The Malachite Fortress

Previous Adventures:
*Gone in the Night
*Ghelve's Locks
*Vanishing in Jzadirune
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7-8 Rova 4703 AR (9/5-6/4703); Dagum Firebeard, Midnight, Nanther Oreal, Oreon Regalious III, Roedyn Branwyn, Senic Halmar, Tyrea Neylis, Vigore
==History==
Two-hundred feet below the gnomish enclave of Jzadirune lay the Malachite Fortress, a stronghold build by dwarves and gnomes to guard against incursions from the Darklands. When the gnomes abandoned Jzadirune, they left the dwarves to maintain the Malachite Fortress. Their leader, a righteous dwarven warrior named Zenith Splintershield, foolishly decided to wage a campaign against the Darklands not long after. He took his best fighting dwarves into the bowels of the world and was never seen again.
At some point, the Dromaar-troll, Kazmojen, came to the Malachite Fortress with a small force of hobgoblins. He spent over a year building his slave trade business, fortifying his hold on the Fortress, and cultivating a loyal clientele. In that time, he caught the attention of Z-arn K'yass who had operatives running an operation out of Kingfisher Hollow, controlling the underground slave trade in the region.
==Adventure Summary==
Again the heroes were forced to deal with ancient traps, automatons and the forces of Kazmojen, the new master the Malachite Fortress. There, they found the half-troll busily selling slaves to a durzagon (half-fiend duergar) client. Before the battle could conclude, a beholder appeared in the room, destroyed Kazmojen's troops, paid the heroes for their "trouble" then teleported one of the boys, Terrem, back to the Orphanage.
The other three children led the Keepers to where the bulk of the remaining unsold prisoners were held, but suddenly, an ambush by constructs concealed behind illusory walls put Midnight, Senic and Vigore down, disabled. Hopelessly, the others were forced to flee, leaving the three to their fate.
Returning the next morning, they found Midnight had stabilized Senic and methodically and painstakingly destroyed the constructs but Vigore was lost, he had been slain by the first few blows. They rescued the captive townsfolk from Kazmojen's hobgoblin henchmen, including Senic's sister, Jasmin, yet returned to Cauldron with heavy hearts, set to lay Vigore, the laughing, ever-joking, fighter to rest.
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Next Adventures:
*Rats in the Bathhouse
*The Eyes of Drakthar
*The Blue Duke
*The Flood Festival
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