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The party gathers its small army and heads south to at last confront the Stag Lord! What they discover is not what they expected! They encounter axebeaks, a Korred, wooden people, a childlike brute and a necklace made of human fingers! Will the party gain control of their long-desired stronghold?

Jorgrim leads Caradoc, Mikmek, and Arty downriver to scout out the route to the Stag Lord's Keep!  Mikmek's fondest wish is granted by a wishing well and he is reunited with ClipClop the Pony. The party encounters a cyclops woodworker who inhabits ruins with strange wooden golems and who makes a pretty good goat curry. Mikmek stays on there and fresh-faced halfling monk Wellby Goodbarrel take...

The fates of Bariq and Sir Parrik (and Floki's body) are resolved, after which Thronor leads Jhank, Umgurn, and Artvirous first to the Order of the Burning Forge's monastery, where they hope to collect their armor from the dwarves.  The dwarves refuse to let them in and send them away empty-handed, much to Arty's annoyance. Then, after wishing they had a bridge to cross the Thorn River near t...

Jhank leads Fjori, Floki, Bariq, and Sir Parrik back to the Fire Giant Sorcerer's tower where Karg the Manticore lives. Along the way, some cave bears are fought and the tactics of tree climbing are discussed.  At the ruins, a strange set of mirrors and some food and drink are discovered. Bariq embraces his chaotic side and manages to send himself body and soul through a one-way portal to a p...

Caradoc leads Sir Parrik, MikMek and Bariq into the Graypeak Mountains in search of the fire giant sorcerer's ruined tower and Karg the manticore, but they are attacked by a wyvern in the night and struggle to drive it off as it keeps driving a poison-filled stinger into them!  They end up lost in the mountains and discover the entrance to a hidden shrine of Dumathoin.  A new Gray Render...

With most of the players absent this session, new adventurers Jorgrim (forest gnome druid) and Sly Zib Uppercut (goblin boxer) encounter a giant wasp and some Talos-worshiping weasels before they come across the farmstead and join the adventuring crew.  Sent out on a low-priority test to prove their worth, they range far and wide, exhausting themselves looking for the lost goblin Snoutscout,...

Arty leads Umgurn, Thronor, and Caradoc into the Greypeak Mountains to hunt duergar for the Order of the Burning Forge! The gray dwarves prove elusive, but some advice from a local manticore puts them back on track. The duergar are found and ambushed and their giant vinegroon whipscorpion mounts are captured to be retrained! Plans are made to expand the homestead. 

Thronor leads Umgurn, Fjori, Floki, and Jhank 'northlefterly' to investigate the Black Dog Brewery, which is run by shady halfling necromancer Losser Mirklav (formerly of Waterdeep) and a bunch of necromonks of Urogalan. He won't show them the brewing operation itself presumably because there are some undead involved, but the party leaves them in peace. They travel north to find the lair of the gi...

Umgurn, Floki, and MikMek take to the water in a recently recovered rowboat to explore down the Thorn River! They find a wyvern's nest, some disused iron mines, some giant sundews, and stop to explore some ruins connected to local hobgoblins. In the Altar of Nomog-Geaya, they discover a large painting of hobgoblins causing mayhem and they get attacked by a ghoul. Umgurn gets paralyzed and decides...

After a bluebook recap, discussion of leveling, and consideration of which armors to ask the Order of the Burning Forge for in exchange for the Hidden Lake Delve, the party sets out to explore the area west of the farmstead near the Thorn River.  Jhank leads Barriq, Floki, Sir Parrik, and Caradoc to a spot where a mysterious circle of dead birds turns out to be evidence of an invisible floati...

Caradoc leads Arty, Jhank, and Thronor back to the Hidden Lake Delve to clear it of gnolls once and for all! The party is ambushed by undead witherlings and then takes on the rest of the pack in the market hall, where Caradoc and Jhank both go down in battle and only Arty's Wall of Fog gives the party a fighting chance!  A huge pile of loot is discovered including adamantine weapons and armor...

Floki leads Sir Parrik and Fjori against the gnolls who have overtaken Eldergrove, and a nighttime battle ensues! Additional gnolls are picked off by guerilla warfare and Young Norbert is tracked to the Feywild Portal.  The group travels down to the Raided Farmstead and encounters a child zombie on the way. The zombie farmstead is dealt with and burned and evidence is discovered that the Chur...

Umgurn leads Thronor, Jhank, Caradoc, and Arty back to the Hidden Lake Delve to take on the gnolls that have now infested it! After a big battle with giant hyenas and a few gnolls, Jhank gets a magic battleaxe and the party retreats to the surface for a short rest; then heads back in to explore the side passages. The underwater course of the Shrike River is found on one side, and the other is a dw...

Thronor leads Umgurn, MikMek, and Arty northeast of the Sootscale Caverns to the edge of the Graypeak Mountains in search of dwarven ruins of Ammarindar!  They run into trouble with a bear! MikMek gets lowered down a ventilation shaft and sees a moving room. That night, there's more trouble with a territorial cyclops who nearly one-shots Thronor. A hidden lake is discovered and with it a hidd...

Kobold MikMek guides Arty, Caradoc, and newcomer dwarf cleric brothers Umgurn and Thronor towards the Sootscale Caverns. Along the way, Caradoc has a run-in with a wild basilisk but manages to escape. They come in contact with an undead bridgekeeper and promise to throw the Stag Lord's corpse into the Shrike River so the bridgekeeper can be put to rest. They visit the hidden shrine of Kurtulmak, w...

Some new secondary characters are introduced and Jhank, Barriq, Sir Parrik, Floki, and Fiori set out to regain the bandits' stolen gold and take vengeance on them.  They track the new set of bandits back to their camp at the Thorn River and exterminate them, with both Parrik and Jhank using their special mounts to great effect, while newcomers Fiori and Floki attack from the edges.  Some...

After a quick bluebook review, Caradoc takes over as caller and the party heads southwest to look for the Sootscale kobolds, but instead they find a farmstead the kobolds have raided and a magic mouth gives them a kobold-related quest! A cache of furs and other goods is discovered that the farmers had hidden. Overnight, Arty hears kobold yipping and goes to investigate, and comes back with a pair...

While Caradoc stays behind to work on some smithing, Arty leads the rest of the party southwest to find the bandit camp that's been causing trouble.  After some exploration, Arty goes full crocodile in the water to scout the place out and the party returns at dusk for an attack! Parrick continues his signature move of impaling baddies on his lance, Jhank sets up overwatch with his crossbow, B...

After resolving the trouble between the local fey and the village of Eldergrove, the party gets back to proper exploration! We try out all kinds of hexcrawl watch action mechanics! The group heads north to reclaim an abandoned wain (open-top wagon) mentioned by Bags Dagnulfsson in the Feywild, south again to discover a bloody altar being used by some kind of cult, then further south to gather moon...

In Eldergrove, the party discovers that children have gone missing over the last several nights, presumed taken by local fey. Following a trail into the nearby woods, they find a fey crossing that transports them to a strange forest filled with bizarre beings such as Makka Pakka, Iggle Piggle, and the sentient Pinky Ponk airship. The children are there, but the fey are upset because the rare and w...

We are introduced to Caradoc, Jhank, Bariq, Sir Parrik, and Artvirious, who make up our new level one heroes! At Oleg's Trading Post near the Greyflow River, the will of the wizard Narthindlar of the Nine Spells is read, giving gifts to our new adventurers and charging them with rebuilding an ancient kingdom!  To deal with some bandit troubles, an ambush is staged and the small band of bandit...

We talk about our upcoming wilderness exploration campaign and collaboratively start on the character creation process!  Looks like we may be headed towards having a fairy knight paladin, a lizardfolk ex-soldier ranger, a human or tabaxi spellslinger, a genasi druid or sorcerer, and a dwarf archaeologist fighter, who all knew a recently deceased wizard who's last will and testament brings the...

We play a round of Fiasco in space! Wam joins us in Jared's chair (we miss you, Jared).  The conniving geologist rivals, the angry commander, the delusional AI, and the feckless pilot all conspire to ensure that everything that can go wrong will go wrong on this mission to Mercury!

Now level 20, our heroes and their githyanki allies travel to the astral plane to take on an illithid mothership!  They face a whole slew of mind flayers firing lightning guns and a disintegration ray, an illithilich on a dracolich, and then face off against the elder brain and an iron tentacled colossus! Mouse gets stunned but recovers with a vengeance! Yngvar gets the nasty end of the disin...

With Balandor and Slarkrethel dead together, Grimm and the Hornraven brothers with their condescending genius crab Bess press on to fight the Elder Brain and its Mind Flayer minions!  Things go badly but then the second Spawn of Slarkrethel turns the tables and victory appears to be within their grasp, but the Elder Brain escapes to the Astral Plane!  The group explores the surrounding r...