1. G Series
2. The Gauntlet
3. Otherworld
4. T Series
5. Desert Nomads
6. White Plume Mountain
7. Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

Note: T, L, Y, Q, H, C = months of the year: Tuilë (spring), Lairë (summer), Yavië (autumn), Quellë (fading), Hrivë (winter), Coirë (stirring)

VI.1: G1-G13: The Rise of Gutezapre (151 Yavië - 154 Tuilë; 1985 June)

Background and summary: Gutezapre does many things.

Starting members: from Chagmat: Gutezapre (WrC1)

151Y20: Start G1. Relani (F2) joins. Also accompanied by someone named Deret until end of G3.
Y35: End G1.Gutezapre to WrC2.
Q1-Q3: G2 adventure.
Q30-36: G3 adventure. Purto (MU2) joins. Relani to F3, Gutezapre to WrC3.
H15-H23: G4 adventure.
C19-C46: G5 adventure. Purto to MU3, Gutezapre to WrC4.
152T5-T15: G6 adventure. Relani to F4, Purto to MU4. Pick up someone called "Q-V" (F-T) during this who would last through G13.
T40-Y5: G7 adventure. Yes, this one lasted 85 days. Gutezapre to WrC5.
H10-C5: G6b adventure; the G6 adventure fights back. Purto killed; Purto raised.
C23-C38: G8 adventure. Relani to F5, Purto to MU5.
C41-153T23: G9 adventure. Relani killed; Relani raised. Gutezapre to WrC6.
L2-L47: G10 adventure; Gutezapre's first contact with Hestia. Relani to F6.
Purto retires as MU6; goes on to become MU7/NrC2 then returns in Leopard’s Eye.
Y42-Q29: G11 adventure.
H5-H23: G12 adventure. Gutezapre to WrC7.
H40-C8: G13 adventure. Relani to F7.

Surviving members: Gutezapre (WrC7), Relani (F7), Purto (MU6)
New members: Relani, Purto
Retirees: Relani, Purto (then to Leopard’s Eye)
Casualties: (Relani, Purto - both raised)
Continuing party: Gutezapre (to Gauntlet)

VI.2: The Gauntlet (154 Yavië 27 - 31; 1985 June - July)

Background and summary: After dealing with the Tomb of the Lizard King, Bree, Tse, and Shauna had sailed back to Ikon, and then gone to New Tel Qa. Bree and Tse find the corpse of Alzain, who is still wearing a large magical guantlet; they determine that it comes from Noranglia, and determine that the quickest way there is via a magical Gate Bree encountered in the nearby Valley of the Dead Queens (See Frost Keys A).

Arriving in Glanby Lake, the Party makes it way to the Keep of Alderweg on the border with Anglia, which has recently been overrun by Gnolls. They blast their way through the Gnolls, and then a small (and rather out of place) army of Hobgoblins and Giants. But when all the nasties are dealt with, Bree, Baranfindel, and Shauna touch something they shouldn’t have, and their spirits are sent to the Otherworld. The rest of the Party collects their comatose bodies, and leaves.

Starting members:
from Lizard Tomb: Bree (WrC7), Tse (MU7), Baranfindel (NrC5/R5), Shauna (I4/T4)
from G1-G13: Gutezapre (WrC7)
from Frost Keys E: Gandalf (MU7/NtC0) and Hobson (F1/T2) (join in part way)

Y7: Bree and Tse (in or near New Tel Qa) meet Gutezapre and Rugor; Gutezapre is by now the proud owner of a flying broom, and tends to do a lot of surveillance from aloft
flying about, Gutezapre finds Alzain’s body; he’s been dead for 2 weeks, but preserved by a magic Glove on his hand; all his other magic has been drained
Y8: Tse gets the Glove
Y17: Baranfindel, having arrived back from Astarah by now, commissions a mighty +3 Defender Sword; expect completed around C45
Y23: leave for Valley of the Dead Queens, to find a magical Gate Bree recalls from Frost Keys A
Y25: arrive in valley, go to Sabra’vig
meet Sylsa (M8), her bodyguard Elcarin (R4), and her friend, an Ent, exploring; Sylsa has a flying rocking chair, making for a quite distinctive sight; Sylsa knows Tse, as well as Gandalf and Kaija
find the Gate, now having burrowed itself 80' into the ground (moving about 1 foot per day); Baranfindel goes down shaft by rope, Gutezapre falls in and clobbers Baranfindel on the way down; Bree, Tse, and Shauna descend gracefully; they all fall into Glanby Lake
after meeting with a local chief, and determining the local history, the party sets off for the Keep; a troop of 20-30 local fighters is to follow up in a few days
Y27: arrive at the Keep; sneak in, meet Gnolls, and kill them
Y28: battle more Gnolls
Y29: battle yet more Gnolls, not so successfully; recorded as: “The 3 clerics charge, headlessly ...”; Bree almost killed, many others mangled, and Party retreats
Y30: Tse discovers she is pregnant
Y31: battle some more Gnolls; Gandalf (MU7/NtC0) and Hobson (F1/T2) join in a blaze of Fireballs (heralding the birth of Team Overkill)
successfully hold Keep against an onslaught of 42 Hobgoblins, a Giant, plus other critters
defeat a large Ettin: Hobson killed, Tse almost killed by a Fireball from Gandalf; Gutezapre blessed by KiPiddly and granted super cures; Keep is cleared of all nasties, and ready to be re-occupied by the Celts
Bree, Baranfindel, and Shauna leave, having touched something they shouldn’t have and falling into a coma while their spirits go to the Otherworld
Gandalf, Tse, and Gutezapre gather up bodies of comatose comrads and ride back
Y32: arrive in Lammath
Y33: talk to a powerful Druid, find out what has happened to Bree, Baranfindel and Shauna

Training, Y34-Y48: Gandalf = NtC1 (and Baranfindel bumped to NrC6, Shauna to T5)

Surviving members: Bree (WrC7), Tse (MU7), Gutezapre (WrC7), Gandalf (MU6/NtC1), Baranfindel (NrC6/R5), Shauna (I4/T4)
New members: none
Retirees: none
Casualties: Hobson
Continuing parties:
1. Bree, Gutezapre, Baranfindel, Shauna (to Otherworld);
2. Tse, Gandalf (to Desert Nomads)

VI.3: Otherworld (154 Yavië 31 - 52; 1985 September - October)

Background and summary: Bree, Baranfindel, and Shauna touch something they shouldn’t have, and their spirits are sent to the Otherworld. They each find themselves alone in unusual condition: utterly healthy (not a scar to be found), but without their usual possessions (just basic gear appropriate to their callings). A mysterious person named Bovan contacts each one, and tells them they must each find a key. Gutezapre soon joins Baranfindel, but as his real self, not just as a spirit; gradually, they all team up, find their keys, and use them in order to return.

Starting members, from The Gauntlet: Bree (WrC7), Baranfindel (NrC6/R5), Shauna (I4/T4); Gutezapre (WrC7) (arrives later)
New members: Bovan (R15)

Note: Time is hazy in the Otherworld. As is the lighting.

Baranfindel’s spirit:
wakes up and finds himself alone in the hold of a ship, a prisoner
is visited by some stranger named Bovan, who tells him he must get to shore and find a magic Key
after several failed attempts to escape, he finally flees the boat and makes his way to the dismal shore
on the rocky shore he tries to avoid several Gnoll camps and patrols; is caught by Kaju, a Drow commander (F5/MU3), who captures Baranfindel ...

meanwhile, Gutezapre:
Y33: having learned what has happened to Bree, Baranfindel, and Shauna, Gutezapre decides to join them
Y36: he is divinely inspired to jump into a bottomless (and bottleless) pit, and appears over water, off a dismal coast
flying on his broom and invisible, he spots a boat with Gnolls aboard (the boat off which Baranfindel just escaped); he tries to sink it, but attracts the attention of other boats; his archery skills fail him (15 misses in a row, with only 1 of those 15 being better than a 10 on a d20); Uurl the Giant on the shore joins in the battle, lobbing rocks at Gutezapre and the boats
Gutezapre leaves the boats and flies discreetly to shore
he meets Kaju (who has Baranfindel as her prisoner), and pretends to be a passing mercenary; Kaju suspicious, but doesn’t attack him
Gutezapre discreetly returns some hours later, and rescues Baranfindel (after almost killing him while trying to cut the ropes that bound him)

Gutezapre and Baranfindel sneak off, climb up cliffs overlooking the shore, and head towards a large city
meet Kaju and Uurl the Giant; Kaju and Uurl are killed; Gutezapre succeeds in removing Kaju’s forehead gem, and puts it into his forehead (+2 AC and saves)
sneak into city by way of underground harbour entrance at base of cliff; battle many strange aquatic humanoids (Deep Ones)
find an unused staircase, and go up; camp out at a landing; Gutezapre leaves a Glyph of Warding on stairs, in case they’re followed ...

meanwhile, Bree’s spirit:
wakes up in a low-ceiling crumbling room (a ruined temple, beneath the foundations of the city); finds a magic Key; meets an evil Monk, kills him, and takes his Boots of Elvenkind and coins; Bree enters a large room and is able to sneak past many Gnolls
discovered by a Shoosuva (a Gnoll-like minor demon); almost killed, but Shoosuva leaves (distracted by Bovan elsewhere), allowing Bree to cure herself up from -8 to +3 and then kill 7 arriving Gnolls
finds staircase, goes up, and runs into Gutezapre’s Glyph, passing out at -4 hp

while resting, Gutezapre rushes to attack the invader that set off his Glyph, finds Bree collapsing, and catches her just before she tumbles down the (very long) staircase; cures Bree
Bree, Gutezapre, and Baranfindel continue upwards; meet a 4-armed monster; defeat it, but Gutezapre and Baranfindel fumble into each other
continue up staircase; at top, open a secret door, and find themselves in a lecture hall, with a Mage giving a lecture ...

meanwhile, Shauna’s spirit:
wakes up in an alley; meets Bovan, who tells her she needs to find a magic Key
invisible, she sneaks through the city, over walls, through gates, using diversions
avoids the temptation to pilfer; no combat whatsoever
gets to tower, picks locks, sneaks upstairs, finds the lecture hall
eventually, notices Gutezapre spying on lecture, joins him and the rest.

So Bree, Gutezapre, Baranfindel and Shauna:
Gutezapre takes potion of Super Heroism and charges in, while Shauna sneaks in and grabs her Key; Gutezapre kills many, but is knocked back into secret stairwell and falls, crashing into Bree and Shauna, tumbling with Bree further down the stairs; Gutezapre killed; mage zaps Baranfindel with a Lightning Bolt, almost killing him; mage waits to zap the rest, who are hiding in corners of the staircase out of sight
Shauna tries to help Gutezapre and Bree by flying Gutezapre’s broom; unfortunately, she’s not a skilled flyer, and she crashes into Baranfindel; broom breaks and Baranfindel “killed” (but being just in spirit form, he “survives” and rises again next morning)
Party rests; Bovan joins (rather than just meeting, talking, and leaving), Baranfindel rises
now realise that the box they need is with the Shoosuva (Bree had seen it, but was unable to get at it); go down and barely defeat it (only Bree remains above 0 h.p.)
find box, each put their magic Key in, and find 3 bracelets; Bree (carrying Gutezapre’s corpse), Baranfindel, and Shauna each put on a bracelet, and return to their bodies; Bovan leaves, as he must stay behind
Y52: Bree, Baranfindel, and Shauna wake up in their bodies, which have been cared for by the Druid, Tse, and Gandalf; Gutezapre’s body appears with them, but dead
Y53: Gutezapre raised

Training, Y15-Q17: Baranfindel = NrC6, Shauna = I5, Bree = WrC8

Surviving members: Bree (WrC8), Gutezapre (WrC7), Baranfindel (NrC6/R5), Shauna (I5/T4); Bovan (R15)
New members: Bovan
Retirees: Bovan
Casualties: (Gutezapre and Baranfindel - both revived)
Continuing party: Bree, Gutezapre, Baranfindel, Shauna

VI.4: T1-T6: Terriann (154 Quellë; 1985 November)

Background and summary: Terriann does some things.

Surviving members: Terriann Meyan ap Tasanta (MU3), Rosie (NtC), Sir Rodney (Cv)
New members: Terriann, Rosie, Rodney
Retirees: Rosie, Rodney
Casualties: none
Continuing party: Terriann (to Desert Nomads)

VI.5: Desert Nomads (154 Quellë 32 - Hrivë 32; 1985 October - 1986 March)

Background and summary: A new party forms - big on spellcraft, weak on brawn. They head south from Noranglia, in part because they've outstayed their welcome in most towns. They find a monastery occupied by Ghoul-like monks, plus one Vampire, which they clean up.

Starting members:
from Otherworld: Bree (WrC8), Gutezapre (WrC7), Baranfindel (NrC5/R5), Shauna (I5/T4)
from The Gauntlet: Tse (MU7), Gandalf (MU6/NtC1)
from Return to Telenet: Alcavron (now F4/T4)
from T1-T6: Terriann Meyan ap Tasanta (MU3)

Q7: altercation in a bar; Shauna and Alcavron steal lots of booze, but Shauna caught; Shauna imprisoned on a sacred island, converts to Carla Glittergold
Q18: Party heads off to deal with bandits
Q21: Shauna released, meets Gandalf; head off to find the rest
Q28: Gandalf killed by Hellhounds, Shauna finishes them off
Q32: Shauna joins the rest, dragging Gandalf’s body
Q37: Gandalf raised
Q39: push on by boat into marsh; attacked by a Mage on a Wyvern, Tse and Baranfindel almost killed; some unskilled person named Theocrates joins for a while
Q42: attacked by a 12-headed Hydra; Terriann killed and buried; Tse loses some spells as spell books damaged
Q51: come to a cursed hut, which prevents Party from leaving vicinity; Theocrates rendered mindless
Baranfindel somehow casts Dispel Evil and breaks curse
Q53: Party lost; Tse charms Alcavron, polymorphs him into a Sylph, and has him fly up and guide Party through the marsh
Q54: Party no longer lost, Alcavron returns to Elven form unharmed
Q59: Black Dragon attacks Party at night; Baranfindel and Gutezapre killed; Alcavron, Gandalf, and Shauna almost die, and boat almost destroyed
from here on, Shauna uses Freshen cantrips to keep corpses from decaying drastically (hot climate)
H4: finally exit swamp; go by foot into the hills
H5: meet a caravan; Bree, Gandalf, and Shauna annoy caravaners while invisible and get into a fight
H9: head off into desert, without a guide or a Ranger – somehow do not get lost!
H10: find some ruins and sarcophagi; Party explores, meets and defeats a Golem, meets something big and very dangerous, and wisely flees; ruins collapse behind them
H11: come to an encampment of Dervishes and Hobbit nomads, and find Florelli and some companions: Florelli (T6/F4), Toshiro Mifune the Samurai (Cv3), and Brita the Tank (NrC6) join; also find Deci and James, who were part of a decimated army (see below); James (F6) joins
problems with Baranfindel’s will: wealth to relatives, Temple, and ‘Sheh; Tse cannot scry ‘Sheh in her crystal ball – dead? decide they’ll deal with the will when they return to Ikon; Baranfindel’s corpse is left with the nomads
Gutezapre raised but also quested to deal with a staircase in the desert (see White Plume); Bree, Deci, and Williband (NtC5/R5, was with army) join him; Bree and Gutezapre leave with Deci
H13: newly arranged Party continues on, by camel
H15: meet and kill a Hydra; spot enemy troops, become invisible, spy on, then leave
H16: leave desert, enter scrubland hills, then low mountains
H17: meet and kill 2 Cockatrices; Toshiro killed by them (turned to stone, together with +2 plate mail and +1 sword); find and loot Cockatrices’ lair, and bury Toshiro’s corpse in lair (at 500 lbs, too heavy to carry)
H18: finally realise they’re lost (still have no Ranger)
H19: meet a Gnoll patrol, with an MU6
H20: as Party gets into higher terrain, Arlan appears, disguised as Dunna, Gnome Goddess of Mountains; Gandalf lightning bolts Her, causing an avalanche, which almost kills himself and Tse (who is buried and invisible) and buries much of their gear; Arlan (NtC7/T4) joins, amid grumblings from Gandalf; Gandalf demands “no more practical jokes”, gets into feud with Brita, then others; Shauna and Alcavron act as peacekeepers
H23: get to monastery, avoiding a strange moving building on wheels (a “juggernaut”); Gandalf, Alcavron, and Brita talk to monks, while Tse, Shauna, and Florelli sneak in invisibly and search; Shauna meets ghouls, and deduces that something is fishy in this monastery; James and Arlan stay outside, get chased by the juggernaut, hide in snow
H24: wake and up find Brita missing; Tse scries her chained up somewhere; Party begins search for Brita, at first outside monastery
H25: sneak in that night; very efficiently and quiety open a hole in roof of main building and creep down
H26: find Brita, and determine than many “monks” are in fact strange ghoul-like creatures in disguise; rescue one real monk named Cleisthenra; giant Leech swallows Shauna, but rest of Party cuts her free
H27: while escaping from monastery, rope breaks and James falls a long distance down cliffside, taking 63 points damage, breaking his magic sword; James killed; Tse takes 18 pts from bits of armour and weaponry, others almost clobbered by rocks; then Gandalf sends a message in a notebook down to those below: book does 17 pts damage to Brita
James buried; Party goes back in to mop up; find more ghouls than expected; Brita killed, Arlan almost killed while trying to save Brita
H28: meet and defeat a Djinni (Tse and Gandalf fry it with Lightning Bolt)
H30: Tse unleashes a lightning bolt in battle: kills all opponents, but also Alcavron killed; rescue another real monk named Dressla
H31: meet a Vampire in catacombs below monastery; Dressla killed, rest flee; decide not to recover Toshiro’s stone corpse, but do carry out bodies of James, Brita, and Alcavron
H36: find a significant community of Vanyar Elves; have James and Alcavron raised; Brita fails to be raised, buried with 5000 sp crown

Training, H37-C3: Tse = MU8, Gandalf = MU7/NtC2, Shauna = I5/T6, Alcavron = F5/T5, Florelli = T7
Also Arlan = T5, but she leaves H49 to be trained by Dwarves to the north

H44: While many are still busy training, Tse, James and Cleisthenra go off to find Toshiro’s body
H47: run into a blizzard; find a cave for shelter but it is occupied by 6 Orcs; “James kills 2 to establish friendly dialogue”
H51: find Toshiro’s body
H56: return; hire a mage to have Toshiro revived from being stone; Party heads north into Dwarvenlands
C10: get to Dwarves; meet up with Arlan who has finished training
Shauna commissions a Dwarf to build a new Broom of Flying for Gutezapre; will be complete C32
C16: return to Elves

Surviving members: Bree (WrC8), Tse (MU8), Gutezapre (WrC7), Gandalf (MU7/NtC2), Shauna (I5/T6), Arlan (NtC7/T5), Alcavron (F5/T5), Florelli (T7/F4), James (F6), Toshiro (Cv3)
New members: Terriann, Toshiro, Brita
Retirees: none
Casualties: Baranfindel (later resurrected and goes to Glacial Rift), Brita; Terriann (but found, raised, and “recruited” by Signy); (Gandalf, Gutezapre, James, Alcavron - all raised; Toshiro - revived)
Continuing parties:
1. Bree, Gutezapre (to White Plume Mountain, with Deci)
2. Tse, Gandalf, Shauna, Arlan, Alcavron, Florelli, James, Toshiro (to Lost Caverns)

Where were Deci and James?

154T4: After Death Trap, Deci (F6) and James (F5) left for Dwarvenlands of Ikon peninsula. Find out Tharndala had died 1/2 a year ago. Dwarves insist on healing Deci of her insanity, that of thinking she’s a Dwarf; Heal spells does nothing. A Commune spell with Dunathain confirms that Deci’s story of her upbringing is true, and she is allowed in to find her adopted family.
T11-Q20: Deci and James then team up with a few new adventurers, on and off, and help the Dwarves clear out Vridistan troops, traps, and abandoned monsters out of Kharall-dûm and other Dwarven settlements.
Training: Deci = T2, then T3
Q20: Deci and James are teleported out of Dwarvenlands, and find themselves far to the north, just south of Noranglia. Eventually meet up with some nice folk, join the army, and head off to war against some bad folk
Q50: army is crushed; retreat for days before can regroup
Training: James = F6, Deci = T4
H11: after James trains, he and Deci meet the Party; James stays with one part, Deci goes with the other.

And where was Arlan?

154T46: After the destruction of the Party in Harpies' Den, Arlan (NtC5/T1) parted ways with the two other survivors (Paxper and Noynek). She wanders about, looking for fun and chaos, blood and excitement.
Q42: By this point, she’s become NtC7/T4; learns of Gandalf’s recent clerical training, and decides to pay him a visit; it takes her a while to track him down (she’s in no great rush)
H20: Arlan finds Gandalf’s party; approaches disguised as Dunna, Gnome Goddess of Mountains; Gandalf gives her a warm “welcome” ...

VI.6: White Plume Mountain (154 Hrivë 36 - 45; 1986 April - June)

Background and summary: After Gutezapre was raised in the previous adventure, he was Quested to seek out a staircase in the Great Desert, inside White Plume Mountain, and retrieve some powerful artifacts for 3 retired adventurers near Klungdor to the south of the desert.

Starting members:
from Desert Nomads: Bree (WrC8), Gutezapre (WrC7)
from Death Trap: Deci (F7/T4)
New members: Williband (NtC5/R5)

H35: arrive at White Plume Mountain
successfully pass a Sphinx by answering her riddle
successfully pass a Kelpie, as Kelpie tried to lure Deci by posing as a male elf – double yuck!
H36: Deci gets quite drunk; Kelpies keep failing to lure Party members, until finally get Williband; Williband killed
Party easily defeats 3 golems; battles many other monsters
Deci killed by a Black Pudding
Bree and Gutezapre try to leave mountain, but find it very difficult; climb up a 300' spiral staircase, but meet a locked trap door; while trying to break through, an Invisible Stalker and the Sphinx (who have been Quested to prevent such sorts of escapes) attack
Gutezapre gets clobbered to -9 and falls off the stairs; Bree gets divine intervention, and Vara the Valkyrie appears; Vara catches Gutezapre, and turns to fight the beasts; she thrashes the Sphinx in 1 round, and kills the Stalker shortly thereafter; the Sphinx retires, grumpily
meanwhile, Bree rushes to cure Gutezapre by riding the 300' bannister; unfortunately she falls after 100' (roll under dex to stay on? 20/d20; saving throw to avoid flying outwards and crashing down 200'? 1/d20); luckily, the Valkyrie catches Bree
Vara then zooms back up, and rips the trap door open; pieces fly everywhere and almost kill Bree
Bree, Gutezapre, and Vara exit, cure up, and drink lots of beer
Vara helps Bree and Gutezapre: Williband and Deci raised, Bree trained to WrC9
Vara, still having a few hours to kill, leaves to beat up an army nearby that didn’t look Goodly (not a good day to be a Hobgoblin in those parts ...)
H39: Raiko the Monk/Mage wanders by, looking for Good Deeds to do; Raiko (MU5/Mk5) joins
H40: enter the mountain again; fight more monsters; Raiko displays his perfect skating skills
a large Crayfish grabs Deci; Deci killed
at some point, the entire cavern complex is subject to flooding
H41: Raiko killed
H44: Gutezapre charges into a dark room, meets a Vampire, and loses 2 levels
H45: finish off last monsters; leave
H48: arrive at Klungdor; Gutezapre gets his lost levels restored, and special Ceremony: Freeze spell (for beer cooling and ice); Raiko raised; Bree gets restoration (for lost levels?)
H53: Deci raised at Idonoria, a nearby Elven community
H56: return very magical sword to its owner; end up having to kill him
H57: Gutezapre gets first KiPiddli followers (7 eager hockey players) and begins to build his temple
H58: return very magical trident to its owner; she gives the party a spare Monk: Cassidy (Mk4) joins
Bree goes south, to New Tel Qa

Training: Raiko = MU6, Gutezapre = WrC8, Deci = T5

C30: Bree throws a Commune; is directed to find a Hobgoblin called “L”, whom she can find by locating Gandalf and Tse; also finds out that Astacoe is with Hel in Niflheim
Bree, Williband and Raiko go north, to find Gandalf and Tse (en route, Williband leaves Bree and Raiko); Deci, Gutezapre, and Cassidy leave the Party, staying in Klungdor

Surviving members: Bree (WrC9), Gutezapre (WrC8), Deci (F7/T4); Williband (NtC5/R5), Raiko (M6/Mk5), Cassidy (Mk4)
New members: Williband, Raiko, Cassidy
Retirees: Deci, Williband, Cassidy
Casualties: (Deci twice, Raiko, Williband - all raised)
Continuing parties:
1. Bree, Raiko (to Hobgoblin City);
2. Gutezapre (to Kumbu’s Caves)

VI.7: Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (154 Coirë 28 - 46; 1986 June - July)

Background and summary: Clues point to a long-lost complex with fabulous wealth, which they greedily seek and conquer.

Starting members:
from Desert Nomads: Tse (MU8), Gandalf (MU7/NtC2), Shauna (I5/T6), Arlan (NtC7/T5), Alcavron (F5/T5), Florelli (T7/F4), James (F6), Toshiro (Cv3)
from Death Trap: Femira (NtC7/T4)
New members: Tarlang the Shop Steward (F2), Fimbriel (NrC)

C16: Party reorganises at Vanyar Elf community just south of Dwarvenland; Femira (C7/T4), Tarlang (F2), and Fimbriel (NrC) join: Tarlang = Gandalf’s henchling
C18: Party heads into Dwarvenlands; wander through valleys, looking for the Lost Caverns
C21: bickering between Tse, Gandalf, Shauna, Arlan; Gandalf hangs Shauna up a tree, etcetera; Arlan picks on Toshiro
a blue Dragon attacks, interrupting the Party feud; Florelli almost dies
C23: a troop of law-abiding Goblins, who keep order in the valleys and do their best to keep out nasties, wanders by; Party attacks and kills 6; Party fined 2.9sp for each dead Goblin, 15sp for attacking a patrol, 3sp each for breaking the law, 3sp for lacking proper identification, 2sp for damages done to trees, and 3sp for the paperwork created; and the Valley Toll is 1sp each; Shauna is also caught having pickpocketed the leader, and fined 400sp for thievery
Gandalf, Femira, and Fimbriel (the Good Clerics) also find they have no spells until C30
Shauna loots Gandalf and Tse while they have fun in a tent; then Florelli collapses the tent; 3 Stone Giants throw rocks at the Party, too
C24: the Giants’ stone-tossing gets the attention of a passerby, Falstaffe, who gets involved in a spell fight between Tse, Arlan, Gandalf, and James; Gandalf charms her; Falstaffe (F4) joins
Toshiro shamed by actions of Party, attempts to commit suicide; Femira and Arlan cure him up, but he subsequently dies when the 3 Giants close in and attack the Party; Toshiro killed
C25: Fimbriel leaves Party, seeking forgiveness from her deity for her part in Party’s Evil deed
Party clobbers 2 Wyverns
Gandalf, Arlan, and Femira shapeshift into birds and search for the Lost Caverns
C27: Falstaffe tries to kill Shauna; James and Alcavron intercede; Shauna leaves
Party unsure what to do about Falstaffe, who is determined to be quite Evil
C28: enter caverns; battle a tough Golem; can only cripple it, so Party exits
Shauna returns; Falstaffe immediately attacks; Arlan poisons Falstaffe, other Clerics try to revive her but fail; Falstaffe killed; James threatens to quit Party
C29: Arlan finds she has no cures for a few days
go back in, bash Golem down hillside, where it is stuck
C30: Gandalf and Femira start receiving some spells
finish off Golem with Stone Shape spells from Arlan and careful assault by James and Alcavron
Tse tries on a magic cloak, and is poisoned; Femira’s Neutralise Poison leaves her alive but comatose
C31: Party exits caverns and builds a raft; Femira stays outside with Tse
C32: Ragnar (F3/WrC3) joins; Freddy magically appears momentarily, quite confused, then disappears
Tse, still outside, is visited by a friendly Sylph, Nilriel; Tse also scries Valashi back in Ikon, and learns that Ikon has been captured by Vridistan!
defeat 2 Cockatrices (but Gandalf zaps Alcavron and Ragnar in the process)
James killed by a Draco: petrified; Shauna writes grafitti on him
Party exits again, to get Tse and Femira; Nilriel (MU5/NtC4) joins; Arlan decides it’s time to leave the Party, flies to where the Party buried some treasure in order to help herself to her share; Gandalf flies after her, thinking she intends to take it all and tries to kill her; fails, but drives her away; Gandalf then collects all he can carry back to the Party; that night, Arlan returns and loots Gandalf of his magic sword and javelins; Arlan leaves
James-as-a-statue stashed in some bushes
C34: back in; negotiate with a Xorn, get useful information
battle Draco again, and win; but Alcavron, Femira, and Tarlang killed (all petrified); find various other petrified people; meet a Djinni, who offers to cast Stone to Flesh spells in return for his freedom; James, Alcavron, Femira, and Tarlang revived, as are 2 past victims: Khûrin (F3) and Westra (F2/T2) join
C35: Westra deemed undesireable, so Westra leaves ... but secretly returns to follow the Party
battle some Giants; Tse zaps a Giant and her front line: James and Alcavron killed (Alcavron took 45 pts damage, James took 75 pts)
C36: meet a random teleporter, and Party is drastically split up; Ragnar killed by minotaurs in a maze
Tse, Gandalf, and Nilriel leave temporarily, with Alcavron’s body, as they end up on a southern continent, and meet some nice Centaurs and then some racist Elves
Westra, still following, ends up rather lonely, so finds Florelli and Khûrin and joins them; Westra rejoins; they go into maze and find Ragnar’s body
Tarlang also goes into the maze, but doesn’t meet anyone; Tarlang leaves temporarily
C37: Party reduced to Florelli, Femira, Shauna, Khûrin, and Westra, with the bodies of Ragnar and James
meet 4 demon-like things; Party flees, Florelli dragging Khûrin (who wants to attack) and Femira in tiger shape carries Shauna; Westra killed
C38: the four remaining members push on, with Florelli becoming the Party killing machine; Shauna almost killed by a Trapper; Florelli almost killed
C39: find bones of Westra
C40: defeat 23 Troglodites; Florelli does 84 pts damage in 1 segment to one of them
Khûrin killed (petrified) by the gaze attack of a Bolak; Party flees
C41: some friendly Pechs help: Khûrin revived; Femira killed (petrified) by the same Bolak, having fumbled with her mirror, but this time Florelli kills the Bolak; the same friendly Pechs help: Femira revived
Tarlang returns
C42: Party finds a magic candle; Femira uses it to boost her Cleric level: Ragnar and James raised (James ends up with 5 sets of permanent scars), and then one more previously stoned corpse, a Cleric companion of Khûrin: Nuquirque (NrC6) joins
then Femira creates an Illusionary Forest and gates in a Dryad minion of Mielikki, her deity; Dryad performs many miracles for the Party: answers many questions; cures all; ensure that Gandalf and Nilriel’s Teleport works (see below); and has Westra reincarnated into a bear
the Dryad also raises 14 more corpses; one stays with the Party for a while: Krahz-Trôin (F3/MU2) joins; most of these people have been dead for a long time: Krahz lived 90,000 years ago, back when Hobgoblins ruled the world, Orcs didn’t exist a distinct species, and Dwarves used magic; Krahz can only talk to Ragnar, barely
Evil people raised by Dryad are told to leave, or else; they leave

meanwhile:
C38: Tse and Gandalf have Alcavron raised
C39: buy a Teleport scroll in order to return; spell misfires, and would have put them into solid rock, but Nilriel’s deity intervenes and sends them to Wowbagger’s place (and spill his tea; he’s not happy); try and find a door that leads back to Dafan
C40: a door opens up on sea off Hannu; Nilriel tries to convince fisherfolk to give them a ride, but their magic (and wings) scares them; eventually, the coast guard arrives, and they can barter a ride
get into a city, find a huge Mages guild; sell maps, spells, knowledge in order to buy Teleport spell for Gandalf and Tse’s spellbooks
C43: Gandalf casts Teleport, while levitating and Alcavron hanging on; Nilriel casts Teleport while Tse hangs on (big risk as she’s only an MU5); arrive outside of caverns; unknown to them, a Dryad friend of Femira made sure their spells did not fail [but, why didn’t Tse cast instead of Nilriel?]
Tse, Gandalf, Nilriel, and Alcavron rejoin; the now-large Party has a big banquet
one of the newly revived Gnomes (Talbot the Quick) loots the Party, throws an illusionary fireball at them, sinks their boat, and takes their map
Tse turns Khûrin into an Eagle, so that he can catch Talbot; unfortunately, he gains a bird brain, and hunts breakfast instead; Tse scries Talbot, and figures out he is a very capable illusionist
Talbot thus escapes; but Nuquirque finds and charms Westra the Bear, and sends Westra to hunt down and eat the Gnome ...
somehow, Khûrin recovers his mind when he reverts to Dwarf form
C45: enter the central chamber and meet Drenza the Vampire; big battle ensues, with many Party members charmed by Drenza to fight for her; Ragnar does 52 pts damage to Drenza in one swing, but almost dies; Vampire vanishes; Florelli remains charmed to Drenza, and invisible
battle Xeg-yi; Gandalf killed; Tse’s staff explodes, setting off a chain reaction of magic weapon destructions: James’s axe, Khûrin’s mace, Alcavron’s plate and sword, and a Javelin of Lightning; Nilriel killed by the Javelin
Shauna finds Florelli, and Tse catches and de-charms Florelli
Party figures out where Vampire’s coffin is, but cannot get to it; so the Thieves boobytrap the entrance with 8 holy water and some garlic; Party leaves caverns
Femira uses scroll of Raise Dead on Nilriel: Nilriel raised
C46: Femira, Nilriel, and Nuquirque Combine to cast Raise Dead on Gandalf: Gandalf raised
Party finds some of their horses and leaves by horse and wing
C56: get to the Vanyar Elves; Nilriel, Tarlang, and Nuquirque leave Party

Training among the Elves, C57-T9: Florelli = F5/R3, Femira = T5, Tarlang = F3, Gandalf = NtC3, Nuquirque = NrC7, Nilriel = MU5/NtC4

155T9: everyone leaves for Dwarvenlands
T14: they arrive; Krazh leaves Party (and is grilled by Dwarves for years over what his world was like)

Training among the Dwarves, T15-31: Khûrin = F4, Ragnar = WrC4/F4, Shauna = T7, James = F7

T16: Bree and Raiko arrive, looking for Tse and Gandalf ... (see Hobgoblin City); but neither they nor the Dwarves know who this “L” person is that Bree is looking for (although Gandalf almost met “L” half a year ago, after Lizard Tomb)
T31: with all training complete, Party leaves for Lammath
T48: en route, Tse gives birth to twins; Femira and Shauna were the midwives
T50: arrive at Lammath
to L17: while part of the Party (Alcavron, Florelli, James, and Ragnar) join Bree and Raiko running around trying to find this “L” person, others (Tse, Gandalf, Shauna, and Femira) stay put, in part to take care of the twins. Ironically, during this lull Gandalf and Lanefan have a brief encounter (see end of Lizard Tomb), and Lanefan is the one person who knows about “L”; that information is not shared. When they learn that war is breaking out in many different places, they wonder what’s happening back home in Ikon; Tse and Femira scry various people, and determine that both Valashi and Donnamira (their respective mentors) are together, nearly scry-proof and not anywhere near home. Those not obsessed with “L” decide that they go to Valashi; at first, they plan for 2 or 3 of them to make just a quick visit, to find out what’s happening; then they decide they had better not assume they will be returning soon, and thus take all that are interested.
L17: Tse, Gandalf, Femira, Shauna, and the twins teleport to Mixos Island, Valashi’s new base of operation; they find out that war has indeed engulfed Ikon peninsula, and that Ikon city has fallen to Vridistan.

Surviving members: Tse (MU8), Gandalf (MU7/NtC3), Shauna (I5/T7), Arlan (NtC7/T5), Alcavron (F5/T5), Florelli (T7/F5/R3), James (F7), Femira (NtC7/T5), Tarlang (F3), Fimbriel (NrC); Ragnar (WrC4/F4), Nilriel (MU5/NtC4), Khûrin (F4), Nuquirque (NrC7), Krahz-Trôin (F3/MU2)
New members: Falstaffe, Ragnar, Nilriel, Khûrin, Westra, Nuquirque, Krazh-Trôin
Retirees: Arlan (to Northcoast Liberation), Khûrin (to Ikon Liberation); Fimbriel, Nilriel, Tarlang, Nuquirque, Krazh-Trôin
Casualties: Toshiro, Falstaffe, Westra (reincarnated into a Bear); (James [twice], Alcavron [twice], Femira [twice], Tarlang, Ragnar, Khûrin, Gandalf, Nilriel - all raised/revived)
Continuing parties:
1. Alcavron, Florelli, James, Ragnar (to Hobgoblin City, with Bree and Raiko) (afterwards rejoined by Arlan)
2. Tse, Gandalf, Shauna, Femira (to Kumbu’s Caves) (later rejoined by Khûrin)

Notes: The only party members who didn’t die in this adventure are Tse, Shauna, Arlan, and Florelli
The only ones who did not needing training are Tse, Alcavron, and Krazh
Sometime into this adventure, Tarlang went a little funny in the head. He became “Member in good standing of Local 217 of the Cannon Fodder Guild”, with the motto: “We aim to die for 50 gp”.