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.....