The Great Escape

The party goes left from the skeletons and find a empty room and then a slim appeared in the corner. Wrenn flames it and it dies with ease.
It had a backpack inside of it, containing 12 gold pieces.
We go right from the skeleton room and noticed 3 pedestals and under 1 Wrenn noticed that it hinged and it contained a small tin with a another finger of the Ghast Queen. The room also contained an old fire pit. Gimble went to investigate the fire pit and found another finger of the Ghast Queen.

Ulukai and Wrenn move on down a go and inspect the room behind the door, it appears to be an old embalming room Ulukai climbed up the rumble to see if he could climb out of the hole in the ceiling... when he did the rubble shifted and out popped a wight. The Wight wailed on Ulukai and he fell dead. The party slowly ambled in to destroy the wight, finally after a decent battle it was destroyed.

The party decided that it was a good time to take a break and decided to rest here. Except Gimble, Gimble decided to go off and explore on his own. Gimble went to explore the last corridor the adventures had not been down, when he did he did not notice the giant trap... Gimble took a step and as quickly as he did the floor gave way to a pit of punji sticks. He was trapped, and the floor returned to it's normal position.

After the party rested they decided to go search for the now missing Gimble, after exploring all the areas in which they had already been they went and explored the new area.  Wrenn in the lead, and obviously our skilled dungeoneer, he decided to check for traps! What a novel idea!

Wrenn noted the trap and also noted that there was a very faint help coming from under the floor. Wrenn disabled the trap and saw his tiny cousin down in the pit. Poor little Gimble...
After much banter and tomfoolery, Ulukai threw down a rope for Gimble to climb back up.... Now that we have Gimble we can continue on and find the last piece of the Ghast Queen.

In this new room, there were 6 coffins, 1 by 1 we searched them and found more treasure. Ulukai searched one of the coffins and found that it was not only a trap, but in the next coffin over one of the other thugs jumped out to ambush him. Ulukai quickly slayed him, but the leader of the group was not so easily killed. He begged us to keep him alive as he was worth more dead than alive. So we made a deal with him.

The last thing in the room was a giant statue of a 4 armed woman holding a gem. Ulukai thinking that he is better than everyone else took it upon himself to claim the gem as his. When he went to touch the gem the statue spewed acid all over him and Lavi.


After the party reconvened Wrenn decided that he would pull out his gem that he happened to find earlier and not tell anyone. They went over to inspect the blade room and noticed that there were no longer any blades and a single person lift was there waiting for them.

One by one they all traveled up the shaft and was greeted and cheered by spectators who had apparently been watching the whole time. The Ghast Queen thanked us and told us that we were pardoned and we were not to ever step foot in her lands again. With that she ported us to the woods...

Nobility lost, legend gained

Wrenn approaches the new group that emerged from the other room. His attempt at talking to the other group was a fail, one of the thugs mutters "Kill THEM!"
Wrenn yells back for his party... "Kill them!"
Wrenn backs away, retreating to his party, a few arrows whistle by Wrenn's head and one of the thugs drop. Wrenn being the negotiator that he is, tried to convince the other thug, but he refused to commit to a search. Shava and Wrenn would not have it, and Wrenn tossed a flame!

The thug ran out of the room and back into the main room, where the thug encountered a Tiefling Paladin, Ulukai. Dropping as soon as he passed through the door the thug had been shot and stabbed in the back.

The Tiefling, Ulukai, muttered "He might have been safer with the skeletons"
Wrenn gave him an ultimatum... "Join us or end up like him."
Ulukai replied, "Well that is an easy choice. I will join you."

"Do you consent to a search?" Shava, the Ranger asked.
"You may search me, as I do not have a gem on me. I left my party in self preservation. I am far to important to die," Ulukai responded.


They search the paladin and found no gem pieces that went to the Hand of the Lich.  The newly formed party decided to attempt to go down the area with the trap. They found that the floor gives way if you walk on certain spots. Wrenn came up with a brilliant plan to to use one of Ulukai's javalins to punch out the falling floor. What a great idea that was. We made it to the other side of the room and it looks like a shaft leading out of here, but entering the room is certain death....



The group decides to go off and fight the ogre.

They entered the room and notice that there is a dead body near the water, Gimble cast a illusion near the water and 2 poloywogs jumped out of the water. We killed both of them with ease and Wrenn goes and inspects the blackish water.
He went from platform to platform inspecting the areas, until he came across an urn that had the picture of the Ghast Queen on it.  Accidentally he drops the urn and it ends up with water in the urn... He brought it back to the area and epties it for all of us to see, and only water spills out.
***Needless to say the group, other than Ulukai, didn't see he actually pocketed something... He did not say anything to the group***

Ulukai goes and inspects the other 2 platforms and the platfom in which Wrenn dropped the urn, he did not find anything. They moved on down the hall. Ulukai opened the door to see the Ogre turned and facing a dead creature. Shava shoots at the ogre and strikes it, Gimble cast at it, and Wrenn comes in with a flame and Lavi takes it down with a slash!



The Ogre now dead on the floor, had possession of one of the pieces five pieces... Only four more to go.

We set up for the night for a rest to heal up.... During the second watch 3 guys charge into the door and Gimble cast Fog and runs back to wake up the party...

The thugs walked down the hall using the Polywogs as shields.... But it was not enough, the party still expertly killed them.



We then decided to go after the skeletons... they beat them down, but then one of the skeletons pushes a button and brings the dead bodies back to life... Ulukai, Shava, and Lavi all get struck down and almost died... the adventures decide this is a good time to take a short rest.

Gee Wiz Info

Birthdays
Rosco - 12 Hammer- Sembia (Donald)

Wrenn - 16 Alturiak 1415 Year of Staves Arcane - Western Heartlands   (Brian)

Lavi - 25 Nightall 1462 Year of the Elves Weeping - Luiren     (Erin)
Shava - 6 Nightall 1358 Year of the Shadows - Cormyr    (Dawn)
Ulukai -    11 Tarsackh 1468 Year of First Circle - Unther (Summer)
Lokang -  24 Ches 1469 Year of Splendors Burning - Spine of the World (Kyle)
Chargul - 15 Hammer 1366 Year of the Staff- Wheeldaf (Boz)


Gimble - 29 Tarsackh - Lantan    (Kyle) **** DEAD****
Sora - 3 Uktar - Storm Horn Mountains  ****DEAD**** (Summer)

A Start of a New Journey!

19 Alturiak,
Three days past Wrenn's Birthday, we are in an outskirt region owned by a red wizard known as a Ghast Ruler... Szass Tam is the undeniable ruler of Thay. We are after the Spellplague era and the year is 1485...

For various reason we have all be charged with minor crimes, as minor as they seemed we have all been jailed. In talking to one another we have come to find that in most cases all that are here are falsely accused of a crime they did not commit. We have all been sentenced 16 minimum years of hard labor. However, we have been given a chance to run the Ghast Queens Gauntlet to show our rehabilitation.  One a year 20 or 30  prisoners are selected to run it. We will be taken to a tomb that was prepared for the Ghast Queen in Life, She was once known as Queen Esmeralda III.   We are told that all of our gear will be returned to us. We will descend into her tomb and we must collect 5 gems to form a piece known as the Hand of the Lich. If we form a group then the group will succeed, if individual it is a free for all. If we form a group, the group must kill all the other individuals to be set free.



All thirty individuals were thrown into the tomb, we all awoke in an area that was dimly lit and had a pool of water in it. As the prisoners started to awake they quickly formed groups of five and split into various direction. The people that were in my jail cell also decided to form a group.
Gimble a gnome who looked to be some sort of magic user and Sora (myself), a noble Paladin from great Dragonborn lines were standing in the corner while they observed Wrenn, another small gnome with horns on his head, I assumed he must have been a druid, or crazy, possibly both, was talking with the other group. Wrenn came back to the group and told us he had struck a deal with that group that they would not attack our group if we did not attack ours...


Just then Sora overheard the other group, the ones that just struck a deal with Wrenn, talking about killing nobles, kids, and the weak and powerless. As much as she wanted to agree to not killing the other group, as a Paladin she is sworn to defend those that can not defend themselves.... Sora could not control her anger and in her Dragon rage, could not contain her dragon breath and flamed the opposing party! A battle ensued, and the first of the 25 people were destroyed.


After checking the bodies for any useful items the party moved into the next room, it was very dark,  Sora and Wrenn noticed in the corner of the room there was a rubble pile, they both went over to investigate. While they were looking around a Scarecrow like creature emerged from the pile and scared the Paladin, Sora, she was frozen in terror and  it destroyed her in one slash of it's claws. The party had no chance of helping her. Before they knew what happened it was too late. The scarecrow like construct had destroyed her.



Shava went over to inspect Sora's body and that is when they found that not only was Sora a paladin, but she was also nobility from the Storm Horn Mountain's. After a brief pause and grieving over Sora, another party emerges from the darkness.