Enthor

Episode 3: Dragon-slaying

April 10, 2012 21:51

For the 3rd time, the party of Enthor teamed up to take on their foes, now with the newest member filling in for Ryan, who couldn’t make it.

The people who were playing today were:
-Mike(Me), evil dungeon master of the world Enthor
-Nathan, playing Deladmin Leetdorf, an hermaphrodite chaotic good eladrin cleric
-Kelly, playing Kellinor, a female human thief
-Luke, playing Torinn, a male neutral dragonborn paladin
-Callum, playing Lance, a male lawful good druid

Chapter 1: These barbarians don’t fight ?
The party arrived in the barbarian town of Frosthaven, just over the Mountains of Mourn and bordering an icy sea known as Iceshore. When they got there, they bought several new items including amulets of health for everyone, and a brand-new long spear for Torinn. Just as they finished shopping, a group of icy-lizardmen attacked the town from a raiding vessel which docked onto shore. The players fought back courageously, ultimately sinking the boat, healing any wounded villagers and returning any of the loot which was stolen. The barbarian King Thrognar approached the players and asked them if they could travel to Ice-cove, a large icy cave where the lizardman base was situated, and kill there evil leader, a lizardman shaman called Norgamundax. After Deladmin converted the barbarians to Pelor, they left on a small raft. After a well-played out skill challenge, they managed to navigate their way to the Ice cove with very little repercussions.

Chapter 2: TPK ?!?!
The players rushed in quickly through the cavern, and after a few fights with some lizardmen (and luring two blackscale crushers named Jerry and Terry outside) they found out that Norgamundax was actually a white dragon. The players charged in, and although they fought well, a series of unfortunate events led to a TPK. Fortunately, an unnamed god offered the players resurrection if they would do a favour when he called upon them one day. Until then, the players were brought back to life, and although it was still a tough fight, they finally slayed the dragon. They took his loot, and returned to Frost haven, upon which they had earned the favour of King Thrognar.

Chapter 3: A base for heroes
The players then decided they would take a sword which they had found to the Jarl in Wolfbarrow, but along the way wanted to stop in Fallden. As they headed towards it, they saw a hooded assassin about to fire at the prince below. After a interesting fight, the assassin escaped and the prince was saved. When they went down to Fallden, the heroes met a slew of people, including the king, his daughter, the warden, Deladmin’s grandma, head of security at the new home they were gifted by the king for saving his son and also the lawyer that came with the home. After a deadly case of TPK, the players were impressed with their new home-and started planning ahead for their next acts of heroism….

Apologies that the report was short, but as we had a new player getting to grips with D and D, the adventure wasn’t very long. Also, because Deladmin wasn’t doing very well as a cleric, his class is now a fey-pact warlock, so be wary of that in the weeks to come. At any rate, I hope you enjoyed this report, and I look forward to playing the next session.
Until then, Happy gaming !
-Mike, DM

Episode 2: Stability

January 14, 2012 18:37

Once more, the party of Enthor teamed up to play this awesome campaign. The people who were playing today were:
-Mike(Me), evil dungeon master of the world Enthor
-Nathan, playing Deladmin Leetdorf, an hermaphrodite chaotic good eladrin cleric
-Ryan, playing Xirahorb Firetracker, a female neutral drow wizard
-Luke, playing Torinn, a male neutral dragonborn paladin
-Callum, playing Lance, a male lawful good druid

Chapter 1: We know who you are, Deladmin !
Continuing from last time, the players came out of the mountain and decided to return to Grimdark to tell the cleric about the necromancer. However, when they got to the stretch of road where the fought the goblins last time, they were confronted by a mysterious knight with hired bandits waiting for the party-one of which was the one who escaped them last time from the fight with the farmer. The knight immediately asked them for the books which they had in the mountain. The players tried to bluff their way past by giving them a few books, and nearly succeeded if not for Deladmin’s constant attempt to talk to him, by which they decided to engage them in a fight. After a long, hard and relatively gruelling fight, the players finally killed the group, taking their items (one of which was an awesome sword of frost) and continued to Grimdark.

Chapter 2: 4 tasks
Upon getting back to Grimdark , the players found themselves being introduced to the soon-to-be new baron of Grimdark, Jerek Von Klauseman. The two men gave them 4 tasks to achieve in order to get Grimdark stable again:
1. Find and bring to justice the people who dug up the graves to give the undead a main attack force.
2. Got to the tomb of the previous cleric and retrieve the dagger of Pelor, a priceless artifact for the new chapel.
3. Go to the Hill bandit lair and get back the supplies stolen a few months ago, and get rid of them for good.
4. Get rid of the current insane baron, Baron Blonen Von Klauseman.

Chapter 3: Spooks in the kitchen
The players decided they would get the supplies back first. After sneaking up on the camp, they decided to distract the guards by pretending they were bandits of a different group. Doubting their story, Lance was taken into the leaders house. Still doubting their story, the leader locked Lance in a room. At this point, Firetracker had snuck round to the back of the house, and Deladmin had fey-stepped into a storage room. Their they found the supplies, and the farmer they had helped previously against the bandits. However, Albaboss the albatross could not keep his beak shut, and alerted the bandits to his potential location. Deladmin managed to hide himself, but the bandits were sick of their prisoner, so took him to the chief to get rid of him. At this point, Firetracker made a chair lift in the air to scare off the bandits-which worked. All but one of the hill bandits run away, screaming they would never come back to Grimdark. The final Hill-bandit (who was very racist to tieflings) decided to join them. His told them his name was Barry White, and he would assist them as best he could. Using the wheel-barrow, the took both the farmer and Barry White back to Grimdark and completed the first quest.

Chapter 4: Crazy time
The party then decided to go get rid of Baron Blonen Von Klauseman. To cut a long story short (which involved throwing out of windows, musical chairs, hacking tables, getting tea, megaphones and a robot dog) the baron met his death by being impaled on a sword from 40ft up and shot through the head. Jerek Von Klauseman took his place as rightful baron, and Firetracker getting a new companion called Klink the robot dog, the second quest was completed.

Chapter 5: The tomb
Next, the players went to the previous clerics tomb. Deladmin didn’t go in at first, staying with Barry White and Klink to guard the door, but left the two when the party was attacked by giant rats. The party fought them off, and went down into a room which was filled with books. After a fight with the fire elemental as part of the brazier trap, they found out more information about the world they were in. They then found a healing circle, which they used, and a room with a treasure-covered statue of Pelor, but left it as it was blasphemy enough they were in here. They finally found the tomb-and were attacked by a Carrion crawler-who only managed to bite a chunk out of Lance’s left shoulder before it was dispatched. The party then grabbed the dagger. Rushing outside, however, they were confronted by various goblins who tied up their friends and an evil bugbear called “Gruff” led by a hobgoblin. After a hard fight, they were all dispatched, and the party returned the dagger to Brandon Gadleburg.

Chapter 6: Fight in the graveyard
The players then proceeded to complete their final quest, which was to find the people who dug the graves up. After finding a book which told them of a meeting here in a few days, they then camped their until one night a few days later. 3 figures appeared, led by a nobleman. They whispered about a cult to the evil Dalrath Graygon, headed by someone called “G”. The party then attacked, and the nobleman turned out to be a were-rat. However, after the two other men were dispatched, the were-rat sacrificed himself to summon two Tar devil harriers. After a brutal fight, the two demons were slain, and the party told the cleric about the cult. The cleric gives the party one final task. After they have rested,they must go to Frost-haven, a barbarian town on the other side of the mountains of mourn, and inform of the new baron.

Now the party must annoyingly wait till the next episode to continue their epic quest, to find out about this cult, and find out who this strange knight was and what he was looking for. And I’m afraid to say you readers will have to wait to. Until then, happy gaming !

-Mike, DM

Episode 1: New beginning

December 15, 2011 20:17
So then-after much planning, persuading and supply gathering, I sat down with my players for my first ever proper campaign. Characters were already made before-hand. The people playing were:

-Mike(Me), evil dungeon master of the world Enthor
-Nathan, playing Deladmin Leetdorf, an hermaphrodite chaotic good eladrin cleric
-Ryan, playing Xirahorb Firetracker, a female neutral drow wizard
-Luke, playing Torinn, a male neutral dragonborn paladin
-Callum, playing Lance, a male lawful good druid

Chapter 1: Thrown into action
Straight off the bat, I threw the characters into their world. They found themselves running through a dungeon, being chased by goblins. They started off split into pairs, but ran into each other in a large room. The party was surrounded by an goblin snipers and 2 cut-throats who were leading them. They demanded the players give the treasure they have stolen back to the Goblin king before they took it from them. Players being players, they said no, and proceeded to kick goblin ass. They fought pretty well for new players, slicing up the minions and teaming up to take down the cut-throats. Also, Torinn’s aura killed a goblin minion, and caused many a laugh when I said that he “blew up”. A few cuts and headless goblins later, they had successfully won against the goblins, and proceeded to split the loot, equally 4 ways. Then Deladmin Leetdorf led the way and managed to find the way out into the outside world. They also decided to harvest some strawberries, deciding that they would spend the afternoon picking them rather then doing anything “fruitful”. Then, with no real aim, they decided just to head in any direction-after travelling a few miles, they found themselves on the verge of a small farm. However, it was not the greeting they were expecting.

Chapter 2: A sniff of trouble
The found themselves instead watching the farmer being brutalised by two hill bandits and their pet wolf. Lance decided to talk to them, but to no avail, so the party took a similar approach to last time-beating the hell out of them. One frenzied fight later (where luke threw a shield at one bandit, knocking him royally on his ass and where the wolf attacked a prone Deladmin Leetdorf 3 times but didn’t hit once) and the farmer is saved. He thanked the party by giving them a hot meal and a bed for the night. They talk to him, asking him questions. They discover 3 things:
1. The town of Grimdark is but a few miles away
2. There is great trouble in the town, which involves undead
3.His soup lacks flavour
After a vaguely comfortably night, they thank the farmer by giving him some strawberries and leaving for Grimdark, hoping to help the town with their problems.

Chapter 3: Night of the living dead
The players arrive in town, greeted by a guard and a barn full of dead bodies. They find out from the dwindling guard force that a few weeks ago, the dead started to rise again and attack the town en-masse. As such, they believe that the former cleric of the town is to blame, and want the party to find him. However, the party decide to help fight off the undead that attack the town tonight. After a long battle against zombies, skeletons and a undead bugbear (where the guards and townsfolk just died and were totally useless),the party then visit the old run-down chapel-and find information in there which tells them where the cleric is. They then burn it down. Then the party finally catch up to the cleric on the outskirts of town. He introduces himself as Brandon Gadleburg, and explains his sad tale, where he was kicked out of the town for killing his own undead son. He tells the players that an evil necromancer holed up in the mountains of mourn is to blame, and they should destroy him so that the town can be re-built again. The players agree, and quickly set off to kill this evil necromancer.

Chapter 4: Up the mountain
However, only a few days travel away from the clerics house, the mountain in sight, and the party find themselves ambushed by the Goblin king’s soldiers. After Lance managed to tame a drake, and Firetracker took out a lot of minions, the fight quickly swung in the parties favour and they won. The drake sadly ran off into the wilderness, but Lance wiped away his tears and continued onwards with the party. Finally, the made it to the foot of the mountain. There were two large holes in the part they were facing, and they decided to try get up the lower one. Although Lance hilariously failed many times to fire arrows to secure the way up, he finally did, and the party made their way up. The found out that it was the mouth of a dark cavern, and the party encountered a dire wolf-which they wisely decided to piss off by throwing strawberries at. The dire wolf bull rushed both Leetdorf and Firetracker off the mountain-Firetracker managed to hold on, but Leetdorf…well, didn’t. He hit the ground and became bloodied-being fortunate not too die from a 50ft fall. In revenge, Torinn jumped on the wolf’s back, clawed out its eyes and threw it off the mountain-only for it to land on Nathan. Fortunately, I rolled low on damage again, so Leetdorf was still barely holding onto life. The party went down and healed him, and continued into the cave. Then, in a moment which shocked Lance, they found wolf cubs-babies of the dire wolf they just killed. Lance was, quite understandably, horrified. However, the party also found some stairs leading upwards, so Lance left his spirit wolf to guard the cubs, planning to bring them back to town and give them to them to use as guard dogs. Going up the stairs, they found the second hole actually lead to them, and a large door. The party decides to go through.

Chapter 5: Dalrath Graygon !
Upon opening the door, the party find themselves face to face with a room full of the undead. Quickly, the party set about fighting them-only to find the room filled with pitfall traps. Treading carefully, the smashed the skeleton warriors into a pulp, and then proceeded to disable all the traps in a normal adventurer fashion- by pushing the bulky Torinn into them. After disabling a few, the party realised their insanity, and decided to continue onwards through another set of doors. The came into a large room, filled with 2 zombies and a skeleton warrior, and sitting in a throne high above, a tiefling necromancer, calling him Dalrath Graygon, sitting in a bone chair- you know, in the usual evil, main villiany way. The players then proceeded to kill him, but it was a tough fight-the players all almost died. However, after through killing all the undead and punching Dalrath a few times, a new character appeared, very clear which side he was on. As Toriin delivered a impressive punch to Dalrath’s face, a huge black dragon smashes through the room, roaring the players back against the wall and giving Dalrath an escape route. He flies away on the back of the dragon, cursing the players names. The players, realising the necromancer is gone, loot through his treasure and his books, and head back downstairs to return to the cleric.

And thats it for the first episode of the Enthor campaign ! I think you will agree it was very interesting. The second episode will be played out around the Christmas holidays, so expect an update around january time. Thanks for reading, I really hoped you enjoyed it, and I like forward to writing more of these.

-Mike, DM