Gaming Session Game Dates for 2003

Session Start Finish Notes & Highlights
20031228 21 Eleint 1379, mid-day 25 Eleint 1379, morning 21st: Group returns to town to rest, but maintains a watch on the hill giant lair;
22nd: Stone giants are observed visiting the cave and the group follows them;
24th: Stone giants stop at another cave so group camps mearby;
25th: Stone giants leave cave and shortly there after enslaved dwarves are seen at entrance, group sends Edmund and Willis to follow the stone giants while the rest of the group investigates, the rest of the group clears the cave and frees the dwarves.

[DM awards 1,838XP for all group but Edmund & Willis]

20031227 8 Eleasias 1379, morning 21 Eleint 1379, mid-day 8th: At Gareth's order an auditor begins investigating the buyer in Westgate and a haunted ship is towed out of drydock so work on other ships can proceed, Astra tells group of Laspeera's bag of holding and Alax will provide money for its purchase, Astra and Willis get bag from Laspeera, Morgan tests an invisibility potion she made that had a slight problem, Alynna warns Astra and Morgan about Ravenloft;
9th-14th: Group makes preparations for quest;
15th: Group sets sail on Fairwind from Suzail;
24th: Group arrives in Calaunt at daybreak and set out immediately;
26th: Group passes through Thindilar at midmorning and continues on;
29th: Group arrives in King's Reach in mid-morning and stops to rest;
1st Eleint: Group leaves King's Reach;
5th: Group reaches the source of the River Vesper;
6th: Group enters the Earthspur Mountains;
14th: Group enters the High Pass and reaches the River Icehilt, meets Clorinar Twinaxe who joins them;
18th: Group defeats four hill giants in morning, arrives in Sudrav at twilight;
19th: Group rests in Sudrav;
20th: Group defends Sudrav from two raiding hill giants;
21st: Group defends Sudrav from three raiding hill giants then finds their lair and defeats ten of them.

[DM awards 1,350XP + 4,725XP = 6,075XP for session.]

20031226 1 Eleasias 1379, start of day 8 Eleasias 1379, morning 1st: Alax and group (less Astra Morgan and husbands) go to Arabel to get wagons and finish their trip;
4th: Alax and group arrives in Masoner's Bridge during mid-afternoon and they stop for the day;
7th: Alax and group arrive in Hullack Town during morning, Astra Morgan and husbands return from Mystra's palace, Raymond receives an unusual new assignment and Astra checks into it to learn it was forged and she gets his current assignment verified, Sedric goes to Gareth to give his report about his ship and speaks of misdoings by Gareth's buyer in Westgate, High Watcher Scheel introduces Alax to Sir Larsrik Banus, Scheel and Larsrik come to dinner at Alax's hall that evening to tell him of the first quest which will be to go to Vaasa to recover one of the sacred hammers of Helm, Valnshaa and Raymond decline to go on the quest, Willis tells Durin the mithral is here;
8th: In the early morning hours the mithral is delivered to Durin, after breakfast Alax and Larsrik book passage on one of Gareth's cargo ships, Astra visits Izak and Laspeera looking for a bag of holding.
20031225 3 Flamerule 1379, breakfast Midsummer 1379, end of day 3rd: Astra is sick this day from allergic reaction to elderberry wine, group rests;
4th: group remains in Iriaebor to rest another day;
5th: Group leaves Iriaebor to continue journey;
7th: Group passes through village of Easting during the morning without stopping;
8th: Alax puts on Purple Dragon uniform and armor before setting out this day;
11th: Group arrives in Proskur just before midday and stops for the rest of the day;
21st: Group arrives in Suzail during late morning and stays in Palace for night;
22nd: Group continues on with Dragon escort and without stopping in any towns before the end of the day is up;
27th: Group arrives in Arabel at the end of the day, Alax arranges for wagons to be guarded in Arabel until after Midsummer festival, group teleports back to Hullack;
28th: Izak gives some family heirloom halfplate armor to Willis;
Midsummer: Fun is had by all, at end of day Mystra takes Astra Morgan and husbands to Dweomerheart for visit.

[DM awards 300XP for last part of wagon trip (last two sessions)]

20031223 5 Kythorn 1379, start of day 3 Flamerule 1379, breakfast 5th: Group sets out from Soubar
8th: Mischievious sprites beset the group briefly in the morning, group arrives in Triel by nightfall;
14th: Group arrives in Scornubel at mid-morning;
18th: Group arrives in Qheldin's Mask at end of day, a Zhentish slave caravan passes their camp going northward, Alax moves camp farther south and off the road to avoid trouble with them;
21st: Group arrives in Berdusk at mid-day, Morgan finally correctly learns the orgasmic vibrations spell;
22nd: Group stays in Berdusk an extra day to rest up;
23rd: Group leaves Berdusk at start of day;
25th: Group passes through Fendarl's Gate at mid-day without stopping;
27th: In the early morning hours a group of thieves attack the camp; Willis and Alax drive them off but Willis is greviously wounded, Alax takes one thief prisoner, group gets early start on day;
30th: Group arrives in Iriaebor during mid-morning and takes Willis to the High Altar of the Moon (a Selunite temple), the prisoner is delivered to the local law who knows and wants the man, the High Moonmaiden informs group that Willis is poisoned and dying and she can do nothing without a sample of the poison, Alax rides out at full gallop to go back to the site of the attack to search for the blade, Alynna and Storm come to be with Willis;
1st Flamerule: Alax arrives back at attack site during mid-afternoon, he finds blade after a couple hours of searching the river then immediately starts back;
2nd: Alax gets back to Iriaebor with blade at end of day, the horse dies shortly after returning, Alax collapses from fatigue, Willis is cured but the debilitative effects of the poison cannot be reversed;
3rd: Group has a hearty breakfast together in the Wandering Wyvern inn in Iriaebor.
20031220 14 Tarsakh 1379, start of day 4 Kythorn 1379, end of day 14th: Astra and group return to Hullack for a break until after Greengrass;
18th: Alax receives the report that the gnomish logging machine felled a total of 1240 trees: 732 non-protected, 507 protected, and one sacred ancient oak;
20th: Alax learns Jarisha plucked out one of Axil's eyes to punish him for the forest damage, Alax passes sentence on the gnome, Jarisha doesn't like sentence insults Alax and leaves, Alax has Jarisha come back and has a talk with her, Jarisha says she must kill the high hierophant (who is also her father) and take his place, Jarisha restores Axil's eye before leaving;
25th: Jullian performs the ceremony to marry Morgan and Sedric, Uther Cormaeril briefly disrupts it but Izak deals with it;
Greengrass: Most of the family celebrate in Suzail and mix with the nobles and commoners there;
1st Mirtul: Sedric returns to duty as ship captain and launches the new ship, Astra and group return to tower, Willis goes to Waterdeep to get a second wagon, the rest of the group takes their time loading the first wagon;
2nd: Willis returns with second wagon and the group loads it;
3rd: Group leaves Tower Lazarac with wagons.
4th: Group arrives in Waterdeep at end of day and spends night in Silver Minotaur Inn;
5th: Valnshaa joins group, group leaves Waterdeep in morning, reaches Zundbridge at end of day;
6th: Group reaches Ardeep river at end of day, and meet a caravan going the opposite diretion;
10th: Group arrives in Daggerford at midday and stops for the day;
14th: Group arrives in Bowshot at mid-day and stops for the day, late that night Val alerts everyone of a Drow attack which is then driven off;
16th: Group arrives at the Way Inn at midday and stops for the day;
23rd: Group passes by Dragonspear Castle at midday without stopping;
1st Kythorn: Group arrives at Boareskyr Bridge at mid-afternoon and finds 6 trolls at bridge, and attacks them after they watch the trolls waylay aanother caravan headed north, the community there greet them as heroes afterward
4th: Group arrives in Soubar at end of day, late night an invisible man tries to rape Morgan but Astra kills him.

[DM awards 1,200XP for trolls & rapist]

20031219 13 Tarsakh 1379, morning 13 Tarsakh 1379, end of day 13th: The group continues on from the dead wizard's study, they find detailed plans for a golem from parts of the Seven Sisters, they reach a dead end at a spiral staircase upward that is blocked with rubble, they check out the east passage and find that it simply ends at the underground river, in Hullack Henric and Damin stop a gnomish tree-cutting invention that got out of control and cut a path through the forest for 3 days, Jullian puts the gnome inventor in jail, in the evening Astra and Morgan take the golem notes and plans to Storm then the three of them visit Alynna, Astra and Morgan talk with Damian about portals then return to the tower.
20031213 12 Tarsakh 1379, morning 13 Tarsakh 1379, morning 12th: Astra takes Belaghard around to meet the family in Suzail and Hullack, Belaghard mentions a private Obarskyr family treasure vault in the catacombs under the palace, Belaghard has some old-fashioned ideas, Durin objects to Damian asking him to craft common tools, Damian mentions making a portal between Astra's home and Tower and having a dwarven-looking bronze golem do the work, Astra thinks of using the golem to do the underground work at her tower, Astra leaves Belaghard in the palace to return to the tower;
13th: Group returns to place where Belaghard was found to continue exploring and find a laboratory and a study.
20031212 12 Tarsakh 1379, start of day 12 Tarsakh 1379, morning 12th: Astra wakes up to find a drow sitting on her bed, the drow is Valnshaa daughter of the goddess Eilistraee & she was sent to help Astra decipher the portal glyphs, Astra takes Belaghard to the palace to introduce him and give him a tour.
20031206 11 Tarsakh 1379, start of day 11 Tarsakh 1379, end of day 11th: Astra and Morgan talk about previous night's visit, Mystra comes to talk to Astra and Morgan about visit, Mystra briefly turns Alax into a goat, Mystra reveals Edmund will grow to 7'2", group returns to underdark, they find magically trapped chests they choose to not mess with, they fight 5 ghouls and a number of wraiths, they encounter a man cursed by a mage with a vampire-like existence who turns out to be Sir Belaghard Obarskyr (lost since 1127), Astra calls on Alynna to remove the curse, Alynna comes and removes the curse, the group returns to the tower and spends the evening bringing Belaghard up to date on Cormyr's history and royalty.

[XP award for 20031128, 20031129 and 20031206: 2,300XP]

20031205 8 Tarsakh 1379, daytime 10 Tarsakh 1379, end of day 8th: Sue is very happy to have visited the House of the Moon and wants to repay Astra, Astra and people with her return to tower, Astra spends rest of day in tower library researching the portal writings and identifies some portals as linked to drow cities, Sue wants to share Astra's bed that night but Astra talks her out of it, Sue has Morgan bring Jullian to tower but Jullian is hurt to learn Sue went to the House of the Moon without her, Sue Morgan and Jullian go to Hullack to spend night, Sue and Jullian talk, Morgan and Alynna talk;
9th: Morgan goes to see Durin and ask to have two daggers made then has breakfast, Morgan and Sue return to tower after breakfast, Willis leaves to buy a wagon and horses, group relaxes for the day while Astra and Morgan continue their research;
10th: Group relaxes for the day while Astra and morgan continue their research and finish with about 70% of the writings translated, Willis returns with wagon and horses at the end of the day, late that evening after bedtime Shar comes to visit Morgan, Astra rushes to Morgan's aid and they talk with Shar for a bit before refusing her request.
20031129 6 Tarsakh 1379, mid-day 8 Tarsakh 1379, daytime 6th: the group returns to the tower on a surface path rather than back through the caverns; Edmund gets a wild boar for dinner on the way back, Sasha reveals she is pregnant, the group goes through the treasure they've recently collected before going to bed;
7th: The group returns to the Underdark under the tower, they encounter the petrified remains of several beings then encounter and defeat the basilisk that petrified them, the group finds a large portal nexus with 50 portals (12 of them active), Astra and Morgan take copious notes on the draconic writings around the portals, the group returns to the tower and arrives at late evening;
8th: Astra Morgan Raymond Sedric and Sue go to visit the House of the Moon in Waterdeep.
20031128 3 Tarsakh 1379, start of day 6 Tarsakh 1379, mid-day 3rd: the group heals and relaxes, Willis finds out that it was Astra who dragged him to safety, the group relaxes and heals the remaineder of the day;
4th: the group finishes healing and relaxes some more, Astra and Raymond discuss plans for tower expansion then in the afternoon go to start making arrangements, Astra and Morgan and spouses attend a play at a Waterdhavian theater for the evening;
5th: The group goes below again, encountering a couple of ettins, four ogres and a large party of orcs, Edmund chases after the leader orc and faces him alone and defeats him at great cost, group returns to tower, Willis reveals to Astra the reason for his personality change -- Mask rejected him when he died on the 30th;
6th: They continue exploring past where they faced the orcs and discover an eventual outlet to the surface, in the Sword Mountains well north of the tower.
20031127 2 Tarsakh 1379, breakfast 2 Tarsakh 1379, end of day 2nd: Jerrid and Gareth talk, Astra and group explore more Underdark below their tower and take on four hook horrors in three encounters, Willis and Raymond are badly injured so they quit for the day.

[1,200 XP for day]

20031122 30 Ches 1379, late night 2 Tarsakh 1379, breakfast 30th: The group discusses plans to deal with the orc party, and decide to attack during the night, Willis offends Astra then they make up, the group goes out and attacks the orc camp, they capture the leader kill the others and rescue their two servants but Willis dies from the leader's magical axe and can't be resurrected, Astra gets Alustriel to come and take the orc leader away for interrogation, the group returns to the tower, Astra calls Damian and gets him to help with Willis;
1st: Damian takes the magical axe to Durin who melts it down in the smelter destroying it, Damian goes to the tower where he casts a wish then Sue finally resurrects Willis, Elron comes and seals off the dangerous passages then spends time with Astra and Morgan, after dinner Astra and Morgan take Alax and Sedric to report the pirate cove they found to the Waterdhavian authorities, they take Jerrid Dauntinghorn along too, Alax establishes a friendly relationship with Dauntinghorn, group returns to tower;
2nd: Group has breakfast in tower.

[XP Award for rust monsters, carrion crawler and orc party: 1,100XP]

20031121 28 Ches 1379, start of day 30 Ches 1379, late night 28th: A messenger from Raymond's order comes to Alynna's temple to deliver a message to Raymond, Alynna takes the message to Raymond, the message is orders to defend a Mystran shrine in Shadowdale from a blackguard, Alynna takes the group to Shadowdale and they have an uneventful day after that;
29th: The blackguard comes and faces Raymond, Raymond defeats him but is wounded himself, the group rests for the remainder of the day;
30th: The group heads under the tower to continue exploring the eastern passage, they discover a statue of a gnome then kill a carrion crawler before entering the back door of an inn, the inn turns out to be part of an pirates cove on the shore of an underground sea, the group sees Sedric's former ship the Flying Duchess come to port there then teleport back home, the group arrives at the end of the day and have supper, after dinner Astra Morgan and husbands visit Elron and ask him to block the passages to the Drow City and the pirate cove and he agrees to do so on the condition they find and bring to him a live ice toad, Alax and Edmund look for the orc servants and find an orc camp of warriors a half mile from the tower and learn they plan to attack the tower, Alax and Edmund return to tell the others.
20031115 25 Ches 1379, mid morning 27 Ches 1379, end of day 25th: the group has a quiet day, that night is the first that Astra and Morgan do it simultaneously with their respective husbands;
26th: Astra learns Morgan no longer wears the ring of contraception and she explains that Sedric is a Selunite, Astra helps Morgan with her sorcery, after lunch group goes to Waterdeep to do moneychanging then go to a nice place for dinner;
27th: group heads down east passage, group finds a magical pool of water then later encounter rust monsters in a large cavern, Alax loses armor and Edmund loses sword, group goes to Waterdeep to replace these then return to the tower for the day, Astra has to rescue Arnūnril from the orcs, the rest of the day is uneventful.
20031114 25 Ches 1379, start of day 25 Ches 1379, mid morning [Treasure awards for last several adventures given.]
25th: Astra tells Sedric of the orcs, Astra Morgan and mates go shopping in Suzail, Morgan is fitted for wedding dress, Sedric brings the two women a gift, they then go to Hullack, Morgan asks Jullian to perform ceremony on 23rd of Tarsakh and she agrees, Morgan reserves the balcony in Henric's restaraunt for that day, Astra and Morgan get Sedric his job back with Dauntinghorn, they return to tower.
20031108 24 Ches 1379, morning 24 Ches 1379, end of day 24th: Astra finds out Morgan got married and is filled with anger and guilt, Alynna takes them to meet the husband, Sedric Hollingford, who is a captain of a trading ship for Dauntinghorn, Astra acts rather rudely to him but Alynna has him talk to family to get to know him, the talk makes him miss the departure of his ship, Jerrid fires Sedric as captain, Sedric goes with group back to tower where they talk more, Sedric finds out for the first time about the Shade War and fears his family may be dead, Astra takes him back to Suzail and Arabel to find his family, Sedric finds that two brothers and one sister died, leaving him with one brother (Constal Arbidar) and one sister (Betriss) and his mother, Astra talks to Morgan to learn she wants to go through with the marriage and they tell Alynna, Alynna tells Elron Izak and rest of family, the rest of the day goes peacefully.
20031107 20 Ches 1379, late night 24 Ches 1379, morning 20th: Mystra comes to talk to Astra and Morgan, Alax discovers the full truth of the relationship between Mystra Morgan and Astra;
21st: Edward receives a shipment of moonberry wine he ordered and gives it to Jullian, Astra relaxes for the day, Sue takes Jullian to the tower to let Alax know neither is angry with him, Jullian and Morgan talk privately, Astra and Morgan talk;
23rd: Edmund returns to tower and reports no orcs within 2 days, Willis takes Morgan to Waterdeep, Astra senses Morgan getting drunk then having sex, Astra fears the worst and gets angry;
24th: Willis and Morgan return to the tower (Morgan without her jewelry, Astra is still angry and vows to go back to retrieve Morgan's Jewelry, Sue calls Alynna to help, Morgan reveals it was her doing -- she got Willis drunk enough to pass out then married a man before having sex with him.
20031101 18 Ches 1379, breakfast 20 Ches 1379, late night 18th: Willis teleports to Waterdeep to get new door for tower, comes back by dinner with two ladies (Darsi and Trudi) he hired to clean the tower, Trudi gets Morgan drunk and they spend the night together;
19th: Astra discovers that Morgan got drunk then was intimate with Trudi, the man Willis hired arrives with the door and Alax and Edmund help him install it;
20th: Edmund sets out alone to track the orcs that attacked them a couple of days ago; Morgan picks mushrooms for dinner that turn out to be hallucinogenic and chaos occurs at dinner as the group gets stoned, Alax and Morgan make out (Alax thinks it's Jullian) while Astra loses control of her sorcery and ends up fireballing herself outside, the orcs find Astra and take her up to her room and tend her as best they can, the group wakes up hours later at late night and is generally mortified at what happened, Raymond calls Alynna to help Astra, Alynna and Damian heal Astra, Alynna talks to Morgan to reassure her, Sue talks to Morgan to let her know there are no hard feelings, Sue talks to Alax then uses Astra's ring to return to Hullack and talk to Jullian;
20031031 17 Ches 1379, daytime 18 Ches 1379, breakfast 17th: The group reaches a dead end in the west passage and returns to the tower.
Night of 17th/18th: Stupid the orc gardener wakes Alax up and warns him of movement in the woods, approximately 50 orcs try to attack the tower but approx. 3/4th's of them were killed by Astra and the remaining number retreat after burning out the front door, Raymond was badly wounded, Alax and Edmund stay on guard the rest of the night;
18th: after breakfast, Alax and Edmund go to bed after breakfast and leave Sue and Morgan to stand guard.

[Orcs worth 750XP ea, according to DM on 20031101]

20031025 13 Ches 1379, start of day 17 ches 1379, daytime 13th: In Hullack, travelling pilgrims devoted to Ao stone Alysan to death for being a single mother, Jullian has the leader and two others executed for the crime and banishes the other pilgrims, Jullian has difficulty getting Alysan resurrected Jergal is trying to prevent any until those with unnatural lifespans have passed on, Flonna manages to resurrect Alysan after a couple of attempts, the group finds no other passage to an exit from the necropolis after a good search so Astra and Morgan teleport them back to the tower, Roderic brings his family to the inn that night for Rashan's birthday;
14th-15th: days of rest
16th: the group takes the west passage from the circular cave to find more dwarven works and fight an illithid

[450XP ea]

;
17th: group goes down west passage again to explore further and fight an umber hulk

[450XP ea., given on 20031101]

and a roper

[861XP ea.]

20031024 6 Ches 1379, evening 12 Ches 1379, end of day 6th: Lazarac visits the camp (he serves Mystra as a divine messenger now) to tell Astra she must gather the bones of the one sacrificed here (a priestess) before to release the spirit of a paladin;
7th-11th: The group explores most of the rest of the necropolis, a ghost tries to attack Astra on the night of the 11th/12th;
12th: the group fights skeletons and another ghost before finishing the task of putting the skeleton of the sacrificed priestess together.

[1500 XP awarded for everything in necropolis]

20031018 5 Ches 1379, evening 6 Ches 1379, evening 5th: The group takes the north passage from the circular chamber, they fall down a long shaft to a crystalline room glowing with purple energy, they find a necropolis of Jergal that appeared to have been used by Shar for sacrifices, Astra recognizes the palace in the necropolis from her nightmare of Morgan being sacrificed before her, ghosts attack them as they attempt to clear the palace of restless souls, they camp for the evening;
20031017 4 Ches 1379, morning 5 Ches 1379, evening 4th: Jullian nurses Cameal for the first time and warns Sue and Alax to expect the two orc servants of Astra's tower;
5th: Astra and group go to tower settle in then spend the day patrolling the path to the underground lake, Tess sees Daniel Tanner with another woman again, Henric confronts Daniel and Daniel says it's no big deal, Henric tells him to tell Kat, Daniel tells Kat at dinner and leaves her, Henric comforts Kat;
20031011 2 Ches 1379, start of day 4 Ches 1379, morning 2nd: Astra Raymond and Morgan visit Tower Lazarac to see how it wintered and find that the Waterdeep area had a mild winter unlike Cormyr, they return to the palace for dinner, Astra learns that a war wizard has been watching over her and thinks Raymond is a 'dud', Morgan has a chaperoned evening out with a Saerloon nobleman's son and she enjoyed the evening;
3rd: Raymond does Astra orally for the first time, Astra gives Willis and Edmund notice to be ready to adventure soon then talks to Jullian about oral sex, Tess sees Daniel Tanner leaving an inn room with a female Purple Dragon and she finds evidence of sexual activity in the room, Tess and Henric decide not to tell Kat for now, at bedtime Astra tries out what she learned on Raymond and it was good;
4th: Astra and Raymond discuss the impact on them when Morgan starts being with men;
20031010 1 Ches 1379, start of day 1 Ches 1379, end of day 1st: Astra and Morgan go to visit Jullian, Jarisha stops by to loan Sue some scrolls and stays to talk with Jullain, Alynna stops Naladar from fighting with Blue over food.
20031004 2 Hammer 1379, morning 30 Alturiak 1379, end of day

[DM awards 300XP to Astra Raymond Morgan and Willis for otyugh on 20030919]


2nd: Alynna talks Izak out of wanting Laspeera's head;
4th: Laspeera reports that all war wizards are re-geased, Alynna and Elron and their famiies return to their homes, Astra and Morgan start copying the books in the library that are falling apart to preserve the knowledge;
The rest of Hammer is peaceful except for the snowstorms maintaining 4' of snowcover in Hullack;
Midwinter: the High Festival of Winter is held in the palace, a gathering of all the lords, the Tallman and Obarskyr families have a good time, Jullian talks Malcom into releasing Alax as a Knight Errant from the 1st of Ches until the start of next winter, late at night the roof above Alax's bed starts leaking and the roof groans from the weight of the snow, Alax takes his family downstairs and gets a war wizard to melt the snow off his roof before it collapses;
1st Alturiak: Alax gets a new mattress and accessories for the bed;
10th: Callia gives birth;
11th: Gwynn and Heather give birth;
12th: Tess gives birth;
14th: Tallia gives birth;
15th: Tanja gives birth;
16th: Maddie gives birth;
17th: Mellisa gives birth;
19th: Valia gives birth;
30th: After a long and difficult labor, Jullian gives birth to an 11-pound Tauivae.
20031003 1 Nightal 1378, start of day 2 Hammer 1379, morning Nightal 1378: The month goes peacefully and uneventfully, except for heavy snowstorms;
1 Hammer 1379: Storm delivers her baby and names her Rashala, Astra and Morgan have finished cataloging the catacombs library, Astra is attacked by war wizard in the catacombs library, Laspeera had previously un-geased some war wizards and now sees the mistake and gives orders to re-geas them, Alynna and Elron and their families move to the palace temporarily to protect Izak from possible rogue war wizards until the situation is resolved;
2nd: Alynna tells Izak what the fuss was about the previous day, Izak wants Laspeera's head.
20030927 25 Marpenoth 1378, start of day Feast of the Moon 1378, end of day 25 Marp: Izak lets Astra and Morgan explore an ancient and list war wizard library in the catacombs under the palace, Alynna brings Alycia to the temple and begins her apprenticeship;
23 Uktar: Adeara's baby is well over due and Alynna induces labor;
24th: Adeara gives birth to a 13 pound boy after 17 hours of labor, Jullian is leaking a bit of fluid and is confined to bed, Alax is relieved of duty so he can help tend to Jullian;
27th: Alax takes Jullian home to Hullack from the palace;
28th: Roderic tells Alynna that Jewel might be ready to return and forgive, Alynna sets up a family gathering for the Feast of the Moon, Lady Flonna heals Jullian's leak;
Feast of the Moon: the combined Obarskyr and Tallman families have dinner at Henric's inn, Roderic and Jewel make peace with Elron, a good time is had by all.
20030926 24 Marpenoth 1378, start of day 24 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 24th: Alycia asks to apprentice wizardry under Alynna, Roderic and Annaria agree, Alynna agrees as well after discussing it with Lady Flonna then Alycia herself, Jewel still shows signs of hatred for Elron and Roderic talks with her, that evening Astra asks when Sue's going adventuring again, and Jullian and Sue suggest she should relax for the winter;
20030920 22 Marpenoth 1378, morning 23 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 22nd: Damian teaches Alynna the Menarian trick for innate teleporting without a spell, they go bring Raymond back to Hullack, Mystra visits with Morgan and Astra for a bit, Edmund begins spending most of his time at home with Adeara, at Adeara's request he brings home two puppies (with a bit of wolf in them) as pets, Edmund gets Alynna to visit Adeara while he's gone, Alynna walks past a dragon patrol just as one of the dragons is struck with an arrow, Alynna tends him (Blade Halmar) while the others go into the forest after the assailant, when they don't come back Alynna and Halmar investigate and find the other dragons dead and the assassins gone, Alynna uses a speak with dead to find out it was four Zhent assassins, Sir Brian and Daniel go into the forest to track down the assassins, Alynna tells Izak about the incident and Izak brings much of his family to the palace for protection, the dinner at the palace is the first time in a long while that much of the family has been assembled, the family stays at the palace while Izak secretly spends the night in Hullack as bait for the Baneites;
23rd: the day goes somewhat normally, at dinner an assassing posing as a Dragon attempts to kill Izak in Hullack but is defeated, Alynna goes to heal his wound, dinner and the evening go well.
20030919 21 Marpenoth 1378, start of day 22 Marpenoth 1378, morning 21st: After oversleeping a bit, Astra Morgan Willis and Raymond enter the mines again, they find no drow but recent traces they had been there, they encounter and defeat on otyugh but Morgan is severely wounded, Astra teleports them back to tower to treat Morgan with potions, in Hullack that morning a Dragon is killed with an arrow bearing a message to return Bane's blackguard or face his wrath, Alax triples the guard on the house, the rangers call a halt to logging in the forest and Henric has to break up a gathering of discontented loggers, Alax discusses the situation of the Baneites with Izak, Axil Edmund and Kat go to talk to the treants, Alynna visits Rashan in the evening, Rashan gives birth to a son and Roderic names him Ragnar after his father;
22nd: Morgan's leg is severely infected so Astra takes her to Damian and Alynna, and Morgan is successfully treated.
20030913 13 Marpenoth 1378, start of day 20 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 13th: Suesan feels better today, Ian comes to visit Morgan and at first Morgan doesn't want to see him, Astra talks to Morgan then Morgan talks to Astra, Morgan meets Ian for dinner at the Stately Oak, Astra and Raymond have dinner there too but sit away from them, Ian had put an engagement ring in a piece of pie and it breaks one of Morgan's teeth, Morgan's tooth is healed, Ian takes back his proposal when Morgan refuses to stop adventuring, after dinner Damian checks on Sue again;
14th: The balor follower of Helm fights the Baneite he was seeking in Henric's inn before breakfast and captures him, the Baneite claims the Queen is Bane's blackguard but Alax has him taken to Rendel, Alax has Jullian heal the balor's wounds;
15th: Naladar tries to make mudpies for breakfast using Alynna's best china, Storm and Jenni visit and help Alynna clean up, Alynna discovers that Sara's friend Jaimie (a female Dragon) stayed the night;
16th-20th: Nothing out of the routine happens.
20030912 9 Marpenoth 1378, start of day 12 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 9th: Astra has a minor dispute with Sasha, after which Astra decides to put off the next adventuring trip until the 21st, Astra and Raymond have dinner at the inn that night with Willis and Sasha, Morgan finds a spell to cause an orgasm and uses it on herself while Astra's in the restaraunt, Morgan and Alynna talk and Morgan reveals intent to never marry and misunderstandings about the nature of love;
10th: Sue starts getting worse;
11th: Sue continues to get worse, Jullian prays for guidance then asks Damian and Alynna to help, Damian and Alynna find Sue has an infection and treat it;
12th: Damian returns to check on Sue and finds Jullian never slept, he insists she sleep, Alax tends to Sue after Damian leaves while Jullian sleeps;
20030906 5 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 8 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 5th: Jullian arranges constant 24-hour watch over Cameal
6th: after breakfast, Storm takes Alynna to the Falls of Tumbling Stars, Alynna talks with Rashan then finds Roderic in forest, Roderic agrees to take Jewel in, Roderic visits Cameal for a bit then goes to Suzail to talk with Izak and get Jewel and take her to the refuge, Alax gets assigned all of Jewel's former guards as trainers, Alax has lunch with Izak, Alax returns to Hullack early to visit Jenni and Elron, Alax forgives Elron and invites his family to the keep for dinner, Elron and Jullian talk after dinner;
8th: Storm and Alynna go shopping in Waterdeep during the morning to buy clothes and things then go to her farm for a picnic and frolic at the pond for their anniversary.
20030905 5 Marpenoth 1378 5 Marpenoth 1378, end of day 5th: Alax talks with Izak then takes Sue's parents Uller and Jalea to Hullack Keep, Izak visits to see Cameal and give her a silver rattle, a balor leading a group of high-powered adventurers comes into the inn and concerns Henric greatly but the balor causes no trouble, Alax hears and comes to talk to the balor, the balor turns out to be a worshipper of Helm who is after a Baneite priest creating undead, Alynna and Storm return home after it gets dark, Alynna visits Cameal, Jenni is killed by an unknown archer, Flonna resurrects Jenni, Edmund identifies the arrow as Jewel's, Alynna and Edmund track Jewel into the forest, Alynna scrys to find a Baneite trying to make a deal with Jewel, after Jewel returns Alynna and Edmund take her to Izak and inform him of what they learned, Izak has Jewel locked up until Roderic comes to get her, Alynna returns to Hullack to tell Elron & family what she learned, Alynna returns home.
20030830 5 Marpenoth 1378 5 Marpenoth 1378 5th: Alax tells Storm about Cameal's birth, and leaves to go tell Sue's parents Uller and Jalea.
20030829 1 Marpenoth 1378, late night 5 Marpenoth 1378 1st: Alax argues with wives about their joining him in battle;
3rd: Alynna wishes she could be with her sister when she delivers, Storm offers membership in the Harpers to her, Alynna accepts, Alynna and Storm visit with Khelben and Laeral, Alynna tells Khelben of the sword she made for Izak, Storm and Alynna return home to find that Jewel has had Elron arrested, Alynna goes to see Jewel having Elron whipped, Alynna gets Jewel to stop and get Alax to verify the events, Jewel releases Elron as a result;
4th: Alax tries to get Jewel to lighten up about Elron, Kat tells Alynna her horse's name is Shadow, Storm gives Alynna her harper pin;
5th: Alynna takes Storm to the tropical island they know of for a little frolic, Suesan has her baby prematurely and names it Cameal.
20030823 11 Eleint 1378, start of day 1 Marpenoth 1378, late night 11th: Alynna returns to clerical duties in temple, Morgan does a little shopping, talks to Alynna, then helps Astra identify items, Astra demonstrates new spells, Morgan and Astra do more shopping, right after lunch Alax catches Lionar Harbrine and trainee Jen Truesilver at it again and they claim to plan to marry, Malcom transfers Harbrine to High Horn;
12th: Alax gives Jen her punishment;
13th-20th: preparations for festival are made;
21th-30th: festival takes place and is mostly a good time for all, Harbrine's replacement is murdered, followed by 9 other lionars;
Higharvestide: the climax of the festival culminating in the evening ball in Suzail and everyone has great time, Alax is honored several times and is one of the three recipients of the three Thundersteel blades Durin made for Malcom, Durin is honored for his work;
1st: Alax is told that an ornrion in Suzail and that he should remain home and under guard for now, day passes well otherwise, late at night man in black comes to keep looking to kill Alax, Alax goes out to face him knowing it's his death, Jullian gets Elron to come help and with his help the murder is defeated.
20030822 8 Eleint 1378, late afternoon 10 Eleint 1378, end of day 8th: The group bathes and eats, Edmund and Willis patrol the town and find no trace of undead;
9th: Angelique is nicely recovering from vampirism, group leaves Hillmarch and starts back for home, group arrives in Masoner's Bridge at midday and stays there for the rest of the day;
10th: group sets out from Masoner's Bridge in morning and arrives in Hullack Town at end of day and their families are happy to see them return.
20030816 7 Eleint 1378, morning 8 Eleint 1378, late afternoon 7th: Willis is found at bottom of vertical shaft badly hurt and near death, Astra takes him back to Jullian who heals him then they return to group, Storm knows Wilf Tantric and likes him, the group moves on and kills one male Baneite then takes a female Baneite prisoner and stops her from sacrificing a male child, Morgan takes the child to Jullian for healing, group returns to surface with prisoner, the prisoner is taken to the town Herald for punishment and is stoned to death;
8th: The group returns to the mines to find no more trace of Baneites or undead, they return to surface at mid-afternoon, they visit Angelique and find her place to be much cleaner now, Damian has brought cure to her, group moves their camp to Angeliques where they can eat well and bathe.

[Adv. XP award for 20030815 and 20030816: 300 per character (except Jullian).]

20030815 6 Eleint 1378, evening 7 Eleint 1378, morning 6th: Astra talks with Raymond before bed;
7th: Morgan's mind was out-of-body and with Mystra for a bit, on the way down the mines Wilf Trantic teleports among them looking for a criminal, Wilf thinks it's Morgan at first but it's mistaken identity, Wilf uses wish spell to age Morgan the same as Astra, Willis is missing and presumed dead after facing a crypt thing alone, rest of group destroys crypt thing,
20030808 5 Eleint 1378, afternoon 6 Eleint 1378, evening

[Adv. XP award for 20030801 and 20030802: 1387 per charcter (except Jullian).]


5th: Alax spends the evening with Izak and other soldiers swapping war stories, Astra gets fitted for a dress for the ball then retires early, Willis visits Alynna then spends the evening with his wife;
6th: Rendel tells Alax all he learned from the Baneite priest including that the man in the coffin was the herald of the town, Alax confesses to Izak his responsibility for the man's death, Izak orders the entire group to come to him and he says Alax must have the man resurrected and pay what compensation the man wishes, the group teleports back to Hillmarch but leaves the brazier in the palace, the group recovers the body of the herald and Jullian uses the staff of life to resurrect him, the herald stays in the inn with Storm and Jullian, using the new information the group rescues 400 townsfolk.
20030802 4 Eleint 1378, late afternoon 5 Eleint 1378, afternoon 4th: Astra Morgan and Raymond visit Angelique and bring food back to inn, Morgan sees Alax and Jullian in a compromising position;
5th: Jullian and Morgan talk, then Astra leads group back to mines to defeat ghouls, they find a man sleeping in a coffin who they kill but discover it wasn't a vampire, Astra takes several old and valuable books about magic, they recover an artifact that opens a gateway to the abyss and take it back to Storm, they return the mines, they find a sacrificed young girl, they fight more zombies and recover

200gp

, they capture a cleric of bane, Alax Raymond and Astra take Baneite to Suzail for interrogation while rest of group returns to the inn.
20030801 4 Eleint 1378, morning 4 Eleint 1378, late afternoon

[Adv. XP Award for 20030712 and 20030725: 1200 per character (except Jullian).]


4th: Jewel takes a fall for Edmund, then party fights zombies then ghouls, the ghouls are too much for them so Astra and Morgan teleport all but Alax and Willis back to the inn while Alax and WIllis walk back,
20030726 3 Eleint 1378, near sunset 4 Eleint 1378, morning 3rd: The group returns to the inn, has dinner, and rests for the night.
4th: The group uses the second passage to enter the mines.
20030725 3 Eleint 1378, mid-morning 3 Eleint 1378, near sunset 3rd: The group clears the rest of the surface town, fights some ghouls, finds a second passage into the mines, finds one townsperson (Angelique) who turns out to be a vampire, Astra gets Damian to try to cure her affliction, group returns to inn.
20030712 1 Eleint 1378, mid-morning 3 Eleint 1378, mid-morning 1st: The group arrives in Masoner's Bridge well after dark and spend the night in the barracks of the keep there with the Dragons;
2nd: Alax orders the commander of the keep to build separate facilities for women then he leads the group onward, the group reaches Hillmarch at mid-afternoon, the group finds the Shovel of Sparkling Stones Inn and clears it of zombies and ghouls before the night falls;
3rd: Storm and Jullian stay at the inn and make holy water while the rest of the group explores the town, the group finds a temple and kills the ghouls there then has a creepy encounter with a robed man that is probably the enemy, the group heads back to the inn to check on Storm and Jullian and tell them of the encounter.
20030711 30 Eleasias 1378, evening 1 Eleint 1378, mid-morning

[Astra & group awarded 600XP for drow encounter in 20030704 session, 400XP to Alax for final battle with Shades.]


30th: The anniversary party ends at about 10pm when Alynna falls asleep, everyone goes home;
1st: Morgan visits Alynna for a brief chat, Edmund goes out with Axil to find a poacher and they catch him and bring him back, Jenni spends day with Alynna, Jewel goes to Hullack to discuss festival with Jullian and Sue, a large man thin man and woman come to inn looking for a Chosen and Henric directs them to Storm, Storm gathers the kids -- Alax, Jullian, Jewel, Edmund, Willis, Raymond, Astra, Morgan together for a mission to the mining town of Hillmarch which is suffering an infestation of undead, Alax gets written authorization from Izak to be absent from his training duties, Elron provides horses for most of the group, Kat tries to go with them but is refused and Alax puts her back in bed, the group heads out of town towards Masoner's Bridge.
20030705 29 Eleasias 1378, morning 30 Eleasias 1378, evening 29th: Henric and Daniel talk;
30th: Izak invites Alax to have breakfast then go hunting with him and Lord Malcom, Jewel arranges for her and Izak's wedding anniversary dinner at Henrics Inn, Jewel has Storm go invite Roderic to the dinner and he accepts, Jewel talks with Alynna, Jewel goes to invite rest of family, all of family except Astra's group have dinner on the inn's balcony and a good time is had by all.
20030704 29 Eleasias 1378, start of day 29 Eleasias 1378, morning 29th: Morgan and Willis are kidnapped from their bedrooms by Drow and taken down into the underdark, Astra feels Morgan's fear and she and Raymond pursue northward and downward past the mine and across an underground lake, Astra and Raymond kill several drow before crossing, then kill the remainder to rescue Morgan and Willis, Morgan is injured in the privates, Astra and group rest for remainder of day, Jenni spends the day with Alynna, Sue commissions stone towers to be built at the keep corners to replace the wooden ones with memorial scenes and inscriptions carved in them, Edmund visits Kat
20030628 27 Eleasias 1378, morning 28 Eleasias 1378, end of day 27th: Astra and group retrieve last two chests, Willis is killed by trap when opening first chest, Astra calls for Storm to bring Jullian and she does so, Jullian uses staff of life to bring Willis back, they count the coins

(5,000gp in each)

, Jullian is paid

2,000gp

for her serivce, Storm and Jullian get shown the tower, Kat does not get better so Henric takes her to Flonna, Flonna removes one tube and ovary then Henric takes Kat home, at end of day Alax talks briefly with Izak then uses portal to go home to his wives, Jullian ravishes Alax after dinner;
28th: Daniel Tanner returns and talks to Henric then Kat, Alax talks to Daniel, Alax takes new armor to Durin to adjust, Alax visits Kat, Alax goes to Suzail for work, Morgan went to Huntsilver mansion to visit Ian for day so Astra Raymond and Willis relax, Morgan returns for dinner, Alax returns to Hullack for dinner and spends evening with children and wives.
20030627 26 Eleasias 1378, morning 27 Eleasias 1378, morning 26th: Alax and Malcom talk of trainee Jen Truesilver, Jullian has her first bout of morning sickness, Jullian has Damian check her out to make sure nothing's wrong, Kat and Henric talk while she works out strenuously, Henric realizes Kat is in love with Edmund, Storm and Jenni come to visit Alynna, Storm spends the rest of the day and night with Alynna, late at night Alax is awakened by a drunk trainee Jen getting into his bed and he has her removed to the barracks;
27th: trainee Jen apologizes to Alax, Kat miscarries her baby and has one ovary and tube removed, Astra and group decide to get the last two chests from the room down in the mine.
20030621 25 Eleasias 1378, daytime 26 Eleasias 1378, morning 25th: Kat announced plans to have a dinner for the entire family, Kat goes to tell Durin of the dwarven tomb she and Edmund found in the mountains then to invite Jullian and family to dinner, Kat and Henric go hunting, Henric and Tess learn Kat is pregnant, Edmund spends day with Axil, the dinner at the inn goes well, Henric talks to Edmund about Kat and the journey, Morgan stayed up the entire previous night reading so Astra and group take it easy;
26th: Astra and group retrieve last 400 bars of mithral for 1200 total, some other smith wants to buy blanks of Thunder Steel which makes Durin suspicious, Durin has Henrym hide the blanks they have then takes the four finished swords to Malcom, Malcom promises a public presentation of 3 of the blades to the best officers of the war, Malcom reveals that portal to Hullack should be finished by end of day.
20030620 24 Eleasias, early evening 24 Eleasias, end of day 24th: after a hard day of work moving mithril ingots, Astra and Morgan are summonned to palace to see Izak, Jullian is summonned as well as the rest of Izak's sisters, Izak wants to reward Alynna for the sword and he and his sisters finally decide on a grand ball in the palace, Izak also arranged a date for Morgan with the young war wizard Ian Huntsilver, Izak's sisters are all upset with him for arranging the date without telling her first, Morgan ends up having a good time, at the end of the evening the sisters all return to their homes;
20030614 25 Eleasias'78, start (Kat & Ed)
23 Eleasias'78, start (Astra)
25 Eleasias'78, daytime (Kat & Ed)
24 Eleasias'78, end (Astra)
25th: Kat goes to see Alax but talks to Jullian and Sue; Kat learns that Daniel will be brought back, Kat asks Henric a question that makes henric wonder if Edmund did something to Kat, Edmund resumes seeing Axil to help tend the forest and learn bowmaking;
[backup to morning of 23rd for Astra]
23rd: Astra and group come to Hullack to visit with Alynna and family, Willis brings Sasha and Fashia to visit with Alynna too, they stay in Hullack for the night;
24th: Astra and group return to tower in mid-morning, and spend remainder of day getting two loads of mithril bars from the mines below into their new hidden treasure room (the four of them bring 270 2-lb. bars each trip for 560 bars total),
20030613 23 Eleasias 1378, morning 24 Eleasias 1378, end of day 23rd: Jullian is upset about Alax's new orders and that Alax and Sue seemed to ignore her feelings, Alax and wives spend the day together, after Alax leaves Izak summons Jullian and Sue to palace to find out Alax isn't being sent on patrol but is to be made a Purple Dragon Knight, the ceremony is done that makes Alax a Purple Dragon Knight, izak assigns Sir Alax to command the training facility in Suzail, at evening's end Alax goes to the training facility to find an instructor and recruit having sex on a desk, Alax stops it and orders the recruit Jen Truesilver to repeat the entire basic training course and gives instructor Lionar Hak a stern warning;
24th: Edmund and Kat leave the Thunder Gap garrison first thing in the morning, and arrive in Hullack at the end of the afternoon and are welcomed back.
20030607 21 Eleasias 1378, evening 23 Eleasias 1378, various 21st: Edmund and Kat arrive in Highmoon and stay the night in the Rising Moon inn, Morgan has the same dream Astra had and the dagger Morgan had destroyed reappears;
22nd: Astra and Morgan go to see Khelben and tell him of their dreams and the dagger, Khelben takes the dagger to be blessed and destroyed, Astra and Morgan get themselves blessed and curse removed at the Mystran temple in Waterdeep then return home to relax for the day, Edmund and Kat buy a pair of good riding horses in Highmoon then continue westward towards home, Kat reveals she has the gift to speak to animals, Alax finds Natan alive and talks with him, then has a family dinner at the Inn with his wives and Henric's family, Edmund and Kat arrive in the hamlet of Hallow Creek at the end of the day and camp there;
23rd: Edmund and Kat continue on and arrive at the Thunder Gap garrison at the end of the day and finally reenter Cormyr, Kat learns Daniel is dead, Edmund finds that the gear they left behind when escaping the Shades is still here and retrieves it, Alax goes to visit Izak and finds that Jewel won't let clerics heal him so she can keep him in bed for a while, Alax gets new orders from Izak to lead a patrol to Farsea, Alax talks to Lord Malcom to get the details and satisfy more knightly requirements, Malcom accepts Alax's examples of generosity selflessness and pride, leaving honor the only one Alax needs, Alax returns home to tell his wives he has a new mission and they are not happy.
20030606 21 Eleasias 1378, evening 22 Eleasias 1378, early afternoon 21st: Alax and Natan and wives finish walk then return home
22nd: A roc drops a rock on Alax's house right on the children's room and kills the nanny but the children weren't there; Jullian and Sue and children visit Alynna, Alax leaves to join Izak, Izak leads attack on the City of Shade itself, after a horrendous battle victory is achieved and the floating mountain is brought down, Alax and Edward died in the fight but were resurrected
20030531 20 Eleasias 1378, start of day 21 Eleasias 1378, evening

[Astra and group get 100XP for gray ooze in session 20030530]


20th: Astra and group mostly relax, Willis goes to Hullack to ask favor of Jullian and visit family while Astra Raymond and Morgan clear out shrine to Bhall except for altar, Willis also visits Durin and negotiates the sale of the mithril ingots to him then visits Alynna;
21st: Willis takes Jullian to Tower Lazarac to consecrate the abandoned shrine to Bhaal and remove the evil taint, Jullian is surprised to learn that the tower has two orc servants, Jullian returns to Hullack and Astra and group move their recovered treasure into the secret room, Sue visits around town then has lunch with Henric while Alax does his lordly work, Sue tells Alax of her visits and Alax unknowning offends Sue by talking down to her, Sue decides to leave Hullack on a pilgrimage to the largest Selunite temple, Sue tells Alax at dinner but the dispute is resolved only after giving Jullian great stress, Alax and wives take a moonlight walk and meet Natan and Hellen doing the same.
20030530 19 Eleasias 1378, evening 19 Eleasias 1378, end of day

[Edmund and Kat are given 600XP each for the goblins (20030523) and spiders (20030525) together; best itemized split is probably 200XP for goblins and 400XP for spiders]


19th: Alax is drunk when Jullian and Sue get back, Sue sleeps while Alax and Jullian share time together, Edmund and Kat have no problems up to arrival in Highmoon at the end of the 21st; before waking up Astra has a bad dream about sacrificing Morgan for Shar, after breakfast Morgan thanks Astra for a dagger Astra never gave her and that looks just like one in Astra's dream, Astra tells Morgan to destroy the dagger and it is done, Astra and group start exploring the Underdark under the tower, finding an abandoned shrine to Bhaal and an ancient dwarven fortress and mithril mine of Dunhey, recover some treasure (including 2 chests with gold and 200 2-lb. ingots of mithril) then quit for the day.
20030525 18 Eleasias 1378, morning 19 Eleasias 1378, evening 18th: Dalia visits in private with her father then returns to tell Astra that her father has married the Selunite priestess he was with and that she is going to go to Hullack to study to become a Selunite priestess herself, Astra wishes her well then returns with the others to the tower where they prepare for adventuring the next day, Edmund and Kat cross the river at the ferry then continue on, Edmund and Kat rescue a 5-year old boy from giant spiders and both get bit doing it;
19th: Dalia comes to see Jullian in Hullack and asks to become a priestess and Jullian agrees to train her, Edward returns to Hullack for a visit and spends time at the taproom then goes to see Alax, Edward relays new orders to Alax from Izak to reassign him to Izak's guard in a few days, Edward mentions to Alax that resurrections can be done without bodies, Alax goes to see High Watcher Horthon Scheel to get Natan raised with agreement to raise Danial later, Edward talks with Jullian, Jullian Sue and Dalia go to shrine to perform ceremony, Alax and Sir Brian get drunk together. Sue tires at end of ceremony.
20030524 16 Eleasias 1378, morning 18 Eleasias 1378, morning 16th: Astra talks with Chanra until Raymond wakes up, Astra learns that Raymond wrote of their intimate relationship to Chanra's brother and this angers her, the group returns to the tower, at the end of the day teamsters arrive with the furniture and they get it unloaded, Astra lets the teamsters sleep on the first floor, Astra and Raymond talk out their disagreement and make up;
17th: Astra and Morgan talk after breakfast, then look up recipes in the library and work together in the kitchen that day, Astra and group go to Hullack to visit family during the evening, Astra and Morgan visit with Alynna and Storm then Sara and Damian while Willis goes to his wife, Naladar is a handful, Xander and Erin are absent while staying with Alustriel, Sara says she will train to be a Mystran cleric and tells Astra she was raped but wouldn't say by whom, Alysan returns and talks briefly and mentions her pregnancy, Astra leaves with a sense that so much has changed it doesn't feel like home any more, Astra and group (less Willis) spend night in Astra's Hullack house, Raymond is more energetic then ever before;
18th: Astra and group have a good breakfast then go to Suzail to visit Dalia's home and find that Lord Jalisam has finally returned home
20030523 15 Eleasias 1378, morning 17 Eleasias 1378, evening 15th: Word comes to all lords that the Shades made a peace gesture and Izak turned them away, Alax has grown moody and depressed the past couple of days, late in evening Whitespot wakes Alax and wives up, Alax investigates and finds Adeara's been in a fight with a Dragon who was an old friend, Jullian tends to Adeara, in morning Astra and group relax in Silver Minotaur inn after coming back from finding kidnapper's lair and getting Willis healed, Willis sends male stripper to the ladies' room and gets Raymond drunk, Raymond is arrested after trying to pick pockets;
16th: Astra and group go to get Edmund out of jail and learns the female watchcaptain paid the fine and took him home the previous night, Astra goes to the watchcaptain's house and meets Chanra who was a childhood friend of Raymond's close enough to be a sister to him, Edmund and Kat reach southern edge of Cormanthor on the Yevin Trail by end of day;
17th: Edmund and Kat encounter a caravan being attacked by goblins and help drive them off, Edmund and Kat join the caravan for the day as it too is headed for the ferry crossing, at end of day they reach the ferry crossing the Ashaba, Jenni gives birth to her daughter while Jullian midwifes and Alynna watches, Jenni and Elron name her Abby, Elron goes to Henric's taproom to spread news and celebrate
20030517 13 Eleasias 1378, start of day 15 Eleasias 1378, morning 13th: Edmund and Kat leave Ashabenford on the Yevin Trail, Alax learns that the bodies of Natan and Daniel and the others who died in the forest can no longer be found because the animals got to them, at the end of the afternoon Alynna finishes the sword then has Storm take her Durin Damin and Henrym to Izak to present it to him, after the presentation Alynna is taken home to bed, Izak goes to see Alax and inform him of a promotion to constal but Alax declines it, [slight revise of events of 13th for Astra] in mid afternoon riders come visit Astra and ask for her help breaking a kidnap ring in Waterdeep, Astra and Morgan agree to help, the workmen finish their work on the tower;
14th: Astra group go to Waterdeep and get a room at the Silver Minotaur inn and prepare to go undercover as bait for the kidnappers, Astra discovers that Jamison the innkeeper remembers Roderic and Alynna and group fondly;
15th: Astra and Morgan are kidnapped and taken through the sewers to underground cells then separated, Astra pleads to be put back with her sister and is almost whipped for making a fuss before Willis rescues her, Astra and Willis then go to rescue Morgan, Willis is wounded, the group escapes to tell the authorities of where the kidnappers are then go get Willis some help
20030516 5 Eleasias 1378, end of day 12 Eleasias 1378, end of day 5th: Jullian tells Dragon to return to Thunderstone with replacement officer and request to Alax to return soonest;
6th: Dragon and officer start back to Thunderstone, Jullian and Sue go to shrine to check on it and pray, they spend day doing maintenance and prayer, at end of day dragon and officer arrive in Thunderstone and give Alax message, Alax spends evening relaxing in inn;
7th: Alax starts out for home escorted by five Dragons, Edmund and Kat are fired on by elves who think them bandits before they reach the edge of Cormanthor, Edmund and Kat retreat back northward, Alax arrives home and reports to Tanner, Tanner tells that Izak succeeded in retaking Thunder Gap and is on way back;
8th: Izak returns to Hullack town and tells that he lost 72 of his men, Izak's hand was wounded and infected so Jullian takes care of it, Edmund and Kat arrive back on the Moonsea Ride road and turn east toward Ashabenford;
12th: Edmund and Kat arrive at Ashabenford in mid-morning, Kat is ill then eats a lot, Edmund suspects she's pregnant and a priestess of Chauntea in the town confirms it, Kat has a nightmare during the night
20030510 30 Flamerule 1378, end of day 5 Eleasias 1378, end of day 30th: Edmund and Kat arrive in Shadowdale at end of day, see Lord Mourngrym and learn from him Hullack's been retaken, then get a room at the Old Skull;
Midsummer: Tanner tells Alax of the lady in black who almost broke the morale of the Dragons, Alax goes to talk with Izak, Alax takes Jullian to see the mess their home was left in by the occupiers, Alax and Jullian hear of a metal beast walking around Alynna's house and finds it is a golem Damian has guarding it, Jullian gets Damian to scry on Astra to make sure she's all right then gets Alax a bath, Jullian and Alax start cleanup of their home until dinner then have dinner with Izak at the inn, after dinner Alax and Jullian return to palace to spend time with family, Edmund and Kat enjoy Shadowdale's Midsummer festivities;
2nd: Henric arrives in Hullack town with the townsfolk and they reclaim their homes, Izak is helping put inn back in order, Alax reports to Malcom then spends time with family including Hellen and Adeara;
3rd: At end of day, Edmund and Kat learn from Lord Mourngrym's patrol that Shadow gap is still closed so they must return home through Thunder Gap;
4th: Edmund and Kat start out on trip home first thing in the morning, Alax and family return to Hullack then Alax leads force of 150 men to retake Thunderstone while Izak sets out with force to retake Thunder Gap, Alax arrives outside of Thunderstone at end of day;
5th: Alax attacks orc force in Thunderstone and discovers Lady in Black there, his attack almost fails but the Lady withdraws alone and Alax takes the town after losing 45 of his men (including all the officers), Alax sends rider back to Hullack for a officer to lead the men in Thunderstone when he returns to the keep, rider arrives in Hullack at end of day and tell Jullian of battle.
20030509 various Midsummer, morning 26th: Alax and Henric (both at the edge of the forest) separately receive word that all patrols are to return to base camp
28th: Alax arrives at base camp at end of day to learn all other forces had left to attack Hullack town in conjunction with the King's army, Henric arrives shortly after Alax, Alax tells Henric to keep his patrol at camp while Alax goes to Hullack town
29th: Alax arrives at Hullack town around early afternoon to discover the battle was already fought yesterday and no one was left on their feet - all were dead or incapacitated, Alax sends runner for help then patrol provides what help they can, Izak is found alive but with a number of serious wounds;
30th: Henric gets word of battle of Hullack town early in the morning and immediately sends clerics and four of his patrol and Tess goes as well, after several days of no news Jewel and Jullian have had enough and demand answers from the war wizards, the war wizards say they were forbidden from scrying by Izak as a security measure, Jewel overrides that order and demands a scrye, they discover the scene of the battle, Jullian gets the Royal Chaplain (the helmite Watcher Lamis) to organize Suzail's clerics to help, War Wizards teleport the clerics who begin tending the wounded, Jullian tends to Izak while Alax helps carry wounded and bury dead, Izak had 500 of his own forces along with almost all of the forces in Hullack against the Shades, Sir Brian is found alive but with infected wounds and is saved by clerics, Tess and the clerics from base camp arrive in Hullack town in town at the end of the day, Jullian watches over Izak through night while Alax sleeps with the men, at end of day the count is 350 wounded survivors for Cormyte forces and 50 wounded survivors for Shade forces;
Midsummer: Alax has breakfast visits Sir Brian then visits Izak
20030503 various 20 Flam 1378 (Alax)
21 Flam 1378 (Jullian)
22 Flam 1378 (Henric)
30 Flam 1378 (Edmund)
17th: Alax learns that Tanbrook Cormaeril was the war wizard and was one of the 4 killed and that the possibly escaping survivor was Swordcaptain Alisia Mull
18th: Alax learns the Shades are rebuilding the bridge at Masoner's Bridge;
19th: Alax learns that the thousand-man enemy force left Hullack from Masoner's Bridge after being delayed only one day, Brian Tanner returns from his patrol and Alax debriefs him, Henric engages an orc patrol that had 2 Shades with them and Lars was badly hurt, Henric decides to return to base camp, Izak tells Jullian and family in palace that he will go lead an army into battle tomorrow against an enemy force leaving Masoner's Bridge and heading for Immersea along the Immerflow, Edmund and Kat pass through desolate Sesserendale along the north bank of the Semberflow and camp a couple of miles into the forest of Cormanthor, Edmund and Kat both dream of being murdered and there are no sounds of night animals;
20th: Alax leaves on his own patrol first thing in the morning, Edmund and Kat encounter elves who let them continue on into the forest, the Battle of Sunset Hill is a victory for Cormyr with the enemy force being wiped out but Izak falls in battle; Izak is brought back to the palace where Jullian uses Alynna's staff of life to resurrect him, Izak announces he will push on to retake Masoner's Bridge but Jullian questions his haste, Henric arrives at base camp by the end of the day, he reports to Brian Tanner then prevents clerics from taking Lars' arm;
21st: Jullian and family receive word in palace that Izak retook Masoner's Bridge rather easily by adapting the tactic Alax used to open Arabel's gate, at end of day Edmund and Kat camp on shore of Sember Lake;
22nd: Henric leads another patrol after making certain Lars would live; Lars stays behind to finish healing;
25th: at end of day Edmund and Kat camp just inside northern edge of Cormanthor;
26th: Edmund and Kat leave Cormanthor and continue Northward;
30th: at end of day Edmund and Kat arrive in Shadowdale.
20030502 various various Astra:
13 Flamerule, end of day: sleep well after returning from day out
14 Flamerule: copy another spell into spellbook, workmen arrive at end of day
15 Flamerule: workmen begin work, month passes peacefully, time spent reading, walking in woods, several visits from Elron
30 Flamerule: work stops, workers return to Waterdeep for Midsummer festivities, Astra copies another spell into spellbook
1 Eleasias Workmen return at end of day
2 Eleasias Workmen resume working
13 Eleasias Dalia wakes Astra up and tries to seduce her on a bet with Willis, Astra declines the advance, Willis teases Astra at breakfast, workmen finish at noon and leave, group teleports to Waterdeep to arrange delivery of furniture then teleports to visit family
Alynna
13 Eleasias: finishes sword at about 4pm
Edmund:
15 Flamerule: enter higher mountains
16 Flamerule: pass highest point
17 Flamerule: by end of day come out of higher mountains
18 Flamerule: pass through foothills and reach edge of foothills by day's end, camp on bank of Semberflow
Alax:
16 Flamerule: Alax receives word that Daniel Tanner was killed in combat with Shades, Alax receives word that 1000-man army is no longer at the southern edge of the woods
17 Flamerule: Alax receives word that 1000-man army is headed northwest towards Masoner's Bridge, Alax has the idea of having wizards go to Masoner's Bridge and destroy the bridge to keep the enemy army contained, he plans to lead the small team himself and tries to get Durin to go along, Durin declines the mission and talks Alax out of leading it, Alax finds that the wizard and four dragons leave without him, Alax learns that the wizard was successful in dropping the bridge but 4 of 5 died in the doing of it.
20030426 11 Flamerule 1378, afternoon 13 Flamerule 1378, evening 11th: The group finishes putting away the supplies Willis and Dalia bought then relax the rest of the day, and add up the treasure found;
12th: Willis uses Astra's teleport ring again to get the rest of the supplies he and Dalia bought to the tower, other than that the group rests, Willis Astra and Morgan agree to go to Waterdeep the next day to conduct some business and visit Khelben;
13th: Astra Willis and Morgan use the ring to go to Waterdeep, they make arrangements with the builders guild to come work on the tower, then buy furniture potions and do other shopping, then visit Khelben, then visit several taverns before returning to the tower that evening.
20030425 11 Flamerule 1378, start of day 11 Flamerule 1378, afternoon

[600XP awarded to Astra, Raymond, Willis, Morgan, TyLee for 20030419]


Dalia spent previous night with Willis, Dalia and Astra talk, Willis borrows Astra's teleport ring and he and Dalia go for supplies, Astra identifies the rod as a Rod of Lordly Might and gives it to Raymond then examines the lich's spellbook, seven men come to the door wanting to see the knight, Astra tries to give a story for their presence but the men attack them, Astra gets away from the ones outside and leads most of them off away from the tower into the surrounding woods, Astra kills three of them before being captured herself, her captor breaks her fingers and she calls for Elron to help, one of the orcs helps her right before Elron arrives, with Elron's help they subdue the leader of the seven before he does something to Morgan in the tower, the leader is questions and he says he is Julls and an agent of Alustriel, Julls and his men were coming for the night and the fight was a mutual misunderstanding, Elron calls Alustrel there and the matter is settled peacefully, Willis and Dalia returned with some supplies too late for the fight but in time to see the resolution.
20030419 10 Flamerule 1378, start of day for Astra 10 Flamerule 1378, end of day for Astra [Rewind to 10th to pick up where Astra left off.]
Astra convinces Willis to come with them, the group (Astra, Raymond, Willis, Morgan, TyLee and Dalia) go to the knights tower to clear it out, they discover the lich of the knight's grandfather Lazarac, the lich was tricked into becoming that way and wants the group to end his existence, the group finds the talisman and destroys it after defeating a dozen quaggoths, Astra decides to make the tower their own, Astra discovers two pathetic orcs out back that were the servants of the knight.

[Edmund got 300XP for the orcs he and Kat killed in session 20030412]

20030418 15 Flamerule 1378, late night 15 Flamerule 1378, end of day Alynna asks Alysan to scrye for Malac, they discover Malac and several Shades are inside the palace heading for Izak's office to assassinate him, Alynna Storm and Qilue intervene and defeat the attempt and capture Malac, Alynna takes a tissue sample of Malac to use in wishing Alysan's baby to be his before Malac is taken away to be executed, Alynna talks with Izak for a bit, Alynna goes to talk with the other children in the palace, Alax talks with Jullian and Sue, Qilue takes Alax back to Hullack, Alynna and Storm find that Alysan left the palace to seek a cleric of Helm for judgement, Alynna convinces the cleric to leave it be then takes Alysan back to the palace, Storm uses the wish on her sword to make Alysan's baby genetically Malac's, Alynna and Storm go to the Moonshaes house and entertain themselves before Alynna begins work on the sword.
20030412 15 Flamerule 1378, morning 15 Flamerule 1379, late night 15th: Jullian and Sue accompany Qilue shopping in Suzail before Qilue returns whence she came, Jullian and Sue discover they have to be searched to get back into the palace, Jullian and Sue hear Malcom and Izak discussing a plan in Hullack that sets up Alax as bait and Jullian reluctantly approves it because she knows Alax would, Alax finds a new camp for his people with the aid of the drow and spends the day getting them moved and resettled, at noon Edmund and Kat discover a cave where they kill four orcs and a ghoul and discover a dwarven tomb that they leave undisturbed before moving on, at 6am Alynna finishes her spell research and spends the next 16 hours with Damian Storm and Naladar, Alynna and Storm go to the palace at about 10pm to visit family there, Alynna reverses the enhancement/reduction punishment she put on Sara and Alysan and learns that Alysan has been rther loose, Alysan reveals that she is prenant with Lord Cormaeril's child, Alynna and Storm worry about the effect of tying the Cormaeril house to the Royal Bloodline, Alynna comes up with the solition (with Alax's help), of declaring that Malic (the traitor to be executed once found) is the father.
20030411 13 Flamerule 1378, morning 15 Flamerule 1378, morning 13th: Jullian and Sue go to Hellen to tell her Natan is dead and comfort her, Edmund and Kat make it a little way into the mountains by days end and have a brief argument over Edmund's father, Alax sees three more patrols return with casualties similar to the ambush that killed Natan, Alax discusses the details with the remaining leaders of the four patrols and they devise a counter-counter-ambush strategy, the four patrols combine into one for this task and leave that evening, late at night Alax is awakened and pulled into the stone of the cave, Alax and the townsfolk are rescued by Drow from an impending Shade attack on the cave, the drow are good drow led by Qilue and Alax talks with her, Qilue tells Alax that Malac is the one who betrayed the location of the camp to the Shades;
14th: Edmund is awakened by a snake in his bedroll and ends up being bitten before he kills it, Kat treats the bite and she and Edmund rest where they're at that day, Izak talks to Jullian and Sue after breakfast and tells them the cave camp was burned out and Alax and the people cannot be found, Jullian and Sue spend the rest of the day in prayer and comfort with Hellen and Adeara after that, Edmund starts getting chilled in the evening, Alax and his people spend the day resting under the protection of Qilue's good drow;
15th: at the start of the morning, Qilue comes to tell Henric that the camp is gone but his family is safe, Edmund and Kat continue on into the mountains, Qilue comes to the Suzail palace to visit Jullian and Sue to tell them Alax is fine.
20030405 13 Flamerule 1378, start of day 13 Flamerule 1378, morning Edmund awakes Kat from a bad dream, Jewel takes Jullian and Sue out to see Alax first thing in the morning while war wizards deliver a few supplies, Alax and wives spend private time together than he has a report written up for Jewel to take back to Izak, Jewel Jullian and Sue return to Suzail.
20030404 12 Flamerule 1378, start of day 12 Flamerule 1378, end of day Alax is awakened by Tess and Tanja fighting with two Dragons who said unkind things about king and family, Alax breaks it up and learns from the two men that Natan was killed earlier in the morning when the Shades ambushed the ambushers, Edmund and Kat leave the forest and make it into the foothills of the Thunder Peaks, Kat talks about spending 4 years away from home adventuring but Edmund will have none of it, Edmund and Kat camp in the foothills with a panoramic view of the sunset over the forest, Laeral brings Alynna some of Khelben's research notes and they chat a bit.
20030329 11 Flamerule 1378 11 Flamerule 1378, end of day Malic fall into a nest of rats deeper in the cave and Alax goes to rescue him, they discover a new opening into the Underdark that Alax decides to put a guard on and not investigate further, Gareth wakes up to find Heather missing and goes to talk to Izak about it, Gareth and Izak learn that Laspeera and Heather planned an unauthorized mission against the City of Shade, Gareth uses a couple of teleports to bring them back before they do anything, Izak calls Alynna and she criticizes Laspeera and Heather on the foolish danger of their plan, Laspeera and Heather reveal someone told them the plan they followed and Alynna suspects he may not have been trying to help, Alynna calls Damian to help them with the algae they ingested as part of the plan, Laspeera and Heather are confined to the anti-magic field room in the tower until it passes out of their system, Gareth and Izak talk, Edmund and Kat continue on through the forest eastward.
20030315 9 Flamerule 1378 11 Flamerule 1378 9th: Astra and group rests for the day, Astra hears Durgan's son Malac (16) spreading rumors about Alynna and confronts him, Astra and Morgan end up using minor spells on him;
10th: Astra and group leave cave, Edmund and Kat heal Jarisha a bit with the potions, Jarisha walks with Kat and Edmund that day before camping, Alax and group returns to base camp by end of day, Alax reports to Tanner and gets reports of other teams actions, Malac shoots his mouth off to Alax and Alax puts him on privvy detail;
During te 8th-10th, Jullian learns Izak is writing off Hullack as lost and concentrates his efforts elsewhere, she and Sue perform Selunite services with Brice, spend time with Sue's parents (who have them sit and design necklaces for them), and otherwise do routine things;
11th: Alax stays in base camp while Tanner takes patrol out, Durgan returns with patrol and reports news of 1000-strong enemy army gathering in southern end of forest, Alax decides to divert some patrols south and attempt to disrupt supplies to prevent that army from moving out of forest, Alax discusses Malac with Durgan.
20030314 09 Flamerule 1378 10 Flamerule 1378 9th: Edmund and Kat head northwest towards town and the trebuchets, Alax decides to head his group back to base camp, late in the day Alax and group runs across a patrol of orcs led by 2 shades and kills them but lose another man;
10th: Henric sets out with his group back into the forest in the morning, Henric finds and slaughters a group of orcs only an hour out from camp, Edmund and Kat find that the town is full of Shades and orcs but manage to sneak in to take more supplies from the general store, Edmund finds the trebuchets to be abandoned and finds Jarisha crucified but barely alive, Edmund rescues her and carries her to near Damian's potion shops to take some healing potions.
20030308 08 Flamerule 1378 09 Flamerule 1378 8th: Heather won't tell Gareth specifically working on but she does confide she does not expect to live through it but that her death will not be in vain;
9th: Astra and group return in the predawn hours to find TyLee annoyed, Astra and group talk a bit before resting for the day, Henric and group return to base camp by end of day, Henric gets clerical help for Kat while Edmund reports to Sir Brian, Sir Brian says Kat has to leave as soon as she's healed, Edmund objects but is overruled, a cleric heals Kat, Henric goes to gather equipment for them, Kat says she will leave for good but Henric talks her out of it as best as he can.
20030307 07 Flamerule 1378 08 Flamerule 1378 7th: Astra suggests going to explore the dead knight's tower later, Astra and group take Midnight back to the base camp cave then take the sword to Mystra, they stay to talk with Mystra for about 6 hours in her plane (which is 1 3/4 days on Toril) then return to the cave in the pre-dawn hours of the 9th;
8th: Henric and group and Edmund and Kat start back to base camp and Henric carries Kat, Jullian listens while Izak and generals discuss strategy, Gareth is having an uneventful time except that Heather spends less time at home and pushes her own research off on Valia who is hard pressed to advance, Heather is reluctant to talk about what she's doing, Alax and his team take out an enemy patrol.
20030301 07 Flamerule 1378 07 Flamerule 1378 7th: Alax and his men kill three shades in Hullack Town and get cleanly away from the Shades' guards, the knight seeking to kill Midnight comes to Hullack Forest, and Astra and companions confront and defeat him.
20030228 05 Flamerule 1378, morning 07 Flamerule 1378 5th: Edmund catches up with Kat close to the end of the day, Edmund does what he can for her wounds, Edmund and Kat reach the Thunder Gap garrison at sundown to find that it is held by the Shades, Edmund and Kat are imprisoned, Edmund tells Storm of their predicament then does his best to tend to Kat's wounds, Storm tells Brian Tanner and he sends out a ranger to look for Alax, Alax and his patrol take out a small patrol of Shades in the evening;
6th: the ranger finds Alax in the morning and tells him of Edmund then Alax continues on with his patrol, Jullian hears from Izak that the Thunder Gap garrison has fallen and is worried because Izak can't send support, Kat is getting better, Kat and Edmund are told that they will be taken to serve at the City of Shade and Kat is expected to bear children then are left alone other than being fed dinner, Alax has an uneventful day, in the evening the ranger messenger finds Henric and tells him of Kat;
7th: Henric leads his team towards the Thunder Gap garrison and they kill an orc patrol on the way, Alax finds that a large group of workers is cleaning up Hullack Town, Edmund and Kat escape from the garrison and make their way into Hullack, in the evening Edmund and Kat meet up with Henric after Henric and team kills off an orc camp.
20030222 04 Flamerule 1378, morning 05 Flamerule 1378, morning 4th: Alax leads a small patrol out towards Hullack Road to find the returning cavalry patrol and the other group sent out to meet them, Izak tries to reassure Jullian, Jullian plans a formal palace dinner with Jewel then goes shopping for a new dress then socialized with courtiers in the palace, a couple of Dragons rudely escort Jullian to Lord Malcom who tells her that Alax is fine, Alax finds the patrol and learns that the Shades occupy and control Thunderstone so Hullack is truly cut off, Alax talks with Tanner briefly then gets some sleep, after the townsfolk get to the cave Durin and Goom set up a shop and talk, the formal dinner at the palace goes well;
5th: Alax is awakened to the news that Katarina is likely captured and the town is damaged but fixable, Alax tells Daniel and Henric of Katarina then they learn she's alive, Alax speaks with the Dragons militia and rangers then sends Edmund to Katarina to escort her to the border on her mission, a Dragon tries to get Astra to cook for them with the other women, Alax will go out with one of the Dragon teams while Tanner remains at the cave.
20030221 04 Flamerule 1378, morning 04 Flamerule 1378, morning The townsfolk, led by Alax, continue on towards a cave. Astra and Morgan talk while walking.
20030215 03 Flamerule 1378, start of day 04 Flamerule 1378, morning 3rd: Storm brings Raymond home after he returned the horses they rode yesterday, Alax sends the cavalry patrol south towards Thunderstone, Alax learns that Kat and Daniel Tanner were wed, Alax sees to the sanitary living conditions of the townsfolk camping within the keep, Kat leaves home and rides off on a courier mission to the Dales for Danial Tanner, at noon Alax goes on duty to guard Jewel, Alax suggests that Jewel be prepared to return to the Palace if an attack comes and she reluctantly agrees, Edmund gets very little sleep through the previous night and continues scouting during the day to see large numbers of Shade patrols starting 6 miles from town, Edmund finds a large clear-cut area with a thousand slave workers then another clearing with four huge stationary trebuchets under construction and near completion, Jarisha and Alysan come across him, Jarisha sends Edmund and Alysan home (separately) to report while she slows the Shades down;
4th: Edmund returns in the morning after 2 days & 2 nights with no rest to tell Alax and Sir Brian of the siege engines, Alysan never made it back, Alax and Brian decide to evacuate the town and engage in guerilla war tactics, Alax gets his wives and his sister to go to the Palace resigns as a guard then destroys the gate, Edmund cleans up while he has the chance, a Dragon visits Astra and family to tell them they must evacuate, Astra insists on finding Alysan first, Damian scrys and recovers Alysan who was stuck in the forest with a broken ankle, Naladar is difficult and Alynna has to come to get him to mind, Alynna refuses to get involved in the battle, Astra and family then pack some stuff and go down to the keep just as the bombardment starts, the bombardment first sends human bodies to splatter on impact, Alax heads everyone out of the keep and into the forest to the southeast, Alax watches as the bombardment changes from bodies to boulders,
20030214 01 Flamerule 1378, late afternoon 02 Flamerule 1378, end of day 1st: Alax has Sir Brian prepare a cavalry patrol for the next day;
2nd: One man comes back from a Dragon patrol towards Masoner's Bridge reporting that it has fallen to the Shades and that thousands of the enemy are spreading out from there, Alax sends Edmund out to scout, Astra has Storm take her group to Waterdeep where they start searching for the next gem fragment, Astra finds that the gem is outside of the city to the northwest and follows, at the end of the day they come upon a tower that has the gem inside, Astra introduces herself and the group to the owner who appears to be a knight, Astra negotiates with the man who reveals he has the gem but will not part with it, the man reveals he needs the gem to kill Midnight Obarskyr, Astra and group leave despite the man's attempt to force them to stay, Storm takes the girls home while Raymond tends to the horses they rode, Astra tells Midnight of the encounter and chooses to keep the group near her, Edmund is uncomfortable in the forest because he feels watched.
20030201 01 Flamerule 1378, late morning 01 Flamerule 1378, late afternoon 1st: After fending off Flonna's attempt to make her rest Astra takes group to Mystra to return gem, Mystra rewards them each with a gift, Astra warns Mystra that Sharites know of her gem and are pursuing it, Mystra tells them the next fragment is in Waterdeep and that they should go after it tomorrow after they've rested, then they return home to rest for the remainder of the day, after breakfast Alax learns that no patrols or ranger scouts have returned, Alax fears an attack so he mobilizes the able-bodied people of Hullack to be the Hullack Militia, Alax has Natan bring his wife and Edmund into the keep, Edmund senses the forest is too quiet and talks to Axil about it, then he checks on Alynna's house then Willis' before heading to the keep, Edmund sees soldiers digging pitch traps to burn the forest if the battle is lost and objects to Sir Brian, Henric and Garth are appointed leaders of the militia under Daniel, Henric discovers that Kat joined the Tallman Guard and slept with Daniel, Alax begins a tactical discussion with Sir Brian.
20030131 30 Kythorn 1378, evening 01 Flamerule 1378, late morning 30th: Alax has a good dinner with his guests, Sue hits Whitespot on the head when he won't stay off her roast;
1st: Astra and group search Delhi for the second gem fragment and discover it's moving, Dalia helps them track it and they discover that a Faerunian man (a Sharite) already took it, they catch him in an alley and confront him, the man wounds Astra then Raymond kills him and retrieves the gem, Morgan gets them back to Faerūn and Astra gets healed by Flonna.
20030125 30 Kythorn 1378, morning 30 Kythorn 1378, evening Alax and Swdcpt. Halis have breakfast with Izak and Jewel at Izak's insistence and talk, Astra gets up early but discovers that two men are robbing her sister's room after slipping a drug in their previous night's snack, Astra overcomes the men with a Sleep spell, after getting their things Astra and group leave hotel in town of Litokhoron to head up Mt. Olympus, Edmund spends day learning more from Axil, in the afternoon Alax invites Willis and family and Edmund and wife to dinner at his house then handles lordly business, by late afternoon Astra and group find the piece of Mystra's soul gem in a cave behind a small waterfall up in the mountain, the gem is guarded by Goom (a Faerun-native minotaur) who was put there by Mystra to guard it, Astra takes the gem and Goom back to Faerun, Astra leaves Goom with Lady Flonna then takes gem to Mystra, Mystra puts them directly in Delhi India on Earth, they find a hotel and get rooms for the night to rest.
20030124 28 Kythorn 1378, end of day 30 Kythorn 1378, morning 29th: Kat falls down the stairs drunk early in the morning and Henric puts her to bed, Henric finds the other tavern owner downstairs in the taproom drunk, Edmund seeks out Axil to learn bowyer/fletcher, Kat and the tavern owner get together again after breakfast to Henric's displeasure, Astra and group get some local currency then take a tour bus up to Mt. Olympus and take the whole day getting there, Kat is gone all day and comes back when Henric is closing up, Alax goes on duty at midnight and find his sister and her guards are gone for the palace, Alax goes there and meets up with them to start his shift, Jewel went there to get something in a wooden box and bring it back to Hullack but Alax never does learn what's in the box;
30th: Henric and Kat argue over Walth, the owner of the other tavern, but at Tess's insistence they make up.
20030117 28 Kythorn 1378, afternoon (Toril)
28 Kythorn 1378, early morning (Earth)
28 Kythorn 1378, end of day Alax gets his wound regenerated by the head Helmite cleric Senior Steeleye Horthon Scheel then sleeps until dinner, Astra and group sleep until early afternoon then go out and explore Athens and take another bearing on Mystra's gem to discover it is in the vicinity of Mount Olympus, Astra and group enjoys Athens' night life before returning to the hotel, Alax has Izak, Malcom and Sir Brian as dinner guests and Izak knights Alax for his role in the taking of Arabel, Malcom tells of the battle (Total of 3*(200+500)=2100 Cormytes, 600 dead & 500 wounded) then discuss concerns of another attack at Hullack, after dinner Alax and Izak discuss Edward and Willis then retire for the evening,
20030111 27 Kythorn 1378, morning 28 Kythorn 1378, afternoon (Toril)
28 Kythorn 1378, early morning (Earth)
27th:Alax gets his men drilling then sees Malcom to get two more war wizards and gets himself invited to dinner by Lady Rowina Marliir, Alax interrupts one of his lionars dallying with Jessica Marliir, Alax discusses his plan with the two new war wizards Malcom sent, Dalia's friend delivers the completed passports, Astra and group goes out to lunch then gets evening tickets to Athens via a stopover in Paris, Sue and Jullian talk more then pray for Alax, Durin talks with Damin and Tanja at lunch, Alax goes to dinner at the Marliir's tent where Jessica accuses him of raping her but under pressure admits the accusation is false, Alax's dinner goes nicely otherwise, after dinner Alax returns to camp to see Lionar Lexxar off with 31 men on the first part of his plan;
28th: Astra and group finally arrive in Athens in the early morning where they get rooms in a good hotel and rest from the trip, Alax leads the attack on Calantar's Gate of Arabel and succeeds in seizing and holding the gate for Malcom but is seriously wounded in the process, he is given nonmagical treatment then taken home to Hullack and Sue and Jullian who have him put to bed, Malcom then one of the war wizards visit Alax and tell him Arabel was retaken and most of his men lived but the three lionars died.
20030110 27 Kythorn 1378, start of day 27 Kythorn 1378, morning Astra and Raymond talk after waking up until Dalia's friend arrives, Astra doesn't like the friend's looks, they go get pictures taken, Alax gets up early to talk with Izak then gets teleported to meet Malcom and the army, Jullian and Sue talk of their worries then Edward comes to object to being left behind, Alax meets his two companies and finds he has a lot of work to do before attack tomorrow, Alax discusses his plans with the war wizards and officers.
20030104 25 Kythorn 1378, afternoon (Hullack)
25 Kythorn 1378, end of day (Earth)
26 Kythorn 1378, end of day 25th: Garth gives Malcom Izak's order and they have a chat, Kat informs Henric she's joined the Dragons, Eadric and Lars don't intend to follow her lead, Henric discovers his daughter was with two Dragon men, Edward was drafted back into the Dragons to Tanja's upset;
26th: Kat returns saying the Dragons rejected her because she was pregnant, Henric tries to talk her into keeping it, later on Henric sees her taking two Dragons to a room and heads them off and has another talk with her, Alax has a sword drill with some of the other royal guards, Kat comes to the keep through the portal at lunchtime after having had an abortion and sterilization, in Suzail, Alax takes her to his wives for healing, Jullian and Kat talk afterward before Kat returns to the inn, Kat tells Jullian she was with Rendel once, Kat doesn't go to dinner and Henric goes to Kat's room and talks with her to find out what happened, Alax's and Izak's families have dinner together and discuss the war, Izak promotes Alax to ornrion and reassigns him to command one element of attack on Arabel and has Edward be royal guard in Alax's place, Jullian and Sue give Alax a very nice night before he is due to leave in the morning, Astra and group had an uneventful day on Earth sight-seeing.
20030103 24 Kythorn 1378, evening 25 Kythorn 1378, afternoon (Hullack)
25 Kythorn 1378, end of day (Earth)
24th: Astra and group have dinner, see a movie, explore Miami then return to the hotel, Jullian uses her mother's staff to resurrect Gwynn, Alax goes on duty at midnight;
25th: Henric's inn is empty of guests, except for the locals that come to the restaraunt and taproom, Alax talks with Daniel about replacements for the guards, Gareth finds out his own forces are drafted and protests to Izak, Izak issues order that Gareth's men are to be taken as whole units and not split up and scattered among the dragons.

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