Campaign

Writing this down, I've been finding myself more and more fond of the piece.. The whole thing of course, is starting up once again, We shall have fun come Sunday...

hopefully, my DM'ing ability has only improved since then..

Summary of Events, V 2.0

(V 1.0 was given to Lindsay, and subsequently lost due to a HD format on my part, and... Just.. Losing it I guess, on hers)

Beginning:(characters: Dan, Tog, Crackcart)

- In the town of Moonshine, just... Randomly met in a Bar.
- Created a Disturbance, were hailed as Demons by the populace due to massive Strength, and Psionic abilities.
- Were thrown out.
- Got Back in through Cheap Psionic bastardage
- Were informed of mission by town hall
- Supposedly a contest would be held between applicants for the position of recieving funding to go on an expedition to the East, to find out what happened to Arairia, a major Elven Trading city.
- The characters were chosen because of their obvious skills.
- See Also: They were given a bribe to go away!

Second Adventure: (characters: Dan, Tog, Crackcart, Sameer)

- Hungry, Plagued wolves attack the herds outside the city.
- The characters are called in to assist, they cheaply deal with the situation via psionics.
- Paladin shows up, Sameer, who also assists in driving off the wolves
- He was apparently also investigating the Eastern mystery, and came along too
- SET OUT!
- Various Random Encounters happen, Plagued Animals, Monsters, Etc.
- Ogres, plagued, they are killed
- Goblins, many are killed, Niplin Survives, he is healed by Dan Psionically, and is sent back to Moonshine to tell of their journies
- Sylph falls, she is healed, but quickly gets annoyed at the characters, and flies off..
- Jerks
- Massive Force of Gnolls is seen in the distance, walking towards the mountains.
- Characters kill a bunch of Gnolls and then run like scared schoolgirls(Note: Yes Lindsay, this IS supposed to make you laugh.. Or antagonize you..)
- Eventually make it to Arairia, coming over ridge, see city is mostly ruins
End Second.

Begin Third: (Characters: Dan, Tog, Crackcart, Sameer[?])

- Go into Arairia
-Met with Surviving citizens.
- Survivors told them to go into the mountains, and destroy the Gnolls, who are causing the plague.
- Gave directions
- The Players left...

- Tog left before the Players did, to scout, the rest stayed behind to heal them a bit.
- When the players go into the mountains after Tog, they are ambushed.
- They deal with the Ambush appropriately
- By running like Frightened schoolgirls (heh)
- Into the massive Pit, Northern Gnolls and Southern Gnolls are engaged in a massive battle around a central Shrine in the shape of a gigantic Gnoll Head.
- Chanting ?RATHLETHI! RATHLETHI!?
- The Players, through a series of intrigues, find that Tog has been captured, and is tied to an altar, inside the jaws of the Gnoll head Thenceforth, they rush in, see him begin to be transformed - free him, knock sameer out, Ride His magically greased Plate Mail Armored body Down the Hill they just climbed up, Tog breaks out, runs BACK to the head, get?s fully transformed, Crackcart LEAPS into the light, is transformed, Sameer wakes up, goes back, Dan is somehow also put into the light to get transformed, Sammer Cheeses it, Two Wyverns come to pick him up and fly him away (they lost their eggs to the Plague, and were pissed.. He was fighting Rathlethi, so he?s a friend, they saved him..) - A Massive Flash of light, and they are unconcious..

When they wake up, the plains are empty, all that remains is the massive Gnoll head statue. And they are now Rathlethi?s Chosen.
END

Back To Arairia (Dan, Tog, CrackCart, Allie?)
Town Hall, Find the survivors, immensely plagued, almost dead, etc.
- Killed them I believe..
- Went upstairs, broke through door, found possessed Mayor, He attacks, dies
- Found Dark Purple Sphere Gem thingie inside of him.
- Unlocked Chest in there, found Journal detailing all sorts of lovely stuff, found gem pieces, found treasure..
- Repaired Gem, it was a fiery red sphere, it doesn?t like the purple one.
- Left Town Hall, visited Tower.
- Inside tower, made it through magical traps and monsters and such, found Coranthalis, Mage, he made a deal with them.
- Told them that he wants a spellbook in a Dragon?s horde on an island to the south.. Paraside wasn?t it?
- Gave Dan a psionic Powerstone
- Also told them of the great treasure there..
- Said the Dragon was dead, heh.
- Went to Thieves Guild
- Found the guild was still intact, HEAVY magic protections..
- Introduced to Seron Thane, guild leader, he tells them his scouts have reported invading ships coming to claim Arairia now that everyone is dead of the plague..
- tells them to stop the ships, he?ll be giving support.
- Bastard gives Allie as support.. As a newcomer to D&D, she does nothing.
- Players successfully defend the port.
- Seron thane, Bastard, has moved out, with all the cities treasure..

END!
Beginning: Tracking the Thieves(tog, Dan)
- Traps massively hinder the party.. But they make it through.
- Rush off, track down the thieves, Beat them mercilessly (Think: Playing around with your new Demon-Powers! Yummy)
-Find out Seron was allied with the country that sent ships to invade Arairia.. Apparently he double-crossed the lot of ?em.
- Also find that there exists a base of them on the island of Paraside.
- Found all this from documents he was writing while Dan waited in ectoplasmic form
- Ripped Seron to Shreds.
- Found another Purple gem inside of Seron
- Got his magic sword.
- Began the long trek back to Moonshine
END (rather short..)
Beginning: Paraside (Dan, Tog, Crackcart)
- Went back to Moonshine
- Found Niplin, STILL ALIVE! He became Dan?s Apprentice\hireling at this time, an amateur Psionicist..
- Found the city in dire economic straits, war to the north has forced them to hire mercenaries to protect them, lack of trade with Anyone has bankrupt the city as all the merchants no longer have wares to sell or anything. Economic Collapse and such
- They?ve been gone about 6 months by now you see
- The Players buy the town.... Their rich enough to do this after looting the Thieves
- They leave the town soon after, south to Paraside, to investigate the other country.. DAMN what were their names? The ?Eastern Continent?
- oh Yeah.. Now I remember, Back when the ships attacked, Crackcart was captured, and he was taken back to Paraside, the players decided to rescue him..
- We organized a 1-on-1 jailbreak scenario for Crackcart.. But decided this was too BS later, so it never happened in the timeline.
- Small boat, propeller driven with Psionics, and Tog Rowing.
- Upon Landfall,

END!

Beginning: Paraside(Dan, Tog, Steve)

Steve: Half-Dragon, Living with mostly crippled Dragon Father, arrived after Sameer and his Wyverns (remember them?) Did battle with the Dragon. Used to live in a Temple to some Sanar?Eashae, Diety of life and rebirth, long since corrupted by Fire Giants (Hence why Sameer was attacking it, to reclaim it) - Dragon Survived Battle, Wyverns did not, it?s resting in it?s original layer (the one Coranthalis said was abandeoned) - Sameer barely survived.
- Players start out by investigating the mountains on the side, after having seen the battle end as they were approaching Paraside
- They climb up the mountainside, harassed by Kobolds (Led by a Sorceror named Skrag) - they were ripped apart..
- Met with Dragon, it was quite pissy, as Dragon?s have a right to be..
- Told them that they could live and it would be their friend if they brought the Paladin to him so he could eat him.
- The Players soon found the barely concious Sameer, he implored them to help him.
- They promptly fed him to the Dragon.
- Dragon gave them a Fist-sized (Dragon fist-sized) golden Ball, made of judicious use of melting gold with his breath weapon
- Put into a Bag of Holding, it was gladly accepted.
- Steve had been following them around this entire time, invisable, he finally showed himself
- And was told to follow the Players as they went into the stronghold on the other part of the island.
END

BEGIN: the Stronghold(Dan, Steve, Tog)

- Players head into the Stronghold, with no intention of sieging it, they are.. Warmly greeted? How odd
- Astral Portal in the back, they are greeted by another strange figure, like themselves, Saar?Tcheras, a man apparently, no mouth, no facial features whatsoever actually, entirely a smooth white mask.. But it?s not a mask. An elaborate headdress grown out of his head, purplish to offset the stark white of his face, spikes go straight up, out, and curved around his head, the rest of his body covered in concealing robe thingies.
- He introduces himself as the Chosen of Garamon, much like they are the Chosen of Rathlethi, a bit more history and explaination about what they are is given.
- The players trade the purple heart-gems of the Mayor and Seron for Crackcart?s freedom.
- They are then allowed to go into a portal to the Astral Plane, where their dieties can interact with them personally.
- Rathlethi, the Gnollish Diety, calls to them, and they answer.. Steve is left behind, and gets to converse with Saar?Tcheras... This will be between him and I.
- They converse shortly before Rathlethi inquires how they got there.. When he learns, he Immediatly drops them into the Prime Material Plane, Near Moonshine actually..
- The Players learn after their, sudden appearance, that Moonshine has been taken over by the Warring Nations, Elven and Human to the North, they actually now fight a pitched battle in the streets, the common citizens are either effectively slaves, or refugees.
- Everything that happened after this pissed me off, so we?re going to start from here.
- It wasn?t much, just more cheapness with Psionics on dan?s part, and alienating potential allies.

The campaign over the Weekend...

- Entered Moonshine.. Proceeded to NOT use ANY form of diplomacy, but rather stormed in, were defeated, employed as summoned monsters, taken to the other side, betrayed their former "allies" - spoke with a significantly more intelligent counterpart on the human side, destroyed the entirity of the Elven fighters, picked off archers, and kicked the snot out of the mage..

In other words, a job well done.

- They somehow met up with Niplin again... Dan's Goblin Psionicist NPC
- Steve's character arrived, telling them to travel to the Mountain Shrine where they were first turned into Demons..
- They traveled, there were various random encounters, but those are not important.
- Arrived at the shrine, went up to it, and...
- Astral Portal opens up, Saar'Tcheras, followed by massive amounts of undead, and four Clay Golems pop out.
- Saar'Tcheras thanks them kindly for leading him to Rathlethi's source of power, and gives them a choice, join him or die.
- They pretend to join him, but, when confronted with the fact that he'll put a Geas on them, huddle again.
- Steve's character walks up to Saar'Tcheras, claiming "I'm not with them, remember, we talked about this? Besides, those guys are planning to attack and..." - He didn't pay attention afterwards, but rambling occured.
- Saar'Tcheras proceeds to beat DOWN Dan with superior Psionic attacks.
- Tog's character is level drained and otherwise pounded by Undead..
- The Clay Golems lift the Rathlethi head up, and drag it into the portal.
- When the portal is full, Tog is down, Dan has psionically teleported away, and Steve has stolen everything of worth from them, Saar'Tcheras picks niplin up by the skull, and walks into the portal with his Undead.
- Steve follows, on the basis of various promises of power and wealth..
END~!