Haven: The Elf Eater Den

On April 14th, not wanting to get into more trouble with Margrim’s Tower, the maturing party follows up on a satyr report of the massive wolves known as “elf eaters” being found in large numbers at an elven structure in the northeast of satyr lands, near the Vale:

• Finnigan Farl (CoB): Level 4/2 Halfling Bard/Chemist
• Aurum (TrS): Level 3 Elf Magic-user (Elementalist)
  • 2 water elementals, Squish and Squash (1 and 2 cubic feet)
  • fire elemental, Sizzle (1 cubic foot)
  • lightning elemental, Spark (1 cubic foot)
• Will (CaB): Level 3 Human Monk
• Thurston Thwarton (AlB): Level 3 Lizardfolk Nature Cleric

There is heavy fog that day, but it doesn’t deter their travel much as they travel west into satyr lands, knowing that even under good conditions, the journey would be a little over a day. However, as they day starts to come a close, the fog is dispersed by heavy winds and they see a column of darkness ahead. They want to investigate, but the sun is setting soon, so they resolve to wait until morning.

Play Report: KotB/Barrier March, Session 81 (The Yellow Pygmies)

On April 7th, meeting Gillican at the manor after returning the cured feral children to their homes, the Dragan Hall party decides to go to Hightower and clear out the yellow pygmies that seem to be enslaving hunters at a structure in the center of a broad blighted area:

• Gillican (MaC): Level 8 Elf Mage
  • Halen Ricter, Level 6 Human Man-at-arms
  • Altlan, Level 5 Human Cleric of Rusk
  • Kyra, Human Handmaid
• Mel’on Juse (MaD): Level 7 Human Cleric of Sky Light
• Omac “Sir Pathos” (MaC): Level 5/5/6 Elf Fighter/Mage/Thief
  • Derrick Lefter, Level 2 Half-orc Courtier
  • Askellion, Level 2 Gnomish Religious Brother of Guffrey
  • Simon Duffy, Human Longbowman
  • Bristol, Human Squire
• Pepperin Lightheart (MaD): Level 7 Halfling Scout
• Zaum (JoF): Level 6 Half-orc Fighter

They set out under heavy fog. On the way to Hightower, they come upon a wagon surrounded by the recently dead. One of the fallen croaks out for help and they heal him, learning he was the captain of the wagon’s mercenary guards. They were attacked by bandits who disappeared when they heard the horses on the road. While they gather up the wagon and the dead, farmers afraid of the attack emerge from the woods and join them to return to Hightower where they receive a reward for returning the silk and perfume to the dead merchant’s trade partners.

Haven: Ellizari’s Vacation Palace, Part 2

On March 28th, having searched the outer bailey, as well as the stables of the inner bailey of the old dwarven castle that Ellizari was said to have used as a vacation palace, the party is joined by Sicun, who had been following them, and goes on to search the barracks:

• Sicun (MiM): Level 5 Minotaur Fighter
• Finnigan Farl (CoB): Level 4/2 Halfling Bard/Chemist
• Aurum (TrS): Level 3 Elf Magic-user (Elementalist)
  • 2 water elementals, Squish and Squash (1 and 2 cubic feet)
  • fire elemental, Sizzle (1 cubic foot)
  • lightning elemental, Spark (1 cubic foot)
• Will (CaB): Level 3 Human Monk

Well, except for Will, who leaves the others to go look at the keep itself. While the others find nothing in the first barracks, Will climbs up rickety stairs and goes through a door where he kills a spider landing on him and seeing a whole nest retreats back down the keep and out to look for the others.

Play Report: KotB/Barrier March, Session 80 (The Feral Children)

On April 3rd. while Gillican is recently returned from a journey to the dwarven holds in the mountains and taking care of business in Larkbridge, the rest of the Heroes of Dragon Hall head down the road toward Endsdell looking for rumored feral children that have been attacking people on the road and who they believe to be under the influence of a cultist of Ziff:

• Mel’on Juse (MaD): Level 7 Human Cleric of Sky Light
• Omac “Sir Pathos” (MaC): Level 5/5/6 Elf Fighter/Mage/Thief
  • Derrick Lefter, Level 2 Half-orc Courtier
  • Askellion, Level 2 Gnomish Religious Brother of Guffrey
  • Simon Duffy, Human Longbowman
  • Bristol, Human Squire
• Pepperin Lightheart (MaD): Level 7 Halfling Scout
• Zaum (JoF): Level 6 Half-orc Fighter

They make it to the birch forest that Kilterson noted from his encounter with them before and Pep leads them to a sheltered campsite in a cleft in a rock before nightfall.

Haven: Ellizari’s Vacation Palace

On March 27th, Year 15, after a few weeks of recovery from confounding traps and unusual undead in the ruins near Aithreachas, some of the party gathers to look for missing treasure in a dwarven ruin near a kobold village near Sleepy Bend. The claim is that the recently deposed Ellizari, the dragon who ruled the nearby kobolds, used the dwarven ruin as a vacation palace and hid some treasure there, but that kobolds who recently went looking for it never returned and something they call “Ellizari’s Curse” has been prowling the area since:

• Finnigan Farl (CoB): Level 4/2 Halfling Bard/Chemist
• Aurum (TrS): Level 3 Elf Magic-user (Elementalist)
  • 2 water elementals, Squish and Squash (1 and 2 cubic feet)
  • fire elemental, Sizzle (1 cubic foot)
  • lightning elemental, Spark (1 cubic foot)
• Will (CaB): Level 3 Human Monk

On their way to Sleepy Bend, they pass a patrol and some lumberjacks before quickly driving off a pack of wolves pursuing a farmer on his way south. They also meet a tinker and buy a telescoping rod with a mechanical grabber from him before being overtaken by one of Governor Verdis’ top patrols just as they arrive at the inn at Sleepy Bend.

Play Report: KotB/Barrier March, Session 79 (Buried Cabins)

On March 25th, after a week spent training with the funds from their last adventure and many of them being present in Larkbridge when Crown Prince Percival announced that he was forming a principality in the east, including both Barrier March and Storm March, the new party at Dragon Hall returns to Warded Cross:

• Kilterson (MaC): Level 3 Human Druid
  • Meddle, Level 2 Halfling Scoundrel
• Rimuru (HuS): Level 2 Human Fighter
• Ingrid Corvinsdatter (MaD): Level 2 Human Barbarian
• Leonard (JoF): Level 2/1 Elf Cleric/Mage

They stay the night, and on the 26th, they set out toward the buried tower the kobolds have occupied, planning to go back into the buried town looking for the hobgoblins that have given the kobolds trouble in the past. They hope the charmed kobold leaders will still let them through.

Haven: Teleported and Alone

On March 5th, Year 15, having found that the dwarven ruins connected to the Aithreachas mines continue much deeper, a party returns with significant numbers to continue exploring:

• Sicun (MiM): Level 5 Minotaur Fighter
• Finnigan Farl (CoB): Level 4/2 Halfling Bard/Chemist
• Steve (AdS): Level 3 Orc Fighter
• Aurum (TrS): Level 3 Elf Magic-user (Elementalist)
  • 2 water elementals, Squish and Squash (1 and 2 cubic feet)
  • fire elemental, Sizzle (1 cubic foot)
  • lightning elemental, Spark (1 cubic foot)
• Dell Carnegie (CoS): Level 3/1 Gnome Fighter/Tinker
• Will (CaB): Level 3 Human Monk

Glancing in rooms they had previously cleared to make sure there is no threat behind them, they find that some of the subterranean vultures are picking away at the spiders-scorpions they previously killed in a room which had originally held two-toed humanoids. Apparently a popular destination. The other rooms are still empty, including the large mess hall. They pass through the kitchen to look for new territory.

Play Report: KotB/Barrier March, Session 78 (Rooting Out Ogres)

On March 14th, having defeated the kobold sally force and charmed their leader, the party prepares to go into the structure and one of their companions catches up with them, ready to join in just in time:

• Kilterson (MaC): Level 2 Human Druid
  • Meddle, Level 1 Halfling Scoundrel
• Rimuru (HuS): Level 1 Human Fighter
• Ingrid Corvinsdatter (MaD): Level 1 Human Barbarian
• Leonard (JoF): Level 1/1 Elf Cleric/Mage

Their charmed kobold (Stelk) is happy to lead the way and introduce them to his tribe. He points out a trapped step for them to avoid as he leads them down the tight, spiral stairs to the bottom where he is confronted by the tribe.

Haven: Deeper Into the Ruins

On February 26th, Year 15, after a delve into the dwarven ruins the week before during which they cleared a path past the entrance where they had previously been stuck, adventurers return to go deeper:

• Finnigan Farl (CoB): Level 3/2 Halfling Musician/Chemist
• Steve (AdS): Level 2 Orc Fighter
• Aurum (TrS): Level 2 Elf Magic-user (Elementalist)
  • 2 water elementals, Squish and Squash (1 and 2 cubic feet)
  • fire elemental, Sizzle (1 cubic foot)
• Dell Carnegie (CoS): Level 2/1 Gnome Fighter/Tinker
• Rocky: Normal Rock
• Alchemy Wagon and two ponies

Peeking into the rooms they cleared on their last visit, they see several spider-scorpions in the vault room, which attack, but they quickly clear them all up. In the alchemy laboratory previously searched, they spot and methodically eliminate some piercers. With the known rooms cleared, they are ready to move onto new places.

Play Report: KotB/Barrier March, Session 77 (Kobolds at the Buried Tower)

On March 12th, with Kilterson returned from another walk around, the new party hosted at Dragon Manor is in Larkbridge ready to set out toward Warded Cross to deal with the kobolds Kilterson was told about foraging berries to their south.

• Kilterson (MaC): Level 2 Human Druid
  • Meddle, Level 1 Halfling Scoundrel
• Rimuru (HuS): Level 1 Human Fighter
• Ingrid Corvinsdatter (MaD): Level 1 Human Barbarian

On the 12th, having purchased their desired equipment, they are kept in Larkbridge by the crescendo of a snow storm that has persisted the last few days, but on the 13th they are ready to set out to Warded Cross, arriving a little after noon having seen no one on the road.