Our doomed heroes finally made it to the ruins of the Archaen city of Jalaad. Well, a bare majority did so, as there were several casualties along the way. In the ruins, an intact Library of the Ancients, maintained by a cabal of cryptomancers (assisted ion their efforts by an embassy of the Lyceum Arcanum in Cymril, who have their own designs on ( Read more... )

From an initial 12 wandering, accursed souls*, the group is down to seven still mostly upright figures. It's been a long, slow, painful slog towards the Library at Jaalad. Only something on the order of 30 kilometers remain as the survivors** press on over the desolate, rugged, broken Wilderlands of Zaran, when they spot a pillar of smoke on the ( Read more... )

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Stole this from kaylaraine. Re-reads in italics, no textbooks unless I read them (or any book) cover to cover, which is much less common ( Read more... )

A couple of curious notes, to follow the last update(these are Player Characters being discussed, and the acculated physical symptoms of the adventures to date ( Read more... )

Why I read other people's session writeups:
The two vampires responsible for killing Blixa's war poodle Gleichman stroll into the room and start slurping up blood. Too bad the party heard them coming, as they spiked the stuff with holy water. Smoke starts pouring out of their mouths and noses when suddenly Philip bursts out from under the surface ( Read more... )

In the prologue to the first story, a group of particularly unlucky slaves of one of the most despised ethnic groups on the continent were working at back breaking unskilled labor in the despoiled tombs of a nation of money-lending wizards. Unnatural weather presaged the arrival of a particularly nasty group of desert dwelling death cultists, who ( Read more... )

1) No combat this session. Some pure roleplaying encounters, some spellcasting, some exploring. Oh yeah, and they successfully completed the secondary adventure goals (Rescuing any remaining Ferrans ( Read more... )

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