Chapter 6 - A Blur

The party completed exploring, solving the mysteries below the surface and the knowledge surrounding the plants. Then, many party members went their own way, and the core of the party met a few new friends and they followed a new friend, Tymonie to visit her mother in a small town.

Chapter 7 - Disjointed

They arrived at the small town to find Tymonie's mother missing and stories of strange things happening. After asking around for a while, they were told of mysterious things happening at a nearby keep.

Deciding to go to the keep in the middle of the night, they arrived and made a noisy entrance. They apparently disturbed a very young dragon that they someone managed to slay.

They started moving into the keep and found gnolls that had the symbol of some strange cult, the same cult they had encountered earlier.

Chapter 8 - Crouching barbarian, hidden priest

The party continued exploring, discovered a distressed mage who the barbarian attacked after seeing him starting to cast spells at him.

Arguing about this crazy guy for a while and some in-fighting was resolved by further exploring. They killed some more gnolls, and chased a priestess around for a while. At one point they were jumped by a bunch of archer gnolls and nearly died, but somehow managed to play the run, ambush, counter-attack game and slay the gnolls.

Tsenatchka chased the priestess around for a while before finally cornering her and knocking her out.

Chapter 9 - Evil Shrines

Taking the priestess prisoner, we continued to explore the Moat House. Deep below, we fought more Gnolls, some undead, and found some journal speaking about an icon to the dark god. We winded our way through a maze of tunnels and arrived an evil statue. After playing with it, it turned translucent, with a misty center, and knocked the paladin out.

We left there, and continued searching around, until we came to a place deep below where a preist, a lizard man, and some undead were. A battle to the skin of our teeth erupted, with Zane healing everyone at one point, and Spognoir's magic ball of fire managing to hurt the heavily armored opponents. In the end, we managed to defeat them, barely.

Chapter 10 - Playing with Fire

They lizard man and priest were guarding a suspended platform that lowered to a dark evil, and verd cold cave below. The party rested, defeated some undead, then returned to town to buy some cold weather clothing. They also sold some stuff, rested.

Returning to the Moat House, we explored the dark obalysk place. The huge obalysk had purple veins that came alive and tried to grab us when we touch it. The whole place stunk of evil and was very strange. We fought a grell, then fought a crazy evil priest. We ended up fighting several more grell and a tough boar. We left there, unsure of what to do. We wanted to return to the town, but decided to explore the other places first, killing a slime, losing a sword and some armor, finding more undead, finding some strange chickens. We returned to the town of Hommlet yet again to get new armor, swords, etc.

We also spoke to a priest at the temple and asked for advice on the evil gods alter, statue, and evil obalysk. She told us not to play with it, leave it alone, and leave the scroll of accessing the "node of darkness" with her. We left it with her and returned to the moat house.

Forgoing common sense, we then started playing with the magical items from the dark priest, and using them in tandem with the evil shrines, the dark gods obalysk, and the evil symbols. Touching one symbol, Mudge had a vision of the dark god, and when he told him he'd try to free him, the dark god gave him a magical dagger with his name on it. We repeated the process with Tsenatchka and Zane. Then, we struck the crystal at the base of the obalysk with the scepter, and granted another vision of how to free the dark god, as well as a magical black apple. Deciding to leave well enough alone, we went to leave...

akadi