Underworld Adventurer

  The Castora Cup designed by Castora's player Curtis Lorithk created by Curtis The first annual Castora Cup was held under the Hunter's Moon. Cast under the Bronze Dragon Galatea's smith, Kirathk, the trophy aims to honor the memory of Castora, the deceased Order member the tournament honors. To win the Castora Cup, each team was scored on speed, strength of the monsters battled, and the team's ability to work together towards their mutual survival. Any group bringing a torch, lantern, candle, or item with Continual Light cast on it are disqualified. Four teams, each with sponsors from the Impossible Fortress' court, competed.  The first place team wins 1000gp ea. and possession of the Castora Cup until the next Hunter's Moon. Second place wins 500gp ea. Third place takes home 100gp ea. Not all of the teams held to the five member average honoring the Dragons of the Order of the Dragon. Teams are given +500 bonus points for every member below five and -500 poin...

 The party for this session was: Bex (Level 3 Vat Spawn) Bludoon (Level 4 Dwarf) Sunya Strong (Level 4 Fighter hireling) Edouard "Eddie Hook" "The Human Grapping Hook" Thesz (Level 1 Grappling Berserker) Fredrick Featherstone (Level 4 Vestigater) Scheherazade (Level 1 Paladin of Law) Here is a recapping of events by Bludoon's player Sam: Treasure 12 black fruits collected by Bludoon Zombies in large burlap sacks sold to the Order of the Dragon 2 x 100gp  Experience Points 200xp from "treasure" Ja-Net charmed away from conflict 13xp Spitting Beetle defeated 25xp Player Character Cut 36 gp, 6sp, and 6cp ea. (16gp, 6sp, and 6cp to Sunya Strong) 48xp ea (24xp to Sunya Strong) Art, maps, and write-ups provided as play reports earn PC Level x 100xp. Let me know of any downtime activities anyone would like to perform.

 *Sessions 77 & 79 involved the Red Riders adventuring in the Black Pyramid and will be recapped when they return to Orm). "I doomed society for friendship." Bors the Bald The following session covered Bors the Bald traveling to the Twilight Shores with fellow patrons of the Drinking Crow. They aimed to strike a deal with the Eventide Queen to return Bors' comrade and Drinking Crow mascot Fredrick Featherstone back to living, breathing flesh years after being turned to stone by a monster from the Imperial Mother's holding pens. They made a very different deal instead. Here is the party from the session: Bex (Level 3 Vatspawn) Bors the Bald (Level 5 Dwarf) Sunya Strong (Level 4 Fighter hireling) Edouard 'The Human Grapping Hook' Thesz (Level 1 Grappling Berserker) Rumble Beerforged (Level 1 Dwarf) Here is what Bors wrote about the events in his journal (as provided by his player Shahnawaz): What have I done? Have I doomed the world? Or should I say have I h...

The Castora Cup as drawn by the deceased Castora's former player Curtis In little under two weeks time, the Order of the Dragon are going to hold the first ever Castora Cup. Teams that want to compete for the honor of winning the Cup and the 1000gp per party member purse must find sponsorship from members of the court of the Impossible Fortress. Here are members of the court that will back a team:

 *Just a quick DMs note. Do to health issues from work, I have to limit my time on the computer. As a result, for the foreseeable future, recaps will be more bare bones on my end with me mainly providing rosters and any xp/treasure breakdowns. Most of the color or filling in of details will be up to the players. The following recap covers a joint endeavor with the NPC adventuring party the Midnight Marauders to rescue the Seer Zarthur of Mere from captivity in the World of Reflection. The party: Journeyman Crannoc (Level 5 Magic-User) Macara (Level 1 Dungeon Druid 'hireling') Kiddo (Level 4 Magic-User) Souz'awn (Level 1 Fighter 'hireling') PakPak (Level 5 Kobold) Phasmo (Level 5 Magic-User) Lirazil (Level 2 Elf retainer) Four scenes from the World of Reflection drawn by PakPak's layer Rob A. Experience Points The mirror Zarthur subdued 125xp Zarthur freed from 'The Cabin' 200xp Player Character Cut 81xp ea. (40xp ea. to Lirazil, Macara, and Souz'awn)...

**This post is a continuing work in progress** In the shadow of the Impossible Keep, rests the settlement of Orm. The walled community rests where the Gloaming Hills meet Sourwood Marsh. Allowing no entry from the coast of the Cerulean Sea, Orm has commanded the marshland for Aeons. Once, durinng the peak of the Empire-That-Was, Orm possessed legendarily decadent gardens. Their ruins rest above New Orm along with crumbling remnants of structures from when the Cerulean Sea stood taller. This shell of a past grandeur, the Orm-of-Old, is visible throughout all points in the modern township and reminds its citizens that the greatest days of Orm have past. All know that the current ruler of Orm, the Rani, cannot accept this truth which is apparent to her subjects. Like many of the local petty rulership across Ur-Dan, she declares Orm a City-State. Ruling from the Impossible Keep, she commands a force of mounted knights and armored foot but rumor has it that she has not the coffers to fund h...

**This session takes place after the yet to be posted Burning Witch sessions #100 & 101. Complications (i.e. a forgetful DM) to the end of that Burning Witch run and me just being behind has those session currently un-recapped.**  Autumn has been trying to make its way into Ur-Dan. The days in Orm were leaden and blustery but the suffocating humidity meant that Harvest wasn't here just yet. The warm nights have seen Ormans most closely connected to the profound and the profane visited by vivid, fever-dream like phantasmagoria all centered around a black pyramid. One of those Ormans has been Phasmo, Philosopher in the Transcendental Congress of the Aureate Precepts. More relevant at this moment than the magic-user's standing in his magical order, though, is that he retains the services of a dispossessed elf named Lirazil. Between Phasmo's visions, errands for his mentor the Enchantress, and plotting of two separate delves into 'The Complex'; Lirazil found herself...