Game Session 16 - Finally Getting Mithril Temple Resolved

The party is level 9 and they have finally accumulated all the ingredients needed to re-aweaken the Mithril Hall forge! They get back and as they are asleep a couple of the party members are kidnapped! They awaken in the leader of Minithal Halls torture chamber!

While he is out argueing Sampson breaks his manacles and then gets Zarzo free as well. They then go to the roof and find a dragon! They go back down and kill the main guy. Which then somewhat complete book 3! Half way through the books now!

Game Session 15 - Collecting the Ingredients for a What?

The party is now looking for the items needed to awaken the Minderhal Temple. But is it the right thing to do?!?

Game Session 14 - In Minderhal temple

Loot

2 hill giants
734gp of coins and jewerly

2 barbarian orgres
+2 leather armor
mwk warhammer
amulet of natural armor +2
900gp

4 Trolls
1 Shaman Hill Giant
+1 short sword
Potion of Gaseous Form
Scroll of Mirror Image
Gold bowl engraved with images of dwarves fighting giants 400gp
small diamon 900gp
2 Opals 500gp each
679 gp, 180 sp, 900 cp
14 feet (dwarven, halfling, and human)

Summary

The party is in a room full of loot that they quickly search through and find a few items of note.

Then they enter a large hall that is full of ruckus and boisterous voices echoing off the walls.

They kill all the giants in the hall, but a frost giant runs out and asks for reinforcements.

Then they go into the pantry and find Ferin, a giant that isn't that bad looking, she assists them in going down into a secret room under the main forge area.

There they meet with Etena. Who informs them of 4 quests they need to go on to get needed resources to re-inlight Minderhal Forge. The party suspects that once the forge is lit, Etena may betray them.

They then decide to start going back the way they had originally came and find these items needed.

Game Session 13 - In Minderhal Valley

The party gets to the end of a long passageway that is cut into the side of a large mountain range. At the end they find a very large old rusty portcullis. They manage to have the giants that control the portcullis to open it and kill them.

They find a very large valley filled with Giants. They are somewhat confused as to how they could potentially climb into the Minderhal Temple they see at the end of the valley.

Finally they enter the temple and kill a number of giants hanging out inside the back area of the temple. Now they are in a room where they hear a large group of giants just outside the room...

Game Session 12 - Into The Minderhal Valley

The party leaves the destroyed village to continue into Minderhal Valley. They encountered a few Giants, Trolls, and dragons.

Game Session 11 - Entering Minderhal's Valley

The party has completed the tour of the Tomb of the Ancient Dwarven Giant Killer. The two young dwarfs feel their mission is now complete and bid farewell to the party. Now they have decided to continue into the Minthrel Valley.

As they went into the valley they found a small two-story cottage and a baby inside. Then a half mile later discover a small village in ruin. Lots of sad villagers milling about. Then a group of them assemble and approach the party. They ask for help retrieving at least a dozen village occupants who have been taken by the Giants that raided their village. The party decides to help the village by tracking the Giants that took over a dozen of the villagers.

As soon as the party leaves the village they find a couple of villagers running from a large Giant. The party finds that it is actually a huge Cyclops. They kill the  Cyclops. and then the village survivors offer their bodies are reward. The party is a little disgusted of them since it appears they don't keep good hygiene..

A little later the party finds  4 Ogres and the remaining villages tied up and bloody. They quickly dispose of the Ogres. The remaining villages decide to have celebratory sex, which is also kinda gross. So the party moves on and makes camp at the beginning of the Minderhal Valley.

But then as they were camping out two stealthy beasts cast Suggestion on two of the party members. The other two took out the beasts and then chased the players under Suggestion back to the village that they just passed.

As they tried to rest after a night of fighting, they then saw two Huge Size Spiders. Ragmar boldly walked toward the Spider. The party then killed the Spiders.

Now the party wants to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble Gum! But the party is all out of gum...

Game Session 10 - Journey into the Mindspin Mountains

Loot found:

Nargrym's Steel Hand - +2 strength bonus, +5 CMD against disarm
Also can weidl large weapons
Giant subtype that can see the hand DC 15 will save or be compelled to attack as suggestion spell.

Giant's Nail Scale Mail - +2 scale mail
Giant subtype within 30ft has DC16 will save or take -4 on attack rolls
If Giant rolls 20 on saving throw, they are affected by rage spell for 1d4 rounds and are compelled to attack the armor's wearer.

Heartspit - Large +1 giant-bane longspear - can skewer opponents and if they break grapple, take 4d6 points of slashing damage to ripe free of the spear.

mwk Breastplate
3 Gold Rings for dwarven beard (150gp)
Platinum beard clasp in shape of castle sitting atop a cloud (1300gp)
Bronze abacus with hematite beads (600gp)
Large drinking Horn engraved with entwining oak leaves and silver inlays (135gp)
Ivory Measuring Rod with carved Dwarven numbers (25gp)
Obsidian statuette of a female fire giant (250gp)
Wooden box containing a set of eight bronze measuring weights (130gp)
Sack with 400 cp
Boots of the Winterlands
Clay Vase of iron stand looking like a dragon (65gp)
3 chunks of azuite (18gp)
Golden Yellow Topaz (300gp)
Small leather embossed casket 2pp
35 gp
150 sp

Summary

The party returned to Trunua as hero's once again! Now they have a following of villagers that love to hear of their explots in the far reaches of Belkzen.

With the assistance of Umlo and Ingrid, the party navigates through the mountains with no encounters. They they come to a large obilisk.

Story So Far

As a natural barrier, the Mindspin Mountains form the border between several nations. In the south, the mountains form the western border of Nirmathas and separate dark Nidal and Molthune. In the north, they form the border between Varisia and the Hold of Belkzen, Nirmathas and Nidal. The party has started going into the mountains and have found the mountains to be relatively trouble free so far.

It wasn't until they got close to Nargrym's Tomb that they then found numerous spiders and spider related traps set in the forest. Then once they found the tomb they also found it surrounded with spider webbing. A number of large and giant spiders were garding the tomb and attack the party once they are seen. Yet a few of the humanoid like creatures hide themselves inside the tomb and attacked from inside.

Zarzo summoned 3 small Fire Elementals, who were tasked with burning the webbing surrounding the entrance to the tomb. Once inside a couple of them fell down a long shaft that was filled with spider webbing, burning it as they fell to the bottom of the tomb entrance shaft. They finally landed on a couple of old corpses that they burned through, destroying the remains of something the creatures inside felt were important. Angering the inhabitants of the tomb, they then were in a more serious combat with larger humanoid spiders and a spider-like creature that was part human, part spider, part spell casting druid.

Finally they took out the creatures and found a large door with dwarven inscriptions. Once again Zarzo had some knowledge of Dwarven lore and was able to determine which of the dwarven disks were important to opening the door. And after pressing the disks the door slid open.

Inside they found Nargrym's coffin, but it was guarded by an ancient Dwarf that had long gone mad and attacked the party. The party was able to destroy him finally, but some of the also took some ability drain damage that will require a Restoration spell to remove.

GM Notes

1.Some of the spells that the creatures were casting I had to look up, should have done the research beforehand.