Session Transcripts

The text transcripts of all sessions to date.

Goblin Pickpockets arc

 * Session 1 - Rada 15th of Fharlon, characters established, several pick pocketed, meeting each other, begin investigating the gang of Granch Redmaw.


 * Session 2 - Discovery of three caves, exploration of the second one (first determined to be thief-less), encounter with a lone goblin, stumbling across an abandoned hideaway.


 * Session 3 - Moving on to the third cave, encounter with first guard force of three goblins.


 * Session 4 - Rat killing, being mistaken for customers, showdown with Granch Redmaw, surrender of most remaining goblins, mishap with a caster.


 * Session 5 - Getting (supposed) last two goblins, transferring everyone up to the surface, attempting to organize for departure, bear recruited, Terri runs into cave.


 * Session 6 -Catching up with Terri, discovery of more goblins, leaving them to march to Castleton, Barshal met, goblins dropped off at courthouse, Sszeyl and Trofim chat with Lethiriss, return to cave, moving in, encounter with two skeletons, stumble across room with cages, taking down two goblins.


 * Session 7 - freeing the captives of the goblins, taking the last two goblins captive, finally excavating the hideout, shenanigans, and a long walk back to Castleton.


 * Session 8 - Marching back to Castleton, group split up, dropping off final goblins and getting full reward, mini-dialogues abound, group reunites, sitting down in an inn, serious talk about future, silly food challenge.


 * Session 9 - Replay of serious talk for latecomers, dividing up the loot, planning the night, drow/gnome discussion, card game, shopping.


 * Session 10 - Conversing with Terri's brothers, errand running, more shopping, more talk, taking care of Fuzzy.

Necromancer Hunters arc

 * Session 11 - [Majority of transcript missing] Returning to the hideout, assault by demonic bird flock, clearing out hideout infested by animate anthropomorphic agriculture.


 * Session 12 - Planning, prepping, and resting.


 * Session 13 - Khada 16th of Ehlon, waking up, unexpected arrival, trouble with arrival, unexpected raid by rival goblin tribe, knocking out raiders, negotiating with arrival.


 * Session 14 - Short session; checking on Terri, discussions with Barbarus, talk of what to do with the goblins, playing in heatless flame.


 * Session 15 - Several members depart to find the mule, chat with the captured goblins, rushing to the mule-rescuer's rescue, brawl with Gerta Blacksword and the rest of the Blacksword tribe, poor teamwork, grim work, returning to cave.


 * Session 16 - Group talk over issues, finally dividing some loot, Gnogglebolt and Sszeyl go to town for supplies and meet Lethiriss and Zairith, getting a new lead, Barshal chats with Max, returning to cave, Sszeyl cleans out a cave, Gnogglebolt spends hours on a trap.


 * Session 17 - Negotiating with captured goblins, explaining who got Redmaw first. Loda 17th of Fharlon, Sszeyl cleaning up Salishea's cave, storm during the night, leaky caves, flooded room.


 * Filler 1 - Non-cannon filler, beach location. Barracuda attack, cooked seafood, making sandcastles, snow machine on the lifeguard tower, sand dragon to glass dragon, mule sets fire to snow, water cannon to put out fire, gnome home run with water cannon, gnome retrieved, gnome with a wrench again.


 * Session 18 - Sei 18th of Fharlon, bailing out the the flooded room, Sszeyl and Gnogglebolt visit town again. Idle from 19th to 20th of Fharlon. Rada 21st of Fharlon, last day of stakeout, Gnogglebolt finally explains plan for the last goblins, dividing Blacksword's loot. Khada 22nd of Fharlon, Toris family guards excess loot, returning to Castleton, Derish and Barshal depart, reporting, going with Blacksword goblins to their den, discovering a worg skeleton and destroying it, searching around, hearing someone down in the cave.


 * Session 19 - Tathi enters the cave, zombies down the corridor, engaging the zombies, engaging a necromancer woman, bringing them all down, Trofim controls one zombie, Gnogglebolt argues with Trofim about dismissing it, Trofim heals the necromancer unnecessarily causing a short crisis, shouting match afterward.


 * Session 20 - Further berating with Trofim, discovering people trapped behind rubble, ultimatum for Trofim, knocking out Trofim, clearing away the rubble, discovering and puzzling over a suspected familiar, Tathi acting strange, discovering Tathi is possessed by dead goblin, poignant moment as dead goblin says goodbyes, Gnogglebolt explains situation to surviving goblins, hostility between Tathi and Sszeyl, preparing to depart.


 * Session 21 - Heading back to Castleton, getting through the gate, dropping off able-bodied Blackswords, Trofim, and the necromancer at the courthouse, explaining illegality of necromancy to Sszeyl, Gnogglebolt dropping off remaining goblins at an apartment, Sszeyl and Tathi discuss drow, Gnogglebolt befriends Elwick Silverscript and Ezekiel Chirehan, Elros meets a fortuneteller, Sszeyl tells Zairith the news, Gnogglebolt and Elros meet Max and Tharky at the Bronze Boot, Sszeyl arriving, last-minute loot dividing, agree to meet the next day, Gnogglebolt introducing Ezekiel to all the goblins, Sszeyl meets with Zairith and Lethiriss, Tathi arrives, familiar fight, Tathi speaks with SZ&L.


 * Session 21.5 - Loda 23rd of Fharlon, Gnogglebolt checks on Schink, confesses the truth about Trofim to the courthouse guard, Sszeyl speaks with Zairith about Tathi, Tathi visits the library and encounters a lycanthrope lord, Barbarus meets a friend of his brother, Elros gets involved with an escaped druid, the others meet at the Bronze Boot.


 * Session 22 - Elros arrives at Bronze Boot, talk of party cohesion, Miron and Thomas jump in, talk of who's doing what, talk of a party name, Vigilant (Guardians) decided on, investigating commotion on the street, running to the goblin apartment, furious engagement with two fiendish wolves and a dire wolf, Ezekiel, Sszeyl, and Thomas all taken down (but not dead), aftermath, bad druid-woman loose in the city, werewolf finds Gnogglebolt, Gnogglebolt hands over a code (forgot to decipher), wrapping up, heading for the Toris shop.


 * Session 23 - Chatting on the way to the shop, chatting and hijinks with Toris family, Tathi gets possessed by a hostile spirit, subduing Tathi, aftermath, checking the chest of items, discovery of a pouch with mementos from Terri, selling non-memento items to the Toris family, Sszeyl leaves to buy wood and meets Rhylinar, more chatting with the family, Thomas stumbles across the code again, Gnogglebolt asks Nathaniel about Papa, Sszeyl goes back to Zairith's place, Thomas competes in a caber-toss, Gnogglebolt asks the goblins about the druid.


 * Session 23.5 - Barbarus rescues a chicken stall from a giant rat, goes to the Bronze Boot and reconnects with some other catfolk, Gnogglebolt arrives and asks Max about 'Mama' and Salishea, Tharky puts on his show, Gnogglebolt goes to the temple of Pelor and tells Thomas about Trofim, Sszeyl chats with fellow drow, Thomas and Gnogglebolt arrive and tell Zairith and Sszeyl about what's going on with Trofim, then retire for the night. Sei 24th of Fharlon, Thomas and Gnogglebolt go to the holding cells to collect Trofim, Trofim insists on seeing Zairith, the group goes back to Zairith and Lethiriss's place, Gnogglebolt negotiates with Lethiriss, Thomas and Gnogglebolt leave Trofim with them and return to the Bronze Boot.


 * Session 24 - Everyone arrives at the Bronze Boot, Gnogglebolt gets everyone up to speed on the plans for the week, shows the others the keepsakes from Terri, a letter from Kethanis arrives saying the druid-woman has moved to the next town over, letter from the Palm arrives saying that they've uncovered the identity of several more necromancers in the "Blackskull" gang right in Castleton, group agrees to work on rooting out the Blackskulls, Miron gets a fellow Leaden Mace to help, everyone goes out to investigate, Barbarus takes the voucher from the Palm and sees what his contacts know (finds nothing), Sszeyl goes to talk to Rhylinar for advice, then goes with Elros to check out the sewers (learned that corpses can be illegally sold in places near the East Gate), Gnogglebolt and Tathi check arcane university records and talk to Ezekiel and the leader of the Society of Saltmarsh (found information on the two necromancers and name of the Blackskull leader), Miron checks the library (finds information on Francis York aka Morgan aka Zach aka Adrian), Thomas asks people around his temple (found same information as Sszeyl and Elros), Everyone meets back up at the Bronze Boot at night and shares information, Flint arrives and says he found an old Nerull temple with active zombies in it, everyone decides to infiltrate the temple the next day.


 * Session 25 - Ica 1st of Ehlon, Gnogglebolt wakes up early and cobbles an electric grenade, party begins to arrive at the Clear Vial, party talks a bit about the plan, Sszeyl quickly teaches Gnogglebolt how to act like a servitor, Flint arrives, party goes over final details of the plan, party heads out to the abandoned house, party decides to enter through belowground, Sszeyl, Barbarus, and Gnogglebolt press ahead along as per the plan, encounters severe resistance, abandons plan, whole party begins plowing through several rooms of zombies and skeletons, end in a room with an altar.


 * Session 26 - Party presses forward, engages some more undead, some of the party finds Baxter and Baum Spindlethorn and engages them, Spindlethorn brothers defeated, an owlbear skeleton is dealt with, a few more undead are taken care of, tense interrogation of one of the brothers on behalf of Sszeyl, Tathi and Miron raid the bookshelves, clearing out anything useful from the hideout, taking the brothers to the courthouse, setting the bodies of the dead in order, Miron and Flint deliver some Palm armor to its proper owners, gnome tossing, Thomas speaks with Father Trebedis about the recent escapades of the party.


 * Session 26.5 - Beware the drow who has been challenged.


 * Session 27 - Everyone gathers at the Bronze Boot, decides to head to the Leaden Mace compound instead, the spoils gathered are divided, some decided to head to sleep, Tathi gets drunk and causes shenannigans, Miron chases a rat. Nica 2nd of Ehlon, a letter from Kedthanis arrives, everyone takes care of personal errands.


 * Session 27.5 - Khada 4th of Ehlon, the goblin arc finally comes to its conclusion as their trial gets underway, and a verdict is passed.

Witch Hunters arc

 * Session 28 - Rada 3rd of Ehlon, more personal errands. Khada 4th of Ehlon, the goblin trial. Loda 5th of Ehlon, everyone meeting up outside the Bronze Boot, messenger for Tathi, departing for Redtree, party is observed by fiendish ravens on the road, party engages the ravens, one escapes, party is assaulted by fiendish wolves during the night, one escapes again. Sei 6th of Ehlon, continuing to Redtree.


 * Session 28.5 - Nica 2nd of Ehlon, Miron participates in an interrogation.


 * Session 29 - Elros meets back up with the party with a companion, arrival in Redtree, appears deserted, villagers actually hiding, talking with lead village archer, telling party's reason for arrival, asking about Jonah Restren, going over to Restren's house, finding petrified people, engaging Restren, finding a cockatrice, killing the cockatrice and capturing Restren, finding more petrified people (including Kethanis), using found potions to free Kethanis and three others, handing Restren over to villagers, taking remaining petrified people back to the village, talking with important villagers about plan to take on the rogue druid.


 * Session 30 - Gearing up for the journey, heading out, seeing yet more ravens, all ravens taken down, finding a pit trap the hard way, noticing two Briarclaws and a large fiendish wolf, engaging and killing them, camping for the night. Ica 7th of Ehlon, proceeding forward again, coming to a fork in the path, noticing an assassin vine down one path, going the other direction instead, seeing a massive pack of fiendish wolves outside of a cave, wiping out said pack, noticing someone in the cave.


 * Filler 2 -


 * Session 31 - Meeting with an elf and lizardfolk in the cave, bringing them along, getting them equipped, proceeding forward, encountering Pumpkin Heads, Tathi momentarily possessed, engaging vegetables, river of doom, continuing to search for Brairclaw's hideout.


 * Session 32 - Scouts proceed forward, find a group of ravens, party catches up, engaging the ravens, finding the Briarclaw spymaster at the mouth of a cave, defeating the spymaster, figuring out how to get into the cave, entering the cave, seeing Brairclaw ahead on a pillar, tense dialogue with Brairclaw, engaging Briarclaw and her remaining lackys, long intense battle, Brairclaw attempts to go invisible to escape, capturing her anyway, Kethanis takes away her druid powers.


 * Session 33 - Securing Briarclaw in the side cave, Barbarus moves ahead, Kethanis secures another still-living druid, Barbarus notices voices in a cavern, party catches up with him, seeing caged people, Veinfrost bursts out of his room with a pack of minions, desperate fight, miraculously no casualties, freeing the captives, moving back to the side-caves, trying to settle everyone down, Brairclaw awakens, Gnogglebolt interrogates with her, argument wih Miron over Briarclaw's fate, Tathi ends the argument (Briarclaw dead), everyone turns in for the night.


 * Session 34 - Nica, 8th of Ehlon, storm still raging, tending to a sick Aelian, clearing out the rest of the cave, pumpkinheads and fiendish beasts destroyed, one trained fiendish wolf taken alive and given to Kethanis, caring for the captives, learning from Zylaro about David Morian, fat rat shenanigans, Miron and Tathi talk about Briarclaw, next day, storm ended, Kethanis departs, walking everyone back to Redtree, reuniting everyone, reporting to the mayor, Thomas and Gnogglebolt look into the matter of Jolenta, Tathi and Aelian get it on.


 * Lootsplitting 1 - Dividing up massive backlog of loot.


 * Session 35 - Moping around the village, Khada 10th of Ehlon, Festival of Restoration, villagers prepare for the feast, little gifts and offerings of food left for the Guardians, everyone has a good time at the feast, Loda 11th of Ehlon, party packs up, messenger from Reyen arrives with news and mementos for Jolenta, heading back to Castleton with Zylaro, Jolenta, Edaric, and Aelian, some of the party go with Zylaro and Jolenta to the Leaden Mace headquarters, Commander Ashmore scries Jolenta's necklace, discovering she is Planetouched by the heavens. SKIP to Loda 17th of Ehlon, party heads to Sszeyl's cave for the party, the Mysterious Messenger intercepts with a warning, party arrives at the cave, Thomas gets pulled away by the mercenaries, everyone else settles in and starts a tour, Thomas rushes back in and warns the party of a breach, eeryone rushes forward to attempt diplomacy, Gnogglebolt meets with Rin Brenin again, she and other mercs are unreasonable until Edgar arrives, everyone returns to partying with most of the mercs accompanying, the rest of the guests arrive, drinking contest.

Animate Dead arc

 * Session 35.5 - Loda 11th of Ehlon, Gnogglebolt visits the Swiftaxe apartment, checks up on them, and plans to get Sszeyl to help Drit and Ezekiel with translating. Rada, 21st of Ehlon, Gnogglebolt goes to Zairith & Lethiriss' place to visit Sszeyl, asks him about translating for Drit, explanations and expositions abound, Tathi arrives, asks about Corraline. Rada 15th of Ehlon, Thomas picks up Gnogglebolt and heads to the Pelor temple, the two meet up with Zylaro and Jolenta, Gnogglebolt makes a flower-crown for Jolenta but realizes she has a psychological block with accepting it, Thomas tells Jolenta about her ancestors, Jolenta finally wears her flower-crown. Sei 12th of Ehlon, Gnogglebolt goes to Elwick's library, tells about most recent adventure, checks out a book on the Terran language, tells Elwick about his future plans. Rada 21st of Ehlon, Gnogglebolt meets up with Sszeyl outside the Swiftaxe apartment, the two meet up with Ezekiel and go to the Bronze Boot to talk, Sszeyl and Gnogglebolt explain everything aout the sign-language and conditions surrouding it, Sszeyl overpays for his food and gets a tab instead. Sei 12th of Ehlon, Gnogglebolt goes to Master Destraliss' tower after visiting Elwick, sits down to talk to kaerka about his plans, mistaken for a lecher, assurance otherwise, investigating the New Kemmer movement. Rada 21st of Ehlon, Sszeyl returns to Z&L's place after meeting Ezekiel, Rhylinar starts chewing him out about his irrational devotion to Orgolloyss in the face of de facto exile, showing him a death warrant, giving him a war history lesson, plans to rescue an ally from Ezzebek. Rada 21st of Ehlon, early in the day, Sszeyl goes to visit Coralline, confronts her about the party fiasco, goes to inform the authorities of her conspiracy but she assaults him with magic, Sszeyl gets away and informs guards who arrest her, goes to get his wound treated and relates his story to another guard. Sei 24th of Ehlon, Barbarus, Thomas, and Miron all go to visit the Toris shop, told that there is a message from an 'Aunt Sal', the three go out into the marketplace for shopping, stumbling across the Mysterious Messenger, Barbarus and Miron get held up by a feather-charm hawker, Thomas asks about the man and where he gets his information, Miron commences a full inquisition of the feather-charm hawker, Barbarus goes wild with a Ring of Prestidigitations.


 * Session 36 - Ica 1st of Cuthon, the temporary HQ is set up, Edaric arrives and talks to Barbarus, Gnogglebolt goes out and finds Thomas, Miron, and Elros to the new HQ, Gnogglebolt gives them a tour, Barbarus goes off somewhere, Sszeyl arrives, introductions and small talk, Barbarus returns with two elven hounds, talk of Sszeyl's plans and trial, messenger arrives with a lot of mail, Sszeyl reads a message from Tebry, realizes the Vigilant Guardians are now targeted by assasins, Terri and Papa visit, she tells that Tharky and Max have talked to 'Aunt Sal', asking Terri about Deep Dragons, reading Kethanis' letter, everyone checks their summons, Gnogglebolt goes through his crate of mail and gifts, Tathi and Aelian arrive, the two are introduced to the Elven Hounds, informing them of the bad news, chatting, Gnogglebolt, Barbarus, Miron, and Elros head off to the courthouse, Sszeyl and Thomas go to Z&L's place, Couthouse folks give their account of events to the captain, Sszeyl discusses with Rhylinar about the message, Gnogglebolt attempts to negotiate with Coralline (and fails, but discovers she may be a fanatic), Sszeyl and Thomas arrive and give their accounts, Thomas and Miron head to the Mace, Elros and Sszeyl head to the elven temples, everyone else heads back to HQ, Part 2, Elros negotiates with a priestess to let Sszeyl appear later, Tathi, and Aelian chat with the others, beds get set out, Thomas gets inducted into the Leaden Mace.


 * Session 36.5 - Edaric and Gnogglebolt go out for a nighttime stroll in town, Calrach makes a cameo appearance.


 * Session 37 - Nica 2nd of Cuthon, rainy day, morning shenanigans, Gnogglebolt and Edaric explain their midnight stroll, discussion of drow politics, Thomas ingratiates himself with the other Mace members, finds out about a disturbing recon with the juniors, visit from elven clergy at HQ, Sszeyl negotiates with them, more drow politics, Gnogglebolt and Elros head to the courthouse and collect the reward for the information that led to the capture of the Hypnotist, Thomas tells Commander Ashmore about the assasin situation.


 * Session 38 - Gnogglebolt and Elros go through the Market district, Gnogglebolt gets info on David Morian, Erlos gets a new sword(possible retcon?), everyone meets back at HQ, Gnogglebolt shares the Morian info, Flint and Trevor arrive, Trevor describes seeing strange black mist on certain things, party identifies it as being probably the signature ability of a paladin, Trevor, Flint, Gnogglebolt, Sszeyl, and Elros go to visit the Aurate Palm, Barbarus and Tathi go shopping, Trevor gets checked by Palm, Sszeyl speaks with a paladin, Thomas prepares some holy water for the raid tomorrow, Barbarus gets ambushed by a nasty rogue, Tathi discovers a mutilated Barbarus and goes with a man to take Barbarus to a nearby tavern for healing, the Palm group returns to HQ.


 * Session 39 - Kor arrives at HQ with message, group rushes to the Talespinner Tavern, Barbarus is collected, breif shenannigans, returning to HQ, settling in. Rada 3rd of Cuthon, breakfast, bumping into Cadmon Gardener, getting to the Mace, doggy antics, meeting with the Commander, stocking up on holy water, leaving the mace, Gnogglebolt gets extra supplies and takes care of an errand, nightfall, Flint and Richter arrive, heading to th graveyard, engaging a host of ghouls, opening the Sargano tomb.


 * Session 39.5 - Rada 3rd of Cuthon, Gnogglebolt hires a group of people to track down David Morian, Tathi talks to some wood elves about the Seeds, Tathi, Aelian, and Sszeyl go visit Zairith to discuss the assasin situation and Coralline.


 * Session 40 - Entering the tomb, uncovering a hidden passageway, finding another crypt beneath the tomb,going through a door and down a thin passageway, encountering and defeating more ghouls, entering a new room with troglodyte zombies and a wolf skeleton, proceeding on, engaging Louis Sargano and a minotaur skeleton, managing to defeat him, checking a closet, smacking down a few pop-up skeletons, moving into a new large room with small doors with undead etected behind them, noticing an altar with a switch, fortifying at the altar, pullingthe switch, greeted with undead ballroom dance.


 * Session 41 - Deciding to let dancing zombies dance, proceeding forward, sensing scrying, Sszeyl busts down an unlocked door, discovering a lone cat with a sack, entering one room and discovering a captive, releasing her, being told there's more in another room,. rushing there to bust in, trouble wih the door, finally busting through, furious fight with three Sarganos and some skeletal minions, defeating them, keeping Pamela from killing one of the new captives, releasing two near-sacrifices, searching a few more rooms, Tathi blasts two regiments of undead in one shot each, discovering a chimera that is Pamela's 'pet', moving back to the ballroom, realizing Pamela is bad news.


 * Session 42 - Tense 'discussion' with Pamela, refusing an unacceptable offer from Pamela, joining the battle, Pamela curses Royce with a disease, the dancing zombies turn hostile, furious fight, Pamela and her pets escape, destroying all the zombies, regroup in aftermath, magic conversation with Zairith, Swallowtail speaks a language Gnogglebolt knows, everyone heads topside, meeting with an Aurate Palm escort, all Leaden Mace members head to their HQ, everyone else goes to the Palm to drop off the necromancers, then back to VIgilant Guardians HQ.

Lurking Darkness arc

 * Session 42.5 - Rada 3rd of Cuthon, Gnogglebolt, Sszeyl, and Swallowtail unwind after the raid. Lootsplitting. Khada 4th of Cuthon, Sszeyl meets with Commander Ashmore to talk about Miron's behavior, then takes Richter and Gilric to talk to Coralline one last time. Khada 4th of Cuthon, Tathi and Aelian go to visit the elven hound breeder. Rada 3rd of Cuthon, Thomas, Miron, Flint, and Richter return to the Mace and Miron is put under quarantine. Next morning, Khada 4th of Cuthon, Thomas talks more with the rest of the Mace, then returns to HQ, shenannigans with Barbarus and Sszeyl, Sszeyl and Thomas visit Zairith & Lethiriss, Thomas tends to Zairth (and Zairith reveals true nature to Thomas), Sszeyl and Thomas go to the Ebonwood shop to deliver a message, and meet a student of Zairith's.


 * Session 43 - Khada 4th of Cuthon, everyone (except for Miron) returns to the HQ for rest and relaxation, but get mayhem and shennanigans; discussion of attempting to scry on Pamela, Sszeyl and Swallowtail go to the hunting lodge and meet Luethil; Tathi, Aelian, Edaric, and Thomas head to the Mace, learns little of particular use, and return to HQ, Sszeyl and Swallowtail return as well, minor discussion of future plans. Loda 5th of Cuthon, most of the party goes to the apple trees to harvest apples, drow riders arrive, introduction of Quillmice the drow druid and Rhylinar, plans made to try and track the assasins. Sei 6th of Cuthon, Terri and Papa visit the HQ, excited exchange of stories, informed that Tharky and Max have returned, proper reveal to the rest of the party of Papa's true nature, Tathi gets overbearing about it, Thomas goes with terri and papa to their shop, everyone else investigates leads on the assasins, heads to the Toris shop afterwards, Matthew Toris explains things to Tathi, Tharky and Max arrive, more exchanging stories, being told of a request for audience to Salishea, told about the halfling Calrach.


 * Session 44 - Meeting concluded, Lauren Toris arrives, Thomas upgrades his equipment, card game, Tathi assaults the innocence of children, Tharky tells a story, party prepares to depart, told abot some various trouble around Castleton, most of the party heads to the Talespinner to meet Calrach, Thomas heads to the Mace and meets several new prospects, Calrach is accepted by the party, everyone returns to HQ, more planning, coming up with the Vigilant Guardians sigil, Thomas gives himself a haircut, everyone goes to sleep. Adamantine spider and alchemsit fire attack in the middle of the night, Vigilant Guardians defend home in pajamas, city guard arrives, Guardians pack up and move to the Pelor temple to sleep for the rest of the night.


 * Session 45 - Ica 7th of Cuthon, everyone wakes up in the temple to reflect on the attack, Zylaro and Jolenta are met again, Sszeyl slips out to visit Nathaniel Toris, idle chatter around, gathering together to discuss what next, meanwhile Calrach arrives at the partially-burned HQ and meets up with a disguised Zairith and Lethiriss, walks with them to the Pelor temple, Sszeyl returns, Sszeyl tells Gnogglebolt about his developing head problem, Zairith, Lethiriss, and Calrach arrive at the temple and meet up with the group, Sszeyl catches sight of Zairith and thedragon in his head goes berserk,, group manages to subdue Sszeyl, everyone goes into a private room, Zairith, Tathi, and Calrach set up a system to see the battle in Sszeyl's mind, party makes haste to get Sszeyl to the Toris shop, Nathaniel finishes a binding talisman, party heads to the Mace to take care of overdue meeting with Commander, party plots course of action for the next few days.


 * Session 46 - Gnogglebolt takes care of covering repairs on the HQ building, Tathi and some others go to the guardhouse to investigate the evidence on the assasins, the bards go looking for jobs, group minus Tathigang meets up again and discusses the potential jobs, tathi tries to get Ashmore to scry the evidence unsuccessfully and meets back up with everyone else, everyone decides to go to the Temple of Boccob behind Mr. Moloi's bookstore for the scrying, some get books on the creatures described in the jobs, hiring a man from the temple to go back to the courthouse and scry on the scrap metal which hits a dead end, examining the books to get information on the creatures, everyone heads to South mess to deal with the Chuul, engaging it in the sewers, defeating it, heading back topside, deciding to go to the Bronze Boot for the night and take care of the troglodytes at the same time, talking with Sstheric about that while Sszeyl visits the Swiftaxes, Thomas picks up Sszeyl to get ready, party moves in and Gnogglebotl confronts the rowdy troglodytes, they are found to be unreasonable and are soundly trounced, everyone heads to rest in the Bronze Boot for the night.


 * Session 47 - Nica 8th of Cuthon, party wakes up and meets the Mistake Mercenaries again, Calrach heads off to do bardly things, Gnogglebotl goes to help repair the HQ, party divides up latest loot, Swallowtail and Barbarus meet up with the party, the Mistake Mercenaries go take care of the gargoyles, group goes to the Talespinner to pick up rumors on the assasins, Mysterious Messenger shows up with information and the identities of the assasisn, party goes to Zairith's place to share the information, Zairith scries the assassins successfully, party makes more plans.


 * Session 47.5 - Sszeyl and Swallowtail spend a night of training together.


 * Session 48 - Party goes back to HQ to pick up Gnogglebolt, party brings Gnogglebolt up to speed, party sleeps in the HQ with while setting watches. Rada 9th of Cuthon, Calrach shows up at the HQ, party tries to guess what the assasins might do, ges off to the Leaden Mace to mee with the Commander, Cadamon is found stoned off the Light Side, party greets Commander, decision made of bringing Landon Skar and Cadamon Gardener for the Castle Osyluth raid, party gets Commander to scry on the assassins, assassins are seen constructing a flesh golem, party goes to try and find leads but the trail is dry, and everyone returns to HQ. Khada 10th of Cuthon, party wakes up and prepares to depart, Landon and Cadamon arrive.

Death to Dolls arc

 * Session 49 - Everyone piles into the cart convoy and prepares to leave, Gnogglebolt amusingly blunders while tinkering during the ride, camp is made on the road. Loda 11th of Cuthon, party continues journey to Blackwood, nothing particularly eventful. Sei 12th of Cuthon, a huge storm passes by and slows travel. Ica 13th of Cuthon, storm returns in greater force, party camps out the storm entirely under cover of a spell, poor Flint sleeps outside in the storm. Nica 14th of Cuthon, weather finally clears up, shenannigans with Flint, on the road again, reaching Blackwood at sundown, party does some investigation into local rumors, party heads to the local tavern 'White Stag' and crashes for the night. Rada 15th of Cuthon, party departs early in the morning to arrive at Castle Osyluth just before sunrise, discovery of zombie sharks in the moat, giant skeleton bird attacks, giant skeleton bird destroyed, party moves around to take advantage of a hidden side-entrance, party corsses moat to get to hidden entrance via feather token swan boat, party effects ingress through the hidden trapdoor.


 * Session 50 - Edaric gives a JIC letter to Aelian, party continues into the basement level of the castle, Thomas dusts an entire room of skeleton maids, party confronts a ghoul Mr. Johnston and two wraiths, all three are solidly defeated, party runs quickly past a hoard of orange jellies, looking through the things Mr. Johnston left behind, party prepares to acend to the first floor.


 * Session 51 - Finding a hallway of doors and slowly opening them, realizing it's an undead zoo of some kind and moving on, Thomas falls down a trapdoor to orange jelly cages and gets pulled out, party ambushed by a wall-crawling ghoul woman, defeating her and moving on, more examining the undead zoo, acending the towers, Thomas throws a cat out of a tower window, acending further, Pamela encountered, Pamela flees to the roof, party pursues, party engages Pamela, Pamela gets hammered and attempts to flee again, Pamela cut off, Thomas captures Pamela, Pamela surrenders.


 * Session 52 - Eliminating Mr. Giggles and other nearby minions, Thomas knocks Pamela out, party checks the nest of the undead bird, 1 gnome inquisitor gained, party exits the castle and walks back to Blackwood, Calrach unleashes a long prank to mess with Miron's head on the way, Pamela is dropped off at the jail to await trial and execution, party goes back to the White Stag, the party winds down and chat with the townsfolk, party decides to rest and take care of the rest of the castle the next morning. Khada 16th of Cuthon, White Stag bartender gives a note to be sure to put down the babbling black spectre, party enters through the front gate, dusting the wall guards, Thomas falls down another trapdoor to the orange jelly cages, Tathi torches the jellies.


 * Session 53 - Examining some siderooms, Flint falls down a pit to the orange jelly cages and gets pulled out, party prepares to take on the wyverns and allip in the throne room, all three are defeated and Lord Lundy laid to rest, party eliminates the remaining hostiles in the undead zoo, part decends to basement level to take care of the rest of the jellies, white stag statue found in a chest, stumbling across Pamela's "dollmaking" room, finding and nuking a zombie hoard in a back room, acending the towers and searching them, encountering and defeating several mimics pretending to be laundry barrels, Cadamon notices something strange about Sszeyl and tries to investigate, Thomas and Edaric make up a story, Gnogglebolt persuades Sszeyl to let them know the truth, much worry is had over it, party tries to finish searching the castle.


 * Session 53.5 - Later on Cuthon 16th, Thomas expresses deep personal misgivings to Edaric, confronts Pamela in jail about her actions, is very troubled by the encounter.


 * Session 54 - Party arrives back in Blackwood, Gnogglebolt informs the morgue of the castle, most others eventually wind up in the White Stag, Calrach returns the White Stag statue, the owner offers gold value or a magic talking goblet 'Cole' with a mysterious power, much shennanigans are had, Gnogglebolt goes with Thomas to talk to the stablemaster about the allip, the stablemaster brings in the heir-in-disguise and he is informed of the developments at the castle, Miron launches an inquisition on the goblet, Calrach gains 1 Cole, everyone heads sleeps off the rest of the day. Loda 17th of Cuthon, cow shenannigans in the morning, party gets up and prepares to depart Blackwood, party begins travelling on the road and stops around midday, Cadamon inquires to find out the exact details about Sszeyl's condition and does so.


 * Session 54.5 - Cadamon speaks with Miron about Sszeyl's situation, doesn't accomplish near as much as he wanted.


 * Session 55 - Party winds down during camp, Calrach tries to figure out Cole (fails). Sei 18th of Cuthon, another storm hits, party travels regardless, Gnogglebolt completes his bombchucker. Ica 19th of Cuthon, party arrives in Castleton in the evening, party goes to pick up Barbarus and Swallowtail, everyone catches up with each other, party goes to sleep in the Mustering Cave for the night. Nica 20th of Cuthon, St. Cuthbert's holy day, Calrach tries to figure out Cole again, Sszeyls downs Cole's elixer and speaks his mind to everyone (Calrach guesses a 'chatty' elixer), Sszeyl Swallowtail and Thomas all head to the Ebonwood shop (but find it empty), everyone else heads to the HQ and find Lethiriss and Zairith (in disguise) there, Miron goes to the Mace to investigate records of Cole, Z&L say that inquisitors came by their residence asking about Sszeyl and they are very worried, shenannigans as everyone tries to meet up, displeased Zairith, some party members go shopping while the rest return to HQ, mail with many touching letters from Redtree, Tathi and Aelian go to search for a tree, Miron launches another goblet inquisition, Gnogglebolt and Thomas have an annoying big-sister contest.


 * Session 55.5 - Sei 24th of Cuthon, Coralline's trial, Tathi and Aelian return for it, and Silverthrush is met in the temple. Later, Thomas makes cookies.


 * Session 56 - Sei 24th of Cuthon, after the trial, everyone meets up back at HQ, everyone idly chats, Thomas and Miron head to the Mace to meet Commander Ashmore, Lethiriss and LiNeer visit the HQ with goodies, Ashmore renders verdict that Sszeyl should be monitored rather than killed, Thomas gets promoted, LiNeer gets roughed up by the elven hounds, Zairith teleports in with a vengance (expecting assasins), more animal shenannigans, Thomas and Miron return, more chatter and shenannigans.

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 * Session 57 - Idle chat about snow, party decides to invite the Torises, party heads to Toris shop to make the invitation, Terri jumps at it, party returns to HQ for the night. Ica 1st of Yondallon, morning shenanigans, Thomas Edaric and Tathi check out a prospective boat, meeting all the crew, Thomas lets the Torises know of the arrangements, everyone heads back to HQ, Mysterious Messenger shows up to pass on a mysterious letter to be delivered to a mysterious recipient, Flint shows up and returns his platinum ring, party heads to the boat and meet up with Matthew and Terri, boat hauls off.


 * Session 58 - Miron gets heavily drunk shortly after the voyage begins and instigates many shenanigans and eventually passes out, everyone else settles into the ship. Nica 2nd of Yondallon, Miron has a rude awakening, more idling and shenanigans, the ship pulls into the Lorellon port, party disembarks into the city, party enjoys the city and gets food, party arrives at Thomas's house, introductions are had, Thomas tells his parents about his adventures.


 * Session 58.5 - Morning of Yondallon 2nd, Luethil finds Gnogglebolt at HQ, tells Gnogglebolt of trouble with Barbarus in the woods, meanwhile Barbarus wakes up in a jail cell, Luethil and Gnogglebolt go to the Homely House and look around, Barbarus remembers his first transformation and a man gives him a choice about his future, Luethil and Gnogglebolt are approached by a messenger and are taken to the Burns estate, the situation is explained, Barbarus chooses to stay and control his condition.


 * Session 59 - Everyone settles in for dinner in the Lazarus manor, the party chats a little more about past adventures, Gnogglebolt arrives outside the house with a bang, everyone heads back inside and Gnogglebolt tells everyone about Barbarus, the rest of the party brings Gnogglebolt up to speed, everyone heads to sleep. Rada 3rd of Yondallon, heavy rain, Sszeyl goes out for a walk and sees a sporting duel, Sszeyl joins in, random chatting back at the manor, Miron joins Sszeyl, everyone at the house sits down for breakfast, Miron hears about a 'drow in mithril plate' from a baker and attempts to kidnap the baker, Sszeyl and Miron return to the estate, Miron freaks out over symbols, storytime continues peacefully, Miron curses and gets his mouth thoroughly soaped by Terri, Miron finally goes to a library to look up a symbol.


 * Session 60 - Gnogglebolt talks about Mazio, more storytime, mother Lazarus gets motherly over the party, Terri has (adorable) misgivings over soaping Miron, Miron returns and tells Thomas about the mithral-plated drow, Miron runs back to the mace and plots to steal Mysterious Messenger's letter. Khada 4th of Yondallon, party re-boards the Cygnet and casts off again, silly secret agent squad forms and plots to steal the letter, doofy templar asks for, receives, and gives back the letter.


 * Session 61 - Night falls, shambling mounds (one a half-dragon) attack the Cygnet, the young ones are endangered, all enemies defeated, Stanley Selkirk suspects the party is related to the attack, Gnogglebolt tries (and fails) to assure him, Gnogglebolt and Thomas discuss what's safe to tell the captain, Terri and Tathi talk about shenanigans, Gnogglebolt and Thomas go to tell the captain about their thoughts on the attack, realizing Sszeyl was likely the target, getting Aelian and Elros to take over spotting duty. Loda 5th of Yondallon, arrival in Bridgeton in the evening, some party members are wrangled by enthusiastic merchants.


 * Session 62 - Magic mishaps with Kor, more mercantile action in Bridgeton, Thomas gives minidragon Terri a proto-hoard. Sei 6th of Yondallon, heavy storm moves in while Cygnet gets repaired. Ica 7th of Yondallon, clearer weather, Cygnet departs Bridgeton, Thomas and Tathi discuss scrolls. Nica 8th of Yondallon, another storm hits, ship arrives in Braxton Falls, tourist port protocols and learning of monster attacks, party encounters Shankfang, everyone goes to a tavern together, introductions and decision to investigate the monster attacks, everyone goes to a different tavern (a Talespinner), leads pointing to a butcher's shop are uncovered, getting weapons unpeacebonded, storming the butcher's shop, killing several ogres and knocking one unconscious for capture, Mace arrives, discovery of hag covey involvement, captured ogre is taken away while party returns to the tavern, party is ambushed on the way by an ogre mage, first true Vigilant Guardians casualty as Aelian dies, quickly dispatching the ogre mage with extreme prejudice, Shankfang rushes Aelian's body and Tathi to the nearest Mace for resurrection, rest of the party sorts things out with the guards and heads to the Mace themselves, Aelian is brought back to life, emotional reunion.


 * Session 63 - Party returns to tavern, worries over Aelian, Shankfang goes outside to fix bike, Swallowtail follows and asks about relation to Gnogglebolt, Shankfang confesses, Thomas exchanges words with Edaric and heads to the Cygnet to inform the captain, finds body on the way, victim still alive and informs of hags, Thomas tells the captain of delays. Rada 9th of Yondallon, everyone meets in the morning to share information and plan, Edaric steps out to get information and returns telling everyone there's an ogre passed out in barrels of ale, party goes to investigate, ogre is really a giant and still asleep, Swallowtail kills it in one stroke, party heads to the Mace HQ for briefing, party heads to suspected hag hideout in the sewers, encountering and destroying a zombie horde, avoiding a cave alligator, encountering an ogre patrol and defeating them, encountering another group of ogres and killing all but one, last one is allowed to leave alive for telling where the hags are.


 * Session 64 - Party bursts through a door with an enemy behind it, turns out to be an invisible ogre mage who is surprisingly quickly dispatched, collected hag eyes are destroyed prior to assaulting hag room, defeating the damaged hags, everyone heads back aboveground where winds are raging, party returns to Mace HQ for debriefing and information on 'Cal'tel' and 'drow in mithral armor', Thomas heads to Cygnet, rest of party follows shortly after, massive outburst as Shankfang and Gnogglebolt meet, Shankfang explains his story, Tathi and Thomas try to make Gnogglebolt see reason, Shankfang is introduced to the crew, Deffbike is repaired, Gnogglebolt is told of what happened in Braxton Falls, everyone settles back into the ship and chats. Khada 10th of Yondallon, everyone wakes up for breakfast, chatting around, Thomas contacts his deity for guidance, Sszeyl and Swallowtail talk shop, Thomas casts a Sending to Talfeera for Gnogglebolt, Shankfang teaches Terri how to shoot a gun, Gnogglebolt halfheartedly reconciles with Shankfang.


 * Session 64.5 - In which Miron is brought up to speed on the events surrounding Cal'tel, the Marathals, Pellan'zyne, and the drow with mithral armor by Archivist Thompson in Braxton Falls.


 * Session 65 - Miron wakes up and has hallucinatory conversation with a Deffbike, people chat around the ship, Thomas brings Miron up to speed, Tathi asks Terri about copper dragons and tells a story, scrolls and loot dispensed, Cygnet pulls into Thalinde, Thomas 'recruits' Swallowtail, Miron gets caught up in Old Maggie, Gnogglebolt tries to go with Sszeyl and Shankfang to Arivan Marathal, Old Maggie conjures a mob at the sight of Sszeyl, shouting matches, Edaric manages to disperse the crowd, party starts heading towards the Marathal home, Gnogglebolt demands Thomas fill him in, party arrives at the Marathal house, party meets Arivan and goes into to sit down while delivering the letter, Arivan reads the letter and seems to know about some of the party, making promises not to reveal what Arivan will explain, Arivan reveals he is really the drow Pellan'Zyne, explains his group of renegade drow seeking a better life, explains about Altonor (the mithral-plated drow), explains how he broke away from drow scociety when he was captured during the war, mentions a drow city in the jungles, says he can help with the party's Helvirahel problems.

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 * Session 66 - Tathi asks Pellan'zyne about the Elven Gods, Pellan'zyne tells Tathi about the tree seeds, mention of the earlier trouble in town, Helvirahel talk and finding their goal is likely observation rather than assassination, Pellan'zyne recommends using Elros' link to one of the assassins to draw her out and eliminate her, says Altonor knows Raerarael and will arrive later, Gnogglebolt gets Pellan'zyne to prove his connection to Pelor for Miron's sake (Miron still disbelieves), everyone packs up to leave, Gnogglebolt chats with Thomas and Miron about keeping things hush-hush, Gnogglebolt goes back inside to talk to Pellan'zyne, Miron and Thomas talk shop on the way back, Gnogglebolt queries about the drow jungle-city and proposes ideas, Miron visits Inquisitor Aldwin Geas, Gradia teleports in, the Mace members scry Pellan'zyne's conversation with Gnogglebolt, Thomas Sends to Talfeera for Shankfang, Gnogglebolt returns to Cygnet, runs back in town to find Miron, Tathi blasts an amorous noble, Shankfang teaches Mateo and Terri how to shoot a pistol, Tathi and Thomas find Gnogglebolt and Miron while Aelian attempts damage control, Gnogglebolt meets up with Aelian, everyone else returns to the ship, Gnogglebolt and Aelian go to chat with Arivan again before returning to the boat.


 * Session 67 - Gnogglebolt sends the kiddies to bed, Edaric and Shankfang share Bag of Holding shenannigans. Loda 11th of Yondallon, cursed spices create ambulatory breakfast foods, desturction in the galley, a normal breakfast is had, Terri rescues the sentient muffins and dubs them her hoard guardians, Thomas, Sszeyl, and Miron discuss the Mace, Shankfang plays around with Terri, Gnogglebolt heads into Thalinde to get more materials for his work, Gnogglebolt meets the people he had set to find David Morian and gets three vials of stiffness panacea, Terri reveals to Shankfang that she is a true dragon, Gnogglebolt confronts David Morian and gets the information on the panacea, Kor spies on Terri's true form and Shankfang intimidates Kor, the Thalinde Guard boards the Cygnet to collect reparations from Tathi, Tathi goes to buy carpets and returns, Gnogglebolt calls everyone together to tell them he got the panacea, Terri declares that everyone needs to have fun, much shenannigans with Polymorph and dragons, Altonor's pegasus is spotted flying in and party goes to Pellan'zyne's place and wait for Altonor to be ready, Pellan eventually takes the group to meet Altonor, Altonor tells about himself and the Yoriver situation.


 * Session 68 - Thomas excuses himself from the meeting, pegasi and elven wine are briefly mentioned, the conversation turns to more drow politics, everyone departs and returns to the Cygnet, Miron visits Aldwin Geas and plans to pilfer scrying foci, Tathi and Thomas prepare to Send to Tathi's father, Aldwin and Miron sneak into Altonor's camp, Thomas Sends and confirms fiendish presence via Raerarael being in combat, Thomas Sends to Tomiko and has her go to Yoriver, Altonor handily dispatches Aldwin and Miron nonlethally upon being accidentally awoken, Old Red makes Sszeyl secretly cast a Sending spell to recipient unknown, Altonor heals Miron and asks him why he came to the camp, Sszeyl tells Thomas about wanting to join the Leaden Mace, everyone realizes Miron is missing, everyone goes to Aldwin's place and meets up with Arivan, Arivan takes everyone to the campsite where the party retrieves Miron and leaves, Thomas and Miron converse, Kor eats Terri's hoard guards. Sei 12th of Yondallon, the Castleton Mace scries on the party for conversation, a difficult report is made, Thomas fills Shankfang in on what the party is doing and why.


 * Session 69 - In which there is a lot of drama, there are a few scattered warm moments, Tathi is thwarted by dice, and a letter is received.


 * Session 70 - In which a dragon pounces Thomas, Gnogglebolt claims that no one has any sense of timing, bridges begin to mend, a drow wizard snoops, and there are theological talks with Sszeyl and Miron.


 * Session 70.5 - In which Gnogglebolt meets two paladins and a bard tags along.


 * Session 71 - In which dogs teleport everywhere, the Guardians are welcomed into a friend's home, draconic secrets are revealed, and a diabolical slime is destroyed.


 * Session 72 - In which we finally get off the boat, explore a coastal destination, and the Guardians recover from whooping cough.


 * Session 72.5 - In which Gnogglebolt meets another paladin, and a bard still tags along.


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