The Prince of Redhand - Part Three

27 July 2007

Players/Characters
Crumpus (Russell) 12th/2nd level male Human Fighter/Tempest
Elzara (Will) 14th level female Elven Monk
Volon (Ian) 14th level male Human Druid
Balthazzar (Andrew) 14th level male Human Cleric
Ellan (Ewar) 12th/2nd level male Human Wizard/Archmage
Eolias (Richard) 6th/1st/7th level male Elven Ranger/Wizard/Arcane Archer

Game Events

The morning after the feast, a couple of the party seemed to have contracted some kind of food poisoning, but after treatment from Balthazzar all were soon well and raring to go.

Ellan teleported the entire group back to the crypt under St Cuthbert's temple where Balthazzar cast a Speak with Dead spell on the Rhosk's remains. Under interrogation, the cleric's spirit was able to identify the location of the old hideout of the Ebon Triad, and so the party decided to pay a visit.

One there, they realised that the hideout had been beneath a local sickhouse, where the poor went to die when they were too ill to work. The crone who tended to the sick would not allow them in, so Ellan used a teleport spell to penetrate the underground lair.

Inside they were attacked by an animated rope which did major damage to a couple of the less well protected characters.

Entering the abandoned temple itself, the group saw a huge statue of the Ebon Triad which was exactly like the once they had fought at the bottom of Dourstone mine long ago. This statue too attacked, and came close to killing a couple of the front rankers before it was destroyed.

A secret compartment behind a wall provided a veritable treasure trove for the characters. Inside were 10 potions of cure moderate, 10 potions of undetectable alignment, 10 potions of nondetection, ring of evasion, rod of flame extinguishing, wand of lightning bolt (8th, 23 charges), wand of haste (19 charges), belt of Dwarvenkind, cloak of Arachnida, Harp of Charming and 4 beads of force,

As requested, the party vent to visit the Elven sorcerer Lashonna at midnight on the following evening. She told them that she knew who they were, and why they had come to Allhaster.

She provided them with fragments of Ballakarde's journal, which pointed to the Dracolich Dragotha being key to the resurgence of Kyuss.

The journal also indicated that Dragotha had a weakness - it's phylactery had been stolen by a band of Druids called The Order of the Storm who hid it in a place called The Library of Last Resort. They had then sacrificed themselves to ensure that it's location would never be found.

Lashonna also had some bad news, however. It transpired that one of her servants had betrayed her and gone over to her enemies with all her accumilated knowledge.

She offered to scry on this person, and the party agreed, eager to get a glimpse of their foes.

Through the scrying portal the group could make out the deck of a ship which was obviously going through a wild storm, with a man lashed tightly to the mast. Orcish sailors came and went through the image, along with a couple of tieflings, an Effrit and also a tall human who appeared to have the Hand of Vecna attached to his own arm!!

This human noticed the scrying, and killed the prisoner with the Hand of Vecna to break the link.

Ballakarde's journal pointed towards a remote island surrounded by a ferocious storm system as being the most liekly place to pick up clues to the location of the lost library. The party readily agreed to travel to the island to beat the other adventurers to their prize.

Magical Items Found

10 Potions of Cure Moderate
10 Potions of Undetectable Alignment
10 Potions of Nondetection
Ring of Evasion
Rod of Flame Extinguishing
Wand of Lightning Bolt (8th, 23 charges)
Wand of Haste (19 charges)
Belt of Dwarvenkind
Cloak of Arachnida
Harp of Charming
4 Beads of Force


XP Earned -

Hangman Golem – 2,800 XP
Overgod – 12,600 XP


Total XP - 15,400 XP


Volon - 2,566 XP
Eolias - 2,566 XP
Crumpus - 2,566 XP
Ellan - 2,566 XP
Balthazzar - 2,566 XP
Elzara - 2,566 XP


Current Totals -

Volon - 110,315 XP
Eolias – 111,406 XP
Crumpus 111,915 XP
Ellan - 110,165 XP
Balthazzar – 107,566 XP
Elzara – 111,406 XP

The Prince of Redhand - Part Two

20 July 2007

Players/Characters
Crumpus (Russell) 12th/2nd level male Human Fighter/Tempest
Elzara (Will) 134th level female Elven Monk
Volon (Ian) 14th level male Human Druid
Balthazzar (Andrew) 134th level male Human Cleric
Ellan (Ewar) 13th/1st level male Human Wizard/Archmage
Eolias (Richard) 6th/1st/6th level male Elven Ranger/Wizard/Arcane Archer

Game Events

Once Volon and those others affected by the Acid Wraith had been restored to full health the party continued with their exploration of the city.

As they meandered through the marketplace they were approached by a small band of hobgoblins whose leader introduced himself as B'Kruss. He had heard that the party had managed to obtain invites to Prince Zeech's party, and wanted to check them out before the night itself.

After much braggery on both sides, he set the party a challenge - he wanted a race around the city to prove who was the better horseman. The party nominated Volon to represent them, but unfortunately, even after summoning a swift dinosaur as a mount he was no match for the wily hobgoblin who finished the course even before Volon had managed to steer his unruly mount around the first corner.

This was just what the hobgoblins were looking for to prove their superiority, and they swaggered off, loudly celebrating,

Having a couple of days left before the celebrations, the party decided to investigate the ruins of the Temple of St Cuthbert again, but this time they teleported straight into the ruins to make sure that they weren't observed entering the building.

Once inside they entered the old crypt where they were disturbed to find that the priest Rhorsk who had written the book in Tenser's library was still in residence, and even more disturbed when they realised that he had become undead!! Under questioning, Rhorsk explained that he had kept a watch upon the old meeting place of the Ebon Triad for some weeks before the fall of the city, but as he had not seen any activity he had assumed that the cult had either truely been destroyed, or had moved on elsewhere.

When forced to realise his fate, Rhorsk went insane and attacked the party who were forced to put him out of his misery. They then looted chainmail + 2 from his body.

Learning that Prince Zeech would expect a gift from each, the party set about procuring several expensive gifts, and so on the evening of the banquet they were all well prepared when a carriage was sent for them.

The carriage was pulled by harnessed trolls and was driven by a huge half-orc who conveyed them swiftly to the palace.

On arrival they were entertained by the Prince's jester, a halfling-sized creature who called himself the Ominous Fabler until it was time for the evening's events.

During these events, Eolias found himself outshot by the Prince, but managed to aquit himself nicely by winning a silver skull at a later event.

Volon disagreed with the use of innocent animals in the events and so volunteered for the final event to try and outmatch the Prince, which he did with ease.

Just as everyone was ready to sit down for the banquet, the lady Lashonna, being fashionably late, made a grand entrance and sat at the top of the table, next to Eolias.

During the meal that followed, several of the other guests made contact with the party, the most notable of which was ???, the leader of a group of Rangers from the North who intimated to Eolias that they would be willing to follow if the party started an uprising against Prince Zeech.

Balthazzar found a female Halfling merchant named ???? intriguing, and kept plying her with questions, She excused herself part-way through the feast and never returned to the table.

Part-way through the feasting, Elzara was challenged to a duel by B'Kruss, the Hobgoblin leader. For once the Hobgoblin had misjudged his opponent, and quickly fell beneath Elzara's flying fists.
Lashonna eventually spoke with Eolias, and told him that she knew why the group were in Allhaster, and that they should come to her mansion the following evening, around midnight when they could talk in private.


Magical Items Found

Chainmail +2


XP Earned -

Rhorsk – 1,173 XP
Locating the Ebon Triad - 7,050 XP
Zeech's Banquet – 40,200 XP
Roleplay Bonus - 56,544 XP

Total XP - 105,967 XP


Volon - 16,249 XP
Eolias - 18,740 XP
Crumpus - 16,249 XP
Ellan - 16,249 XP
Balthazzar - 18,740 XP
Elzara - 18,740 XP


Current Totals -

Volon - 107,749 XP - Level up to 15 !!
Eolias – 108,840 XP - Level up to 15 !!
Crumpus 108,349 XP - Level up to 15 !!
Ellan - 107,749 XP - Level up to 15 !!
Balthazzar – 105,000 XP - Level up to 15 !!
Elzara – 108,840 XP - Level up to 15 !!

The Prince of Redhand - Part One

13 July 2007

Players/Characters
Crumpus (Russell) 12th/1st level male Human Fighter/Tempest
Elzara (Will) 13th level female Elven Monk
Volon (Ian) 13th level male Human Druid
Balthazzar (Andrew) 13th level male Human Cleric
Ellan (Ewar) 12th/1st level male Human Wizard/Archmage
Eolias (Richard) 6th/1st/6th level male Elven Ranger/Wizard/Arcane Archer

Game Events

Upon their return to Magepoint, the group met with Agath, Celeste and Eligos who had not been idle whilst the party had been adventuring far to the south.

Several of Balakarde's notes had been found in Tenser's library, indicating the city of Allhaster far to the north as the next logical place to follow the Age of Worms prophecy.

A book by a priest of St Cuthbert called Rhosk noted that the Ebon Triad had been originally founded in Allhaster, but was all but destroyed when the current ruler, Prince Zeech, secceded to the throne two decades before. One of the main reasons the cult was destroyed was an Elven spellcaster named Lashonna.

Ballakarde's notes suggested that he was going to speak to Lashonna, and also check out the priest Rhosk (even though he had not been heard of since then) and he was also going to try to locate the original hideout of the Ebon Triad cult.

Ellan teleported the party to the outskirts of the city, and after managing to bribe their way past the corrupt gate guards the party found reasonable accomodation in a tavern near to the arena.

Asking around, the group discovered where Lashonna lived, and went to pay a visit, only to be politely turned away by the guards on the gate who advised them that Lashonna was not receiving visitors for at least a couple of months. He also told the characters that she would be attending the Prince's banquet at the end of the week, and if the group were able to obtain an invite then they could speak with her there.

More investigation led the party to a merchant who had been given the responsibility of allocating any spare invitations to the Prince's celebration, and Ellan managed to impress him into providing the group with invites on the condition that Ellan himself would be held responsible for the actions of his friends.

With a week to kill, the group explored the rest of the town. Due to some extreme law enforcement by a flock of angels backed up by large and nasty hobgoblin guards there was surprisingly little crime, but the general feeling the group got was one of general resignation and oppression.

Locating the ruins of the temple of St Cuthbert, the party ignored a 'Keep Out' message and entered only to be confronted by an angel who teleported herself into the ruins a few minutes later and instructed them to leave. Restraining Eolias, the group did as they were bid and moved on to the temple of Hextor where they introduced themselves to the somewhat innefectual high priest.

Following rumours of a lair outside the walls that had until recently been occupied by a Black Dragon the party set out to explore, only to be ambushed by four young adult dragons who 'encouraged' the group to enter the lair and defeat the monster contained within which had proved resistant to their acid attacks.

Readily agreeing, the party entered and were attacked by a strange acid ooze hybrid,.

Melee attacks on the creature caused acid damage to the attacker, so it was mainly left to the spellcasters to defeat the creature, but not without cost.

Volon bore the brunt of it's attacks, and was reduced to 1 strength and Ellan lost most of his magic items to it's acid attack. Ellan decided that the best course of action was to teleport both Volon and himself back to the tavern to recouperate whilst the rest of the party searched the lair and returned on foot.

Searching uncovered two strange potions which were later identified as providing permanent stat boosts to Constitution and Strength and to Charisma, but finding nothing else the party exited the lair and went to report back to the Black Dragons.

Erupting from thier hiding places in the nearby river, the dragons ambushed the party and sprayed them with their acid breath, causing many of Eolias' magical items to melt, as had Ellan's earlier.

After several rounds of combat, the battered party managed to slay three dragons and drive off the last one before returning, battered but victorious, to the tavern.

Magical Items Found

Potion of Strength +1 and Constitution +1
Potion of Charisma +2

XP Earned -

Acid Wraith – 11,700 XP
4 Black Dragons – 5,200 XP


Total XP - 16,900 XP


Volon - 2,340 XP
Eolias - 3,640 XP
Crumpus - 3,640 XP
Ellan - 3,640 XP
Balthazzar - 0 XP (not present)
Elzara - 3,640 XP


Current Totals -

Volon - 91,500 XP - Level up to 14!!
Eolias – 90,100 XP
Crumpus 91,100 XP - Level up to 14!!
Ellan - 94,450 XP - Level up to 14!!
Balthazzar – 86,460 XP
Elzara – 90,100 XP