From ToEE

I love the diaries that everyone is keeping, however I'll also be keeping a regular track of time within the game. As such, this page aims to be a brief chronical of adventures.

The game starts on the first day of March, and of course seasons act as if they're in the southern hemisphere.

OOS = Out of Session

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1 March

Adventurers arrive in Hommlet, clean out the GoblinCaves, and return Jarrod's ring.

2 March

(OOS) Adventurers explore the village, discovering major services such as the MoneyChanger, HommletTradingPost, and HommletChurch.

3 March

(OOS) Adventurers enquire about the local happenings. Some talk of the increase in brigands and bandits is made, and a few of the older townsfolk mention that they feel the evil from the RuinedMoathouse may have returned.

4 March

(OOS) Adventurers make further enquiries regarding the RuinedMoathouse, and declare their intentions to form an expedition to the place. Further information on the ruins are gained, and a number of offers to join the party are made, which are detailed on HirelingsAvailable.

Adventurers discover that during some confusion in "disposing" of the goblin prisoners captured on 1st March, their leader escaped and literally ran for the hills.

5 March

Adventurers leave for the RuinedMoathouse. Paul gets chewed on by a frog. Ilona gets chewed on by giant rats. Ilona and Vladimir both catch awful diseases. Benjamin cures Vladimir of his disease. Party runs back to regroup.

6 March

Party leaves for RuinedMoathouse again. Steph Titwillow is killed by a giant centipede. Steph's wolf runs away. Grugg is diseased by a giant tick. Barrum is knocked out by a giant snake. The party obtains much loot and experience.

7 March

Party heads back to the RuinedMoathouse, and is attacked by giant frogs on the way, but without casualties. The party enters the cellars at the moathouse. Gara Duhl is dripped on by green slime, and while the party had the right idea (cover him in flaming oil), the slime enters his bloodstream too quickly and he is lost. Jason almost suffers a similar fate, but is saved by quick action by Vladimir; Jason is then decapitated a few minutes later by an ogre, which the party slays. A magical cloak is found in the ogre's bedding, and a trio of prisoners in a nearby room. The party also finds a number of zombies, and calling upon the blessings of StCuthbert succeed in destroying them all. A large peridot is found behind a loose brick on one of the rooms which had cotained zombies.

8 March

Grugg is magically cured and recovers from his disease, at the cost of only 1000 gp. Our adventurers head off to the AstegGnomeHalls.

9 March

Our adventurers arrive at the AstegGnomeHalls, and climb in through the chimney, except Tamas who waits outside. Littleus is sent down first, and is eaten by bugs. Raju, and Benjamin fall in the heat of battle against many gnolls and bugbears. At the end of the day the fallen depart with Tamas back to town, but rumour has it that other adventurers are headed this way.

10 March

Tamas and new brave adventurers return late on the 9th March, with the other adventurers safely headed back towards town. The party finds a temple that has been taken over by the forces of evil, and fight a nasty gargoyle like thing and a rather tough ogre priest. Vladimir, Ogg and Dronpa are knocked unconscious during the battles.

The party spends considerable time cleaning up the temple, and creating an unholy bathroom. Eventually they succeed in destroying the nasty idol they found in the temple.

The party also found a stairwell down (behind a blood-stained door with many iron spikes), and something big and nasty behind another door with blood-stains and a spike, which they declined to open.

The party leave in the afternoon back to Hommlet.

11 March

The party continues to travel back towards town. This is considerably slower as they have three incapacitated members, and a bathtub filled with unholy silver.

12 March

Benjamin would have been able to cast CureDisease again, if he were feeling better. The party return to Hommlet around mid-day. Zakhiya arranges for magical ink to be purchased from Burne, and scribes ComprehendLanguages.

13 March

(OOS) Paul feels well enough to go adventuring again.

An expedition is sent to Verbobonc.

14 March

(OOS) Barrum feels well enough to go adventuring again.

The expedition continues to Verbobonc.

15 March

(OOS) Expedition arrives in Verbobonc. Things are sold.

16 March

(OOS) Shield +1 and Elven Cloak are identified.

Expedition heads back to Hommlet.

17 March

(OOS) Littleus, Raju and Benjamin feel well enough to go adventuring again.

The expedition continues to travel towards Hommlet.

18 March

(OOS) The expedition arrives in Hommlet (evening).

19 March

Dronpa, Ogg and Vladimir feel well enough to go adventuring again, provided they have remained restful in Hommlet.

The adventurers (Jamari, Paul, Jill, Vladimir and Grugg) head off to the RuinedMoathouse, they get ambushed by Giant Toads but are not surprised. They do, however, get pretty beaten up and return to Hommlet directly for rest and recuperation.

20 March

The adventurers head back to the RuinedMoathouse, and get attacked by some crocodiles that get impatient waiting for the adventurers to figure out how they're going to cover their pond in flaming oil. The adventurers find and kill in the moathouse a giant lizard, and a giant tick (which bites Grugg and gives him a deadly disease).

In a room upstairs the adventurers find some bird-like/bat-like things living in the roof, which may have been responsible for a poor chap who appears to have small holes punched through his armour. The adventurers close the door and brace it with junk.

In the basement, the adventurers find five more zombies, evidence of a secret door in a pillar, and yet another ogre. The ogre deals a crushing blow to Grugg, who'll need to spend a week resting as well as getting a CureDisease. The adventuerers find a secret door in the room that the ogre was living in, which leads to a small staircase going up. As they're much to frightened to explore this, they all head back to Hommlet instead, where Benjamin provides Grugg with a CureDisease.

21 March

The party heads back to the RuinedMoathouse, and head straight down to the basement. They find the stairs behind the hidden door leads up to the room with the 'birds', but there was another secret door in the same area that leads eastwards. Following this they encountered a number of gnolls and hobgoblins (in different rooms), all of which the party killed or captured. Apparently the basement is the hideout of 'the new master', although you're not sure who that is.

After much fighting and casting, the party returns to Hommlet with a captured gnoll. Tragically, as the party is passing through the upper works of the moathouse, a giant tick lands upon the gnoll, causing its death.

22 March

The party proceeds to the RuinedMoathouse, goes down into the basement, and spends some time finally opening the secret door in the pillar in the torture chamber. After sending down a scout they decide they don't really want to use the secret door after all, as it would appear there are nasty things down there. Instead, they notice some concealed doors behind all the rubbish on the western wall of the entrance room. After making a great deal of noise bashing open a door, and constructing a sled to drag everything back to Hommlet with, they succeed in extracting an incredible amount of weapons, armour, brandy, and supplies. This takes up the entire day.

23 March

The party heads back to the RuinedMoathouse again, and explores the basement some more. They discover some trapped doors which cause a portcullis to fall across the main exit corridor, but then the adventurers also find a secret door with a mechanism behind that allows them to raise the portcullis, despite the DM thinking they have qinfo.

After some cautious exploring the adventurers encounter a group of at least four ghouls, but their faith in St Cuthbert is sufficient to allow them to repell the evil beasts with only the two main fighters paralysed and the thief almost blown to bits with a nasty accident with some lamp oil.

The ghouls retreated back into a foul den of earthern-dug passages, and the party, after forming a defensive circle around what loot they could find, decided to bring down the roof to the entrance of these passages, sealing the ghouls and whatever loot they had behind a decent amount of soft earth.

After this encounter, the party decides the moathouse is much too scary and head back to Hommlet and the InnOfTheWelcomeWench for an ale.

24 March

(OOS) Ilona recovers from her disease. The party talks to JarooAshstaff, and he gives the party a quest. The party begins to undertake this challenge.

(OOS) Dronpa, Vladimir, Tamas and Jamari Jitendra begin to head to Verbobonc so they can level.

25 March

(OOS) The characters in Hommlet collect all manner of things for Jaroo.

(OOS) The characters travelling to Verbobonc continue to travel.

26 March

(OOS) The characters travelling to Verbobonc arrive, and spend the day selling the spoils of their adventuring.

The characters in Hommlet leave for the GnarleyForest on Jaroo's Quest. They find a SnapperSaw, and defeat it using a very large number of sticks to distract the thrashing leaves.

As usual, a poor scout is volunteered to dash in grab the berries. Surprisingly, she makes it out with all of her limbs.

27 March

(OOS) The characters in Verbobonc begin their training for next level.

The characters travel to the second location for JaroosScavHunt, and go start exploring caves that contain a large number of insectoid creatures. They encounter some problems with fire beetles, and Raju is bitten by a spider and almost dies, despite application of neutralize poison and slow poison. In the end, Jamari Jitendra's mule is traded to a nest of Formian Ants in return for aid.

28 March

Benjamin can cast CureDisease again.

Grugg feels well enough to go adventuring again.

The characters, after resting, slaughter a black bear, and offer it to the nest of Formian Ants in return for more aid in finding the quest flower. After being covered in fungus spores, they are lead past a nest of Giant Ants and into a room containing the flower. They pick it up and take it back to Hommlet.

29 March

(OOS) The adventurers head back towards Hommlet.

30 March

(OOS) The adventurers return to Hommlet and give Jaroo his items.

Raju starts resting. He'll feel better in a week, but will be left in a nasty scar on the side of his neck from the spider bite.

31 March

Grugg, Hallas, Benjamin, Zakhiya, Alex, Laana and Ilona descend into the moathouse, and find a number of human guards. After fighting and defeating numerous guards, their leader, a very powerful cleric arrives on the scene and kicks some booty. After a while an impasse is reached, and the party is given the option to withdraw if they agree not to return. The party accepts.

1 April

AdventurerExpenseAccount levied for Grugg, Ilona, Jamari Jitendra Kunoichi, Vladimir, Zakhiya, and Benjamin.

Ogg, Grugg, Alex, Laana, Ilona and Morrolan decided to travel with a merchant named Toric to Nulb. The party is paid 200 GP up-front for their services, but leave a 500 GP deposit at the Hommlet Trading Post as a security deposit.

The party fights off bandits on the way. Upon reaching Nulb, Toric is assassinated after receiving payment from Skoal the shopkeeper.

2 April

After staying the night in Nulb, the adventurers go after the so-called Nalag bandits, who are defeated with minimal effort. The party gives them treasure (3000 CP) and lets them go free. What a nice party.

The party returns back to Hommlet and discovers that their note which allows them to collect payment from the Hommlet Trading Post is gone! Like it had never existed... Strange. Very strange...

3 April

Dronpa, Vladimir, Tamas and Jamari Jitendra reach level 2!

Grugg, Ogg, Jill, Arrow and (in the afternoon) Alex head to Nulb to try and track down Toric. On the way they encounter some wild boars (who knock down half the party) and bugbears (who are ambushed and dispatched easily).

In Nulb, the party rejoins Yiramond, and discovers that a large number of river merchants are staying at the Boatmen's Tavern and Market. Arrow spends much time sneaking around back rooms and gathering information, while the other party members act as lookouts in and around town. It is discovered that Toric is still alive, but slips away before the end of the day (possibly through a secret exit from the tavern kitchen).

The party briefly observes the master, and learns a little about the cargo.

At the end of the night the party succeeds in annoying most of the Nulb underworld, as Arrow is caught sneaking around in the kitchen. Tolub, Lodriss, Grud, and Skoale are unimpressed by the party's actions, and make an attempt on their life. Alex uses some hired help as protection, although some are left bleeding on the floor as the party escapes.

The party holes up for the night in the Waterside Hostel.

4 April

The Moathouse Reloaded, attended by Vladimir, Laana, Benjamin, Jamari, Winfred, Dronpa and Andru.

5 April

AdventurerExpenseAccount levied for Paul and Ogg.

Dronpa, Vladimir, Tamas, and Jamari Jitendra, having recently levelled, are so strong they've made it back to the Hommlet area in record time, allowing them to adventure earlier than expected.

The party (Dronpa, Vladimir, Benjamin, Laana, and Jamari) follow the tracks leading away from the moathouse, and discover they lead back to the Asteg Gnome Halls. The adventurers clear out the upper levels, finding lots of undead, and discovering they consume holy water very quickly when creatures cannot be damaged by non-magical weapons. Zombies that keep coming back can be very scary, and a nasty demon in one room provided quite a surprises.

In the lower levels, the party encounters a poltegeist, and a big family of owlbears. However the most interesting area is a past a flooded room filled with the remains of giant, glowing mushrooms. Here the new master had begun re-establishing a base after being evicted from the ruined moathouse.

The party decides that sending a scout down a darkened hallway with many flasks of oil to douse the guards is a grand plan. It works, more or less, with Laana only receiving a couple of crossbow bolts to the chest.

A heated and prolonged battle ensues with the new master, including Vladimir casting his now famous command word strip, bagging him a couple of magical items.

During the fighting, the giant star ruby is lost, taken by the new master, who then proceeded to escape under the guise of darkness and sanctuary spells.

The party discovers uber loot and carts it back home with much rejoicing.

6 April

AdventurerExpenseAccount levied for Tamas, Barrum, Dronpa and Jill

Raju feels well enough to go adventuring again.

This day is spent counting gold and booty collected from the previous day, and wondering why the other adventurers who have taken a day-trip to Nulb haven't come back yet. Maybe they're staying out with friends?

7 April

NEXT SESSION — discover what really happened to the Nulb expedition.

The two merchants saved on the 7th March promise to have rewards for the party delivered to Hommlet by this date.

AdventurerExpenseAccount levied for Littleus and Raju.

3 May

Expense accounts levied for Arrow