Heroes of Telemarch - 3134

The Seventh Year

Peter departs, bound for college. Mike Visser joins the campaign on the last day of the year.


1/17/3134: While en route to the Iron Fortress satyrs kidnap Nariadni, but leave her unmolested and unharmed when the rest of the group closes in.

2/1/3134: The group reaches the Iron Fortress of Apollo on the Fourchette River. They meet Cyber and Estragon and turn over the artifacts they found. A feast is held in the group's honor.

2/8/3134: The group passes through the picture frame to Drelham's cottage. Alyrya teleports with the frame to Greymarsh, where the group emerges. Raang and Alyrya announce their retirements (at lest for the time being).

2/19/3134: The group leaves Greymarsh and heads for Copperhame and the Temple of Ancient Evil beyond.

2/27/3134: The group reaches Copperhame without much incident.

3/3/3134: The group reaches the entrance to the Underground Realm, and once again navigate the maze. They confront the Being from Beyond. The powerful monster is defeated, but the encounter leaves several of the party insane.

3/4/3134: The group re-enters the Temple complex and resume exploring it. While doing so Nariadni sees a hallucination of a parrot. Dardania and Erik begin showing signs of their insanities (sadomasochism and manic-depressiveness, respectively). Mentiri knocks out Nariadni and Dardania, who are bound. Bodo tricks Erik to the St. Lotham tree in Ebar Krowden, where he is healed.

3/5/3134: Nariadni, Dardania, and Postumus are all taken to the St. Lotham tree and cured. Exploration of the Temple complex resumes. A large band of bugbears is fought and defeated. Later, the group passes through a magic archway which ages Orliss 14 years and teleports Bodo to an unexplored area. The group seeks for and finds him.

3/6/3134: The archway strikes again: Bodo is aged 15 years, Beldraggin is teleported miles away out into the main cavern, Janee's gains +1 wisdom, Ahrias gains +1 intelligence, Rathbone is transported 24 hours into the future, Dardania feet are transformed into duck feet, Nariadni is transported to another chamber with the temple, and Mentiri is inflicted with homicidal mania.

Nariadni finds her own way back. On the way back out through the arch Ahrias loses a magic item, Garval is teleported to the same room Nariadni was, and Bodo also becomes homicidal.

3/7/3134: Bodo and Mentiri's madness is discovered as Samrith casts a detect lie spell. They are transported to the St. Lotham tree. There Bodo is cured, but Mentiri cunningly covers her presence with illusions, and she is still mad, with no one the wiser. The group sets out and locates Beldraggin, then returns to the Temple complex. While they are gone Rathbone reappears. He passes back under the arch, and is teleported somewhere out into the main cavern.

3/8/3134: The group tries to find out what has happened to Rathbone. Bodo teleports to Ossana to get Alyrya, and returns with her to the dungeon. Alyrya's contact other plane spell yields false information. They make a trip to the wish pool in Ebar Krowden to get a re-roll on the arch for Rathbone, believing him dead, and the re-roll makes Rathbone 3 years old. The following day Rathbone is taken to the wish pool. Nemesii proliferate, but Rathbone is restored to normal.

3/10/3134: The group sets out across the cavern for the Altar complex. On the way Mentiri summons a Bayakee to attack the group. Ahrias defeats the monster, but is left miles from he group and badly wounded. The rest of the party finds and saves him before he dies, however. Mentiri is driven berserk by the failure of her plot and attacks the group. Alicante is killed. Mentiri finally summons the War Cats, who cure her, ending the battle. The Cats raise Alicante.

3/12/3134: The group enters the Dungeon of the Fumaroles in the Underground Realm, which they had found while retrieving the teleported Beldraggin. They fight and defeat a pack of giant fire lizards.

3/13/3134: The group battles firenewts and giant striders in the dungeon. Next they find altars to Loki and Imix. They find the Book of Imix, and a trapped dagger at Loki's altar imprisons Orliss at the center of the earth (where he remains to this day).

3/15/3134: Soujrnee leaves in the middle of the night, but follows the group in secret. His companions are mystified. The group descends to the 3rd level of the dungeon. They meet the aged cleric, Theontus. They defeat a specter, and among its treasure gain the Barangril lamp. Next they defeat a large group of giant constrictor snakes. Postumus gains a staff of the serpent, but Beldraggin is turned into a snake by a cursed scroll. Dardania successfully dispels the curse.

3/16/3134: At 2nd level of the dungeon the group raises Mud Keep from a bubbling pool of mud, and enter it. They battle a large number of chaggrin. Mentiri summons a Bayakee to aid the party, but she is killed by the chaggrin. The bayakee rampages against friend and foe alike when it appears. The group triumphs without further casualties and holes up to rest.

3/17/3134: Bodo teleports Mentiri to Lycapsus, but the attempt to raise her fails. He takes her to the wish pool; this effort also fails, and Bodo acquires giant black squirrels as a nemesis.

3/18/3134: Bodo tries the wish pool again, and this time Mentiri is raised.

3/19/3134: The group re-enters Mud Keep. They defeat mudmen and a specter, recovering a chest that is encased in crystal which the group cannot penetrate.

3/20/3134: The heroes delve once again down to the dungeon's 3rd level. They defeat harginn and giant scorpions, and discover the secret of how to get into the chest. From it they gain much treasure, including a book of infinite spells. They depart the dungeon, bidding farewell to Theontus.

3/23/3134: The group heads off across the cavern from the Temple complex in search of a dungeon on the Glitterdoom River that they have heard about.

3/24/3134: Minna locates the river. There the group startles a nymph. Nariadni is struck blind, and Rathbone falls instantly asleep.

3/25/3134: The group comes across a svirfneblin mine. The friendly svirfneblii tell the group where to find the dungeon.

3/26/3134: The party enters the dungeon. There they battle giant spiders and find many traps. They make it past the traps and recover a manual of bodily health, but Bodo is feebleminded. The group holes up, and are attacked by 8 animated statues at night.

3/28/3134: Statues once again attack the group before dawn. Bodo is taken by Soujrnee to the Temple of Thor in Krell, where he is cured. The group does some more exploring in the dungeon, fighting carrion crawlers and will-o-the-wisps.

3/29/3134: The group resumes exploring the dungeon. Dardania is becoming worried about her increasing "duckiness", as the effects of her duck feet begins to spread. Mentiri and Postumus aid a wounded bonesnapper. The bonesnapper befriends Postumus, who names it Barney. Soujrnee is driven insane by a vision he is granted of the Abyss, and his reckless actions in a fight against a band of blindheims kills Beldraggin.

3/30/3134: Nariadni learns the true name of a Balrog in the vision room. Soujrnee is taken to the temple of Thor in Krell, where he is cured. Soujrnee raises Beldraggin.

4/1/3134: The group rests inside Beliant. As a practical joke Mentiri makes the group think they are being attacked by a Balrog. This backfires when Nariadni panics and summons the real one. The wish pool is used to undo the event.

4/2/3134: The group explores the dungeon further, battling giant pedipalps and death dogs.

4/3/3134: The group rests and trains. Mentiri once again attacks the group. Mentiri summons a shadow version of one of Postumus' nemesii, a centaur, and Postumus believes the illusion and dies. Mentiri summons a Bayakee and flees with it to the wish pool, which she unsuccessfully tries to smash. She then goes to Marn Shadowspell's tower and convinces the paranoid illusionist that Bodo is after him. The group reaches the wish pool and Parn gets in a wish, reviving Postumus. Mentiri arrives and attacks. Bodo's mind is nearly destroyed by Mentiri's psionic attack, but Beldraggin saves him by smashing Mentiri unconscious. Mentiri is cured, but her alignment shifts to CN. The amulet of summoning is destroyed.

4/7/3134: The group re-enters the Glitterdoom dungeon. They fend off an ambush by type 1 demons and defeat giant solifiguds. That night automatons again attack.

4/8/3134: Further exploration of the dungeon. The group evades traps, then fights a type IV demon. During the battle Soujrnee lobs a fireball missile too close to the group, destroying many of the group's creatures and magic items. After the battle Bodo takes Soujrnee to the wish pool, where Soujrnee wishes he hadn't done it. Later the group fights trolls, and two of them are captured and converted to good by Stargoth.

4/9/3134: The group explores the dungeon further, battling many creatures.

4/12/3134: Rathbone is slain by a banshee in the dungeon. He is raised after the battle. After further exploration the group fights a mind flayer. The monster is killed, Nariadni and Stargoth are slain, along with Barney the bonesnapper. Samrith is in a coma and Parn is insane (kleptomania).

4/13/3134: Postumus buries Barney with his own shield. Soujrnee tries to raise Nariadni, but fails. The wish pool is used, and this time Nariadni is raised.

4/14/3134: Soujrnee tries to raise Stargoth, but this attempt also fails. The wish pool trick is once more used successfully.

4/19/3134: The group adventures on level 2 of the dungeon. The group defeats a swarm of 37 huge spiders, giant slugs, and giant water spiders.

4/20/3134: More adventuring. The group battles a roper, phase spiders, and Krak the blue dragon. Mentiri is feebleminded, but taken to the St. Lotham tree room and healed. That evening, as the group rests, Parn's thefts are discovered, and he is knocked unconscious by Mentiri's color spray.

4/21/3134: Parn is cured. The group leaves the dungeon and hikes to the Altar complex.

4/22/3134: The group exits the Underground Realm and returns to the surface world.

4/27/3134: While on the road the group meets Gel, Mib's son, the Toad Warrior.

5/1/3134: The group reaches Copperhame.

5/6/3134: Rathbone accepts an offer to guide another group on a quest to find the Tome of Skeltroth.

5/8/3134: The group leaves Copperhame and heads west for Hobbitland. In Greymarsh, Jedinna gives birth to her son, Magnee.

5/26/3134: Nariandi encounters her friends the satyrs once again. Both remember the previous encounter and go their separate ways.

6/1/3134: While traveling through the wilderness the group comes across a dragon's territory. The dragon chases Dardania in hawk form, and she and the group escape. Later a picked group goes back to take on the dragon. This is done, but Erik is killed.

6/5/3134: The group reaches the Iron Fortress of Apollo, where Erik is raised.

6/17/3134: The group reaches Hobbitland, four days before Fondue's wedding.

6/21/3134: The group attends Fondue's wedding. Prior to the wedding Bodo takes the younger hobbit aside and explains "the facts of life", or at least Bodo's version of them, and after the wedding they attend a merry party.

6/22/3134: The group spends a month resting in Hobbitland. Stargoth studies his manual of bodily health, and Beldraggin takes Mentiri to Ebar Nain to study and absorb dwarven culture.

7/22/3134: The group departs Hobbitland and heads north towards Bleak Lake.

7/30/3134: The group reaches Bleak Lake and begins preparations to cross the lake and enter the dungeon of Tiros Gathgor, which is on an island in the lake.

8/3/3134: The group crosses the lake via canoes created by Mentiri and enters the dungeon. There the group battles gargoyles before facing a large group of gnolls. In a running battle with the gnoll forces Nariadni is kidnapped. The gnolls sue for peace, paying gold and releasing their prisoner. The group later assaults a fortress-like altar to the Rat God, infested with giant rats. Postumus smashes rats in a frenzy as Mentiri's spells drive the rats out. From the altar they recover a ring which gives Alicante the features of a rat.

8/4/3134: The party ventures further into the dungeon. They battle many monsters, including sons of Kyuss, a vargouille, and displacer beasts. Nariadni is sucked through a Gate into Hades. The group waits in vain for her return.

8/5/3134: Soujrnee casts a commune spell, trying to learn what has become of Nariadni. They learn that she lies paralyzed and hidden on the banks of the River Styx. The group plots a rescue mission. They go to Hades, find her, and return.

8/6/3134: The group explores 2nd level of the dungeon. A curse renders Ahrias and Alyrya "savage". After a fight with trolls, Ahrias and Mentiri quarrel. Alyrya casts sepia snake sigil on Ahrias.

8/7/3134: Ahrias and Alyrya are cured. Mentiri is attacked by a brain mole while using the psionic ability of clairvoyance, and loses that ability. Exploration resumes, and the group fights a swarm of sons of Kyuss. Rathbone is hit by their deadly worms, but he is saved by Stargoth. An enchanted skull gives Bodo +1 strength and Nariadni +1 dexterity, but teleports Soujrnee to the arctic and Stargoth to Hades. In the arctic Soujrnee uses control weather to moderate the temperature and burrows under the snow to survive.

8/8/3134: The group uses the skull again. Mentiri gets +1 wisdom and Ahrias gets +1 strength. Alyrya gets 10,000 experience points. Postumus is teleported 300 miles to the southeast, and Dardania is sent to Hades. Postumus ends up in the Sea of Xenthus, but is rescued from drowning by the passing ship the "Balimar Voyager".

8/9/3134: Postumus reaches Balimar, and returns to the group. Mentiri and Alyrya venture through the gate to Hades in search of Dardania and Stargoth. Meanwhile, a type IV demon attacks Dardania and Stargoth. The two fight hard, but the demon overcomes them and drags Dardania off to the fortress of the oinadaemon diptherius. Stargoth follows.

8/10/3134: Stargoth continues to follow Dardania. Alyrya and Mentiri give up some magic items to be ferried across the River Styx. They pick up Stargoth's trail and follow him.

8/11/3134: Mentiri and Alyrya find Stargoth. Mentiri infiltrates the fortress of Diptherius disguised as a piscodaemon, and lets the other two in. Alyrya defeats a powerful yagnodaemon and banishes a nycadaemon from the plane. They meet the Long-Dead King, who gives them the sword of living flame. Mentiri and Stargoth are cornered by a red slaad and flee to the astral plane. Alyrya meets Diptherius. She impresses him, and he frees both she and Dardania, though all of Dardania's magic items are taken except the maunsharp and the jewel of Aar.

8/12/3134: Mentiri and Stargoth rejoin the group, after some adventures on the astral plane and outside the dungeon. Dardania and Alyrya return. Soujrnee is still trying to rejoin the group via the ethereal plane.

8/13/3134: The group, still minus Soujrnee, resumes exploring the dungeon. They fight manticores and encounter the horrible giant symbiotic ticks. Postumus is turned into a hyena by a trapped statue, but is safely restored to his true form.

8/15/3134: Nariadni is killed by foamfrogs as the adventurers venture further into Tiros Gathgor.

8/16/3134: Attempts to raise Nariadni fail. The group gives her an honorable burial after Samrith's speak with dead spell reveals that Nariadni does not want extreme measure used to return her to life.

8/17/3134: The group puts in a full day of dungeoning, battling many monsters. A sinking room strands them on 4th level, leaving Garval and Andros behind. The group escapes by using the picture-frame passage to Drelham's cottage, though Drelham is annoyed. They return to 2nd level and retrieve their henchmen.

8/19/3134: Soujrnee finally returns from the arctic and rejoins the party.

8/20/3134: The group resumes exploring 2nd level, where a trapped statue burns out Postumus's ability to cast find traps spells. The group defeats gargoyles, hell hounds, ogres, and frost giants.

8/22/3134: The group adventures on 4th and 5th level, where they battle chasme demons and a specter.

8/23/3134: The group explores the 3rd level of the dungeon.

8/25/3134: The group is still on 3rd level. Alicante is dropped to 6th level by a trap, where she is killed and eaten by a roper. Stargoth is also separated from the group, and is captured by a type III demon.

8/27/3134: The group goes down to 5th level and finds Stargoth. Exploring further, the party battles and is routed by a band of mezzodaemons. Beldraggin is killed, and Parn falls and is lost serving as the rear guard. Rathbone flees via the escape goat, Mentiri and Dardania escape to the astral plane, and the rest of the group gets away by using the picture frame. Drelham gives the group a quest, to retrieve an amulet for her from Tiros Gathgor.

8/28/3134: Alyrya teleports to Ossana with Beldraggin's body, where a clone spell is started on him. The group goes back into the dungeon. They fight and kill a red dragon, but Ahrias is killed.

8/29/3134: Soujrnee raises Ahrias.

8/30/3134: The group does more exploring on level 3. After they defeat a large group of giant boring beetles the group encounters a magical vortex, which sucks Alyrya, Erik, and Mentiri into the astral plane. Erik wanders about, but Alyrya encounters Ygorl, the Lord of Entropy, who takes her to Limbo. Mentiri meets a helpful opinicus, which returns her to the group and agrees to find Erik and perhaps negotiate with Ygorl. The group does some more exploring, and dispatches a band of ettins.

9/1/3134: The opinicus returns Alyrya, who has lost all of her gear and items. Bodo teleports to Ebar Krowden to see Cronax. There he meets Falthar, the fabled halfling thief.

9/2/3134: Bodo rejoins the group with Falthar, who is going under the name of Ralfir. The party descends to 5th level, seeking the way down to 6th. They defeat a greater basilisk, then are trapped in a maze except for Bodo, who is left outside. There they fight a group of dergodaemons. They barely beat the monsters, and Ahrias is killed. Soujrnee raises Ahrias. The group holes up in a dead end, where they are again attacked by the forces of evil, consisting of an annis, trolls, and frost giants. The group emerges victorious.

9/3/3134: The group escapes from the maze. They explore onwards, where they find the Chamber of the Loathsome Spoon. Nearby they defeat some annis and find the powerful flying carpet known as the doomrug. The group discovers Ralfir's true identity.

9/5/3134: The group rests and trains. Erik is returned to the group by some astral devas he encountered.

9/18/3134: The group descends to 6th level of the dungeon. Janee uses a potion of plant control to charm three shambling mounds.

9/19/3134: Soujrnee dispels an "anti-good" beam, allowing the group to assault an ultrodaemon and its forces, hell hounds, greenhags, and trolls. Janee is killed, but most of the monsters, including the ultrodaemon, are killed. The group recovers a pile of loot, and are attacked by a nycadaemon, which they also defeat. The group wraps up loose ends in the dungeon, including killing the roper that ate Alicante. Falthar departs. The group leaves the dungeon via the gate tree and spends the night in Elysium. Janee is raised.

9/20/3134: The group emerges from the gate tree in Greymarsh.

9/21/3134: The group begins a period of resting and pursuing separate projects. Ahrias and Alyrya semi-retire. Soujrnee goes to Soroth to find out what has happened to Musty. They find him being used as a living clock in the fortress of Kenghis Ghoom, and rescue him so that he may continue his mission. Samrith hires two henchmen, Luthag and Berianith.

11/1/3134: The group departs Ossana for Copperhame.

11/14/3134: The group reaches Copperhame. There Mentiri and Samrith buy the slave boy Peete from his master.

11/15/3134: Breamar takes Peete to the Isle of Balbar, where he will become a page. Sturm and Dwalger join Rathbone as his first special ranger followers. The group meets Ashar, who joins the group.

11/16/3134: The group departs Copperhame and heads for Ebar Krowden. Ashar, who is suspected of being an assassin, is revealed to be a drow instead. The group forgives him for being cautious about revealing this.

12/5/3134: The group reaches the mountain ahead of a blizzard and descends to the main dungeon.

12/6/3134: The group picks up where they left off, on 5th level. Soujrnee meets the Caretaker, and narrowly avoids becoming his replacement. Bodo wins a cursed amulet which causes all his companions to become paranoid and suspicious of him. Narn bursts a gas spore, which kills Luthag and a number of the group's animals. Bodo teleports to Ossana for supplies.

12/7/3134: Bodo returns to the group, where he is ambushed and butchered by the entire party. The group realizes what they have done and destroy the amulet.

12/10/3134: Luthag is raised.

12/14/3134: The party wishes Bodo's head back on.

12/15/3134: Bodo is raised, but panics and flees. The group does some exploring.

12/16/3134: The group finds and explores level 5C. They beat a fire giant and his hell hound pets. Soujrnee is affected by an arsonist curse, which affects him under the full Seeker's moon.

12/17/3134: The party finishes 5C and descends for the first time to level 6. They battle and defeat a mixed group of demons.

12/22/3134: Bodo returns to the group, which begs his forgiveness.

12/23/3134: The group battles minotaurs and a mezzodaemon. Mentiri is seized by telekinesis and escapes to the astral plane.

12/24/3134: The group rests. Mentiri wanders lost on the astral plane.

12/25/3134: The group descends to level 7, where they find the well of Solles, the vampire. Solles is defeated and flees. The group pursues him to a nycadaemons lair. They kill the nycadaemon, but Solles escapes.

12/27/3134: Mentiri succeeds in returning to the group.

12/30/3134: The group explores on level 7. There they meet Aareth, a refugee from a scattered adventuring party, who joins them.


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