April 1997 | The World of Telvar

Summary LXIV: South, to the Wilderness

When the squirrels scattered after dark, we breathed a sigh of relief.
When the first _Call Lightning_ struck Xavier, we were considerably not
relieved.

The summary:
The party headed south out of Cromwell toward the mountains. Rangorn was
surprised by a totem. We moved on, and began our gradual ascent into the
mountains. Snow began to build up on the ground, and once the party had to
break off the march at midday and take cover in _Leomund’s Secure Shelter_,
courtesy of Eli.
The next day the party advanced through the fresh coating of snow, but was
attacked by a fanged creature that attempted to drag Runt into the snow.
It was slain, and the party trekked to a nearby cave. In the cave was a
huge segmented worm thing, which was dispatched through the able fighting
of the mighty Stone Soules.
In the back of the cave we discovered a magic pickaxe, which turned out to
be a holy symbol for a frost giant religion. There was also a one-way (the
other way) panel at the back of the cave, which we decided not to
investigate so as to clear the mountains sooner.

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Summary LXIII: Another Faranyn-Fest

They ambushed him, tried to poison him, tried to shoot him. In the end, a
challenge with one of them killed the man but he got a lucky jab in that
poisoned Phargus and he was killed due to poison.

More mini-Middle mayhem!
When last we left middle it had fended off Fire Giants, Giant Toads, a fire
in the barracks, a werewolf, a Kelburnian spy, hungry wolves, and a
Nevronian seeking asylum from the “evil” wizardry of Jonhalom…
As well as more anarchist antics than you can shake a stick at…
2180 was a different year. Kant the cooper (the snitch) was poisoned in a
freak accident. No suspects were apparent. A giant weasel nearly took down
Cassana and landed her bed-ridden for a few weeks. A cave bear attacked
town and we went out and slew it. A valuable shipment of goods and gold
bars came through town. Ax, man-at-arms, bumped his head. Once again, the
anarchists made people sick at the Founders Day celebration.
Now for some fun stuff. The Daring Dozen returned from digging up a
grave-yard in Tan-El and paid salvage tax. In addition to the 24000 gold
they brought back, Faranyn seized the philter of persuasiveness and since he
had first pick he chose the unidentified Rod, which turned out to be a Rod
of Resurrection with 7 charges!!

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Summary LXII: Follow-ups to the Cleansing of the Citadel

“The wizard Wsyglyth worked on his dark abominations, terrifying the
countryside with the rejected spawn of his experiments. These
abominations of nature wandered through the forest, preying on the
common folk, until the heroes were summoned to do battle.”

Hey!
Two days after everyone arrived back in town before going to fight the
Deathstealers, Alegra presided over the marriage of Sean and Aria. Alegra
throws a 200 g.p. party for them. That makes the date 1 August 2182.
Congrats to the two of them… the party was of course invited to the
wedding and party following, along with the Phaulkonian congregation.
Kyle
BTW- the name of Xavier’s fighter/mage Henchman is Javin “Famuu”
Goldthwatt and his bobcat familiar is Boris “Chowdaddy”
Alex will eventually name the other henchmen.
Jack

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Summary LXI: Versus the Deathstealers: Overwhelming Force

Then the deathstealer attempted to leech the damage onto Theo.

The results are in…
Stone Soules 3 Deathstealers 0
There was also an early development during Sahrak’s return trip– his
caravan was attacked by a dozen gnolls. The dozen guards fought back–
only one guard was killed permanently, but so was the owner merchant.
Oops. And there weren’t enough animals left to pull the caravan back to
the nearest town, so it was certainly a pyrrhic victory. But both Sahrak
and his new henchman survived.
When we last left our heroes, the Stone Soules were preparing to assault
the deathstealers.

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Warwick Summary: The PURSUIT of Krek and Phillipe

At this point, we struggled with the eternal dilemma � “if we split up the party, we can
cover several different possibilities�” [COMMENTARY � Never split the party.]

We begin the destruction with Warwick and Company (Buck, Jean-Luc, henchman, and
rangers) heading toward the Peaks of Light to do some forest exploration. [of course, no
exploration would be complete without hospitalization �..]
On January 17, arriving at the small mountain outpost of Fanjyr, we discovered that a
local mining camp of Shabrundian dwarves has been massacred on New Year’s day,
with only a handful of survivors. Apparently, 60 Slow-Killer hobgoblins had entered the
camp silently and slaughtered about 80 dwarves, many of who were non-combatant
miners. Leading this group of hobgoblin was Krek, a bastard-sword specialist human
who once worked in Western Cromwell hunting bandits. The murderer-thieves escaped
with about 1200 ingots of gold and silver.
[Krek had worked in a region of Western Cromwell that was plagued by bandits. He
had been an efficient hunter, and never left any survivors. Before the dwarven massacre,
Krek was wanted for questioning � it turned out that many of the “bandits” he had
slaughtered weren’t really criminals�. Krek was also known to travel with a short,
pudgy blonde guy � possibly a cleric.]

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Summary LX: A Middle “Faranyn-Fest”

During the night 6
days before the event, the Skullbreaker strangled the Fleshrender through
the bars of his cell with his bootlaces.

Catching up on some Sir Faranyn, Middle chronology from 2179, we had an
interesting mini-adventure the other day. I won’t elaborate much on the events.
Murder Mystery, Middle:
A man-at-arms in the keep was killed one morning. He had been ripped apart
by a furry creature. A wood-carrier and an assistant cook were questioned,
and lots of other info. was put together. A lycanthrope was suspected but
could not be proved. (Retrospect provided the answer).
A later event at a shanty-town north of town, where workers were building
confirmed the lycanthrope theory. Several folks were killed when a large
black wolf attacked. Following tracks, we found that they circled around
back to the shanty town.
Later, at the shanty town, the wood-man’s wife was killed and Sir Ceydric
chased down the werewolf. He easily killed it and the incident was wrapped up.

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