Category: Balinor

Party Roster:
Balinor, 9th level human fighter, 86 hp, played by Joel
Albee, 7th level human monk, 42 hp, NPC
Anselm, 6th level human cleric, 30 hp, NPC
Bodkin, 1st level dwarven fighter, 12 hp, played by Katherine
Morhion, 1st level human cleric, 10 hp, henchman of Balinor
(with advice from Mark Wagoner!)
Continuing to seek ways to alleviate his 1750 gp debt to Duke Haermond, Balinor’s Party, now named “The Killer B’s,” set out to Skull Mountain once again.
Albee trained in Tracking, and Balinor hoped to utilize this skill. Hopefully a hidden entrance to the dark dwarven compound under the Mountain could be found, Balinor speculated. We set out once again. Dodging a giant snake and slaying half a dozen diseased rats, and killing a trapdoor spider (netting a whopping 18 electrum pieces) the party arrived once again at the ominous rock structure known as Skull Mountain.
We noted a number of footprints tracking all over the mouth of the cave, and after first satisfying ourselves that the other entrances were untouched, we began tracking one of the prints. We followed them for the better part of a day before we heard movement ahead.
A human, standing about 60 feet away from Balinor, ordered us to drop our weapons and money and surrender. Balinor put his hammers away and tried to take the gold to the human, but the bandit was less than stupid and ordered Balinor to put it on the ground.
At this point, Balinor ordered THEM to surrender, which didn’t work very well. The bandits, who called themselves the Spectacular Six (although only five were visible… hmm), were not being taken in by Balinor’s threats. So with a sigh, Balinor barked, “Get em Albee!” and whipped out his crossbow. The bandits shot helplessly at Balinor a few times and then vanished into the bushes before the fighter could return fire.

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Balinor, 9th level fighter, 86 hp, played by Joel
Albee, 7th level monk, 42 hp, NPC
Anselm, 6th level cleric, 30 hp, NPC
Bodkin Goldsummit, 1st level dwarf fighter, 12 hp, played by Katherine
Morhion, 1st level cleric, 10 hp, henchman, played by Joel
In an effort to relieve his debt, Balinor organized a party for a hopefully profitable expedition to the overly dramatically named Skull Mountain.
This is a skull shaped trio of caves set into a rock face about two days north of Barnacus on Lendore Isle. The top of the skull connects to the back of a large descending hill. Adventurers going to this location have been closemouthed–some have come out with considerable treasure, some have come back empty, and some have not come back.
In an effort to design a slightly more balanced party, Balinor tried to interest some Nevronian help in the expedition. He came up with a fairly strong party…
Albee was at least a moderate friend of Balinor’s during his tenure with the Defenders, who helped catapult him to name-level as a monk. Still, Albee was disappointed as he felt that the party was not directed strongly at eradicating evil foes of Nevron. He wields a magic Extend-o-Spear to good effect, and is extremely durable for a monk.
Anselm was the highest level available adventuring cleric from the church of Nevron in Barnacus, run by Archbishop Aware. Anselm is fairly fragile, but quite good at avoiding damage, and a powerful cleric. He and Albee are promised 50% of the treasure from the mission (after salvage tax).
Bodkin Goldsummit is a neophyte dwarven spear specialist who heard about Balinor’s great fighting prowess and sought the warrior out. He hums absently whenever the party stops to rest or search, and seems fairly paranoid, an excellent survival trait for any green adventurer who hooks up with Balinor. He is an avid and experienced gambler AND teamster (a good-natured Jimmy Hoffa?).

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Balinor, 8th level fighter, 76 hp, played by Joel
Kodo, 6th level woodsman, 67 hp, played by Katherine
Reinhold, 4th level barbarian, 66 hp, played by Joel
Morhion, 1st level cleric, 10 hp, played by Katherine
When we last left our fighter-heavy party, it had to figure out a way to deal with three frost giants, 4 winter wolves (worg-like beings), AND a crazy high level barbarian shaman who was convinced that he was a frost giant and that these were his children.
The conclusion was that the use of the hereditary circlet, which grants frost giant strength by making you pretend to be a frost giant, had driven the shaman mad due to the unusually long duration of his life at that lofty position. The giants were an incredible threat to the village, which couldn’t even hold them off in a direction assault WITH the party’s help, much less without them.
Balinor was left with a quandary–how do you defeat an enemy that is stronger than you? Separate them.
We discovered that a herd of animals near the village had been raided by one of the giants, who carried off several of the animals. A plan germinated…

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Party Roster:
Balinor Buckannah, 8th level human fighter, 76 hp, played by Joel Green
Kodo Buckannah, 6th level human woodsman, 67 hp, played by Katherine Anderson
Reinhold, 4th level human barbarian, 66 hp, played by Mark Wagoner
Morhion Gendahar, 1st level human cleric, 10 hp, henchman of Balinor
Yes, you read correctly. Some weirdo actually likes Balinor enough to become his henchman. Some people.
Well, here’s my story, such as it is. It’s a tale of a great deal of confusion.
In early 2190, Balinor decided to visit his family and see how things were back in his very small village. Kodo, Balinor’s larger and younger brother, decided to tag along. The two of them traveled by caravan through Teft all the way to the Latt border. Finally they had reached the edge of civilization in Latt, a fishing village of a few hundred Northerners. Balinor visited the Nevronian Church there, where he had originally been introduced to the religion, and met Morhion, a friendly and sturdy cleric, and a childhood friend. Morhion was attracted to the adventuring life that Balinor now led, and decided to tag along and learn what he could.
The trio set off and headed off toward the hometown village in the mountains. Travel was moderately rough, but they arrived uneventfully in town, or rather, the eighty person village.
There was much belching and rejoicing as the whole Buckannah family got together for a great deal of eating and drinking and brawling.
Then a more serious matter arose.

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