The party was hired in Neverwinter by the dwarf, Gundren Rockseeker. He and his brothers were about to embark on a very secret mining expedition, and he needed mercenaries to deliver supplies to Phandalin while he rode on ahead to make preparations
The activities of the party
The party was hired in Neverwinter by the dwarf, Gundren Rockseeker. He and his brothers were about to embark on a very secret mining expedition, and he needed mercenaries to deliver supplies to Phandalin while he rode on ahead to make preparations
The party clears out the Redbrand Hideout and captures Glasstaff
The party fights the dragon Venomfang, and locates he source of the shadowfell taint
The party defeats the Cragmaw goblin king and clears out their stronghold at Cragmaw Castle
The party is transported to Stygia where they free Geryon from a demonic prison
The party escorts Gundren back to Phandalin, where he gets some bad news
The party seeks out and entreats the banshee Agatha for information on Bowgentles Spellbook
The party makes their way through the Neverwinter Sewers, to a natural tunnel system and cave network underneath the city. In a particularly large cave they came across an ancient temple.
The party explores the Nethonris Temple, and deep inside they find an entrance to a collapsed sea cave. Inside this cavern they find an ancient aboleth, KDratai, who has been orchestrating the events in Neverwinter and gradually taking over the city since reawakening. The party defeats the creature and rescues a number of enthralled citizens.
The party is ambushed by the young dragon Venomfang in the ruins of Conyberry. After a hard fought battle, they manage to slay the beast.
The party met with the group of orcs led by Brughor Axe Biter, and the druid Reidoth. They returned the Eye of Vroth to the orcs.
The party arrives at Wave Echo Cave. They quickly rescue Tharden Rockseeker, then head into the Lost Mine. Once inside, they find that The Black Spider's expedition has been affected by a pervasive evil in the mine, and has gone violently insane. Nezzar is hiding in the Mine Foreman's office, behind a protective ward. The party finds him and kills him. They then make their way into the old Magi's Quarters, where they encounter the wraith of Kildrak Toledun, one member of the Magi who's soul has been trapped in the mine. He explains that the Magi were infiltrated by Nethonris agents, and betrayed to create the Eyes of Vroth. The lead Nethonris's soul, Arun Shaete, remains in the Forge of Spells and has bound the souls of the dead Magi to his service.
The party enters the Forge and defeats Arun, cleansing the mine but destroying the Forge of Spells in the process.
Aetilius falls down to the centre of the world, where he meets Xanith, a bound Primordial and the source of all life and magic in Lanath. He pledges himself to Xanith's service
The party meets Tam, a McToot living in self-imposed exile after stealing a priceless artifact from the clan. After Clootie defeats him in a wrestling match, he gives her the Golden Kazoo she has been searching for.
Halia Thorton decides to leave Phandalin. She breaks into the Townmaster's House and kills Harbin, then frees Iarno from his cell. She then disguises the pair and they flee Phandalin, heading towards Conyberry and the orcs.
The party returns to Phandalin from Wave Echo Cave.
A group of Cragmaw Goblins, working on behalf of Halia, ambush Brughor's orcs and slaughter them, stealing the Eye of Vroth
Halia Thornton uses the Eye of Vroth recovered by the Cragmaw Goblins to sacrifice Iarno in a Nethonris Waygate Temple under Old Owl Well. This summons an Avatar of Iquath into Iarno's husk.
The party finds the site of the orcs ambush
The avatar of Iquath in Iarno's corpse raises an army of goblins, bugbears and Redbrands and begins to march on Phandalin.
The party find and explores the Nethonris temple underneath Old Owl Well
Iarno's army descends on Phandalin at the height of the Tari Ce Morte celebrations, and begins to slaughter the inhabitants and raze the town. It is only through the intervention of the party that any of the villagers survive
The survivors of Phandalin arrive at Neverwinter, led by the party.
The avatar of Iquath leads an army of gobinoids and undead to assault Neverwinter. The army is held back by the defenders, and the party manages to kill the avatar.
Gabriel Blackwater, Duke of Neverwinter, expands the Dance of Dawn ceremony to also remember the fallen during the Siege of Neverwinter
The party travels south to Leilon, aboard the pirate hunter vessel - the Seabird
A hidden Nethonris agent attempts to assassinate Ryoko, striking her in the chest with a poisoned crossbow bolt. The poison kills Ryoko for a moment, but the Warden's Heart completes her transformation and revives her
The party explores the ruined Sisters of Akkedis monastery. They discover the trapped spirits of the sisters, bound to the site by the Quaggoth who had sacked the building. The party frees the spirits. The spirit of the lead sister explains that Miaug had been born in the monastery, and the sisters had sheltered Miaug's parents when they first fled the Verani.
The town of Thundertree was founded by refugees from Phandalin, under the sponsorship of Duke Gabriel Blackwater of Neverwinter. The party were granted the title of Barons of Thundertree
Ryoko's mentor Morlyn guided her through the final steps of her training and completed her initiation in the druidic order
The party met with Nevarrym, Clan Leader of the K'Taphi tribe.
The party travelled down the River Drach near to Dradroth, then travelled overland through the jungles down into Djazhck territory
The party was escorted through Djazhck territory to their main encampment
The party met with Oarmas, Clan Leader of the Djazhck tribe.
After being ambushed by a maddened Kenedibra while hunting, Badger and Miaug were shot with powerful tranquilizers and left unconscious. Once Miaug awakened, she discovered Badger had been taken
The party was captured by a Thal'Ahd patrol as they crossed into Thal'Ahd territory
Escorted by a Thal'Ahd patrol into the Thal'Ahd main encampment
The party spoke to Chaiphut, the Clan Leader of the Thal'Ahd. They discovered he was secretly a Nethonris operative working for an entity known as 'the Jaguar'; who had allied the Thal'Ahd with the Verani, an oppressive magitocracy located to the east of Quan. The party overthrew Chaiphut, and encouraged the Thal'Ahd to embrace a form of democratic governance.
The party came across Reidoth and Arava, two of the three Archdruids, camped on the eastern edge of the Quan jungles
The party infiltrated the Verani Outpost in the Issati Peaks, rescuing Badger, freeing a number of prisoners from slave pens deep inside the fortress, and liberating four Kenku from the library. They then fought their way out of the fortress and into the vast underground road known as the Kanaalden.
The party journeyed underneath the Issati Peaks into Issastia and the Verani Republic, through the underground highway known as the Kanaalden
The party was ambushed by an Aquiliath in the tunnels near the Kanaalden
The party reached the base of the Verani People's Resistance to find the rebels under siege from Verani forces. The party bolstered their defences and helped them to escape
The party infiltrated a Verani military encampment to steal three Karo Gems, useful for hiding from magical searches
The party infiltrated the Order of the Pen tower and located the hidden meeting chamber
The devil Volux, who had been bound into the Dark Dagger, gained sufficient power (after consuming the soul of an innocent Verani events coordinator Ramas slew) to break the bonds of her prison. She started to consume Ramas's body, with the intention of constituting herself around his imprisoned soul in order to create a temporary body for herself while she sought a way to regain her own and exact her revenge on Levistus. Ramas managed to persuade her, by threatening to harm himself, that they could work together in pursuit of both party's goals. Volux reluctantly agreed, and has currently replaced the lower part of Ramas's right arm
Based on an intercepted communication, the Resistance learned of the Verani Council's secret meeting in a hidden chamber inside the Order of the Pen tower in the Lower Ward. With the aid of the party, they used this opportunity to set off explosive devices and assassinate the leaders of the council.
When they entered the ruined penthouse to confirm the success of the mission, the party discovered that the council leaders were essentially puppets under the control of monstrous creatures living inside their cranial cavities. These creatures escaped from their fallen hosts and began to attack the party, who managed to defeat them.
In order to escape detection from the authorities, the party were guided by the Resistance along as pre-planned escape route in the sewers.
Trying to escape, the party and the Resistance members were confused when the layout of the sewers seemed to have changed. The party were shepherded into an underground facility, where they were attacked by a horde of Quaggoths, Robazun, and Mind-Flayers.
The party made their way into a central chamber in the facility and met the Navigator - the leader of the Mind Flayer colony. The colony were the remnants of an interdimensional slave raid who were trapped on Lanath when the Veil was created. The city of Verani was built on top of the buried Nautiloid vessel of the Mind-Flayers; who had secretly been in control of the Republic for it's entire lifetime, using it as a front for their experimentation and feeding.
The Navigator was connected to an array of still living brains harvested from exceptional Verani children, and used this to greatly enhance his own mental capacities and abilities. The party destroyed these brains, weakening the Navigator and allowing them to defeat him. The resulting psychic backlash simultaneously killed all of the other Mind Flayers and freed the Verani Republic from their insidious control.
The death of the Navigator sent out a psychic shockwave which broke the minds of all but the strongest willed Verani Grandmasters.
While exploring the Mind Flayer Nautiloid, the party discovered that the Illithid had been experimenting with demonic summoning, and had summoned a variety of demons and devils to harvest their brains and add to their collections.
In one of the rooms on the lower deck of the Nautiloid, the party discovered a summoning ritual housing an invisible beast of immense size. One member of the party decided to release the creature, which revealed itself to be a Bebelith - a powerful spider-like demon. The creature attacked and the party only just managed to escape.
The People's Resistance and the surviving Grandmasters created a new democratic council to rule the Verani
The party traveled from Verani to the Sea of Glass with an escort provided by the People's Council
The party made their way across the Sea of Glass
The party stumbled into a Remorhaz hunting ground and were attacked. They slayed the beast, but Letho was seriously injured. Another monstrosity ambushed them, but they were rescued by an Iskathi ranger named Serax
Serax led the party to Iskaleth
A party of Iskalthi rangers were attacked outside Iskaleth by the Bebelith
The party travelled down the underground river from Iskaleth to Gilianth to begin their Pilgrimage
The party travelled down the coast of the Sea of Glass to the Ihal Babak
The party arrived in the Dragonspire Volcano, completed their Pilgrimage, and alerted the Conclave of Dragons to the growing threat of the Nethonris
Aetilius encountered Zyadrum, one of the shattered aspects of Xanith, and persuaded him to reintegrate
The party were ambushed by the Jaguar and the Bebelith. In the ensuing struggle, Clootie was killed and Miaug was maimed
Arina enacted a ritual to recover Clootie's soul and resurrect her
The party travelled back to Gilianth
The Seabird was waiting for the party in Gilianth, having been summoned by Arava, and brought them home to Neverwinter
The party returned to Thundertree
The party travelled on the Seabird from Neverwinter to the Kraken's Spine; and found the Dymiter
The party investigated the Dymiter. They found the crew dead, and the refugees infected with parasites which transformed them into Vrykolakas. The party ended up setting fire to the Dymiter to destroy the infection. They found a single survivor, Murray, driven half mad by isolation and fear. Clootie was infected during the fight, but the group managed to perform impromptu surgery and remove the parasite
The party followed Halia's trail to a mysterious island in the middle of the Kraken's Spine. Once there they discovered the ruins of a destroyed city, evidently submerged beneath the sea for quite some time. In the middle of the ruined city they found a mysterious tower of unknown construction. Inside they discovered the lair of the Triumvirate, the Nethonris leaders, and a mysterious purple crystal.
They discovered this island was part of Sha'Rekoth, the ancient capital of the Netheril Empire, destroyed during the war with the Primordials after the Netheril betrayed the peoples of Lanath and sided with the Primordials.
After touching the crystal, they were approached by the astral projections of the Triumvirate, who then awoke undead guardians inside the tower. The party was nearly killed by these creatures, but managed to escape the tower. The Triumvirate then sank the island. The party just managed to escape back to the Seabird
Kal Alderleaf, Elsa Northbrook, Snakey the Kenku and Serax the Iskathi; slipped out of Thundertree and set off to explore and clear the Lost Mine to prove themselves
Kal, Elsa, Snakey and Serax arrive at Wave Echo Cave and begin to explore the Lost Mine
The party arrived at Wave Echo cave in pursuit of the Kal, Elsa, Snakey and Serax
The party found the youngsters fighting the Ankheg Queen. They all joined forces and defeated the Queen.
After resting in the mine, the party awoke to find Arina suffering the effects of Ankheg's Vengeance. Patches of necrosis were spreading across her flesh. The party quickly carried her out of the mine and helped her through the forest to the Druid Circle. There, Ryoko transported her and Letho through the Druid Network to Thundertree. In Thundertree they sought out Garaele, who was able to stave off the worst of the disease and give them time to get Arina to the Sisters of Silvanus in Neverwinter for a cure.