The Revenant Chronicles

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Shade remembers a face. The face of her employer. The face of her murderer. She also remembers the feeling of dread as the dirt was being thrown onto her grave knowing that she was to be trapped in a box beneath the surface waiting for the end...

The Raven Queen occasionally bars passage to her realm and the next stage of existence, turning a soul back toward the natural world to be an instrument for her schemes. Shade has arisen not as an aimless corpse but as a lost soul given a new purpose. Having become bound to new allies the quest begins to fulfill that new purpose. The only clues are the hazy memories of a life once lived and a death that came too soon.

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SESSION: VORBYX'S HAMMER
What has come before…
1) The heroes have teamed up with Grady Slammerhammer in order to find a legendary item known as Vorbyx’s Hammer. This item will help his people defeat an invading force of duergar that are threatening Ironforge Hall. In exchange, Grady has his people looking for Shade’s former employer and any news of grave-robbing or increased amounts of gemstones in and around Lakewood.
2) The heroes have used the portal in Lakewood’s Mage Tower to teleport into a large cave structure located in the middle of the Trollfinger Fens. They feel that this is the Tomb of Vorbyx.
3) The heroes followed the clues in the structure to find and “unlock” a portal that took them to an orc and ogre tomb…the Tomb of Vorbyx?
4) The heroes encountered a gargoyle fountain and riddle. They ultimately found their way into the burial chamber of Vorbyx…only to find that it was a false tomb.
5) The heroes opened another portal that they believe may get them closer to Vorbyx’s Hammer.

The Current Situation…
1) The Heroes are poised to step through the portal in search of the true Tomb of Vorbyx...

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SESSION: THE EYE OF GRUUMSH

What has come before...
1) The Heroes step through a portal and arrive in a mysterious purple and green glowing chamber. The chamber contains strange columns and a purple and black swirling portal.
2) Immediately the Heroes are approached by orc guards who bow in reverence to Birel-Nala referring to her as the Mistress.
3) Birel-Nala ordered the orcs to go get them food and her second in command.
4) The orcs returned with food and a powerful orc general. This general quickly recognized that Birel-Nala was not the Mistress and as the battle broke out it was joined by a large ogre and his two fiendish gorillans.
5) During the battle, the orc general turned on the ogre and gorillans and helped the Heroes to victory in exchange for an alliance to destroy the giants and drow that the Mistress had brought together.
6) The Heroes agreed to join with the orcs as they released hundreds of goblin slaves and ultimately defeated the hill giants and captured the Mistress.
7) Birel-Nala was shocked to find that the Mistress was, in fact, her identical twin sister...Adrie-Sol.
8) The orcs also left to begin building their own army so as to never be enslaved by giants and drow again.
9) The Heroes found a magic chain that works as a portable portal. It had instructions on how to use it and a portal phrase that should lead them to the true Tomb of Vorbyx.
10) With Adrie-Sol in tow, the Heroes used the portal to enter a mystical tower above the clouds. They defeated icy minions that had been left to protect the upper levels of the tower.

The Current Situation...
1) The Heroes are ready to climb the staircase that leads to the upper levels of the tower.

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SESSION: THE HAMMER AND THE DJINNI

What has come before...
1) The Heroes climbed to the upper level of the tower and battled gargoyles that had been placed their to guard a portal to the true tomb and location of Vorbyx's Hammer.
2) After defeating the guards, the Heroes used their capable spellcasting skills to unlock the portal and bring its energy back on-line.
3) Stepping through the portal, the Heroes found themselves in a large cavern that had a pedestal that was built to hold something...but it was barren.
4) Searching the pedestal they found a message written in Giant that instructed them to build Vorbyx's Hammer on the pedestal to unlock their fate.
5) Throughout the cave complex the Heroes battled summoned earth elementals to get the head of the hammer, battled an invisible spectral ghost to get the invisible bands that bind the head to the handle, and negotiated with a djinni to get the handle (but had to leave an escaped Adrie-Sol with the djinni as collateral). They promised the djinni that they would destroy Vorbyx himself in order to free him. When this is done the djinni will return Adrie-Sol to them.

The Current Situation...
1) With hammer in hand, the Heroes are heading past three dispelled prismatic walls and on to their fate against Vorbyx himself.

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SESSION: THE LAIR OF VORBYX (Part I)
What has come before...
1) The Heroes stepped through the portal and materialized in an entrance chamber to a vast underground complex. They were immediately set upon by an ogre brute and his troglodyte lackeys.
2) The Heroes headed deeper into the complex and came upon a room of skulls. The room was guarded by a pair of dire bears and their ogre master. The master was performing a ritual on a pile of skulls that had at least 100 humanoid skulls in it.
3) The Heroes headed further south descending stairs that took them to a large cavern that housed part of the troglodyte tribe. The battle was fast and furious with troglodytes, curse chanters, and a host of drakes. The Heroes were joined by a trio of adventurers that came to their aid.
4) After the battle, the Heroes were introduced to a trio of hunters that had been working to clear out the Oldenwood when they stumbled through an invisible portal that deposited them in this complex.
5) The Heroes joined forces with their new allies...Alon Zee (wizard of the Feywood), Brekk (guardian of the Oldenwood) and Welsh (ranger of Tengard).
6) The band headed deeper into the complex and came upon a large gate that was either keeping something large in or out.
7) Sneaking through the gate the Heroes encountered a large aberrant water-born Balhannoth. They defeated it only to be attacked by an ogre patrol.
8) Unfortunately...Brekk did not survive the battle with the ogres.
The Current Situation...
1) The Heroes have defeated the patrol and are heading deeper into the complex in search of Vorbyx himself.