that allowed conversation with the outsider, and some healing, but no
release. But Laran's diplomatic skills gained us an ally.

After that things got slow. We could only enter the slow motion place 2
at a time, so could buff elves, shoot arrows at the mind flayer (go
[[Cugdish]] with *another* critical hit), and then get pulled out. The Mind
Flayer is hurt but has disappeared, & probably is invisible.

Meanwhile, Gweara got magicked into accidentally releasing a "good
outsider" that was probably the [[Red Dragon]] that is Nasar's
nemesis-to-be. Argh. But not much we can do about that right now, and
we have a bigger issue to solve - stop the kobolds, locate and stop the
mind flayer, help the elves, fix the artifact, cure the worm threat at
its source, etc. So far the buffing seems to be slightly turning the
tide in our favour. It would be good to locate the mind flayer though
(See invisibility, glitterdust, & faerie fire could all help here,
although see invisibility cast first would help the most). Meanwhile,
mass cure light wounds, bless, mass (bear's endurance/bull's
strength/cat's grace etc.) can all help even if we can't locate the mind
flayer. The bardic music is likely also helping.

XP 
9 - 1080 
10 - 900 
11 - 660 
12 - 540 
13 - 390 

===Session 15 - Victory! [[Labyrinth]] - ''June 12th, 2010''===
Gaming at Joes

Quick Summary is that we defeated the MindFlayer, started to heal the damage done etc.
(Please feel free to add more information)

Nasar went in and went after the MindFlayer after it was obvious that it was heading for the other exit.
The MF went through it, triggering Shimmer to drop the times stop field, and so Willow followed Nasar in chasing the MF.
Gweara went in and helped the elves for a bit.
Cugdish, Laran and Gal went around what turned out to be the other way.

[[Golradir Helyanwe]] pushed himself into a magic jar on the MF, but looked dead.

Cugdish tackled the MF and it's tentacles couldn't lock onto him.

Nasar came along grappled it as well, and was getting tentacle locked but Cugdish held him of via the bestowal of Freedom of Movement...

then the MF did a soul swap/magic jar with Nasar and placed it's mind into Nasars new body...

After some incredible juggling, [[Golradir Helyanwe]] managed to switch things so everyone was in the right place and we broke the gem holding the soul & mind of the MF, thus hopefully killing it...

We have since helped restore the plate and helped resurrect the seal.

The angel turns out to belong to a god that does not seem to exist anymore...

We've been asked to stick around for two months to help clean up and guard everything while the site gets back on it's feet...
And we've agreed.

We've also been asked to ship the Kobold stuff to the nearby village and will get a share of the exchange as payment...

We're trying to figure out what to do next...

XP 
9 - 1620 
10 - 1200 
11 - 990 
12 - 720 

===Session 16 - Cleanup and Decisions - ''Jul 5th, 2010''===

The party helps to clean up the [[Waterfall City]] and get them back up on their feet.

Meanwhile [[Red]] is out in the world and the party needs to figure out what next to do...

Courtesy of Alex(tweaked by TJ):

1) We spent time repairing the temple. [[Trona]] took a side-tour to meet
some treants and a dryad to find out what the knick-knacks do.
Apparently they are part of a satchel of serendipity. When ya need
something and have a good idea of what you need, pull one out and see
what happens, I guess. [[Trona]] accepted a long-term quest from the dryad to plant her 6
daughters. [[Willow]] has agreed to help with this.

2) We also took the kobold stuff back to the nearby town of [[Muka'l]] to sell. [[Laran]] met with the merchant that wanted an in
with the temple elves and arranged a deal as only Laran can. So we
bought a lot of gear, and got some cash to boot
(Side note: [[Trona]] and [[Nasar]] were not in town because it would look too
weird). [[Golradir Helyanwe]] teleported in and out to work on some magic boots).
We each ended up with 1500GP, plus assorted bits and pieces.

3) We then identified the three [[Mind Crystals]] (causing Golradir Helyanwe to scream and fall over
unconscious) as some kind of memory crystals, including memories of a
priest meant to guard another [[Seal]], a merchant in [[Fershaw]], and an old adventuring companion of [[Nasar]], [[Remin]] the Necromancer! We then returned to
the temple, and outside the temple, accessed the crystals: [[Cugdish]]
accessed the priest crystal and got his last horrifying moments vs. a
dragon lich and its followers ([[Trona]] and [[Sentinel]] and I think [[Laran]] were
connected). This left [[Cugdish]] with a continual wound for a while.
Then [[Laran]] accessed the merchant (who also had a [[Seal]], and when it was
broken by the bad guy undead family in [[Fershaw]], it caused the [[Chaos!]]
Monster episode a few years back) and [[Trona]] and [[Sentinel]] were connected
here. The next day [[Nasar]] accessed [[Remin]]'s crystal and [[Sentinel]] and [[Laran]] were
connected. That one was ugly, as [[Remin]] went through an opening to the
other side, and met . . . something so indescribably horrible (the Bad
God?) that even the memory of it nearly drove [[Nasar]] insane. Luckily,
[[Laran]] got a priest to Heal [[Nasar]] while he was unconscious (but after
his broken bones from thrashing around were set. Equally luckily, [[Laran]] smoothed things over with the priest, who was quite upset with our recklessness. [[Trona]] then held
[[Nasar]] down and covered his mouth at the priest's orders so he wouldn't
say Bad Names. We were all instructed never to talk about his and
indeed never to THINK about this again, as that would give the Bad God
power ([[Nasar]] thought about thinking about it, and had an Episode. But
he is slowly feeling better).

From all of this the group now has some insight into the [[Story of the Seals]], a major thread that has been going on in the background.

4) [[Golradir Helyanwe]] was smart enough to stay far away from all of this. But he was
foolish enough to be off on his own in the wild lands, mapping out
places to teleport. So he got jumped by a Frost Worm that ate his horse
([[Golradir Helyanwe]] and [[Ash the Cat]] were fine, they teleported away).

Then the party stayed with the temple a while longer, to mentally heal,
physically train (a few level ups occurred) and plan the next step. The
next step seems to be to get to the town we traded stuff at([[Muka'l]]), and then
work our way back through [[The Keep]], then to the place where [[Remin]] has his Last Stand at the
Basin to hopefully find bits of the [[Seal]] that broke there (if possible)
and return it to the elves to be fixed. If we don't find it, then we go
on, do the War Council thing about Red, contact the home base of [[Nasar]]/[[Laran]] ([[Caltha'na'b]]), and try to find the other Seal bits in [[Fershaw]] if possible. Thus
we are on two quests simultaneously - the [[Seal]] quest that is kept on the
QT, and the "get that red dragon and those awful vampires, and maybe
help the loremaster find stuff" quest that is a little more overt.

On consideration we decided not to do the River Ride, but take a stately
1 week walk to the trading town. Also, [[Nasar]] and [[Trona]] are now called
[[Conner]] and [[Blue Wood]], and will likely stay out of the town itself when we
come to towns until we can be properly introduced (or in Nasar's case,
disguised and introduced).

[[Trona]] also had a wicker/wood people carrying basket/backpack put on her,
so that she can carry 3 people in combat, or 6-7 in non-combat, in it.
Thus she can travel with them even at night, while they can rest, regain
spells, etc. [[Trona]] could carry [[Nasar]] in her arms if necessary too
(that would slow her down, though). But someone (Gweara) would have to
lead the horses. And the horses would have to sleep sometime.

[[Willow]] met her cohort, a dwarf cleric that I don't know the name of, but
who is connected to Willow's twin [[Ash]] (not to be confused with [[Ash the Cat]], the familiar of [[Golradir Helyanwe]].

[[Cugdish]] now has the former horse of [[Trona]]. [[Star]] is being taught by [[Cugdish]] to airwalk.

Next Adventure is [[Which Quest is Best]]

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Note: If you try to build a link with apostophes in it, if there is only one apostrophe, it will fail...
ie. you can't make a link to New Ballim's Rise, but you can make a link to [[New Ballims Rise]]

== The Adventure Begins ==
We started out at [[The Keep]] and thus began [[The Start]] of [[The Journey]] 
 
Players are currently in the 10 to 12th lvl range 
Last adventure was: [[Troubled Fey]] 
Current adventure is: [[Which Quest is Best]] 
 
Chapter 1: The Chaos of Peace (levels 2 through 6) 
Chapter 2: The Long Shadow of War (levels 6 through 10) 
Chapter 3: Fomenting the Firmament (levels 10 through ??) 
Chapter 4: ?? 

== The World ==
Gee.. how do you adequately describe such a large object... ie. Joe's Brain, supplemented by Galen's Brain<G> 

[[The World]] 
[[The Kingdom of Asgrim]] 
[[The Principalities]] 
The [[Orclands]] 
[[Places]] 
[[Other Realities]]

== The Current Players ==

[[Nasar]] and his trusty cohort [[Gweara]] 
[[Conner]] (alternate name for [[Nasar]]) 
[[Laran]] 
[[Cugdish]](Craig's character) 
[[Trona]] 
[[Blue Wood]] (alternate name for Trona) 
[[Sentinel]] (very intelligent holy sword of Trona) 
[[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
[[Willow]] 

'''[[Other Players]] (ie. dead/vanished/left etc.)'''

== Group Assets or Objects ==
[[The HearthStone Inn]] - The Inn that a number of members have contributed to 
[[TableCloth]] - The equivalent of a very large bag of holding...

== Important People ie. [[Major NPCs]] ==
[[Minor NPCs]]

== The Eberron Adventure ==

As a side game, we've started up another adventure in the Eberron Campaign Setting, and information for that game will be available at http://eberron.thtree.com . 

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Note: If you try to build a link with apostophes in it, if there is only one apostrophe, it will fail...
ie. you can't make a link to New Ballim's Rise, but you can make a link to [[New Ballims Rise]]

== The Adventure Begins ==
We started out at [[The Keep]] and thus began [[The Start]] of [[The Journey]] 
 
Players are currently in the 10 to 12th lvl range 
Last adventure was: [[Troubled Fey]] 
Current adventure is: [[Which Quest is Best]] 
 
Chapter 1: The Chaos of Peace (levels 2 through 6) 
Chapter 2: The Long Shadow of War (levels 6 through 10) 
Chapter 3: Fomenting the Firmament (levels 10 through ??) 
Chapter 4: ?? 

== The World ==
Gee.. how do you adequately describe such a large object... ie. Joe's Brain, supplemented by Galen's Brain<G> 

[[The World]] 
[[The Kingdom of Asgrim]] 
[[The Principalities]] 
The [[Orclands]] 
[[Places]] 
[[Other Realities]]

== The Current Players ==

[[Nasar]] and his trusty cohort [[Gweara]] 
[[Conner]] (alternate name for [[Nasar]]) 
[[Laran]] 
[[Cugdish]](Craig's character) 
[[Trona]] 
[[Blue Wood]] (alternate name for Trona) 
[[Sentinel]] (very intelligent holy sword of Trona) 
[[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
[[Willow]] 

'''[[Other Players]] (ie. dead/vanished/left etc.)'''

== Group Assets or Objects ==
[[The HearthStone Inn]] - The Inn that a number of members have contributed to 
[[TableCloth]] - The equivalent of a very large bag of holding...

== Important People ie. [[Major NPCs]] ==
[[Minor NPCs]]

== The Eberron Adventure ==

As a side game, we've started up another adventure in the Eberron Campaign Setting, and information for that game will be available at http://eberron.thtree.com . 

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Note: If you try to build a link with apostophes in it, if there is only one apostrophe, it will fail...
ie. you can't make a link to New Ballim's Rise, but you can make a link to [[New Ballims Rise]]

== The Adventure Begins ==
We started out at [[The Keep]] and thus began [[The Start]] of [[The Journey]] 
 
Players are currently in the 10 to 12th lvl range 
Last adventure was: [[Troubled Fey]] 
Current adventure is: [[Which Quest is Best]] 
 
Chapter 1: The Chaos of Peace (levels 2 through 6) 
Chapter 2: The Long Shadow of War (levels 6 through 10) 
Chapter 3: Fomenting the Firmament (levels 10 through ??) 
Chapter 4: ?? 

== The World ==
Gee.. how do you adequately describe such a large object... ie. Joe's Brain, supplemented by Galen's Brain<G> 

[[The World]] 
[[The Kingdom of Asgrim]] 
[[The Principalities]] 
The [[Orclands]] 
[[Places]] 
[[Other Realities]]

== The Current Players ==

[[Nasar]] and his trusty cohort [[Gweara]] 
[[Conner]] (alternate name for [[Nasar]]) 
[[Laran]] 
[[Cugdish]](Craig's character) 
[[Trona]] 
[[Blue Wood]] (alternate name for Trona) 
[[Sentinel]] (very intelligent holy sword of Trona) 
[[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
[[Willow]] 

'''[[Other Players]] (ie. dead/vanished/left etc.)'''

== Group Assets or Objects ==
[[The HearthStone Inn]] - The Inn that a number of members have contributed to 
[[TableCloth]] - The equivalent of a very large bag of holding...

== Important People ie. [[Major NPCs]] ==
[[Minor NPCs]]

== The Eberron Adventure ==

As a side game, we've started up another adventure in the Eberron Campaign Setting, and information for that game will be available at http://eberron.thtree.com . 

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Nasar: /* Session 16 - Cleanup and Decisions - ''Jul 5th, 2010'' */

===Session 1 - ''Nov 11th, 2008''===

Started after [[Mega Turtles]]

We talk to the Fey near [[Caltha'na'b]], that we had previously encountered when a young girl had gone missing.

We set up a nice little party in the woods and brought along some of the magic wine that we had gotten from the Stalwart adventure. After a while the no longer young girl came along chatting with folks that were not visible. We met up with her and started chatting with her and her friends, toasting chatting, giving them the wine, talking for what seemed like hours through the afternoon and far into the evening... Unbeknownst to us, we had drifted into the realm of the Fey... but we could catch glimpses of our hosts, after several more hours we noticed that our companions and the bard were not around, and couldn't see anyone, we then asked our hosts what world we were in and realized the others had been searching for us. Sadly we had to leave and asked for escort back to the mundane world... The young girl knew the way and guided us back.

We left what was deep night, came through a bush and found it noonish... Upon making our way back to the town, we found that we had been gone for 10 days!!! Needless to say, our friends and companions were very glad to see us again!

Upon checking, we discover that each of those that went into the Fey Realm have each been given a unique item that we think is some sort of special token or key. 
-- [[Trona]] received a wooden dagger. dark, blue-tinged, and fine-grained 
-- [[Nasar]] received a small bark box with a feather inside 
-- [[Millain]] recieved a small crystal jar full of an odourless liquid. It gently swirls, sparlking, and always reflects a forest behind you 
-- <Inn town's priest of Ehlohnna> received a firefly lantern 

The messenger had been and gone, left the message with [[Leriwyn]], indicating that there was definite troubles near [[The Keep]] and [[Living Forest]].

We make arrangements with [[Janosh]] and [[Leriwyn]] to coordinate the construction of [[The Snapping Turtle]].

We finished our arrangements and are waiting for a group put together by [[Lady Naomi]] to be ready before we head off to [[The Keep]], where her folks will stay and we head off to the [[Living Forest]] to find out what is going on with the Fey.

===Session 2 - ''March 08, 2009''===

Presumably we will wait for the group that Lady Naomi is putting together, then head pretty straight to [[The Keep]], gather information there, resupply and head for the [[Living Forest]], possibly dealing with wierdness along the way...

John's character (unknown name right now) joined us at the [[The HearthStone Inn]].

Actually we headed towards [[The Keep]] but had a bit of an adventure with another caravan at a place our caravan camped at one night. Someone stole some supplies, which led to us tracking down the theives, who had a bunch of loot tucked away in a special carpet much like a custom bag of holding. We returned what goods we could to the caravan, and then took the rest, and the criminals off to the next town where we reported eveything... we got to keep the carpet..

On our way we were given the option of escorting a shipment out to [[Murt's_Haven]], which we declined due to timing.

We then continued on our way, and I believe ended up at [[Dallford]] and talked to [[Alfdis]] about supplies and information.

===Session 3 - ''Apr 05, 2009''===
XP: 600 @ lvl 12; 660 @ lvl 11; 730 @ lvl 10; 800 @ lvl 9

I believe we will likely head up to [[The Keep]] after resupplying in [[Dallford]], connect with our friends there and plan the route accordingly.

By default, I am assuming that we will head to [[Muq'Al]] from [[The Keep]] and from there into the [[Living Forest]]. Perhaps we can arrange some contact in [[Muq'Al]] from the Keep in order to get the latest information?

Adventures in [[Dallford]]: 
Trona witnessed a murder in a crowd but was unable to help other than ensuring the body was recovered. 
Gweara saw someone trying to steal Trona's saddlebag. She charged through the crowd on horseback, hurting several people. The thief gave up and ran away but Gwear found and captured him, holding him for the eventual arrival of Trona and the guards. 
The party breifly tried to buy some items from the market but gave up on the slimy merchants to wait for their lunch with [[Alfdis]] the next day. Meanwhile the rest of the party dug up some info on current events, including local trouble with minor Fey. 
The party went for lunch with [[Alfdis]] where they dug up lots of info, met some people who were very interested in their previous adventures in the Orc Lands, and were pointed at: a [[Living Forest]] expert in [[Muq'Al]]; a gear contact locally; and a local minor Fey expert. 
They met with the Local Fey expert and arranged to trade their time for her time the next day. 
They met with the local gear contact, who turned out to be [[Alfdis]]. She arranged for significant gear shuffling and supply for the party, including several rings/collars of sustenance. She also introduced them to [[Golradir Helyanwe]] 
The party opted to stop at this point, leaving time to discuss how to proceed. 
===Session 4 - ''May 17, 2009''===

Stopped in [[Dalford]], got more info, stocked up courtesy of Elftis, met Gal, went to [[Muka'l]], got info on how to get to Waterfalls.

===Session 5 - ''Sept 13, 2009''===

Cleared the infection.
Talked to the two treants
Fought the cohorts

===Session 6 - ''Sept 20, 2009''===

Fought the messed up Nymph and cohorts etc. and then teleported back to the town.
Big fight, stories need to be added.

===Session 7 - ''Oct 18, 2009''===

We train, and we equip and we head back to the woods... and continue the grand adventure...

We also allocated the MVP awards(out of game)

A) circle dance - 300XP -> GAL
B) infested civilian detection 500XP -> Willow
C) defeat nymph's minions etc. 800XP -> Trona
D) defeating the nymph etc.1000XP -> split 50/50 Willow and Nasar

This ended up as a big shopping expedition as we sold the dagger for 6500GP and the armoire for about 54,000 GP... So we got a lot of booster stuff

We then headed back to the previous location only slightly hampered by a minor teleport error, and discovered that there was little trace of the previous battle.

We then headed on and encountered a swarm of infected bugs/fey which we survived courtesy of Willow's wind and Gal's summoning a shelter and a quick fire being lit... then Jungle razing the swarm...

We went further and found a spot and settled in for the night, only to have the door knocked on an hour later.

After some dickering through the closed door we found that these were pretty high up [[Fey]] one in particular being the [[Dawn Brother]] with whom we exchanged much information and got some clues about what is going on. He also shifted us to within a few minutes walking distance of the [[Elven WaterFall City]], and helped [[Willow]] regain her [[Fey]] heritage again.

We checked out the location and bumped into two infected [[Treant]]'s and had to do battle, curing one and killing the other... at the cost of [[Gol]] getting trapped under one and [[Nasar]] becoming slightly infected, but cleared.

We then wandered up to the actual [[Elven WaterFall City]] and it looks like lots of stuff is infected there... so we called it quits for the night/day.

===Session 8 - ''Nov 1, 2009''===

We slept in the rope trick overnight, recharged spells

Via Alex/[[Trona]]:
This session, we fought a blackberry bush! With rabbits in it! One of
them tried to kill [[Willow]]! Then Trona went on watch and sucked at
spotting things (a trend that continued that session), so got suckered
by a squirrel on her back! Killed it but got wormed (sigh) but her
sword could at least remember what she couldn't. Then a crow tried to
get her. Then a deer nearly came to us, with a wormy arrow (great a
wormed archer). But the deer left. Then we ran into a burrowing
mammal. It is like they all saw Disney and got pissed off at it or
something. :)

Then we went closer to the waterfall and found wormed displacer beasts
in the woods (with a BIG mama displacer beast). We tried to outrun them
invisibly while Willow caused a distraction. But they tracked Willow by
scent to the waterfall where we were to meet, so the fight was on
anyhow. So far, the good news is the mama is at the visible worm stage
(so stage 2, one stage from death and vulnerable to a remove curse in an
explosive way). The bad news is that the littler kitties are up the
tree with party members causing all sorts of trouble near the rope
bridge (well, single rope) we want to use to cross over to the cave
behind the waterfall to find out what's what. Oh, and that [[Nasar]] is
(unbeknownst to us) under the control of his EVIL ANCIENT RED DRAGON
ancestor. Yee gawds protect us all. :)

Nasar:

Was climbing the tree/ladder then fell into the maw of one of the beasts (big mamma?) and realized his only chance to escape was to call on his ancestors... unfortunately the '''wrong''' one answered... but she the dimension doored to the top of the tree, then launched a Jungle Razor blast down at the big beast, and is now trying to decide what to do next...

XP:

lvl 10 - 900
lvl 11 - 660
lvl 12 - 540

MVP of 450 points to be awarded

===Session 9 - ''Dec 6th, 2009''===

Where we hopefully finish the battle with the wormed displacer beasts... and get to the other side of the waterfall...

Rough sketch before we forget:

Big mamma wormed displacer beast engulfed the tree... we got out by flying, levitation and greater floating disks

[[Gol]] burned the rope
[[Trona]] got engulfed, fought her way free, aided by a few fireballs from [[Nasar]]/Red and a lightning bolt from [[Gol]],
Big mamma 'dissolved' into the tree...

On the way across, [[Trona]]'s sword noticed Red's evilness, so Red threw an Allip at [[Trona]] to distract her and it basically worked.

[[Gol]] determined that there was part of the surface at least a 40 ft sphere of Anti-magic coming out of the waterfall.

We got to the top of the waterfall cleared ourselves of the worms. Red had to drop the non-detection, but stayed mostly away

On scouting the area, we found heaps of bodies, mostly decomposed ~ 6months old, determined they were defenders, but noticed strange holes in the back of some of the skulls. Tried to find another entrance, no go. Found a place to anchor the rope. Found a place to shelter.
[[Laran]] did a Legend Lore on the site of the ambush and got some info about the battle.

roughly summarized here:

- disguised as trade 
- attack was evil in thought, deed and goal 
- the weaker attackers were used as fodder to wear down the attackers 
- the guardians found till the end 
- innocents who served them were dedicated and strong but could not resist when minds consumed 
- alarm raised too late 
- entrance betrayed 
- guardians failed 

A necklace was found that registered as evil. Red recognized it and gave some sketchy details, as she had a clue about what opponents they might be up against.

The rope was fetched and anchored up to the top.

We sheltered through the night, then tried legend lore on the necklace, no go, and then it was destroyed, and then Red was again detected by the sword... and through another allip, but folks noticed the spell casting... and much telepathic discussion ensued...

We then headed into the waterfall...

First [[Trona]] and [[Willow]], then [[Nasar]]/Red and [[Laran]]

Upon entering the [[Waterfall City]], Nasar returned to the fore, and confused tried to back out, then Red popped back in control, and decided to go on into the Waterfall, figuring she'll get some gain out of it, and wanting to know what is going on.

Once back inside and in the entrance, Trona explained roughly what had happened and that they believe Red was in control.

[[Willow]] went ahead and found some traps, disabling one or two of them

[[Gol]], [[Gweara]] and [[Felix]] are at the top outside the Waterfall...

And this is where we stopped this session...

Oh and XP was awarded:

lvl 10 - 900 
lvl 11 - 660 
lvl 12 - 540 

Bonus points for TJ for Playing 'Red'

===Session 10 - ''Dec 11th, 2009''===

We get to explore the [[Waterfall City]]...

And interesting things happen with [[Nasar]]...

===Session 11 - ''Jan 10th, 2010''===

We explore further into the depths of the [[Waterfall City]]...

Alex's summary:(tweaked by TJ/Nasar) 
Ok, we couldn't get [[Gol]] or his cat out (his prison door control thingy
was busted) but we got a kobold out (after charming him and finding out
things, see below) and granting the kobold the merciful death it
craved. The details, well it looks like: a) An [[Illithid]] ([[Mind Flayer]])
is behind this and is trying to do something with the artifact, probably
in the service of its God, the [[Devourer of Souls]] (this God has been
quiet lately, perhaps bound ages ago by artifacts like this one?), and
b) By the way, this [[Illithid]] was pretending to be the [[paladin]] we met
long ago at [[The_Mine]]! So those kobolds we thought we
had reformed, didn't, the paladin we thought we left in charge, was in
charge the whole time, and the poor miners, etc. that we sent to
resettle the mining town were simply totally screwed! Plus, there was
something weird about the mine that we never figured out, but that the
[[Illithid]] probably did, because they are dangerously smart. Yikes!

So after that bombshell, we rely on [[Willow]] to get out of the prison room
(well, [[Mala]]/[[Nasar]] has to Dimension Door past the door out, because
otherwise she gets bounced back into a prison cell). Then we find more
bodies of elves (alas) that start attacking us (alas!), well , attacking
[[Mala]] mainly. We deal with them and then find out this is where the
children were. Very grim work indeed, putting their bodies to rest.
Then we find a very very very very very trapped door that [[Willow]] deals
with at cost. We decide not to go through until everyone has their
spells back. [[Willow]] the next day tries to gather some poison from a
door trap, but gets poisoned (losing two neutralize poisons, since the
trap resets and she gets poisoned AGAIN!). But we get through. Then
we face a suicidal ghost that [[Trona]] talks down (fairly high diplomacy +
agent of the same god as the ghost = chance of success) so we avoid a
combat and find out that the ghost got frightened and likely mind
controlled to help the attackers breach the defenses. We lay the body
of that ghost to rest and it quiets down a bit. Then we find a
[[Labyrinth]] that likely has the relic in it, and [[Laran]] does a Legend
Lore. Turns out it was build by a minotaur sorcerer, taken over by
dwarves (who added to it), taken over by a follower of [[Ehlonna]] when they
died out, and then left in the care of the follower's acolyte when the
follower died helping to raise the Great Big Mountain Range ([[Scar Mountains]]) wayyy back
in the past to keep the really bad monsters out. The acolyte grew in
power and added even more defenses to the Labyrinth and general area (I
think I get where all these traps came from) and likely put in animals
and plants and such inside to keep the relic safe, but alas the [[Illithid]]
and his metric fuckton of kobold followers breached the defenses and
compromised the legacy.

So we are planning to enter in a reverse V
formation, with [[Trona]] and [[Willow]] as advance points, [[Laran]] and
[[Mala]]/[[Nasar]] next, and [[Gweara]] as the vertex at the back.

We think there could be kobolds, an [[Illithid]] (maybe with class levels, since it seems
capable of illusion and dimension door and maybe fear and charm or
compulsion powers), and possibly warped defenses (more wormed animals,
maybe? Does the memory eating ability of worms tie into the illithid's
eating of brains?). And possibly lots of traps, both magical and
mundane, as set by [[Minotaur]]s, dwarves, paranoid elves, kobolds and an
[[Illithid]]. Oy!

XP 
10 - 1200 
11 - 990 
12 - 720 
13 - 585 

MVP - 500

===Session 12 - Into the [[Labyrinth]] - ''March 28th, 2010''===

(tweaked from Alex's notes)

Before we can head into the Labyrinth....

The party is joined by a half-orc cleric/fighter of Fharlagn called
[[Cugdish]], who had met [[Nasar]] previously and has suffered a teleport
mishap to place him near us. The augury coin gives him the thumbs up
and we start into the maze.

There is a one way doorway that I can go back and forth between but the
party seemingly cannot. On the other side the walls are covered with
giant fungi (edible). I run into two kobolds and one hides while the
other runs to report us. We capture the hiding one but the other got
away . . . or did he? We heard a shriek and went to investigate.

And the monsters literally got the drop on us in a big way, capturing
[[Willow]] and [[Laran]] as well as casting magical darkvision-proof darkness
(thanks to [[Cugdish]]'s Dispel Magic and [[Willow]]s daylight shield, we had a
chance). The fight was tight (it was hard to hurt the creatures
without hurting the people they were enveloping) and Laran nearly died
(-9 hp!) and alas, [[Nasar]]/[[Malaki]] did die. We tracked where the creature
took his body and [[Willow]] reincarnated him.

During the darkness fight, [[Trona]] had no darkvision and so was relying on her sword to tell her where to go. [[Laran]] had no darkvision and had a hand on [[Trona]]'s shoulder. So it really was the blind leading the blind, with the help of a seeing eye sword.

But in surprise [[Willow]] in doing the reincarnation, felt something pulled twice from her...
and believes that two reincarnation/bodies were built...

Now there were some downsides to the reincarnation: Coming back to
life, [[Nasar]] lost both his 12th character level and his 2nd ranger class
level. He also became Large, with corresponding penalties to AC, attack
rolls and hide skill rolls, as well as the inability to use many of his
magical items and a penalty to attack with his with his now undersized
weapons. He has lost some memories, and of course remembers nothing of
being in the maze since [[Malaki]] was in control of his body.

[[Nasar]] came to, in order to find himself in a half-dragon centaur body!

Worse, we find out that not only was it not [[Malaki]], but the evil red
dragon ancestor that was in control of [[Nasar]]'s body the whole time up
to his death, but as it appears that she is no longer with him,
that she has also reincarnated in some as yet unrevealed (but smaller) form and is completely free!
We don't know where she is or what she looks like, but we do know she is powerful and intelligent and
has worked with mind flayers in the past. And we heard a evil laugh in the distance...

[[Nasar]] upon realizing that [[She]] is free, runs off with the goal of hunting her down, but is
talked down before he gets too far... however they do find the spot where the 'other' body came into
being, and [[Nasar]] peels off all the fungi etc. from the wall and stuffs that into a bag in the hope of finding some trace of her to track down.

Oh, and the kobold we captured escaped and may well have reported us to
his mind flayer master. At least he wasn't around for the
reincarnations. :)

Anyhow [[Nasar]] is a bit confused and still getting used to his body so we
are resting up behind a disguised wall of fungus, in the dead end where [[Nasar]] died...
This will be quite the adventure!

XP 
10 - 500 
11 - 350 
12 - 250 

===Session 13 - Wandering in the [[Labyrinth]] - ''April 18th, 2010''===

Into the [[Labyrinth]] we go!

We now have a fair number of Kobolds, 1 MindFlayer, and one Evil Red Dragon in an unknown (but small) body loose in the maze...

XP 
9 - 810 
10 - 600 
11 - 495 
12 - 360 
13 - 260 

===Session 14 - We Found It! [[Labyrinth]] - ''May 24th, 2010''===

We defeated the second big blue guy, and managed to find our way into the heart of the labyrinth

Outside the Mazeheart:

We defeated big bad blue through a combination of a lighting, searing light, some arrows (including an awesome critical hit from [[Cugdish]] ), which knocked it out then Nasar ran up and beat the unconscious body to death, to stop it from healing. We finished opening up the hole, tried to track Willows course and started hammering a hole through the next wall. Eventually [[Trona]] was freed from the spell, and given the time ti took that beast was tough...

Trona and Nasar managed to hack a small hole in the wall enough to see a really big red leg.
Then we got ambushed by another set of demons, a Vrock, one of which apparently used some doubling illusion and got past gweara.
Trona killed them, but it sent off some plant spores which hurt Trona, Nasar and Gweara. Thankfully they were able to endure the pain long enough to resist the plant growth.

Nasar got [[Cugdish]] to put a light spell on a copper coin and launched it through the hole, which gave us some clues about the distances and that somethings might not be affected by the stasis fields. [[Gal]] did some research on the circles. [[Gal]] used an animate rope to latch onto what we thought was [[Willow]], and was able to move her, although slowly, so she wasn't fully in the field... And we noted an arrow suspended in mid-air far in the distance, which over time seemed to move... although extremely slowly.

Nasar and Cugdish then went further long the maze, used an earth elemental to go through the wall and discovered a way around, and we found ourselves at the heart of the maze! So everyone came into the heart of the maze area.

In the MazeHeart:

There was a big archway with a shimmery forcefield at the end and a whole bunch of glyphs and painting that described the raising of the scar mountains.. We determined that the forcefield was the boundary of a time-slowed area, in which there were three groups composed of Kobolds , the Illithid and the defending Elves and clerics... all locked in battle. Time was massively different within the field, with 2 hours outside being less than a round inside... and we could only enter with the assistance of the tokens... so only two of us could be in at one time.

Trona and Cugdish popped inside and shot a few arrows at the MindFlayer and then did some mass healing on the Elves, and started to slowly change the odds in favour of the defenders. Cugdish can move faster with the help of the feather. So we are continuing to play the "Buff Squad" role, but have seriously hurt the Illithid, enough that it has gone invisible or fled the area.

(Courtesy of Alex aka Trona)
Ok, so while [[Trona]] was a statue, [[Gal]], [[Nasar]] and [[Cugdish]] dealt with
the chaos monster (a critical hit from [[Cugdish]] sealed the deal - go
archer cleric! Then we got through one wall, explored a bit, and
Trona tried to get through the next wall. After a while, the others
went around and found an easier way into the room which a hole in the
wall showed to have a big red thing and a lumpy earthy thing that we
assumed was Willow. On the other side, the big red thing was a Balor
and it was bull rushed in stasis by a Chaotic good outsider. (Oh, we
also fought some Vrocks - killed one and two got away). Eventually we
saw the Big Slow Motion Fight between the Illithid and its elite
Kobolds (including spellcasters) and some remaining elves. We fixed
Willow and and with her help freed a 2nd chaotic good outsider (willow
had the good shield that freed people - Trona had a less good shield
that allowed conversation with the outsider, and some healing, but no
release. But Laran's diplomatic skills gained us an ally.

After that things got slow. We could only enter the slow motion place 2
at a time, so could buff elves, shoot arrows at the mind flayer (go
Cudish with *another* critical hit), and then get pulled out. The Mind
Flayer is hurt but has disappeared, & probably is invisible.

Meanwhile, Gweara got magicked into accidentally releasing a "good
outsider" that was probably the Red Dragon that is Nassar's
nemesis-to-be. Argh. But not much we can do about that right now, and
we have a bigger issue to solve - stop the kobolds, locate and stop the
mind flayer, help the elves, fix the artifact, cure the worm threat at
its source, etc. So far the buffing seems to be slightly turning the
tide in our favour. It would be good to locate the mind flayer though
(See invisibility, glitterdust, & faerie fire could all help here,
although see invisibility cast first would help the most). Meanwhile,
mass cure light wounds, bless, mass (bear's endurance/bull's
strength/cat's grace etc.) can all help even if we can't locate the mind
flayer. The bardic music is likely also helping.

XP 
9 - 1080 
10 - 900 
11 - 660 
12 - 540 
13 - 390 

===Session 15 - Victory! [[Labyrinth]] - ''June 12th, 2010''===
Gaming at Joes

Quick Summary is that we defeated the MindFlayer, started to heal the damage done etc.
(Please feel free to add more information)

Nasar went in and went after the MindFlayer after it was obvious that it was heading for the other exit.
The MF went through it, triggering Shimmer to drop the times stop field, and so Willow followed Nasar in chasing the MF.
Gweara went in and helped the elves for a bit.
Cugdish, Laran and Gal went around what turned out to be the other way.

Gal pushed himself into a magic jar on the MF, but looked dead.

Cugdish tackled the MF and it's tentacles couldn't lock onto him.

Nasar came along grappled it as well, and was getting tentacle locked but Cugdish held him of via the bestowal of Freedom of Movement...

then the MF did a soul swap/magic jar with Nasar and placed it's mind into Nasars new body...

After some incredible juggling, Gal managed to switch things so everyone was in the right place and we broke the gem holding the soul & mind of the MF, thus hopefully killing it...

We have since helped restore the plate and helped resurrect the seal.

The angel turns out to belong to a god that does not seem to exist anymore...

We've been asked to stick around for two months to help clean up and guard everything while the site gets back on it's feet...
And we've agreed.

We've also been asked to ship the Kobold stuff to the nearby village and will get a share of the exchange as payment...

We're trying to figure out what to do next...

XP 
9 - 1620 
10 - 1200 
11 - 990 
12 - 720 

===Session 16 - Cleanup and Decisions - ''Jul 5th, 2010''===

The party helps to clean up the [[Waterfall City]] and get them back up on their feet.

Meanwhile [[Red]] is out in the world and the party needs to figure out what next to do...

Courtesy of Alex(tweaked by TJ):

1) We spent time repairing the temple. [[Trona]] took a side-tour to meet
some treants and a dryad to find out what the knick-knacks do.
Apparently they are part of a satchel of serendipity. When ya need
something and have a good idea of what you need, pull one out and see
what happens, I guess. Trona accepted a long-term quest from the dryad to plant her 6
daughters. [[Willow]] has agreed to help with this.

2) We also took the kobold stuff back to the nearby town of [[Muka'l]] (I am
bad with names) to sell. [[Laran]] met with the merchant that wanted an in
with the temple elves and arranged a deal as only Laran can. So we
bought a lot of gear, and got some cash to boot
(Side note: [[Trona]] and [[Nasar]] were not in town because it would look too
weird). [[Gal]] teleported in and out to work on some magic boots).
We each ended up with 1500GP, plus assorted bits and pieces.

3) We then identified the three [[Mind Crystals]] (causing Gal to scream and fall over
unconscious) as some kind of memory crystals, including memories of a
priest meant to guard another [[Seal]], a merchant in Fershaw, and Nasar's
old adventuring companion, [[Remin]] the Necromancer! We then returned to
the temple, and outside the temple, accessed the crystals: [[Cugdish]]
accessed the priest crystal and got his last horrifying moments vs. a
dragon lich and its followers ([[Trona]] and [[Sentinel]] and I think Laran were
connected). This left [[Cugdish]] with a continual wound for a while.
Then Laran accessed the merchant (who also had a [[Seal]], and when it was
broken by the bad guy undead family in Fershaw, it caused the [[Chaos!]]
Monster episode a few years back) and [[Trona]] and [[Sentinel]] were connected
here. The next day Nasar accessed [[Remin]]'s crystal and [[Sentinel]] and [[Laran]] were
connected. That one was ugly, as [[Remin]] went through an opening to the
other side, and met . . . something so indescribably horrible (the Bad
God?) that even the memory of it nearly drove [[Nasar]] insane (luckily,
Laran got a priest to Heal [[Nasar]] while he was unconscious (but after
his broken bones from thrashing around were set). Trona then held
Nasar down and covered his mouth at the priest's orders so he wouldn't
say Bad Names. We were all instructed never to talk about his and
indeed never to THINK about this again, as that would give the Bad God
power ([[Nasar]] thought about thinking about it, and had an Episode. But
he is slowly feeling better).

From all of this the group now has some insight into the [[Story of the Seals]], a major thread that has been going on in the background.

4) [[Gal]] was smart enough to stay far away from all of this. But he was
foolish enough to be off on his own in the wild lands, mapping out
places to teleport. So he got jumped by a Frost Worm that ate his horse
([[Gal]] and [[Ash the Cat]] were fine, they teleported away).

Then the party stayed with the temple a while longer, to mentally heal,
physically train (a few level ups occurred) and plan the next step. The
next step seems to be to get to the town we traded stuff at([[Muka'l]]), and then
work our way back through [[The Keep]], then to Remin's Last Stand at the
Basin to hopefully find bits of the [[Seal]] that broke there (if possible)
and return it to the elves to be fixed. If we don't find it, then we go
on, do the War Council thing about Red, contact Nasar/Laran's home
base ([[Caltha'na'b]]), and try to find the other Seal bits in [[Fershaw]] if possible. Thus
we are on two quests simultaneously - the [[Seal]] quest that is kept on the
QT, and the "get that red dragon and those awful vampires, and maybe
help the loremaster find stuff" quest that is a little more overt.

On consideration we decided not to do the River Ride, but take a stately
1 week walk to the trading town. Also, Nasar and Trona are now called
[[Conner]] and [[Bluewood]], and will likely stay out of the town itself when we
come to towns until we can be properly introduced (or in Nasar's case,
disguised and introduced).

Trona also had a wicker/wood people carrying basket/backpack put on her,
so that she can carry 3 people in combat, or 6-7 in non-combat, in it.
Thus she can travel with them even at night, while they can rest, regain
spells, etc. Trona could carry Nasar in her arms if necessary too
(that would slow her down, though). But someone (Gweara) would have to
lead the horses.

Willow met her cohort, a dwarf cleric that I don't know the name of, but
who is connected to Willow's twin Ash (not to be confused with Gal's cat
of the same name).

Cugdish now has Trona's horse "[[Star]]" and is teaching Star to airwalk.

Seal

2010-07-06T16:32:33Z

Nasar:

Mind Crystals

2010-07-06T16:28:49Z

Nasar:

These are crystals acquired from the Illithid that invaded the [[Waterfall City]] and tried to capture and likely destroy the [[Seal]] that was in the [[Labyrinth]].

These crystals are one shot deals that first capture the memories of an individual, and then upon a command word release those memories into the mind of the individual speaking the command word...