User:Lhynard/Projects/Imago Deorum/Campaign outline/Summary 0

Dates
Hammer 1 – Hammer 3, 1372 DR

Summary
They track the hobgoblin into a goblin outpost and find a long tunnel in the back. The Janessar leader, Grim, recognizes the darker-skinned elves are not drow. He explains the goals of the Janessar and requests their aid in an ambush against slavers in exchange for horses with which to pursue the hobgoblin, which his men had spotted leaving the tunnel. That night, as they awaited her return, they investigated an alleged thieves' guild in the basement of the village bar. The others met with Vashti in a barn as agreed. She claims that the gem is not a star sapphire at all but a powerful magic gem covered in runes. They returned the potential genie bottle to her, and she returned Malick's gem. Convinced that whomever the hobgoblin worked for was rich, Vashti agrees to join them in investigating the matter further, before returning the gem to Malick. They head out for the town of Copper Hill in the foothills of the Marching Mountains, since that was the direction the hobgoblin seemed to have been heading. They locate a mages' enclave in the town dedicated to elemental magics. They learn their bottle may be an efreeti bottle. They also meet Aravilar Tarnruth, and elven fire elementalist, and "Lady Frost", a sorceress of wind and air. The latter is discovered to have been Vashti's mentor, and she agrees to contribute money towards raising her from the dead. Mythlos learns from Aravilar that his sword is indeed a moonblade, and he uses his magic to identify its powers, which are tied to the phases of the moon and can heal injuries. Mythlos performs a binding ritual in which the blade "tastes" his blood. The sword seems to accept Mythlos, but from this point on, he cannot be separated from the blade lest he die. Leokas learns from Lady Frost of how she met Vashti. Lady Frost also explains that Malick's gem is an omlar gem and covered in Dethek runes. Jayce arrives, and through the sale of loot from the slavers and the help of Lady Frost, they gather enough money to buy the scroll from the library. Feeling indebted to the party, Vashti says that she will travel to the town of Keltar in the south to see if any of her underworld contacts know of any strange hobgoblin activity in the region lately. She suggests that the others stay in Copper Hill to learn what they can from the mages' enclave or to travel to St. Faelar's Cloisters where a group of rangers could teach them further combat skills. She claims she will return in a tenday
 * Leokas, pursuing a hobgoblin thief who had stolen a star sapphire from Malick of Darromar, a wizard, encounters a small band of goblins in the Forest of Mir, and meets Belvin, who was traveling from the Chondalwood to Calimshan in search of a camel to be his spirit guide.
 * The two elves pursue the hobgoblin through an exceptionally large tunnel underneath the Marching Mountains. When they finally exit, they are mistaken for drow and arrested by a band of Janessar.
 * During the ambush, one of the slavers reveals herself to be a undercover roguish sorceress intent on freeing the slaves also. Upon hearing of the hobgoblin heading to the village of Baradin's Hill, she takes a horse and rides off. Mythlos and Jayce are among those rescued. The PCs agree to escort the freed slaves to the nearby village.
 * The PCs arrive at Baradin's Hill, where they discovered the decapitated body of the hobgoblin they had been pursuing in the house of a village couple he had slain. They learned that the monster had been slain by Vashti and that she now had Malick's gem. They confronted her; she refused to return the gem but agreed to talk with them more in the morning. She left a supposed genie bottle with them as her pledge that she would return in the morning.
 * Jayce confronted the members of the guild, but he failed to trick them. In response, they drugged him and escaped.
 * The next morning, Jayce remained ill in bed. Mythlos learns that his family sword may be a moonblade.
 * On the way to Copper Hill, the PCs (except for Jayce, who remains sick at Baradin's Hill) are ambushed by a band of goblins, and Vashti's skull is shattered by a lucky blow from a goblin's morning star. They debate using the genie bottle to wish her back to life but instead risk taking her body to Copper Hill in hopes of finding a powerful cleric there.
 * Jayce talks Atala, the stablehand, into giving him a pony and follows after the others.
 * The others arrive at Copper Hill, a tiny mining town of only three drudachs. They visit a temple of Anachtyr. No one there is powerful enough to raise Vashti, but a sacred library there does contain a scroll with such magic, if they can donate enough money to the church, they will be permitted to read from it.
 * Vashti is restored to life by Babar yn Amun el Ilmater, although she has lost her magical powers for a time.