This diary belongs to Alvy Sarantyr-Falconbridge.
Party History
as written by Alvy Sarantyr-Falconbridge,
son of Thomas Falconbridge and Delandra Sarantyr
Year 1356 (Year of the Worm)
8th Kythorn Shadowdale. Miphon (a human male mage)
(6th month) recruits several adventurers to retrieve some
moss from a cave near Shadowdale for his
master. The party consists of Miphon, Alvy
(male Half-Elven Bard), Swiftbeat of
Silverymoon (male Elven Ranger), Brun
Ironskull (male Dwarven Warrior) and Aspena
(female half-elven cleric of Chauntea). The
party beats a troll and several kobolds. We
find a letter between two druids, about the
Heralds Holdfast. We give the moss to Miphon's
master.
12th Party decides to stay together and heads down
towards Cormyr. Fights a baby green dragon on
the way. Alvy covers his spellbook with its
hide. We leave before the mother appears.
Pass through Alvy's home town (Tilverton).
18th Arabel. Alvy plays in the annual Bardic fest,
and receives the prize of best newcomer. Alvy
meets Myrmeen Lhal, ruler of Arabel, and she
gives the party a mission to retrieve an item
from Ravens Bluff. Walk to Suzail.
21st Suzail. Sail to Ravens Bluff.
24th Reach Ravens Bluff. Enroll in the night watch.
Find the item, but the owner refuses to sell.
Have many interesting encounters, including
two senile mages and an urban druid. Alvy
pays for the relocation of a young boy (TJ)
and his grandfather to Shadowdale, as well as
upkeep for the two of them.
25th Sail to Suzail and then to ride to Arabel.
Find Myrmeen is visiting Lord Tessaril of
Eveningstar, north of Arabel. We ride on.
30th Reach Eveningstar. Report to Myrmeen. Enter
Haunted Halls, a famous dungeon. Alvy and
Miphon find magical books which will increase
their skill. Miphon reads his.
2nd Flamerule Reenter Haunted Halls. Release a beautiful
female mage named Miior from Temporal Stasis.
Alvy gives her a philtre of love under the
guise of a healing potion. She joins the
party. We capture a strangely robed man. He
gives a message to Myrmeen.
4th Finish Haunted Halls. Meet Yarrem again (the
robed man). He is a half-Bedine Paladin.
Yarrem, Nightshade (a human male mage),
Lwaxana (an elven warrioress) and Barak (human
cleric of Tempus) all join the party. Myrmeen
attempts to snare Alvy (but fails). Ride with
her and Lord Tessaril to Arabel. Myrmeen asks
us to stop the trade route the Zhentarim are
trying to forge through Anauroch, and prevent
the enslavement of the Bedine. Miphon leaves
and returns to Shadowdale, Brun returns home
to Mirabar. Aspena returns to Shadowdale.
12th Leave Arabel. Fight a powerful cleric of
Talona leading a group of monsters, who uses a
Word of Recall to escape.
14th Castle Krag (which had been attacked by
monsters). Found magical well dedicated to
Lord Barcus, a heroic warrior.
17th Found Troll bridge. Guarded by Illusionary
Troll. Caught Gnome Illusionist. Had a party.
19th Tilverton. Stayed at Windlords Rest Inn.
20th Mission to rescue kidnapped son of town
councillor and priest of Gond Ulverim.
Head to Spiderhaunt woods. Battle wolves
21st Spiderhaunt woods. Encounter Will o' Wisps (?)
Found ruins.
22nd Entered ruins. Found Imp. It got away
23rd Found son. Returned to Tilverton.
24th Son was an illusion. Returned to ruins.
25th Battled a Mage, a Cleric, human guards and
more spiders. Rescued real son.
26th Tilverton. Mission to clear out a deserted
wizards tower. The wizard (Asflag) has
disappeared.
27th Laid ambush for creatures outside tower. No
show.
28th Laid ambush for creatures outside tower. Still
no show.
29th Entered Tower over wall. Fought Displacer
beasts and Water Weirds.
30th Re-entered. Miior killed by Jaculi (snakes).
Nightshade refuses to pay for a raise dead.
Midsummer Explored tower. Found some spellbooks and a
library
1st Eleasis Alvy left for Shadowdale, with Miior's body.
Barak killed by Volts in the tower.
3rd Miior is resurrected by a cleric of Lathander
in Shadowdale, using money which Alvy took
from the Wizards tower (without party
permission). Alvy asks Storm Silverhand to
dispel the philtre of love. Miior declares
that she loves him anyway.
7th Alvy and Miior return. Alvy reads his magical
book.
9th Identified mages stuff. Drew from Deck of Many
Things. Alvy was imprisoned by Bedine tribe in
Anauroch, Lwaxana by D'tarig in Tel Badir on
the edge of Anauroch.
10th Party travelled to Anauroch desert (minus
Alvy, Yarrem and Lwaxana). Defeated ambush by
bandits.
13th Met *big* Brass dragon. Fought doppelgangers.
Alvy frees himself from the Bedine with the
aid of Yamara, a Bedine witch.
15th Tel Badir. Fought Zhentarim. Met Alvy and
rescued Lwaxana. Stay at Sand Lion Inn.
16th Yarrem returns from trying to find his bonded
mount. No luck.
18th Yarrem left to buy back Alvy's stuff from
Bedine. Swiftbeat and Alvy ambush (and slay) a
Zhentarim mage.
19th Swiftbeat and Alvy ambush Zhentarim patrol
(kill three).
20th Swiftbeat and Alvy ambush Zhentarim mages
(kill one).
21st Yarrem meets Yamara, and agrees to return in
one year to save her from a marriage.
22nd Yarrem returns with Alvy's equipment.
23rd Leave for Bedine meeting place
4th Eleint Fought two Dark Nagas. Alvy is reads a cursed
scroll and must speak in verse.
5th Arrive at oasis of El Ma'ra. Meet Kendrick, a
human male cleric of Mystra. His party was
slain here, by forces unknown. He joins the
party.
6th Reach oasis. Find dead Bedine Tribe. Meet
Shiluan, a Bedine witch. Zhent's did it. Find
a highly magical, unidentifiable scimitar.
Swiftbeat uses it. Artifact?
8th Oasis of coloured waters. Meet Bedine tribe
and Zhentarim. Agree with Bedine tribe to kill
Zhent's (all twenty of them) in revenge for the
death of the other Bedine tribe.
9th Kill Zhent's. Find a magical flail (from
Zhentarim), called the Flail of the Desert
Kings. Find out it is an artifact.
19th Leave for Bedine meeting place. Party members
start having dreams about the flail and it's
ex-wielder.
22nd Find underground dungeon. Find four Mind
Flayers, and kill them easily (and then
realized they were illusionary). Fight an
Argos. Nightshade summons Vanderghast using an
item from Myrmeen, just as Alvy kills the
Argos. Alvy's curse removed by Vanderghast.
23rd Leave for Bedine meeting area (holy place)
25th Fight lots of lions on the way.
Higharvestide Meet many Bedine. Go to holy place Elah'zad.
3rd Marpenoth Goddess talks through Miior. Magical gate
appears. Yarrem goes through it.
4th-6th The rest of the party goes through gate. The
gate is one way.
7th We are somewhere far away (Raurin desert).
Leave for ancient tomb nearby (location given
in dreams).
10th Attacked by undead shape-changers. Yarrem and
Kendrick were life-drained (not fatally).
11th Reach tomb. Fight many snakes and undead.
12th A Medusa kills Alvy with a poisoned arrow. An
invisible person appears, steals the flail and
disappears, using Word of Recall (?). Magical
Gate appears. Party goes through. Leads to
Swamp.
14th Find we are north of Tantras. Go to Calaunt.
15th Find a sage on the way. Miior shows him her
map (from the deck of many things).
Yarrem killed by a stone giant. Reach Calaunt.
Kendrick meets Dogor, a dwarven warrior. He
joins the party.
19th Yarrem resurrected. The spell fails on Alvy
and he is permanently dead
21st Alvy reappears, without his equipment
(including magical equipment, money and his
spellbooks). He is on a quest for Milil,
regarding Miiors map.
22nd Leave for sage's place. Fight more
stone giants.
24th Get info on Miiors map from the sage.
29th Ride to Tantras.
7th Uktar Tantras.
8th Ship to Westgate.
14th Ship to Suzail.
17th Suzail.
18th Ride to Arabel.
23rd Nobody seems to know Alvy in Arabel. He was
a popular performer, but even the innkeeper
doesn't remember him. Must be part of his
quest. Myrmeen Lahl still remembers Alvy,
however.
24th Ride to Tilverton.
29th Reach Tilverton.
30th Shadow Gap. Alvy says to look for cave as
part of his quest. Dogor finds it.
The feast of
the moon Walk through man made cave (called Dodgers
path)
4th Nightal Reach end of cave.
6th Spiderhaunt woods. Fight spiders. Follow dry
creek bed.
10th Arrive at a floating Isle (called Druidhome
Isle). Flying up to the Isle, we are attacked
by a Guardian Daemon. Alvy finds that he must
(presumably) rescue a female druid who is
trapped in a crystal prism on the Isle. Milil
indirectly tells Alvy that the party must
subject the red crystal prism to the forces of
the elements.
11th Throw many elemental spells at it. The area
is hit by so many fireballs it starts looking
like a wasteland.
12th Keep trying various combinations of spells.
The party at the moment is Alvy, Dogor,
Kendrick, Lwaxana, Miior, Nightshade,
Swiftbeat and Yarrem.
13th Party frees the druid, actually Gandrea, a
nature goddess. She grants us a wish. On
Nightshade's suggestion, we ask for her
blessing. Next stop the mines of Tethyamar.
15th Fight some Perytons.
16th Reach mines. Buy various items. Dogor battles
their champion for the next item required, in
Alvy's quest, a mithral forge and tongs. He
wins easily. Alvy receives a long poem from
Milil, containing clues. Next stop Anauroch
again.
17th Travel into the desert.
20th Fight 20 Asabis.
22nd Meet Bedine tribe.
27th Find a dead Bedine tribe, all of them missing
their hands. Find a tower, and are attacked by
loads of black men. Drive them off through a
gate. A paralysed Yarrem flies through as
well. We give him up for dead, and rest with
our prisoner. Alvy investigates the tower, and
is attacked by 40 crawling claws. This must be
the tower of handless men mentioned in the
poem. We search but find nothing.
Year 1357 (Year of the Prince)
1st Hammer Celebrate New Years Day in Anauroch
3rd Yarrem is teleported to rejoin the party.
10th Reach fortress in the desert (Rasilith).
Explore and find
a passage down a well which is 500' deep.
Travel down it and find a network of caves.
Find the water "sweet as honey" in the
poem. Battle many monsters.
11th Explore more and find a Water Naga. It answers
many questions about Anauroch and it's past.
Battle a group of Asabis. Capture some and
find the way into the underground city. Rest
in preparation of entering city. Everybody is
flying and invisible.
13th Find the secret passage into the city. Enter,
it is quiet as a tomb, but well maintained.
Find a 100' square of bones, knee deep.
Search, and find a statue King Thausimbel.
Thief (Nightshades familiar) finds a bottle of
poison the hard way and is slowly dying! Also
find several items, the Rod of bone, and two
Ancient elven artifacts. Alvy names them the
sword Kanaluril and mail of Thalera, wielded
by the great elven heroine Ytharra. Alvy puts
on the mail and wields the sword. Head toward
Evermeet, to return them to the elves. Also
find the remains of the previous wielder
(presumably Ytharra). Now to find Evermeet!
22nd In the quarter of emptiness, find a magical
oasis, called Fadda Moya (Silver waters).
Yarrem sacrifices a potion of Heroism and
Thief is unpoisoned by the magic of the oasis.
25th Reach the edge of the desert. Head north to
Sundabar (and Brun's hometown).
27th Fight a Lamia
1st Alturiak Meet a patrol of elves from Evereska. They
steer us toward Sundabar.
7th Meet a Faerie Dragon. It says that we are
wierd and leaves.
9th Fight 20 Ogres.
10th Run from about 300 Gibberlings
11th Meet 20 Brumbies (wild horses).
12th Meet 10 Kobolds
16th Reach ruins of Ascore (and the road to
Sundabar).
17th Had fun and games with 200 Orcs.
19th Arrive Sundabar. Trade in the camels for
charger quality horses. Now we are relatively
safe, Alvy identifies the items. Kanaluril is
a Bastard Sword +4 which grants -4 AC when
unsheathed and spell turning. The mail of
Thalera is elven chainmail +5 which gives 25%
Magic Resistance and +3 to saves vs fire,
acid, dragon breath. Alvy almost faints when
he realizes what he is wearing.
20th Fight two major demons from Hellgate Keep (in
the streets of Sundabar).
24th Arrive Silverymoon. Speak with dead to
Ytharra. She declined to be resurrected, and
asks that her equipment be used to carry on
her work, and taken to Evermeet. Yarrem prays
Tyr in regard to him learning the path of
magic. Tyr is displeased.
9th Ches Arrive Heralds Holdfast. Find the Druid
Miradin who wrote the letter that we found on
our first day adventuring. Milil informs Alvy
that he must get water from the Moonwell in
the druid's sacred grove in the Moonshaes.
17th Leave the Herald's Holdfast.
21st Fight a Hangman tree.
27th Miradin catches up with the party and joins.
11th Tarsakh Arrive at Waterdeep. Alvy sees the Patriarch
of song. The druidess Nythi, intimate friend
of Miradin, joins us. The Patriarch tells us
to wait for Carreigh Macumail, a sea captain
from the Moonshaes who can go to Evermeet.
Miior uses the past life spell to find out
what Ytharra looked like, and what her party
looked like. She then paints them.
15th Miior's Birthday. Alvy has a divination
performed to find her real birthday, which is
on 15th Kythorn, 884 DR (Year of the singing
sword). She is now 16 years old!
4th Mirtul He arrives. We get passage to Evermeet via the
Moonshaes.
14th We leave Waterdeep.
16th Fight (and slay) a small Dragon Turtle. It was
killed by the elf runes guarding the ship
18th Arrive at the Moonshaes.
22nd Arrive Caer Corwell. Get a cart load of
Moonwell water.
23rd Leave for Evermeet.
24th Fight Kraken.
25th Fight Sauhuagan
26th Alvy witnesses the murder of a mysterious dark
clad person on the ship by someone. He tries
to follow them, but is given the slip. The
person is a female dark elf priestess of
Eilistraee, the goddess of good drow. She was
on her way to Evermeet to discuss with the
Queen the possibility of good drow retreating
to Evermeet. We assume the assassin was a
drow, but are unable to find them.
28th The captain requires us to be blindfolded to
prevent us from revealing the location of
Evermeet.
30th Arrive Evermeet. We meet the sad queen of
Evermeet. Alvy presents Kanaluril, the mail
of Thalera, and Ytharra's remains to the
court. One gold elf is especially snobbish to
us. Alvy notices that one of the elves in the
court is the same as in Miior's painting of
Ytharra's party. This elf is the Master of
the High Mages, and is very old. The party
members are named Sha' Quessir, meaning elf
friend. We are invited to a party. Over the
next few days, we are invited to several more
parties.
4th Kythorn We are summoned to the Palace. The part speaks
to the Queen privately, and tell her all about
our quest. Milil tells Alvy that he must go
West! The party figures out that the rod of
bone will be destroyed by the hammer, tongs,
anvil and the water. The queen gives everybody
a reward of a magic item. Alvy asks the Master
of the High Magi to teleport him to Arabel to
take place in the bardic fest, but he says
that Arabel is currently under attack by a
flight of Dragons.
6th Have another party, with the queen in
attendance. Lady Mylaela Durothil, a
descendant of Ytharra, is very impressed by
Alvy's song about Ytharra, and becomes quite
emotional. We leave for the west the next day
on Captain Carreigh's ship.
16th We arrive at an island in the middle of the
ocean. Milil tells Alvy that he is not to
destroy the rod, "she who has slept for
centuries" will: Miior. Everybody else must
move a great distance away, as it is very
dangerous. Milil also says that she who
destroys the rod with the hammer, anvil, tongs
and water will pay the ultimate price.
Lastly, we will be attacked by the cult of
the dragon and worshippers of Myrkul in
revenge. Alvy and Miior are married by
Kendrick, using a matched pair of 5000gp
(each) rings secretly bought by Alvy in
Evermeet. They spend a last day together.
17th Miior is placed on the shore, while the party
scrys on her. She begins to hammer the rod,
and quenches it in the water with the tongs.
It begins to glow red hot, and the "Island"
shakes. It is revealed to be a kind of Giant
Turtle. Gandrea the nature goddess appears and
takes over from Miior, who is teleported back
to the ship. The island, Gandrea and all the
items are blown up sky high. Alvy and Miior
are much relieved. The party currently
consists of Alvy the bard, Miior the mage,
Yarrem the Paladin, Nightshade the conjurer,
Dogor the fighter, Kendrick the cleric,
Swiftbeat the ranger, Lwaxana the fighter and
Miradin and Nythi the druids.
19th While returning to Evermeet, are attacked by
Sauhuagin. The captain loses his arm, and we
find out the there is an undersea mobilization
taking place, aimed at us.
20th A Tempest attacks and is killed after a big
battle.
22nd Meet some Sea Sprites, and appease the sea
goddess of the sauaghin. She was not pleased at the
death of the gigantic turtle.
28th Arrive Evermeet. The captains arm is healed.
Leave Evermeet for Waterdeep.
5th Flamerule All of the party has a dream of meeting Milil.
He gives us each a present. Alvy is given an
Amulet of perpetual youth for his human
father. Miior is granted a familiar, an elven
cat named Serena. Yarrem is granted a ring of
Elemenatl Invulnerability. Swiftbeat is given a
permanent arrow +3 called Whitewing.
Nightshade is given a wand of conjuration.
8th Arrive Waterdeep. Meet the Grand patriarch of
Song and Kelban Blackstaff. We find that
people may blame us for the flight of the
dragon's. Meet an evil woman who gives Yarrem
a wand - she is a priestess of Loviatar.
9th Lwaxana wins a competition, and now owns a
brothel. Yarrem is not exactly pleased. Miior
teleports to Tilverton and gives Alvy's father
the amulet. Alvy finds after his performance
of the tale of his quest that the Patriarch
was right, unfortunately. Several people seem
quite interested in Alvy however, particularly
a certain young woman. Alvy notes with
interest that her husband was in the
government of Waterdeep, and that she has
access to several sources of information.
19th A *very* large black dragon lands in front of
the party and demands Nightshade return
something of hers. This "her" is named
Talonkiss, and doesn't seem very friendly. The
something is a staff which can summon this
dragon, something the party was not aware of.
Nightshade hands the item back, and is given
in return a Libram of gainful conjuration.
28th We arrive in Sundabar. Buy camels and continue
on toward the desert.
30th The party finds a sand-pit and investigates. It
contains three Naga's. We defeat them, but one
of them apparently managed to charm
Nightshade, as he then drops the ceiling on
the party. Lwaxana uses a charge from a Ring
of Djinn summoning, and rescues the party from
entrapment. After a fight in which Nightshade
is almost blasted out of the sky by Miior,
Yarrem uses his Reglar's gloves of freedom to
uncharm Nightshade.
Midsummer We find a crashed ship (in the desert?) and a
tower. We are attacked and kill a Lamia, and
then are attacked by a group of them. Alvy
discovers the throne on the ship controls it,
and attempts to use it on the Lamia's (by
dropping it on them). The party is defeated,
but Nightshade uses the fates from the deck of
many things to avoid being killed, and Alvy,
Yarrem and Serena escape. Alvy sneaks back in
and steals Lwaxana's ring, using it to
transport all the slaves out of there.
1st Everybody arrives in Shadowdale. Dogor was in
the process of identifying a pack full of gems
Lamia's when he appears. Alvy and Yarrem have
everybody uncharmed and Miior unfeebleminded.
2nd Miior tells Nightshade to come to Shadowdale.
3rd Nightshade teleports in.
6th Dogor's gems are split up and part of the
proceeds go to rebuilding the ex-slave's
lives. Alvy most of his share to buy a Lyre of
Building to build houses for them.
8th Leave back to Anauroch
26th Find underground Zhentarim hiding hole and
loot it. A trap on a box summons a very smelly
zombie which permanently damages Nightshade's
health. The papers in the box tell of a
wounded beholder allied with the Zhentarim.
We set off to (hopefully) kill it.
1st Eleint We arrive at Yamara's tribe to take her away
(as requested about 1 year ago). We find out
that a champion has asked for her hand in
marriage, and has gone to slay a dragon
(actually a Wyvern).
2nd He returns, and Yarrem challenges him to
fight. Yarrem refuses all magical aid. Yarrem
is defeated and killed.
3rd The party teleports to Waterdeep. Kendrick
speaks to Yarrem's shade, and Yarrem request
not to be resurrected, but he has a sudden
change of heart when reminded of his duty to
his people, the Bedine. Meanwhile Miior
obtains a Philtre of love and uses it on the
champion, causing him to fall for Yamara's
younger sister. Yarrem is resurrected, is
teleported back. At Waterdeep, Modon (aka
Nightshade) is arrested for the murder of
three adventurers several years ago, and the
attempted murder of two more, plus theft,
unlawful use of an adventuring charter, and
dealing with assassins. Alvy is revealed as
having being investigating Modon's past for
some time. Apparently Modon was robbing their
room when discovered, and as his brother Lune
and him fled, Lune was killed. Modon hired a
group of Assassin to kill the party. Too bad for
him that two survived to give evidence. Yarrem
will act as Modon's "professional witness".
4th Yarrem is rather suspicious of the
circumstances surrounding the sudden love
match, but doesn't complain.
5th Yarrem and Yamara marry.
7th Modon is tried and convicted on all counts,
and sentenced to death. It is commuted to
entry into Undermountain. Miior is not
particularly happy at this, remembering when
Modon refused to have her raised. T
10th Enter Undermountain. Alvy, Miior and Kendrick
go as well to keep an eye on Modon. Meet an
elf who decides to go with us to keep an eye
on Modon as well. Her name is Lamruil, an
elven knight. Yamara accompanies her husband.
11th Still in Undermountain. Defeat may fell
creatures, including a Beholder (Oops!) and a
Gauth (only Serena the elven cat and Dogor
left up at the end!). Alvy, Miior and
Kendrick are separated from the party, and
Alvy almost single-handly destroys a Drow
temple. Reunite with the party. The party at
the moment is Alvy, Miior [with Serena], Kendrick,
Dogor, Nightshade (aka Modon) [with Thief],
Lamruil and Lwaxana. Swiftbeat has been very
ill lately and may not be able to continue
with the party. All clerics have pronounced
his disease "incurable" :)
17th Alvy and Miior are killed by a banshee's wail. The
other's enter. Yamara, Nightshade, Lamruil either
loot the temple or kill the dwarf who appears.
Each of them receive a symbol of their forehead of
the gods (Dumathoin) anger. It causes unbearable pain
when covered, and is visible even when the person
is invisible.
The remaining alive people hole up and rest, deciding
what to do.
22nd A group of adventurers arrive, apparantly to ensure that
Alvy and Miior are ok. They make sure that certain
preparations are carried out.
25th Everybody returns to the temple of Dumathoin.
26th Travel to the third level via the gate that Alvy found.
Enter Skullport. Find the price of travel out is too
expensive, but find a priest of Oghma (who is a mind flayer)
who gives us a map, reported to lead to a gate out.
3rd Marpenoth Travel via the river northwards. Nightshade is killed when
a Morkoth reflects his Phantasmal Killer back onto him.
Yarrem puts his body into a Bag of Holding, and takes it
outside of Waterdeep.
*End of the party history that I want the party members to see*
Try the story for the full story!
Glenn Butcher / knight