4759 Lamashan 4th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 27/100)

An hour of two after midnight the pcs are surrounded by the red eyes of vampires. The leader of the vampires tells the pcs that he is a nosferatu and his name is Ramoska Arkminos. The vampire speaks only to Gregor and he insists that Gregor end the war between the Order of the Palentine Eye and the vampire lords of Ustalav. Ramoska blames Gregor's brother Adivion Adrissant for the current war between the Order of the Palentine Eye and the vampires. Ramoska also reveals that he is unable to move against Adivion or Adivion's lover for some obscure reason. While Ramoska says he cannot kill Adivion he says that he can kill Gregor and will do so unless Gregor convinces Adivion to make peace with the vampires. Ramoska mentions that killing Adivion is also a possible solution. Gregor responds by using his fear power on the nosferatu. However Ramoska resist the power and orders his vampire minions to kill all of the pcs except Gregor. Then Ramoska attempted to use his sleep power on Gregor before retreating but it failed. Glade then turned the mother and father vampire. The pcs then ganged up on the child vampire and cut it down. A short time later the turning ended and the other two vampires returned. The two vampires put up a good fight but were overwhelmed by the pcs.

4759 Lamashan 3rd Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 26/100)

The pcs begin traveling back towards Solvania. They started out late and have to make camp halfway back.

4759 Lamashan 2nd Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 25/100)

The pcs invade the lair of the armored owlbear. After a brief but furious battle the tormented creature is slain.

4759 Lamashan 1st Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 24/100)

The pcs search for a marauding armored owlbear.

4759 Rova 29th-30th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 23/100)

The pcs enjoy two days of downtime in Solvania.

4759 Rova 27th-28th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 21/100)

The PCs travel back to Solvania.

4759 Rova 26th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 17/100)

The pcs search the swamp for the lizardman village and after number of hours they locate it. The pcs enter negotiations with the lizardman king. Eventually an agreement is hammered out that the lizardmen can exchange each human corpse they find for a living pig.

4759 Rova 24th-25th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 6/100)

The pcs travel to the Hookscrew Swamp to negotiate a peace treaty with the lizardmen.

4759 Rova 24th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 16/100)

The pcs hunt down the remaining trolls and slay them.

4759 Rova 22nd Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 15/100)

The pcs use Glade's portable hole as an obstacle pit to confound the trolls. Furthermore the entrance is dwarf-sized and the trolls are forced to crawl inside. The tables are turned and the pcs inflict terrible slaughter on the crawling trolls. Eventually the troll forces are decimated and they refuse to enter. The pcs then bring the battle to them on the ledge. After a hard fight the troll king is slain and the few survivors fled to the forest.

4759 Rova 21st Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 14/100)

The pcs stake out the troll lair with Glade as spy. When the trolls exit at nightfall the pcs enter and loot their lair. Then they organize a plan to hold the lair against the trolls and deny them entrance.

4759 Rova 18th-20th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 13/100)

The pcs travel back to the troll lair.

4759 Rova 17th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 10/100)

The pcs wait one day in Solvania for Glade to return but he does not.

4759 Rova 14th-16th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 9/100)

The separated pcs minus Glade travel back to Solvania. Glade continues to hide in the bushes in snake form near the troll hideout.

4759 Rova 13th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 6/100)

An hour before midnight the dwarven secret door opens and a troll steps out into the darkness.

The pcs wait until several trolls exit on to the cliff ramp and then they attack. The pcs soon realize they have bit off more than they can chew. The troll leap off the ledge and attack the pcs from the flank trusting to their regeneration to heal the falling damage. Soon the pcs are nearly surrounded and are forced to flee before they were trapped. Glade turned into a small snake and hid in cluster of bushes. Gregor allowed himself to be surrounded to distract the trolls and they he used his misty step spell to teleport away.

4759 Rova 9th-13th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 6/100)

The pcs organize an expedition against the trolls and then travel 3 days before they locate a troll trail. Then with one day of searching they find the entrance to the troll lair and stake it out.

4759 Rova 8th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands (Eric armor day 1/100)

After a lengthy discussion Queen Arsinoe grants the temple of Razmir to Glade and the faith of Gozreh. Eric is made a knight of the realm and is named "Queen's Champion". This entitles him to the use of the royal armorer without payment. However he must pay for materials. The pcs also decide that of the two threats left to Solvania, the trolls and the lizardmen, the trolls are the more immediate threat.

4759 Rova 2nd-7th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs return to the capital Solvania.

4759 Rova 1st Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs thoroughly search the temple and the only valuables found are the large heavy silk curtains.

4759 Arodus 30th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

Finally there is a torrential thunderstorm and the pcs order the eviction. Declin slips the bar on the double doors and a battle ensues. Eric and Gregor charge in an lay about them with their weapons. A wizard and a cult berserker briefly endanger Gregor but are slain. Eric is briefly outnumbered and sorely pressed by cultists but Declin swept in an turned the tide. The cultists fought to the last man but the skeleton crew left behind was really no match for the pcs even without the 8 archers. The temple was most empty of staff and valuables and apparently the pcs fought only the suicide squad.

left behind.

4759 Arodus 24th-30th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs decide to wait for a rainy day to evict the Razmir priests to reduce the risk that the wooden church will burn down during any possible battle.

4759 Arodus 18th-23rd Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs travel to the Church of Razmir in the northeast of Solvania.

4759 Arodus 17th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

Eight archers volunteer to assist the pcs in eviction and are given one day to prepare

4759 Arodus 16th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs gather supplies and organize for an expedition to enforce the eviction of the Church of Razmir. The pcs decide to bring 8 archers as back up.

4759 Arodus 15th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

Queen Arsinoe writes an eviction notice to the Church of Razmir due to the evidence presented by the former cultist wizard Levin. A copy of the eviction document is immediately sent by post rider to the church of Razmir.

4759 Arodus 14th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

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The Razmiran wizard Levin finally confesses that the church of Razmiran ordered him to torch the pcs cobbler shop.

4759 Arodus 12th-13th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The Razmiran wizard Levin languishes in the dungeon two days.

4759 Arodus 11th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The trial of the Razmiran wizard Levin is held. The queen finds Levin guilty of arson and orders 39 lashes with a bullwhip. Herald Cedlin of the church of Razmir arrives and advises harsh punishment. Levin appears afraid but says nothing, aside from some pathetic begging.

4759 Arodus 5th-10th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs travel back to the capital of Solvania and hand their prisoner over the queen's guards.

4759 Arodus 4th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs again set their ambush and this time a wizard uses a flaming sphere spell to attempt to burn the cobbler shop down. The pcs beat the helpless wizard unconscious and his spell blinked out before the fire could get worse than Glade's fire could handle.

4759 Erastus 29th-Arodus 3rd Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs again set up their ambush but nothing happens.

4759 Erastus 28th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs set up another ambush but this time the Razmiran cultist uses alchemist fire at range and the successful fled the scene. Glade easily put out the fire with rain magic.

4759 Erastus 25th-27th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs set their ambush yet again but nothing happens.

4759 Erastus 23rd-24th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs set up an ambush and beat an acolyte of Razmir unconscious. However they act before the acolyte has done anything but light the tinder in his box. The pcs take his mask and dump his unconscious body on the temple porch.

4759 Erastus 22nd Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

Day one of the pcs shoe repair business in village around the Razmiran temple. Declin threatens the Razmiran acolyte that comes to the collect the "tithe".

4759 Erastus 18th-21st Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs set up their cobbler business in the town that grew around the Razmiran temple. The pcs decide to make it a shoe repair business with Glade's repair spell to hide their lack of shoemaking skills.

4759 Erastus 12th-17th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs travel to the Razmiran temple to set up a cobbler's business.

4759 Erastus 9th-10th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs organize their buying and selling.

4759 Erastus 8th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs return to Solvania and place the shell in the town center as a pool.

4759 Erastus 7th Lake Tuskwater in Solvannia, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs find Crackjaw's tracks and set up an ambush complete with a beartrap and wait a number of hours. The giant snapping turtle eventually arrives and the pcs quickly overwhelm the creature with a furious attack.

4759 Erastus 6th Solvania, in the Greenbelt, in the Stolen Lands, in the Riverlands

The pcs travel to Tuskwater Lake to hunt the giant snapping turtle Old Crackjaw.

4759 Erastus 5th Solvania, the Stolen Lands in the Riverlands

Declin begs a copy of a letter from King Irovetti from Queen Arsinoe to forge a new letter ordering Gregori to return to Pitax. Eric studies spells at the wizard school. Gregor prays at the temple of Pharasma.

4759 Erastus 4th Solvania

The pcs set up a surveillance trap to catch Kundal. They follow him as he changes and then battle him in the forest. The werewolf fights back fiercely but is no match for the combined power of the pcs. Declin is inflicted with lycanthropy.

4759 Erastus 3rd Solvania

After some investigation the pcs suspect Kundal the Khellid barbarian is the werewolf.

4759 Erastus 2nd Solvania

Grigori quietly returns to Solvania and begins haranguing against Queen Arsinoe. The pcs investigate the reports of wolf attacks on humans and livestock. Glade tracks the "wolf" and figures out it is a werewolf.

4759 Erastus 1st Solvania

4759 Sarenith 27th to Erastus 1st Solvania

The pcs have four days of downtime wherein Eric studies magic and Declin works on poison and dagger bandoliers. The pcs also hear a bard storyteller named Grigori speaking against Queen Arsinoe. Gregor manages to calm the crowd down. Declin follows Grigori and threatens him with bodily harm.

4759 Sarenith 25th-26th Solvania

The pcs return to the capital.

4759 Sarenith 22nd-24th Solvania

The pcs spend two days to safely raze the Graul farmhouse.

Royal Appointments

Queen Arsinoe has been appointing people that she knows and trusts to various government posts as follows.

High Priest of Erastil- Jhod Kavken
High Priest of Pharasma- ? (sent by Gregor)
Field Marshal- Kesten Garess
Master of Coin- Oleg Leveton
First Councilor of Solvannia- Svetlana Leveton
First Warden- Glade
Royal Magister- Kendra Lorrimor

Which leaves the following posts mentioned by the queen still empty:
Spymaster:
Grand Diplomat:

4759 Sarenith 21st Solvania

The pcs resume tracking the ogres via possession of Grim. They arrive at the Graul farmstead in the early PM. The pcs then battle and slay a deformed ogre and his pet wolf. Then the pcs set fire to the front of the Graul family farmstead. Mammy Graul created a sphere of darkness from the dark tapestry and called all of her sons to her.

The ogres begin battering down the walls of her bedroom to escape the fire.Gregor teleports into the farmstead and slices up Mammy and then teleports away before he can be slain. Meanwhile Glade entered by the other door and slowly worked his way toward the battle. Declin climbs to the farmhouse roof. After the walls fall, the Eric and Gregor are nearly overwhelmed by the onrushing tide of ogres. Eric and Gregor retreat and manage to out live the onslaught. Declin uses the darkness of Mammy's spell to surprise her. Then Declin threw a dagger that went through Mammy's eye and pierced her brain. Gregor and Eric fought a running battle with the remaining ogres and barely managed to route them.

4759 Sarenith 19th-20th

Glade decides that he needs to smell ogre stink while possessing Grim so the pcs work out that Ulfgar has a partially mummified head in his room. Then the pcs pack up for the battle against the ogre tribe The next day the pcs head out after go after the Graul tribe of ogres. After possessing Grim's body Glade easily finds an ogre trail just before sunset. The pcs rest and set out again in the morning.

4759 Gozran 9th Desnus to Sarenith 18th

The pcs and Kendra travel back to the Riverlands. They meet with the newly renamed Queen Arsinoe. She tells them of a number of threats to the new kingdom and asks for the pcs help.

 

With some lobbying from Glade the pcs decide to go after the Graul tribe of ogres.

4759 Gozran 2nd Desnus 8th Desnus

The pcs put the Lorrimor mansion in order for sale and Kendra gathers books and belongings to take with her to the Riverlands. The pcs meet a barbarian warrior named Eric that wants to learn fire magic.

 Kendra promises to teach him a fire cantrip. Adivion Adrissant agrees to sell the Lorrimar mansion for 10% commission.

4759 Gozran 16th to Desnus 1st Ustalav

Now that Kendra has 10 fingers again the pcs and Kendra travel back to Ravengro.

While in Ravengro the pcs receive the following letter:

Dear Gregor Fog and company,

        It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you of the demise of the poor creature that called itself “Wretch”. It seems that the unfortunate golem-thing met his fate in the flames despite your inspired effort otherwise. I was not present at any of the following events so please bear that in mind as I relate the relevant circumstances. The poor ignorant creature Wretch was spotted digging a grave in a small graveyard well west of Lepidistadt. When confronted by an angry mob of local farmers Wretch fled leaving behind a metal bound coffin-like device with eye slits. It soon became apparent there was a dead body inside. The villagers opened the device and inside they found a filthy corpse with a hideous wound in one eye. What was now becoming an angry mob located a magistrate to organize and sanction pursuit of the “Beast”.  A hunter among them followed Wretch’s trail to Schloss Caromarc. When confronted about the murder at the gate keep Wretch denied murdering his “father” but refused to give the name of the true culprit. Wretch retreated to the next keep and when confronted there retreated yet again. This time Wretch would retreat no further perhaps because the bridge was out. The villagers attacked wretch but were unable to harm him and so they set the 3^rd keep on fire. The 3^rd keep collapsed sooner than expected from the fire taking Wretch and a few of the villager still on the bridge with them. These are hard times where men do such things without understanding.

Sincerely,

Judge Embreth Daramid

4759 Gozran 15th to Gozran 24th Ustalav

The pcs travel to Calphas to the Spiral Cromlech in order to have the priests of Pharasma regrow Kendra's fingers.

poem in the scroll case- The Carrion Crown

The Carrion Crown

Upon the ashen pathways tread

Softly, as the whispered dead.

As mortal flesh doth rot and fail

To leech and maggot, ebbing frail.

Unhallowed words cannot be spoken,

With whispered oath, death lies broken.

Shed fear, shed life, shed pain, shed time,

Eternity seized shall soon be thine.

First spirit torn from Grave-Lady’s grasp

Be rent and sown as soured ash.

Soft the spiral song reverses,

Judgment lost, damnation surges.

Keeper of the damned’s soul take,

With packlord’s heart the beast shall wake

And flesh be wrought in disarray—

Stillborn cocoon, to blessed decay.

A hundred slain lie innocent,

Grind bone and marrow to cement.

Craft now a skull of splintered graves,

Unmake life, unmake the slave.

Where history churns dream to blister,

Necrophagous secrets whisper

Through chronicles of Raven’s tongue -

A legacy of fear unspun.

Blood spilt atop the Iron Thorn

Invokes that which cannot be born.

Arise the Tyrant now unbound,

Bearer of the Carrion Crown!

4759 Gozran 14th Felgrau, Ustalav

Late PM
The pcs arrive on the outskirts of Felgrau. They see a tree with werewolves hanging from the branches. The pcs walk up to the tree and are attacked by what is apparently a hangman tree. Hadhod is nearly lynched to death but Glade sets the tree on fire and kills the tree. Then the pcs are sneaking through Felgrau. They are attacked by three mutated werewolves that talk about Hadhod and some wolf spirit.

The werewolves are literally torn apart by Gregor's magic silver sword. The the pcs sneak through the town. They are attacked by a ghost but they put it down before it can possess anyone. Then they stumble across the Prince's Wolves and gain some useful information. Just before reaching the keep they are heard by a Whispering Way cultist and his platoon of skeletons. The cultist began screaming that the "werewolves" were attacking. The hue and cry was picked up by surrounding cultists and in the general tumult a continuous trickle of werewolves and a torrent of skeletons (with cultist leaders) headed in the pcs direction. There followed a 3 way battle battle with the cultists and skeletons against the demon wolves against the pcs. The skeletons generally went attempted to surround the werewolves in order to cut them down.

 The werewolves often attacked Hadhod in order to "turn" him so they only bit him. They would not claw him in order to reduce the chances of killing him out right. For his part Hadhod used Gregor's silver sword on the Demon Wolves to great effect. Gregor destroyed skeletons easily until, eventually, even Auren Vrood was awakened by the clamor and entered battle.

 The cunning use of a command spell by Gregor knocked Auren out the air and ruined his fly spell. A combination of turning and spike growth by Glade obliterated the majority of the skeleton horde. Auren's death at the hands of Gregor and finally Glade caused the cultists to route but not until they ordered the remaining undead to kill everything. The pcs lured the remaining skeletons into the spike growth were they were destroyed. The pcs then looted Auren's lair and discovered a cryptic poem. They also uncover what appears to be the remnants an art project made out of bones. That is tools used to carve bone, carved and broken fragments of bone. What they were making is unknown.

4759 Gozran 8th-14th Ustalaz

The pcs travel at speed from Lepidistadt to Felgrau which is near the furrows.

4759 Gozran 6th-8th Ustalav Vieland Lepidistadt

Gregor persuades Father Eswayne Cidaimoikis high priest of Gravecharge temple to scry for first Auren Vrood and then later for Kendra Lorrimor. Gregor at first believes that Kendra is being held at Harrowstone prison but Hadhod reminded him that it collapsed. Eventually on the 8th they figure out that Kendra is being held at the village of Feldgrau near the Furrows.

4759 Gozran 6th Ustalav Vieland at Schloss Caromarc

Hadhod and Glade arrive in Lepidistadt.

4759 Gozran 3rd-5th Ustalav Vieland

Gregor rides to Lepidestadt at speed on Chloros. Glade and Hadhod remain at Schloss Caromarc. Gregor finds out that Kendra has been kidnapped by the Whispering Way and that they threaten to maim and murder her if the pcs don't leave Ustalav. Glade returns to Schloss Caromarc at speed. Meanwhile a mimic attempted to join the party but Hadhod threw it off a cliff. Gregor races ahead and returns to Lepidistadt.

4759 Gozran 2nd Ustalav Vieland at Schloss Caromarc

Glade and Gregor rest in the gate keep until dawn and then they go in search of Hadhod. They find Hadhod late morning and return with him to the gate keep. There they find a decapitated troll with whom they have a conversation regarding the Bride. Then the pcs have a conversation with the homunculus of Alpon Caromarc. The gist of it is that Caromarc is being kept at the bring of starvation and dehydration and is desperate for rescue. The pcs decide to rest so that Glade can regain his bat form. Just after sunset Glade flies in bat form to the Bondslave Thrall apparatus. Glade uses the magical machine to control Bride and make her "sleep" on Caromarc's bed. Then glade used the Bondslave Thrall to command Wretch to attack bride. The pcs followed Wretch to Bride and attacked when he attacked. Bride shifted to her patch-work aberration form and fought with ferocity but Hadhod, Gregor, and the controlled Wretch rained blow after blow and she was never able to recover.

Wretch tore her head off. Next Hadhod and Gregor decided they ought to rescue the now trapped Glade. They fought their way to him. First they slew a mummy but not until after it had infected Gregor with mummy-rot.

 Next both Gregor and Hadhod fell into a water filled pit infested with rotgrubs. They were both infect with two rotgrubs and were forced to take extreme measures to kill them. Then Gregor detected undead in another submerged pit but they used rope to avoid that one. Then Hadhod climbed the interior wall to the exit door and they two of them avoided a large swimming monster. Finally they came to the small lab containing Alpon Caromarc's "iron maiden" prison. After a few words, Gregor slew Caromarc in a fit of uncharacteristic rage! At this point Gregor left at speed to Lepidistadt and the temple of Pharasma there in order to have his mummy rot cured.