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Going forward, although the main Bannerlands campaign is winding down, we'll probably still be use these  Bannerlands forums as our launching place and clearing house for our other games!  We can broaden and open up other forums as necessary...JTS

Well, there is no real update!  Although Blade & Lantern are deep beneath Gloomwrought, searching for a way into the Sunvault, they've finally encountered a monster even they can't beat - the cancellation of the Virtual Table!Now, there are other platform alternatives, but for the near future, the Dol-Thamar chapters of The Bannerlands are likely to not be chronicled here.  Nearly four years of continuous 4E gaming, aided these last few months by the VT (really only made possible by the VT, since the start of the Bannerlands we've moved all over the world), are slowly drawing...

Where Blade & Lantern:Meet with Varis Jaeger and are tasked with entering the Shadowfell and traveling to Gloomwrought, where they must steal The Geistflame from a temple of Pelor known as the SunVaul...Enter the Shadowfell in the ruins of "Dark" Thamargol, and immediately battle Shadar-Kai of Thyrin Gol.  After the battle, B&L rescue from the Shadar-Kai hunters a human named "Alwell": a diabolist and member of the Veiled League, who agrees to accompany them to Gloomwrought and provide them a place to stay, and information...

With the side-trek to Nemenkraud nearly complete, Blade & Lantern will be continuing their journey to give the Eye of Iskar to Traledar the Gorgon King...and from there, to the heart of Dol Thamar itself, the ruins of Thamargol, for an audience with their patron, Vaeris Jaegar'val...

I just wanted to note here that Tom has taken over DMing, and the current members of Blade & Lantern: Valax, Malefic, Synh, the Drake, and Blackweyr (with the Dire Wolf Del) are deep within the Dwarven ruins of Nemenkraud, which they discovered while enroute to the Gorgons King's demesne.  Searching for a lost Dwur axe and metal with magical properties, they hope to trade these discoveries for other riches before meeting with Traledar the Gorgon KingI've also put a bit of Blackweyr's background - 

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Where Blade & Lantern: Continues to explore the Temple of Black Skin... Fights a Basilisk riding vampiric witch and her vampire thralls, and inadvertently releases Simbas'Dal, a Thamarite wizard (a Void Soul Genasi) trapped for over two centuries inside a Mirror of Life Trapping.  In exchange for his freedom, Simbas'Dal recounts some of the violent and decadent history of Andok Sur and the Temple fo Black Skin, including the fall of both, the schisms within Andok Sur, and the madness of Balas Zam.  He also describes the Eye of Iskar - the actual eye of a Fell Giant...

Where Blade& Lantern:Fight through the crypts beneath the Temple of Black Skin, and discover altars and statues to the sect's spiritual founder, the necropriest Balas Zam...

Where Blade & Lantern: Fight through the halls and crypts of the Temple of Black Skin, encountering remants of not only Varis Jaegar's original expedition, but the lost souls of the necromancers of Andok Sur, who have been perverted and warped by their aeons trapped in the undercity of the great Necropolis... Follow Chain Hezrain and the spirt haunting the revived Malefic, both of whom goad the party deeper into the crypts beneath the Temple of Black Skin... CHRONICLER'S NOTE: Just to remind everyone of a few narrative/plot things: Remember that Malefic has a "henchman": the...

Where Blade & Lantern: Reunites with Malefic, who had been left for dead in the Temple of Black Skin in the Undercity of Andok Sur, when Blade & Lantern was assaulted by the Undead remnants of Varis Jaegar’s original expedition… Slips beneath the Temple of Black Skin with the help of Malefic and the former Chain Hezrain, adept of the Elder Elemental Eye and the only surviving living member of Jaegar's original expedition…  Battles through the first maze of crypts beneath the Temple, discovering ancient Thamarite magic, including an ensorceled cloak,...