Session 8 - Trog Lair

Patchwell 18 CY 625 

Session 7 - Lizardmen ambush

Patchwell 18 CY 625 

Session 6 - Kullen's Gang and the mystery of the bones - Zosiel Speaks.

Patchwell 18 CY 625 

Skutch (the dead gang member) is loaded on the mule and taken for burial at the church of St. Cuthbert.

Group discusses how to get info from Kullens group as to why they dug up the bones.

They come up with a plan to infiltrate Kullens group at the Feral Dog, which consists of Tangerine Dean bringing the tatoo'd arm back to Kullens group. The initial plan does not prove successful.

Plan B -  Dirty Dale overhears some details about the Observatory and a person named Filge who is living there.

At this point in time, Dorian and Dirty Dale are completely drunk.

This crumbling abandoned observatory once housed an order of monks obsessed with the heavenly bodies of the nighttime sky. Now it houses a constantly rotating group of unusual tenants with ties to Balabar Smenk.

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Just outside of Diamond Lake, on a bluff overlooking an abandoned mine, sits a crumbling old observatory. A wide slit bisects its domed tower, where a great telescope likely once peered into eternity. The companions understand that a monastic order once studied the heavens from this site, although the sect died out decades ago. A one story extension, perhaps a dormitory where the monks once lived, extends from the central tower. Now the place appears like an old tenement building, weather battered and broken. A slim stairway cut into the steep hillside leads to the structure’s only door. Flickering light filters through the observatory’s windows along the tower’s second and third floors.

The companions hastily make their way to the bottom of the staircase. The steps, hewed into the stone, lead to a wide landing and two huge wooden doors. Shot through with dark blue mold, the doors form an enormous moon carved with a jabbering face. Beneath the landing, an unremarkable wooden door appears to lead to a tool shed. The group investigates the wooden door in hopes of finding a cellar, and potentially an alternative to entering the building through the front door.

Although the wooden door is locked, the mechanism is no match for Dorian. The portal is opened quietly to reveal a grubby tool closet. Upon entering, a tiny creature perks up in the corner of the room, its body composed of bone shards, matted hair, bits of what appear to be shattered tombstone, and rotting mismatched teeth. The creature moves quickly towards the door, which the companions bar to prevent escape. The creature proves a difficult opponent, dodging supernaturally around sword thrusts.

Dorian the drunk fighter falls after getting hit by the creature. Flyric also is hit which he brushes off.

The group decides to flee and call it a night back at the tavern, Able Carter Coaching Inn which charges 1GP per night.

Next Morning

 Patchwell 19 CY 625

 

 The group decides to go back to the Whispering Cairn to finish business.

 

 They come to the final tomb and are confronted by the Wind Guardians

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A parlay helps them to skip confrontation and enter Zosiel tomb. After answering a couple questions Zosiel grants the Amulet to Senegal to continue the fight against chaos.

"SPEAK MY NAME"

XP

1500 Amulet

200 Wind Dukes

50 Bar strategy

Amulet/Circlet +2 Wisdom

(2) Slightly curved black horns with red tips

(1) pewter box inscribed with alien, writhing letterforms (glyphs identified as those of the Queen of Chaos)

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Session 5: The Land Farmstead

 The Land Farmstead

A copse of immense deklo trees shades a small, quiet clearing just where Alastor said it would be, about 10 minutes east of Diamond Lake. Crumbling walls and a seemingly abandoned farmhouse stand admidst the clearing, the sad ruins of what must once have been Alastor’s home. The dilapidated Land farmstead consists of a crumbled wall and a sagging, unsafe house with broken windows and a sagging roof. Some distance from the decrepit house stand five grave markers.

Open pits yawn from before all five headstones. Piles of fresh dirt and a pair of abandoned shovels suggest that the excavation took place recently, certainly within the week.

Patchwell 18 625 CY

Clear Warm Day

Visit the Land Farmstead

Wounded Black Bear 8hp

Blackheart goes down.

The group finds a severed limb with a tatoo linking it to a ruffian from Balamar Smenks group.

The group buries the bones of Alistor Land and the curse is lifted. (+25 XP for all)

Update from The Free City

After the armies of Lolth fled to the four corne4rs of Oerth, Kilkennard was crowned King of the Free City of Greyhawk - the Domain of Greyhawk. Allied Veluna and Verbobonc. The task of rebuilding was at hand.

Six hundred and sixty six days after the liberation of Lolth, King Kilkennard married a woman from the far east named Zenobia.

Kilkennard has no heirs and has been is a steady state of decline. Some say he is cursed and mutter eastern witchcraft from his queen.

King Kilkennard

Queen Zenobia

Session Four - The Ghost and the Grell

 Patchwell 17 CY 625

Our group finds the entrance to the final tomb - it is locked and a young ghost can help.

Alistor Land

“I have been here countless decades, punished for abandoning my family in a time of need. Over these years, I have seen explorers like you come and go. The trap in the walls kills most of them, but others have left in humiliation, unable to pass through the far metal door. I am unable to leave the way you came because of my curse, but I am able to push through the far wall. Beyond is a glorious chamber of strange carvings and a pillar of air. And there’s a catch on the other side of the door that opens it without a problem. I’ll trigger it for you if you take my bones from here and bury them with my family on a farmstead east of Diamond Lake. Do this for me, and I will be free. I assure you there is no other way through that door.”

XP 120 each

Session Three - Death at the Whispering Cairn

PATCHWELL 3 CY 625 

The group continues in the cave after dealing with the wolves. 

Further down the hall they meet the Alpha wolf which drops the cleric

The group continues to the chamber of lanterns.

They find a passageway and step on a trap which kills two players: the thief and hobbit.'

The group decides to head back to Diamond Lake to heal and deliver bodies.

The Church of St. Cuthbert raises the cleric. Who will be next?

Treasure:

Elven Bracelet - 100GP to the right buyer