S1: Put to order E4: The red vial, or the blue vial?
Pink mist, scented of Valarian root, Lavander, and heavily of rot blanketed the farms surrounding the town of Haven, quickly encroaching upon its borders, encircling the town. Two nights the mist remained, on noon of the third day Alythal of the Forest, cursed with the triad of magic item, entered the town proper glowing. The mist engulfed the town, then disappeared.
A spirit creature, with large sunken eyes and a skeletal Jaw, claiming to be a demon entered the town center, untouchable, the demon taunted Alythal, holding an apparition of a young girl hostage, he attempted to coerce Alythal to use the curse and bring more Blight into the world. The camp fell under attack by creatures, who seemed unharmed by our strongest of attacks. A Priestess of Morpheus enters the town and banishes the creatures with her magics. The Demon confronts the Priestess and sets her aflame with ease.
After banishing the last of the dream creatures Morpheus himself visits the town, and blesses a few chosen who bow to him, and promises the camp protection, weakening the creatures.
Various citizens relax around the fire, recovering from the attack on the town center, when a group of fire elementals emerge from the fire and attack the surprised citizens. The the elementals strengthened by the fire are thwarted after Kaigen kicks out the fire. In an act of vengeance the elementals surround him and fell him. After the firey creatures are banished, Alythial comes upon Kaigen’s burnt and bleeding body. She debated openly with a group of villagers whether or not to use one of the cursed items in her possession to resurrect Kaigen, but while they debate it Kaigen Dies. Strangely he return in a swelling of pink mist a few minutes later with no memory of the underworld.
Late in the evening a large black mirror rises from the ground, seemingly made of highly polished obsidian. A few citizens stand in front of the mirror and see a vision of themselves. Julian see’s himself running a hospital to heal the sick, Tyriam appears riding a giant green dragon, and Kaigen sees himself standing on the skull of his ancestor, and basking in the favour of Hermes.
The large incorporeal bear ‘One Eye’ wanders into town, a few Paramishta citizens notice that over the incorporeal form of the bear floats an aged elf man. Ice wraiths fall upon the town, cowed by the fire they keep their distance from the campfire in the center of town. The towns warriors quickly fell the creatures, with the help of ‘One Eye’ . A panicked farmer enters the town warning that a huge ice wraith has risen from the water near his farm, and soon after the creature enters the town center, with the help of all the creature is slain.
A small party, Tyriam, Alythial and Marta follow ‘One Eye’ into the woods to investigate a way to remove the cursed items. A short time later the party returns, Alythial glowing with the blessing of Gaia and free of the curse. The necklace follows her into the town center and seemingly picks an new host at random, picking a newcomer to town Cyrus.
A party decides to head to the trading camp including Cyrus and a few others, while they walk a muck scroll from Marta’s pack begins to move and escapes forming into a creature composed of mud. Relatively harmless the creature is felled by the town guard with ease.
Outside of the trade camps, the demon stops Cyrus in his tracks, and confronts him, taunting him to give in and use the items, Cyrus antagonizes the demon, and insults him. The Iztofts are unwilling to deal with the party as the see the Demon following them, the leader of the clan only emerging from their vardo when Cyrus and the demon stay back. The party continues on to visit Farmer Bob, who through the use of a monocle can also see the demon. The Demon threaten’s Bob’s children, and easily bypasses the line of salt he lays down. Bob sends the party away, refusing to talk after threatening the Demon with containing it in an obsidian box.
The town is visited by the Master Mage of Destruction, Rufus. Soon after the town is also visited by a shabbily dressed man. The man has lost his memory, but remembers that he was searching for a Chalice. The citizens discuss with the mage Rufus if the chalice might be related to some of the strange goings on around in the land surrounding Haven. Summoning the priestess of Morpheus it is revealed that the Chalice that the beggar was searching for was stolen from the Temple of Morpheus, by the followers of Hades. The chalice is revealed to be the source of Morpheus’s Power.
Two strange kobolds attack the Town, both wielding weapons normally too large for their kind. Even with their massive weapons the Kobolds are easily felled, only to be revieved by a hidden Shaman. The Kobolds are chased from the city into a clearing, where the Chalice is sitting behind a magical barrier. The Shaman hides behind the barrier, and the Kobolds guard the barrier. Kaigan Chosen of Hermes, uses the gift bestowed upon him by his lord to open the barrier, and the chalice is retrieved and returned to the priestess of Morpheus. She reveals that if anyone else was to drink from the chalice they would sleep eternally.
A company of Mercenaries, the Steel Falcons, visits the town, and Bridgitte and Seth hire the mercenary Urlaf to confront the Demon for them. Urlaf turns out to be no match for the demon as he is felled in a firey explosion. The citizens unite and battle the creature, each impact seemingly affecting Cyrus. After a long and costly battle the citizens fell the demon, leaving a blighted patch on the ground where it died. Marta and Tyriam fell in battle, but both soon return, with no memory of the underworld.
A strange robed man visits the town, controlling a skeletal humanoid, seeming to be a necromancer, the stranger quickly grows bored with conversation and sets his skeletal bodyguard to test the mettle of the town’s warriors. Eventually the necromancer and Skeleton leave after proving their strength.
The Citizens awaken realizing that they had fallen into a deep slumber and had been dreaming for days. Tyriam reveals that he had discovered earlier that he was sleeping, and that is why the citizens that died did not die a true death.
Some time later the circle of blight begins to pulse, like a beating heart, and expands into a portal of sorts. The Robed Necromancer rises from the blighted patch, and summoned a host of blightlings who summoned more blightlings which fell upon the citizens in a mad babbling mob. The Necromancer used his strange powers to control Marta, and cause her to betray her allies, the blightlings tore into the citizens felling Tyriam and Seth before they were defeated, forcing the necromancer to retreat.
The beggar returns to the town and reveals that he is Morpheus in another form, and that he had been trapped in the dream by Hades, The citizens deduced that the robed necromancer was Hades himself. Morpheus confirmed that Hades was the source of Alura’s current woes. Morpheus granted the town a blessing, where the patch of blight was he created a divine circle to resurrect the dead.
Tyriam and Seth appeared in the circle, their bodies being knit back together. Tyriam having insulted the lord of the underworld in his brief time there.
