Off to the Isle of Dread - Part 1

After a few weeks of downtime, Lavinia Vanderboren summons the party and invites them along to Farshore in the Isle of Dread. First they recover the Sea Wyvern, bring it back to Sasserine and get it outfitted and fixed.

On the day of boarding the Sea Wyvern, they meet the captain, crew and passengers. The ship's captain is Amella Venkalie. The cabin boy is Tavey Nesk. The first mate is Lirith Veldirose. Among the passengers are the cleric Conrad Horst, Skald, and Urol Forol. Urol is there to study the Isle of Dread and doubles as the Navigator. A late arriving passenger is Avner Meravanchi with two servants and his horse Thunderstrike.

After some arguments about Avner's accomodations (in which the eventual result is that he is sleeping with the rest of the passengers and he is not happy about it, the expedition gets underway.

In the second day of the voyage, Lavinia invites the party and Avner to a dinner on the Blue Nixie. The ships get within 50 feet of each other, a rope and pulley is hoisted and a cart brings each person across. While going back, after Avner, and some of the party get across, the rope breaks while the paladin is brought across. A round later, a water mephit appears and begins it's attack. In investigating this, the party sees that the rope was sabotaged, and the mephit was being kept in a pickle jar.

In the thirteen days to Fort Blackwell, the Sea Wyvern is attacked by a water naga and an octopus. From the octopus' belly, the party finds:

• 300 gp
• potion of cure light (unidentified)
• wand of magic missile (first level) (36 charges) (unidentified)
• wand of magic missile (third level) (26 charges) (unidentified)

In addition, someone attempted to poison the paladin. At Fort Blackwell, the ships lay over for a couple of days. The crews are given shore leave and many of the passengers (including Conrad Horst and Skald) stay overnight in the small town.

After continuing the voyage, six days out, Conrad Horst takes ill. The party cleric casts delay poison, to no affect, and decides to cast cure disease the next day. Unfortunately, the next day, a blue slaad explodes, fully grown, from Conrad's body (killing him), which the party defeats.

Game Notes

All the player characters (except for Morphumax) are fifth level.

The Vanderboren Estate and the Bullywug Invasion, Part 3

The party moved onto the first floor of the Estate
after clearing the ground floor and the basement,
rescuing Karkas Kiel and Tiamae Teslikaria (both
members of the Jade Ravens) and charming Chief Lorpth.

On the balcony on the first floor, the party
encountered two bullywug hunters, who were looking out
the balcony, waiting for the attack. Other than that,
there was nothing of note on the first floor.

In the master bedroom of the second floor, the party
encountered Drevoraz, Bua Gorg (a bullywug cleric).
Lavinia Vanderboren, Tolin Kientai and Zan Oldavin
were tied up in the middle of the room. Drevoraz told
the party to stop, unless they wanted Lavinia's throat
cut. The paladin in the party showed Drevoraz the note
from Captain Harliss Javell, and her earring. Drevoraz
took the earring and then said that since Captain
Javell changed her mind, all he wanted to do was to
slip out of Sasserine unmolested.

Bua Gorg was having none of this. He only wanted to
sacrifice humans to his diety, Dagon. He began
summoning a Huge Monstrous Centipede, and accidentally
summoned two of them. The party killed him and the
centipedes, and Drevoraz got away.

Lavinia thanked the party and increased their "pay" to
200 gp per month. She told the party to rest up, do
some shopping and they would be needed in a week or
two.

[Out of game... in selling most of the loot gained
over the past few adventures, each party member gets
1,558.75 gold pieces.]