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22. Giants of the Misty Forest (12-3-2;6), Verga 18 756-Leirn 4 757, SE-DE 01

Background and summary:  A year or two ago, Giants started appearing out of the Misty Forest in ever-increasing numbers.  Since then, they have taken and held a large chunk of territory south and east of Zarim, and have battered against the Dwarven defenses much like waves bash against a seawall.  Knowing the Dwarves are hard-pressed, the Party offers assistance as an advance scout and strike team to gather information and maybe relieve some pressure.  As the Dwarves need all the help they can get (though they refuse to admit it), this offer is gratefully accepted, so the Party mounts a series of raids in Giant-held territory and manage to cause the Giants more difficulty than they realize, though not without taking casualties themselves.  However, the Party is unable to generate enough sustained pressure to either drive the Giants back or access their main camps or headquarters; a joint Party-Dwarf raid on an outpost camp is the best they can muster, and even this proves costly.

Things fall apart when the Party start seeking compensation from the Dwarves.  The Party consider themselves paid mercenaries, while the Dwarves consider them unpaid volunteers - and also realize the Party is doing quite well financially just by looting the Giants they kill.  So the Dwarves refuse to pay (though they do offer to hire Akasha as an individual to cast spells for them) and the Party departs on somewhat less than pleasant terms; leaving the Dwarves in something of a predicament and ultimately leading to nearly all of chapter 9 of this book.

Starting members (from Black Hand II): Araglas(F-6), Akasha(I-4), Brogmac(F-4), Altheas(MU-4), Yfielim(T-5), Khrodhar(NrC-4), Yn.Nimb(I-3/T-4),
                S'nel'be(WrC-6), Drogo(F-6), Khye(F-5)

Can 28 756	Leave Waterdeep after finally deciding what to do, head north for Zarim.
Ver 21	Enter southern Riveria, find it really is held by lots of undead, leave quietly.
Ver 24	Arrive Zarim, get briefed by Dwarves on situation
Ver 26	Arrive front line, more briefing.  Somewhen around now, Khye realizes he bumped a while ago (to F-5) but forgot to train, and it's too late now.
Ver 27	Sneak through battle line, reach a Giant outpost; Yn.Nimb sneaks in but gets attacked by a huge rat (a pet of the Giant commander) and is lucky not to get swallowed whole.  Rest of Party bail him out, then retreat to hills.
Ver 28	Frank Bland(R-4) joins by stumbling onto Party's camp; he too is out here trying to harass the Giants.
	A couple of Giants interrupt Party's Skandigan celebrations by nailing Araglas with boulders; Party drunkenly takes them out, then moves camp.
Fie 1	To edge of Misty Forest.  Satyrs cause all kinds of mayhem that night by charming Yfielim and Brogmac who then get clobbered by rest of Party; one Satyr captured (much to his enjoyment!) but is very disappointed when all Party does is question and release him.
Fie 2	Lots of exploring through forest.  Yn.nimb charmed by a Dryad; Party runs Dryad off but cannot break charm, so Yn.nimb spends next few days trying to wander off.
Fie 3	Make contact with some enslaved Orcs and displaced Elves, exchange info.
	Take out a mixed band of Giants, Ogres and Orcs in a well-planned ambush.
Fie 4	Attacking 7 Hill Giants doesn't go so well; Khye killed and Yn.nimb almost.
	2 Satyrs show up and charm Yn.nimb (thus breaking the Dryad charm); Party somehow manages not to kill Yn.nimb when he turns on them.  Satyrs don't last long.
	Party flees into forest, gets turned around by the ambient magic here, and manages to lose an entire day.
Fie 6	Blunder out of forest close to main Giant camp, hesitantly explore, then retreat.
	Meet a Fire Giant on road; attempt to sneak past but make too much noise, and Giant drops a fireball on Party.  Everyone survives the blast, but Frank's only two magic possessions blow up; Yn.nimb killed by the resulting meltdown.  Party then annihilate the Giant, and leave.
Fie 9	Arrive back at Zarim.
Fie 10	Yn.nimb (now I-4/T-4) fails raise.  Khye raised.
Fie 11	Frank retires as he is now much poorer than when he joined; he's had enough.
	Various people start training: Altheas to MU-5, Khrodhar to NrC-5, Brogmac to F-5.  Khye, though he's needed training all along, now cannot afford it!  Non-trainees make their way back to front lines.
Fie 21	Yfielim goes out on a scouting mission with some Dwarves and comes back with 2 recruits: Svabard(R-4) and No'ei Deyeyet(NtC-3/I-3) join.
Lei 1 757	After lots of planning, Party goes through battle line again as part of a co-ordinated attack against an important Giant outpost.
Lei 2	Reach outpost and attack after dusk: o Plan is for sneaks to infiltrate camp, then Dwarves to attack from one side and Party from other; o Dwarves get slightly delayed by a previously-unnoticed band of Trolls; o Unaware of this, Party attacks as planned: attack spectacularly successful to begin with but Giants soon catch on; o Yfielim winds up on her own in midst of Giant camp and only escapes by using a diminution potion so she can hide in small spaces; o At one point, Drogo does 4x damage to a Giant just as an Ogre does 4x damage to Drogo; Drogo killed; o Giants isolate Party and Party gets mushed: Khye, Svabard and Brogmac killed while everyone else scrambles to escape.  Bodies of Drogo and Brogmac carried off by Giants. o The Dwarves don't fare much better, suffering 75% losses - about the same as the Giants.
Lei 4	Return to Zarim.  Negotiations with Dwarves regarding payment and treasure division soon become uncivil.
Lei 7	By now, it has become obvious the Dwarves will not pay Party for services rendered, so Party decides to abandon at next opportunity, leaving their dead behind.

Surviving members:  Araglas(F-6), Akasha(I-5), Altheas(MU-5), Yfielim(T-5), Khrodhar(NrC-5), S'nel'be(WrC-6), Frank(R-4), No'ei(NtC-4/I-3)
New members:  Frank, Svabard, No'ei
Casualties:  Yn.nimb, Drogo, Svabard, Brogmac; Khye(twice - raised once)
Retirees:  Frank
Continuing party (to Sheeramaliea):  Araglas, Akasha, Altheas, Yfielim, Khrodhar, S'nel'be, No'ei

23. (The Fabled Treasure of) Sheeramaliea (15-8-5;2), Leirn 16-Scori 1 757, DE 01-MR 02

Background and summary: Fed up with taking lots of risk for little monetary reward, the Party looks for a way to make an easy buck.  They hear rumours of a fabled treasure somewhere in the eastern part of the Misty Forest, and with little forethought head out to find it.  After aimlessly blundering around for a while, bickering as they go, they find a bizarre complex holding a number of very out-of-place individuals and quite efficiently proceed to clean out much of it...only to then learn that the "treasure" they're here to find is worthless to any except the local Elves!  But the occupants of the place have gobs of other loot, so the Party still comes away satisfied.

Starting members (from Giants of the Misty Forest):  Araglas(F-6), Akasha(I-5), Altheas(MU-5), Yfielim(T-5), Khrodhar(NrC-5),
                S'nel'be(WrC-6), No'ei(NtC-4/I-3)

Lei 9 757	Altheas returns from training with a new recruit: Dakiell Daverous(F-4) joins.
Lei 10	Informing Dwarves they're off to harass the Giants again, Party head back through battle line, but abandon mission immediately and turn south.  Dwarves eventually assume them all lost, and carry on.
Lei 15	Serioge Tarmalin(R-5) joins in Misty Forest, as a guide.
Lei 18	Reach Serioge's family home; his mother tells of treasure, and of Sapent, its half-crazed guardian.
Lei 19	Reach main north-south road and start accumulating people: He'is(F-4) and Eightfast Tinbright(Cvr-3) join from the south, and shortly after this Grogmac son of Bartab(WrC-4) joins from the north.  The keg of beer on Grogmac's back ensures he is well received.
Lei 20	Back into forest, meet a talking Hydra that leads Party to Sapent's lair.
	On arriving here, Party sees a Hill Giant carrying a captive Orc; this is an illusion of Sapent's, and she is the "Orc".  A very disjointed conversation sees Sapent keep No'ei to train (thus No'ei leaves, for now) and kick everyone else out of her forest; Party returns to road.
	Encounter Thomas and Jasmine, a couple of scouts for a local bandit brigade; big argument on how to deal with them.  Eventually, Altheas psyonically suggests they lead Party to their camp.
	Close to bandit camp, another argument breaks out - Araglas and Grogmac fight; Khrodhar and Eightfast fight, this all makes bandits very much aware of Party's presence.  Khrodhar also steals 3 valuable gems from Araglas during all this, and buries them for later recovery.
	Bandits surround Party and attack; despite some of Party still fighting each other, bandits don't last long.
	Araglas notices gems missing en route back to road, lots more bickering until Altheas pulls Khrodhar as guilty and forces him to recover and return the gems.
Lei 21	Another group of bandits attack, Party takes one captive.
Lei 22	No'ei rejoins as he's realized Sapent is incapable of training him and is also a menace to all around her.
	Eightfast leaves supposedly to take captive to nearest village; in reality, he and Khrodhar are mutually fed up with each other and Eightfast is happy to depart.
Lei 23	Back to Sapent's; this time she merely counts heads and lets Party pass.
Lei 24	Divine inspiration through a beer mug leads Grogmac (and thus, Party) to entrance to Sheeramaliea complex. S'nel'be glyphs entrance once Party inside.
	Find a powerful group of Drow behind a door; No'ei killed, but Party wins and gains loads of loot, including several Drow Gems and a ring that gives He'is an outstanding wish he'd not use (or know of) for ages.
Lei 25	Yfielim tries to steal one of the Drow Gems from S'nel'be's backpack but gets rejected by a glyph.  Altheas ferrets out the culprit but then refuses to tell anyone; bickering renewed.
	Some help comes in the entrance (and gets hit by S'nel'be's glyph!) and finds Party by following noise of arguments: Eightfast rejoins with a couple of new recruits; Eldar(F-4) and Yngar(F-4) join.
	Exploration finds another excuse to argue: a Drow prisoner.  The best spells S'nel'be can throw can't find anything wrong with her, so Tamarrik T'zarta(MU-6) joins despite protests from half the Party.
	Bash way through complex; Yfielim killed by a Trapper, helped by a Yngar fumble.  At one point, Khrodhar picks up Eightfast and throws him over the battle to attack from the rear; he instead gets jumped by a Lurker and is lucky to survive.
Lei 26	Akasha enslaved by an Abboleth, but S'nel'be cures before any major harm done.  Party then charges at Abboleth, but Yngar gets berserked by a sword from treasury and turns on Party; Abboleth uses this to great advantage, but is soon slain anyway.
	Yngar then nearly killed by 2 Cloakers.
Lei 27	Find a scholarly group of Hobgoblins in a comfortable laboratory who insist on giving Party a classroom lecture about how electricity works.
	Only now does Araglas use her Arrow of Direction to look for the treasure they're here for; she determines Party have been going the wrong way since arriving.
	Find secret passage to treasure room; Yngar sets off a cave-in trap and barely survives.
	Find the "treasure"; a large, egg-shaped, very magical crystal with no obvious function.
Lei 28	Party finally return Tamarrik's spellbook and weapons to her, mainly so she can defend herself from Dakiell's repeated seduction attempts.
	Leave complex, meet a high-level Nature Cleric outside who explains egg is a device that helps Elves grow and maintain their forests, and is useless to anyone else.  Much annoyance among Party.
	Yfielim reincarnated as a hawk (thus, no longer playable).
	No'ei reincarnated as a horned owl (thus, no longer playable).
Sco 2	Reach Elvish town, start treasury and training break.
Sco 21	Arrive Waterdeep, start another break as Khrodhar bumped (to NrC-6) en route.
	Altheas, Dakiell and Eightfast all retire once treasury done.  Grogmac retires a bit later, see below

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Surviving members:  Araglas(F-7), Akasha(I-5), Altheas(MU-5), Khrodhar(NrC-6), S'nel'be(WrC-7), Dakiell(F-5),
                Serioge(R-5), He'is(F-5), Eightfast(Cvr-4), Grogmac(WrC-5), Eldar(F-4), Yngar(F-4), Tamarrik(MU-6)
New members:  Dakiell, Serioge, He'is, Eightfast, Grogmac, Eldar, Yngar, Tamarrik
Casualties:  No'ei, Yfielim (both reincarnated)
Retirees:  Altheas(to Scaifa); Grogmac(to War of the Giants – West); Dakiell(to Sword of Hope); Eightfast(to alpha series)
Continuing party (to The Evils of Tymore Island):  Araglas, Akasha, Khrodhar, S'nel'be, Serioge, He'is, Eldar, Yngar, Tamarrik

26. The Evils of Tymore Island (13-1-1;5), Prici 13-22 757, MA-JL 02

Background and summary:  After staying clear thus far, the Party finally decides to help Riveria out against Teimperian and his undead army by clearing out the unpleasant occupants of Tymore Island - just off the Riverian coast - so the navy can use the harbour there as a base.  They find the island is home to a small community of enormous lizards, along with some Sasquatches who pay them fealty; the Sasquatches are a pushover for the Party however the lizards are anything but, and eventually drive the Party away.

Starting members (from Sheeramaliea):  Araglas(F-7), Akasha(I-5), Khrodhar(NrC-6), S'nel'be(WrC-7), Serioge(R-5), He'is(F-5), Eldar(F-4),
                Yngar(F-4), Tamarrik(MU-6)
                           (from Dragonspear Castle I): Leshendra(T-5)
                           (from Pharoah's Tomb):  Kermut(NrC-5)
                           (from Swordquest): Chance(NtC-4)

Tar 11 757	Somewhen around now, Araglas annoys Osiris such that He quests her to go to His temple and show Him fealty.  So, grumbling all the way, off she goes.
Tar 13	Leshendra rejoins, and Dew Mo'at(A-4) joins.
Tar 15	Chance rejoins.
Tar 19	After great expense and much teleporting, Araglas arrives at Osiris' temple - the pyramid from Pharoah's Tomb!  Here she meets Elnoc and Churla, and barely manages to assuage Osiris.
Tar 26	Araglas gets back to Waterdeep.
Tar 27	Party leaves Waterdeep.
Pri 12	Arrive Portloe and swap out Clerics: Grogmac retires and Kermut rejoins.
Pri 13	Navy takes Party to island.
Pri 15	Find and wipe out a village of Sasquatches; Araglas does 72 h.p. damage to one with an arrow shot.  A few captives provide little useful info, and are left behind.
Pri 16	Another Sasquatch village meets its end; loot includes a very magical tapestry.
	Village guards a mountain; Araglas lowered down a vertical shaft inside and almost eaten by a giant lizard.
	Party uses poisoned Sasquatch corpses as lizard bait; kill one (but don't know it), and nicely feed the rest.
Pri 17	Various abortive attempts to get at lizards achieve little.
	Akasha shoots a Wand of Wonder down the shaft and blows her own hand off with a rebounding lightning bolt.  Amazingly, the wand - being held in that hand - survives and doesn't even fall down the shaft!
Pri 18	Khrodhar digs a level entrance into lizard caves, then Party wade in and barely defeat three lizards.  Serioge arrives late to this brawl as for some inexplicable reason he had chosen that moment to do his laundry.
Pri 20	Another attempt at lizard caves goes wrong.  Khrodhar killed, then Khrodhar raised a round later by divine intervention; he went to -11 (saved by Death's Door) later in same combat.  Leshendra, S'nel'be, Yngar and Dew also killed, and Serioge almost; Yngar finished at -87...all this to kill 4 lizards.
Pri 21	Remains of Party reach coast and are picked up by navy.
Pri 22	Arrive Portloe, start a month-long training break; spend much of it learning how to use tapestry to teleport.
Pri 24	S'nel'be raised.
Pri 25	Leshendra raised.
Pri 26	Dew raised.  Sometime around now, Akasha gets her hand restored.

Surviving members:   Araglas(F-7), Akasha(I-6), Khrodhar(NrC-6), S'nel'be(WrC-7), Serioge(R-5), He'is(F-5),
                Eldar(F-5), Tamarrik(MU-6), Leshendra(T-5), Kermut(NrC-5), Chance(NtC-5), Dew(A-5)
New members:  Dew
Casualties:  Yngar; (Khrodhar, S'nel'be, Leshendra, Dew - all revived)
Retirees:  none
Continuing party (to The Chronos Stone):  Araglas, Akasha, Khrodhar, S'nel'be, Serioge, He'is, Eldar, Tamarrik, Leshendra, Kermut, Chance, Dew

27. The Chronos Stone (14-0-0;0), Various times 755-797, JL-AU 02

Background and summary: The Party returns to Tymore Island intent on dealing with the lizards once and for all, but find instead a crystal that allows them to travel through time.  After some experimentation, they realize this could provide a relatively easy means of ending Teimperian's reign in Riveria, by ensuring his overthrow never succeeds in the first place.  So, they start altering history: first, they prevent Teimperian from getting the golden skull in Dragonspear Castle I, but that doesn't work; then they try raising Riveria against him, but that doesn't work, so finally they just track him down and kill him.  They then give the crystal to Helm for safekeeping, and to get it off this world.

King Richard, duly impressed, rewards the Party and Company handsomely, by giving them the means to build a castle near the tiny village of Verwood in northern Riveria.  The Party spend several months at this, after which they've caught up to the time it was when they found the crystal to begin with, and Verwood Keep is born.  Meanwhile, the remaining Tymore Island lizards happily carry on with their lives, ignorant of all.

Starting members (from The Evils of Tymore Island):  Araglas(F-7), Akasha(I-6), Khrodhar(NrC-6), S'nel'be(WrC-7),
                Serioge(R-5), He'is(F-5), Eldar(F-5), Tamarrik(MU-6), Leshendra(T-5), Kermut(NrC-5), Chance(NtC-5), Dew(A-5)

Aqu 25 757	Leave Portloe; get to lizard caves the same day by using teleport tapestry.
	Khrodhar tries to dig another entrance but stops when away team  of "Arag. Aka. Seri. Chan. Lesh." finds there might already be one, half a mile south.
Aqu 26	Into new cave, find a crystal suspended in mid-air; S'nel'be fiddles with it and blips everyone into the future.
Can 22 797	Meet a much older Cnutkum, his wife (Derisa) and kids (Kylie and William); find out year is 797 and that they are on what used to be the Company's farm near Durweston.
Can 23	To Durweston, then use tapestry to get to Waterdeep.
	Learn that the crystal is the Chronos Stone, and that a user's manual (the Book of Merignes) exists somewhere near Quick.
Can 24	Meet Pearl in Waterdeep MU's guild; she leads to Altheas and Llandreesa.
	Altheas uses psyonics to contact Fulvin in Quick; he arranges to get the book.
Can 27	S'nel'be goes to Quick and gets the book from Fulvin.
Ver 2	Using book, try a test blip to Verga 1, then back to Verga 2; seems to work OK.
	Try another test blip to Verga 5, then back to Verga 2; works fine.  Lots and lots of discussion what to do next, finally decide to try and prevent Riverian takeover from ever happening by keeping golden skull of undead control out of Teimperian's hands; blip to intercept Party during Dragonspear Castle I.
Jer 5 755	Arrive Waterdeep, tapestry to Dragonspear Castle, hide and await movements of original Party.  (see write-up for Dragonspear Castle I to find out what that Party was up to at the time)
	Kermut watches himself and his old Party leave, then re-enter, outbuilding where they were camped; the old Party originally obtained the skull during this foray.
Jer 6	S'nel'be sneaks in and steals the skull from Pearl's backpack as she sleeps; rearranges some other things as per Kermut's instructions so old Party would still have reason to do the same things they did the first time around (i.e. minimizing history alteration).
	Tapestry to Waterdeep, take skull to Helm temple there.
Jer 8	Lots of experimenting reveals skull cannot be destroyed; leaving it here, Party blips into future to see how things turn out in Riveria.
Jer 8 759	Discover Riveria still fell to Teimperian in 757 as he acquired the skull anyway.  So, on to plan B.
Jem 8 757	Blip, then tapestry to Riveria.
Jem 9	Akasha and Araglas arrange an emergency meeting with King Richard to warn him what is about to happen; his advisers (including Charles - and Teimperian!) hear this as well.  Charles gets A+A out of there while Temiperian accelerates his plans greatly.
	Everyone gathers at Helm temple, and also round up Prittr.
	Storm palace.  Teimperian has already taken over and is now masquerading as Richard; Party tries to take him prisoner but kills him in the process.  Speak With Dead reveals Richard is captive many miles south.
Jem 10	Everyone plane-shifts to Sombar, rescue Richard; some return to Riveria.
	Riveria attacked that night (about 2 months earlier than original timeline); attack unsuccessful except Helm temple gets demolished.
Jem 12	Everyone reunites at Riveria.
Jem 13	Audience with Richard; he rewards Party by giving them title to some land near village of Verwood, 30,000 g.p. to help build a castle there, and rights to the village when the current (very aged) Duke dies off.
Jem 15	Charles and Kermut take Chronos Stone and Book of Merignes to Helm's plane, and leave them with Him.
Jem 20	Somewhen around now, Party arrives at Verwood and start construction of Verwood Keep; spend next 9 months doing this.
	During this time, Tamarrik, Chance, Dew and Kermut all retire, and several others train.
Aqu 27	By now, Keep fit for habitation; various old friends (Lt. Nelson, Major Minor) have showed up to help run it, and several retired characters have also arrived.  Party have now caught up in time to where they began.

                  
Surviving members:  Araglas(F-7), Akasha(I-6), Khrodhar(NrC-6), S'nel'be(WrC-7), Serioge(R-6), He'is(F-5), Eldar(F-5), Tamarrik(MU-6),
                Leshendra(T-6), Kermut(NrC-6), Chance(NtC-5), Dew(A-5)
New members:  none
Casualties:  none
Retirees:  Chance (to C-Series); Kermut (to Assault On Verwood Keep); Tamarrik(to Zarim Infiltration); Dew
Continuing party (to The Light of Tirelle):  Araglas, Akasha, S'nel'be, Khrodhar, Serioge, He'is, Eldar, Leshendra

29. The Light of Tirelle (11-3-1;5), Aqui 28-Jera 8 757, AU-DE 02

Background and summary:  Following clues provided by some mysterious messages, and taking with them a person who says he has to tag along but has no idea why, the Party goes to a bizarre little mini-world with no obvious way of getting back.  After defeating lots and lots of strange quasi-Demons called Magon, they both find the way back and restore the Paladinic abilities of Robert, the supposed non-adventurer they had taken along to begin with.

Starting members (from The Chronos Stone):  Araglas(F-7), Akasha(I-6), Khrodhar(NrC-6), S'nel'be(WrC-7), Serioge(R-6), He'is(F-5),
                Eldar(F-5), Leshendra(T-6)

Aqu 28 757	The first of a series of odd messages (e.g. "Beware the Magon", "Look for the Light", "Tirelle Calls", etc.) arrives at Verwood, more would show up over the next few weeks.  Various people travel to various places to try and figure out what if any significance these messages have.
Leq 4	Akasha gets to Riveria and here meets Robert, who seems to be connected to the goings-on but isn't sure how or why.  Having nothing better to do with him, she brings him back to Verwood, so Robert(--) joins.
Leq 17	A wandering mage arrives at Verwood and signs on: Margaret Meadowweave(MU-4) joins.
Leq 18	By now realizing the clues point vaguely north, Party leaves Verwood.
Jer 4	4 Frost Giants attack and clobber a rusty Party: Serioge and Khrodhar killed, Party barely wins.
	Serioge and Khrodhar raised by S'nel'be, using a Candle.
Jer 5	Half a dozen Orcs almost prove more than the battered Party can handle.
Jer 6	Half a dozen Yeti don't last nearly as long as the Orcs did.
Jer 7	Party finds and enters a cave at about the place their vague clues seem to point at; 6 Gargoyles defend it but don't last long.  Much paranoia among Party as opponents appearing 6 at a time; in fact, it is sheer coincidence.
	A door leads to a large "cave" which is in fact a different world; door vanishes once everyone is through.    (note that dates from here on for a while are subjective to the characters)
	Party begins encountering Magon at every turn and slowly get whittled down.
	Find door that exits to "outside" but that looks even less hospitable than "inside", so don't go very far.
Jer 8	Entire day spent resting and recovering just "outside" the door.  A skeletal Dragon provides overnight entertainment.
Jer 9	Battle with 20 Black and 4 Red Magon weakens Party considerably; Akasha thrashed and would remain incurable for almost entire adventure, rest of Party takes 2 days to recuperate.
Jer 11	Find new Magon area, take out 6 Reds; opening another door produces 5 more Reds and 3 Yellows, and Party stops after clobbering these.
Jer 12	The Magon strike back: 9 Black, 10 Red and 2 Yellow attack en masse; the ensuing combat produces 16 fumbles!  Margaret killed, and Eldar almost: he goes to -9, -10(saved by Death's Door) and -4 and gets cured above 0 each time, thus joining Akasha on the quasi-permanently incurable list.
Jer 14	Margaret raised by S'nel'be.
Jer 15	A wandering and very lost Human shows up and Party takes him in, so Ilya(--) joins.
Jer 16	Reach a new area and start taking on Yellows in numbers, retreat.
Jer 18	Reach another new area and get attacked by 4 Greens; defeat, and retreat.
Jer 20	Reach yet another new area and find out the hard way Blues are really tough: Serioge killed.  Retreat.
Jer 22	A Violet Magon proves the toughest of all; Ilya killed, but Party prevails.  During this, Robert sees a light through a nearby door and runs toward it; he returns shortly after as a P-11.  He informs Party he now remembers that Ilya was his squire, and that as he died honourably he should remain that way.
Jer 23	Learn that the light Robert ran to is the Light of Tirelle.  Also find a huge pile of booty here.
	He'is touches the Light and blips everyone to slightly north of Waterdeep.
Jer 8 (!)	Party learn they are out by about half a month in time; only one night has passed on Riveria since they entered the cave up north.
Jer 14	Serioge resurrected.
Jer 15	Robert retires and goes off on a quest to raise funds to pay for Serioge's resurrection.  Several others start training.

Surviving members:  Araglas(F-8), Akasha(I-6), Khrodhar(NrC-7), S'nel'be(WrC-8), Serioge(R-6), He'is(F-6), Eldar(F-6), Leshendra(T-7),
                Margaret(MU-5), Robert(P-11)
New members:  Margaret, Robert, Ilya
Casualties:  Ilya; (Khrodhar, Margaret, Serioge[twice] - all revived)
Retirees:  Robert; Leshendra(to Sword of Hope)
Continuing party (to Mansion On the Hill):  Araglas, Akasha, Khrodhar, S'nel'be, Serioge, He'is, Eldar, Margaret

30. Mansion on the Hill (8-0-0;0), Aves 5-7 757, DE 02-JA 03

Background and summary:  While travelling from Waterdeep to Riveria, the Party takes an expensive side trip to help out some villagers.  After this, a whole bunch of people gather and head north for a wedding.

Starting members (from The Light of Tirelle):  Araglas(F-8), Akasha(I-6), Khrodhar(NrC-7), S'nel'be(WrC-8), Serioge(R-6), He'is(F-6),
                Eldar(F-6), Margaret(MU-5)

Aves 1 757	Party leaves Waterdeep, intending a peaceful walk to Riveria.
Ave 5	Reach village of Two Bridges, asked by locals to find a missing person who might have been kidnapped.
	Tracks lead Party out of village to a house in woods that does not welcome visitors; fight to get in, then fight to stay in.
	Find place is run by 2 previously-unknown creatures who feed off of magic; Party have several items disenchanted before realizing this, then slay Disenchantresses with mundane equipment.
	Eventually figure out "kidnapping" was a set-up to lure magic-laden Party to house so owners could feed.
	Find loads of very valuable (but de-magicked) booty - too much to carry!  Return to village.

Surviving members:   Araglas(F-8), Akasha(I-7), Khrodhar(NrC-7), S'nel'be(WrC-8), Serioge(R-6), He'is(F-6), Eldar(F-6), Margaret(MU-5)
New members:  none
Casualties:  none
Retirees:  none
Continuing party (to Sword of Hope):  Araglas, Akasha, Khrodhar, Serioge, He'is, Eldar, Margaret, S'nel'be

A long and eventful break follows:

Ave 6	Dakiell joins in Two Bridges, just in time to have missed all the fun but not too late to help build a cart to carry all the loot in.
Ave 7	Everyone except Serioge heads back to Waterdeep; Serioge goes north.
Ave 12	Arrive Waterdeep, spend several days dividing treasure.
Ave 21	Serioge arrives at Riveria and meets Leshendra, who rejoins; they go to Verwood.
	Meanwhile, various other people flit about all over the northwest buying and selling treasure and-or trying to procure wedding gifts.
Tou 7	Everyone at Verwood by now except Akasha, who is training (to I-7) in Riveria.
Tou 14	All including Akasha leave Riveria by boat.
Tou 17	Arrive Luskan, join with "E" Party and lots of others; Eldar, He-is and Throg have other ideas, and leave town immediately to spend a few days in the local woods bashing heads instead.
Tou 20	Diora-Volker wedding, with most of the Enterprise Company in attendance (and many arguments).

Alpha Series (alpha 1-2; minis) (7-1-0;2), Lequi 27-Aves 14 757, JA 03

Background and summary:  Various characters decide hanging around Verwood is too dull a way to pass the time, so they band together and go off on a few small adventures.

Starting members (from Swordquest):  Christophe(B-5), Throg(F-4)
                           (from Sheeramaliea):  Eightfast(Cvr-4)
                           (from Black Hand II):  Andrew(NrC-5), Gorlim(F-5)

Leq 25 757	Various characters find themselves bored at Verwood Keep, decide to form a Party and head out into the field, going nowhere in particular.
Leq 27	Start alpha 1.  (no idea what the adventure was)
Jer 6	End alpha 1.
Jer	Andrew retires, and departs for Culavera.
Jer	Kairos(MU-6) and Thomasine(NtC-3) join at Riveria.
Jer 28	Start alpha 2.  (no idea about this one either)
Ave	Kairos killed.  Eightfast killed.
Ave	Somehow during this adventure, Christophe gains a point of Strength.
Ave 14	End alpha 2.
Ave	Christophe retires to Rithetwood to train (to B-6).
	Sometime along here, Kairos and Eightfast raised.

Surviving members:  Christophe(B-6), Throg(F-4), Gorlim(F-5), Eightfast(Cvr-4), Andrew(NrC-5), Kairos(MU-6), Thomasine(NtC-3)
New members:  Kairos
Casualties:  (Kairos, Eightfast - both raised)
Retirees:  Andrew (to Windward Ho!, eventually); Christophe
Continuing parties: (to Sword of Hope):  Kairos
                            (to alpha 3): Throg, Gorlim, Eightfast, Thomasine