The Over View

 After taking out the Drow priests come to offer tribute to Ombra in the depths of the Tomb of the Twilight Mistress, Frank, Raiden, Binx, and others begin to assess their surroundings.  The room has golden murals all around it with different colored inlay for Ombra's eyes, ears, and mouth.  Frank quickly asks for the gems and climbs atop the statue to place them in according to matching colors to the mural counterparts.  The statue rises above revealing a staircase leading down into an open cavern.  "I'm coming!" Frank shouts as he goes running quickly inside.  The others follow more slowly behind.   Ombra greets Frank welcomingly and is please he's brought so many willing sacrifices to her, motioning towards many skeletal bodies below her.  Her avatar form floats above them with her bottom half dissolving to ethereal mist which ties back to an obelisk on the ground which glows with a dim violet light.  Darkness almost moves like a curta...

The company proceeds onward towards Roanor without Bam-Bam.  Several in the group discussed whether or not it was right to leave him there like that, but arguments in favor of keeping the rest of everyone alive/safe consoled all to leave the discussion behind.  Upon reaching the town in the mid-morning, a rag-tag group of every type of person from guards, soldiers, farmers, and merchants come marching from the North entrance of town, with any wounded being brought on carts at the rear.  Each one of them are very tired, they are wearied from an all-night battle.  Upon asking, they have been fighting against several groups of Drow who have begun to grow seemingly erratic in their actions of late.  The Drow push towards the town, razing farms, and homes in the surrounding valley.  Though they have lived in dark caves further up the mountain valley and tend to only surface at night, they usually keep to themselves. A Black Dragonborn Rune Knight named Brock o...

We all awake refreshed, thanks to a stay in the tiny hut provided by Frank (though I don't know how much sleep Raiden got since Slippy used his cloak as a nest).  Upon awakening, you see the Siege Workshop Captain trying to free himself from his bonds.  Calvin casts Zone of Truth, which compels our prisoner to answer truthfully to our inquiries.  As we question him further to see what he has to offer, we find out that he has the crystal shard already on him!  He had been for weeks luring guards down here, convincing them of riches to help him find out what lay at the end of the hallway.  What happened to these guards?  He gestures down the dark hallway beyond the trapped armor and boulder.  Several bodies are strewn about sticking halfway out of the floor.  Convinced that maybe a few of us would also fall prey to some traps, he goads us on to get across. Bam-Bam is eager to do so and makes the leap using the Jump spell to get down the hallway. ...

  You awoke to begin your journey again into Solfare.   Bam-Bam is slowly, "earning" his stuff back as he questions everyone to see who has it.   I.G. grants it to him willingly, though only one piece at a time.   Once arriving at Solfare, you begin to ask around the lower market area concerning "James" who you last knew was headed back to Solfare many centuries ago with a shard of the crystal.   Most laugh since "James" seems to be a very common name here, mostly owing to the founder of the Solfare Siege Workshop after Nylus was abandoned centuries ago.   A magical alchemist’s shop near the end of the market, near where the road leads up to the high castle keep above, catches the eye of Raiden along with Frank.   While the others go to inquire about town, Raiden is looking for that boost of power and defense he so craves and begins to negotiate with the shop keep for a ring of protection.   The Alchemist agrees to bargain for a lower price in...