Thursday, May 04, 2006

The Three Faces of Evil - Part One

6 May 2006

Players/Characters

Aust (Russell) 2nd level male Elven Spellthief
Elzara (Will) 2nd level female Elven Monk
Kovar Hammerguild (Ian) 2nd level Male Dwarven Paladin
Tanith (Ewar) 1st/1st level male Human Sorcerer/Warmage
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 2nd level female Human Cleric
Eolias (Richard) 2nd level male Elven Ranger

Game Events

Returning once more to Allustan the party discovered that he was concerned that the green worm found in the Old Observatory and the undead creatures from which it came from could represent a grave threat to Diamond Lake.

He suggested that the letter also found at the Observatory stating that cultists were deep inside the Dourstone Mine should be followed up on. To this end both Eliolas and Elzara went to stake out the mine compound.

Tanith discovered that his Raven familiar had been kidnapped, and a letter requesting a meeting with Balbar Smenk was found nailed to the door of the character's base, along with a raven feather.

At the meeting Smenk returned the raven (which had been well treated) and explained that he had been forced to supply the cultists at Dourstone Mine with food and supplies, but when he tried to increase his prices he awoke one morning to find the decapitated head of his right-hand man in his bed. Suitably frightened, he has made contact with the party with a view to assisting them to get into the mine to eliminate the cultists.

Eliolas and Elzara were smuggled in in boxes with a regular shipment (including the adventuring gear of the rest of the party) whilst the others took jobs as miners and investigated from the inside.

After a run-in with the mine guards, Kovar, Aust and Elzara rode an elevator down and defeated a couple of demonic-looking guards and a few skeletons whilst Eolias, Tanith and Alexis dealt with more guards above.

More skeletons and Cultists were easily defeated along with a couple more demonic guards. Whilst the fighters followed the survivors of these groups as they retreated along a corridor and through some double doors and out of sight, Aust and Alexis searched the bodies, finding seven potions of Cure Light Wounds and four potions of Shield of Faith on the demonic guards' bodies.

The party readied themselves to assault through the doors (and also levelled up)


Magical Items Found


  • Seven Potions of Cure Light Wounds
  • Four Potions of Shield of Faith

XP Summary

  • Infiltrating the mine - 900XP
  • 8 Mine Guards - 2,400XP
  • 4 Demonic-Looking Guards - 1,200XP
  • 2 Skeletons - 600XP
  • 7 Cultists - 2,100XP

Total XP 7,200XP

  • Eolias - 1,550XP
  • Elzara - 1,350XP
  • Alexis - 1,175XP
  • Tanith - 1,175XP
  • Kovar - 975 XP
  • Aust - 975XP