The Hunt for Carth

This is a description of the current party's initial journey through Tyramel to their discovery of Carth to their teleportation to an unknown world/land.

The Initial Encounter with Carth
The party assembled at the village inn where Thor spoke to the party members and offered a job to the party. Thor implied that it might be an assassination of some kind or some other anarchist plot. (James' character), Oglethorpe Maxiumus, Keira, and Leeroy all agreed to meet up with Thor at the Inn later that night.

Once the party met that evening, they asked Thor about what his job offer entailed. He began to explain when two thugs burst into the Inn. They confronted the bartender and demanded payment for protection. The bartender said he had nothing to give the bandits. The thugs were about to assault the bartender when the party stepped in to defend him. The party asked were the bandits came from and the bartender said they belonged to a bandit party in the woods led by an evil man named Carth. The bandits would occasionally raid the village and take all their supplies. More recently, they had abducted a large portion of the village's women and children. The party decided to go lay out some justice and asked for a guide. The bartender's son, Theo, volunteered. The party agreed to leave in the morning.

The morning arrived and the party set out early. Theo led the way and the party followed. Several hours later, the party encountered some wovles glowing a dark blue. The party fought the wolves and killed them. During the battle, Theo was frightened off. The party concluded that Theo knew how to get back to where he lived and decided to press on. The party sent Leeroy ahead to act as a scout.

Leeroy traveled ahead for a short distance and came across an apparition. It was a blue figure with a paralyzing stare. Leeroy was caught in the stare and felt a shudder through his body. He ran back to the party and reported what happened. The party moved together to investigate. Thor found a magical amulet on the ground. After studying the amulet intensly Thor divined the amulet was some form of one way communication. The party agreed that if they could take the amulet to an expert then they could find out who made the amulet and how they could use it.

The party continued on until they reached a gorge. The gorge was very wide and did not appear that it could be circumvented easily. The party decided to go across the gorge. After much deliberation, Oglethorpe threw Thor across the gorge. Oglethorpe must have not had enough for breakfast that morning, because instead of Thor sailing right across the gorge, Thor went halfway and then plunged into the river at the bottom of the gorge. Keria reacted quickly and went to help Olgethorpe recover least he fall into the river as well. Leeroy, seeing his companions struggle, decided to be of some help. Leeroy fell on his face and did not contribute. Thor was able to scramble onto a rock and saved from the immediate danger of drowning. Olgethorpe almost fell over the cliff, but was saved at the last second (no thanks to Leeroy who - after two attempts - decided to sit this part out). Thor was pulled back up to the rest of the party through a combination of a jump on his party and a pull on Olgethorpe's. After more deliberation, the party decided to send Keria to scout the edges while Leeroy shot an arrow across the gorge with a rope attached to the arrow.

Pursuit of Carth into the Mountains
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The party went through the mystical forest door led by Ptolemy. The party found ground beneath their feet and a very defined path through a dense forest ahead of them. As they went down the path, the party began to suspect that time-altering effects were taking place. On the way to the end of the path, Chrysophylax made friends with a bunny. The path wandered its way through a dense forest opening out onto a clearing at the foot of a mountain. The party saw a dwarf and a sentient tree. The dwarf saw the party and the party asked about a pair of dark angels carrying a man (Carth ) and if they had passed by here. The dwarf pointed towards the mountain. The party asked if the dwarf could give them any more information, but the dwarf would not comply as he lost an amulet that meant a great deal to the tree. Irdin was able to get the dwarf to give the party some helpful clues as to where the amulet might have been (at the bottom of a barrel of beer). The party began to search for it and came across a squirrel. Chrysophylax was able to decipher the squirrels madness and led the party to where the amulet was. The amulet was being held by a beaver who bartered for the amulet for a blessing from Keira. Once the beaver received the blessing, he turned into an elf (his true form) and told the party he had been cursed into being a beaver. The party returned with the dwarf's amulet and gave him the amulet. The party set out, with the dwarf and ent in tow and entered the mountain pass.

The party travelled a short distance before Ptolemy took his leave of the party with the ent. The party continued a little further and had to stop for the evening. During the middle of the night, a boar went screaming down the mountain pass. Leeroy was able to quickly kill the boar and the party left their camp to retrieve the boar meat. As soon as the party left their camp they were ambushed by goblins. Just as the party defeated the goblins, a dragon - later revealed to be Grytha - appeared! They fought against it bravely, but the party made no progress. Suddenly, they heard a massive war cry and a seven-foot tall goliath dropped out of the sky, landing on the dragon with such terrible force that it broke the dragon's will. The dragon mysteriously vanished afterwards. The goliath announced himself as Thadic Banesone. The party questioned him closly to try and decern if he had seen anything atop the cliff before he made his perilious leap. He told them of the hooded and cloaked man he had seen atop the cliff and the strange way he had disappeared. Thadic asked what he meant to them and the party told him their tale of Carth. Thadic agreed to accompany the party as the chance to do battle with one who could summon a dragon at will was too great to pass up. The party continued into the mountains until they reached a massive door carved into the cliff face.

The door was locked with a strange puzzle and enchantment. When it was finally opened the party ventured inside. Inside the dungeon they faced many traps and spells. After a time they came upon a prison room. Inside this prison was the Elder Dragon Myrna. Carth had trapped him there eons ago to torture him, bending him to his will. Myrna would not break and had endured for hundreds of years. The party freed him. After Myrna mourned the death of his son Grytha whom Carth slew in punishment for the failure in the mountians, Myrna told the party about his captivity and a small portion of Carth's growth of power. The party told Myrna about the Blue Asteroid. Myrna became very alarmed at hearing this news and told the party there was no time to waste! He told the party there was a way out of the mountain, but not one that he would fit through. Myrna then teleported out of the dungeon. Behind where he stood opened a passage.

The party went through the passage that opened into a room boasting a single pillar in the middle. The pillar was covered in buttons knobs and switches. Thor, Leeroy and Chryspholax were siezed with a spell of dissent and began fighting with one another, accusing each other of being Carth in disguise. Suddenly, the three froze and the face of Carth appeared from an amulet that Thor had taken from a fallen minion. Carth mocked them then. As soon as the party solved the puzzle, Thor, Leeroy and Chrysophlax were released from the spell. The party had Thor throw the amulet down a side passage. The party stumbled out of the room lucky to have survived the traps placed in it and came to the outside. They met back up with Myrna who  took the party on dragonwing to the acient fortress of The Hross.

Carth Reveals Himself
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I typed a bunch of stuff including the dragon battle and leading up to where Carth appeared inside the Hross compound... and then my laptop died and lost all of that :( so.... i'll try again later

On Unknown Shores
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