Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Story Thus Far...

Our intreped explorers have found themselves amnesiac and only recently come to their senses in the strange castle of some wizard with whom they are allowed no contact. For weeks, they have been his "guests" without thinking much of it until now. They find themselves suddenly aware of their lack of memory, their strange surroundings, and their immenent danger.

So they band together to take the wizard's laboratory only to find that the old mage has died in the middle of some horrible rituals. He lived long enough to summon dire creatures from the underworld, but not long enough (alas) to control them. After defeating the wraiths, the characters decided to flee the now ruined and burning old tower and make for the nearest human settlement, as they descended the hill, the rains began.

By the time they had reached the bottom what began as a heavy shower had become a deluge from the sky. Creekbeds, swelled into rivers, and the thin ravines which the charcters were travelling down because of muddy slopes were quickly threatening to become flooded. Atop a slope, one of the more perceptive in the party spied a figure out in the rain, and beyond it, a cave!

Having climbed the horrible slope with the strong arms of Thorin, the party discovered the figure to be a strange statue of some aztec looking deity. Seeking refuge inside the cave, they are quickly met with the sound of some poor sould crying for help as a revolving door of stone turned at the end of the tunnel. Solving the room's riddle, the party ventured onward through a forgotten temple to a primordial.