Monthly Archives October 2013

‘No plotting for you!’ declares the 13 year old wizard and thus it is that the group finds itself face to face with the sphinx*. The first encounter is worked out with precision. Attackers are buffed out, elementals are summoned for reinforcements, elaborate mechanisms are deployed for protection from various and sundry magics…and the first roar of the sphinx sends them all scurrying for cover.

The next day, the elaborate precautions also include a personal silence coin for 5/6 of the party. The previous day’s plan is carried out again. The results are much different. Ron’j! leads the attack and strikes a mighty series of blows, injuring the beast and gaining it’s focus...

While the aftereffects of the Sabre River Cleansing echo throughout the Shadowdale region, the group reconvenes in Waterdeep and Thudheim to divvy magic and treasure and plot. Turns out that plotting is on hold as the druid, the bard and the cleric all need to train and must journey far and away. A year passes and all return from their various pilgrimages.
Plotting resumes and the minutia pile up. Eventually it is decided that rather than face some beholders, a trip to Dalliance’s homeland is preferable – though not by much. The trip is undertaken in plant-teleporting enabled swiftness and so little time passes before the group is at the border of Thay and present money (5k gp each) for their bond...