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Posted by: Dorado585 on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:09:51 PM
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 to a close. 

As a group we're going to keep forging ahead, trying some new games, playtesting D&D Next, etc., but I won't be keeping up those adventures on this campaign blog.  The adventures will...
Posted by: Dorado585 on May 14, 2012 at 10:23:43 PM
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...
Posted by: Dorado585 on Apr 23, 2012 at 08:15:42 PM
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 King


I've also put a bit of Blackweyr's background - 

Posted by: Dorado585 on Apr 11, 2012 at 09:17:32 PM

Where Blade

Posted by: Dorado585 on Mar 18, 2012 at 08:21:06 PM
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 lord turned lich, encased within a palantir...
  • Discovers and enters the lowest level of the Temple (aided by Simbas'Dal)...
  • Imprisons Chain Hezrain, the last surviving member of Varis Jaegar's original
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Posted by: Dorado585 on Feb 9, 2012 at 04:06:33 PM
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...
Posted by: Dorado585 on Jan 22, 2012 at 11:52:12 AM

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, and a Flametongue Dagger…
Posted by: Dorado585 on Jan 12, 2012 at 11:06:44 PM
Just a quick note: what with our 3 week break over the
Posted by: Dorado585 on Dec 2, 2011 at 07:59:11 PM
Where Blade & Lantern:
  • Fights off the undead of Andok Sur...
  • Loses a member, when Valax falls to the attack of Skeletal Trolls...
  • Retreats and regroups in a ruined tower, using the Whisper Coin to summon Varis Jaegar.  Even from afar, he uses Thamarite magic to revive Valax, but not without consequence...
  • Returns to the heart of Andok Sur, by navigating through the maze of ruins to the central chasm, only to find it haunted by Karkothi Fell Skeletons and Ghost Spiders...
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Posted by: Dorado585 on Nov 22, 2011 at 09:58:38 PM
Where Blade & Lantern:
  • Learns a little of The Drake’s history, and of the woman named Eris...
  • Flees the Steading of the Hill Giant Chief Waggoth, escaping into the wilds of Moghmarrin...
  • Encounters the slave trader Brasyg Bone-hand, from whom Synn purchases the wild witch Thorn, and Malefic procures one of the Blinded...
  • Arrives at the ruins of Andok Sur, and begins a descent into the sunken ruins...
  • Awakens an undead Beholder and its zombie thralls…
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