Balin shows up, and tells Party of developments in the southlands.  A second party had to go in and clean out Opster Woods, as this group hadn't finished the job.  War is sweeping the continent.  This Party has a role to play in perhaps ending it, but nobody has a clue what that might be.  Balin then heads off once more.

Meanwhile Drustan is out finding a new recruit: Kevin Trox(F-2) joins.

Valsein(MU-4) joins, tells of strange lights appearing in a mountain pass to the west.

Wanting no part of prophecies, Drustan and Kevin leave (and wind up in Night's Dark Terror A).

Easily defeat "Necro-Man".

Against the odds, Lorithen finds a trap on a door; Valsein casts Enlarge on door to gain entry.  A Vampire awaits within but is slain without problem.(!)

Black and white tiles on floor provide all kinds of puzzlement; in fact, the colours mean nothing.

Somehow, Trenellan and Valsein get their levels restored.

Valsein suddenly departs for surface and, unknown to Party, sets up a "gate" to allow a Devil access to complex... and Party.

Dwalin's armour teleports him outside; he runs right into the invading army and is lucky to escape.

On re-entering complex, Dwalin triggers Valsein's gate far too early, and summons a Devil.  Dwalin ends up feebleminded, Valsein ends up insane, and Trenellan ends up dead; Trenellan killed.  Valsein's role in creating the gate would never be revealed (though some had strong suspicions).

Penthesileah and Lorithen walk to a nearby Elvish community and return with reinforcements: 16 Elves.

Dwalin gets his mind back, then he and Judah try to build some sort of defensive wall that is soon overrun.

Valsein stripped of all possessions, while some of the Elves go off to look for more help.

Everyone wakes up having had strange dreams, ranging from White Dragons to Drustan to various.

Lorithen and Carter both gain levels from their dreams; Carter is also quested to do (something).

Dwalin takes 5 of the Elves into the complex; one Elf killed by a trap.

Party has had enough and decides to head west to Cambi, as the battleline is between them and Ballydoon.

Jumped by an enemy patrol: 4 Goblins, 5 Hobgoblins, 2 Humans(F-4, NrC-3), and 1 "Invincible" in mid-afternoon.  Penthesileah killed; most of the rest of Party clobbered: a 34-round combat only resolves when Drustan(!) somehow gets summoned to the scene, kills the Invincible in 2 swings, and disappears.

Party conducts extensive forensic studies on the slain Invincible for the rest of the day, then fly away.

Mugged by Ogres while camping that evening; decide to travel overnight.

Travelling by night and resting by day; during this day Party watches a huge army of Giants, Bugbears, and Kobolds pass beneath their cliffside camp.

That night, Party encounters a Mountain Giant and fools it into ignoring them.

During the night, Party walks up to camp and asks permission to pass through.  They get it, but are carefully scrutinized as they pass by the Drow, who are still looking for Judah.  He, invisible, is hiding in the middle of the Party, hoping their magic possessions will mask his presence.  It works, and the Party gets in some good reconnoitering on their way through, though they never do figure out why the army is even there at all.

Make camp for the day on a high ridge overlooking camp.

After dark, Penthesileah flies everyone down; Giants take a few pot-shots at her but miss.

Meet a local Ranger during the night, who warns of a Hobgoblin camp farther up the valley.

Party moves on and finds this camp, carefully skirts it, and run right into a patrol of 3 Goblins, 2 Hobgoblins, and an Invincible.  Another extremely long combat; Judah and Lorithen take on the Hobgoblins while Penthesileah, Dwalin, and Valsein take on the rest, and Soridar watches.

Rest through day, then harrassed by 4 Hobgoblins in evening.

Fed up with this, Penthesileah and Valsein generate some avalanches and block the pass.

Into complex.  A more careful search than last time reveals a hidden door to a new level, Party enters.

Judah and Penthesileah each lose a level against a Wraith.

Party finds an enchanted Broom and spends ages trying to make it fly; it was a Broom of Protection +1!

Lots of fun with an anti-gravity hall until Soridar finds a deadly trap the hard way: Soridar killed.

A curse on a book turns Lorithen against the Party; Valsein puts her and Penthesileah to sleep.

Party finds an Orb, unexpectedly.  Orb restores levels to Penthesileah and Judah.  Then, a racetrack for flying chairs generates some fun that soon turns into a spell fight: Lorithen causes Valsein to crash, Valsein charges, everyone jumps in.  By the time the dust settles, Tabatha is the only character standing and free to act!

Party gets it together in time to defeat a Lich-in-making.

8 Ogres provide little opposition other than clobbering Lorithen.

A high-level Nature Cleric "Eveyd" and a bunch of animated trees give Party a much rougher time of it; only Judah and Tabatha remain above 0 h.p., but everyone survives.

Arrive at Krell's and negotiate purchase of a magic glove and gem; these the reason the Party came here.

Krell's guards attack Party as they try to leave; now that Krell has the Party's money, he wants the items back so he can sell them again - he knows of others who are interested.  Party escapes with the items intact.

Arrive at Krell's once more, having stopped only to slay a hungry Gryphon on the way.

Kill Krell after bypassing most of his guards, then flee.

Followed out by another party who are here attempting to buy or steal the items the Party already has; a huge spellfire battle ensues on a rocky slope above a road, but the original Party wins.  Lorithen killed again.

Penthesileah, Judah, and Khrellan kill a couple of wild Boars; Penthesileah butchers and smokes these, and the Party eats well.

A Hydra proves no match for the Party.

Start picking off Bugbears a few at a time, via ambushes.  Realize much of the camp is below ground.

Lisse, Fimble, and Penthesileah explore enough to figure out where the helmet is, but cannot get to it.

Trenellan, who has had a Wish outstanding for many months, finally casts it by accident and teleports every Bugbear in the caves out to the surface, along with the Party.  A massive brawl ensues here; Trenellan killed.

Party then leaves.  A few miles away, Lisse and Tabatha have to deal with a Dryad who has eyes on Khrellan.

Party reaches a community of Elves.  Dwalin made a Duke by Penthesileah.

At this point, the Party splits in half for some reason.

Arrive, and find a Ranger scouting the area: Nylund(R-4) joins (from Night's Dark Terror B).

Realize there's many more Bugbears here than first thought.

Penthesileah buys a bar in Widdershyn for use as a Party base; rehires the existing staff to run it.

Lisse is approached in the bar by another Elf: "Pip pip!  Buy you a beer, babe?"  Party thinks this is hilarious and invites Elf to stick around: Elzinore(F-3) joins.  Lisse, thoroughly offended, decides to head home for a visit; Lisse leaves.

Defeat a Frost Giant and some giant wolves, but keep the Frost Giant as a prisoner.

Find "Dagda's Thumb", a stone circle with a structure beneath, and enter.

A dozen battles with Gargoyles later, Party finds a huge animated boulder.  This poses some riddles, and gives up the Elixir on getting the right answers.  Party leaves, now looking for some sort of tower, killing the Frost Giant as they go.

Find a swamp that fits description of where they need to go.  Once well in it, Party is attacked by endless waves of Imps; these prove little more than a nuisance.

A band of Satyrs prove much more troublesome, charming almost half the Party.  Khrellan ends up being carried off by Dwalin.  Judah ends up waltzing with Nylund.  Penthesileah, Elzinore, and Fimble are taken to the Satyrs' lair.  Lisse and Lorithen remain uncharmed, while Tabatha turns the tables and charms a Satyr!  By so doing, she is able to learn the location of the lair, and Penthesileah and Elzinore are soon rescued.  Fimble cannot be found, however; Fimble leaves.

Invading soldiers and Party arrive at the stone circle at the same time.  Party wins the race, and hurriedly sets up defenses around the henge.

Henge already has defenses; Party has to deal with some statues, a Spectre, and a huge animated rock, all before the army charges.  Then, they have to hold off the army.

Enter tower.  Defeat a cat several times; it regenerates after each defeat, only bigger.

Find and kill 3 Salamanders.

That evening, Bitch(B-4) and Pugsley(R-3/MU-2) join, not having been seen since the southlands.

Party tricks Pugsley into going into room with the now-huge cat in it; he does, and Pugsley killed.

Top floor of tower is filled with deadly coloured walls of light.  Dwalin reduced to 6" tall by one of these.

Party leaves to rest in forest; disturbs a Golem on the way out and gets clobbered yet again.

Penthesileah raised.  Somehow, Dwalin returned to normal size around now also.

That night, Judah hires 2 gigolos for Bitch's amusement and pleasure.

By now completely fed up with this endless search, the Party throws caution to the wind and wades into the tomb.  Several battles with Ghouls are followed by a much tougher fight with a pair of Stone Golems, but the Party sails through without problem.

Shortly after this, Party meets an Iron Golem; they can't handle it, and flee.  It chases them in circles around the tomb until it finally falls into a pit that it can't climb out of; they simply leave it here, and carry on.

Nylund killed, either by the Iron Golem or something immediately after.

Nylund raised somehow, within minutes of dying.

Party goes through Pillars of Nimra and finds itself in a very different world.  Caution returns in a hurry!

Rudimentary exploration, and removal of a couple of extremely large insects from their campsite, before bed.

Battle a pair of cockatrices during the night; nobody gets stoned.

Realizing there's a village nearby, Party heads for it and enters.  Ardel, its leader, makes the Party welcome, but only if they're willing to help her in a battle with a neighbouring village.  Party declines the offer.

Head for neighbouring village, led by "Marna" - who is in fact Llewellyn!  She thinks Party are spies for Ardel, and has them arrested, to be fed to the Pteranydons unless they come clean.  Party refuses to be ordered around, so Rocky becomes birdfood: Rocky killed.  Seeing this, the Party fight back, and after a huge brawl are able to battle their way out with Marna as a captive.

Return to Ardel's village; she is overjoyed to see Marna has been captured, and immediately sends her troops out to wipe out Marna's village, which they do.  Meanwhile, Party has to battle their way through a Priestess to get to the gate back home.  They win, but Nylund killed again by a fire trap just moments after.

Tabatha raised.

Drustan and Bitch leave via planeshift. [see below]

Bitch seduces Drustan. (at last!)

Plane-shift again, to a desert landscape. (the Australian outback, circa 1978)

Walk across the desert until passed by a slow-moving train; they board it, and soon manage to get in a fight with half the passengers.  Someone pulls a gun but does not get the chance to use it.  Eventually, B+D take the whole car hostage, and figure out how the gun works.

Train pulls into a village some 30 miles north of Melbourne.  B+D arrested; try to escape via use of the Amulet but it fails repeatedly (this is a non-magic world) until the next full moon, when it works...

Weather finally clears up, and the Humans and Party together mount an offensive against the Minotaurs.  A massive set-piece battle ensues, with hundreds of warriors on each side.  Flying over the whole thing, and helping the Minotaurs, is a rider on a White Dragon; this individual would manage to capture Penthesileah during the battle, and carry her off.  The only person to notice this is Lorithen; she does her best to follow, and gets blasted by spellcraft from the Dragon's rider.  She tries to flee, but is bleeding to death, and ends up also getting taken captive.

Some impressive damage done during the battle: Penthesileah does a 60-point sword attack before getting captured, while Tabatha hits a Minotaur with a slingstone for 24 points.

Party are given an iceboat as thanks for their help; spend a few days learning how to sail it.

Finish climbing, find a set of buildings at base of spire.

Penthesileah and Lorithen(now recovered) ambush Party as they enter a building; Party manages to get them both uncharmed before killing them, but not easily.  Then, find and slay the Mage who had them charmed, while the White Dragon flies off under a hail of missiles.

Lorithen takes out her frustrations by blowing away an inoffensive Polar Bear.

Party finds 3 small White Dragons; Tabatha charms one, and the other 2 are slain.  Party wades into a system of caves, and finds both the White Orb and a clutch of 16 dragon eggs.  Tabatha determines they are still fertile, and with great care the Party takes them along.

For some reason, Tabatha also charms a wolf.

Arrive back in Fjellmar; Khrellan immediately corners peat market futures.  Buy bows and arrange for arrows.  Party leases a small warehouse for bows and arrows; Khrellan stays with it, with 1000 g.p. from the Party: Khrellan retires, and finds his true calling later as a corporate executive.

Party forms the 7-Dwarves Holding Company (7-DHC), and contemplates buying the whole island of Finnia!

By now, Llewellyn has proven himself quite useless as a King; he is given the White Orb and sent off on a quest, while Penthesileah takes over rulership: Penthesileah retires.

Party takes a break for training, rest, and corporate wheeling and dealing; Fozzdyk retires to work for 7-DHC.