Month: September 1997

Defenders Log Entry #3: The Fun Continues

The next day we surprised a group of five armed men. Some people thought we should parlay.
Darellon assumed they were bandits, and reacted appropriately. With a wild yell Darellon charged straight at one of the archers.

Darellon, 1st level woodsman, 20 hp, played by Joel
Drew, 1st level ranger, 15 hp, played by Jack
Ethan, 1st level woodsman, 13 hp, played by Kyle
Grison, 1st level fighter, 11 hp, played by Sean
Soldan, 1st level cleric, 9 hp, played by Alex
Morgan, 1st level fighter, 7 hp, played by Alan
Quentin, 1st level druid, 6 hp, played by Jeremy
Annwvyn, 1st level thief, 4 hp, played by Alan
Setting off from Bald Hill, the party traveled north for one day and set up camp.
That evening we had an unsuccessful discussion with a bunny rabbit.
During the third watch, Drew’s, the party was attacked by stealthy and difficult to spot fungus beetles. They dragged Anwvyn away before we even knew what was happening. Quickly we followed the beetle through the glass, Grison and Darellon trailing along with Drew. The clerics were slower to follow and missed most of what happened.
We saw Anwvyn trapped under the beetle, who was about 6 feet long. Anwvyn was clearly unconscious, if not dead for all we knew. When Grison approached, the beetle reacted, spraying acid all over Grison and dropping him paralyzed to the ground. The sonic boom that followed deafened Darellon temporarily. At this point we were unsure what to do, given the difficulty Drew was having in shooting the beetle. So we circled away from it, only to discover another one.

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Stone Soules: The History of the Party in Brief

“‘Not all who wander are lost’ — but we certainly were.”

Accomplishments of the Stone Soules
“‘Not all who wander are lost’ — but we certainly were.”
The history of the Stone Soules in brief:
I. Party foundation in Teft.
II. Caravan guarding and small journeys.
III. Junior adventuring with the Knife.
IV. Greate Olde Woode adventures and long journeys.
V. Tan-El exploration.
VI. Middle-of-the-Road foundation.
VII. Dunadorian politics and defeat of great evils of Tan-El and the Ziggurat.
VIII. Mithril Key quest.
IX. Southern Wilderness adventures.
X. Party dissolution at Tan-El.
XI. The Foundation of the Regency Council of Tan-El.
A more complete history, minus the uninteresting details…
This is an effort to give you a brief summary of every important event in the existence of the Stone Soules Adventuring Party. Though many particular parts of the party’s travels were of note, most are greatly abbreviated to give you the best impression of the overall lifetime of the group. [Kyle’s note: only accurate through 2185. Also, part of the middle of the history is missing.]
The party met at the Blue Star Inn in Teft, 15 March 2167.
Sign on with Taylor as caravan guards for a trip to Blackstone.
* Ogres attack after Riverneck. Exploration of village leads to death ofHawk, Stump, and Jana.
Gurney the mercenary, Alegra, Dranigh, and Ceydric defeat the bandits demanding toll for passage.
Sanderson the bandit is captured.
Illegal loggers kill Stan and nearly kill Dranigh.
Dranigh is left with Fyar the Druid in Loba to heal.
Sanderson is hanged after an unsuccessful escape attempt at Jebel.

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Stone Soules: Closing Information for the Party

Suddenly, there is a flash and things are strangely transposed. Orimaxes’ skin turns sallow and his eyes uniform and it is clear that Tellah is free.

Here it is. The long overdue summary I owe you all.
In December 2184 the party reassembles at the Academy. Most party members
have earned ~10 k XP and the items are divided up. Mordrick wishes the party
his best regards and welcomes future letters, as he travels to visit his uncle
and resume the hunt for Prince Obmi.
Orimaxes announces that he wishes to try to destroy Tellah. He asks to
travel with the party to Tan-El in time for midsummer’s night.

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Defenders Log Entry #2: Garroten

After we spent half of the next day healing up, we marched off again. A day or two later we arrived near the edge of a horrid looking forest. It looked clearly unnatural, full of stinging insects, dying trees, and, we later discovered, LOTS of black locusts.

Darellon, 1st level woodsman, 20 hp, played by Joel
Drew, 1st level ranger, 15 hp, played by Jack
Grison, 1st level fighter, 11 hp, played by Sean
Soldan, 1st level cleric of Silban, 9 hp, played by Alex
Quentin, 1st level druid, 6 hp, played by Jeremy
Annwvyn, 1st level thief, 4 hp, played by Alan
We were ushered in by a lady-in-waiting to see the Lord Mayor of Garroten. She offered us two broad options for service:
1. Destroy the bandit groups to the southeast.
2. Clear the ruined area that used to be the settlement between Garroten and Restenford.
We were told it was inhabited by “undead.” We decided that the bandit stuff would have too many repercussions for the moment, so we headed up toward the ruins. CAUTIOUSLY. The plan was to assess the danger carefully– basically we can only handle smaller numbers of skeletons and zombies. Anything above that was too much.
We then learned that the previous party that had adventured there had killed a wraith. Uggh. Maybe there weren’t anymore?

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Summary LXVIIIb: A Xavier and Rangorn Interlude

Following Xavier’s example, Rangorn vaulted off his horse, yelled “Die!”
and sank Gruntender into an ogre, who promptly obeyed and fell over.

From the notes of Rangorn, bowman of terror:
As you may recall, just prior to the attempt to defeat of Tellah by Orimaxes,
Xavier and Rangorn went to get trained and pick up henchmen. As a note:
RANGORN FAILED HIS PLAYRATING GUESS. I guess 2.0, it was 2.1. Drat– 1000
gp down the tubes.
After stumbling out of the training hall embarrassed, but 6th level,
Rangorn rejoined the now 8th level Xavier, and summoning his henchmen Han,
Luke, Sam, and Brogan, they marched back to Middle.
(By the way, I continued my crazy hit points streak– I rolled a 7 on a d8.
Xavier has 45 hp, and Rangorn now has 56!)
Fortunately, there was an encounter.

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Defenders Log Entry #1: The Beginning

Grison burst on top of a bandit in the process of drawing a sword, and skewered him. Seeing that the bandit was dead, and unaware that two party members were down and under heavy assault, Darellon went hunting for more bandits.

Darellon, 1st level woodsman, 20 hp, played by Joel
Drew, 1st level ranger, 15 hp, played by Jack
Grison, 1st level fighter, 11 hp, played by Sean
Soldan, 1st level cleric of Silban, 9 hp, played by Alex
Quentin, 1st level druid, 6 hp, played by Jeremy
Annwvyn, 1st level thief, 4 hp, played by Alan
In the Stone Soules tradition, we met in the Blue Star Inn at Teft, on March 15, 2172. One interesting thing to note: Derek of the Knife was there. The next day we set off for Lendore Isle. After a six day boat ride, we arrived in the harbor of Barnacus.
We spent most of the first day touring Barnacus, exploring the various markets and shops, practically covering the entire part of the city on the western bank of the river. A few interesting shops, including for global Telvar interest, Warner’s Bows. Warner had a cheap little number with a mere 16,000 gp on display.
Although Barnacus was colorful, it became clear that getting worthwhile information would be too expensive to comprehend, or far too unreliable (read: setup).
So we headed out the east gate, planning to head two days east to Garroten. We left town a half-hour before the gates closed.
Now, this being Lendore Isle, one expects a few random encounters out in the wilderness. But I figured, hey, we’re on a public road, on the civilized southern part of the island. Maybe we’d run into something a day or two out into the wilderness, but we would just have a little travelling lull between towns.
Wrongo.

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