Category: Stone Soules

Some additional information and thoughts —
Some people (Ludo at least) suspect that the people at Fort Halfred are
in on the plot to capture the Duke or are aiding Borglin for some reason.
They’ve acted very suspiciously:

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Here’s a brief summary of our quest —
A Dunadorian Earl, Earl Belzar, and others are being held by a cloud giant
named Borglin on the edge of the Indicara, near Fort Halfred, at Corner
Rock. The Earl was captured by bandits on the old wilderness road. Special
delivery bards have been through the Wild Wood Inn 4 times in the three
weeks he’s been captive with deliveries to the giant.
Friends of some bandits we took captive on the way to the WWI arranged to
bring back the Earl from the giant (a ransom). What is not commonly known
is that the Earl is to be brought back dead. (We however don’t know the
Court intrigue here, etc.).
The directions to “where the Earl is” are:
Big mountain to right–cave
Cave is disguised as a building.
Borglin is there, expecting trouble, expecting the ransom.
Around past the Mountain in the Haunted Place.
Something other than what is obvious is going on.
“At the Corner” — Corner Rock near Folt Halfred.
People in Fort Halfred know and deal with Borglin on a regular basis —
“normal guy.” Borglin rides a Roc.
Corner Rock is a volcano, active. The jungles surround it. Tuzloi natives
live in area around Fort.
Grey figure on back of giant wasp seen in trek toward rock.
Alegra

SS: PEOPLE WE’VE MET:
———————-
1.Hawk Fist-Slam U.Hack-and-slash brief member of the SS
-> Y.Former Ranger member of the SS, not Alegra’s friend
2.Vidannallos BB.Cleric near Southern Waste, fought a Beholder
3.Laird the Druid* DD.Helped Kergul
4.Fyar the Druid* CC.Took care of Dranigh at one point
5.Antarcus EE.Renegade Ranger “wanted for questioning”
6.Demitrius AA.Frazzled old guy delivered to on Turney’s journey
7.Fenn* M.Caravan leader after Turney
8.Finn T.Assassin worshipper of Sharkaas
9.Sobair O.Champion of End, fought anarchists
10.Jonias II.Knight at Anchor Rock
11.Grien G.Alegra’s former Falcon.
12.Jana Marina Bendallis H.Former thief member of the SS
13.Turkonis* X.Half-elf cleric, former member of the SS
14.Turkaneous* F.Alegra’s horse
15.Derek Blackstone D.Ranger leader of The Knife
16.Alvin E.Started an adventuring group March 15, 2167
17.Alexis I.Traitor at Molehill’s
18.Bruce P.Our friendly anarchist insurgent
19.Norall J.Champion of Dunador, jousted on Dunthrane Day
20.Kirkroy N.Champion of Andevar, jousted on Dunthrane Day
21.Laura of Baranar S.Cleric who left the party due to Alegra’s cowardice
in battle
22.Zhrogruckz Z.Bugbear chief killed by the Lesser Ones
23.Ghizorak R.Enemy of Ceydric, member of Fleshrenders clan
24.Zaras Q.Half-elf we saved in Tan-El
25.Mierin* FF.Merchant who thinks he’s a snake
26.Milf GG.Zaras’ mage companion
27.Rat C.Borin’s henchman
28.Eunice B.Kid Ludo pretended to be
29.Kendall Y.Former Ranger member of the SS, not Alegra’s friend
-> U.Hack-and-slash brief member of the SS
X.Half-elf cleric, former member of the SS
30.Bernard Hemps HH.Possessed by Kergul
31.Dranigh Cye A.Former Ranger member of the SS, Alegra’s friend
32.Tap* V.Sergeant hired in Teft on our first “Independent
33.Spencer* K.Guy who ran a timber caravan Dranigh was on
Adventure”
34.Keefan W.Ranger who came to Dranigh’s funeral
35.Geranth* L.Guy who trained Borin the final time he was a member
of the SS
* are the ones Edwin got wrong.

Beginning 12 July 2174 with healing after the Owl Bear attack.
Despite some minor incidents with wild animals on the way back, we arrived
at Middle safely and planned our next move. It was agreed that we should
find out if there any monsters plaguing the nearby elven village, Sert. If
this proved unsuccessful, we would journey to the Wild Wood Inn for some
more adventure possibilities. If these proved unfruitful, we would move on
and decide when the time arrived where we would go. The splinter party
consisted of myself, Theo, Faranyn and his squire, Pap, Cassana, Ludo, Eli,
Claude, his bodyguard, Jerem the archer, and Xavier. Faranyn and Pap
brought along their warhorses, Lochinvar and Thymine.
Cassana and Dari journeyed to the elven village to seek out information.
Most of the elven villages’ problems were to the south and west near the
‘Dark Wood,’ inhabited by weird ‘demons’ and other minions of evil. There
were no particular local monsters which caused this village trouble.

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The scores on this week’s game:
Little People 5
Lesser Ones 0
(some unspecified number were still left even after they killed ’em)
Stone Soules 2
Little People 4
(that is, taxes:
we did taxes without identifying the items. The LP took the magic arrows
as a lot as their choice and our second choice got a magic scimitar; we
also got a potion but they got a magic long sword and a token and potion
Note that previously we traded our +3 SMALL shield to the LP for +1 Long
sword for Ceydric and +1 Chain for Cassana)
Little People 0
Faranyn 1
(the Scimitar turned out to be a +2 Intelligent Scimitar that strikes fear
into the hearts of your enemies, written in Archaeic, this Neutral Good
sword’s name is Baneful)
Bugbears 0
Stone Soules 5 or so
Owl Bear 0
Stone Soules 1
(over 500 HP and 11 wounds later….)
Kyle

This is a preliminary to any larger summary we put out, just to let the
people not at Cornell have a good quick idea of what happened.
We set up an ambush for the marauders tha proved completely successful.
We then came up with a further idea and demanded in a message that they do
not raid on any human settlements in the area. The next night they stole
some pigs. We then responded in kind with an Eli/Dari attack based on the
old “Invisiblity/Call Lightning scheme” that completely decimated the
marauders at their camp in siege at the Fire Giant city. The marauders
thought the attack on them came from the city and they tried to attack it,
and the Fire Giants from the city came out and stomped them. We then sent
the Fire Giant city Bardic Mail claiming responsibility for the attack. The
cavaliers hoped that they would be owed a debt of honor, but they said that
they were grateful, but refused to owe a debt of honor to lesser beings and
so sent us 5,000 giantish gold as “mercenary pay” instead.
This allowed us to train more (=10,000 human gold).

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While awaiting questioning and staying in Jonhalom…
Star was possessed and killed Alegra during her sleep with a 6-segment kill,
then went over and tried to kill Letier during his sleep with a 6-segment
kill/poisoned dagger from the “potion” we had taken. Letier was not
instantly killed but killed by the poison. Some kind of explosion tipped
off the Duke and Xavier, who came in. Duke restrained Star and Xavier read
the slow poison scroll from Alegra to revive Letier.

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Well, the game was mostly uneventful, but here’s the basic idea:
Arriving at base camp on the 20th of August 2173, we healed up to send a
group back for Tesla’s body (we had scryed and knew the body was there). I
went in this group with Dari’s cloak and along with me, Ceydric & Theo were
invisible, spell immunitied, protected, and aided when the time came to go
in, and Faranyn, Jerem, Letier, Darkeye, and Xavier. When we approached the
doors, a bell went off and quickly Ceydric and Theo went in and Faranyn and
I, with help from Xavier and Jerem, held the doors. Though they took four
lightning bolts, they escaped with Tesla’s body and we weakly headed back to
Middle.

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Well, as for the current score:
GO 4
SS 1
A note that the hydra we killed could be construed as a second point.
Fortunates of the SS:
Cassana is raised. (Subtract a GO point?)
Unfortunates of the SS:
Aria, Bluebear, killed instantly by the first lightning bolt.
Tesla, killed instantly by the second lightning bolt that hit him twice.
Even more unfortunate:
We could not recover Tesla’s body. (Snakedom abounded).

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Score: Great ones: 1 (out of 21 party members)
Party 1 (out of 3 GO)
In spite of the destruction of one Great One, We will have significant
trouble progressing. If they were not aware of us earlier, they are now.
The defenses of the castle will be ready for us. The GO may work together
in their defense. We cannot attack two at the same time- we are not strong
enough.

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