Sunday, August 22, 2010

Journal #7.5 - Supplemental

The story so far...

In Waterdeep the party were sent by Edric, High Priest of Pelor, to Winterhaven to investigate reports of a death cult being setup by Kalarel. Bonus reward if party brings back evidence that the cult has been destroyed.


Upon reaching Winterhaven they are sent by Lord Pardraig to sort out the local kobold infestation. The party eradicate a few bands of kobolds and then attack the lair itself, behind a waterfall, defeating their goblin leader, "Irontooth". With his dying words he calls out to Kalarel, proving there's a link with the death cult. Irontooth had a letter from Kalarel on his body which said that he was close to opening a rift to allow the minions of Orcus to come through to feast on the living. They take his head back to Lord Pardraig as evidence and collect their just reward.

They discover a band of humanoids digging near a crater and after a battle they find the bound and gagged figure of Dauven Staul who says that the humanoids had been looking for an artefact of some kind. Back
in Winterhaven they hear about the Keep on The Shadowfell built on a rift to the underworld and how Sir Keegan went mad and slaughtered nearly everyone there, including his own family, before he was subdued
and banished to the depths of the keep. They are told by Elian that "a door has opened and darkenss lies beyond".

They make it to the Keep and encounter goblins, zombies and more goblins. They hear that Balgron is the leader of the forces at the keep and he had ordered the digging for the artfefact. After killing Balgron
they head back to fight more zombies and find some sarcophagi which spew forth more skeletons with reinforcements coming from a room dedicated to Bahamut. In another room they discover the coffing of Sir Keegan himself and have a conversation with with the undead warrior only discover he hadn't gone mad but had been posessed by the will of Orcus. Sir Keegan gives his sword, "Aecris", to Baeshra.

Back in Winterhaven they hear that the dead are walking so they set off to the burial ground to investigate. After battling zombies they defeat Ninaren, a dark elf priestess, who had been spying on them in
Winterhaven.

They head back to the keep and penetrate further into the depths and find themselves battling more zombies, hobgoblins and a giant spider.They explore further and spend some time messing around in a room with
statues and getting Baeshra trapped and freed in the nick of time. There is another battle with smelly zombies which becomes even more tricky when they are dazed by a homunculus lurking out of the way.

The last we saw the adventurers, Baeshra had just, in the nick of time again, been rescued from a gelatinous cube...

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