Adventure so far......
EVENTS:
Beginning the Adventure-
Kidnapped by the Flaming Fist
Bandits Attack-
100 GP, 4 Daggers, 4xShort Swords, 2x Hand Axes, Scimitar, Signet ring of the Flaming Fist.
Signet Ring found among the bandits? Curious.
Kidnapper- Dorn (Flaming Fist Member)
Meeting the Flaming Fist
Captain Zage- Leader
Isso- First in Command
Minqua
Neletree
Oliver
Soltus
Dorn
Go to Elfsong Tavern to meet Tarina for information about The Cultist of the Dead Three (Bane, Bhal, and Mercel)
Hell Riders - Guards of Elturel
Ravensguard - Duke lost while going the Elturel
Horses for the group if needed.
Elfsong Tavern
Allen Alyth - Bartender
The Song of Elture
Tarina wants the group to kill Deadeye and his crew for the 5,000 Gold owed before telling us where to find the Cultists of the Dead Three.
Battle with Deadeye's crew at the Tavern
57 GP, 15 SP, 2x Gold Necklaces 250 GP each, Ring with Pearl 125 GP
SHIP- Uncivil Serpent. (Party Treasure?)
Terina tells us of a secret entrance to the Bath House where the Cultists meet in the evenings.
The Song of Elturel
O sing a song of Elturel of water, woods, and hill
The sun dawns on her ruddy cliffs and fields green and still.
This land of long-abiding joy, home of the strong and brave
Renowned by all, across the realms, and never once a slave.
O sing a song of Elturel, when foes are at her door
Her fields torn by cloven feet from some infernal shore.
Arise the mighty Hellriders, take up your swift, keen swords
Then charge into the hellish fray and scatter devil hordes.
O sing a song of Elturel and when the night does fall
Sleep safe beneath Companion’s light until the dawn does call.
We’re bound by mortal covenant that only ends with death
And so we’ll sing of Elturel until our final breath.
Saturday, June 20th
Walking to Uncivil Serpent - being followed by Goose. Neckbeard discovers that the goose is able to understand people's thoughts and brings it with him.
The Ship - After Neckbeard has a close shave with his beard, battle sailors left on ship. Spare one sailor (Stewart Inkpot) and discover that the crew had a black dragon wormling in the secret compartment in the hold. On way to secret compartment find 6 treasure chests.
Chest 1 - 64 GP, 60 SP, 20 CP
Chest 2 - 106 GP, 95 SP, 90 CP
Chest 3 - 46 GP, 89 SP, 150 CP
Chest 4 - 200 GP, 44 SP, 96 CP
Chest 5 - Box Tongue Monster friend of Thokk, 5 SP
Chest 6 - 600 GP, 47 SP, 160 CP, Globe
Fight and kill wormling (8 GP), vials of acid taken. Talk of doing something with body.
Party treasure split up - 170 GP, 50 SP, 73 CP each.
1st Watch - see 3 people chasing after a similarly dressed man down a random alley. Then hear noises and and find body stabbed multiple times. Black hand painted on front of cloak (cultist of Bane) and right hand painted black. Pick up Mace.
2nd Watch - nothing
3rd Watch - 5 humanoids walking in group. One has on a gold mask with spiral(?) pieces sticking out of it. Walkine in opposite direction of earlier chase.
Fodel visits Harbor Master - Baldric Bundt, to hire 25 sailors to man ship. They are to report on evening of 3rd day.
Neckbeard, Vimik and Thokk go shopping. Bevel Left - Shop Owner. Turnip Billwater - blacksmith.
Duke Thalamra Vanthampur is currently in charge,
Whole party visits Smiling Nymph Bathhouse. Jabaz - receptionist, Qurmillh - massage therapist. Neckbeard discovers a false section of wall in one of the massage rooms. From smell, he assumes it leads to the sewer.
Tuesday, June 30th
Thokk talked to thieves guild, the door in baths leads to Dungeon of Dead 3. Duke Thamalra - shield with an undead vampire on it (not in this dungeon) Thavious Krieg - may cause the same thing as Elteriel??
Neckbeard shows everyone the door to the dungeon in the spa. Follow dungeon into the secret room - find the body (dead 2 ish days) similar to body found on deck.
Next room finds 2 figures at alter (a gathering place for Baal followers). Find medallion of Baal. Find tapestry - 4 figures ripping apart 5th one. Has yellow mold on it (BAD).
Find skull-headed flail and a couple of daggers.
Next room finds sarcophagus with 3 spell books:
Red Leather - Burning Hands, Detect Magic, Disguise Self, Fog Cloud, Ray of Sickness & Silent Image.
Umber Cover(Image of Dragon head, 5 claw marks going across it) Personal rune from a previous owner, Ultiss(?), Tiamet (chaotic evil)- Charm Person, Find Familiar, Identify, Magic Missile, Sleep
Black - Cloud of Daggers, Dark Vision, Detect Magic, Mage Armor, Feather Fall, Tasha's Hideous Laughter & Magic Missile
Next room, find man shackled to the wall, freestanding suit of armor - missing helm, large woman - shield, chain mail, flail, large man - chain mail, spear.
Go back to the room with the sarcophagus to rest. Goose is in room.
Tuesday, July 14th
On watch, everyone heard something outside door. Neckbeard and Cefry "transported to long hallway, iron doors with runes. 9 candles, 7 ft tall black angel (Zariel) and 6ft tall fiend. Zariel is angel that descended into Avernes to help with Blood War (between devils and demons). Fiend(?), Arch devil and possibly ruler of Avernes. Another group saw Elterel scene - "compassion's light" orb (thing with random lightning). Avernes, 1st level of 9 hells. All open door, new scene - close door and open, back to normal.
Find prisoner - Klim Jhasso who was captured 2 days ago with bodyguard. Held for ransom. His family lives in Upper City.
Picked up key ring with 7 keys and shield with leering skull.
Room with skeletal woman chanting and rats. Picked up silver skull shaped flail, nice robe, spell book - burning hands, detect magic, ray of sickness, darkness, misty step, scorching ray, animate dead, fireball.
Neckbeard opens spell book and is cursed.
Fodel talks to rat and finds out about big, bad guy - half deformed, burns.
Dorn sees writing on the wall - "rise and be counted" discovers it animates skeletons.
Walk thru rooms filled with flammable liquid.
Room with sarcophagus - false bottom, skeleton with moonstone eyes. Bag of beans for heart - heavy cloth bag with 5 dry beans. Dump the bag, explodes in 10ft radius (dex saving throw DC15 or 5d4 fire damage. Plant a bean and water - treant sprouts (50% chance chaotic evil and attacks).
Saturday, August 1st
room w/ 6 zombies. sarcophagus - jawless human skull & finger bone
room w/ 2 people on walls (elderly male, decd - Effinax Zalbor, caravan coordinator employed by Jhasso. Female tiefling - Vendetta Kress, captured by Bane in lower city. Outside Elfsong Tavern, was drunk.
Noises like rocks moving coming from north. Heavy stone door being moved & splashing footsteps.
Room with Sarcophagus filled with blood. Elderly female in corner covered with blood. Nebra - kidnapped from Low Lantern Tavern.
Nebra takes us to secret room. Find - 2 daggers; spell scrolls - charm person, disguise self;4 torches;14 gp; 20 sp; 4 daggers; mace; longbow w/ 5 arrows.
Room with 2 guys fighting. Morlok explains - Thalamara is his mother who is in league with Zariel. She is the last of the "3". Something about having similar fate to Elterel.
Vaaz - follower of Baal
Amrik - Low Tavern
Thirstwell - uses imps to spy. has bathhouse under surveillance
4 chest in upstairs room- 1) 4500 cp**, 2 res crystal vials with gold stoppers (fire breathing). 2) 10 eye agates (10 gp each), 1250 sp 3) delicate porcelain dragon mask (similar to what saw from ship), 2400 cp**, 500 sp** 4) bronze crown w/ 5 spires black, blue, green, red, white (chromatic dragons), 250 gp
Detect magic, nothing glows
Also find 10 sp, 5 gp, 2 daggers on corpses.
3 statues -
south, black robed skeleton, jaw open, hands outstretched
middle, red w/ black gauntlet
north, purple w/ harlequin mask, hand behind
Big Baddy
5 sp, 4 daggers
Next room, 6 crates
1,3,5 have packing straw
2,4,6 collectively have 10 days of rations, 20 caltrops, 3 flask of alchemists fire, 6 sets of manacles, 4 tinder boxes, 9 daggers, 4 potions of healing
Missed door - sarcophagus, fire ball scroll, 3 coin pouches - 5 gp, 10 sp, 5 cp.
Saturday, August 15th
Colleague of Fodel - cultist of Tiemet
15 sp, 20 sp, 15 gp, 3 daggers, 5 masks that resemble the bronze crown
On watch - Neckbeard sees vision of sitting on throne in Avernes with Zariel's head on wall. Einar +1 spear. Thokk quiver of +1 arrows. Vimak +1 great club, Dorn and Cefrey +1 long sword. Fodel magic to current spear??
Talk to Zodge and Oliver - Hellrider in Baldurs Gate and think they are trying to kill Zodge. Dorn 1st, Iso and Minaqua are missing on island they were investing for cultist activity.
Island Moray - ruins and inky black pools. Neckbeard jumps in one and temporarily has tentacle arms.
Find Dorn 1st, Demonic Owl bears. Neckbeard, Einor and Fodel covered in demon ichor. Neckbeard "thinner", Einor "fatter", Fodel black eyes (dark vision). Find book in infernal, 1/2 of pages scorched and unreadable.
Level 4!!
Saturday, August 22nd
Large cloaked figure (Morlok), hands Fodel a bag - 1 sp, 4 cp & map
Cost to go thru Dragons Head Gate - 2 cp/each
3 Kegs Inn - 3 wart covered brothers. Alstar, Brukham, Calabrot Wintersites
VanKamper house - 9 gurads. Get 3 shields, Ring with VanKamper signet, Ring with 3 keys (don't look like normal keys from this plane of existance)
Upstairs. Bedroom - Neckbeard takes troll doll. Other bedroom/tub - Iron banded chest (slender, nobel boys clothes, jewelry box - 10 gp, signet ring, "stone hearts never bleed"). Spell book - guidance, sacred flame, thaulmautory, command, detect evil/good, sanctuary. Puzzle Box - writing in infernal, inscribed "Thabbeus Craig"
Saturday , September 12th
Puzzle box is cube shaped container, 5-6 in per side, infernal iron, 3 ish lbs, 1 hr to attune to it.
Iron Banded Chest - wrinkled clothes, red waxed candles, blank parchment, ink, smaller box - 73 gp, 120 sp, greater potion of healing (4d4+4). Smaller black tome - "apocalypto" in common, poetic prophecy by unknown author - end of world.
MOM - 6ft tall, gray hair, muscular
Stoppered bottle of poison - Midnight Tears (tasteless & odorless)
Upstairs "bathroom" - vanity, oval mirror, cosmetics, etc. Chest - platinum statue of winged cat (50 gp), 2 thin crystal vials, red liquid (potions of healing)
Chest - 6 bottles of fine perfume, hairbrush of lapis lazul (100 gp), wooden jewelry box with electrum filigree (70 gp) holds pearl necklace (200 gp), seasonal hats
Bedroom with animated black, plate armor w/ helm
Loft Room - prisoners. Kauil Orumar (male), Shalene Zoraz (female)
Office - book "LAst Charge of the Hellriders. Cut out of middle holding 2 keys on a ring.
Basement - 3 devil creatures. Crates of dried meat, loaves of bread, cheese, etc. More crates of candles, oil flasks, rat traps. Barrells of drinking water. 200+ corked bottles of wine on wall. 17 fine wines, rest common. Pop open fine wine - level 5!!
Sat. April 3rd -
Run into Princeps Kovik. After bloody battle, he takes the soul coins we have on our persons. Kridenalt(??), Kera Kendalt - pet chicken "earwax".
Go to Demon Zapper, find a unicorn in a magical sphere - it zaps Neckbeards pocket and the stone from Bafamet falls out. Go inside and creature approaches with amulet of Zariel "Ralzala". She pledged to Zariel to gain revenge on rival dow and now regrets it. Mooncolor is name of unicorn. We walk into the Bone Brambles to find out information on the Bleeding Citidel (it moves). Red Ruth, an oracle, who lives in the Brambles may be able to help but they are maze like and easy to get lost in. Ralzala gives us a scroll with a letter of introduction to Bal (deposed arch-devil). Trees are warped and look like calcified corpses....
Sat. March 13th -
Get in war machine - Cefrey and Neckbeard have small pouch with 2 vials of black substance (demon ichor) It can use instead of soul coin. Told about Princeps Kocik - warlord that use to command Zariels Legion. And Bitterbreath - warlord that hasn't been seen in awhile. Maggie also gives us 2 jugs of alcohol.
War Machine only has wrecking ball - +9 to hit , 15 ft radius, 8d8+4 bludgeoning damage, dbld if target is an object or building.
Find Jander Sunstar at Spawning Trees - one of few remaining Hellriders who joined Zariel on her quest.
War pig in war machine attacks us. After battle have Ballista now mounted to war machine, 2 hand cross bows, 30 bolts, bluish green magical cloak (valkur) and a golden necklace. Lulu says sword is at Bleeding Citadel but must go to Spawning Trees or Demon Zapper to get there.
Arcea lookign for her halfling child Trina. Had made deal w Barbagg to keep them safe but didn't happen. Barbagg is looking for long lost brother who is trapped in a shield. End up under building in room with letters on floor.
"Eight appear before your eyes and eight remain in schooled disguise. Avoid all magic in this room, lest reckless steps ensure your doom." On floor find the eight schools of magic - Evocation, necromancy , transmutation, illusion, adjucatioN, enchantment, conjuration, divination. Get to other side and everyone finds a useful magic item.
Let me explain...No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
Fodel made a deal with Bel, which he has yet to be completed and is being hunted (by Neckbeard and Dorn). BIS is Asmodeus. Reya has been captured by parties unknown and is still missing. The party has acquired a new member - a Tabaxi name Rain and we have traveled down the chains to Avernus. Lulu is slowly regaining her memory and has told us we need to retrieve Zariel's blade which is hidden somewhere on this plane. Our method of traveling around is vehicles provided by Maggie and soul coins are the required currency.
When last we left our intrepid adventurers, they had retrieved the wasp honey for Maggie and had boarded the barge to once again cross the river Styx.
Elturel
The floating ruined city assaulted by the black angry companion with bolts of dark energy from high above. The streets are overflowing with demons and devils seeing the lost people of Elturel.
Saved a woman and children being hunted by bearded devils and other dark creatures of this hell.
Narzugon riding a nightmare causes us to scatter with its sheer power and strength.
Crossed the hazardous Torm's Blade bridge to find respite in one of the few buildings left standing. Streets are patrolled by demons, devils, and dragon-like creatures. They seem to have no alliances between them. We are visited by a devil "Bis" with a willingness to help the party in exchange for the sword of Zariel. He works for Bel, who wants to be the Arch-Duke of Hell once again.
Doorsteps of the High Hall the party encounters Hell Hounds guarding the entrance. Once combat was complete the earth began to quake and pillars of the High Hall begin to fall. As we picked our way through the rubble-strewn ground an Infernal T-Rex and Gnoll rider is seeking prey nearby. We escape this terror with the help of Lulu with her blasting trumpet.
The High Hall pillars are statues depicting Zariel in changing forms. From her holding her sword which fades to a warhammer then flail attached to her wrist.
Party splits and finds a Trebick, a guard of Torm, upstairs and Seltern, druid, amongst the slaughter near altars. The cult of Tiamat was there to greet us. Threats were thrown and combat avoided. Army of evil descends upon High Hall. The party retreats into catacombs. Tomb of a dead woman speaks to Dorn telepathically and offers her blade.
Guard is an untrustworthy guide in the catacombs.
Candlekeep
Entrance to Candlekeep was knowledge. Book submitted for entry.
Sylvira Savikas- Tiefling sage of Candlekeep.
Puzzlebox-
Opens the puzzlebox relvealing the Contract. Thavius Kreeg made citizens swear an Oath, Creed Resoltue, binding them to the nation of Elturgard. Kreeg then made an agreement to Zariel that all who fall under the light of the Companion are forfeit to Zariel. All persons bound to Oath to defend Elturel are also forfeit. 50-year agreement.
Shield-
Gargauth Pit Fiend Demon locked within. Will corrupt and should be stored into extradimensional space.
Map-
The map is given to the party laying out Avernus. It is an ever-changing land that will cause you to go mad as the map's maker.
Traxigor's Tower
20 miles east of Candlekeep. Giffon mounts provided to travel to a location. Black Dragon fight upon arrival. Dispatched quickly.
Traxigor is a Otter being. Meeting Lulu, Hollyphant, proves interesting. Seems to be once companion to Zariel and hidder of her sword. But Lulu knows not where. We believe the river in Avernus stole her memory so she could not betray the knowledge of the sword's location.
Traxigor opens the gate to Eturel. Allowing part to plane shift to Hell!!
Elturel in Hell
Upon arrival party save a mother and children from bearded devils and gain information about the state of things and location of the High Hall. We ask Reya t lead us on.
The Companion is black and in the sky, firing bolts of energy down upon the city, striking and destroying many structures.