what was the name of the cleric in keep on the borderlands.. building 6

5.5

The defense that Farknot summoned you for seems to have worked. The Demons stand on the stairway above and do not attack. The Devils stand ready behind the portal of the black hand. The Demons still prepare for a huge attack from your portal on the Astral Sea. Even your own clan looks a little suspect to you.. But the party has defended the temple, and now for the the court of evil guests. Your Clan is the UlFranin- The evil fey of Yurenth. You have allowed guests….

1. Heinz, a seemingly eager and old ‘ally’ that represents an ancient necropolis. 2. The Blackhand- they served as a entry point for demons. LOOT- They are offering 4 level 3 items to be able to join your evil temple’s brotherhood. 3. Serpent worlders.. the zehir clan (while they have a link now, but are offering “arms or armor” for a deferred link). 4. the hall that was once kessels.. the one you all were brought in through.. No Contact here. 5. the dragon whelp ruin, with the screw.. There are the guests with out a hall, but that are requesting one. No Contact here. 6. Flairs…They offered 12 elven virgins and the head of a deva, until the realized you all would prefer some other barter. They are coming up with a new offer. 7. Germpeto- the cute dark stalker, with a viral habit, he came threw the ulfrannin portal. He offers a very unique item for the right to act as speaker to the void for your clan. 8. Erathis’s Evil Adjudicator- the Devil advisor that all evil rulers need- he was captured from the Devil attack a few yarn ago. 9. Ulfranin Hexer, an ally from the ulfranin, but not on your staff 10. The Minotaur- The beast chained.. a demontaur that was captured by the troops. The stair way up is guarded by more minotaurs. It seems to spell- not til level 7 or so.

- The Bolder filled Hall is cleared. You have not opened that door yet. - The endless evil tidings, evil prayers, evil mumbling from the lost ghosts is numbing. - The throne keeping every thing in balance.

What you guys could use is a good drink at the fat c.

5.3 The party battles to the ante chamber of merek’s lair when they are summonsed. Farknot begs them to return to the Temple immediately. He has some arcane summoning spell that has been cast at ruins of Rowan Neely’s estate.

When the party tries to jump into the portal a strange green pineapple explodes and out come some dimensional marauders. The party has a hard time defeating the maurauders and getting to the portal.

When they eventually return to Farknot, he brings them to the Portal room that once held the speaker of the abyss chamber, and now it is swarming with Taints. A battle supported with the minions of Verastorm, and the taints were wiped out.

The portal looked out onto the worlds. The Astral Sea, The crust of the elemental chaos.. the real world in between, flanked by the shadowfell and the feywild, with countless spots of glimmering light and total darkness.

The Party is attacked by the Ghouls of Nothinhness.. They defeat a Chainfighter shadarKai.

The Sibling of the Shadar kai is Golme klem. He explains that his squad is here to weaken the temple. He was hired out of Hestzvard in the Astral sea. He plans to return to his city Kohb after telling his boss that his contract is up. The Ghouls are the troupes, and will eventually return to this space, but what we need to beware the reinforcements, and you need to be aware of the Demon army that has been moving into the other portal for months. They seem to be in the midst of a war with a part of the real world.

4.8

We are fast approaching lvl 5.

The party starts fresh (post extended rest) and seeks lavinia and her sons out.. They soon witness Merek’s brilliant obstacle,which has 2 nasty names so far… the Eye of Alien Fire / the eye of Toxic Flame.

SO the party moves into a new part of the cave, a sapping of caves that seem to have been built to avoid the eye, and work down and around it. In these small tunnel the stonekin await in ambush. Sure enough they show as soon as the party progress. Fredrick is pushed into the eyes fire, and destroyed, as well as a few stonekin minions. The party saw one suite of Fredricks spiffy armor rust nearly instantly in the flames.. Only special items must be able to survive in the fire.

The party is looking for more when they nearly walk into a Gelatinous cube. The Avenger is mostly immobile for the rest of the fight, and the party destroys 2 of these elite translucent killers and takes the combat in victory. Loot.. nothing.. not even a scroll in a bone tube case….

Next fight…... The Stonekin humanoids seem to have a small lair ahead.. and you have seen minions come and peak down at the area the party is in.. Lavinia must be waiting for you.

4.6

The party gets past the taints to find 2 caverns. Cliff spies some large centipede like creatures that are burrowing in the hard stone like it is merely soft stone. Impressive.

The party fights the burrowing pedes.. and defeats them, after realizing the pede’s can move freely threw the walls, and indeed they attack from the 2nd passage, finding merek alone and full of fear.

Cliff and the party hear humanoids moving around where the burrowpedes started in the last fight.. the party barely gets threw the short rest before the fight starts. several orc stonekin minions come carefully down the cavern. behind them the party see’s Vladimir and Lavinia.. the leaders of the orc stonekin clan. The fight ensues.. merek is .. surprise.. attacked from the 2nd corridor again, and the party defeats vladimir, and his mom Lavinia gets away.

The party finds a nice suit of armor on vlad, and that is that.

Sister – earlier in the night.. examined a crypt room.. with a strange stone monument in the center that is covered with strange and mysterious code, drawings or something like that. might be a map.

We close with the party rejoining sassy- the mule, all the supplies. Then getting a laydown at the makeshift lean too, and getting the well deserved extended rest..

next week – meet Lavinia.. again.. with her other sons..

chapter 4.4

The party started the session with a wake up and quick breakfast.. then right to the cave mouth to examine the carvings.. You think you see Merek on there… but right about then the taints attack. Merek wipes out 8 of them in one round, and the fight is on.. then over..

After a breather you see more taints appearing at the magical wells in the back of the room. Merek senses magic yum yum back there too.

The next battle is over quickly.. the party smites the evil seed, and so he can’t germinate again.

In the water of one sigil well the party finds a hand full of javilins. there are 5 total, But 2 are obviously magical (one is a +1 flaming, one is an un-named lvl 3 weapon).

In the other well is a suit of chainmail with goofy little wings on it.. as soon as he see’s it merek has a single tear. This is his.. from a former life.. It is the armor known as “Adornments of the First Dawn” – and peter has the write up – but the party will be happy to note.. it is the first of a few divine artifacts.. These are items that I designed to advance with the party… so right now it is +1 armor.. but when the party is at level 30 it will be +5 armor..

4.2 The party is 4th level.

The party find a nice little nest, they land in the hollow basement of a rustic rowan neely estate. The portal is the strongest part of the structure. Piles of stone block, in ruins, with over grown tree’s that look decades old. Beside the foundation is a large ornate cave mouth. The sister’s impressive nature check spots large foot prints, something solo.. ogre sized. Soon enough the party see the huge creature coming out. A squat and tank looking Ogre.. but perhaps with stone giant blood (he looked spooky- like your deva- his eyes and body look more like marble than skin. Then they see that bastard dramo mic firing at the ogre- he is hidden off in the distance..but sister see’s him. Battle ensue’s. Somehow threw act of error and comedy the ogre and dramo mic are killed and the party is hardly scratched. sigh.

As he dies the ogre reaches out and calls to merek.. begging for forgiveness. Merek is visibly shaken (Fails memory roll. shakes it off).

The party see’s into the ogres cave they see a seal of some sort, a water source- something magical.. fey maybe. There are a flock of taints around the seal. They are somehow attracted to it.

And while merek stands statue like during the extended rest – he has what a human character might call a nice dream.. a ‘treasure foreshadow dream’.. .. something good is in that there cave.. something the Deva gets to wield, or wear. Maybe a ring. Past the taints.

3.9 The party goes thru the portal from vence neely estate…

They find themselves in an alternate plane, or realm. the party immediately beat up on some strange half snake men whom have questionable ‘module’ powers.. the adepts of zehir attack the a party and die.. for the cause. after the attack the party looks over the landscape..

Metel….. Mars like and huge.. an arid sandy tundra stretches into the distance.. which seems to be limitless…

Immediately around the party, and sparsely in the landscape are stone piles, dunes perhaps, some are like hay stacks, some as big as a building. One such large pile is in front of you, There is a camp of some sort on the dune. From the camp, and circling around the dune is an obviously magical.. aberrant.. cosmic perhaps.. material that makes a 10 ft diameter rope like trail on off into one horizon.

As a part of the settlement there is a welcome tent. It has a pile of sacks you recognize as from brind’amor. There is a small cage.. with some strange materials.. like a nasty flexible glass and tattered ribbon like silk cloth.

Around this dune are a number of small pools of some metallic sludge like fluid. In each pool is a portal. The party needs to move thru such a pool of sludge to to get to the land, and the welcome tent beyond.

The party thinks about a rest.. they jump back into Yurenth.. home world.. and a new Neely estate. .......

The party battles a molten dragon, a dragon speckled with black and green. The dragon is named Sinaps.. he was once called ‘sinep’ but that is penis spelled backwards- and one of the players is highly atuned to backwards spelling… lets call his party member ‘retep’. The party killed the dragon when it wasted a round spitting a useless caustic puss on the ground.. You can look forward to finding the siblings of this dragon (with the spitty thing fixed.. .

After many a good roll the party found the dragons lair, which was in the ancient family burial grounds. The party found the lair in a monument hole.. a ready made grave.. The party got a pair of reading glasses (which is why they know the dragon’s name was not penis spelled backwards, but it was actually ‘panis’ spelled backwards).. and there were also a few items that the party should have gotten, but no one could decide what they were, so they are just out there… in the wind.

Still, this specific party has a invoker that is full of piss and vinegar, so while he was preparing the next sorte of insults at the DM, 100% aimed at the lack of loot, the party was attacked. The raid came from the black hand ‘rat pack’ patrol. A few grima rats and the mazeo WereRats were beaten, questioned and slain.

The party learned that the black hand is in control of Neely lands. They have powerful allies. (wererats and a clutch of dragons led by smolden ‘the 3rd blue eye’... and that the base is to the west on the shore of the lake of solace.

Following the trail back to the black hand base, the party fights into what is called the Vence Neely estate… held by the Mazeo clan of were rats.. The party defeats another rat pack- a few more Mazeo Wererats.. The party lears that the Neely’s had made portals to connect the estates they built to some other place. These portals persist. At the Portal the Deva party member meets a lost comrade. Thandrix the fixer, is a clerk for the blackhand? Thandrix tells the deva that the dragon smolden has been summoned, and will be returning to meet the party. Thandy says the dragon will not go threw the portal, but that they could escape that way..He can help with that. The dragons lair is downstairs, in the ruins of the estates cellar. Thandrix explains that if the party goes to collect the loot.. then they will meet smolden in a few minutes when she returns. She is tough.. you might want to get 3 or so more fights in before you get to her (cause you might be 4th lvl then).. but anyhoo..

next time, dragons loot.. and it is a doozy.

The divines cross into the wilds that once held the seat of clan neely. The harsh mountains are starting to develop into river canyons with lush forests and anbundance of wild life. It was said that the clan neely nearly hunted the woods bare.. that has obviously been remedied.

In the 2nd morning of the expedition the party see’s travelers ahead. They spot a squad of goblins sneaking into an area of underbrush. The underbrush conceal a hut; the goblin basecamp.

in the insuing battle the party is hard fought, but wins. They get some magic items, but not really for merek -who rolled a 5 for loot. Cliff gets his choice of any lvl 4 item.. what every you want cliffy. Andy got a helm, and Merek gets 2 of any ‘one use item he wants lvl 3 or less’ (potion, regeant, ammo, component… ect.. ).

The party takes a rest or two in the goblin basecamp, They find some really good quality carrots and potato’s.. they look very tasty. and they look threw the journal of the war priestess they just slaughtered.. she keeps good notes.. and made a map.. this must be the area of Inverness. Can anyone read goblin? what about dragonesse?

Divines make lvl 3… duke it out with harpy joe and a rat swarm. – and meet the sage of Solace…

So you get to the sage of Solace.. He is a Deva.. a airy and spacey guy… Thanks you for the items from the ancient gardener. You see immediately that he has packed everything he owns in a wagon. He has 10 or so henchmen traveling with him. The Sage pretold of your defeat of harpy Joe. So they awaited your arrival. But he must leave immediately. He has been summoned to court for the first time in 70 years. He gives you 2 books and he leaves a mirror. The mirror is large, and is a means to communicate- a Mirror of Sending… will allow you to ask the sage questions if you get stuck on your quest. The mirror will work for one month, then will lose power.

The Sage wlecomes you to eat the food prepared and sleep in the made beds, but he is off to the king.

The 2 books are How I did it – by C.C.Neely, and “Neely’s if Innverness” by Heinrich Neely.

Clan Neely and the Dioceses of Innvernesse. – By Heinrich Neely

1. Book is best described as a high gloss family primer and picture book. The Bulk of it concerns the births, marriages and deaths of the Neely Clan. When the lord of Neely was decorated by the King and asked for a boon, Neely selected a lordship in the frontier. The family seat was a fief called Inverness, located at the Orr River. The dioceses of Inverness was a total of 6 knighted estates, built with help by the king of Brind’amor, to civilize the frontier and try and tame the evil denizens of the lands. – The knights are still active? (written in sidebar). Just a few items of interest…

- Clan Neely represented Brind’Amor in the battle of Twelig Field. Where Krivil Neely won the flower of silver battle.

- Victa Neely was first woman leader of Brind Church

- Constance Neely slays the Orator of GlenVinis (begins long feud between Oracle and Sons of Brind).

- Angdango Neely wins silver laurels at Champion feast of Solace.

- Dolcent Neely becomes Exchecker of the King

2. Highlighted – Many years ago (no confirmed date is written in the book) Camcarl Neely was the last Guardian Invoker of the Hygal- some sort of army squad of the eastern pass, organized out of Brind.

3. When Camcarl retired to his Orr estate to write his memoirs, he brought with him the Hygal sigil. There is no reference to this item’s use or significance.. but the sage has left his mark on a page, with the words “brought with him the Hygal sigil” written in the side bar.

4. The frontiers of Brind’amor become tamed. The Estates become backwoods hunting lodges (and remain so today). The Family History ends when Heinrich Neely sells the last family estate to an oracle missionary, and moves the last vestiges of the Clan to the outskirts of Brind where they become successful merchants.

bound with a hand written note -

Worshipers of Erathis- I was given this tome many lives ago. I have protected it for you. I hope it helps you understand your task. AThe Mission of Brind Cathedral has a complete tome of this work, if you deem it needed, the librarian of that place is Misha Kent, was once my student, and this ruined version of the book might be helpful to him.

How I did it, by C.C. Neely-

1. The book itself is in very rough shape with many missing sections. You see incomplete evidence of deep knowledge of the Verastorm, with references to rituals the party has witnessed and diagrams of the chaos temple’s features that are very credible.

2. The book speaks of the Magi of Hygal as a secret squad of Divine heroes that defended the Hygal pass from the alien demons that seek to escape the Abyss into Yurenth.

3. The book refers to Verastorm Chaos Temple as a place where great evil tidings pass, and where the throne of Fael must be secured until it can be returned ‘underhill’.

4. The book refers to Chaos taints and a chained abyssal as the dire enemies of Hygal, and are trying to get through the portal.

5. Camcarl’s (C.C.) squad utilizes the throne of Fael to create protections so strong that the council of Hygal retires and Camcarl writes this memoir.

While returning to the Calf for some merlot, the party is ambushed by Dramo Mic and his trained dragonflies. The arrows he shoots seem to defy the rules. The party shakes their fists at Dramo.. Yes we will meet again. So it goes. And the party returns the calf…. and feasts… The ancient gardener is there helping the scullery crew. They are putting on a feast. The have stuffed a piglet, and it is rotating. The kitchen is buzzing. You have 2 people that are your kitchen workers. They are hangers on to your cause- The goblin, the half elf and Andre the giant (the goliath). And then you have the ever present guests- the local rake (jayco), the sheriff (martin), and some visitors- like the sweet milicent – a local elven lady- who seems to like the place (and her guard- rorrick).

When the party returns they set about celebrating.. They are offered drinks the Wormwood blanc.. the green myst liquor that seems to be all the rage in the area. And with so the ritual begins. Kessel played to the glory of the party. It was a long awaited extended rest. The divines have lost memory of the last feast they had of like auspice.. Merek would point out it was the feast of Yelle, it was suited for kings. The night before they were to be sent into (as a sacrifice) to the Chaos Temple of the Verastorm. The feast had dancers and acrobats. There was rituals and magical displays. The food lasted for hours and must have bankrupt whole regions of the country. Such was the pomp. All to celebrate the passing of the Divines into the portal. That was weeks ago. But now you have a new feast of memory. Kessel played immediately. It was Kessel that explained the Fey shaman, and the ritual to you all. The Pray of Feast Chaos Temple of the Verastorm, begins with slaughter of the stag of Elt and dedication to the spring foal. The time of passing, a time of green shoots. And so the Shaman introduces the essence, and the Wormwood blanc.. And so celebration of the Feast to the masters of the Chaos Temple of the Verastorm goes.. with merlot and beer and the green fairy, and a meal of roasted pig with pickled potatoes and carrots, in Brind’amor will be recalled more easily. You have made a significant contribution. True dominion of the Chaos Temple of the Verastorm (and 3rd level). Today the Throne of Fael is safe. You have left Farknot and baba in charge of the Chaos Temple. Tomorrow you will worry about what is needed to support the Temple’s defense, for without defense it will slip away.. and the throne will slip away with it. At the feast the party speaks to the ancient gardener, the grower of the seemingly blessed food you are eating. The Gardener believes the party must speak to the Sage of Lake Solace. The Sage has firsthand knowledge of the temple of evil. As means of credentials the gardener gives Sister Gil several packets and parcels of vegetables and tobacco. After some protest of carrying such contraband Gil Galmarath and Clifff agreed to speak to the Sage, to learn more about the Portals. Merek mostly sulked in the corner, he was having earlier life flashbacks.. The green fairy liquor really gets deva’s loopy. The parcels are many. The gardener sends a local troublemaker from what must be a wealthy family to borrow horses for your trip. And so at 8Am the next morning the party finds itself traveling west at high speed with fresh snow on the ground. The Sage lives in a small town called Solace, on the Lake edge, and it can be done in one day.. or so says your guide… the road is tricky, and so Jayco takes lead. He is a jumpy guy,..,. jayco is.. worried about hurting his uncles horses… and the sooner you let him shove off.. the better.

*The verastorm is cleared..

We started with the party fighting off the effects of the disease chaos numbness.. which is a lasting effect from entering the speaker of the chaos voids room. The party had the initial effect, and battled threw it.

Then the party entered the last unexplored room of the verastorm.. They fought the abyssal taints… the transparent/ translucent globs of chaos that float out of the portal to the abyss. You see more in the abyss beyond the portal, and you fear they will continue to come threw the portal and attack your caverns. {As I mentioned.. this is a random roll you can’t turn off}.

Loot.. The party got 4 potions of resist psych damage (resist 5). these potions will also cure chaos numbness. Also.. The party gets 5 more amulets of the verastorm.. {used to improve your existing amulets}.

-> important note.. the party is one battle from lvl 3 (if i compress cliff into the merek/gil group… which i am doing).. so keep that in mind… we are ready for lvl 3 character sheets.

*Thing we need to do:

1. The Chaos Numbness disease – we can assume you all spend some time, what is needed to get rid of any effects.. I think we did this already..

2. Heinze the vamp gave you tokens for normal +1 weapons or holy symbols…. Andy/Sister Gil turned his into a +1 holy symbol.. anyone else (Vidar, Cliff and Merek can do so).

3. Other magic item purchases. You have 1000 gp worth on account each.. and im not sure anyone has used it. Andy and Peter have spent theirs i think..

4. Merek has a new chance with +1 to understand the ritual of the chaos speaker again.

Ok and then onto where we are as far as **things to learn or explore….. There is no clear linear plot.. so roam as you will..

1. You can test the portal to the chaos of the abyss, past the tainted area. 2. You might exit out of the verastorm and go back the Fat C for an extended rest and a nice glass of merlot. 3. If you learned to open portals you could perhaps visit the lands of the shadow adept’s realm or go back to The bitch of yelle. 4. You could ask Heinze if you can pass thru his portal- no idea what is there… but he is a snappy dresser, so there is that. 5. You could check out the ruins of the dragon whelp. 6. You could clear boulders 7. You could purchase an orb (or any standard Deva’s severed head).. and move the throne of Fael..

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You are sent for by The Caverns of the Verastorm- The near zombie Baba “is sent, by Denzien Farknot- who has assumed a role as “champion of Verastorm” and is doing Gil Galmarath’s good work” …. “ Farknot wishes you to know – “ Steward, the caverns request your observance of the ambassadorial ritual at your earliest convenience. – Anyone that visits the caves will see that have started modify themselves… a minor timaclysm.. They are no longer blood stained. They are earthen- with roots and occasional vines. Otherwise the rooms are pretty much the same. The two Brind’Amor rooms are manned with zombie elf gaurds.. These gaurds seem “yet to be animated”. When you get to the throne room, Farknot approaches.. He has a squad of undead goblins behind him.. He also has his nasty bundle of vermin all in a cage..Ready to fling.. he still looks undead.. He has become a part of the verastorm now.. He seems aggressive; his men are poised to attack. But addresses you “my lords…I hope you don’t mind me taken this precaution- you have killed me twice.. I only get 9 lives as they say.. So as you can see… I have set about doing your good work Mistress Steward. I have set the watch and kept peace in the weeks you have been away. The caverns are full or mischief, yet all was well enough.. this morning we had this “ and he sweeps his arms towards the tunnel the south- seems to be as old as all the others. But it is new- it was not there before…. It has a banner in its doorway- three colors, and a fist. “Heinze the vamp” is ready to offer you the official seals for the embassy ritual. He has brought you gifts. These icons will become weapons or symbol to assist in your divine mission.. “ and with that Farknot lays a bundle on the ground… and backs away.. Saying “ by your leave”… and he leaves… The bundle has small tokens, like a letter opener – a stiletto with a symbol of Erathis.. Find a good place for your soul.. “ so say’s Quarto – an evil rat thing.. The party finds The next room and see’s a strange sight. The Speaker of the chaos pit is in the midst of a ritual. He is drawing strange voices from 4 large candles that are around him. A strange adept of shadow lingers hidden in the far side of the room.. and as Gil approaches the speaker, a candle lashes out at her.. dazing her and starting the battle. Soon there are animated skeletons and zombies springing up in the midst of the battle.. this angers merek.. but the DM says it is exactly as the module is written. Merek takes is personally, and wastes the minions while a zombie monk throws flurry of misses at him.. . The battle turns when Gil draws the speaker forward and cliff and Gil bloody him. He flee’s- but not fast enough, and is slain at the feet of the adept.. Battle ends soon after (DM thinking where did I go wrong.. this was supposed to be tougher).. The party see’s the shadow adept leap in to the portal, and a second later is fades out. Loot on the night is the weapon icon from Heinz and the 3 evil black candles worth 50 gold each. Merek has one more chance at to identify the rituals- with a +1 from studying the candles.

Quarto- The rat relic. Quarto was once a cleric of Torog.. The evil god of creepy crawly.. He was created for sacred rites of these caverns, and has spent almost all of his time in the Verastorm. The long shard has vast knowledge of the caverns. Following Quarto’s instruction Clifff feels he can get the throne to act as a vehicle. Quarto has been silent since you have left the Verastorm for the valley in Brind’Amor. Quarto also has strong things to say.. Insulting cliff for being out ‘in space’ for so long, Quarto doesn’t want to leave the verastorm again.. He says Farknot is “as good a person to watch the caves as anyone else..even Quarto was beat by “the divines”… and Quarto goes to that dark place.. and wallows in it.. “You can’t trust anyone in this place.. They should be governed by a more powerful force that a party of 2nd levels…. what happened that the gods have abandoned this place?? What will happen to the current management when the caverns are claimed by a more powerful force?? Will Farknot become one more of the lost souls of the verastorm? Will he become a magic weapon’s brain?? Let it be a lesson to you to Quarto’s Longer story- Quarto has lived in the Cave of Evil chaos for most of his existence, even when he was breathing. He tells you that every 4 years there is a sacrifice of divines- sent by Yelle. That sacrifice of divine blood is an important process in the chaos caverns. He thinks there is some great danger in the balance of the sacrifice being missed. The Throne – a item of great value and power.. The Throne of the God Fael.. the embodiment of Erathis on Yurenth. The throne is an important component of the Chaos caverns. The divines feel in the throne the presence of Erathis. It is like a potent drug to the believer. The party used the throne to make Gil Galmarath the Steward of the caves. Now Farknot and many denizens of the caves must obey the party. The Vampire Heinz needs acceptance from the party to join his embassy.

The amulets – the Badge of the Verastorm- everyone in the party has a soul forged amulet. These items are linked to your soul by Erathis, and they will not function correctly for other users. Collecting these amulets and joining them will upgrade the soulforged amulet (1 = +1 Amulet, 11= Amulet +1, of health, 21 = safewing amulet, 31 = +2 amulet.. ect.. Thomas of Frost – The weapon found on the zombie boss, in the Verastorm Evil Chaos Crypt. The Weapon is now soul forged to Gil Galmarth. They share elven background and a cold demeanor.

The game began with an unresolved random encounter, ‘things that suck blood..’ 8 stirges (800 exp), after that fight the party was able to recover the rug from the boulder filled passage, and put it under the throne. They used the Sacred Bundle Cliff was given by the Bishop of Yelle, which finished the ritual of the throne, and Sister Gil was named the steward of the throne, which allows her to control aspects of the Evil / chaos Verastorm caverns. So there will be no more random encounters (unless Andy turns it back on). The party is looking to assault the space beyond the radiant door next time they gather. Sister Gil believes that eventually she will be able to welcome Fael back to the throne room, and this world, where he can rule in honor of Erathis.

Matty had to drop, but the rest of the party went into the shadow corridor, and following it east, they found a new exit, and the tiny town of Imamel and fought a group of ulfranin gob’s(650 exp), whom were hiding in some ruins right as the exit of the shadow corridor.

after the battle the players met the people of Imamel, a small community in the region known as Brind’Amor- a member state of the oracle’s realm, also known as the city states of Derbain.. This region was the home to the contests that your party first met each other at (the olympic like contests that are central to Erathis’s traditions in Yurenth. The Oracle’s.. or Druids.. rule over the area wisely and the people have long flourished. The party managed to get the statue of Kessel back to the ruins, where they sacrificed the fatted calf (the truely impressive Calf was a 100 out of 100 roll) in his honor, and Kessel and Merek started making plans to build a tavern where bards can sing the praise of Fael and Kessel. Getting Kessel outside was worth a minor Quest fulfillment.. giving you each 50 Exp for the minor Quest.

The party members have received loot that was traded in one parcel, and which gives them each about 1000 gold to barter for, and through the town elders and merchants they can find most low powered items they would want, to finish the barter.

You all visited the bolted door, and behind it was the solo Zombie boss. The MAIDEN OF ICE AND PAIN. She visited upon you frosty vengence. battering baba and clifff, who were the stand in for the defender all night. Even after the cold bitch died she animated again. Finally the players did away with her. You find several items- A frost maul, 15 amulets, and Quarto, the evil scepter.. which Clifff is happy to wield.

Quarto teaches you that the throne can be used as a portal of its own. That you can get it to move itself if you find an orb and rug. He believes he knows where the the rug is, but not the orb.

Verastorm

sacred bundle

amulet of verastorm

torturers touch

Quarto

soul forged

Thomas of Frost

throne of the gods

tidbits

Catching up on last week’s game. We had some bumps on start up, and never really got rolling with momentum. The party failed to get threw the bolted door into the crypt, as you were bogged down with roving Rats, Undead and Drakes. We got threw one large random encounter, and one small one. Then peter and andy had encounters with drakes, and leveled up. The party got more amulets and this is a good time to catch up on what the party has gotten for loot. You feel you are on your way to gaining power in the amulet progress. Your party has a chained blade +1 Ghost touched. Your party has many small items that are magical, that have value, although no immediate use to you. they got a new item for this list last week.. They found a pair of strange gemstones, called dragons eyes. This is added to a piece of a rune, a blade tip, a shard of armor, a gem fitting, with runed engraving and other like tidbits.

Beyond the throne you find a hallway that leads to a antechamber (gargoyle stirges and a clay scout) which you defeated.. The room has many statues and rubble.. looks like a store room for a greek drama club. Beyond it is a stair that drops and turns.. entering into a large room with dozens of large torture devices like racks and boiling cauldrons, A large low cage with a goblin in it. The room has a portal which is glowing. You combat the torturer, defeat her and her rat minions. You are rewarded with some magic tidbit- waiting to be boiled into residium, and a ghost touched chain knife. There were a few encounters with wandering rats and undead.. seems like once an hour there is a roll. Getting short rests has been easy. Gil Galmarth and Merek Stardust have been on gaurd duty.. everyone else has had an extended rest.

You all agree that you must find a way to move the throne of fael to a place where it can aid Erathis

You have found a new portal, beyond which you see several small dragons flying around a tower on an island.

You have put a few hours into clearing the boulder filled hallway. you feel you are not 10% done.

There is one more door.. runed.. you can’t open it.. it radiates some sort of magic.. many other items in verastorm radiate…

And ahem.. the most obvious move was to unbolt the door to the crypt..

The party could feel the radiance, the throne of the god fael.

Erathis has truly blessed you. In the chamber beyond Kessel is a huge room. With a Throne. There were some innocent looking bones and evil amulets, in piles… and the diehard Farknot- or the spectre of him, was beconing for a fight on the throne. You battled. You learned that much of Tim’s idea of this run is to make figurative translations from .. quoting the blurb to the players… ( tsr 1980..the keep on the borderlands—room 52 nearly…. quoted) you enter the hall of skeletons…. This unusual audience chamber has a huge dais and throne like chair….with 4 gems worth 500 gp each… it is otherwise empty” …..Honestly it says .. Otherwise empty. In the next sentence then it seems to remember that “……….except for a dozen skeletons, clad in rags of chainmail and battered shields. They are propped against the wall, and are obviously not animated and do nothing if the adventurers check them“(attempt to turn is unchallenged and ineffective). Each skeleton has an interesting amulet on its neck.

The throne is labeled “Throne of the god Fael” players engage farknot, and in doing so they struck the throne, and animated the undead.. The fight was a foot. In the end the divines won, Sister was blessed with truly divine vibes in combat, while Vidar took divine rest on the throne of Fael. Clifff knew he had a shot at pleasing Kessel, he rested with the statue, aligning concordance. Merek the invoker traced thru his past lives to recall all the stories of kessel.