GAME HISTORY

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Flamerule 27th 1374 - Year of the Lightning Storms
Deethan teleports to his Uncle's house in Neverwinter - simply a social call. He finds him DEAD, murdered. Casting a vision spell, he sees how the battle occured, who his uncle's attackers are and how his uncle was over-come. He collects what evidence he can, including an invitation to a reunion happening in a few days time. What is really disturbing is that one of the attackers is a face from Deethan's past - Harry Fathesque - a mage he'd last seen dead with an assassin's cross-bow bolt through his head some 19 years earlier.

Flamerule 28th
Deethan uses a wish spell to bring his Uncle back to life. His uncle is disorientated, but starts to recover, staying in Deethan's "wizard's Tower" in Baldur's Gate.. Deethan plans to track down his uncle's attackers and kill them. He locates a bunch of them in a house in Neverwinter. He zaps in and pretty much anialates them all.

Flamerule 29th
Having spoken to his uncle about it - Deethan decides to attend this re-union on behalf of his recovering uncle. He spends the day chilling out with his uncle (who writes an introduction letter to Faelar (one of Bergis's old adventuring companions and the person who had arranged the reunion, 5 years on from their last big adventure - see the reunion invitation letter)) and then prepares himself to teleport the next day.

Flamerule 30th - Midsummer Eve
Deethan teleports to Waterdeep, and makes his way to the Jade Jugg - the location for the welcome dinner - early in the day, the true celebrations due to take place on the following night on Midsummer's Day. At the "lunch time" meeting, he meets the following people:

It becomes clear through conversation that everyone invited to the reunion appears to have been attacked in one way or another.

Following the various conversations and realisations that there seemed to be a big plot afoot - the group decided to do a little pro-active investigation of their own. Choosing to scry Harry Fathesque, the group found the man riding horses in Sembia with a bunch of nobles. The scrying was detected, and a sudden (somewhat rash) decision was made to gather everyone together, prepare loads of spell defenses and then teleport to Sembia to ambush them...

Of course, by the time they'd finished preparing themselves, their enemies had made some preparations too. The group managed to do some damage, but a fair number of our enemies escaped, including Harry Fathesque. It turned out that one of the "nobels" with Harry Fathesque was in fact the Primarch of Sembia... suddenly a diplomatic incident had been created! LINK TO BATTLE. We did however find a piece of paper listing various mercenary organisations/assassin guilds with a number of them crossed out. [

At the end of the battle, the group teleported back to the private room in the Jade Jugg, and decided to leave immediately. Faelar suggested that they go to Faelar's mansion.

On route, the group bumped into Kyle - an old friend of Derrick, and Leathynos. The latter was a pure stranger, who for some reason was persuaded to walk with them whilst being "chatted up" by Garrett. Before long however, something was to happen which would bind her to us more strongly - a shared experience - namely an attack by the demon Cathezarr, which appeared in the middle of the street. The battle was won, but only by Faelar calling in a favour with Khelben Blackstaff! <LINK TO BATTLE>

Having spoken with the archmage, Faelar changed the group's destination to the Yawning Portal instead, wanting to meet with a couple of people - Durnan and Mirt - two ex-adventurers (and owners of the Yawning Portal) who might be able to help the group.Whilst waiting for Durnan to appear, we first met Jewelia - who appeared to simply be a female adventurer looking to recruit people to go down into Undermountain to look for a book. Derrick also spotted and then went to speak to Sorg Hornblower() - the leader of the band of assassins/mercs who had been after him. Derrick speaks with him, and then agrees to buy a reprieve on his "contract" and also some information. He also speaks with Jewelia (having missed speaking to her earlier). In the meanwhile, the rest of the group went down into the wine cellars to wait for Durnan, where Deethan cast a Mage's Private Sanctum spell to give the partysome peace from scrying. Since the episode in Sembia, the group had been scryed several times - by three unknown people, and also by the house mage Eyrienar Hondler of the Saerloonian Noble family Hondler is attempting to scry on you from his spellcasting chamber in the family mansion, and later by Hamsted Focht of House Anakur in Saerloon..

Midsummer Day - Pre-dawn

Deethan woke early and teleported to his home in Baldurs Gate, where he collected his uncle and his spellbooks, as well as a large scrying mirror which he put in the sack of holding before returning to the cellars of the Yawning Portal. The group, having prepared themselves, found that the tavern above had been filled with mercenaries. A crossbow bolt with a warning from Sorg let them know of the situation, and they decided to spring the trap. <LINK TO BATTLE>. In the battle were Banites (led by High Imperceptor Ghordoon) and assassins led by Fahad (and his sister Sylphia). Deethan nearly took out Sylphia, but didn't quite manage to finish the job, making Fahad's contract personal, and similarly Garrett nearly took out Ghordoon. Unfortunately the Banites managed to take his body away and through a gate of some sort to a shadowy realm. To Sorg's suprise, his man Olath helped Deethan survive by attacking Fahad when the Calimishite had Deethan at his mercy. Faelyar's companion Shay'la died, and Derrick and Kyle were sucked into a shadowy realm after being hit by some powerful runes. At the end of the battle, when the Waterdeep Watch were turning up, the survivors teleported to outside the Elven Embassy - where Faelar and Deethan argued about the next course of action (and the embassy elves treated Deethan poorly I might add!).

Midsummer Day - Dawn

Deethan then teleported Leathynos, Bergis and Roni to his home in Baldur's gate, only to find that it has been invaded within the last hour or so by drow and spiders from the Underdark. Within moments, Garrett also joined them. They battled spiders and drow, only to be beaten (Bergis was killed - his body cut to shreds by a blade barrier spell). They were "rescued" by another group of drow who teleported in and killed the drow attacking them. This was all part of some ruse - with the 2nd group of drow pretending that Deethan actually was Olath Velve. Deethan was told that he had been set up to appear to be Olath Velve, and that the "Hunters of Lolth" would be seeking him - probably to simply take the heat off the real Olath Velve!

Midsummer Day - Early Morning

Once all the drow had gone, some other people turned up - Keld, Deethan's long time friend and Pavlov - sent by Ennelda to see if he can help us (link to letter from Ennelda). Another couple of people turned up as well - an old man named Jeb and a woman named Diamond.- who represented Jewelia - the woman we'd met briefly in the Yawning Portal the day before. They came with an invitation to lunch later that day at the Jade Jugg - apparently to gather together those of like mind who feel threatened by the "Cabal" for mutual protection and support. Pavlov says he will do what he can to help, and heads off to grab his wife Kaitlyn and his companions Tobias.

Midsummer Day - Mid Morning

Garrett plain shifted the group to Celestia, where Deethan proceeded to perform some scrying and Tobias performed a divination(). Garrett, Deethan and Leathynos then drank a potion to enable them to artifically rest - sleeping for only an hour but as effective as a whole night's sleep.

Midsummer Day - Lunch time

Having relearnt spells, the group plainshifted and teleported again - this time back to Waterdeep and the Jade Jugg, for their meeting with Jewelia. Several new people were met at this meeting, as well as one or two old faces as well:

When the PCs arrived, it seemed as if Uncle Ollie and Jewelia were trying to trust each other. Jewelia wanted Ollie to accept a gift of one of her daggers, and Uncle Ollie wanted Jewelia and everyone else to "drink" from his Chalice of Conspirators.The group had been brought together by Jewelia, because she's been attacked, and discovered that multiple other people had also been attacked. They had met the previous morning, and that meeting had been interrupted by an attack by Cathezarr. Mitchell cast a divination spell, which didn't really do much to help everyone... Jewelia mentioned some theories() about why she, Ollie, Talin and Esmerelda were targets. The orc siege of Mithral Hall was also discussed briefly - in the context of the Flaming Fist Merc company and Keld's connections.

In a pause in the meeting, Jewelia and Ollie spoke alone and settled their differences - Ollie taking the dagger, and Jewelia drinking from the chalice. Jewelia had discovered Cathezarr's lair - below a gambling den underneath a warehouse in Neverwinter. The meeting ended, and half of the group (Talin, Mitchall, Hendrick, Rook, Drftton, Sorg, Jewelia, Jeb, the Jewels, and the PCs) left via a teleportation cirlce to go to Jewelia's home in Neverwinter. Jeb and the Jewels then went off to Jewelia's other place - Stonewood Tower? Further Divinations were cast here by Roni and Baranthus.

Midsummer Day - Afternoon

The group split into three to make their way to the warehouses, before entering the secret arena area. The group mingled for a while, trying to find out information. First Deethan, and then Pavlov cast spells - causing the Spell Engine to appear and spin.Outside, on the streets above, Faelar turned up with a bunch of elven wariors, meeting with Leathynos. They storm the building - joining those below just as combat started there. Faelar also informed Leathynos that "Evermeet was raided. A tower of high sorcery. A piece of the GateKeepers Crystal which was being held in guard by the elves as a threat to our homelands mythal was stolen. I tracked the maker of the devices that allowed intruders to penetrate Evermeet's defenses to this street in NeverWinter but lost the trail."

In the battle, the party got pretty beat up - even before we met with Cathezaarr - and so we bugged out - plain-shifting back to Celestia, where we started to rest up. About 20 minutes later, we get a sending from Jewelia and co.
"Jewelia sends. We returned. Cathezarr captured. We question him and others. Forewarned. He sent demonic assassins. Tonight Cabal strikes openly. Waterdeep. Skullport. Neverwinter. Near Arabel."
15 minutes later, Deethan gets another sending from Jewelia-
"Cathezarr charmed pet. Not member Cabal. Minion. His part bring planar army Waterdeep. Targets. Ollie. Me. Talin. Mages Priests of Power. Oartreal safe. Come Party."

Eleasias 1st - early hours of the moning
During the night, the group were scryed 5 times, by a planar being in Celestia, by Faelar from the Ardeep Forest, from Jewelia in her tower in Neverwinter Woods, from an unknown person in Skullport, and from the female magic user who accompanied the Primarch of Saerloon, from Waterdeep.

Having rested and re-learned spells, Deethan pulled his tall mirror out of the bag of holding, and performed a scrying or two. Lea finally does another smaller scale scrying, and then Garrett plain-shifts the group back to the Prime material plain, and the then Deethan teleports the group to Skullport.

Here, they find that Monthos has rescued his wife Florianna, with the help of Rugadh Faoi - a drow who is trying to change her stripes. Unfortunately, Rugadh Faoi decided to take matters into her own hands, and attacked the ship (the Southern Star) that belonged to the slave owver, and left Monthos and Florianna with a large group of mercenaries just outside the Burning Ttoll Inn - with instructions to "watch them for half-an-hour". Shortly after, Deethan and the others (Pavlov, Kaitlyn, Tobias, Garrett, Roni, Leathynos and Keld) arrive, just before a HUGE dimensional lock settles down over the entire city. There is a tense moment for several minutes - 5 of the mercenaries appear to work for Sorg (Stirge, Marcus, Raven, Konrad and Steiger) The officiall leader of the mercenaries is named Colban. Stirge comes to a decision and persuades Colban to leave.

The group moved off to another inn, the "Witches Teets Flophouse" - where they discussed their plans and re-introduced everyone who didn't know each other. On route there was a bright white flash - which was an epic dispellation, dispelling protective magics - Garrett thought that it was one of the functions of the Gatekeeper Crystal!. When they go to the inn, Lea had a sudden vision(). Rugadh Faoi suggests that the group should go to the Promenade to "warn" the good drow there that an attack is imminent. Nobody else wants to go - so she polymorphs into a giant bumble bee and goes on her own. The rest of the group decide to head down to the docks to see if they can rescue Floramir - who Deethan had previously located on Skull Island. Deethan does a daring solo rescue and manages to rescue both Floramir AND Derrick. In Deethan's absence, the rest of the group start to head towards the Promenade. Deetham, with Floramir and Derrick in tow, meet with them at about the same time that Rugadh Faoi returns from her own mission.

The group decide to go to the Burning Troll inn again, where Rugadh Faoi goes to speak with a local information gatherer - known as Irusyl Eraneth. Some half an hour later, Irusyl gets a warning of an impending attack and heads outside - we join her. The Gatekeeper crystal is used again and a massive sphere of anti-magic is created. Vampire monks attack, along with enemy spellcasters using the shadow weave, and assassins. Irusyl turns out to be one of the chosen of Mystra - named Laeral Arunsun. She is killed by an assassin's crossbow bolt. Garrett dimension doors, taking almost everyone to safety, along with Laeral's body. Keld, Derrick and Menion are left behind. At the warehouse, the group decide to escape before Laeral's assassins track them down to retrieve her body. They plainshift to the border ethereal plain, leaving Deethan behind - the mage wanting to track down Keld.

Meanwhile Keld ran and fought, before finally falling, just in time to be saved by Menion, who transported him to the border shadow plain (where magic still worked) - and brought him back from the edge of death. Derrick, having stolen some magic items, including Laeral's staff, from the enemies, heads to his own Skullport bolt-hole and rests up somewhat. Deethan heads into an inn and waits for the magic to come back - holding his handy haversack upside down to get access to it's contents when the magic returns.

Meanwhile, Menion, travelling via the Border Shadow plain, takes Keld to the Promenade, where they find it under siege, and soon get sucked into the fighting. When magic returns, Keld gets caught by the temple defenses after he heroically rushed forward to trigger the tunnel defenses at the entrance.

The others approach the Promenade via the Border Ethereal plain, seeing some way into the Prime and coming across the attacking armies from behind. It seemed that there was some drow on drow attacking going on - involving various drow houses (Xorlarrin and Shobolar), and drow belonging to the Dragon's Hoard mercenary band. When the magic returned, they got ejected from the Border Ethereal plane (the dimensional lock also has some form of function to return summoned creatures to their home plains), and found themselves on the outside of the siege. They got involved in a skirmish with the rear guard of the drow army, but DID manage to rescue Menion, who had been lying unconcious amongst the wounded from earlier. As the drow army finally fall back, the main party hide and then return to the Promenade properly,