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.
