Poway Campaign Overview: "The PasteMakers" ============================================================================ This was the first real campaign put together in the Poway area. Players all entered the campaign as first level characters (with the exception of Brewster which joined one level below the others at the bottom of level 5) and Arial and Sangria who also joined at the bottom of level 5. Characters: Antonio Vespuchi Jason D'Angelo Brewster Julie D'Angelo (From adventure #8) Johnathon Mandrake Mike LaCosta (From adventure #3) Trevor Treewood Rich Schmelter Xravian Uln-Talia Scott Weissberg Meloni Tunrida Peggy Fitz (Adventures #1 - #7) Kali Tunrida Jennifer "Jif" Paxton (Adventures #2-4) Michelle D'Angelo (Adventures #4-7,9) Lyraan James Sze (Adventure #2) Arial Laura (Adventure #9) Sangria Jennifer Duncan (Adventure #9) Story Arc #1: In this portion of the story, the characters get their start. Adventure #1: "Eddistone Point" (Jun 26, 1988 - Jul 24, 1988) The notes for this adventure were lost. The group was travelling from Untala to Strafferberg when they got caught up in a mission to reclaim the signal tower at Eddistone. They did so, but the leader of the bad-guys escaped. Little did they know that the woman who joined them for protection was the bad-guy until she back-stabbed the group. Story Arc #2: In this portion of the stroy, the characters take on the name the PasteMakers, and are nearly destroyed by foes more powerful than they are! Adventure #2: "The Keep at Koralgesh" (Jul 31, 1988 - Aug 12, 1988) This adventure involved the long exploration of an ancient keep and the tunnels beneath it. Adventure #3: "Roarwater Caves" (Dec 28, 1988) On the way to Faralow the group ran into a group of bandits large enough to annialate the group... and surprisingly they destroyed the bandits in five rounds! They took up the "PasteMakers" name. They got involved with a plan to rescue some Xvarts and instead walked into a trap. When they returned, alive, they hunted down the guy who put them up to it and made him pay for what he did. Adventure #4: "Wards of Witching Ways" (Dec 29 1988 - Jan 1, 1989) The group was shipwrecked between Faralow and Wenford on an island with a castle on it. Johnathon fell down a deep pit and was saved only through extreme effort... but kept a limp. Trevor had terrible touble keeping his weapons in hand. Eventually they took on the two wizards that lived in the castle. Xravian put the final blow together with an illusionay fireball which killed the wizards and Kali's familiar. The other party members were saved. Story Arc #3: In this portion of the story, the characters take on some larger tasks in service on the land. Adventure #5: "The Crypt of Istaris" (Jun 29, 1989) They came across the town of Wenford which was going to blow up at midnight and barely managed to disable the magical explosion in time. Their portrait was placed in a fresco on the walls of the city hall. Adventure #6: "Tallow's Deep" (Jul 1, 1989 - Jul 8, 1989) In this adventure, the characters went into a goblin nest, and used all of their abilities to clean it out. Adventure #7: "Chadranther's Bane" (Aug 15, 1989 & Dec 27, 1989) This adventure took the characters into the GreyJag mountains where they got caught up in the life of a shrunken society. After much turmoil they managed to break the shrinking spell and found four years (rather than four weeks) had passed. This adventure was not played to completion. Due to all sorts of problems in the real world it was aborted near the end and not played completely. Story Arc #4: In this portion of the story, the characters adapt to the vastly changed world. Adventure #8: "The Elves of Allindel" (Aug 5, 1994) This is the first of the new adventures of the group. They came out of the last adventure having lost 4 years. Trevor discovers that he has a 3 year old daughter. They go out following a map and find a Grey Elven village which was destroyed by Orcs. They extract their revenge on the Orcs and the Mind Flayer that led them. Adventure #9: "School of Nekros" (July 28, 1995) In this adventure the Paladin Arial and Bard Sangria joined the group. Together they helped a Halfling village rid themselves of an upstream school of necromancers.