And so Our fearless Heroes brave the Ruins of Myth Drannor
    The next morning the Heroes set out to Myth Drannor. During the following 5 day journey through Cormanthyr woods, they come across many gnoll tracks and also come across several groups of gnolls! Towards the end of the 5 day treck to the elven city, Alexius appears amongst them during a battle with a gnoll party  that had amongst it at least a gnoll shaman or witch doctor that manage to cast some sort of fireball magic that lit the woods aflame, though Alexius uses her druidic powers and quenched the flames. Then turning her scimitars upon the gnolls. She, after the battle, told the Heroes that seemingly overnight the woods have been overrun with gnolls, and all over the Dales gnolls have been sprouting up creating havoc. She travels with the Heroes  up to the edge of Myth Drannor then shape changes into bird form to fly  back in search of more gnolls fiends to get rid of.

    So the adventurers enter Myth Drannor, upon entering the silent ruined city, the walk a path next to rubble to get to a bridge to cross over a river and into the portion of the city they need to ennter...thinking it unwise to enter more of the city then was needed...(smart choice). However, even the outskirts of the city are deadly as they are walking next to rubble an undead creature made up bones that leaks of flames exposes itself from under the rubble where it was hiding...a fell creature known as a Blazing Bones attacks them. Though they have come prepared for battle and defend themselves well against  this single advisary! They then come to the bridge, and safely make it across the stone bridge into the half of the city in which the Silvertree household lies within. They deem it  wise to take to the  streets, rather than travel through and over the rubble. However moments after they enter this half of the city they come upon a  battle in the streets between several spear wielding goblins and a hyrdra (several dead goblins lay around the hydra, but the hydra was also bleeding from several wounds as well), but before the heroes could do anything they witnessed two naken women with bat-like wings swoop in tossing fireballs and wielding barbed whips and begin toturing the goblins and hydra. Then in grim horror watch as a small cluster of at least 12 or more gargoyles exit their home with the spire of  an ruined keep just yards away to attack at the two baatezu women whom just laughed in grim amusement!  Witnessing this, the Heroes deemed it wise to hid within the  closest building. They entered the ancient old Keep and hid within, Daelynn went to explore the upper reaches of the Keep, and  what he found and (after fleeing) led back to the heroes was an undead woman greatly skilled in wizardry magic that kept demanding whom sent them! She seemed greatly  insane and deadly, then demanded that they leave and never return to "her" city or else die! Once they left the keep and wall of iron appeared  where an opening once  stood. Back onto the streets, the heroes gazed in horror at the dead bodies of gargoyles, goblin and the hydra...but noticed the two devil women were gone! Then from behind them they heard a man deemand they throw down their weapons and surrender all their coins and magic to them. The heroes turn around to gaze at a warrior  in full plate, a southern women in leathers, another southern  woman in a tunic (obviously  mage by the wands at her waist), and halfling women, and behind them all a barbarianish 7 foot  tall Priest of Tempus.All of which were heavily armed! However before too many words could be spoken, the Heroes watched in grim horror as a 15 foot tall Glebrezu appeared from an invisibility enchantment to  wrap a pincer around the clerics waist and with another one of its four arms it pulled the head of the cleric right off and tossed the body to the center between the two opposing company of adventurers! Then all around Baatezu apeared,  4 Vrocks,  15 Manes, 2 Hezrou. A horrid battle begins and within less then 4 minutes, all but the southern mage was left alive from the bandits....and then to everyone relief/horror tiny balls of flames downpour striking mostly the baatezu from above as a group  of 15 Tannari'ri's enter the battle! During this portion of the battle the southern mage is slain! And the Heroes turn tail and flee into the rubble to seek some coverage or just escape! To their luck it seems the two rivals lower planar  races are intent  on killing each other rather than chasing after them! But they fall upon a stone slab barely covering a stairwell leading down as it appears to be a portion of a fortress or keep that had used to stand triumphant on the grounds they stood above ontop of the keeps ruined walls. Their decision to flee   into  it was made once they heard the shrieks of more bat winged  women with their  whips, and it sounded like  the shrieks were pretty  close! So they entered and pulled the slab over the entrance above them!
    Eager to be away from the entrance they delve deep down the stairs and come to a large antechamber.  Where they find another set of stairs leading down, however the second flight of stairs were broken off and now ends with a large drop off, but without walking to the  edge of the  stairs they couldnt see where the drop off led to or how deep it was! Thus they tied a rope around Lorthois's waist and after Lorthois made a comment to Juan, the old dward kicked the elf in the butt and the elf went rolling down the old ruined  stairs .... the impact of the elf on the stairs made the stairs crumble and give way under him, as he and the stairs fell deep into the darkness below....rubble cut the rope and struck the poor elf on several occassions disrupting whatever spells he   tried to conjure  to save him from sure death! However, it seemes as though he passed through an invisible gate and it took him  elsewhere! The heroes gazed down and watch as their ally vanished from sight, thus one by one they went down via rope through the same invisible gate! This gate led into a massive  vault deep under Castle Cormanthyr in a  treasure chamber filled with coins, gems and weaponry! However, after about 10 or so minutes of being within the chamber, an unseen double doorway opened up revealing 2 Cornugons (baatezu) whom unleashed twin bolts of lighting at everyone! Then two more showed up and together they unleashed an arsenal of electricity that  could have slain the fiercest  dragon, as 4 bolts of lightning   crisscrossed over the Heroes! All but Karranna fell dead (due to the sword of Skai she remained unharmed!), and then major battle broke out as the 4 baatezu single handedly took on this single lone Paladin of Mystra! Together they used a series of claw and bites,  attacks with a barbed whip, and bolts of lightning attack the paladin! Karranna slowly took down two of them, but she knew that she couldnt hold up to long against the onslaught of their vicious physical attacks on her body! So she called out using her newly acquired Chosen powers to mind speak to her fellow chosen, and thus called out for Elminster and Whisper to aid her! A moment later Whisper appeared  in her elegant blue robe with her unicorn staff in hand, without looking even the slightest afraid she cast a temperol stasis enchantment upon one and disintegrated the other. Then she healed her ally,  and used some Elixers of Life from one of her many pouches to ressurect her allies. Then she teleported her friends to outside the  Silvertree estates (by using the Mythal to do so) and then she teleported back home.
    Before them now  stood 2 things, a ruined 200 foot tall tower covered in ivy and vines that has  several large holes in its large 3 tower frame. And also a starlted elven woman named Islyna who after the shock wore off seemed slightly upset that she had been forgotten back in ShadowDale, (haha)....then from behind the heroes they heard the voice of Kit and they discover that Islyna paid Kit to safely guide her and protect her within Myth Drannor.
    Together  they enter the towers and upon entering the first one Lorthois uncovers the skeletal remains under falled rubble of an elven woman in elven plate mail. she held in her skeletal hand an gleaming long sword. Upon picking up the sword, Lorthois could hear a soft woman elven voice whisper to him, then he black out, fell into a dream world where he saw an elven woman with blazing eyes named Elvenshalee, which he knew was the swords name. Then he awoke and found that his magic talents were pushed back into the furthest corner of his mind and that new ideas on fighting had moved to the fore front of his mind, he suddenly understood methods on how to properly use a long sword, long bow, a short sword and  a spear, plus also understood quite a bit of teechniques to use in weapon combat! The rest of the tower was a blur, but high up in the upper reaches of the tower was a half-gargoyle half-human mage that had a small clan of gargoyles that walked the halls of the tower (most of which the heroes slew on their way up the tower). That evil mage thing had uner its  capture a half staved psuedo-dragon named Figmund (a rarer species of pseudo-dragons that  possess greater intelligence and also mage skills). The heroes befriend the little creature and its decides to stay with the heroes, it takes some interest in the elven mage with the  sword that talks outloud sometimes.
    The heroes, go deep  into the household vault  to stay the night within the safety of the magic locked vault. The next day, terror rips through the tower as the very walls begins to shake as if the foundation was rocking! The Heroes run up to the main floor of the towers and then up to the second floor and its then that it strikes them what is going on! The Keep is under attack by a large skeletal dragon, a  creature known as a dracolich! Suddenly a large portion of the wall is torn away revealing the  creature in all its monstrocity! Then they were suddenly aware of its rider....IMOTEPH! Islyna mocks the lich as it unleashes spells upon the heroes, then lets loose a few  spells of her own...its then she mentions something about being Islyna the Pirate mage, then the Lich tells Lorthois he is here for his repayment for everything the elf owed him (as the elven mage borrowed  quite a bit of money in MagusKeep to purchase magic). Islyna then offered her advice in just give the lich what it wanted, which was the Silvertree estates and all within it, or else the lich and the dragon would surely take a few lives! Lorthois gave in to this, then everyone fled to the streets below as the draong his the  tower with its tail  and the upper foundations of the tower broke and rubble began to fall as the tower  began to slowly cruble and fall to pieces!
    That leaves Lorthois sadly in the streets of Myth Drannor, his once   regained ancestory , now stolen and being looted, with only the Rod of Silvertree as a family heirloom......

    They flee back from the ruins of myth drannor (with the aid of the lady lich they fell across upon entering the Ruins) to the Dales.  Whisper reminds the heroes that Elminsters and the Simbuls wedding was at the weeks end and that they were expected  to be their. The Heroes at the plea of Whisper stay within ShadowDale for the wedding. Valaria comes home for the wedding as well, the day before the wedding is to take place. Although moods are simmering with regards to Valaria and she stays shut away in her bed chambers. Whisper seems somewhat somber to the heroes, as the wedding day of Elminster and the Simbul was Whispers husbands date of birth, and even after the 2 years almost have past, things havent gotten any easier on days such as these.....
 


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