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Day 1
- Exit tavern. Helps Ruphus who is being attacked by Last Laugh.
- Party goes to Church of St. Cuthbert. Meets Jenya Urikas (acting head of church while Sarcem is out of town)
- Receives divination. "The locks are key to finding them. Look beyond the curtain below the cauldron. Beware the doors with teeth. Descend into the malachite hold where precious life is bought with gold. Half a dwarf binds them, but not for long."
- Meals at Slippery Eel with Aroon the owner
- Orphanage. Mother Tashykk. Patch admits Last Laugh paid him to watch Terem (1 of the 4 taken).
- Silfir & Finneas visit guard house. Captain Terseon Skellerang provides list of victims.
- Ghelve's Locks. Fight with skulk. Finneas goes down for the 1st time.
- Party enters Jzadirune. Two skulks ambush party and then run off to warn the rest of the complex.
- Silfir goes through the gnome salt shaker.
- Skulk fight. Meet friendly mimic. Rescue rat.
- Fight 2 more skulks.
- Return to Ghelves.
Day 2
- Shopping/flirting at Skie's treasury.
- Shopping at Tygot's old things.
- Return to Jzadirune
- Fight skulks in kitchen. Dyrant lets cabinet collapse on Atol.
- Fight in invisible spheres with construct.
- Finneas kills spiders
- Fight with choker in theater.
- Level 2
- Glimmil gets Cog
Day 3
- 3 chests
- skulk
- Alchemical lab fight with raggamuffyns
- Throne room
- Doctor Toffitt
- Lots of exploration. 2nd construct.
- Centipedes
- “I am Emirystul, librarian of Jzadirune. The scrolls you seek have been destroyed to keep you and others from fading into nothingness. The curse of the Vanishing began here, in these mystic halls, and here it will remain. Be careful what you find, and mind whatever magic was wrought here.”
- Grell
- Yuathyb
- Silfir's Vanishing disease finishes incubating.
Day 3 continued (page 39)
Toffitt and Glimmil visit Skie
Atol, Finneas, & Silfir visit Church of St. Cuthbert
Silfir's disease removed by Jenya Urikas (St. Cuthbert)
Finneas goes to Temple of Lordly Might
Finneas's stat damage removed by Asfelkir Hranleurt (Kord)
Glimmil experiments with bag of tricks
Day 4
Silfir's stat damage removed by Jenya Urikas
Last of Jzadirune is explored (page 40)
Gnome piggy bank (plate mail fille with treasure)
Fight with armor construct
Glimmil, Silfir, and Finneas visit Tygots (page 42)
- Dwarven bracelet with names of two kidnapping victims
Silfr's visit to City Guard
Party restocks to try for Malachite Hold
Day 5 (All) - Moonday.
Fight with hobgoblins in elevator (page 42)
Fight with earth elemental and polymorphed ogre in hallway
Chest in room filled with garbage (page 45)
Malachite armory
Kitchen
Fight with Kazmojen and 19 hobgoblins
Party meets Fellian Shard and Fario Ellengoth
Beholder shows up and takes Terrem
Terrem is dropped off at orphanage by mystery woman
Return to Malachite Fortress
More kidnapping victims found
Atol gets kissed
Atol gets killed
Fight with constructs
The gong mimic in the treasure room
City guard escorts party to the church of St. Cuthbert
Atol gets raised from the dead
Dyrant, Finneas and Atol visit the Slippery Eel
Toffitt experiments
Glimmil gets the vanishing (6 CHA damage) and goes to bed
Silfir (is away from keyboard?)
Characters reach level 3
Day 6 - Godsday
- Glimmil is cured of Vanishing.
- Rest of loot is brought up from Malachite Fortress
- Loot is sold, items bought or ordered
- Scribing of scrolls, mixing of potions
Day 7 - Watersday
- More scribing and alchemy
- Items with the Vanishing have the curse removed by Jenya
- Party visits orphanage
- Weapons/shields are personalized - Pahlian Gurnezarn handles orders for heroes quickly
- More loot is sold, items bought or ordered
- Fight with goblins in alley
Party spends next 5 days tracking down goblins
Day 8 - Earthday
Day 9 - Freeday
Day 10 - Starday
Day 11 - Sunday
Day 12 - Moonday
- Atol gets 2nd restoration #3153
- Fight with wererats outside Orak's bathhouse
- Detaining Orak
- Clearing Drakthar's way of goblins, worgs, dark mantles, shocker lizards, a tiefling, a human, and a vampire
Day 13 - Godsday
- Party emerges with Drakthar's body at 1 am #4117
- Party finishes off Drakthar
- Party exlpores caverns that end up exiting onto the side of the volcano. Party finds a campsite and follows path to main road on west side of volcano.
Day 14 - Watersday (Festival Day 1)
- Drink down the flood Round 1
- Finneas outdrinks young man
- Glimmil outdrinks a grandma
The day passes without any unusual events. Hundreds of duplicate boats are floated on the lake as rain storms move through quickly, dumping several inches of water and raising the level of the lake a few inches.
Day 15 - Earthday (Festival Day 2)
- Wrestling match 1 for Finneas vs. Thud
- Round 2 of drinking contest
- Finneas outdrinks
- Glimmil outdrinks Ellywinkle
- Finneas and Toffitt swim in the lake and lose to Geleth
- Toffitt buys Geleth a drink
- Haunted Jzadirune opens with Ellywinkle Nerfoodle
Day 16 - Freeday (Festival Day 3)
- Wrestling match 2 for Finneas vs. the silent tattoo
- Finneas loses to Mother Tashykk after four rounds of drinking
- Glimmil autowins his drinking contest
- Dyrant commissions art to immortalize the event
- Atol moves out of the church 4267
- Wrestling match 2 for Finneas vs. the silent tattoo
- Finneas loses to Mother Tashykk after four rounds of drinking 4279
- Glimmil autowins his drinking contest
- Dyrant commissions art to immortalize the event 4283
- Atol receives cudgel from Jenya 4286
Day 17 -
- Glimmil wins drinking contest vs flower vendor 4299
- Finneas loses wrestling match 4304
- Jenya sends group to Lucky Monkey 4309 to rescue Sarcem
- Battles at Lucky Monkey with baboons and half-orc baboon 4442
- Party rescues Shensen Tesseril (cleric of - 4587
Day 18 - Page 94
- Party returns to Cauldron 4610
- Glimmil wins drinking match 4615
- Captain Skellerang identifies woman as Triel, a former guard - 4620
- Jenya uses Star of Justice - page=93#4643
Wands locked away beneath your feet
Can be reached by watery maze
Or tip the laughing man who sells
Tips for gold but no drinks at all.
- Atol cudgels Dyrant - page=94#4661
Day 19 -
- Glimmil beat Vortimax for drinking championship page=94#4652
- Failed attempt to speak with dead on Tongueater page=94#4661
- Failed attempt to meet contact with info about Triel & wands 94#4693
Day 20 -
- Demonskar ball page=95#4709
- Meeting with Tipped Tankard informant page=96#4763
Day 21
- Dyrant gets PoP 2 page=96#4781
- Party goes into lava tube to winch/cage system page=96#4795
- Combat at winch (1st) page=97#4810
- Toffitt sets off trap in winch house - page=98#4865
- Combat with men behind murder holes page=99#4947
- Combat with Triel page=100#4987
- Room with books page=105#5249
- Combat with slaad page=106#5291
- Combat with spiders & ettercaps page=107#5337
- Combat with harpoon spider & halfling
- Dyrant kills gaseous form halflng - page=112#5592
- Combat at winch (2nd) page=113#5631
- Glimmil and Toffitt take wands back to Cauldron
Day 22
- Combat with spawn - page=115#5726
- Combat with undead ogres - page=116#5785
- Finneas dies - page=116#5799
- Combat with t-rex - page=117#5843
- Combat with undead gnoll - page=119#5940
- Combat with swarm & quasit - page=120#5982
Day 23
- Party gets pearl from Lord Vhalantru & Mayor. Agree to help - page=122#6093
- Finneas is raised - page=122#6096
Day 24 - Starday, Fireseek 4, 2013
- Finneas, Glimmil and Toffitt head to see Vortimax for some enchanting. +1 greatsword (4 days), a +1 dueling blade (2 days), and +1 hook-hammer (2 days). All items picked up before umber hulk attack. Post #6114
- Jenya comissions Atol to make a wand of protection from evil.Post #6115
- Glimmil places order for belt of strength. 8 days to arrive.
Day 31 - Starday, Fireseek 11, 2013 - week passes uneventuflly #6122
- Toffitt spends some of his remaining gold (200 gp) on medical supplies, and begins offering a limited amount of cost-free treatment to the city's poor. Atol offers spiritual counseling #6122
- Skie puts the Cauldron 5 symbol on her building. #6133
- Glimmil hangs out with Skie. Glimmil then spends his time in Haunted Jzadirune, working with the other gnomes and trying to get them to put on performances for the entirety of Cauldron's population.
- Dyrant is Dyrant. Dyrant goes through books recovered from the halfling. #6154
- Coryston visits Atol's sermon.#6159
Day 38 - Starday, Fireseek 18, 2013 - Another week passes uneventuflly
- Umber hulk battle at Maavu's warehouses. #6166
- Celeste Rosenthorn shows up after battle and invites party to Cusp of Sunrise. Finneas recognizes here from the tavern at the beginning of the story. #6228
- Party goes to Cusp of Sunrise #6262
- Party meets with Davked Splintershield. "I can pay you each 4,000 gold for this service or 6,000 in arms and armor from the finest craftsmen in my clan." Celeste pipes in, "And I will pay for your membership fee here at the Cusp of Sunrise. That is worth 1,000 gold alone."#6280
- Party researches umber hulk attack. Maavu is not found and wild rumors accompany his exit. Maavu's businness is overseen by Geleth. Taxes are paid on time. #6302
- Dyrant asks Skie for a headband of intellect (11 days). Atol asks for oil of daylight (7 days). Neither is available. #6319
Day 40 - Moonday, Fireseek 20, 2013
- The party takes a couple days to research and prepare and then departs.#6325
Day 43 - Earthday, Fireseek 23, 2013
- Party arrives at Crazy Jared's. Fights dragon. #6328
- Crazy Jared mentions the black dragon, Dhorlot.#6421
- Crazy Jared mentions the red dragon, Hookface. #6426
- Party dines with Crazy Jared who uses his rod to summon a tent and food.#6433
Day 44 - Freeday, Fireseek 24, 2013
- Party arrives at Pit of the Seven Jaws. Battle with hydra. #6454
- Some searching around also reveals two masterwork scimitars, a masterwork composite longbow (+3), and a small pouch of gold (25). The mithral chain is indeed magical (+1).#6594
- Battle with drider #6603
- Party finds Scimitar - +1; Ring - Protection +2; Scroll - Obscuring Mist; Potion - Lesser Confusion. #6727
- Party arrives at Bhal-Hamatugn and camps for night#6734
Day 45 - Starday, Fireseek 25, 2013
- Party meets ferryfrog for first time #6755
- Finneas ruthlessly strikes down a kuo-toa guard. Battle on the front steps.#6813
- Glimmil sets off sonic trap on doors #6894
- Party speaks briefly with prisoners. #6902
- Statue room. #6911
- Erinyes shows up. Battle. Party captured. Atol earns a hero point.#6952
- Party meets Zenith Splintershield #7086
- Party levels up. Everyone earns a hero point.
Day 46 - Sunday, Fireseek 26, 2013
- Human missing from cells #7122
- Party encounters Sarcem as the archon #7140
- Gristle is BBQ'd.
- Party returns to Zenith with archon faking death. Battle #7426
- Kuo-toa assassin attacks #7328
- Eryinyes arrives again. Battle with her and ferryfrog on front steps. Finneas becomes Finneas the Fricasser. #7358
- Archon dies #7424
- Treasure#7460
- party lets out halfling who talks about black dragon #7469
Day 51 (full) - Freeday, Readying 3, 2013
- Party arrives back at Cauldron #7456
- Items ordered from Skie would have arrived. I'll check on Toffitt's requests next.
- Lord Vhalantru meets party and offers to take Zenith since Celeste had to leave town.
- Sarcem can't be raised, but Aralynn shows up with headband of intelligence 7486
- Jenya unsuccessfully tries to talk to Zenith 7504
- The party heads to the Cusp of Sunrise to meet with Celeste and Davked Splintershield, but neither of them are present. Lord Vhalantru arrives and explains Celeste had to leave town and Splintershield has also left to be treated for his illness.7507
- Party suggests the heroes' tax That was Lord Vhalantru's interpretation at least
- Party spends one night taking care of personal business
- Finneas takes dragon hide to armorer 7520
Day 52 - Godsday - Readying 4, 2013
- Party spends another day in town.
- Dyrant does research at Cusp.
- Dryant buys Gristle, Too. 7538
Day 53-58 - Readying 5-11, 2013
- Party travels back to Bhal-Hamatugn. Stops by Jared's pavillion. 7549
Day 59 - Godsday - Readying 11, 2013
- Aryalnn communes with St. Cuthbert 7565
- Finneas starts smash 3-story statue 7615
- Battle with kuo-toa cleric and locked room filled with water. Finneas almost dies. 7623
- Battle with mushrooms 7758
- Battle with zombie 7821
- Battle with wraith 7902
- Battle with Draconic Fingerling Swarm and a couple kuo-toa flunkies 7987
- 2nd battle with Draconic Fingerling Swarm and some kuo-toa 8058
- Erinyes visits 8079
- Battle with black dragon 8135
Day 60-70 - Readying 12-22, 2013
- Party travels back to Caulrdon via Jared's pavillion.
- Half-orcs have been added to city guard. New taxes. Heroes' tax.8189
- Atol's casts restoration (1900 gp worth of diamond dust left]
- Atol has rings forged for spell 8237
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Day 71 - Readying 23, 2013
- Party is unable to meet with Mayor or Lord Vhalantru
- Party meets with Kellerang 8249
- Skellerang blames Chisel for things. Talks of invading Redgorge.
- Skellerang arranges for dinner with Mayor
- Finneas and Dyrant research the tattoo on his face. 8281. It is called the Carcerian Sign for the prison plane of Carceri. Written in the margin of the text are just a few words: how and why and transdimensional equilibrium.
- Araylnn communes about Chisel, Mayor, Vhalantru8290
- More research on Carceri 8291
- Dinner at Mayor's house with Vhalantru uninvited 8295 News of Alek's challenge
Day 72 - Readying 24, 2013
-- Party meets with Jenya 8332
- Toffitt finds Geleth at Maavu's warehouses8333
- Finneas wrestles with Asfelkir 8335
- Tax protest 8369
- Riot and elemental fight8379
- Talking with Maavu after fight 8430
- Inn / Alleybasher hangout is burned to ground. Fight with elementals 8455
Day 73 - Readying 25, 2013
- Star of Justice 8458
"The priest who is not a priest asks two questions at a time for which there is not a single answer so it is only appropriate that he receive an answer that is not an answer. Evil summoned the creatures. Evil and greed and an unholy thirst for power so powerful it has even corrupted a paladin."
Day 74 - Readying 26, 2013
- Party goes to Redgorge (Redhead Miner's Inn) (8569
- Party meets Chisel. Info about Surabar and area. 8581
- Chisel gives party the metal platge 8606
- Party sends off letter to stall invasion8643
Story Summary 11
Day 75 - Readying 27, 2013
- Fight with gnolls by headless statue
- Party searches the cave without fighting the giant sloth.8724
- Visit by diva (Nidrama)8724
Day 76 - Readying 28, 2013
- Atol falls down trail. Mephit runs off to warn hags. 8724
- Fight with giant by portcullis 8817
- Fight with 3 giants 8849
- Giant (Dugobras) who makes cages 8887
- Battle with 5 ettins 8925
- Meeting with hags (first one killed) 8954
Day 77 - Coldeven 1, 2013
- Glimmil opens trapped door engulfing party in fire
9063
- Throne room 9071
- First visit to mirror room. Fight with false Alek and mirror jumping Kalareem Nerra9087
- Fight with other 2 hags and spellweaver skeletons9166
- Pary finds Alek mumbling, "When the final cage is shackled the burning doom shall rise." 9306
- Fight with demon. Alek's head says, "There is naught left for you in Cauldron, heroes! To return is to enter your own graves and to bring doom upon all you love! Trust the sign of the Smoking Eye if you wish to save them all."
9360
- Aralynn communes for Dyrant 9437
- Dyrant, Atol, & Finneas return to Cauldron & stop Skellerang 9464
Day 78 - Earthday, Coldeven 2, 2013
- Rest of party returns to Cauldron. Visit by Kaurophon 9492
Day 79 – Starday, Coldeven 3, 2013 (continued)
- Finneas starts the week of prayers to enchant his sword as holy 9532
- Dyrant goes to Cusp of Sunrise – No sign of Lady Celeste
- Atol goes to church for divination 9542
- Toffitt visits Striders and speaks with their dwarf leader
9544
- Glimmil rallies people to move into Jzadirune 9554
Days 80-85 – Party prepares for trip to Occipitus
Day 85 – Sunday, Coldeven 9, 2013
- Glimmil receives Claw-Whomper 9557
Day 86 – Starday, Coldeven 10, 2013
- Party arrives in Occipitus 9566
- Babau Demons attack 9576
- Atol visits death again 9584
Day 87 – Sunday, Coldeven 11, 2013
- Vrock attack and plasmas 9625
Day 88 – Moonday, Coldeven 12, 2013
- Traveling to Cathederal
Day 89 – Godsday, Coldeven 13, 2013
- Party arrives at Cathederal 9738
- Battle with Driders 9766
- Battle with Noble Salamander and Succubus 9799
- First trip to library with flying books 9881
- First test of Adimarchus – Freeing Avoral (Halalia) 9923
- Fight with beblith 9964
- 2nd trip to library with flying books 9994
Days 90-92 traveling
Day 93 – Starday, Coldeven 17, 2013
- Field of Cysts – visit from Kaurophon 10011
- Fight with BIG spider with eye rays 10032
- Couatl 10105
- Fight with Wee Jas party 10116
- Fight with basilisk 10175
- Party finds teleportation circle, fight with shadows 10245
Day 94 – Sunday, Coldeven 18, 2013
- Fight with black dragon 10300
- Dragon Lair, chest on island of underground island 10444
- Astral Deva pinned to ground. Visit from Kaurophon 10472
- Entering skull tunnel. Fight with rakshasa and giant 10515
Day 95 – Moonday, Coldeven 19, 2013
- Fight with golem in skull mountain 10612
- Fight with summoner lich 10643
- Final test of Adimarchus / fight with Kaurophon 10842
- Finneas gains smoking eye template 10875
Day 95 – Godsday, Coldeven 20, 2013
- Party leaves Occipitus, rests for a night, and teleports back to Cauldron 10916
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Day 96-110 - Coldeven 21 to Growfest 7, 2013
- Carts finds a patron and abandons Toffitt 10919
- Finneas's flaming eye is not so well received by the church 10926
- Asfelkir stands ups for Finneas 10938
- Atol scribes scrolls (silence, dispel magic, daylight) 10941
- Dyrant and Aralynn get kinky 10943 and do some crafting.
- Finneas has his dragon hide armor made 10944
- Toffitt gets some enhancements to his bow, blade and belt 10945
- The dragonhide loinbelt of +2 dex/con was born. 10947
- Glimmil continues work on Jzadirune. 10950
- Ghelve's shop is demolished to make space for a new gate to Jzadirune.
10952
- Dyrant is unable to find Lady "Clevage" 10955
- Ellywinkle goes to talk to Finneas about the gate 10964
Day 111 - Earthday - Planting 1, 2013
- Poisoning and ambush at Slippery Eel 10971
- Toffitt falls into a coma 10980
- Aroon dies by scorching ray to the chest while trying to help the party 10986
- Lots of loot 11019
Day 112 - Freeday - Planting 2, 2013
- Atol raises Aroon from the dead 11032
- "ritual orgy of punishment" 11033
- Toffitt awakes from his coma 11042
- Atol casts commune 11058
- Atol casts speak with dead on the half-orc assassin 11066
- Atol casts speak with dead on the sorcerer assassin and learns that Ike Iverson, priest of Wee Jas, was behind the attack 11073
- Atol casts speak with dead on the priestess assassin, but she resists 11083
- Jenya vetos Dyrant's holy war 11094
- Jenya uses the Star of Justice for Divination 11101
- Battle with Calmus Vel (and a couple giants and eight half-orcs) in the entrance hall to the Temple of Wee Jas 11128
- More loot 11165
- Party finds letter from F. Abradius to the High Priestess. Letter mentions Vittriss Bale (which ends up being the dracolich later) and the soul pillars 11180
- Fight in upper level of Temple of Wee Jas with zombie gray renders, wight, bone devil and cleric 11212
- Dyrant succumbs to STR damage from poison 11264
- And more loot along with a cage that appears associated with the plane of Carceri and is similar to the one in the fire giant's room 11301
- Party finds body of the Stormblade Todd Vanderboren in a room waiting to be raised 11313
- Discussion about destroying the church of Wee Jas 11333
- Cage is left with church of Kord 11344
Day 113 - Starday - Planting 3, 2013
- Followers of Wee Jas pick up Vanderboren's body 11355
- Dyrant still cannot find Lady Celeste 11366
- Followers of Wee Jas advise High Priestess Embril Aloustinai has been traveling for several months on business for the church. Hopefully she will return soon. 11369
-Toffitt talks to the head of the Striders, Tyro Amberhelm, at the Drowning Morkoth Inn. He casts vision: The cage is a focus for a ritual to establish a permanent portal between the Material Plane and Carceri. I see a fire giant. His name is Dugobras. He forged the cage. There was a cleric, Grehlia Cairnis, and three others who assisted him: Triel Eldurast, Skaven Umbermead, and Tarkilar. There is a connection between the cage and the sould pillars of Karran-Kural. Words float above the cage, "An ancient hate stolen from the souls of the dead, the cage is but the key to a greater evil."
The party has already killed Triel and Skaven. Dugogras is the fire giant you already met and didn't kill that was operating the forge with the similar cage tossed in the corner.
Grehila Cairnis is a cleric of Vecna that then joined the Ebon Triad.11376
Day 114 - Sunday - Planting 4, 2013
- Party teleports to Vaprak's Voice for the fire giant, Dugogras 11395
- Party fights--slaughters--Dugogras 11420
- Atol casts speak with dead on Dugogras 11438
- Party destroys the cage in the fire giant's room 11456
Day 115-118
- Party pops back to Cauldron to restock
Day 119, - Freeday - Planting 9, 2013
- Party goes to Karran-Kural 11469
- Fight with ice devil 11500
- Fight with iron golem 11555
- Fight with tarry demodand 11606
- Fight against naga and half-orc in room with two pillars 11648
- Toffitt uses a soul pillar 11682
- Fight with undead gunslinger and Fetor Abradius 11708
- Loot again 11750
- Toffitt reads through Fetor's notes. There are some references to Lady Thifirane Rhiavadi and Lord Vhalantru, but it is unclear if they are Cagewrights or merely pawns. There is mention of a beholder and a list of Shackleborn, most notable among them is Terrem Kharatys and Finneas Glenn.11770
- Fight with dracolich, Vittriss Bale 11782
- Dragon hoarde 11889
- Party destroys the soul pillars 11896
- Glimmil destroys the dragon's phylactery 11898
Story Summary 13b link
(I owe the party a 13a at some point. This will cover from the beginning of the Fiery Sanctum.)
The party arrives at the front doors of the lair. Glimmil barely avoids disintegration, but does some cool spoon work.
13489 (about 5 minutes)
The party fights the female minotaur and finds a holy avenger. 13522 and 13543 (about 5 minutes with searching)
Fight with tarry demodands. Lots of weapons are lost, but finally recovered from the dead demands. 13561 (about 5 minutes with searching)
Fight with vrocks. 13615 (about 1 minute. Little searching required and party stated they were moving along)
Party encounters dragon at the lake of lava with the tapestry. 13646