Category: Stone Soules

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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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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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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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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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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It is clear from divinations and communes that the supernatural LE force is
in charge in that part of the castle. Specifically, according to the Grim,
that is the Citadel, which Beck had previously told us was separate from the
other sections of the Castle Bah Nareth.
Divination: Creatures there are vastly powerful (compared to Letier). Very
rich treasure in the area…Forces of LE, vastly dominant, chances of
disturbing are moderate to high.
Any earlier reference by the Sphinx places possibilities of Ghouls very
high. Specifically, he never mentioned the DeathStealers.

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In the aftermath of “that Dark Servant thing,” the Stone Soules begin a
downtime… (triumphant music)
Many trades were made in Cromwell, and by Eli at the School of Wizardry,
including the necessary teleport-damping devices and Protection from Devils
scroll in preparation for the upcoming assault on the deathstealers.
Ceydric autotrained.
Eli waited and the School of Wizardry while the party continued to
Petethal. At Teft, Sahrak left to train, Xavier trained locally, and Lorm
was contacted. Lorm agreed to join the Stone Soules in the attack on the
deathstealers, with all the protection he could amass. He also brought
Serin, his henchman mage (and an arsenal of items). In addition, Xavier
picked up two henchman– a cavalier of House Maxwell, and a fighter/mage–
as yet unnamed.

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