AoW Session Reports

Session 1: The Whispering Cairn

The party set out in search of riches in a newly-uncovered tomb. When they realized the coffin was fake, they began searching for the true tomb...

Session 2: Never Trust an Elevator

The party descended a crashed elevator, faced off against a water elemental, and found one of the lanterns they needed to unlock the true tomb...

Session 3: An Unexpected Ally

The party descended a different, better-repaired elevator, were nearly overwhelmed by brown mold, rescued a minor Earth Elemental, and found the last remaining lantern.

Session 4: A Face in Darkness

The party ascended to the true tomb, but needed the help of a ghost, who would let them in if they laid his bones to rest. The party found his family grave dug up, and tracked the theft to a necromancer who had recently moved into the Old Observatory...

Session 5: Tomb Stories

The party headed to the old observatory to confront Filge and return the last of Alastor's family bones to their graves. The necromancer gave up easily, it seemed he was less conerned with the skeletons than with a cult who was breeding undead worms...

Session 6: The Tomb of Zosciel

The party finally breached the True Tomb. They saw reliefs of the ancient Battle of Pesh on the walls, and faced the Wind Warriors before claiming their treasures. They returned to Allustan to decide how to handle this worm-breeding cult...

Session 7: The Three Faces of Evil

The party infiltrated the mine where the cult was operating. They found the Ebon Triad cult's hidden lair and disguised themselves as cultists, but were revealed by a trap and were brought before the dread Faceless One...

Session 8: Captured!

The Faceless One ordered his cult minions against them, and the Vecnan cultists quickly immobilized and terrified the party before confiscating their gear and throwing them in a dark cell...

Session 9: Jailbreak

Emerging from the confiscated Book of Hero-Storage, Nemara found herself in a storage closet with the party's gear. She disguised herself afresh and began to look for her friends, who were being summoned to have unholy green worms implanted within them...

Session 10: Journey to the Mistmarsh

Between Nemara and Celeste, a cellmate who needed the party's help to escape, the party fled the compound, twisting through the labyrinth and collapsing the elevator behind them. They decided to seek out reinforcements from a nearby keep...

Session 11: Encounter at Blackwall Keep

The party travelled to Blackwall Keep to seek out an ally of their wizard fiend Allustan, but they found the keep under seige and barely scrambled inside without getting skewered...

Session 12: Lair of the Twisted Branch

The party consulted with the keep's soldiers, and learned about the sudden aggression from local lizardfolk, who had kidnapped their battlemage and a squadron of soldiers on patrol. The party launched a rescue mission into the mistmarsh...

Session 13: The Reluctant Assassin

The party reached the lair of the lizardfolk tribe, and Nemara discovered that they were avenging the death of their clutch - devoured by green worms - under the guardianship of a new chieftain

Session 14: The Egg Chamber

The party defeated the corrupted chieftain, but it turned out he was in league with a black dragon, who had left her kobolds guarding the tribe's eggs. The party found a dragon egg full of worms among the clutch, and Vin

Session 15: Trouble in the Free City

The party reunited with Vin in Diamond Lake. Vin told them she had found Ebon Triad cultists in the city in a warehouse, and the party set out to disperse them.

Session 16: Doubling Back

The party raided the warehouse, found some captives and some doppelgangers pretending to be captives, and rescued Lady Ilya Moonrae, securing her in an abandoned office before moving on.

Session 17: The Hall of Harsh Reflections

The party found a flooded part of the warehouse that stood over the docks, where they were ambushed by invisible enemies. The party descended further and found a mirror-like hidden room where four people sat in chairs, bound and begging for freedom:

Session 18: Cleanup Detail

The party interrogated their doubles, and revealed the Vin who stood with them as a doppelganger. A tense fight broke out, and the party retreated to nurse their wounds. They ran into the Guards, who offered them a deal...

Session 19: Following the Spider's Threads

The party returned to the warehouse and memorized evidence of the doppelgangers infiltrating all levels of Greyhawk. They devised a test and defeated the doppelgangers among the guards before pressing on...

Session 20: Versus the Doppelboss

The party found the boss of the doppelganger holding Vin's cousin as hostage, and after a tense battle, sent her and the one non-doppel guard to bring her out of the city. Meanwhile, Nemara and Sigvurd found a secret entrance to the sewer, where the

Session 21: Trouble in the Sewers

The party tracked their quarry through the sewers to a cave system. They fought more drow, all wearing the mind flayer's brand, and were waylaid by a naga who absconded with most of their magic items. Just then, a commotion from down the hall...

Session 22: Siege

The party faced off against the high priestess of Lolth and her drow followers, who attacked them in the name of Zyrxog. After the dust of battle cleared, they noticed a prison cell in the cavern wall...

Session 23: Last of the Frostkeepers

The party rescued Vin's mother and brothers from the cell, but learned her uncle had been taken further in. As they approached the massive stone doors, the mind flayer's voice boomed through their minds, welcoming them to his cathedral...

Session 24: Xyrxog, Mob Lord of the Free City

The party rescued Vin's uncle from where an enchanted stone brain had been blasting his mind and twisting his will. They pressed on and faced off against the mind flayer Zyrxog, who very nearly devoured Sigvurd's brain,

Session 25: Reclaiming the Jabbar Estate

The party explored Zyrxog's store-room and returned to Vin's uncle's manor, where she had been ambushed by coppelgangers before. They re-took the manor, and decided to rest before planning their next move...

Session 26: Nagas and New Friends

The party decided to tie up some loose ends: namely, their lost magic items. They hired a mercenary named Zeke to help them hunt down the Naga, and though the creature got away, they reclaimed their gear and made a new friend.

Session 27: Target Acquired

The party consulted with a wizard named Eligos, whom Nemara had met during downtime. He turned out to be friends with Allustan, and helped them figure out that the person who ordered a hit on them was running the Champion's Games, and had also purchased a

Session 28: The Champions' Feast

The party signed up for the games to get close to their new enemy, Loris Raknian. Eligos introduced them to their new manager Ekaym Smallcask, and the party attended a feast where they scoped out the competition...

Session 29: Battle Royale

The party moved into the coenoby for the duration of the Games, and won their first event handily. The roar of the crowd was a sweet as the free food, but that night, they set out to investigate what Loris was doing with those unholy scrolls...

Session 30: Secrets of the Understructure

Lins and Nemara snuck out to investigate Raknian's manor, but found a secret door in his cellar. It led to an underground complex where they saw an amorphous, fiendish creature guarding the door. They decided to backtrack and come back wtih a full party.

Session 31: Raknian's Secret Basement

The next morning, Ekaym Smallcask visited, and revealed his real reason for hiring them: he wanted them to find out what happened to his sister, a former lover of Raknian. With this new mission, the party returned that night to the secret complex

Session 32: Sanctum of the Wormpriest

The party's incursion was discovered by a tiefling, who attacked them with dark magic. After defeating him, the party looked around, and found images of a worm-ridden skull on the walls.

Session 33: The Apostolic Seal

The party explored the secret compound and discovered a pair of magicaly-sealed doors with horrific images of worms, plus several worm-ridden undead who refused to stay down!

Session 34: Waking the Apostle

The party breaks the doors open and beholds the horror on the other side. Steeling their nerves, they face off against the Ulgurstasta where it sits waiting for its dread purpose.

Session 35: Owlbears vs Pitch Blade

The party returns Lahaka's corpse, and faces off in the arena against two bloodthirsty dwarves.

Session 36: The Whale Incident

The party infiltrated Raknian's palace to look for evidence. When the situation went sideways, the party panicked, and Vin descended on the situation... literally.

Session 37: Fugitives

The party is torn apart as some surrender, some are captured, and some flee into the night with Raknian as a captive.

Session 38: Trial

The party is reunited in court, where they argue for their lives against Loris Raknian, and learn shocking news about Eligos the Sage, as well as recent events in their own hometown...

Session 39: Ilthane the Black

The party finds their hometown reeling from the dragon's devastation. When they find out it left to pursue Allustan at the Whispering Cairn, they march into the hills to confront it...

Session 40: The Tomb of Isociol

The party steps through the black portal and finds themselves immediately in danger. The trend continues as they pass through traps and clues and meet the temple's fiery guardian...

Session 41: The Flycatcher and the Marquis

Kaida the Psuedodragon is kidnapped by a mysterious spider-like being called the Flycatcher, and Sigvurd and Lins strike a fell bargain to get him back...

Session 42: Lost in the Shadowfell

The party rides along as the Flycatcher escapes to his shadowy home, but finds themselves in over their head in that dark domain...

Session 43: Flycatcher's Lair

The rest of the party emerges from the spellbook in the nick of time. They flee into the fog of the Shadow Plane, seeking a way home even as its malignance wears on their spirits...

Session 44: An Offer from Granny Deathfinger

The party trekked to the home of the Grandmother Hag, a demonic creature of immense power. She sent them to fetch the Angel's Tear in exchange for use of her portal, and though the party dared not refuse, they suspected a catch...

Session 45: The Angel's Tear

The party finds the Angel's Tear, and discovers it holds the partial soul of a celestial, who was captured by Granny Deathgiggle. They resolved to defeat the Grandmother Hag and rescue the angel, and teamed up with the Shadar-Kai to do so...

Session 46: Rescue Party

The party rescued Allustan from one of the tomb's many defenses. He told them he had been trying to retrieve the legendary weapons of the Wind Dukes, and the party agreed to carry on the quest, ready to turn the tables against their enemies...

Session 47: Graverobbers

The party did a little tomb-raiding, then climbed down into the pit. Their climb quickly became a fall, and then a falling battle as they were ambushed by powerful wind warriors!

Session 48: A Worm of a Different Color

The party continued their spelunking, vanquished the wind warriors, and faced with the choice between a narrow side-path and further descent, decided to descend. They followed the river until their way was blocked by a lamprey-like mouth...

Session 49: Reunion With the Marquis

The party escapes the Purple Worm and helps Moreto open the doors to the True Tomb. But before they can claim the treasures of Aqaa, the tomb has another challenge.

Session 50: Legacy of the Wind Dukes

The party defeats the Tomb's final guardian, and feels the blessing of the Wind Dukes as they lay claim to the ancient weapons of Law. Escaping with them, however, will be another matter.

Session 51: Diamond Lake in Ruins

The party escapes the Tomb and emerges into the Cairn Hills. They take care of some personal business in town, then reconvene at the mayor's manor to meet with Allustan and plan their next move.

Session 53: We're Off to See the Archmage

The party travels by road to Magepoint, where they gear up and prepare to gather clues to their enemy's weakness by following the trail of Balakarde.

Session 54: Ruins and Visions

The party explores the ruins of Kuluth-Mar, and experiences a vision of Kyuss' original rule. They also bump up against its grotesque guardians.

Session 55: The Swords of Kyuss

The party ran up against the last of the zigurrat's defensive forces, who struck at them with deadly power and virulent worms...

Session 56: Retreat

The party Teleports back to Magepoint to have Zeke revived, and after checking in with Manzorian, returns to the zigurrat, where they continue unravelling the mystery of Kyuss' origins...

Session 57: The Stars Align

The party regrouped in Magepoint, where Vin Frostkeeper made a graceful exit. Fortunately, a young priestess of Celestian was more than happy to volunteer for the opening, and the party began exploring the temple basement.

Session 58: Prisoners of the Wormgod

The party fights their way out of the fountain chamber, converses with a human sacrifice, retreats from a lake of worms, and meets a worm naga sorcerer who offers to ally with them if they help him escape the Obsidian Ring.

Session 59: Negotiations Break Down

The party attempts to retreat with the information - and new ally - they've gathered. It does not go well.

Session 60: Homecoming

The party delves into the beholder's lair, but lands somewhere very different!

Session 61: Dwarf Hole

With a new companion by their side, the party strikes out to find the source of the kyuss worms near Ribermott.

Session 62: Somebody's Been Here

Exploring the caves, the party finds signs of rushed excavation, and meets the ugliest troll of all time.

Session 63: Big Green men

The party defeats a large green troll, then chases the fleeing cultists into a room where an even worse green monster awaits

Session 64: Aspect of the Overgod

The party fights the Aspect of the Overgod, and gets some more intel from a surviving cultist

Session 65: Reunion

The party questions and executes the cult leader, then uses her Sending scroll to finally debrief with Tenser. All signs point to Alhaster; a hive of villainy that could give any dungeon our heroes have crawled a run for its money.

Session 66: And Now For Something Completely Different!

The party attempts to Teleport to Alhaster, but misses by about twenty miles, and lands on the slopes of White Plume Mountain instead. Drawn by the famed treasures within, they step through the doors...

Session 67: Bluto's Guardpost

Lins and Trislee battle their way through ghouls, fling themselves across a frictionless hall, and take a chaotic boat ride into the hideout of a heinous criminal

Session 68: The Terraced Aquarium

With spellwork and dinosaur bites, the party make their way through the Terraced Aquarium

Session 69: Nice

The heroes have a fight on their hands when the welcoming halfling turns out to be Blackrazor's guardian: a fearsome Oni!

Session 70: Prisoner-Guards

The party recovers and retraces their steps, subduing more of Keraptis' guardians before making their way to the Boiling Bubble where the second weapon awaits

Session 71: Kani Maki

The party make short work of the giant crab and quickly claim their second legendary weapon; the zealous and sea-loving trident Wave.

Session 72: Geysers and Chains

Reunited with their warlock friend, the party proceeds down the final arm of the dungeon. They make their way through steaming geysers and clouds of keese, Nemara attunes to Blackrazor to get an edge, and they step into the dark lair of a hideous vampire!

Session 73: Nosferatu

The party wage a bloody battle against the feral nosferatu, and emerge bloodied and drained, but victorious. From its alcove under the coffin, Whelm bids them greetings.

Session 74: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Plague Fields

The party meets resistance on the way out of White Plume Mountain, and fights for their freedom against powerful fire elementals before escaping, more powerful for their struggles, and making a beeline for Alhaster.

Session 75: Alhaster

The party arrives in alhaster jsut in time for a public execution - and a surprise!

Session 76: Rumours and Riches

Trislee and Nemara explore Alhaster, shopping for gala clothes, magic items, poisons, and most importantly, information.

Session 77: The Hungry Priest

Session 78: The Hornets' Nest

Trislee and Lins are stopped on their way back to the hotel. It doesn't go well.

Session 79: Making a Break for It

The party dodges poison arrows and stinging longswords to get in range of Trislee's Teleport spell

Session 80: Fugitives in the Free City