Telenet Adventure
Log
Part 7: Dead Lands and Bandits
Split - Treasure Hunt to Temple of
Elemental Evil 3
40. Treasure Hunt August-September
1990
Background and summary: the Party hears rumours of a big treasure
somewhere, and decides to go and get it. They wander around aimlessly
for weeks, finally encountering Ents, who guide them to a treasure
trove. While the coinage and obvious valuables catch the Party's
eye, the real treasure ultimately turns out to be a bag of innocuous-looking
rocks that would prove crucial both sooner (in the Party's next
two adventures) and later (in the last frantic run-up to The
End).
Starting members(from Interlude):
Cybal(NrC-7), Asha(R-5), Amberyle(I-4/T-3), Jamie(F-5), Ancalidon(P-4),
Annagh(WrC-3), Nathan(R-4/MU-2), Magnolia(T-3),
Gareth(F-3/MU-3), Wavish(MU-3)
| Aug 23 487 |
Party begins to regather after a training
break, and starts travelling to nowhere in particular. |
| Sep 3 |
Battle with a gang of bandits and Clerics
on a road somewhere. |
| Sep 10 |
Teresa(NrC-3) joins; Party still
travelling. |
| Sep 17 |
Teresa casts a spell for some reason,
blows it, and her horse gains a level as a result. |
| Sep 18 |
Arrive Fernmeet. |
| Sep 21 |
Depart Fernmeet after Gareth is tried
for his part in a brawl while in town. |
| Sep 26 |
Encounter a bunch of bandits and rescue
a prisoner, thus Ciannagh Mac Con(T-0) joins. |
| Party splits; for some reason Jamie,
Ancalidon, Teresa, and Wavish leave, head to Cohena,
and await the rest of the Party there. |
| Encounter "Roughbark", an
Ent, and begin travelling with him. |
| Sep 29 |
Battle against 18 Gnolls, no problem. |
| Sep 30 |
Most of day spent talking Roughbark
out of taking Party on a 3-month detour to visit his home.
Instead, he just takes Amberyle, but stays with Party. |
| Arrive at an Entmoot. |
| Oct 1 |
While Ents talk, Party explores; finds
some sort of ruins and determine there's treasure here, and
spend the day digging it up. |
| Cybal manages to imprison Nathan miles
below the surface using a spell from a Book of Infinite Spells;
the page then turns, and Nathan is stuck, thus Nathan killed
when he suffocates. |
| Oct 2 |
A Dryad makes Ciannagh's life interesting
for a short while. |
| Back to Ents, then leave after each
receiving a dose of Entdraft and becoming slightly taller. |
| Oct 3 |
Spend the night with some Elves. |
| Oct 5 |
Reach a Gnomish town. Amberyle tries
casting a minor spell that evening and manages to take out half
the hotel; locals decidedly unimpressed, but Amberyle killed
in the process, thus there's nobody left to press charges against! |
| Oct 7 |
Leave Gnome lands after paying a rather
hefty repair bill in order to be allowed to take Amberyle's
body. |
| Oct 8 |
Amberyle raised, somehow. |
| Oct 11 |
Amberyle loses her mind in a crystal
ball - again - but is restored to sanity later. |
| Oct 13 |
For some reason, the Party is informed
this day that Carcinda is dead, but as she is in fact
no longer on this world (and hasn't been for some time) this
is inaccurate. The Party doesn't know this, however. |
| Oct 15 |
Arrive Cohena and regroup with Jamie
and company. |
| Nathan recovered via wish. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-7), Asha(R-5), Amberyle(I-4/T-3),
Jamie(F-5), Ancalidon(P-4), Annagh(WrC-3),
Nathan(R-4/MU-2), Magnolia(T-3), Gareth(F-3/MU-3),
Wavish(MU-3), Ciannagh(T-1), Teresa(NrC-3)
New members: Ciannagh, Teresa
Retirees: Jamie(to Temple of Elemental Evil
1)
Casualties: (Nathan, Amberyle - both revived)
Continuing parties (to Ruins of Andante):
Cybal, Asha, Amberyle, Gareth, Ancalidon, Nathan, Gareth, Teresa
(to Mawc-1): Annagh, Magnolia,
Wavish, Ciannagh
MAWC-1 (mini) December 1991
Background and summary: some people do something meaningful
for some reason, and then retire.
Starting members(from Treasure Hunt):
Annagh(WrC-3), Magnolia(T-3), Wavish(MU-3), Ciannagh(T-1)
| Jan 21 488 |
Start of adventure. |
| Jan |
Sometime during this, Annagh killed;
Ciannagh killed. |
| Feb 6 |
End of adventure. |
| Feb 8 |
Annagh and Ciannagh raised. |
Surviving members: Annagh(WrC-4), Magnolia(T-4), Wavish(MU-4/F-1),
Ciannagh(T-1)
New members: none
Retirees: all
Casualties: (Annagh, Ciannagh - both revived)
Continuing party: none.
41. Ruins of Andante October
1990-March 1991
Background and summary: the bag of stones found in the last
adventure proved to be something most unusual, in that their power
was to negate the ever-present magic glitch for anyone who carried
one. Armed with this knowledge, the Party decides to go
where the magic glitch was at its worst: the ruined plain of Cipemet,
on a faraway continent, where the source of the trouble lay.
With no idea how to get there other than to take a boat and sail
into a teleport site, they bounce around in teleports for
months before finally arriving underneath Andante, a ruined city
on the Cipemet plain. Once there, they realize two things:
one, that their Elves and other magic-based creatures are themselves
being adversely affected by the hostile environment; and
two, that the creatures that still reside here are more than they
could handle. So, instead of exploring the area fully, the
Party splits in two, with the larger group heading west and a smaller
group going south, and just try to escape the area.
Starting members(from Treasure Hunt):
Cybal(NrC-7), Asha(R-5), Amberyle(I-4/T-3), Ancalidon(P-4), Nathan(R-4/MU-2),
Gareth(F-3/MU-3), Teresa(NrC-3)
| Oct 17 487 |
Party buys a boat, and rounds up some
recruits: Nessa(F-3) and Lothwen(NtC-3) join. |
| Oct 18 |
Ship sails with all aboard; one of
the crew would eventually become significant, thus Tusalora(F-3)
joins. |
| Oct 22 |
Three stormy days leave Cybal and Gareth
wishing they had stayed home; Gareth was not too ill to be busy
elsewhere, however, and thanks to him one of the crew was already
pregnant (but didn't know it yet). |
| Oct 29 |
Another storm nearly kills one of the
crew, but all survive. |
| Oct 31 |
Gareth and Asha begin an on again-off
again fling. |
| Dec 4 |
Asha learns she is also pregnant, thanks
to Gareth; meanwhile, ship is still sailing around looking for
anything of note. |
| Dec 14 |
After almost 2 months at sea, the ship
finally hits a teleport and winds up in a river. |
| A dragon attacks as soon as the ship
appears here, catching everyone off guard. Nessa and
Gareth killed. |
| Nathan somehow gets separated from
Party and bounces around in the teleports, at one point reaching
the teleport lake underneath Dafan's Nakki-Nakk. |
| Dec 15 |
Party drag their ship upstream, then
let it float down through the teleport site; somehow Cybal gets
left behind, but Nathan is waiting at the first place they get
to. |
| Several teleports later, return to
river site and pick up Cybal. |
| More teleporting, eventually to a peaceful
coastline where they drop anchor. |
| Nessa and Gareth raised
by Cybal. |
| Weigh anchor and keep going; ship teleports
to a lake high in some mountains on Ilarshei, then to
open ocean on the same world. |
| Dec 16 |
One last teleport gets ship to a stormy
underground lake; Nathan thinks it is the same lake he was at
earlier, but he is soon proven wrong when the ship crashes into
a rocky shore. |
| Begin exploring around lake, eventually
find passages leading away, and fight through animated dust
bunnies. |
| Eventually get outdoors into a ruined
and very bleak city; realize they have lost about half a day
due to time zone change, and go back inside. |
| Start clobbering lots of little mutant
creatures that seem to infest the area. |
| Amberyle killed when a trapped
chest blows up in her face. |
| Something in one of the chests nulls
Ancalidon's psyonics; he refuses to do anything until the problem
is solved. |
| Amberyle raised by Cybal once
Party makes camp. |
| Ancalidon realizes a coin is causing
his psyonic troubles, and gets rid of it. |
| Dec 17 |
Outdoors once again, find undead roaming
the streets in daylight: Asha loses a level (to R-4) to a Wight. |
| Undead become tougher and more numerous
as day goes on, Party finally retreats indoors. |
| Dec 18 |
Start exploring the large building
they are in; manage to avoid (by sheer luck!) a Lich, among
other equally deadly things. |
| Somewhere along here, Party acquires
item #894 - a bad wood carving of a duck - and, as it seems
so out of place they are convinced it must be magical (it isn't),
they keep it. |
| Dec 19 |
Find an old chapel far beneath the
building; somehow summon Aldur (a long-unknown deity), who resurrects
a couple of noteworthy corpses in the chapel, thus Esill(F-17)
and Lockara(NrC-15) join for a short while. |
| Bolstered by Lockara's presence, Party
starts taking on Demons, a Vampire, and anything else that crosses
their path. |
| Ancalidon loses a level he had just
bumped into, thus back to P-4. |
| Dec 20 |
Somehow, Cybal gets a "commune"
away; learns clues to avoid nastiest opponents yet find treasure.
|
| Dec 21 |
The ship's Captain, one of three remaining
seamen, gets killed by a failed teleport. |
| Pennafor(F-4/T-1) joins, having
also come here by teleport. She, Esill, and Lockara compare
notes and figure out where they are. |
| Expedition outdoors finds the Captain's
corpse, buried to the waist by the blown teleport. |
| Dec 22 |
Esill, Lockara, and Pennafor leave,
heading southeast clobbering everything they meet. |
| Party carries on, exploring into some
sort of tomb and finding many undead. |
| Dec 23 |
Find and destroy the mummy of Dymytra;
her spirit gives gifts to the Party in return for this favour,
including training for several (Nat. to R-5, Ter. to NrC-4,
Lot. to NtC-4) and an abortion to the pregnant sailor. |
| Shortly after this, Amberyle loses
a level she had just gained, so back to I-4/T-3. |
| Dec 24 |
Back outdoors; Ancalidon contacts Lockara
and finds they are still bashing their way through town; they
return, so Pennafor rejoins. |
| Dec 26 |
By now realizing they are becoming
ill due to the environment, people decide to leave. Nathan,
Ancalidon, and Pennafor leave with Esill and Lockara,
to head south; rest of Party goes west. |
| Amberyle gets her level restored, via
Cybal. |
| Dec 30 |
After several days of ever-worsening
health, Party reaches grasslands and begins to feel better. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-7), Asha(R-6), Amberyle(I-4/T-4),
Teresa(NrC-4), Lothwen(NtC-4), Gareth(F-3/MU-3),
Nessa(F-4), Tusalora(F-3), Ancalidon(P-4), Nathan(R-5/MU-2),
Pennafor(F-4/T-1)
New members: Nessa, Lothwen, Tusalora, Pennafor
Retirees: Nathan(to Temple of Elemental Evil
1); Ancalidon(to Against the Pirates);
Pennafor(dies later)
Casualties: (Nessa, Gareth, Amberyle - all raised)
Continuing party(to Journeys In Neidra):
Cybal, Asha, Amberyle, Teresa, Lothwen, Gareth, Nessa, Tusalora
So what becomes of Nathan, Ancalidon, and Pennafor?
| Dec 28 |
Ancalidon is forced to use his cure
disease ability to keep Nathan going; Ancalidon himself,
though an Elf, is proving surprisingly resistant - unknown to
him, a device in his possession is allowing this. |
| Jan 5 488 |
Ancalidon uses Cure Disease
on Esill. |
| Jan 7 |
Encounter opposition; Pennafore
dies due to an explosion from a blown spell. |
| Jan 12 |
Ancalidon uses Cure Disease
on himself; meanwhile, more and more creatures are getting in
the way - despite their hostility, their presence is seen as
a good sign. |
| Jan 14 |
Lockara dies due to spell failure. |
| Jan 17 |
Reach the border of Cipemet, and start
feeling much better. |
| Jan 27 |
Arrive at city of Thrawn, in Lartuenet:
Anc. now P-5, Nat. now R-5/MU-4. |
| Mar 9 |
Reach coast, take ship to Tamaron,
but never get there; see start of Temple
of Elemental Evil 1 for the rest of their story. |
42. Journeys in Neidra March-April
1991
Background and summary: though they are out of Cipemet, the
Party's problems are far from over, as they enter a land where
the Human locals are anything but welcoming to non-Humans. Also,
magic is completely forbidden here; wisely so, perhaps, as
when it is used it is dangerously unreliable. However, the Party
eventually reaches the ocean and is able to get home via
yet more teleporting.
Starting members(from Ruins of Andante):
Cybal(NrC-7), Asha(R-6), Amberyle(I-4/T-4), Teresa(NrC-4), Lothwen(NtC-4),
Gareth(F-3/MU-3), Nessa(F-4), Tusalora(F-3)
| Jan 1 488 |
Travel through grasslands, regain health. |
| Jan 2 |
Ambushed by Gnomes defending their
border; Cybal throws a Commune, then talks the Party's
way in. |
| Jan 3 |
Dark Stonehammer(F-3) joins,
a wandering Dwarf stuck in the Gnome lands. |
| Jan 5 |
In deep snow, Party camps in whitened
tents, sending Amberyle and Asha on into the first Human settlement
they have seen in some time: the town of Astacoe. |
| Jan 6 |
Amberyle consults a sage while Asha
returns to report. |
| Some local children find the Party's
camp and their practical jokes keep people hopping all night. |
| Jan 7 |
Amberyle by now knows the closest place
magic might work is somewhere called Drawan, but for some reason
the Party stays put for several days. (arguments?) |
| Jan 9 |
Slush and mud reminds Cybal of Trey
Hill days as Party gets on the move. |
| Jan 20 |
Arrive Drawan; spend days finding out
when and where magic will reliably work, while trying not to
be too obvious about it. |
| Jan 24 |
Cybal plane-shifts everyone to Cohena;
various people start training. |
| Jan 27 |
Asha and Teresa leave;
Teresa would reappear much later on. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-7), Asha(R-6), Amberyle(I-5/T-4),
Teresa(NrC-4), Lothwen(NtC-4), Nessa(F-4),
Gareth(F-3/MU-3), Tusalora(F-3), Dark(F-3)
New members: Dark
Retirees: Asha(to Forlinden
Valley 2); Teresa(to Temple of Elemental
Evil 2)
Casualties: none
Continuing party(to Valley of the Gnolls A): Cybal, Amberyle,
Lothwen, Nessa, Gareth, Tusalora, Dark
45. Valley of the Gnolls
A May-July 1991
Background and summary: though none of the current Party members
were around at the time, this Party's roots lie in a Gnoll-held
valley north of Thainshold. Now, the Gnolls are becoming a menace
to those living outside the valley, and Thainshold has called
for help; the Party responds, and despite making quite a dent in
the Gnoll population, they perfectly emulate their predecessors
by once again getting thrashed in this valley.
Starting members(from Journeys In Neidra):
Cybal(NrC-7), Amberyle(I-5/T-4), Lothwen(NtC-4), Nessa(F-4),
Gareth(F-3/MU-3), Tusalora(F-3), Dark(F-3)
| Feb 15 488 |
By now, a couple of new faces have
arrived: Kassia McFlandry(Cvr-3) and Dalyndar Maeglyn(F-3)
join. |
| Feb 23 |
Arrive Ballydoon, and Telba(R-5)
joins. |
| Learn of problems affecting Thainshold,
and decide to offer help. |
| Feb 27 |
Arrive Thainshold. |
| Feb 29 |
Arrive at base of valley; quickly find
it held against them by large numbers of Gnolls. |
| Sneak up on a small band of Gnolls
holding a ridge; Lothwen casts Call Lightning and gets
all the bolts in one great big one, but misses everything except
a boulder. This is still enough to scare off the Gnolls. |
| A while later, a war party of Gnolls
returns and a major battle ensues: Nessa killed. |
| Nessa raised in the field by
Cybal. |
| Party advances into valley but is forced
to retreat by sunset. |
| Feb 30 |
Another foray into valley, this time
find a cave full of Ogres, backed by a Hill Giant. Amberyle,
Gareth, and Telba killed. |
| At one point during this battle, Nessa
somehow gets hasted, and hits on 4 swings in the same segment. |
| Amberyle and Gareth raised
by Cybal, once battle ends. |
| Mar 1 |
During the night, while Party is still
recovering, a band of 15 Gnolls attacks, and Tusalora killed. |
| A volcano erupts nearby just after
dawn and frightens the Gnolls off; Party glad of the chance
to rest. |
| Mar 2 |
Resume exploring and run into 10 Ogres
backed by a MU-5: Amberyle, Lothwen, and Dalyndar
killed, and the few survivors are in bad shape. |
| Deciding they have had enough, and
with only 5 remaining characters, the Party retreats all the
way to just outside Cohena via plane-shift. |
| Mar 3 |
Spend the morning taking out their
frustrations by tormenting a local farmer. |
| Into Cohena in afternoon: Lothwen
raised by Cybal, and a short treasury break begins. |
| Mar 6 |
Dalyndar reincarnated as a Human
baby; Dalyndar retires. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-7), Nessa(F-5), Gareth(F-3/MU-3),
Dark(F-4), Lothwen(NtC-5), Kassia(Cvr-4), Dalyndar(--)
New members: Kassia, Dalyndar; Telba(from Trey
Hill)
Retirees: Dalyndar
Casualties: Telba, Tusalora, Amberyle(twice - raised once), (Dalyndar
- reincarnated), (Nessa, Gareth, Lothwen – all raised)
Continuing party(to Valley of the Gnolls B): Cybal, Nessa,
Gareth, Dark, Lothwen, Kassia
46. Valley of the Gnolls
B July-November 1991
Background and summary: armed with a raft of new recruits, the
Party takes one last try at this valley, and just keep on bashing
things until there's nothing left to bash. In the process, they
find a few traces of their much earlier incarnation's visit
here during Lost Valley of Kartoblepas.
Starting members(from Valley of the Gnolls
A): Cybal(NrC-7), Nessa(F-5), Gareth(F-3/MU-3), Dark(F-4),
Lothwen(NtC-5),
Kassia(Cvr-4)
| Mar 6 488 |
Knowing the orderly fighting style
of Kassia and Dark isn't getting anywhere, the Party goes looking
for a brawler, thus Gino Southwind(F-4) joins. |
| Mar 7 |
Gino gets himself thrown out of town
for fighting. |
| Mar 8 |
Durin Steeldragon(P-3) joins
as Party begins actively recruiting for anything they can find. |
| Mar 9 |
The brothers Hans(MU-3) and
Franz(F-3) van Salo join. |
| Mar 12 |
Durin and Dark hire a henchit; thus,
Briggta(NrC-2) joins. |
| Mar 15 |
Leave Cohena, and meet Gino, who has
been camped outside town for a week. |
| Mar 16 |
Ori Thoinson(WrC-2/MU-2) joins,
via Durin and Dark's recruiting in Shannydoon. |
| Borthand of Belegost(R-3) joins,
and Party at last think they have enough people! |
| Mar 19 |
Arrive at valley mouth once again,
and spend the evening planning. |
| Mar 20 |
Into the valley, finding it now held
by Giants as well as Gnolls. |
| Franz killed in his first combat
with Party; rest of Party doesn't do much better, against 3
Giants and 2 Ogres. |
| Gino and Cybal switch personalities
via spell failure for long enough that Gino is able to actually
plan an attack on a Giant-held cave, but everything goes wrong.
Dark and Gino killed, rest of Party too busy fumbling
(3 Party fumbles in a 6-round combat) to be much help, and are
forced to retreat. |
| Mar 21 |
Gino and Dark raised
by Cybal, and Party slowly explores up the valley. |
| Mar 22 |
Find a few broken arrows and a quiver
on a small hill; these belonged to Cadfael. |
| Up a long spiral tunnel at valley head;
find remains of a wolf and parrot near the top, left here by
Umbrageous when he fled the disaster of Lost
Valley of Kartoblepas. |
| Party exacts revenge by defeating the
statues responsible; Hans continues a fine tradition by falling
through the roof of the small building on the bridge. |
| Not content with this, Party exacts
yet more revenge by destroying the whole bridge. |
| Mar 23 |
7 Gnolls ambush the Party as they return
to the lower valley; several other bands of Gnolls attack during
the morning, but are easily dealt with. |
| Borthand and Gino scout out the main
Gnoll village in early afternoon and get caught; Gino flees,
while Borthand leads two waves of Gnolls back to the Party. |
| First wave defeated without problem. |
| Second wave proves much tougher: Kassia,
Borthand, Gareth, and Ori killed, and Party forced
to retreat back up valley. |
| Mar 24 |
Much to everyone's surprise, Gino finds
the Party and rejoins while they rest up the valley. |
| Mar 25 |
Slowly work way back down valley, begin
to realize it might be running out of occupants. |
| Mar 26 |
Find and free some prisoners in the
Gnoll village while sacking the few remaining Gnolls. |
| Borthand raised by Cybal. |
| Find and defeat one last Hill Giant,
then leave. |
| Mar 28 |
Arrive Thainshold, and find one of
the local guilds has a notice out against the Party for some
reason; soon dealt with. |
| Apr 3 |
Gareth raised by Cybal; Gareth
retires. Briggta, Dark, and Durin also retire
during the coming break. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-7), Nessa(F-5), Gareth(F-3/MU-4),
Dark(F-4), Lothwen(NtC-5), Gino(F-4), Borthand(R-4),
Durin(P-4), Hans(MU-4), Briggta(NrC-3)
New members: Gino, Hans, Franz, Durin, Briggta, Ori, Borthand
Retirees: Gareth, Durin, Dark(all to Against
the Pirates); Briggta
Casualties: Franz, Kassia, Ori, (Gino, Dark, Borthand, Gareth -
all raised)
Surviving party(to Temple of Elemental Evil 1): Cybal, Nessa,
Lothwen, Gino, Borthand, Hans
49. Temple of Elemental
Evil 1 January-April 1992
Background and summary: a seemingly simple request to find
a device of regeneration for the owner of a Thainshold pub starts
the Party on what would be their final quest on Telenet. A journey
far to the west would lead them to an enormous dungeon complex;
they would wade in and clear out a large chunk of it on this visit
before deciding to retreat as many of them needed training,
and the caretaker crew left behind would be wiped out in a day.
The Party would never again advance so far into the complex.
Starting members(from Valley of the Gnolls
B): Cybal(NrC-7), Nessa(F-5), Lothwen(NtC-5), Gino(F-4),
Borthand(R-4), Hans(MU-4)
| Apr 1 488 |
Ancalidon psyonically contacts
Cybal and asks for a plane-shift home for he and Nathan;
Cybal agrees, but one of the spells goes wrong and they wind
up in the castle of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. |
| Apr 2 |
They make it back out of Wowbagger's,
thus Ancalidon(P-5) and Nathan(R-5/MU-4) rejoin. |
| Apr 3 |
Shoshannah (Sparkle) Yede(MU-3)
joins, just in time for a long training and travel break. |
| Somewhere during their travels, Party
picks up another member: Ancelyn(F-3) joins. Also, Jamie(F-4)
rejoins, and Ancalidon retires after training
(see Against the Pirates). |
| Apr 28 |
Everyone now back in Thainshold, Cybal
gets a message from Bearovan (delivered by Ancelyn, for some
reason) instructing her to recover a device of regeration for
Avitari, the owner of The Fallen Ring pub in Thainshold. She
makes some inquiries, gathers Party, and off they go. |
| May 1 |
Find the old Beacon
Hill complex and defeat 4 Hill Giants nearby. |
| May 3 |
Arrive Widdershyn. |
| May 5 |
Leave Widdershyn, become stuck for
days battling bandits in hills to the west. |
| May 7 |
Somehow, Ancelyn loses his mind. |
| May 9 |
Return to Widdershyn, then leave for
Erelond. |
| May 16 |
Arrive Erelond; meet Teresa
and a very pregnant Asha. |
| May 21 |
Ancelyn restored to sanity; Party leaves
for Widdershyn. |
| May 26 |
Arrive Widdershyn; spend a few days
buying a small castle a mile to the south, as a base. |
| May 30 |
Leave Widdershyn once again, heading
west. |
| Jun 7 |
A Blue Dragon harrasses the Party for
2 days before being killed. |
| Jun 9 |
Find remains of Trenellan; for
some reason, this causes Cybal to plane-shift to Votansburg
and pick up a Cleric, thus Lars Erikhanssonsson(WrC-4) joins. |
| Jun 12 |
Arrive at the complex at last; begin
bashing the outdoor occupants. |
| By day's end, the outbuildings and
grounds have been pretty much cleaned out. |
| Jun 13 |
Wade in to main complex and begin a
room-by-room brawl with the assorted occupants; are soon surprised
by the sheer size of the place. |
| Gino killed in a battle with
13 Gnolls. |
| Jun 14 |
Continue bashing a path through the
complex against a rather amazing variety of occupants; Sparkle
killed in one of these minor battles. |
| Rescue a prisoner "Sevuena",
who leaves almost immediately; another sticks around, so Lilith
of Aragorn(T-3) joins. |
| Nathan defeats 2 Ghasts by himself. |
| Gino buried outside that evening; Cybal
consecrates the ground. |
| Jun 15 |
Sparkle fails raise attempt
by Cybal (she has already been reincarnated elsewhere as a bear). |
| Another day of almost endless small
combats, but everyone survives this time. |
| Jun 16 |
Start to find some tougher opponents
during morning, but no problem. |
| Advance downstairs in early afternoon
and continue clobbering everything encountered, including the
sleeping "corpse" of a Paladin(P-10) who, if awakened,
would have been a valuable asset to the Party. |
| Party finds a lost wandering Gnome
and takes him in, thus Wonnilon(F-4/T-4) joins. |
| Hans killed by a Minotaur. |
| A Lizardman is captured and charmed:
Golondi(F-5) joins and gives some very cryptic information
about the place. |
| Jun 17 |
Continue fighting for every inch of
advance, stopping only when Nathan and Borthand killed. |
| Day spent recovering in an outbuilding,
and Hans raised by Cybal. |
| Jun 19 |
Borthand raised by Cybal. |
| Jun 20 |
Days of rest are ended by a battle
with 5 Hill Giants; Lothwen killed. |
| Lothwen raised later that day,
by Cybal. |
| A small Black Dragon makes life interesting,
briefly. |
| Jun 21 |
Nathan fails raise through Cybal's
stick (but once again doesn't stay dead). |
| Party tries to leave, as many need
training; meet a familiar Zombie outside - Gino's corpse has
risen despite all Cybal's spells - and kill it. |
| Jun 22 |
Spend the day hauling treasure out. |
| Jun 23 |
Cybal plane-shifts most of the Party
to Wurgen, leaving Jamie, Lothwen, Borthand, and Golondi behind
(as they don't need training) to watch over the place. |
| Wonnilon retires. |
| Jun 24 |
Ghouls attack the away team and win:
Jamie, Lothwen, Borthand and Golondi killed; rest
of Party remain blissfully ignorant of this as they train. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-8), Nathan(R-5/MU-4), Nessa(F-5),
Ancelyn(F-4), Hans(MU-5), Lilith(T-4), Lars(WrC-5),
Wonnilon(F-4/T-4)
New members: Nathan(from Ruins of Andante);
Jamie(from Interlude);
Sparkle, Ancelyn, Lars, Lilith, Wonnilon, Golondi
Retirees: Wonnilon
Casualties: Gino, Sparkle, Jamie, Golondi; Nathan(revived elsewhere);
Lothwen, Borthand(twice each - raised once each);
(Hans - raised)
Continuing party(to Temple of Elemental Evil
2): Cybal, Nathan, Nessa, Ancelyn, Hans, Lilith, Lars
Against the Pirates(mini) November
1994
Background and summary: some retired characters get together
and attempt to do something meaningful; most get killed,
Ancalidon gets put in stasis, while the pirates they were fighting
carry merrily on with their lives.
Starting members(from Valley of the Gnolls
B): Dark(F-4), Durin(P-4), Gareth(F-3/MU-4)
(from Telenosti
Civil War): Torgel(R-6)
(from Ruins of Andante):
Ancalidon(P-5) (eventually)
| May 490 |
Torgel learns there might be good adventuring
to be done fighting pirates along the east coast; after trying
his hand at it, he realizes he needs help. |
| Jul |
Torgel meets and recruits Gareth, Dark,
and Durin; they go and fight the pirates, and Dark killed. |
| Jul |
Dark raised once back in town. |
| Sep |
They raise a band of 7 Dwarves to go
with them, and try again; Dark now F-5. |
| Sep |
Torgel, Dark, and Durin killed;
Gareth and one of the Dwarves are the only survivors. |
| Oct |
Torgel raised; Ancalidon contacts
Gareth, and makes his way south to join up. |
| Jan 491 |
Another attempt made, this time by
Torgel, Gareth, Ancalidon, and a few associates. |
| Jan |
Torgel killed; Ancalidon put
in stasis and claimed as a trophy by a pirate captain, and Gareth
(the only survivor this time!) flees into the distance. |
| Apr 492 |
Magic ceases functioning on Telenet;
Ancalidon protected by the stasis field for now, but it weakens
as the summer goes on. |
| Aug |
Ancalidon rescued by a party from Riveria,
mere days before the stasis field fails and exposes him to the
now-deadly elements. |
Surviving members: Gareth(F-3/MU-4), Ancalidon(P-5)
New members: none
Retirees: Gareth(dies later)
Casualties: Durin, Dark(twice - raised once), Torgel(twice - raised
once)
Continuing party(to Riveria):
Ancalidon
50. Temple of Elemental
Evil 2: Bandits'R'Us May-June 1992
Background and summary: the Party plane-shifts back to the Temple
only to find their away team is now dead. They leave on
foot, and get attacked by numerous bandits on their way back to
Widdershyn. On reaching town, they recruit some new faces,
with the intention of returning to the Temple. Once again, however,
the bandits get in the way, so the Party takes a side trip
to deal with them once and for all. Inevitably, this too goes wrong;
and the Party are forced to retreat back to Widdershyn yet
again.
Starting members(from Temple of Elemental
Evil 1): Cybal(NrC-8), Nathan(R-5/MU-4), Nessa(F-5),
Ancelyn(F-4), Hans(MU-5),
Lilith(T-4), Lars(WrC-5)
| Jul 14 488 |
Party plane-shifts from Wurgen to the
Temple and almost immediately find remains of three of the four
they had left here; Golondi's remains are nowhere to be found. |
| A short bit of re-exploring convinces
Party things are not as safe as they had thought when they left;
Party barricades itself in a small tower. |
| Jul 15 |
Bury what remains they can find, just
outside of the complex, then spend day debating options. |
| Jul 16 |
Leave, spend weeks travelling across
conutry, selling mundane goods in villages as they go. |
| Aug 4 |
Arrive Widdershyn; sell treasure and
recruit new members. |
| Aug 5 |
Odil Took(T-3) joins. |
| Aug 6 |
Thrainna(Cvr-3) joins, along
with Durin Wiseone(F-4) from Lost Temple of Tharizdun
C. |
| Aug 10 |
Nathan(R-5/MU-4) (see below)
and Teresa(NrC-4) re-join, surprising everyone. |
| Aug 12 |
Leave Widdershyn after a round of information-gathering. |
| Aug 18 |
After withstanding a series of bandit
attacks, Party becomes annoyed and begins backtracking the thieves
in hopes of finding their base. |
| Aug 19 |
Find a bandit village; capture and
question a couple of the occupants. |
Bandits mount a concerted rescue mission;
several dozen of them descend on Party's camp, but Party alert
enough to know they're coming, thus a pitched battle results:
o Hans attempts to throw
a Fireball into the charging bandits just as combat begins,
but nothing happens;
o A mass melee begins in
a grassy field; a few combatants notice (but do nothing about)
a glowing blue ball hovering right in the middle of it all;
o The blue ball (which
is Hans' fireball, spell-failured into a delayed-blast fireball
waiting to go off) goes off, utterly annihilating most of the
combatants;
o Lars, Hans, Lilith,
and Thrainna killed;
o Out from the very middle
of the smoke and wreckage walks Cybal, and much note is made
of this among the surviving locals. |
| Aug 20 |
Rest, recover, and decide to head back
to Widdershyn. |
| Nathan amuses himself by chasing down
and killing scattered bandits. |
| Aug 28 |
Arrive Widdershyn; Hans raised,
Thrainna raised. |
| Aug 30 |
Looking for replacements for the fallen,
Party hears of a possible recruit and sets up a meeting in a
local bar. Just as Nathan, Nessa, and Hans arrive at the bar,
an accusation of cheating at cards among some of the patrons
inside leads to a fight breaking out, and before the adventurers
can intervene someone is dead on the floor. Thus, Yuki Onokuhara(MU-2/T-2)
killed before ever joining Party! |
| Sep 3 |
Party spends this day and several following
clearing up the "MacLandry mess", whatever this is. |
Surviving members: Cybal(NrC-8), Nathan(R-5/MU-4), Nessa(F-6),
Ancelyn(F-4), Hans(MU-5), Teresa(NrC-4), Odil(T-3),
Durin(F-4), Thrainna(Cvr-4)
New members: Nathan(from Temple of Elemental
Evil 1); Teresa(from Journeys in Neidra);
Durin(from Lost Temple
of Tharizdun C);
Odil, Thrainna, Yuki
Retirees: none
Casualties: Lars, Lilith, Yuki, (Hans, Thrainna - both raised)
Surviving party(to Temple of Elemental Evil
3): Cybal, Nathan, Nessa, Ancelyn, Hans, Teresa, Odil,
Durin, Thrainna
So where did Nathan come from this time?
After his death in Temple of Elemental Evil 1, Nathan somehow
found himself alive again, but back at Valanyr's house. With no
way of knowing what had become of his companions, he set off on
a tour of the northlands, arriving in Ballydoon on Jul 3. After
a few weeks spent working here (at what?), wanderlust took him again,
and he made his way to Erelond arriving on Aug 7 - just in time
for the wedding of Jack and Lisse! Here he met Teresa;
they decided to head south, arriving in Widdershyn on Aug 10 and
meeting the Party there.
56. Temple of Elemental Evil
3 September-December
1992
Background and summary: yet again the Party tries to return
to the Temple of Elemental Evil, and yet again their journey is
interrupted by bandits. This time, however, the Party fight
through and actually make it to the Temple, but once there find
themselves almost immediately teleported to a very foreign
world, in most cases never to return.
Starting members(from Temple of Elemental
Evil 2): Cybal(NrC-8), Nathan(R-5/MU-4), Nessa(F-6),
Ancelyn(F-4), Hans(MU-5),
Teresa(NrC-4), Odil(T-3), Durin(F-4), Thrainna(Cvr-4)
| Sep 8 488 |
Leave Widdershyn. |
| Sep 14 |
Once again encounter bandits, in even
greater numbers than before, but Party do much better this time
and manage to almost eliminate the lot of them. |
| |
Another, smaller group of bandits produces
a captive charmed to Nathan; thus Runnel(T-2) joins while
the rest of the group are executed in a messy enough manner
to send a clear message to any other bandits. |
| Sep 16 |
On arriving at a small village, Cybal
is greeted with near-worship; the tale of her survival of the
fireball has taken on legendary proportions in these parts.
(she would never know it, but she would in fact become a
minor local sub-deity within a few years) |
| Party spend hours trying to get out
of the village, as the locals don't want Cybal to leave. |
| Sep 18 |
Arrive at the Temple and find bandits
here too! Capture, then hire, one of these bandits; thus Naud(T-1)
joins for 5 g.p. a week. |
| Sep 19 |
Wade into main Temple and find it overrun
with bandits, who have turned it into their primary base of
operations. |
| A major brawl cleans the bandits out,
but Naud and Thrainna killed. |
| Retreat into nearby forest to bury
dead; a Dryad shows up and somehow manages to cause severe problems
before being defeated: Teresa and Runnel killed. |
| Sep 20 |
Return to Temple area but cannot get
inside for some reason, so spend the day exploring outside. |
| Nathan somehow manages to fall from
a 70' height (but how did he get up there?); his landing breaks
a few of his magic possessions, and the resulting explosion
has two effects: Nathan killed, and the rest of the Party
is teleported to Mudra. The story of their adventures
there is told elsewhere, but Cybal (see below) would return
to Telenet years later just in time to fulfill a most important
function. |
Surviving members(to Volare
Campaign): Cybal(NrC-8), Nessa(F-6), Hans(MU-5),
Ancelyn(F-4), Durin(F-4), Odil(T-4)
New members: Runnel, Naud
Retirees: Nessa, Hans, Ancelyn, Durin, Odil
Casualties: Naud, Runnel, Nathan; (Teresa, Thrainna - both revived
in Volare)
Continuing party(to The End,
eventually): Cybal
The continuing saga of Cybal the Unforgettable
Cybal's time in Mudra did not go very well. Her first problem
lay in convincing the locals of her very existence, as another "Cybal"
- also a plate-mail-clad Gnome - had died nearby some 50 years ago
and become a local deity in lands to the north. Still this new
Cybal persevered and managed to get through another adventure in
one piece, though her Telenet companions were dropping like flies
around her. Then her fortunes took a turn for the worse.
At some point, two things happened simultaneously: her body was
turned to stone and magically transported to a small demi-plane,
while her very-much-alive spirit was taken to another small demi-plane
and imprisoned there. To those on Mudra, however, she simply appeared
dead, and they thought little more of it.
The story of the recovery of her spirit is told as the Dafan
adventure Cybal
in Gordieland.
The story of the recovery of her body is told here in Part 8, as
it is the adventure Tenth Anniversary
Game (T-10).
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