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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brisk-sg" data-source="post: 987097" data-attributes="member: 5037">Hey Leopold,I would be interested in getting your conversion notes for the 2nd book when they become available.  It makes it allot easier if you don't have to convert everything in the book.  Good suggestion for counting off the days.  I have a few blank calendar sheets, I will likely use on the of the month ones once I get to that point and begin marking off each day.  If they don't make it, I wonder if it would be enjoyable to have the party begin serving their new Aboleth masters... hum... could be an interesting evil campaign.  Of course I hope it doesn't come to that.  It will probably be a while until I have to deal with such things.  We are making a brisk pace however.  Almost done with book one.  They just had a large scale battle with bandits in the Garlstone mines.  Being really bored right now (at work), I might as well write out what happened.One of the survivors of an ambush on a band of traveling cleric's was brought to Palfrey's keep where the party was being given a grand feast by Count Palfrey.  The party, accompanied by Lyntern (after a stirring speech that convinced his father to allow him to "handle this responsibility of lordship"), went to the scene of the ambush and was assaulted by Death Dogs.  After defeating them, they were able to enlist Keuper to track the assailants.  Not wanting the young Lyntern to tag along, no matter how heroic, the party convinced him to go back to Palfrey keep to assemble the man at arms for an assault.The party was able to follow the trail to the Garlstone mines.  They sent the Wizard's Owl familiar with a note to palfrey keep with the location of the bandits base, asking for support in the assault.  During the night they heard the screaming of several of the capture pilgrims and decided to make an assault.    The attack on the mines defeated the Red haired man, most of the defenders and the lower level cleric.  But due to disease from a previous encounter with the death dogs, stopped there and retreated to the surface.  Half the party left to find a cleric who could cure their serious maladies while the other half watched the cave.  They spent several days in a holding pattern because of this.  Young Lyntern then arrived with a whopping 24 men-at-arms and retainers.  After much consideration of the party members, he gave full command to Annora, the Aasmir Bard he was crushing on.Annora led the large party, flush with armored warriors into the caves.  They explored areas they had previously avoided, and came upon a large underground lake.  Grom Silverbeard, being a dwarf, spied some gold upon a far ledge and approached, grabbing it.  He was then plucked from the stone outcropping by a large white eel who took him to the bottom of the lake.  It took Keuper and his ring of free action to save the dwarf from being drowned in the crushing teeth of the large eel.  During the confusion, the remaining cleric led an assault of zombies (18), bandits (2), and Bloodskull Orcs (16) upon the party.Under the command of Annora, the men-at-arms were able to decimate the zombie and orc menace, with minimal losses (lost 10 men-at-arms, half of those due to the evil cleric herself).  Annora (who is Jeleneth's cousin) discovered Jeleneth's ring and cloak, and is very eager to find her cousin.Now that they have won the day, they will likely rest up at Palfrey's Keep and learn of more kidnappings.  They still have not found out where the man with one-eye is based.  Lyntern will be suggesting they check out the keep of his ancestors shortly.So at this point, we only have two major encounter/dungeons left in book 1.  Most of the side quests have already been handled (the Rosette Stone being the only one I can really think of that hasn't been done), so I think we should be done with book 1 within the next two weeks (or sooner seeing as how fast we have come in just three weeks).Anyhow, thanks for all the advice and assistance.- Josh</blockquote>

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