"I'm not gonna tell an artist how to paint!"

The group discusses their options in the common room of the guest house. A zombie raven arrives with a message from the high cleric of Noir here in Evonmar. He offers his assistance and gifts the group with the messenger bird. They decide to send word to Gourd to send Patrina to confront the Duke, Wurm even uses the raven to send the eyes of the dead servant to Patrina so she has them when she arrives.

The Duke's family graveyard bursts with movement as the dead rise from the graves. The zombies take a protective stance in front of the guest house. The Dukes troops mount outside as Patrina arrives. She holds the eyes of the servant and explains her diabolical murder. She throws the eyes at the Duke which hit him on his breast plate. Then the large tentacle creature inside of Patrina comes out. 

The Duke clears the group of any wrong doing and are free to go. The creature burrows into the ground, (maybe we can adventure with him again someday...).

Logan, the high cleric of Noir, tasks Wurm with the delivery of a very important sarcophagi, treasure, & 100 skeletal soldiers to the new cathedral building side.

They travel to the site and find the circling elk all dead and now just bones, fused together into a large circular fence. They witness older animals come from afar to the fence to die there. And their corpses get fused to the wall as well. The master Mason meets them and shows them all of the progress. The 100 skeleton soldiers fuse with the fence as well, but look more like equally spaced guardians around the compound. The only portion of the church completed so far is of the time delay chamber. This is where the sarcophagus is to be buried. 

MoPuck gets to work on building custom book shelves inside the chamber as the rest work on digging the hole and getting the sarcophagus into place. Wurm's friendly clerics arrive on Dragonback with sacks of Noir bibles to fill the shelves. The group asks for a ride back to Diamond bed city as they are going to help Abe get to Mikas to further his quest. 

When they arrive in Diamond bed, they are greeted by the town guard upon leaving the grounds of the church of Noir. Rasa has a warrant for arrest and is taken into custody. The group goes through all of the red tape and finally gets to see him in his cell. Rasa tears a piece of his robe and ties it to his small window grate (so the group can find it from outside).

The group is told to seek legal council. Mopuck's mentor call's him home and informs him that his birthday is coming and to prepare for a celebration!

The Elk run circles around us!

After the father and son duo head off toward Diamond bed, the group continues heading East. After a few days Wurm is starting to hate camping and traveling. They find a large clearing (wheat field). What is strange is that there is the symbol of Noir in the Wheat (like a crop circle). It can only be seen from the sky, but it is a clear that this is the "sign" Wurm was looking for. Mordilane finds a dead tree not too far off and is enamored with it and starts to peal off the dead bark. Once he peals off all of the bark, the tree appears to be made of fused bone. 

One of the areas of the crop circle (the tombstone portion of the Noir symbol) seems strange. After stepping within the circle, time seems to slow down. They determine that this area allows time to slow down by 1 hour per minute, giving the person time to rest or study and pray. 24 hours in the area  =  only 24 minutes in real time. A great find indeed. 

Wurm places down the foundation stone seeing a perfectly dug hole to accept it and feeling quite confident that this is "the place". After placing the stone a caravan arrives with a group of 13 masons. The leader of the group introduces himself as Master Mason Bierson Remley. He explains he is on a mission from god to build a church. He comes up with a quick sketch of the first chamber which will encompass the area around the strange time altering portion of the field. He also sets a stake in the ground of where the eventual front entrance will be which will look at and be centered on the bone tree 200 yards away. 

Bierson gives Mordilane a page of sheet music. Once he starts to play, a herd of Elk arrive at the site and start to run in a circle around the area. This piece of sheet music seems quite special as after he finishes the song, the entire page changes to a new song. 

The masons start pulling stones from bags of holding and begin work. The adventurers leave and head further east towards Evonmar. When they arrive, Mordilane finds one of his flyers hanging in the blacksmiths shop and immediately goes to work of drumming up excitement for his upcoming performance. He works his way through the community and finds himself in the company of Duke Orek Isenwood. The Duke is smitten with the Bard and invites him and and his friends to stay at his guest house on his estate. 

A formal dinner is produced for the "out of towners". A whole pig is presented and the group enjoys a quite lovely and elegant dinner.

During dessert a scream comes from the main entrance. One of the female servants has been murdered. Her vocal cords and entrails strapped around her, hanging from the girders above. Her eyes are also gone/ removed. 

Everyone heads back to their quarters. In the morning the Duke and several fully armed soldiers arrive at the guest house. He is not happy. He gives the group 12 hours to turn over the murderer before he is forced to call upon the clerics in town to speak with dead and call out the culprit. He assures the group that if they give up the member of their party that did such horrible deeds, he will be merciful. But if they don't, then all members will suffer the same fate as the murderer. 

12 hours.... 

Air ship crash, the portal, & the creature!

The group heads East another day and makes camp. Wurm spends time with the ghost and realizes he can concentrate and see through her eyes. Fascinating! 

After the nuns clean up breakfast, a large boom in the sky is heard. The group sees an air ship in flames crashing in a clearing in the forest and go to investigate.

There are human and Wyvren bodies everywhere. They witness three humanoids traveling to the ground on a floating disk. When they go to greet them, one is already gone. They meet a father and son fencing duo on vacation who had plans to head to Diamond city. 

Checking out the crash site, they find an open portal. It leads to an underground prison of sorts. Tentacles attack from the grates in the floor,  a strange metallic looking beetle and two strange purplish hounds escape behind a door.  After solving a few riddles, the group is able to obtain the keys to the prison chamber (floor). Instead of attacking the strange large tentacled creature, they parlay. MoPuck brokers a deal. The creature can only leave by taking the body of a humanoid. Patrina agrees and the creature enters her. She looks a bit odd, like her skin is not sitting right. 

The fencing duo spends the night and leaves in the morning after breakfast. They vow to meet again. The father and son leave towards the west for Diamond bed city. 

Abe finds another item.  One that turns his hand into wood. He can move it but it takes some effort. 

The nuns, the dragons, the murder in the woods

The group enjoys a healthy breakfast prepared by the 4 rescued damsels. Abe trips and falls on what he thought was a root. It turned out to be an intricate bone staff with magical properties. (might be the first item on his list of things he is looking for, but he is not sure yet)

Soon after the group is greeted by two clerics of Noir riding young black dragons. Applebottom gets a chance to ride one and is beyond the moon excited (even shitting himself). The clerics bring holy vestments and equipment for the four damsels. They perform a ceremony inducting them into the holy church order. 

Gourd the minotaur admits to licking the ass of one of the dragons and was rather intrigued!!!

The following morning one of the damsels is missing!!!! (Becka). Abe uses his tracking skills and unfortunately finds her disemboweled and hanging from a tree by her own intestines. 

Wurm calls on Noir for help and takes Becka's skull. He is granted the ability to speak with dead. He learns how she died. She materializes as a ghost and jumps on Wurm like a backpack.

Another strange encounter finds Abe with a new pet/friend. A baby Blue dragon. He names him Alexander. Alexander's first effort to impress his new friends is to eat Abe's snake, then belches. 

World tour!, the black foundation stone, & the damsels in distress

Varis has a heart to heart with the rest of the group (minus Rasa).

Mordinlane expresses interest in going on a world tour and has flyers made and sent out throughout the lands. The group gears up for their first "camping" trip out of the city. 

Varis, says he will stay behind to find his stuff that was stolen.

Wurm is given a new mission from the high cleric. He needs to place a foundation stone and hire a builder & architect to build a new church. He is told that he will know when and where to build it from a sign from god. 

The group leaves for the east and gets to the forest by nightfall. As they set up camp, they hear screams in the distance. They rescue 4 young maidens being savagely raped by a large group of thugs. They kill the thugs and bring the maidens back to a camp for a glorious meal prepared by Gourd (rabbit stew). 

They meet a new companion named "Abe" who also joins them for dinner. 

The forest is cold and damp and all of the companions feel it as they are used to warm beds inside of buildings with fireplaces.... 

Sheep, roof burning, poison, dare I say more?

After the skeleton battle, the group searches the underground lair. They find a pile of bones in the center of a ritualistic pentagram. It starts to grow flesh and after some time a large Minotaur is "re-born". He introduces himself as Gourd and then upon realizing he is underground he faints. Once revived the group gets him safely to the outdoors.

The group enjoys a great evening of food and drink at the Dead post Alley Inn with the Bard playing his sad, sad songs. 

Meanwhile Gourd tells the group of the two orc females he rescued in an alley. He says he killed the assailants and wasn't sure who they were. The group investigates to make sure he didn't kill the town guard. Thankfully, they were just thugs. The orcs had only come into the city to buy some sheep. Varis offers to help them get their sheep at a fair price and escort them out of the city. After seeing them clear of the city walls, he is ambushed by a bunch of thugs who beat him to near death and leave him naked in the streets.

Meanwhile, a fire rages at Rasa's dojo and the city quickly responds. The roof will need to be rebuilt, but the building is saved. 

Back at the Dead Post Alley Inn, soup is served and Rasa is nearly killed with poison. Thankfully Wurm was there with a quick spell to prevent his untimely death. The barkeep and employees are interrogated, but none seem to have been the one to spike the soup. 

Later that day, the group heads over to MoPuck's citadel where they discover his mentor Malacron is missing. He then notices that his new obscure sheep painting above his bed has changed and now shows a new image on it of what appears to be the old sage Malacron next to the blurry sheep. They speak to Malacrons assistant who provides them with scrolls that allow them to "enter" the painting (a "demi-plane"). They rescue Malacron along with a young girl named Amy who was trapped in there for about 10 years. 

An Acid cauldron with a side of skeletons

 A few days later Yo-Soon approaches the group with a new mission. He gives them the location of an underground crypt which he explains, has multiple skeletons that need eradicating. After some intriguing work with a magical cauldron trap, the group makes their way down into the dungeon. Wurm "charms" multiple skeletons (even taking some to be his henchmen) allowing the rest of the group to handle the rest. They find numerus scrolls, potions and fun items after fighting a Troll sized undead. 

The penis situation

The group is hanging out at the Church of Noir when a high ranking member of the Town Guard enters and asks to speak to Wurm. He explains that his name is Gabriel and was told by Yo-Soon (the Anti-paladin) that Wurm and his companions might be able to help him with a delicate situation. Gabriel explains that his daughter Emma was brutally raped by a rich merchant who is in town, with his large ship docked at the pier. Emma is in bad shape and is fighting for her life. He asks the group to kill the merchant, but before his death he wants to makes sure his penis is removed. He gives the group a set of glasses to wear during the event so he can scry magically from a distance to watch. Being a prominent member of the Town guard, he cannot participate, but ensures the group that the rest of his men are aware and will not interfere with the event.  

Randy Applebottom's eyes light up and eagerly accepts and puts on the glasses. The group stages a diversion for the ship's henchmen with the Bard playing on the dock, encouraging all to join. A successful diversion and intense performance by Mordilane (bard) allows Randy to get onboard and into the lower levels of the ship without notice.   

Randy finds the merchant (Louis Farboat) in his master suite in the process of raping yet another young girl tied to his bed. Randy overtakes the merchant and rapes him to his surprise. While being raped and screaming for help, Randy cuts his penis off and stuffs it into his mouth.

They rescue the girl and kill the merchant. Town guards all around give an approving nod thereafter. 

Unfortunately, Emma succumbs to her wounds and dies. She was never able to have the knowledge that her rapist was properly violated himself and then killed. 

Bone Cellar

The group heads into the dungeon. They come to a room with multiple doors. Yo-Soon takes time to decipher the various texts & hieroglyphics and determines which door to use. The group enters and is immediately thrown into combat with some strange creatures with no eyes and a strange tentacle coming out of its head. 

There is a much larger creature at the end of the hall and Yo-soon says that he will handle it (earth elemental). The battle is rough, but the group prevails. They make out with a decent amount of various treasure. Yo-Soon bids them good luck and heads back to his cathedral. He says to come call on him in the future for further adventurers. 

Art gallery? Varis hates art!

Everyone spends a few days handling their personal affairs. One morning Rasa is practicing his "Kata's" in the yard behind his closed dojo when he is approached by an Andalanese man in simple silk clothing. He tells Raja that he hasn't seen that routine since watching his father do them every morning so many years ago. He explains that he came to the dojo to put flowers on his father's grave who is buried here. He tells Raja he is on several quests from his god and asks if he and is friends are looking for some work. He introduces himself as Yo-soon Hallabauk, Paladin of Glamdrin

The group is introduced to Yo-soon outside of the Dead Post Alley Inn as they all are coming to meet for dinner. Yo-soon is now in full armor on a mighty horse with a squire riding a pony. He hires the group to help him find and clear an ancient bone temple that is buried deep beneath the city streets.

To get there though, they need to gain access to a fireplace located within an art gallery in the very fanciest part of town. Mordinane tries first to approach the receptionist to somehow gain access to the back room where the fireplace was located. Even being as charming as he is, he was not able to win over the heart of this woman. Varis then  makes an attempt but causes an altercation which leads to him being asked to leave. He runs out pulling paintings off the wall.

They then check out the rear and find a back entrance. Once they figure out how to open it, they are met with four 1/2 orc security guards. Battle ensues and they are victorious. 

They get down the fireplace secret shaft and find a room with 6 doors. Yo-soon takes some time and determines that the door to the East is the right one. They open it and find a bone encrusted door at the end of a short hall....

New Gardeners & and a Thug ambush

Wurm heads to his church and is tasked will helping "dispose" of the two bodies from Randy's back alley endeavors. He gets a chance to watch his high priest at work to create skeletons and takes any remaining organs he might have use for. The new skeletons are given cloaks and sent to work the grounds of the church of Noir as gardeners. Wurm can be the one to thank for cleaning up the "ass axe murder mess" from the night before. 

The group meets back up at the Dead Post Alley Inn and make amends with the barkeep (Rarfalynn ~ 1/2 elf) after Randy's exploits. Business is bad with all of the town guard sniffing around so Mordilane heads over to the docks to rouse's up some new business. In no time at all the place to hopping with patrons and all is well. The group enjoys a great evening of food and drink. 

They are ambushed by 12 thugs upon leaving. The battle is fierce, but the adventurers prevail. 

Dead Post Alley Inn & Tavern

The adventurers all find themselves at the Dead Post Alley Inn for various reasons. They arrive before the dinner rush and have the place to themselves. Mordilane the Bard puts on a glorious show for the group. Eventually the place fills up with a large group of sailors. Randy realizes his money is gone after a little back alley action with two sailors. He takes the two sailors back out to the alley and puts an axe to their backs. He then accuses Varis and his prostitutes of stealing his money. Eventually, one of the prostitutes is caught by Mordilane as she tries to plant the missing money pouch on him while he is playing on stage. He returns it back to Randy. Wurm puts on his gear and gets to work taking the vital organs of the dead sailors. They all head over to Rasa's dojo afterwards and they all meet his sensei Yanewmay. Yanewmay is apparently good friends with MoPuck's Sage teacher Malacron. Yanewmay says he needs to close up shop for awhile as he has business over seas in his homeland of Andalahn. He encourages Rasa to head out and seek adventure and return at a later time. 

New cast & 2 years later

New List of adventurers

Jon J: Wurm - Human, Cleric

Sal T: Rasa - Elf, Swordsage

Sal D.: Randy - Human, Dragon Shaman

Greg: Varis Daenar - 1/2 Elf, Rogue

Paul: MoPuck Granger - Beholder, Wizard

Austin: Fyorn Bughenswart - 1/2 Elf, Wizard

Eddie: Mordilane Solgloom - Human, Bard

God Slaying and Beyond!

The group moves further through the chambers. After several battles, including Jin being killed, they make their way to the last chamber. Thunk (Eddie) kills Xeroxen and they are sent back to the prime material plane (back home).

They get Jin (Sal T) resurrected. The companions decide to do one more mission before Delvin (Jon J) has to return East for his wedding. They decide on the Mud Sorcerer's Tomb and contact the "Xavier" (luxury ship) to arrange travel. 

The group battles through many interesting creatures and puzzles in the Mud Sorcerer's Tomb and make their way out successfully. Afterwards, the adventurers part ways for now to handle their own obligations, promising to meet and adventure together again someday. 

Sura heads back to Mikas to see her mother and daughter.

Jin heads to Diamond bed city to further his fledging business & real estate endeavors.

Clyde (Greg) heads back to his workshop aboard the Xavier.

Murphy (Sal D) flies away to connect with other forests & groves to share his knowledge of current events and just get back to nature.

Panaras bids farewell as he and his new wife Sonata (song dragon) plan to "See the world!" and spread their music!

Fyorn (Austin), MoPuck (Paul), & Thunk (Eddie) head to Diamond bed City to find new adventure. 

Sprock decides to leave and head to Burningtown on Furnoth, a place he has always wanted to visit being the "worlds ultimate forge".

Delvin's father's business with the exotic horses provided by the group long ago is thriving, and will be the leading breeder in all of Surnoth in no time at all. 

New friends

They rest and then head into the next crypt/dungeon of Xeroxen. They encounter several traps which Dohnt takes care of. They find chained up a fiery creature and a young beholder which seem friendly enough. They free them and they join the party and head further into the dungeon. They encounter a large giant who is the "protector" of his "friend". He doesn't budge, eventually he is relieved and another version of Xeroxen appears. After a good conversation, they convince him to at least take "just the tip" of the dagger to prove their story. He agrees and pops he like a bad balloon covering everyone in chopped meat and goo. 

They use the compass to head towards the next Xeroxen. They get to the crypt, dismantle the entry traps and enter the next lair. 

Molten Legs

 The group fights their way through some fiends & devils (being in hell has that kind of problem unfortunately). Dohnt dons his new "forever boots". They take over his legs and make them like molten lava. Not fun to look at, but effective. Jin dies after being injured in trap he "didn't see" and then getting swarmed by more devils. The group "agrees" to send forward nine of Murphy's guys to their death. It is needed to open portals.....The  group kills the next version of the god Xeroxen and they move onto the next. 

Crash in the woods

Things look bleak when the rest of the group does not hear back from Sprock. They go to investigate and find both the witch & daughter dead on pikes, and the horses gone. 

Panaurus (killed in the alley out back of the church), the witch, & her daughter are brought back to life by the clerics in Evonmar. Sprock, Clyde, the witch, & her Daughter are heading to the ship in Diamond bed city. 

The group is asked to take on the task of killing the god Xeroxen. None of the high priests are overly conformable with this, but it appears to be the only way to restore order on this planet/plane. The Tree-ant "Westerlund" finally arrives and after a brief encounter, kills a large demon (Pit Fiend) outside the church. 

Panarus decides to stay behind and not head back to Hell after his last experience. He reunites with the Song Dragon "Sonata" and they run off to Diamond bed city and will reunite with the rest of the group there. 

One of the security guards at the Glamdrin church offers up his services "Dohnt" and joins the group on their quest back to hell to "kill a god". 

All of the high priests unite and combine their clerical energy to send the group to the multiverse.

They arrive in the city of doors ("Sigil").

Not too long after arrival, they make their way into a tavern which has some curious looking "hourglass" sconces around the main fireplace. This leads to their portal back to hell.

They find themselves in a large grassy field.  Eventually, they find a cave entrance leading underground. 

Into the Forest

The group heads into the forest. On day three towards Evonmar they encounter a newly crashed air ship which is still smoldering. They determine that there is much loot to be gained here along with a bunch of magical items. But they will have to come back for it.

The next day an intense looking (attractive, but strange) woman riding on a young dragon lands at the camp. She introduces herself as Princess Dealeeya and proposes her request to marry Delvin to align a secure Hilltown alliance and the hills beyond. She expresses her great admiration for the deeds he has done and Delvin agrees. They shall be wed in six months time. She gives him her hair pin with which they can speak with one another via message spell each day.

The group gets to Evonmar and informs Sprock about the airship wreckage salvage site. He mounts up with some hired hands and the witch and her daughter (Elga & Elsa) join them to handle the cooking and camp duties for the crew. 

Heading South....

The "queen" arrives like she owns the place. Conversations go south and the group is attacked by several large Orcs and Minotaurs inside the Wyrmwood Inn. Jin is able to summon an "Assassin" to help. He turns out to be a cerebral vampire (sucks brain juice).

Unknown to anyone, the quite dead "Gericks Blackfoot" surprises all with summoned undead skeletal ground support.

The companions take down all enemies. The Vampire turns to Jin and tells him that this was not the queen, but a decoy.

The heroes grab some horses and head south to regroup. 

Halfway to the town of Berens, they encounter a nasty oversized undead skeleton with nasty bowel issues. They survive the encounter and move further south. 

Battle in the streets

The group discusses their options. Sprock finally gets back and brings with him all of the material components Clyde would need to create a magic item of "message" so that they can be in constant contact with Captain Octavior of their ship "Xavier". This way Sprock doesn't need to travel by Wyvren every time they need to contact him. The ship is now sailing back to port at Diamond Bed City. With the massing army to the north, Sonata (the song dragon) says she is going to fly south and see if she can muster up some more of her kind to help. They discuss fleeing the town with the townsfolk to get them to safety. The governor of Hill town says that he and his citizens are choosing to stay. Why run? Their town is basically one road. The approaching armies will most likely pass it right by as it has no tactical benefits. If this new queen is going to rule Surnoth, then why not get under her good grace early...... (so the letter he received said).....