Adventure 82 – Mineport back to Deep Hold

Hammar – Dwarf: Cleric (lvl 10)
Pete – Dragonborn: Cleric (lvl 10)
Gubikla – Gnome: Wizard (lvl 10)
Tetranac – Drow: Ranger (lvl 8)
Talin – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 9)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 10)
Bone – Human: Fighter (lvl 10)

Did Cloverdung kidnap all the priest from Highvail?

Is Kavis held up in Deep Hold defending his brethren?

 

Talin takes a day or two at the temple of Dumathoin.  While he waits for the priest to fix his armor and damaged constitution.  Talin finds that Brombin wants us to not destroy the urns but to bring them to him in Wyntbridge. Othello visits the two main temples, The Ladies of Light and the Lords of Light. He informs them of the urns and what is happening at Deep Hold.  But finds that they do  seem to know what to make of this information.  They also seem a little distressed and after some investigation it seems the high priest and priestess have not been seen in awhile.  He spends the rest of the time studying some book. Gubikla goes off and studies and levels up, but finds that there are no other wizards in town..  Pete makes arrangements to teleport to the capital so that he can visit his temple and level up.  He also finds that the new leader of Djadbalja is Elurion the second.  The first was renowned for purges, was, pestilence, and depravity.  Tiruth Karl is young 13ish, 45th of his line and has a regent.  The regent is rumored ot hate Gnome, his first wife ran off with one, Dragonborn, they are smelly and offensive, Dwarves, they are cheap and live in holes, Halflings, they pretend to be young adorable.

After a restful few days the party convinces Hammish to bring his wagon back to Deep Hold so that we can try to bring back a urn in the wagon.  Othello, Talin, and Hammar convince Phungal to go with the party to point out the landslide where the map was buried and possible the back door.  The party then heads off south down the road toward Deep Hold again.

The first several hours passed without incident.  About mid afternoon Tetranac and Pete saw a flock of birds flying toward the party.  Tetranac gets up on the wagon and tries to speak with them but they don’t seem to understand him or don’t care what he has to say, because as they passed over they unleashed an array of ice shards.  A few party members were able to dodge some or all the damage.  It was noticed that Hammish was able to crawl under the wagon before the attack.  Othello managed to unleash his wand of lightning taking out a small group.  Tetranac shot his bow and killed another one of them.  Talin and Bone readied their weapons.  Gubikla cast fireball and took out all but two.  Othello managed to take out one and Gubikla decided to Domination Door and then Magic Missile the last one before it could report back.  Tetranac started collecting the birds to make some stew.  Pete managed to save some heads so that evening when it was time to camp, Tetranac was ready to cook his stew and Pete cast speak with dead and speak languages. He ask the birds the following questions.

 

Who sent the birds? Vadrule sent the birds

Who is Vadrule?  The guy that sent us here

Where is Vadrule?  Was deep under ground.

Where is the citadel of frost?  Don’t know

How do we get to Vadrule:  Through the tunnel

Password to the door?  Pra Pa

Are there Dwarves in Deep Hold? Yes

Do you know the location of the Dwarves in Deep hold? No

Are the Dwarves alive?  Yes

 

At this the party rested with two watches.  The first watch was taken by Tetranac and Talin and nothing eventful happened.  The second watch was Bone and Othello.  About the third hour a couple of winter wolves approached.  One ran past Bone toward Othello and the rest of the party, and one faced off against Bone.  Bone was defending well, while taking chunks out of the wolf.  Othello managed to use his three-in-one bolt and blinded the one heading his direction.  This caused it to flee in direction away from the camp site.  This also made Othello have to blink in the direction of the wolf and then fire a shot and repeat.  Because he needed to retrieve his other magical bolt. Bone’s thick armor and fighter ablity caused the other wolf to try and flee.  But that just gave Bone the chance to use his new Black Bow of Death that ended up shooting a incinerator arrow and that chard the wolf to the ground. By this time Othello had managed to redirect the blinded wolf he was chasing back toward the camp and Bone used one swing to chop its head off.  Bone skinned the winter wolf and made ready for winter wolf breakfast.  

 

The party continued on toward Deep Hold even though Phungal was now completely drunk and sleeping it off in the wagon as he apparently had stayed up drinking Talin’s keg of beer.  Othello and Tetranac when up ahead of the wagon to carefully scout out the path to make sure nothing was in the way.  About an hour before dusk Hammar and Talin see tip of a white dragon wing poke through the clouds.  Tetranc manges to glimpse the tail.  It looks like it was about to fly on past the party when Hammar uses Thaumaturgy and calls out insults to the Dragon. The Dragon let out a roar and then the next time they saw him it was when it was coming straight down out of the low cloud cover at the party.  It breathed a icy blast at the group that had stayed on the wagon.  Othello managed to get a lighting wand shot off at the dragon, but the dragon did not seem to notice it.  Tetranac got caught off guard with how fierce the dragon was and became afread and ran away for a round before realizing that we had already fought a smaller dragon and won.  The dragon focused its attack on Hammar with claws and a bite.  Talin shot but missed with his Black Bow of Death, but had the clarity of mind to use commander strike on Gubilka.  This allowed Gubikla to cast two fireballs at the dragon making the dragon land.  Othello shot and missed the dragon. Tetranac ran back up to the fight.  Pete Dimensioned Doored to the back of the dragon with Bone where Bone stabbed the dragon.  Hammar tried to Hold the dragon with a spell, but the dragon managed to withstand the effects.  Talin did a thunderous strike with his hammer causing rocks to erupt from the ground in a cone causing the dragon and several party members to take damage from flying rocks.  He commander strike Gubikla again.  This time Gubikla amps up his first fireball with his amplification wand and then finish the dragon off with his second fireball.  But in the process he melts a ring and a necklace that the dragon was wearing.   The party scavenges what they can and rest for the night.  Pete speaks with the dead dragon.

 

Where is your lair? In a cave in the highest peak in this area

Who is your master? No master

Where is the Citadel of Frost? Far to the north

Dunains stronghold? Don’t know

If Highvail is a diversion tactic what is the true target?    Djadbalja

 

The party is still not in Deep Hold and in fact still have not made it back to the front door.

 

COD = Talin and Gublika for the tag team.