Chronicles of the Consortium

Jorthan's narrative The Lizardmen arrive in their newly reconquered fortress and their Shamen patch us up as best they can. Our new little blue friend from another world explains his situation. His kind (he calls himself a Silume) are drawn through the dimensions to meet their destined mate and he had arrived in the Young Kingdoms, the nearest plane to his ultimate destination - apparently when the urge strikes, the male develops a kind of homing sense. Anyway, he was about to jump into the next and final plane when he was captured by a minor Pan Tang priest and sorcerer. Oremergrinroul (that's our new friend's name) reckoned the blackbeards would probably experiment upon him to try to discover the secret of his ability to travel between the planes. No doubt there would be extra spice added to this endeavour because the Silume are sacred to Lady Eequor of Chaos, sworn enemy of Pan Tang. He managed to escape by stealing a boat and heading off in this direction, and was the...

Bomilcar's Narrative We go down the stairs to the middle level of the Lizardmen's former home. According to the rather rough and ready map they gave us, we can either go straight towards the main area of the complex, or check behind us to make sure nothing nasty is lurking there. We choose the latter course, and indeed are relieved to find nothing that could come from behind. This does, though, show us how much care and attention the Sahuagin have been lavishing on the place - everywhere has dressed stone or tiles, and many of the rooms have nice beds of seaweed which will make fine resting places for weary fish men when the tide comes in and floods this central level. Many of the rooms have been massively enlarged, with others being built from scratch - this was obviously intended to become a full blown colony. We move forward, and find a large set of double doors, Destiny and Sir Blanque see a serious amount of witchery coming from behind those doors, and we hear somebody...

Bomilcar's narrative Sanbalet, the Priest of Straasha who was smuggling arms to a mysterious tribe of Lizard folk, leads us across southwestern Shazaar to meet them. We pass through a rather empty region bordering the Marshes of the Mist before going a little way into the marshes proper. We follow an old but still useable trackway to what was an abandoned fort, presumably built at one point by the new nation of Shazaar to keep an eye on the area. Now forgotten, it has been turned into a refuge by the Lizardmen; Destiny still thinks they are a devolved remnant on the once-mighty Hsaal, the 'Doomed Folk' of legend. The trip is mostly uneventful, the only threats coming from the rather unpleasant local wildlife. At one point a large constrictor snake grabs Sir Blanque's leg, but a combination of weapons slashes and then Destiny's water elemental persuades it to let go and slink off into the distance. For some reason the cover of the second of these three linked ...

...but I can't think of an appropriate title for last night's game session. This is because so many different things occurred! Bomilcar's narrative Destiny takes a closer look at the giant obelisk, and realises that its veins are almost exactly in alignment with the 'spokes' of the wheel, the runes traced across the surface of the amphitheatre in the mountains. She does a quick calculation, and works out that they will all match up perfectly at sunset three days from now. This creates a problem, in that there is no way Jorthan will be fit by then - it's going to take him weeks to recover from the wounds inflicted by the trolls. So we devise our dispositions and then settle down to wait. Jorthan will remain inside the mountain passages, hidden from sight. I will wait just inside the doorway, ready with my bow. The others will be scattered in hiding around the edges of the amphitheatre, taking advantage of the cover provided by various rockfalls that have taken...

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