Party notices ruins of what turns out to have been a monastery, and decides to investigate.

Find ruins to be occupied by a number of undead including a giant Zombie.

Nathan loses 2 levels to a Wight.

A patrol of 3 Hobgoblins, 5 Orcs, and 12 Goblins stumbles into Party's camp about 2 a.m. and has a field day. Nathan killed, everyone else in the Party ends up at -3 h.p. or worse except Willis at +2; Party uses up a lot of combat and curative resources (potions, herbs, etc.) just to survive, and have no tents left.

One Hobgoblin captured and charmed, thus Zith(F-2) joins.

Camp moved to a better spot.

Nathan raised in the field by Cymbal, using a stick given to Nathan by Valanyr for this purpose.

Fileane(F-1/T-4) joins.

A lone Gnoll is captured and charmed.

Weather warms up dramatically (from about -2 Feb 8 to +21 today); Shelanier killed by an avalanche.

Long argument about where to camp while digging Shelanier's body out.

Overnight, Party's hilltop camp is visited by an odd individual, who turns out to be a Gold Dragon in Elven form; she blesses the Party, cures some of them up, and leaves.

Another Hobgoblin patrol causes problems in the morning, but Party prevails. (Willis to T-3)

At one point during this combat, Willis notices a Hobgoblin archer up a tree; he climbs a nearby tree and swings on a rope, Tarzan-style, to knock the archer off his perch.  To Willis' horror, the Hobgoblin (who was wearing a Ring of Levitation) floats off the branch, calmly turns around, and shoots him: Willis killed.

Back to hilltop camp; Fileane kills the charmed Gnoll for some reason, sparking an argument.

Reach the stronghold at last; find it held by Monks who attack first and ask questions never, and several minor battles later the Party have established a small beachhead at the castle entrance.

Nathan goes off exploring by himself and gets jumped by 4 Monks; he kills 2 somehow, and the others flee.

Carcinda manages to charm one of the Monks but most of what he says makes no sense at all.

Party continues cautiously advancing; find a small safe room and make camp.

A staircase up is held by a small band of Monks; Party has just defeated these and is advancing up stairs when a huge head appears at the top and - after cackling briefly - spews a devastating rain of acid down on the Party: Nathan, Britta, Fileane, and Zith killed.

Survivors engage the head, attached to a huge Black Dragon, in conversation while Carcinda quietly plots; she then grabs the others and teleports (via her Helm) to Valanyr's just as the Dragon breathes again.

In attempting to outrun pirates (they think) in very strong winds, too much sail is put up and ship loses its mast.

3-way ship-to-ship combat follows, as there are two competing bands of pirates out here; pirates fight each other, leaving Party's disabled ship as the winners' prize.

Winning pirates come alongside to board, but Party defeats them and captures their ship.

Yet another pirate ship appears; Party don't have enough sailing skill to mount a credible defense, so somehow Wolanin is polymorphed into a seagull and sent over to pursuing craft to discourage it (how?); whatever he does goes wrong, and he is shot down as he tries to flee: Wolanin killed.

Party's new ship is not in much better shape than the old one: "mainmast burnt and weakened...topsail gone...holed in stern...taking on water, bailers holding".

Once ashore, Gunther goes off on his own and manages to get mugged; Amberyle bails him out, and they take a captive: Helena Rogansdottir(F-4) joins.

Talking to Helena reveals this whole island is owned and run by pirates.

Baldor leaves for now, preferring to find his own way to the mainland and walk to Endridge from there. (he also wants to train in Thief; the Party think him an ordinary Ranger)

After a long overland journey, Party arrives at Endridge to the great surprise of the locals, who had written them off for dead weeks ago.

Somewhere around now, a spell failure costs Cymbal about 20% of her weight; to reflect this, she changes her name to Cybal.

Learn of a major uprising against the Hobgoblins in a nearby Elvish forest.

Baldor rejoins, having travelled by stagecoach and thus enjoyed a much easier trip.

Nathan resurrected by Cybal with her stick.

Scouting reveals the castle is now held by Gnolls, but they seem to be only going through the motions.

Attempt to sneak in after sunset by having Baldor climb the wall and throw down a rope; he blows it, and the crash he makes on landing alerts all the Gnolls.  Baldor killed.  "Gnolls 1, Party 0".

Gnolls all swarm to the side where Baldor fell, so Party walks around the castle and goes in the front door.

Party evens the score by killing one (1) Gnoll sentry.

Discover some sort of mage's laboratory and explore; a teleporter here sends various people all over the place, most notably Nazardene who ends up many miles away; he spends all day getting back.

Nathan and Carcinda end up in a meadow; Kajsa, a hawk belonging to Asha, then goes through: Nathan shoots it.

Carcinda makes it back to Party during night, as does Nathan, but Nathan goes exploring, gets teleported again and winds up on Geratha's back!  Nathan killed, but his yells alert the Party and they come running.

Geratha defeated, but Nazardene killed.

While exploring Geratha's lair, Carcinda and Asha somehow come in contact with someone called Nasri.

Carcinda, feeling sorry for this Nasri, teleports to wherever he is and joins him - and gets stuck there.

A band of Hobbits, including Mimosa Clerics, visit Party on their way to try and track down the Orb found by the Party on their last visit; they never ask Party about it, thus don't learn it was already found and sold, and waste weeks looking for it in the stronghold.

Reach stronghold in evening (but no sign of the Hobbits), and make camp close to where Carcinda vanished.

Through teleporter to "Nasri-land"; here find one of the Hobbits from earlier.

Nasri's pets - Owlbears and Hill Giants - attack and manage to thrash Amberyle and Niba, but don't last long.

Party tries to leave, but Carcinda refuses (she's charmed to Nasri), so Party agitates Nasri until he snaps and attacks.  Carcinda breaks charm, and everyone escapes.

Before long, they realize they have no way of returning home other than via Nasri; they return to his house and - after a short battle - negotiations begin.

During this battle, a small part of Nathan, being carried by Cybal for later resurrection, turned itself into a full-blown and very much alive Bugbear; some spellcraft soon turned him back to normal, thus Nathan resurrected in one of the most bizarre ways possible!

A deal is struck: Party must go and retrieve a sword for Nasri from one of his neighbours; once done, he will teleport them home.

The sword is recovered in record time, as the neighbour (Irdig) was all too happy to see it go.

Nasri teleports the Party "home", but in fact sends most of them to a rather dangerous place in one last fit of pique.

Carcinda does get sent back to the stronghold; Carcinda retires.

Through this adventure, Gunther managed to amass more treasure than the rest of the Party put together!

Expecting to arrive at the stronghold, Party appears in some sort of castle and are jumped by 6 Orcs.

An out-of-place Paladin comes marching down a hall; Ancalidon Turamarth(P-2) joins, having also come here by mistake.

Niba killed in a battle with 16 Zombies.

Find a way outside and realize they are atop a huge tower; the valley below looks more dangerous than the tower, so they stay up here.

Nasri buried in a cairn on a ledge on one side of the tower; Gunther now unopposed in his Amberyle chase, and a romance develops there.

Back inside; a few minor combats interrupt lots of exploring.

Find and rescue a Human prisoner (Lespi).

Walk into a room with 3 Drow in it; these are illusions, but good enough to kill Lespi.

Somehow, Nathan gets teleported to Valanyr's house; thus Nathan leaves.

3 more Drow show up and get a good jump on things as Party thinks they too are illusions; they're not, and Party manages to capture two of them.

One of the captive Drow does not show as evil, and seems decent enough, so Tamjeeka(MU-5) joins; the other captive is killed.

Ancalidon contacts his mentor psyonically and asks for help; she relays to an MU friend, and he teleports to the Party with the mentor: Nilareth(NrC-9) joins.

Slight problem convincing Nilareth Tamjeeka is for real, then Nilareth leaves and Party continues exploring.

A Leprechaun causes some trickery for a while, then vanishes.

Gunther killed by something called a "Triquatch"; Amberyle surprisingly unconcerned.

Nilareth throws Speak with Dead on Gunther; will not raise him unless he swears fealty to her, he refuses.

Everyone plane-shifted by Nilareth to Ballydoon.

Reach island after a long weather delay, enter castle ruins and wade through various occupants; the only glitch comes when Magnolia loses a level to a Wraith.

Find a statue of the Gnome deity Segojanne, and camp at its feet.

Magnolia gets her level restored overnight; various others feel much healthier, and Cybal's morning prayers take a fraction of the usual time - all due to the statue, or so the Party thinks.

Ancalidon goes exploring by himself and finds a teleport site; spends hours bouncing around in the telenet before returning.

Rest of Party continues exploring, and clobbering every living thing they meet, then sack out.

Gunther explores alone later; somehow avoids lots of Troglodytes, but a Giant Lizard gets him: Gunther killed.

Somehow, a lone adventurer is found, and Gareth ap Malahat(F-2/MU-3) joins.

Overnight, a raccoon bites Cybal on the foot; as raccoons are the totem animal of his deity, Cybal takes this as a holy sign - but has no idea what it means.

A combat with 5 Troglodytes leaves Party in surprisingly bad shape; other than Asha and Nathan, Party's net h.p. add to +7.

After much trouble, Party gains entry to a room containing various entities: a Vampire, several Gargoyles, and a living statue that is in fact a manifestation of Bearovan.

Statue gives rewards (a level!) to various characters for making it this far; characters then leave.

Somehow, a Demon is summoned.  Ancalidon killed; his corpse is immediately taken over by the Demon and then slain again, and Cybal is able to banish the Demon.

Gareth sleeps with Asha.

Return to Nilareth's; gather Asha and Gareth, and head back to bandit camp.

Silka(I-3) joins along the way.

Rescue a number of people from a hidden prison behind a waterfall, and to her amazement Cybal recognizes one of them from Trey Hill: Wavish Womby(MU-3) joins.  Also, Annagh(WrC-3) joins.

Nathan finally catches up to Party after training.