Curse of Hatred

The touch of Lamashtu is upon Rorin, Chad, Bellen, and Beldar.  This curse will fade with time but it is unknown how long the curse will be in effect.  Removal of the curse is simple, if the characters chose to find a priest of Lamashtu, take that priest to the shrine they defaced and aid the priest in rebuilding the shrine.  Otherwise, the removal of the curse will be a bit onerous.

            To remove the curse without appeasing Lamashtu, the characters must find a cleric of 7^th level or better.  This cleric must worship Desna, Urgathoa, Rovagug, or Pazuzu.  The cleric requires each character to donate 666 gp (or 1000 gp for Desna) and agree to a geas to perform a service for the deity.

During the three months...

After 2 weeks, Sister Remia awakes from her coma and summons whatever party members are still in Kleine.  She tells the group that the real leader of the orcish attack was an evil cleric of Asmodeus.  She never heard his name, but knew that he was working with someone else in the raid on Kleine.  When the party confirms that they had not encountered this priest, Sister Remia implores them to return to the orc cave and investigate it more fully.  The priest tortured Remia frequently so he must maintain a room in the caves.  Sister Remia is still too weak to perform magic but assures the cursed party members that she can perform a ritual to help them in a few months or so.  The mayor of Kleine also offers a reward for the cleric’s head if the party does this task for the church of Erastil.  If the party fails to slay the cleric but manage to stop him, the group receives a lesser reward.

During a routine watch, Bellen hears of a common man’s murder during the festival.  It would appear that the orc attack was not the only problem the town faced that day.  David was murdered in his home.  The guard captain, Jennel, tells Bellen the town was secured about 3 hours after the party left to find Sister Remia.  The discovery of David’s death was a week after Sister Remia awakes from the coma.  It is unlikely the two are connected because David was slain by magic, his body was severly burned, but nothing else in the room was even singed.  The remains were also scattered about.

Myth Celeborn - L2

Here is level two of Myth Celeborn.  On this level, there were floating wild magic and dead magic areas.  This made spellcasting a bit...challenging.

Now to explore the final level.  Good luck!

Myth Celeborn

Here is level 1 of Myth Celeborn.  Bellen cleared out all the orcs and owlbears.  The stairs down to level 2 were guarded by two mummies.

This map was made using Jai's Dungeon Tiles Mapper.  I use WotC Dungeon Tiles whenever I can and this is a simple program that lets me make the mapsquick an easy.  (Hunting down the tiles to game with is a bit more cumbersome.)

Next post will be level two...

Bellen Brigade

Previously in Bellen’s Brigade:
Leaving Waterdeep and heading north, Bellen comes across a camp of elves that are the refugees from Arwen, her home village. Meeting their leader, her uncle, she learns the group has had a hard journey but that the elven queen has sent some ships to pick them up so they may conclude their voyage to Evermeet.

While in the camp, some creatures attacked that, when slain, reverted to missing elves from Arwen. Bellen and Solaris, her henchman, quickly set out to learn what transformed the elf and why he attacked.

Tracking the creature was easy and Bellen soon came to a rift hidden in the Westwood forest. This rift led to a planar prison that held an aspect of Selvetarm. The prison was decaying and Selvetarm was able to transform unwary elves into servants called kehtals. The kehtals then advanced the prison’s damage which would eventually enable Selvetarm to escape. Bellen was anxious to stop the kehtals but was sorry about the slain elves. Unfortunately, the kehtals destroyed enough wards to allow Selvetarm to awake. Bellen attempted to stop him but was overpowered and Selvetarm quickly left the planar prison. Bellen, her companions, and a few surviving elves were removed from the prison by some protectar angels who healed them and returned to the Westwood.

Bellen was unable to track the aspect of Selvetarm and the group made camp. Late in the evening, a moonglow appeared. The moonglow was said to lead to an ancient elven ruin in the Westwood or to the village of Kheldell. The surviving elves followed the moonglow to Kheldell while Bellen decided to explore the elven ruin.

Arriving at the ruin, Bellen was attacked by an evil treant. Bellen and Solaris were able to discern that this was an elven keep called Myth Celeborn. Inside the ruins, Bellen found a tribe of orcs using it as a lair. After clearing out her hated enemies, Bellen learned that Myth Celeborn was used to house elven treasures, magical and mundane, before transport to Evermeet. As the various elves left their homes and journeyed to Evermeet, Myth Celeborn was used to store elven artifacts. Their intent was to remove the items before abandoning Faerun and the keep for good. The elves must have been forced to flee before completing their plan. Bellen found guarded stairs that led down. The orcs could not pass the guardians. Bellen decided to delve deeper into the ruins in search of any relics that can be returned to Evermeet.

In the second level, Bellen found some guardians and undead. Solaris found that the mythal of Myth Celeborn was still somewhat in effect on the second level. Bellen and her henchmen found several items of treasure sealed on the second level. She also rescued a trapped faedorne that had been there for several centuries. The faedorne, Naisal, told Bellen that there is another prisoner on the third (last) level of Myth Celeborn. Finding the stairs to the lower level buried in rubble, Bellen was surprised as an ancient elven spirit gestured her onward.

Several hours of digging later, the party was able to descend to the third level.


This is where we begin…