Umber

Index of documentation for the first weekday campaign

Originally hired by the duelist weretiger Svengali to find equipment and dwarves for a stronghold, they took a long look at their employers and decided not to renew their contract (and, perhaps, not to play with strange card decks). Striking out on their own, they make a mostly civil band of mostly mercenary adventurers. The gnomish rogue/wizard who will do some things for money but more things for entertainment. The fighter equally dedicated to swordplay and pies, waging a daily battle with his strong-willed blade for control of his destiny. The bard with perhaps more wit than wisdom, whose charm soothes the savage urges of beholders but fails to amuse the stern cleric of Cuthbert, with his dour visage that betrays excitement only at the mention of demons. The amiable dwarven fighter and the aloof elven wizard, hired to escort the defiant party out of the Bureaucracy of the Pale (uh, sorry, that’s the chaotic impulse breaking through), who decided their sympathies and interests lay with their charges rather than their employers. And the duty-bound paladin of Pholtus, beloved by his people but by neither the rogue nor the cleric of Cuthbert, who remains in the party’s company for reasons known only to himself.

Biographies

Dampf Aufschlager
Carmen Elgato
Baden Grimsby
Ludan Lightpart
Valen Siannodel

Happenings

The Speaker in Dreams
The Performance of Carment Elgato, Part the First (02/25/2005): Being a not entirely objective account of a battle with extraplanar beings, although as correcting the inaccuracies in his accounts of his companions would fill a small book, it is left as an exercise for the reader. (mo)
The Performance of Carmen Elgato, Part the Second (02/26/2005): Being an account, in which Carmen’s delusions have at least partially subsided, of a battle with mages and mouthers. (mo)
Heroes’ Feast at Brindinford (02/27/2005): In which a party is thrown to celebrate the adventurers’ triumphs, and the absence of the mayor arouses their suspicion. (af)
The Party Meets Qwan (02/28/2005): A young nobleman who hasn’t been mentally enslaved byt he local illithid infestation asks to help the party liberate Brindinford. (af)

Interlopers of Ruun-Khazai
Sometimes Death is Preferable (03/25/2005): In which Ludan is killed by a meteor swarm and returns a crankier and less accommodating gnome. (tad)
Time Moves On (03/26/2005): The temple of Cuthbert in the city of Ogburg endures attack by an unknown assailant. (tad)
The Coming Storm (03/27/2005): The party dispatches a succubus as the battle between githyanki and githzerai rages outside. (tad)
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (03/28/2005): Dampf discovers that the power of Cuthbert has been subverted; the party gains and loses items of value. (tad)

Old White Death
In the Giants’ Den (04/28/2005): Curbing Ludan and Fozzy’s inclination to slaughter every frost giant in sight, the party searches for clues in their quest to liberate a powerful, but bound, nature spirit. (af)