Past Meet Present - A Purple Mist

As I have taken on more responsibility at work and had a few other things going on I haven't been able to post lately.  I have a list of things I'd like to post about but they can all wait.  One thing that I would like to stay up on however is the Karameikan Fist updates, and as such I put it forward to the group that anyone who wished to write a recap was welcome to.  The player for Temeris/Callum stepped up and here it is.  Thanks Jeremy.


After the party spent some hours resting in the lair of the manticore, Atvan set off to find Shadow and bring him back. It didn’t take long for the two to return, bringing the two stone statues of Crispin and Temeris with them. Atvan next turned his attention to the problem at hand: how to get the thousands of coins the party found up to the surface? By cutting the hide off the manticore into squares, Atvan managed to fashion several makeshift bags. After gathering the coins up in the bags, he then cast a Spider Climb spell in order to carry them up a sinkhole shaft and into a hiding place on the surface. Atvan then deciphered some magical scrolls found by the party. Meanwhile, Shadow continued to investigate the strange glowing statuette in Temeris’ backpack, but made no discoveries of interest

When the group resumed exploration, it returned to a set of caverns closer to the surface and tried to engineer a way through the door which seemed to be guarded by a wall of magical force. Caullum used a recently-acquired scroll to cast Dispel Magic on the force-wall, but the attempt failed. Shadow [or was it Atvan?] tried to draw the holy symbols found on the walls nearby on his arm and then pass the force-wall, but this attempt failed as well. In order to study the surrounding runes at a later date, Atvan asked Daisy to copy them down. She grew quickly frustrated by her inability to duplicate them on paper and decided to play with Atvan’s badger. Atvan borrowed Daisy’s last piece of papyrus and copied them down himself.

Stymied, the group decided to return below and continue exploring some of the untravelled branching tunnels. Down one such path, Caullum, scouting ahead, came into an area completely obscured by a strange purple haze. Hearing the clinking of chains coming from the area, Caullum tried to investigate stealthily and then found himself under attack! The party came to the chitine’s aid and soon found itself locked in combat with multiple undead abominations. Although matters seemed to be in hand, the sound of an iron door opening heralded the presence of the mastermind controlling the creatures: a drow priestess!

The drow tried to engage the party in peaceful negotiation, even offering to help the group find the mysterious Earth Blood if they, in return, would kill one of the drow’s enemies, a strange being from another world named Baltoth. Caullum’s extreme antipathy towards drow resulted in harsh words on both sides, which were ended when Shadow unleashed a volley of arrows. One of the arrows struck the drow, as did one of Caullum’s thrown spears, but the group found itself outmatched by the drow’s ability to blend into the purple haze and evade pursuit. In mere moments, Shadow fell to the ground paralyzed, while Atvan and Caullum found themselves entangled by a well-cast Web spell. With only Daisy remaining free and capable of fighting, is this the end of the Royal Karameikan Fist Adventuring Company?