The Dark Rider

Godsmouth Heresay: 5/27/21 - 6/20/21

Crown of the Kobold King: 6/27/21 - 7/15/21

The Dark Rider (custom): 7/22/21 - 11/1/21

Kaer Maga: 11/1/21 - 11/11/21

Players: Brent (The Witch, human wizard. Freed from statis in Runelord Shoshen's pyramid. At least that is what she claims.), Thorium90 (Gerri Quickhands, Halfing Monk.), Shawn (Demitri, elven cleric of Ketephys), Tharag (Half-orc sorceror)

Retired: Andy (Corrado Parattio, human fighter. Trying to find steady work as a leader of men to support his wife and child on the way.), Legend (Scamp, Human rogue. On the lam rogue, a botched job killed his sister.

Part 1: The Godsmouth Heresay

The party is hired by the church of Pharasma to explore a long-sealed level that lays below their Godsmouth Ossuary in Kaer Maga. They clear the level, learning that it was a tomb dedicated to the Runelords of ancient Thassilon. A library of stone tablets is sure to reveal more while staircases, a pit, and a mysterious stone obelisk whispering about a "Dark Rider" may lead to more adventure.

Part 2:Droskar's Consequence

High Priestess is not quite ready to move in the new level. She hires the PCs to do some research and to explore the other exits from the Runelords' Tombs. At the Runelords' Tombs, they find footsteps leading to a lower level. Following those they find the shop of a long dead smith named Droskar who worked for the Dark Rider. They also find a bunch of kids, kidnapped by the goblin snake from we-are-not-quite-sure-where.

Part 3: The Dark Rider

Using the Karzoug amulet the goblin snake had, they travel through the stone portal in the crypts to return the kidnapped children home. The find themselves in the tiny, strange fishing village of Bleakshore; surrounded by an untravelable tatzlwyrm forest; and the castle of The Dark Rider boding in the distance. The Witch has many troubling insights - she's been here before and she definitely knows the Dark Rider.

Kimi's (one of the kidnapped children) father, distraught at her disappearance, has attacked the Dark Rider. He's failed and been turned over to the druids. The PCs set out to rescue him and do. They learn he's been communicating with someone known as the Librarian and set out to find him.

The Librarian confirms that the Witch did indeed live her long ago. She was the head wizard for the Dark Rider and did many evil things. Through research and a magical time-traveling viewer, they learn that the Witch was manipulated by the succubus Wylala to fall in love with a local human. When her lover inevitably become a victim of the hunt, the Witch vowed to seek vengenance on the Dark Rider. They learned that she had created a potion that would temporarily negate the Dark Rider's immortality. Once it was created, Wylala took it and handed the Witch over to Shorsen. It was all a ploy to have a way to kill the Dark Rider if need be. Wylala and Shorsen were using the Dark Rider to spy on Karzoug.

Searching the Witch's old lab, they learn the formula for the potion and find the ingredients to re-make it. They do so, teleport into the Dark Rider's home, and kill the evil that has plagued the land for the last 10,000 years. The demi-plane winks out of existence and Bleakshore appears somewhere in Ustalav. Wylala, though defeated, simply travels back to Hell and will undoubtedly return at some point to seek her vengenance.

Part 4: Kaer Maga

High Priestess Delmiri of the Pharasma church is becoming a force within the city. With the PCs help, she hopes to grow and solidify that power.

First up is to rescue some dwarves that were sent to spy on a necromancer vampire in Ankar-te. The PCs go a little farther than expected and end up attacking the vampire and then buy and free all the slaves the vampire had wanted. Unknown to to the PCs, there is not just the one vampire in Ankar-te, there is an entire council of vampires. Delmiri tells them they'll never be safe in Kaer Maga if they don't deal with this, so they track down one of the vampire's servants hoping to find his lair.