So we tangled with the mind flares, and we won. It wasn’t an easy task and I really truly thought we were all going to die. These things turned our own brains against us. Some of us were feared and some of us turned against each other The fortunate thing about all of it is that we did manage to find her way back home. We found out that 40 years of past since we left. To me that’s not a big amount of time. It’s truly just a small drop in a big pond of water. But for humans, that’s a lot of time for them. Even for Usk it was a lot of time. The dwarf didn’t have much trouble with the time neither did the elf, but the good question is "what all has changed since we’ve been gone? " Several of the party members seemed pretty upset at the fact that time had past, but what they don’t understand, is that if they had gone to my world, they also whatever aged that time. So there is a silver-lining to all this.

Somehow, we have seemed to make it back home. Who knew that partying up with this group would be able to get me back home. Now, the question is, do I stick around with them and help them in their endeavors, or do I part ways and try to get back to my town. A lot of things seem to have changed, and there’s no telling how much time has passed while we were trapped in a different realm. I suppose for now, I will be staying with them. I highly doubt the fucker that sent me away is still alive. If this group and myself could stop a Mind Flayer and a giant brain, there’s no telling what we can accomplish together.

We are home. After the fight with the brain, a little rest is in order. Now what will we do? 40 years have past while we were gone. Wonder if anyone I know is still around. I guess we are rich now. Maybe something will come along to keep us busy for awhile. Maybe we can go in search of Gallen’s lost home. But for now a bath and food.

Right after the seven foot Mind flayer spoke to us, we initiated combat with the creature and the large brain in the pool of what I hope to water. Right as we started to strike the Mind flayer, two beholders appeared from behind the brain to start assisting the seven foot monster in the fight. It took us a bit of time to figure out that the Mind flayer casted some kind of magic wall to stop anything physical from going past it, so we got close to it and waited for it to attack us when the wall went down. I tried to stay near my companions, since I could feel the psychic powers of the Mind flayer and the brain attempting to crawl into our minds. My Aura of Protection would assist in stopping anything happening, as long as everyone stayed about ten feet within range of me. Sadly, almost everything went to shit after the Mind flayer mind blasted everyone, hurting everyone in the group. Pup saw a hog tied and nude Tiefling in the very corner of the large room, but it was blocked by the mind flayer. After a minute, when everyone was starting to get more banged up, Pup went to the Tiefling to go set them loose. He immediately went to his pile of loot and gear to get a pan flute out, and summoned a cloud of daggers in front of the large brain. Pup tried to get the Bard to stay within five feet of the big brain to attack it harder. Suddenly, I was moved across the room. I made my way back to the front of the brain to fight the other two beholders, but I went for the Mind flayer first. I threw both of my javelins into the Mind flayer, dealing quite a bit of damage to it. Usk moved up to me to try and heal me, since I was really banged up. He only got in the line of fire, since he was targeted by the Mind flayer, who knocked him unconscious and was about to start extracting Usk’s brain, so he can eat it. Luckily, the seven foot tall Mind flayer dropped to the ground, dead. Someone had killed it, but my focus was already on the two Beholders and the giant brain. Looking into the Beholder’s eye shot fear through my body. I don’t know why, but I assumed it was magic that caused the fear. Another thing was, was that I couldn’t move! I used my axe to slay one beholder, but I missed. I used my next swing to finish the job. I started to reach my hand to myself to cast lay on hands, but I was already knocked unconscious. When I woke up, the brain had disappeared, and the second Beholder was slain. We met up with the Tiefling, who hadn’t actually introduced himself yet. We noticed a light coming from behind the Tiefling, who WAS unconscious directly behind the giant brain. We opened the door and saw a dusty room with multiple chests, and a couple of treasures. I wasn’t too terribly interested in the ashen staff that I saw, but I was most interested in the Ring and the Belt. The Tiefling used Identify on the treasures, which were indeed magic, since Ari had put everything we found in the center of the room and casted detect magic. The magic carpet was a flying carpet, which could hold up to 200lbs before having to move more slowly. The Belt was a belt that enhanced the strength of the wearer. The Ring was a regeneration ring. The Staff could cast magic for an amount of charges, and would recharge on it’s own. We divided the gold and platinum up, and gave the treasures to whomever we seemed most fit to take. The Ashen staff could only go to a Wizard or Storm sorceress, and went to Medivh, since Iyhia already had a magic sword. The Ring went to Dra’kun, since he would most likely be in the front lines most of the time. I kind of wanted it, but I understood why it would go to him though, since he’s way more of a tank than I am. The carpet went to Ari, since could now be able to move faster to reach her companions and heal them more easily. And finally, the Belt. The Belt went to me, since I could do with a better strength, to even be able to compete with the large Goliath. We all rested, and then went to go have a chat with the Mole, or Worm, whichever his nickname is. Iyhia had Cuscus go follow his scent, after we made it past the closed doors behind us. I picked five more mushrooms up from the cave, just in case they were a tasty treat… Anyways, we made it to the Worm, and he was climbing a ladder. Iyhia used her diplomatic skills to charm the gnome, and made him climb down, after short dialogue, we got him to show us a way to go home. He explained to us that there was a tavern with a portal back to Faerun. We had him take us to there. Worm talked nonsense about making a shiny boat to go sail the stars. He offered to take us on a ride when he invented it. Iyhia said no, but I kind of wanted to see about the shiny boat that would sail the stars. Maybe some other time, then. We went into the Tavern, and paid our five hundred gold each to go to Faerun. The portal led to the City of Neverwinter, and when we saw the first person there, Dra’kun decided to ask what year it was. When we left, the year was 1489. The man replied with: “It’s 1531.” We traveled into the future?! I wonder if I can still get my castle? We all decided to go to Llira’s Blessings, and we all got a room. Iyhia and Buckman got their own room, which I assume was the most nice one they could get. It was only two gold per day. The luxary room had a very comfy room, and a bathroom. I decided to take that offer, and took the first bath in what seems to be a long time, since we apparently time traveled to the future. The thought hurt my head, since I added another 42 years to my life in this realm? I could be called 102 years old now, but I’m only a young adult Dwarf, by Dwarven standards. We all decided to have some down time to decide what we’ll do now. I want to go find my castle, and start my kingdom. I know it will be great, as long as I use my investment correctly toward the castle. Perhaps I’ll start a church, and train Paladins to help rid the realm, and other realms of evil. I’ll have to start somewhere. Randal Buckman was supposed to help me, according to Raven Moonstar. I’ll have to pay him a visit sometime, since it’s been 42 years since he’s seen me, even though it’s been less than a year for me seeing him. I plan on getting rid of the “Shadow” cloak, getting Plate armor, and doing a bit of research with Buckman to see if we can find my castle, since he is supposed to help me. Of course, I’ll have to do a bit more research on politics, economics, and other things that a kingdom needs to start with.

This adventure seems to be getting a bit on the weird side for me. We all had agreed to go after a gnome nicked named “the worm”. At least I can’t completely be blamed for this part of our trek. We found the little runt hiding deep in a cave harvesting hallucinogenic mushrooms and managed to get us all to gather some for him. It wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t of tricked us. We followed his lead blindly in which he took us to a hallway. Upon us entering it he closed the door and I swear I heard him mutter something under his breath that had an undertone of betrayal. We continued only to find ourselves in an area with large creatures that hovered along the roofline of the enormous cavern we entered. They were about the size of a horse. They were red in color with one giant eye in the center surrounded by large tentacles that had tiny eyes at the tips. I don’t remember seeing any mouth on the creatures. I know it sounds odd but we knew we were being watched closely before we even discovered them. The fight ensued and I swear I felt them trying to get into my head. It was the oddest thing, not that they would find much of use in there beside cobwebs. After fighting and thinking we were done with these monsters, we then discovered yet another one even creepier. It looked like a brain and a creature stepped out from behind it that had long flowing tentacles where a mouth should be. This doesn’t look promising.

We turned down the necromancer to go and seek the worm. These cloaks smell horrid, but they seem necessary. Gouls seem to also inhabit the underground with the worm. After searching a while, we came into a large cavern with glowing mushrooms. Suddenly a head poked out of a hole in the wall. He seemed to be the one we were looking for. But his reality was different than ours, must be something to do with the mushrooms. We helped him by picking mushrooms for his experiments. Someone used a spell on him to stop his hallucinations. He knew of an exit and lead us to it. He lead us to a tunnel leading upward. As he closed the door he muttered something under his breath. Pup led the way up, and found a landing some sort of eyeball creature. After a short battle, we found that there were other creatures crawling along the ceiling. They looked like brains with legs. They apparently had some sort of telepathy, because something was trying to invade my thoughts. For such small things they were tough. They made a nice squish when they died. We walked up the terrace to a door. On the other side was some sort of creature with tentacles where its mouth should be.

After a long, long while of debating and checking all our other options, we have decided taking on the vampire lord would not be the route we were going to take. We finally found The Worm, and it turned out to be a bust. Not only have we been tricked, we have been lured away into a lair filled with all sorts of baddies. A Beholder, magic brains, and a Mind Flayer is all we have seen since being lured into this cavernous lair. This will be a rather interesting encounter. All that I can hope for is that we are all ready to take on whatever monstrosity comes our way.

We got to an individual who knew how to return Pup back to his normal self, instead of being a statue. We then quickly told Pup of our situation with the Necromancer and our choices of going back home. We then went to the priest who could take us to Iyia’s realm, but she informed us that was a bad idea, since we would all be affected with being sent through different time frames. We then got to the part of the conversation where the priest told us about going to another realm that’s apparently the center of the universe. I voted for that, but everyone else decided to go check out the Mole, a gnome who might know of a way to get back our realm. We sneaked our way into the tunnels where the ghouls and the Mole resided. We found some mushrooms, and Usk told us all that they were hallucinogenic mushrooms. I decided to casually pick some mushrooms. Before I could even pick any more than three mushrooms, a gnome appeared out from the mushrooms, acting very peculiar. I think he may have taken the mushrooms. I used lay on hands on the gnome, after we had engaged in conversation. We had to repeat what we said to him, after I had removed the effects of the mushrooms. We asked him how we could return back to our realm. He didn’t want to go back to our realm with us, since I guess he thought we were going to take him with us. We reassured the gnome that we only need instructions on how to get back to our realm. He sent us down a hallway, which was starting to get a bit weird, because I started to get a feeling we were being watched. Suddenly we saw a large eyeball in front of us, which we quickly dispersed of. Then, shortly after, little brain creatures started to attack us. They were brains with legs, but they tried to get inside of our minds. My Aura of Protection was able to assist everyone in stopping these tiny creatures from entering inside of our minds. We killed them all and continued our trek through the hallway, and we made it to a room with a giant room with a large brain inside of it. Before we could investigate, a seven foot creature with purple-ish skin and a face with tentacles coming out. “I see my minion did well in delivering me my food.” Was what came out of the creature.

Sigh It seems our kenku can’t seem to stay alive, as it seems an otherworldly sorceress has turned him to stone. sigh lets save his existence.

So it seems after much work and bargaining the best we can come up with on a bargain to get home is …… (wait for it ) … to kill one of the seven vampire lords. This is just getting better and better. Pup is a statue now and the rest of the group hates me because of us being here. I honestly don’t think we are geared and a well oiled fighting machine to be able to accomplish this task. I am not having any love for this necromancer at all right now. Half of our group wants to go after it and half of us are reserved on the subject I am trying to figure out if our other choices are better. We either go to the dark elves or down into some caves to hunt down a recluse. Choices choices. Not so good.

An unknown human came up and talked to us. Apparently he was sent here by accident. I feel like we are being hunted by someone or something powerful. We were attacked by some hounds and trolls. They seemed to know right where we were and ambushed us. It was a tough battle, especially the hag with pendulous breasts. We need to get out of this place. I feel we need to go after the vampire lord, but no one seems to agree.

Since when does teleporting to a different town lead to being teleported to another REALM?! This is ridiculous! If I find that man, I will get some sort of revenge. This is outrageous! Demonic-like land, zombies, undead, vampires, and dark elves?! Something that flies through the air, killing people, known as the Dark Mantle!? Okay, okay… I need to calm down. I might just be overreac… I’M IN THE DEEPEST, DARKEST PITS I’VE EVER SEEN! I AM MOST CERTAINLY NOT OVERREACTING! At least I met some other adventurers that seem like they… know what they’re doing? Although, I don’t know really what to think about them just yet. One of them has yet to say a single other word to me aside from “asshole”, one wouldn’t introduce himself to me, and one, who I believe is apparently to blame for all the hardships going on in that group, has a weird obsession with humans… Oh, how I want to be home right now. I think this teleportation has done something to me, though. My spells don’t seem to work as they had before. They seem a lot weaker (and it certainly isn’t my dice deciding to roll horribly — shaming). Regardless of which, I must keep moving on. It would seem we will have to complete some sort of favor for someone before we can even think twice about getting back home.

As soon as we made our way out of the inn, we met a tall human, who Iyhia was already starting to become interested in. I wasn’t too interested, because I just want to get the hell out of this eternal darkness. It’s difficult to tell how much time has passed by. The new human decided to join, since he was also lost, and was a part of our realm. We started to get a hint of where to go, because we went to an old ranger with one eye. We found him in a fighting pit, where people had to vote on which un-dead the ranger would kill first. Usk and Iyhia both sat a bet on whom the Ranger would kill first, and Usk won the bet after the Ranger killed the un-dead he had slain, which had technically gone down first. Ihyia’s un-dead had died first, but didn’t go down first, so Usk won. I didn’t really pay too much attention, since I just wanted to get out of this damn place. We met with the Ranger after he got out of the fighting ring and he told us about our options in which to go through with, and he was going to go to the Deadric elves. We decided that we’d rather take our chances with the Necromancer and the Tunneler. We took our map, and followed it. Suddenly, we started hearing for the Ranger calling for us. He had run to us, to warn us of something. He told us about someone coming to get Iyhia. I was really unsure of what to think of this, but then suddenly a rock flew in from right behind the Ranger’s head, popping his eyeballs out of his head. We suddenly had three wolves running to us, and we saw a Troll run off away from us. We started fighting the wolves, and a couple seconds later, more trolls had suddenly appeared! My guess is that they had used a lesser invisibility spell to sneak up close to us. We started to fight them all, but suddenly the female trolls started to seduce Pup with their breasts. I was busy fighting a wolf, so I didn’t really know what was happening. All I know is that Pup had suddenly gotten petrified into stone. We finished off the wolves and trolls, then considered our two options for Pup. Carry him, or leave him. It was a quick decision, and we decided to let the Colossus carry Pup. The rest of our travels went well with no interruption. We made it to our target city, and decided to look around. We met some sort of Skeleton Knight, who was riding on the scariest fucking horse I’ve ever seen. It’s called a Nightmare, I believe. We enganged in conversation with the skeleton, and he seemed to know too much about Iyhia. A little too much for my comfort. The knight told us that he could lead us to where the Necromancer was, so we took his offer and went with him to the Necromancer. The group made their way to the place where the Necromancer resided, and we went inside to meet with the person I doubted would be any use to us. We were served a kind of fish from another realm, apparently it was a delicacy of that realm, and I could tell why. The taste of the fish was wonderful, and I could only describe it as unworldly. I’ll have to go visit this realm that the fish comes from… Then the Necromancer came to meet us after we had a bit of time to eat and rest a bit. He was a Deadric Elf, which I almost didn’t expect. We had almost gone to the place of the elves in this realm, which reminded me of the Ranger’s death. We talked of how we’re supposed to get back to our own realm. Then the Deadric looked at us, and gave us a task, in which we would need to do if he were to send us back home. We had to kill one of the Vampire Lords of this realm. He left us to discuss what we would do, and I knew I feared that if we didn’t take out all of the vampires, they could find a way to our realm and kill us. I wanted to kill all of the Vampire Lords, but I knew that wouldn’t happen with this group. This group does not have the ability to take down SEVEN vampire lords. I almost doubt we could sneak into the first Vampire Lord’s compound to even kill him without going in being seen straight away. I’ll have to come back with a better group, or come back when we all grow as a team together to work this out. This will definitely assist in my conquest in becoming a lord for myself, and even get me my own castle. I’ll have to keep this to myself, since I don’t want the group to think I’ll run off to leave them behind, or even betray them to be greedy. Though I think there’s still plenty of options…

The fortress we found the dragon within housed on more secret, a portal to a world of perpetual darkness.

Well we are in a big mess. Iyhia found an entrance to a Dark World. We traveled quite a distance, and found a village, near a huge lake. Something called a crocodile inhabits the lake. Want to go out and find one to fight. Now we must find a way back to our world.

I have to admit sometimes I make good choices and bad choices. I have been questioning these choices more and more lately. Was it a bad choice to leave and come to learn about humans? I really haven’t had much time to learn about them with all my escapades. I feel like I have been severely distracted from my main mission. I still have a few centuries to play around here before I have to absolutely return home. I figure they are missing me, but not too much as of yet. Only one set of retrieval fae have come after me and been dispatched. Now I digress, back to the current issue at hand. I think this last decision was very very bad. I am not talking about saving the dragon. That actually turned out quiet well in my opinion. We found out that the dragon was quiet young and that it’s horde had been stolen by Dark Elves. That was the main reason it was hanging around the ruins, trying to get it’s horde back. The Dark Elves were slipping through small shadow portals to get to the area. I thought it would be grand if we investigated this further. That was part of the bad decision. Honestly, we should have just left it as it was and returned, but it didn’t happen that way. In fact it didn’t happen in a good way at all. That night we were attacked by creatures of shadow portals. We tracked it back to where they came in at and found the portal. I foolishly put my hand into the portal and that was all it took. The others followed suit and we were through it with no way to return back. We found ourselves in a realm of darkness. The grass was dead and there was only an eerie blue light shining in the distance. We began our travel there and encountered about 30 or more zombies in a horde coming at us from a dilapidated farmhouse that was next to the blue light. I watched as Ari raised her holy symbol and the entire horde fell into a pile of blazing ash. It was glorious. The farmhouse only had a zombie baby left in it and we had to eliminate it too. The baby was freshly made though, so it gave us some hope that something alive was in this realm. If not, we were in a lot of trouble. I just want to go home. Worst decision ever.

After the dragon awoke, we learned that it could speak the common tongue. We explained why we came here and why we killed the dragon’s friends. The dragon soon after explained that his gold and treasure was stolen while he was out hunting. It was stolen by Dark elves from another realm, which he warned us about. We should have taken that warning more seriously, because after resting and the dragon leaving, we ended up going through a portal into some sort of darkness. Though I had dark vision, Buckman, Pup, and Dra’kun did not have dark vision. This new area was different. We were now in a field of dead grass, and everything was black and grey, which I assumed to be what darkness looks like. We looked around, and then spotted figures coming from the distance. They got closer and closer, I used my Devine Sense to tell what the figures were. They were undead, so Ari used her Turn Undead, and ended up killing them all. We then saw a Farmhouse, which we ventured into. I was the first to the door. As I opened the door, I heard a cry from a baby? I turned to see if the others had heard the same thing, which they had. I searched the first floor, and Iyhia went up stairs with Pup, since the house was very frail and old with rotten wood. While I was down stairs, Iyhia came down stairs after supposedly putting down an undead baby, which was supposedly “freshly” made. We made our way out after that fiasco. There was a crystal outside that I presumed to be made by the Dwarves (My own race if you haven’t been paying attention) and it was most likely given to the people who live here as a gift of light. The crystal gives off light to near the farmhouse. After leaving on a road that we found nearby, we went into a thicket. When making our way through the thicket, I saw pairs of eyes watching us, and I knew we had to keep moving and get out of there. We made our way out and came to another open field, but there was also a lake nearby. We saw another light in the distance, perhaps a town? We went to the river to check if it was water we could drink. Usk decided to drink the water to test it for us, and told us it tasted different from normal water, but it should be fine to drink. I didn’t trust the water, so I waited for Ari to rest to be able to change out which spells she could use. She conjured food and water for us to eat and drink from. Usk wanted to use water walk to get across the water to the light, which we presumed was a town or settlement. Iyhia didn’t want to walk across the water, so we made out way around the lake to the light. When we made it there, we saw that it was indeed a town. We came to the entrance and looked up to the guards, and they gave us a fee to come inside of the town. We payed or fees and went inside of the town. The group made it’s way to the inn, which was a pretty sketchy place, all be it we were in a realm of Eternal Darkness. An imp came in suddenly from some sort of portal that came from right in the middle of the table that we all sat at. He took our orders, and I ended up just eating the rations Ari conjured up. He asked something to Ari and Iyhia, something about giving or receiving pain, to which they both replied with a no. I was a little bit proud of the two with their strong independence. Anyways, the imp mentioned something about a tailor coming over and giving us shadow cloaks of some sort. I thought they would be bad ass black capes that would hide us in the darkness from anything- but I was mislead by the name. The tailor came and told us about what the cloaks were made us. They were made of dead zombie skin, tanned to a dark color. The cloak was made to hide us from the undead with the smell from the material that makes the undead think you’re just like them. That was when we purchased them, not really feeling too comfortable with that, but it was a necessity to get past the damn undead. We made our way to our rooms and rested up for the upcoming events that were to unfold in the future.

Finally met a dragon. It was toug, but it went down. Now everyone wants to keep it alive.

So after everything we have been through I think this one idea has to be one of my most hair brained idea yet. We would have spared a small green dragon but I talked the group into not killing it. Crazy idea right??? I just felt that killing it wouldn’t feel right. We did invade its home and it had a right to defend it. I just hope I don’t regret this decision.

on our most recent adventure into a long forgotten Elvin stronghold we encountered creatures that looked like brains with a sharp beak and roving tentacles, they seemed to share residence with a green dragon who too resided within the crumbling ruins. in short we fought the beast but left it alive by order of the sorcerers in an attempt to calm the beast we shall see if this proves fruitful.