Author: Joel

  • Defenders Log Entry #1: The Beginning

    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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  • Summary LXVIII: The Division of Party Assets: Magical Items

    Treasure!
    The Stone Soules (“The Hideous Trapped Evil Party”) are hereby dissolved,
    the Council of Tan-El and its city hereby formed. We thank you for your
    attention and readership.

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  • Summary LXVII: The Colonization of Tan-El: Recruiting Help

    >Can’t wait to see what sorts of people he ends up with… maybe a chaotic elf
    >paladin druid thief.
    We weren’t sure of his exact Charisma so we rolled up a bunch of guys we
    thought would be useful:
    1 dwarven engineer (Brogan Silverbeard) (in charge of roads)
    1 human blacksmith (Tim)
    2 half-elf woodsmen (Luke and Han)
    1 half-elf steward (Sam)
    1 half-elf excavator (Thomas)
    Eli also added:
    1 dwarven engineer (Dolin Silverbeard) (in charge of buildings and
    sewers)
    1 half-elf mage (Theodras)
    1 half-elf Auroran cleric (Aliana)

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  • WARWICK AND BUCK STRIKE A BLOW FOR PHAULKON

    And the Follow-up Adventure (it was only a matter of time!)
    The dynamic duo returns in an escapade worthy of godly notice:
    WARWICK AND BUCK STRIKE A BLOW FOR PHAULKON
    On their first adventure in possession of the new Windsock, our heroes were last left
    dividing up treasure:
    The survivors of the Rakshasa attack were Marriat the ranger, Warwick the ranger,
    Buck the fighter, Tristan the druid, and Lanoi the Phaulkonian cleric.
    The rakshasa wagon had burned, but spectular treasure was recovered, as recounted in
    the official summary for the previous game. Here are some of the results:
    The Regeneration scroll was used on Buck! Shockingly, Andy rolled an 01 (on my dice)
    and the scroll failed!!!
    Uggh.
    On the good side, I also rolled Leon’s Reincartion. Incredibly, (05) Leon came back as
    a GIANT EAGLE! So now Lanoi feels really cool, walking around with a giant eagle.
    Warwick growled at the thought, but Skylltor offered 550,000 gp for the circlet of the
    white mage (+1 spellcasting level). Gring refused.
    As Warwick said, “It only works on GOOD mages…”
    While Leon was getting used to his new body, Warwick decided to get the 1500 XP he
    needed for 7th level by attacking… the frost giant nation. Alone.
    With the Windsocks.

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  • Summary LXVI: Better-Left-Undisturbed Treasure? or, Escaping the Pit with Our Lives

    Presenting…. the Stone Soules Final Summary! No, thank you, you’re too
    kind.
    This adventure was sponsored by the evil dwarves, and a hole o’ fun!
    The intrepid adventurers downed the Treasure Finding Potion as promised,
    and moved swiftly in that direction. Apparently the potion may have been
    obscured, or just wore off, but the distance to the treasure was unclear
    and shifted semi-randomly, though the direction was constant.
    We eventually came upon a clearing with some vultures in it, and a large
    hole in the center, bones strewn about its sides.
    Talking to the birds, we deduced that a large worm had taken up residence
    there. We decided, naturally, to kill it and grab the loot. We were
    expecting a quick grab the items and run, so some of our spells were
    detection spells rather than combat, which proved unfortunate.

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  • Summary LXV: The Pit

    For the sake of my sleep schedule, I’ll just throw in a quick summary so as
    not to leave everyone in suspense. Full summary hopefully tomorrow!
    And thanks to Chris playing Theo!
    The party meandered around the Pit area of the Southern Wilderness without
    realizing how close we were. First the party was surprised by a giant
    slug. Rangorn took massive damage and had some equipment destroyed by acid
    spittle. Again.
    Then we spotted an owlbear. Being extremely bloodthirsty, we trashed it
    with the help of _Slow_ spell and everyone just generally raining damage
    down on it.
    Then we entered the Pit. Ominous terrain, full of undergrowth. The party
    hacked its way through to a torn path. We followed the gigantic tracks,
    guessing that a huge bear thing (roughly 40 feet tall) had made the trail.
    We spotted the creature– Monster ID revealed it as a “dragonbear”– result
    of experiments to combine dragons and owlbears. After waiting for bad
    weather, Alegra began the attack with _Call Lightning_. What followed was
    about a thousand points of damage and dozens of single wounds. The
    creature finally dropped, but with a dead Ceydric nearby. In addition, the
    unfortunate Runt had been incinerated by an earlier blast of fire (it had a
    7 segment breath weapon– full details on this later). Ceydric was rescued
    by Mordrick and Theo, who dragged his body away from the suddenly rumbling
    body of the dragonbear. About a minute later, the body exploded into huge
    flames, but the body was shielded by the two valiant fighters. Now wasn’t
    that fun?

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  • Warwick Summary: The Quest for the Windsock: Recovering a Phaulkonian Artifact, as Scribed by Lanoi the Cleric

    “The Tent of the Night hides an unknown threat.”
    Following his conversion to the Phaulkonian faith by Alegra, while undertaking a
    top-secret government venture in the mountains of Cromwell, Warwick, Principal Ranger
    of Cromwell, became keenly interested in one of the Holy Quests that Alegra had often
    mentioned. This Quest was the recovery of the paired artifact of Phaulkon known as the
    “Windsocks.”
    The Windsocks were a powerful, but relatively minor, artifact of Phaulkon lost forty or so
    years ago in the Darkwood (in the Northlands). The Windsocks took the form of two
    indestructible stockings which when worn together had the
    major power of being able to place a step wherever you wanted in the air. That is, the
    Socks could be used to climb an imaginary staircase in the air to reach the roof of a high
    cavern, or step higher to get a shot over a friend in combat,
    or any number of other uses. There were other powers as well, but not a great number
    of them. More importantly, the Socks were an important artifact that needed to be
    recovered and brought back into the hands of Phaulkonians.
    It was known from _Communes_ and other sources within the Church over the years
    since their loss that the Socks had both left the Darkwood sometime afterward,
    separately. One of them had shown up in the New World and had been
    found by an adventurer who wished them to find their way into the hands of the
    Phaulkonian Church, but needed money for his efforts. Unfortunately, at the time, the
    Church was (as usual) low on resources and could not front the 10,000 gold pieces to
    have the one Sock in hand. The adventurer was represented by an attorney in Dunthrane
    City (Bimwiddle, who purports to provide “the only representation for non-Nevronians in
    the land!”) who maintained the offer at 10,000 gold pieces through the years.

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  • Summary LXIV: South, to the Wilderness

    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

    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

    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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