ADVENTURE TWENTY-SEVEN
Characters:
Amren : Prophet of the Silver Tree.
Alrek: Always ready to save a companion.
Toki: Hell pisses him off.
Dovinyae: Now an invincible Paladin.
Ragnar Silverbeard :
The Hammerfoe. Plays polo with devils.
Daragru: Silver-Robed Druid once again.
Xhi Xhu: A Godman. He doesn’t look Xhuish.
The Time : 8th Age, 6th Year, 29th Eul through 4th of Ankou (summer)
The Places: Golgaryllgar, Orm (Dreamworld)
Notes on Golgaryllgar: Indor
is the land of the Vikings. Traditionally protected by the Legion of Three
Hundred, Indor is the home of Grindill and Adilbrand Noblesword.
A portal
opened near the Guardians and two Cornugon, horned devils, flew out, carrying
Dovinyae the Druid. He was frozen and in pain.
The Cornugon dropped him before the Guardians, then returned through the portal.
Sensing his
distress, Amren used the Silver Ring to heal the damaged
mind of Dovinyae. Dovinyae
stood and declared himself as a paladin and he requested his sword. The
Silver Dragon surrendered Sir Xavier’s Holy Purifier to the new paladin of the
Silver Tree.
The Guardians
needed to get to Golgaryllgar. How to do it? Daragru suggested looking for some sort of portal. The
Guardians thought that an impractical solution. They decided to use their
ship, get to the edge, then use Amren’s Staff of Killren
to move everybody into the Etheral Plane and then pass through the storm and perhaps
the ghosts would leave them be. Unfortunately, the Sea of Storms is several
hundred miles long. They did not know exactly where Golgaryllgar was and
they would not have the time to search over thousands of square miles of haunted
ocean in an attempt to find an island. There might be several islands
in the Sea of Storms. It was decided they would go to Dreamland.
Once there, Daragru, with his oineromantic knowledge, would lead them to Orm, a wayplace for dreamers.
Perhaps someone there would know how to find Golgaryllgar.
In dreamworld they found themselves on a fast moving river.
The Guardians used Dreamslayer to pass them into the
Lake of Uln. Orm was
on its banks. In Orm, they visited a Tavern
and heard of a local cartographer. Visiting the cartographer, Dovinyae acquired many maps, one of which was of Golgaryllgar
of the Second Age of Man. Using that map and finding some common points
of reference with the modern maps of Inzeladun, they were able to hazard a guess
as to where Golgaryllgar, a former volcano, lay as an island.
In dreamland
they met Pogo, a jester with a monkey on his back. Pogo accompanied the
Guardians when they left dreamland.
In the real
world of Inzeladun, the Guardians approached the Sea of Storms. On the
edge of the Sea was a small dinghy. In the dinghy was a man. The
man had tried to break through the Sea, but his entire ship was lost.
He was the only survivor of that ill-fated attempt. The Guardians gathered
on the dinghy and the dreamship was folded up.
The Staff of Killren transfered
them into the ethereal plane and they passed into the Storm.
Because of
the Ring of the Silver Tree, the ghosts let them pass unmolested and they reached
the shores of Golgaryllgar.
They climbed
the mountains that ringed the island and entered the interior. They fought
several dionychus and Ragnar
managed to slay a Tyrannosaurus.
They found,
after several days of hot travel through the jungle, the ruins of Queen Tsareth’s palace. Luckily for them, Queen Tsareth's palace was on the other end of the island than the
Yuan Ti capital, where mind flayers were meeting and negotiating en masse. The
party met a ranger en route to the palace. They also found a new hole
dug out of the ground. Unfortunately the corridor was filled with brown
mold and this nearly drained all of the heat and the life out of the Guardians.
They exited back out and cast an ice storm down the hole after Alrek,
using his Amulet of the Twilight, determined that cold was the weakness of this
brand of mold.
Down the
stairs they found a large chamber. Going through the door they were attacked
by a guardian stone golem. Amren killed
the golem with his Purify Earth spell. The next chamber was guarded
by a blade golem which Alrek destroyed with his Gae
Bolga. The sand golem that was in the next chamber
was destroyed by Dovinyae the Paladin. A dragon
guarded the next chamber and was killed by Alrek.
Down a massive
flight of stairs they went and they entered an impossibly huge cavern.
And in that cavern sat the city of Catemar.
The wall
surrounding the city was protected by a massive blade barrier so they
entered with a passwall spell.
Once inside they headed for the Temple of Grindill. Daragru
was looking forward to entering the Temple. The wealth of information
contained in that edifice must be staggering. They defeated a dozen common
guardsmen as they moved through the town to the Temple. The city was cracked
and broken from its transfer from Indor to Golgaryllgar which made movement
slow, but easier to be hidden.
They reached
the Temple and battled the well trained temple guards. Defeating them
they went into the temple and fought and killed eleven priests. Daragru and Amren purified the earth
under the temple floor and then the building was set on fire.
Grindill’s
High Priest, Hebel, looked at the flames from his
mansion and hate brewed in his soul for the destruction of the priceless tomes
kept in that temple.
The characters were awarded 40,000 exp.
Current Events : Due the quickness of the Guardian’s assault, Grindill
stepped up his plans. He cast the second spell in the series of seven
that he needs to have cast by the last day of the Sixth Year. He considers
himself very fortunate that the Guardians left Indor. Had they been quicker
about attacking Catemar, he could have been terminally delayed. Now he
just has to keep them out of Indor again so that they don’t get a second chance.
Grindill has given the Latipac Device
to one of his priests to control the weather around the Guardians so that they
would have no more storms to use. Disappointed in the Angels of Yam ibn
Saud, Grindill is considering terminating the relationship he has with Yam ibn
Saud.
Kherit has sent an ambassador to Itsitlawikanah to find out more about the Guardians
and their activities from Samadhi. The Khemian ambassador seems intent
on seducing the arch mage to get the information. Kherit has begun gathering
stones for some sort of altar.
Sir Raloth has uncovered hellish information on the
infernal alliances of Grindill.
Notes on the Temple of Grindill: This Temple was a store house
of Grindill’s plans and efforts for his priests. A copy of the Nan Curinir,
the Indorian Recension, was kept here. Grindill
also kept books stolen from the Tower that detailed Defiling methods and Geomancy
methods and spells. Of course all of these were destroyed by the Guardians
when they burnt the temple down.