Calendar

### 508th year since the Thaw

Oct 1st: Harvest festival. The party discovered the Temple of Saint Aelfthryth. The party met with the Privy Council and crashed at the Birch Row Manor

Oct 2nd: The party enjoyed breakfast at the Birch Row Manor and met Jottenheim and Braden Birch. They were ambushed after crossing the Valiant Bridge while traveling on the Northern March. The party arrived at the Red Charger Lodge and met Logan Hillflower and his mother, Angharad Hillflower. They also ran into Cladius Brigs, drill master at Beacon, and Hadid Al Zi, the ambassador from Nim't.

Oct 3rd: Sansarya discovered Al Zi and Brigs sneaking away in the dead of night. The party stopped for the night in Ríc Hathaoir for the night where they discovered a refugee camp full of Ol Gholon citizens. Merkorious pulled strings to get lodging at the Bandawax estate.

Oct 4th: The party set off north again. During the day they discovered a battle field being looted by goblins. They fought off the goblins and an Angheg and managed to avoid an ogre. In the evening, the party was ambushed by Lord Collingsley and Narcipious' Worgs. The party rested at a deserted farmhouse after dispatching plants and scarecrows who had come alive.

Oct 6th: The party finally arrived at Ol Gholon. They managed to outrun an orc ambush waiting for travelers to and from the city with the help of Lady Bride and the Last Battalion, escaping to Ghol's Throne. They party participated in a drinking contest which was won by Sansarya, Meagor, and Longbottom.

Oct 7th: The party visited city guard office, the Petrov-Pewter Academy, and the Pewter estate to take care of a few errands before heading out to the library.

Oct 8th: The party snuck out of the city in the dead of night, only to crash into an orc patrol and an orc expedition at the docks. Managing to defeat both parties of orcs, the group took a ship to the library. There they made it past three riddles offered by a Sphinx.

Oct 9th: After resting at the library, the party began researching a number of topics. They discovered that the Abeloth were a sworn enemy of the elves and were defeated by an effort led by Kalanthye, Diera, and Ohotian. Sylfir looked into information concerning mindflayers and revealed to the party that his former employer, Earl Mereck was in fact one. The party also discovered that the Eye of Drist was one of two components for an ancient magical staff that was used by Saint Aelfthryth to fight off the mindflayers. The party also learned the likely ingredients necessary to relieve the plague symptoms (White Echinacea, Honey, and Saint Ewing's Wort).

Oct 10th: The party left Merkorious at the library and headed back to Old Town to deliver the news to Lady Isabella Bride. The Captain of the Guard equipped the party with some of the armies best horses and pointed them in the direction of the the Abbey at Tula where they would be able to acquire ingredients. The party was intercepted by an bat riding orc messenger. Having dispatched the scout, the party discovered delivery orders of arms and armour from Earl Mereck's Best Coast trading company to the orc warlord Penda the Wise. The party turned around and headed to the Bargoliar Pass to intercept the shipment. They defeated a Nilbog warband and a dragon (with the help of a mysterious elf named Kilsworth). The party acquired vials of dragons blood.

Merkorious meanwhile met with the Queen of spiders, Araknid. There he learned that the sickness effecting Ol Gholon was a much wider problem and that Nim't was plotting a coup. Araknid teleported Merkorious to Tula where he discovered that the city villagers were effected by a zombification spell. Merkorious acquired the ingredients from a skeleton herbalist named Agatha, before promising to confront the crone Annis for her. On his way out of town, Merkorious ran into Elmair Sateen, who teleported Kilsworth over to him and teleported Merkorious back to the resting party.

Oct 11th: The party, not bothering to scout the pass ahead, blindly walked into the fortress (largely made up of a beached ship) manned by Hadid al Zi, Cladius Briggs, and the remainder of the ship crew. Having defeated the fortress defenders, the party buried the shipment by collapsing the cave it was located in.

Oct 13th: The party returned to Ol Gholon. The participated in a council meeting and volunteered to resolve the matters in Unova.

Oct 14th: The party left for Unova, stopping at Tula. They fought spiders and ghosts in the Hart Woods.

Oct 15th: The found a portal in the Woods that took them into Ohotian's demi-plane. After chatting with Ohotian, they used one of his portals to arrive at Unova.