Interlude 22 - The party was approached by the ork general named
Grotten Redfang. This ork
led the ork army at Widow's Grove and later had his arm cut off in battle with the Underdark up-start known as
Molash. This ork then brought before us a woman after the Finders agreed to give her diplomatic immunity.
This woman was Jazmin of the Order of
Balance. Because she is a member of this Order, Jazmin had
a tattoo of
scales on her back. One of the reasons the party agreed to accompany Jazmin to the Underdark,
was to look into the kidnapping of Tivanna Chadwick, the daughter of a politician in the independent city of
Cornwalsh.
Tone of the Game - There were some rule changes for our group, based on an on-going discussion about the
quality of the game. At this point, players will be no less than
three level(s) beneath the highest
level character in the game. If you retire your primary character, you take a
one level(s) penalty
to your experience point total.
Grotten - While talking about the actions of one of the party members, Grotten referred to that party member's
race when he said, "Its that sort of complexity that makes me avoid any more dealings with
Drow
than is required." In this story Grotten is given a
potion that restores his body. The character
whom actually handed Grotten this item was
Gungkrot.
Molash's Black Heart - The Finders were shown a wanted poster that offered
1,000 G.P.s for
the party. Molash suggested that
Collin could become the king of the Azure Kingdom, as long as he
swore fealty to Molash. He offered Damon a chance to rule the
City of
Cornwalsh.
Damon was insistent that Molash return Oren's girl,
Zella, as a sign of good faith…and Molash did
so. Molash returned another female, the victim of the crime of
kidnapping (type of crime), and let
the Finders leave the Underdark without giving him a definite answer on partnering with him.
Return to the Azure Kingdom - The wizard
Vavasha cast the spell that created the Seal of Kordasha.
Draad the leader of the
Iron Clan and
Jestak the Emperor of the Feron-Jacobe Empire
were present. The Mound of Kordasha is a
burial mound from a massive battle in a past age. The powerful
wizard involved is a Weaver of the Grasslands of Shronth, and is actually the
TorLa, a powerful Weaver
that is only born every 100 years. Inside the Seal of Kordasha, Vikos got into a huge fight with two
Pit
Fiends (specific devils). Vikos also gathered together his personal army of
orks (specific
race). Vikos traveled to the make a deal with the giants, but found the
Storm Gates
had disappeared. Vikos found a giant
eagle named Frilllion to be his mount. Vikos reported to Vavasha
that the devils were keeping humans in slave camps, which Vikos referred to as
breeding camps…suggesting
the devils are up to something strange. Casiel located an expert on devils in Cornwalsh named
Demitrius.
This devil expert warned Casiel that perhaps the devils had been using the Finders' weaknesses all along, to get
them to release the devils upon the world of
Kempin. Jeremiah cast a spell and his god confirmed
that Phineous
Thorne was indeed captive in Hell. When Jeremiah attempted to scry the Band of Nine,
he found only fresh
Graves. Zeek and other party members contacted Galen Green, and he suggested
the party retire and become
farmers. Casiel found an alter to the Celestials at the top of a
mountain.
Conference of Kordasha - Zeek returned to the city of
Citadel in the Empire, and went to the
Temple of
Po. There Zeek was turned down for help, but was contacted outside by
Degan,
a member of the temple, but also a secret member of the Order of
Fate. This man gave Zeek transcribed
pages from the Librum Nefarium that had the power when read of allowing entry to
Hell (or
Baator).
Collin spent a lot of time
drinking (verb besides singing). Jeremiah sought out a Weaver, who helped
him cast a permanent
rope trick spell, creating an extradimensional space to hide the
Book of
Purity within. Damon refused to place a magical
bag taken from Grinval into
the this space created by Jeremiah. Every member of the Band of Nine said "
NO" to being
brought back from the dead. Oren was followed to the meeting of the Finders by followers of the god worshiped by
Vikos (specific priest). The
Raksasha sent men and women with bombs strapped on them
to confront the party.
Kit saved the last surviving one of these bombers, by dimension-dooring the
bomb a distance away. The party confronted the brigands behind the attack in a deep hole in the ground. Zeek ran
into his main nemesis, who was on the bed
reading (verb) a
book (noun). The party chose
to end the last brigand's life by
hanging him. An old
woman turned into a devil on
the road to Kordasha, and attacked the party. The party found that the
Conference of
Kordasha,
was a decoy…and the real event took place elsewhere.
Interlude 23 - The
Hooded Mage showed up to speak with the party,
and told them he had never seen a book in
Walpole Abbey written about the
Wyrm's (or Dragon's)
Tear. The visitor suggested that the
Age may be ending. He also told the party that a vast army of
elves were gathering in the east, that ships from
Swaldune were skirmishing with Empire
ships in the Northern Waters off the Kingdom of Bantroth, and yellow devil-worshipping
ninjas (or monks)
were striking at will will in and near Cornwalsh. Before leaving the visitor warned the party that the
Dark
Lord (or
Red Jackel also, just to be fair) may have finally accepted
his role. Kit scryed the Raksasha, and discovered a meeting of sorts going on, with
Ashe (Red Jackel's
assistant) and a number of other strange individuals present. Knight-General
Mumford of the Most
Holy Order gave Will a hellish looking sword called "
Hellbound." Kit struggled
with her notes, for she spent
six years on another plane "Parting" from her child with
an ancient
Red Dragon in human form. In the Hall of Dark Lords beneath the Mountain
of
Man, there are
twenty (#) chairs,
eighteen (#) of which are occupied
by dead Dark Lords.
Collin - Collin was taken by
Dutton Hobbs to
Gellhorn, City of the Dead, and
there they entered a vast library and met with Alcald
VanDrunan.
Game Handouts - The paladins and clerics of Rosehill follow the Code of the Narrow Path.
Master Dola contacted Zeek (character), and told him to renounce Hieroneous, and begin follow the
ways of this ancestors.
Vikos - In order to help a group of his
ork soldiers, Vikos flew to a place called
Tobin's
Rock and fought with the Devils there.