The Hideout Castle Map

The surface is composed of a crumbling castle that looks like it was smashed in two down the middle centuries ago.  This is the underground portion that still survives and was refurbished by Red's raiders.

Ethereal Marauder

Vile's Fen

Adventure Log Session 11

Date June 9 - July 11, 1226 Raeleni Calendar


Thom Tum, 4th level Gnome Thief
Igor, 4th level Dwarf Cleric
Iron Stone, 4th Level Dwarf Fighter


JULY 9

-- After a day's delay to tend to some Cleric duties, Igor takes off to catch up to the other characters on the way to Fjorin's Foothold

-- After a day of travel, he stops at Sarruh's rest in, next to Vile's Fen by the river.  He hears singing coming from the fen.

-- Inside, he meets a human fighter and a female Orc mercenary team, and an Orc Shaman with three Timberwolves companions who were on the way to join up with a main Orc horde to try and assault the foothold

JULY 11

-- Igor joins up with the rest of the party at the Foothold keep.

-- Thom scouts out the surrounding forest, finds multiple Orc tribes gathering for an assault on the foothold.  He kills two couriers, but not before they sound the alarm.  He is chased by an Orc horde back to the Foothold keep.

-- The keep becomes surrounded by Orc and allied Goblin tribes, wanting to wipe out Fjorin and his 'metal abominations' form their territory once and for all.

-- The party goes out to negotiate.  Igor meets up with the mercenaries and th shaman he met at Sarruh's Rest Inn.

-- Fjorin launches barrels of Alchemists's Fire at the surrounding horde.  The Orcs and Goblins rush in.  The party decides to side with the Orc and Goblins, and joins them in the assault.

-- Spider-manned automatons rush out to do battle.  Iron Stone engages them while the rest of the party makes their way to the keep.

-- At the keep, there is chaos, but Thom and Igor eventually confront Fjorin, automatons, and crazy spiders in order to win the day.

-- Many Orcs and Goblins rush into the mine tunnels.

-- The party takes Fjorin's corpse and retreats.

-- Thom goes back to try and rig a booby trap with the remaining Alchemist's fire to destroy most of the Orcs and Goblins.  The spiders below decide to collapse the tunnels just at that moment, setting off Thom's trap prematurely.  Thom gets caught in the blast but survives.

Timberwolf

Adventure Log Session 10

Date June 13 - July 10, 1226 Raeleni Calendar


Thom Tum, 3rd level Gnome Thief
Igor, 3rd level Dwarf Cleric
Iron Stone, 3rd Level Dwarf Fighter


LATE JUNE

-- The party and the town of Fractured Hill recovers.  Funerals are held for the deceased.  The townsfolk talk with the party about staying on after their obligations are met, especially Igor, as the town is currently lacking a high-ranking cleric.  Igor stays at the Temple while Thom and Iron stay with the Huddles.  Single women begin flirting with Iron and Igor, and some families drop broad hints of perhaps arranging marriages with Igor or Iron, complete with dowries.

JULY 5

-- A rich former resident of the town, a merchant dwarf woman named Sharda Hammermain, visits the town wanting to hire the party after hearing of their exploits.

-- Her husband, Fjorin, has been missing for over two years, having been obsessed with finding adamantine ore in the mountains.  He and his contingent of dwarven miners established a mine deep in the mountains in known orc and goblin territory.  Sharda agrees to pay the party 10K gold, with 5K up front in the form of a high-quality jewel ring, if they either bring back her husband or proof that he's dead in the form of his personal property.

-- They learn they are not the first party she sent after her husband.  The last party she sent is over three weeks overdue.

JULY 6

-- Kalindra, the low level town Cleric, joins the party on the journey.  Party sets out on journey into the deep foothills, first traveling to the small trading town of River Bend and then heading north along the river.

JULY 7

-- Party stays at the Sarruh's Rest Inn, beside a swamp called Vile's Fen.

JULY 8

-- The party heads inland, and are ambushed by a small party of goblins.  They easily fight them off.

JULY 9

-- The party spies the small keep in the cliff face where Fjorin built his mine entrance.  Thom sneaks in, seeing large steam-powered automatons

 -- Iron Stone and Kalindra are chased by a much larger horde of goblins numbering over 50.  Everyone makes it to the keep and the goblins are chased off .

-- Inside, they meet Fjorin, who has come to despise his wife's meddling, especially since he reveals he has found admantine ore and seems obsessed with getting more.  There is no sign of any of the other dwarves, whom he says left bit by bit over the last few years.

-- He takes the party to meet the Spider Swarms, who his mine accidentally stumbled into.  They are pack-intelligence tarantulas who have been living underground since before the Great Sundering 1200 years ago.  They have advanced technical knowledge but most are agoraphobic.  The swarms manning the automatons on the surface are considered insane.

-- Fjorin hires the party to hunt for meat to help feed the Spider Swarms.  In return, they reward him with adamantine ore their automatons extract from their extensive tunnels.

JUNE 10

-- The party spends a day hunting.

Automatons