Deil finds 6 Orcs; 4 slain, 1 captured, 1 charmed to Wavish.  Charmed Orc "Otechyst"(Int.3, Wis.7) would later become better known as "Mr. Expendable".  Orc corpses arranged as if fought each other.

Meet a wandering Ranger; Telba (R-4) joins.

Wavish charms another winner: "Bung" (Int.4, Wis.9), charm broken later when Bung's child killed by Party.

Battle with 8 adult Orcs and 17 kids, then loot their caves.

Wavish finds a cursed scroll the hard way and has a valuable item disenchanted.

3 more Orcs; Deil flees, Wavish charms another, "Glomb" (Int.9, Wis.5).

Water-dwelling Artesians tell Party how to reach Orc caves (so Party will leave them alone!)

Deil-Fimble bickering nearly drowns Wavish, Artesians not impressed.

Start exploring Orc caves and clobber an occasional Orc.

Find another party doing the same thing; Heyokas (F-3), Bye (Mk-3), Perou-Bresil (NtC-3/T-3) and Khuztla (WrC-3) all join.

Another inquisitive bear meets its end.

Slowly de-populate the area of Orcs, a few at a time, then - emboldened by their success - decide to take on 41 Orcs at once.  Deil and Perou-Bresil killed.  Telba fumbles 3 times and runs out of weapons.

Lure 2 Ettins out of a cave into Party ambush; Party wins, somehow, in a big upset.

Sledge, Bye, and Heyokas take out an Ogre by themselves.

One by one, characters find a Wall of Teleportation that scatters them all over the world; adventure ends.

Teimhean just about kills self via exploding dust.  Drustan only wishes he could kill self.

Search begins for secret doors; Party finds and rescues some prisoners.

A Ranger stumbles on the party; Tran Woodkind(R-3) joins.

Tammi, Tran, Drustan set off to find another Ent, while Samantha cares for Leafmoss.  Trenellan heads to town to find a replacement for Teimhean.

Back to castle, now held by Hobgoblins with bows.  Creiddylad falls down wall and goes to -4; takes every resource at party's disposal to recover.  While being carried into castle by Trenellan, she is shot by a Hobgoblin for 28 more points (from one arrow!): Creiddylad killed.

Take out a Hobgoblin Cleric, and retreat.

Party takes out 3 Hobgoblins; during combat they finally become aware they're not alone; Bitch(B-1) joins, she left the note in camp days ago and has been following the Party ever since.

Party wades through several small groups of Hobgoblins.

Tammi killed by something, perhaps to do with a crystal the party broke...?

Party meets a Dwarf in the castle; Dwalin the Steadfast(WrC-1/F-1) joins, just in time to help with a series of combats vs. small groups of Hobgoblins.

Back into castle; 4 Hobgoblins are enough to cause another retreat.  Meanwhile, a giant Snake is in process of demolishing Dwalin's hut when Party returns; Party hears about "barracudas" for years because of this.

Later, find and revive Leafmoss yet again.

A huge lizard provides stiff opposition, then a skeletal Ogre wades in; Gruffydd killed.

Meanwhile, party catches on to Slade; he is bound and beaten to just above 0 despite spirited defense from Trenellan.

Somehow or other the Party finds another character; Harry(R-1/MU-1) joins.

Dirk gets a warning from his deity probably due to his actions regarding Slade.

Party finds a trap and slides out of castle, back down ridge, and into forest; decide to stay here to rest.

Back into castle to face yet more Hobgoblins, finally finishing them off, then find White Orb and battle their way out of the castle.

Mayor of the village meets them at forest's edge, takes Orb, polymorphs into a Dragon, and flies off with it!

Dirk in more trouble with his deity; no spells for 3 days!

Party defeats a "big green 5-legger".  Corpse taken to local temple; Dirk, frustrated at being excluded from the autopsy, dashes up to second floor of temple and tries to drive his 2-handed sword through to the room below; too late does he realize the floor is made of stone, and he shatters his weapon.  He is then forcibly evicted from the temple.

Another foray to the island takes care of 7 more Lizardmen in a fumble-filled combat.  One Lizardman fumbles twice in the same round!

Drustan drunk by 9:30 a.m. and probably doesn't notice arrival of two new characters; Lena of the Jewel of the Lotus(Mk-1) and Votan(WrC-1) join.

Party talks to villagers and learn Lizardmen are probably coming to mainland through secret passages under the bay.  Exploration of passages reveals an undersea maze.

Drustan captured by Lizardmen, somehow.

Party finds way to island through maze of passages but does nothing once there.

Meet and take captive a powerful Magic-User on island, but Trenellan is captured by Lizardmen.

Party starts fighting everything they can find, and get in too deep: Dirk and Votan killed in separate battles.  Bitch badly hurt as well; this and subsequent poundings would not see her curable until August 30.

After recovering, Party again heads to island, and again gets clobbered: Samantha and Lena killed.  However, the Party advances far enough to rescue Drustan and Trenellan.

Magic-User captured by Party a few days ago escapes local custody and is never seen again.

Samantha raised using pooled Party and village resources.

For some reason, Tran, Drustan, and Bitch all leave at this point. (training?)

A small adventuring party arrives in town and merges with this one.  Penthesileah Firehair(F-1), Galadhriel(I-1/T-1), Fionnbhar(MU-1/T-1), and Amber Opalescent(NrC-1/R-1) all join.

The Party rows out to the island and fights a band of Lizardmen before even getting ashore.  They then start finding Humans on the island, helping the Lizardmen, and fight them as well.

Meanwhile, Lena raised back in the village, pretty much bankrupting the party.

Party finds a Cleric on the island and kills him.  Also begin finding lots of badly-needed loot along with a few scattered minor foes as they explore the island and its passages.

Explorations lead Party to a room with an odd chair in it, holding an immobile occupant.  Once released, he joins the party on the spot: Tom Selick(WrC-1/P-1) joins.

Party arrives at Bryll with a bang: Trenellan tries out a device of Wonder and lets go a lightning bolt into the city wall; Tom killed.  Resulting fight produces another lightning bolt, and some bemused city guards.

Party enters town.  Tom raised, and quested to serve Party for a year and a day.

Party "asked" to leave town, but hang around for several days.

Arrive at forest and start bashing through the assorted wildlife.

Find lots of Kobolds near ruins, and find ruins well-defended.

Party tries a direct assault on ruins and gets driven back; Harry killed.

Tom then does a suicidal solitary charge across open field (and survives!); distraction is enough to get the Party's sneaky types into the ruins, who then clear the road for the others.

Explore ruins and find the Kobolds have Human help; start culling the Human help.

Party finds and wipes out a colony of 51 Kobolds led by a powerful Human Fighter.  Strith killed.

A Demon appears.  Tran and Amber killed.  Everyone else in party at 6 hp or less except Samantha, and no cures left of any kind.

Party tries to retreat back out to the forest and on the way are almost wiped out by a small pack of wolves.

Somehow, Drustan then sets the forest on fire, interrupting the frantic search for curing herbs.

Party gives up on trebuchet and tries the direct approach again, this time successfully, and maraud their way through the ruins slaying everything in their path.

A major combat against a mixed group of Kobolds, Bugbears, and Human spellcasters.  Drustan killed.

Arrive at Opster Town, bickering all the way.  Penthesileah thrown out of Party after selling a valuable herb without asking Party's permission.  She makes her own way to Bryll, and soon finds trouble there.

Party encounters and takes in a friendly Drow here: Shedura del Rillifane(T-1) joins.

Drustan raised.

Dwalin captured by a slavers' press-gang and held on a ship in Bryll harbour, with Penthesileah.

Party notice Dwalin's absence; Samantha and Lena do a great deal of detective work tracing his movements.  Samantha hires a local mage to help with spellcraft, who ends up sticking around; Sepsa(MU-3) joins.

Having pinpointed the ship holding Dwalin, the Party rents (buys?) a boat of their own and attacks the slave ship; they completely blow the attack and are lucky to reach shore alive.

Later that day, they try again; this time succeeding, and are shocked to find Penthesileah, who rejoins.

Bitch and Lena manage to get themselves arrested by the Navy for unsafe seamanship during all this.

Shedura returns; unknown to the Party Drustan also returns, but immediately turns around and leaves again. Shedura spins a yarn that Drustan was kidnapped, sending Party on a wild-goose chase only to find Drustan safe and sound 25 miles north of town.

For some reason, people connected with the Party, such as their hotel maid, start turning up dead.

Party decides to tie Slade up and sneak him on to the same slave ship they just got Dwalin and Penthesileah from; Slade goes into slavery and isn't seen again: Slade retires, not entirely by his own choice.

Sepsa retires at this point, having no desire to become a full-time adventurer.

Trial to sort out all the laws, both land and maritime, broken by the Party while in town.  A good word from Arthur, along with the Party's pledge to help Tinwe, gets everyone off with a slap on the wrist.

Tinwe, Arthur, and Johard(F-2) join.

Trenellan chivalrously decides to swear service to the Assassins' Guild to allow Bitch to leave; Trenellan retires.

Party recruits a Magic-User; Levella Halls(MU-1) joins.

Party arrives at Silerean. Penthesileah and Tinwe fight each other; Tinwe decides to bring along some muscle as he can't trust the Party.  George Meyan(F-5) joins, along with 4 other guards.

Shedura immediately jailed on arrival as Drow not welcome here; Tinwe arranges release.

Party arrives at village of Kora-Hulien.  Tinwe gets mugged and loses all 4 of his lesser guards, all for allowing a Drow in the land; he becomes steadily more paranoid as time goes on.

Somewhere around here, Lyra Karnov(MU-1/Mk-1) joins.

Tinwe and George leave for Silerean to gather more troops.

Party learns of an abandoned temple and - thinking it a good place to start - heads there.  They stop to investigate a roadside shrine nearby; Samantha opens a door she shouldn't have and gets teleported deep into the temple.  The Party have no idea where she's gone, and carry on.

Samantha is caught and jailed immediately on arrival, but picks lock and breaks out.  Finds a couple of other prisoners and frees them also.  These three manage to take out some guards and gather equipment, then incredibly fight their way out from inside the temple, including defeating a Bone Golem put in place to stop exactly this!

Meanwhile, the main Party goes in the temple's front door and finds it anything but abandoned; several fights later they have advanced far enough to meet Samantha etc. coming out.  One of the prisoners she rescued leaves immediately, the other - Baik Telor(F-4) - joins party.

They continue bashing their way around, and encounter someone who is here as a guest of "the Rahib", the guy who runs the place.  Conveniently ignoring this little detail, the party takes him in: Horatio Hellpop(A-1) joins.  They then kill the Rahib, and leave.

For some reason, Arthur, Johard, and Shedura leave; Arthur and Johard head to the Elvish capital; Shedura heads for points unknown and is not seen again (but is now T-2).

Party picks up another recruit: Cinhil Arilan(NrC-1/MU-1) joins, instantly giving the Party communication via his psyonics.

Back to temple for more small battles, and again return to village.

Richard Charles Bains ("Pugsley")(R-1/MU-1) joins later that afternoon.

Party again forays into temple, soon sending Baik back to the village with a group of captives.  A big argument ensues over a trivial amount of money (3 g.p.) taken by Pugsley, after which everyone retreats to the village.

Tinwe and George rejoin later that day, having found no new troops in Silerean.

After a stormy trip, Party arrives in Bryll.  Another round of training goes on until Jan 5.

Penthesileah commissions a set of rings as gifts for the Party; these later become significant. [see Beacon Hill]

Pugsley and Samantha scout around the camp from the mountain ridges above.  Amazingly, they neither fall nor start an avalanche, and return soon after daybreak.

Much time spent planning an assault.  Dwarves want to storm in.  Horatio and Dwalin want to get everyone in camp drunk, then storm in.  Bitch and Judah want to blow things up.  Samantha and Pugsley want to sneak in.  Eventually, the Party does all of the above.

Bitch sneaks into the camp, learns much about occupants, and finds Drustan but cannot free him.

Party quickly arranges a cart full of liquor (from the Dwarves?) and has it delivered to the camp near mid-day.

Near dusk Bitch and Lena sneak down into camp, each carrying a glass ball that, when broken, goes up with a bang.  Pugsley (and Horatio?) sneak close to buildings and set one on fire to draw occupants outside, then flee.  When occupants (including a Giant!) gather to douse fire, Bitch throws her ball...and wipes out nearly half the camp including herself: Bitch killed in a 97-point fireball!

Rest of Party roars into the camp and mops up.  Drustan freed, along with about 80 others: Drustan rejoins.

Night spent looting, and settling some deadly fights among the rescued slaves; 2 killed.

5 more slaves killed by infighting overnight, and 3 missing.

Party arrives at Zanar-Khex in afternoon, turns rescuees over to Dwarves (with a sigh of relief!).

Bitch fails resurrection.

Big party in evening with Dwarves.

Arrive Kerratrim.  Somewhere along here, a piece of string with a note was left across Horatio's throat as he slept.  Samantha did some work trying to track the source, after which everyone forgot about it.

Samantha and Pugsley retire, each to find adventures of their own; both would return in Valanyr's Hovel.

Event attracts notice of local royalty, some of whom announce their intention to attend.

Show sells out, prompting Party to arrange a second show; 4 beans to be planted at the first, 5 at the second.

Several thousand people cram their way into the marquee for the show, including a local Prince and several courtiers.  Party stands inside cage, except Drustan who spends the entire time bartending.

First bean, after much fanfare and buildup, generates 3 giant bluebottle flies, soon slain by the Party.

Second bean sprouts into a tree bearing 29 longswords as fruit.  Crowd decidedly unimpressed.

Third bean produces 6 very lost and confused Wood Elves; somehow the Party refrain from attacking, and these unfortunates are led away for orientation (and therapy?).  Crowd getting hostile.

Fourth bean produces 5 Sandmen, and the ensuing combat provides a bit of entertainment for the now-bored crowd.  Prince and retainers leave after this, and appear disappointed.

Party debates options while crowd boos, and decides to plant a fifth bean.  This generates a massive Cloud Dragon, so big it can barely fit in the cage, and mass panic ensues.  Dragon breathes twice, killing several characters and the high-level backup Cleric: Levella, Cinhil, and Lena killed.  Cinhil finished at a staggering -89!  Numerous deaths in the surrounding streets as well, as the marquee disintegrates with the first breath.  Dwalin charges 3 times before reaching Dragon.  Party and others finally slay it.

Thorrhalla flees in the confusion; rest of Party arrested and thrown in jail.

Sentencing:  Thorrhalla is completely cleared; Horatio is sentenced to death as instigator of proceedings;  Drustan, Judah, Penthesileah, and Dwalin found guilty of various minor things, fined, and banished from Nyrthac.  Interdict is also laid against raising those Party members killed by the Dragon.

Thorrhalla retires. Horatio executed, and body made unraiseable.

Drustan, Judah, Penthesileah, and Dwalin are sent far away by teleport on the King's orders.

Party teleported to a small island in the middle of an unknown ocean.  Drustan singlehandedly defeats a couple of Berserkers here.  Party explores island and finds another, marginally less hostile person: Lorithen of Ravenwood(R-2/I-2) joins.

Party finds an entrance into an odd complex of rooms within the island.

One room holds a small mechanical man endlessly touching his toes over and over; this "little metal model wogglebug" would remain with the Party for some 5 years.

Party meets and defeats any number of odd creatures, including Leprechauns, Hobgoblins, Rats, and even a few people.  Great difficulty navigating as the rooms do not conjoin logically: every door is a teleport.

An old friend shows up with no idea how he got here: Trenellan rejoins, insisting it is June outside.