Umber

Umber

Tenser’s Pawns

September 14th, 2007

Index of documentation for the first weekend campaign

A now nominally human fighter who experienced an unexpected four-foot growth spurt and, after an unfortunate encounter with a staff-wielding nighthag, was wreathed for an uncomfortably long while in perpetual blackfire (where, oh where have the ferlow seeds gone?). A wizard who apprenticed himself to Tenser without knowing it (but then, he was supposed to be dead) and whose arm sprouts quite an impressive fungus garden at regular intervals.  A psi warrior who has taken to wandering around in the guise of an 8-foot tall, four-armed ape creature in an effort to be inconspicuous among her comrades. A barbarian who, having finally come to terms with balancing the tension between his raging physical energy and the delicate intricacies of locks and traps that intrigue his unusually active intellect, was hanging out vaguely bored at the temple of Pelor in Greyhawk when the rest of the party burst in fresh from a battle with the half-devilish, half-demonic servant of one of the heads of Demogorgon. Feeling that here was a place where he might fit right in, he asked to accompany them on their journey to Pandemonium. And a psionic monk embodying the best of all the monkish virtues: the speed of a cheetah, the agility of a cat, the wisdom of a wyrm, the temper of a demon…well, perhaps not that one. She is a sight to behold, leaping long distances to strike out at an enemy with her…greatsword? Don’t ask…

Happenings

The Forge of Fury
The Party Victorious, The Forge Expensive (01/24/04): A status report from the newly installed dwarves of the Glitterhame, detailing in painful economic terms just how much damage the adventurers caused “liberating” the place. (sab)

Baltron’s Beacon
Alf’s Errand (01/25/04): The party hears news of Garflin, begins to question Frito’s allegiance, and is sent by the mysterious wizard Alf to investigate rumors of a great evil. Any resentment about being Alf’s errand runners is quelled by the knowledge that they have left him with a loopy kobold who, for reasons known only to himself, Alf has taken on as an apprentice. (sab)
Urf’s Errand (01/26/04): An intercepted message contains many obscure names, but the words “black flame” and “sacrifices” occur in far too close proximity for the party’s comfort. (sab)
Meeting King Yiss (01/27/04): A lizardman and his dragon thank the party for liberating the holy site of Nakimas from the clutches of evil. (sab)
The Forked Tongue Times (01/28/04): The lizardman perspective on battles and life. Sit down, relax, and have a mud-weasel. (sab)
The End of Thuggicus (01/29/04): In which the party’s barbarian cleric is annihilated, but a unicorn freed from bondage. (sab)

Standing Stone
Frito’s Fate (02/20/04):  In which the evil rogue learns that while a sense of consociation may have kept party members’ blades from his throat on more than one occasion, assassins don’t have quite that fraternal feeling. (dj, sab)
Frito’s Mind (02/21/04): An excerpt from Frito’s diary, found after his less and less lamented death. (dj)
Back to the Swamp (02/22/04): After assassins and demons, hostile elves and townsfolk who were squirrels not just in their past life but in this one too, the party returns to the safety and sanity of King Yiss’ swamp, where lizardmen dance around glowing green beacons waiting for their god to descend. (sab)

Return to White Plume Mountain
A Letter from Gulthias (03/21/04): An intercepted letter which suggest that Gulthias was not merely a strange species of dangerous tree. (sab)
A Letter from the True Keraptis? (03/22/04): The obvious gnome imposter responds. (sab)
The Imprint and the Wizard (03/23/04): Bane narrowly escapes transformation into a shallow clone of a once-mighty mage. (sab)
Gains and Losses (03/24/04): The party gains a cleric, nearly loses Bane to the curse of a psionic fungus and, in a classic case of saving the world only to potentially damn it, completes a ritual returning the all-powerful Keraptis to life and confronts…a newborn infant. (sab)

Heart of Nightfang Spire
The Death of Alf (03/25/04): The party returns to Salt Marsh too late to save Alf, but travel to the Spire in the hopes of saving Meepo and foiling Gulthias’ plans for world domination (sab)
The Dreams (03/26/04): Gulthias visits the adventurers and offers them their hearts’ desires. (af, dj, ler, sab, tad)
Back to the Swamp (03/29/04): The adventurers once again avail themselves of Yiss’ hospitality; Svengali delivers a wedding invitation from Haissha and a present of sorts to Psydney.
The Conversation (03/26/04): The adventurers mull over the implications of their dreams, and exhibit what will prove to be rabid overconfidence. (af, dj, ler, tad)
The Aftermath (03/27/04): Meepo gains a friend and grows up a little; the adventurers learn that all is not well within the Circle of Eight. (sab)
The Letter (03/28/04): The party finds a coded missive to Gulthias from an old, mysterious nemesis, Ren. (sab)

Return to the Glitterhame
Svengali’s News (04/23/04): A mysterious threat menaces Blasingdell and its Pelorites.
A Status Report (04/24/04): Glom Gargull, Glitterhame Project Engineer, reports on the disposition of personnel and goods at Khundrakar.
A Party Member Leaves While Still on Her Feet (04/25/04): Kuhlefaran, restless cleric of Fharlanghn interested in neither weddings nor economic forecasts, departs on a mission. (af, dj, tad)
Yaakov’s Letter to the Adventurers (04/26/04): A threat.
Yaakov’s Letter to Lilith (04/27/04): A different sort of threat.
Theodus’ Letter to Yaakov (04/28/04): A threat wrapped in conviviality.
Leaving Again (04/29/04): Blasingdell safe, the Glitterhame secured, the baby Keraptis finds a father figure in an old paladin of Pelor.

Tenser’s Castle
An Exchange (05/27/04): A servant and his mistress ruminate. (sab)
A Perspective on Events (05/28/04): Psydney explains the Eternal Champion to her sister, T’lar.
The Rewards of Virtue (05/29/04): Meepo finds his master; Tenser and the Circle of Eight give the adventurers a rare gift. (sab)

Bastion of Broken Souls
Demise (06/23/04): Jake chooses death – not for the first time, and perhaps not for the last? (sab)
From Atop Spider Mountain (06/24/04): Psydney contemplates the fate of exiled deities and the loss of Jake.
Chaos and Law (06/25/04): Battle is joined at the gates of the Bastion. (sab)
Death on the Battlefield (06/26/04): Demogorgon arrives to take command. (sab)
Demonolog (06/29/04): Demogorgon plots his revenge. (sab)
Nurn’s Farewell (06/27/04): The best death slaad friend an adventurer could ever have says goodbye. (sab)
Honor Among Dwarves (06/28/04): Purcell and Jake receive honors for valor. (sab)

Vendetta: Of Geopolitics and Geomancy
A Rest Among the Cairns (07/16/04): Bane looks in on his once-but-no-longer mechanical cuckoo, and finds the little brass dragon in peril. (sab)
D&D Meets IM: A Technological Interlude (07/17/04): If it really took this long to make decisions, we’d all have been dead ten times over. (af, ler, pc, tad)
Actions and Reactions (07/18/04): The party rushes to the rescue to find… (sab)
Nightwing (07/19/04): Bane’s dragon gains a name and a protector. (sab)
If Not New Friends… (07/20/04): Sometimes humans are squirrels, and sometimes squirrels are…dragons? (sab)
Battle’s Eve (07/21/04): The party arrives in the middle of Haissha ranting at Svengali, and briefly contemplates the restfulness of Lyzandred’s maze. (sab)
Journey’s End (07/22/04): Frito finally finds what he is looking for.
War and Glory? (07/23/04): Haissha recounts the fortunes of war to her old friend, Sir Geoffrey, currently serving Tenser at Mage Point.
A Kind of Respite (07/24/04): Between battles, the party tries to calm the Blasingdell citizenry; Bane and Psydney acquire unexpected proteges. (sab)
A Skirmish Lost and Won (07/25/04): The party turns back Orcus at a gate to the Prime Material.
The Turning of the Tide? (07/26/04): In the midst of the second battle, far more vicious than the first, an unexpected force appears. (sab)
Elegy (07/27/04): Psydney experiences a moment of doubt.
Reckonings (07/28/04): Haissha celebrates with Sir Geoffrey on the salvation of Blasingdell, but expresses a certain relief at the imminent departure of the adventurers.
Prophecy (07/29/04): Watchers near the field of battle muse on its meaning. (sab)

Into the Demons’ Lair
Ruminations (08/18/04): The battle between the adventurers and Grandfather is studied by an unknown individual, for unknown purposes. (sab)
Prophecy, Analyzed
(08/19/04): Many have pored over this document, trying to fathom its meaning. Tenser was killed over it. Is the party really involved? And if only others believe they are, does the truth of it matter? (sab)
Factions
(08/20/04): Mordenkainen expresses displeasure over the party’s wanton elimination of evil on the face of Oerth. (sab)
Mordenkainen’s Mandate (08/21/04): Psydney reflects on the destruction of the Witchking and Mordenkainen’s irritation in a letter to her brother Erenil.
Lyzandred’s Gift (08/22/04): In which the party visits the ancient lich in search of information, but leaves with tangible items. For better or worse, who can say?
Into the Abyss (08/23/04): With nearly half the party rabid on the subject of killing demons, the adventurers nonetheless sheath their swords and make a mad, stealthy dash for the realm of Orcus.
Enai’s Visitor (08/24/04): Enai has an unexpected visitor with an alluring, and dangerous, offer. (sab)
A Visitor of Another Kind (08/25/04): Psydney’s exchange of skulls with the erudite demon Klavicus unearths a surprise. (sab)
Demonic Interlude (08/26/04): In which Klavicus receives a visitor.
Crusader (08/27/04): The planetar Crusader updates Nixie goddess Lalibela on events in the Abyss.
Thievery (08/28/04): Dimwold visits Klavicus with startling news.
Vultus (08/29/04): In the midst of raging over the loss of his wand, Orcus receives a visitor who enrages him still further. (sab)
Destruction (08/30/04): The party takes on an avatar of Tiamat and destroys Orcus’ most prized possession.

Apocalypse
Prophecy’s Fulfillment (09/19/04):  The Eternal Champion, revisited; the adventurers attempt to aid Clement in the evacuation of the Bone March; the mysterious disappearances of Keraptis, Meepo, Alban and Moonshadow are explained.
Students (09/20/04):  Alban tries to make Bane understand his actions. (sab)
Teachers (09/21/04): Serge overhears a moment of conflict between Blastir and Achomed. (sab)
City of Miracles (09/22/04): A bard’s tale heard by the adventurers in a reputable inn during the weeks in which they were searching Greyhawk for a master weaponsmith. They received a few shy glances during its telling… (sab)
Actions and Consequences (09/23/04): The prophecy appears to roll along, fulfilling itself in the way that prophecies will.
A Scholar’s Notes (09/24/04): In which the party redirects a scholar’s research for their own ends (TSR)
Castles in the Air (09/25/04): In which another individual expresses interest in Castle Pescheour.
Neverending Story (09/26/04): The Bard seeks shelter in the Enclave from the increasing madness of the world, but finds less shelter than he’d hoped.
Choice and Blame (09/27/04): The Bard receives an unexpected visitor.
The Dragon King (09/28/04): The thief of the Creation Seed revels in his new possession. (sab)
Endgame (09/29/04): The final struggle for control of the axis mundi and its result.
Mordenkainen’s Sacrifice (09/30/04): From despair comes the will to answer a desperate call. (sab)

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