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This timeline summarizes events that have taken place in the Dark City campaign. It includes hero, city, domain and even world events where appropriate. Where possible, references to specific sagas are included. For a complete list of Dark City adventures, [[Dark City Sagas|check out the saga page]]
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This timeline summarizes events that have taken place in the [[Dark City Campaign]]. It includes hero, city, domain and even world events where appropriate. Where possible, references to specific sagas are included. For a complete list of Dark City adventures, [[Dark City Sagas|check out the saga page]]
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==Goodmonth CY 591==
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==Goodmonth CY 591===
 
===Goodmonth 25===
 
===Goodmonth 25===
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* Introductions|A half-dozen strangers arrive in Obsidian Bay, each seeking their own path to adventure. <ref>Source: [[Introductions]]</ref>
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* A half-dozen strangers arrive in Obsidian Bay, each seeking their own path to adventure. <ref>[[Introductions]]</ref>
  
 
===Goodmonth 26===
 
===Goodmonth 26===
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* The Rusty Axes terrorize the Mudsitters District. A group of heroes rises to fight them, consisting of [[Prug]], [[Gruffudd Castlemaine]], [[Absalom]], [[Largo Leftpocket]], [[Vargas of Ralsend]], [[Corash and Thom Silverbow]] <ref>Source: [[The Rusty Axes]]</ref>
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* The Rusty Axes terrorize the Mudsitters District. A group of heroes rises to fight them, consisting of [[Prug]], [[Gruffudd Castlemaine]], [[Absalom]], [[Largo Leftpocket]], [[Vargas of Ralsend]], [[Corash and Thom Silverbow]] <ref>[[The Rusty Axes]]</ref>
  
 
===Goodmonth 27===
 
===Goodmonth 27===
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* The long-lost [[Sidewinder Pass]] is rediscovered by the Dark City heroes, who launch an expedition to explore it. <ref>Source: [[The Sidewinder Pass]]</ref>
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* The long-lost [[Sidewinder Pass]] is rediscovered by the Dark City heroes, who launch an expedition to explore it. <ref>[[The Sidewinder Pass, Part 1]]</ref>
  
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==References==  
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===Goodmonth 28===
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* Sidewinder Pass expedition ends prematurely. <ref>[[The Sidewinder Pass, Part 2]]</ref>
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==Harvester CY 591==
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===Harvester 1===
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* Prug is attacked and nealy killed by a group of enforcers known only as the [[Breakers]]. <ref>[[Scarred and Tattooed]]</ref>
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* News reaches Obsidian Bay of mutant crustations known as "lobstrocities" attacking the coastal community of [[Coral Cove]]. <ref>[[Scarred and Tattooed]]</ref>
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===Harvester 4===
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* Prug and his allies confront the Breakers. They spring an ambush, then capture the Breaker known as [[Tornelious Mudd]], who was the leader of this particular group (known as "The Mudd Squad"). He confesses he is part of a larger Breaker gang led by a man named [[Terminus]]. <ref>[[The Breakers]]</ref>
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===Harvester 5===
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* A band of heros travel to Coral Cove to defeat the mutant lobsters attacking the town. The band consists of [[Prug]], "Dirty" [[Salsar]], [[Corash]], [[Absalom]], [[Largo Leftpocket]],  [[Gruffudd]] and [[Thom Silverbow]] <ref>[[The Horror at Coral Bend]]</ref>
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===Harvester 7===
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* On their way back from Coral Cove, the heroes investigate the doomed merchant vessel, ''The Emperor of the Waves''.<ref>[[The Last of the Emperor]]</ref>
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===Harvester 9===
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* Riots breakout in Obsidian Bay over the city guard's inability to put down a resurgent Rusty Axes Gang, which has been murdering poor people throughout the city's districts.<ref>[[Farewell to Kings]]</ref>
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* The Dark City Heroes once again fight the Rusty Axes Gang, this time defeating their leader.<ref>[[Farewell to Kings]]</ref>
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===Harvester 11===
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* Tells tales of a fire-breathing monkey in the High Quarter, as well as a 20-foot plum tree in the high quarter dropping purplish fruit spread throughout the ciy.<ref>[[When Fire-Breathing Monkeys Attack]]</ref>
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===Harvester 15-21===
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* A terrifying pumpkin man haunts [[Darkdweomer End]] while evil extraplanar entities hunt the nighttime streets for victims. <ref>[[A Night in the Strange Quarter]]</ref>
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===Harvester 19===
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* Absalom heads to the Library, where he uncover a journal written by Khorora Seabeard, a sage who spent years researching the aquatic elves of the Azure Sea. In it, he discusses an ancient legend about a demon named Ylerys. <ref>Source [[The Horror at the Fountain]]</ref>
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===Harvester 22===
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* A mage polymorphed into a monkey by the practicaljoking "Cartographers" causes chaos in the Strange Quarter with a <i>rod of wonder</i>. <ref>[[When Monkeys Attack, Part 2]]</ref>
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===Harvester 23===
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* A tentacled Abberation child is born in Mudsitters District to a follower of the Earth Dragon. [[Kerth]] and [[Prug]] witness the birth.<ref>Source: [[Free Days, Dark Nights]]</ref>
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* The elven mage [[Corash]] acquires a ghostly hand from the artificer [[Esseni]].<ref>Source: [[Free Days, Dark Nights]]</ref>
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* [[Salsar]] and [[Wulfstan Turoc]] form the mercenary assocation known as the [[Persuaders Guild]] <ref>Source: [[Free Days, Dark Nights]]</ref>
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* [[Vargas]] joins the [[Guild of Wizardry, Obsidian Bay|Guild of Wizardry]]<ref>Source: [[Free Days, Dark Nights]]</ref>
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* Gruffud is sought out at Fireeaters by Gilidan Treesword, master of the Golden Swordsman Academy. <ref>Source: [[Free Days, Dark Nights]]</ref>
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===Harvester 24===
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* [[Wind] and [[Salsar]] join the Temple of the Earth Dragon in an attempt to learn more about the cult and its connection to the tentacled child.<ref>[[The Horror at the Fountain]]</ref>
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* Tentacled child is abducted by forces unknown.
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* Sir Erogin Wardare  leads a contingent of Knights of the Fist into the orcish land to fight the Bloody Eye Clan in the Foothills of the Drachensgrabs.
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===Harvester 25===
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* Messengers Guild Ordo pressures independent contractors to fold or join the guild. Pursauders Guild hired to do some of the work.<ref>[[Attack of the Messengers]]</ref>
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* Earth Dragons take to streets, claiming Pelorites worked with Wizards Guild to steal child.<ref>[[The Horror at the Fountain]]</ref>
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* Wind and Vargas go to the Temple of the Earth Dragon and join the cult. <ref>[[The Horror at the Fountain]]</ref>
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* Absalom tells Dark City adventurers about the Cult of Ylerys, an aquatic demon believed imprisoned in the Azure Sea.<ref>[[The Horror at the Fountain]]</ref>
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* Led by Absalom, the heroes investigate a poisoned well in the Mudsitter's District. They are attacted by strange mutant creatures who use a previously unknown form of magic during the assault.<ref>[[The Horror at the Fountain]]</ref>
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===Harvester 26===
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* Investigation of the poisoned well by the [[Church of Pelor, Obsidian Bay|Church of Pelor]] reveals it can be purified using the tongue of a naga.<ref>[[Attack of the Messengers]]</ref>
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* Gruffud formally accepts his position as a teacher at the Golden Swordsman Academy<ref>[[Attack of the Messengers]]</ref>
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* [[Sir Erogin Wardare]] and his knights slay the leader of the Bloody Eye Clan, who wore the The Bleeding Eye of Thaggurth in one socket. Wardare is magically compelled to take the eye by the insane elven ghost Aerasowyn tha dwelt within it.  He immediately sets out for Wardare Tower.<ref>The Bleeding Eye, Part 1</ref>
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===Harvester 28====
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* Gruffud and Thom investigate reports of gnomes who badly beaten up investigating the UnderOerth in their quest to find a naga tongue to cure the poisoned well in the Mudsitters District. They learn that a naga is believed to live in an old kobold lair south of the city, in a stretch of the [[UnderOerth]] known as [[The Great Southern Arc]].<ref>[[Attack of the Messengers]]</ref>
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==Brewfest, CY 591===
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===Brewfest 1===
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* Fueled by [[Brewfest]] ale, drunken revelersr turn violent, torching a Wharf District building and protesting against the "Common Draft" for the army. Lodging is tight; nightly lodging and food cost increased by 25%.
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===Brewfest 2===
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* [[Golden Swordsmen Academy]] sponsors fencing competition at [[Amble Theatre]]. 1st prize: 100 gp; 2nd: 50; 3rd: 25. Gruffud wins the competition.<ref>[[Attack of the Messengers]]</ref>
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===Brewfest 3===
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* The Naga Expedition leaves, consisting of [[Thom Silverbow]], [[Gruffud Castlemain]], [[Kerth Greenfield]], [[Absalom]], and [[Corash]]. They are joined by the [[Goldseekers Guild]] trapfinder [[Thargo]].<ref>[[The Southern Arc, Part 1]]</ref>
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===Brewfest 4===
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* [[Brauenmarkt]] (potion market) held at Guild of Wizardry Compound
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* Rauford/Hawkmas duel fought at Drake Lake Pier.
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* A chimera attacks the Domain town of Darson's Culvert. <ref>[[The Southern Arc, Part 1]]</ref>
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===Brewfest 5===
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* [[Sir Krovacar Fawkes]] arrives in Darson's Culvert to hunt and fight the chimera. He subsequently joins the Naga Expedition, which passes through down and helps fight the monster. <ref>[[The Southern Arc, Part 1]]</ref>
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===Brewfest 7===
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* Band of acrobat-thieves reported operating among rooftops in Obsidian Bay.
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* Corin Trithereonite vigilantism is allegedly on the rise in reaction to a mini-crime wave sparked by distracted city guard
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* Brewfest Massacre at Blackrock Village on inner frontier of the Domain of Obsidian Bay; 70 people killed.
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==Patchwall, CY 591 ===
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===Patchwall 3===
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* Naga Expedition arrives at the Southern Arc.
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===Patchwall 4===
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* The Naga is slain in the kobold lair, and her tongue is taken as a cure for the poisoned well in the Mudsitters District.<ref>[[The Southern Arc, Part 2]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 7===
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* The Naga Expedtion arrives back in Obsidian Bay, and the poison well is cured by the Temple of Pelor, much to the ire of the Earth Dragon Temple.<ref>[[The Southern Arc, Part 3]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 9===
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* Strange abberation seen in the sewers beneath the Strange Quarter. Corash and Calarindel investigate and discover a tentacled horror and a strange otherwordly portal. They fend off the creature, and return to the streets above.<ref>[[The Storm Rising]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 10===
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* Bounty offered for heads of Bleeding Eye Tribe orcs who have been attacking towns on the northern frontier of Obsidian Bay's domain. A team of heroes decided to take the bounty, including [[Corash]], [[Thom Silverbow]], [[Sir Krovacar Fawkes]] and [[Gerran]], a wandering priest of Fharlanghn. <ref>[[The Bleeding Eye, Part 1]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 11===
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* Sir Fawkes acquires two would-be squires, [[Broden]] and [[Kosen]], who followed him out of the city when he left to investigate the attacks by the Bleeding Eye Tribe. <ref>[[The Bleeding Eye, Part 2]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 12===
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* Twoham is attacked by Bleedy Eye orcs, but the Dark City heroes repel them. <ref>[[The Bleeding Eye, Part 2]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 15====
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* The Bleedy Eye raiders are defeated, and Sir Erogin Wardare is freed of his posession by an insane elven ghost.<ref>[[The Bleeding Eye, Part 3]]</ref>
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* A new well is found contaminated, this time just outside the city. Called "The Black Scour Taint", it seems to have little to do with the mutant cultists of Ylergs though.
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===Patchwall 16===
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* [[Prug|Prug the Thrice Risen]] and his occasional adventuring cohort [[Gruffudd Castlemaine]] receive a mysterious summons to meet a merchant named [[Promethean Steelbrand]].
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* A group of adventurers leaves to track down the components of a potion to fix the latest poisoned well. They are comprised of [[Seamus Fisher]], [[Erithacus]], [[Christoph]], and [[Garrock Headspliter]].<ref>[[Adventurers Wanted]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 17===
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* A second group of adventures is dispatched to find the first. They are comprised of Ferdiad, Zilanderan and Garth, who find the original party.<ref>[[Adventurers Wanted (Again)]]</ref>
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===Patchwall 24===
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* The Black Scour Taint is cured.<ref>[[Adventurers Wanted (Again)]]</ref>

Revision as of 08:18, 11 January 2008

This timeline summarizes events that have taken place in the Dark City Campaign. It includes hero, city, domain and even world events where appropriate. Where possible, references to specific sagas are included. For a complete list of Dark City adventures, check out the saga page

Goodmonth CY 591=

Goodmonth 25

  • A half-dozen strangers arrive in Obsidian Bay, each seeking their own path to adventure. [1]

Goodmonth 26

Goodmonth 27

  • The long-lost Sidewinder Pass is rediscovered by the Dark City heroes, who launch an expedition to explore it. [3]

Goodmonth 28

  • Sidewinder Pass expedition ends prematurely. [4]

Harvester CY 591

Harvester 1

  • Prug is attacked and nealy killed by a group of enforcers known only as the Breakers. [5]
  • News reaches Obsidian Bay of mutant crustations known as "lobstrocities" attacking the coastal community of Coral Cove. [6]

Harvester 4

  • Prug and his allies confront the Breakers. They spring an ambush, then capture the Breaker known as Tornelious Mudd, who was the leader of this particular group (known as "The Mudd Squad"). He confesses he is part of a larger Breaker gang led by a man named Terminus. [7]

Harvester 5

Harvester 7

  • On their way back from Coral Cove, the heroes investigate the doomed merchant vessel, The Emperor of the Waves.[9]

Harvester 9

  • Riots breakout in Obsidian Bay over the city guard's inability to put down a resurgent Rusty Axes Gang, which has been murdering poor people throughout the city's districts.[10]
  • The Dark City Heroes once again fight the Rusty Axes Gang, this time defeating their leader.[11]

Harvester 11

  • Tells tales of a fire-breathing monkey in the High Quarter, as well as a 20-foot plum tree in the high quarter dropping purplish fruit spread throughout the ciy.[12]

Harvester 15-21

  • A terrifying pumpkin man haunts Darkdweomer End while evil extraplanar entities hunt the nighttime streets for victims. [13]

Harvester 19

  • Absalom heads to the Library, where he uncover a journal written by Khorora Seabeard, a sage who spent years researching the aquatic elves of the Azure Sea. In it, he discusses an ancient legend about a demon named Ylerys. [14]

Harvester 22

  • A mage polymorphed into a monkey by the practicaljoking "Cartographers" causes chaos in the Strange Quarter with a rod of wonder. [15]

Harvester 23

Harvester 24

  • [[Wind] and Salsar join the Temple of the Earth Dragon in an attempt to learn more about the cult and its connection to the tentacled child.[21]
  • Tentacled child is abducted by forces unknown.
  • Sir Erogin Wardare leads a contingent of Knights of the Fist into the orcish land to fight the Bloody Eye Clan in the Foothills of the Drachensgrabs.

Harvester 25

  • Messengers Guild Ordo pressures independent contractors to fold or join the guild. Pursauders Guild hired to do some of the work.[22]
  • Earth Dragons take to streets, claiming Pelorites worked with Wizards Guild to steal child.[23]
  • Wind and Vargas go to the Temple of the Earth Dragon and join the cult. [24]
  • Absalom tells Dark City adventurers about the Cult of Ylerys, an aquatic demon believed imprisoned in the Azure Sea.[25]
  • Led by Absalom, the heroes investigate a poisoned well in the Mudsitter's District. They are attacted by strange mutant creatures who use a previously unknown form of magic during the assault.[26]

Harvester 26

  • Investigation of the poisoned well by the Church of Pelor reveals it can be purified using the tongue of a naga.[27]
  • Gruffud formally accepts his position as a teacher at the Golden Swordsman Academy[28]
  • Sir Erogin Wardare and his knights slay the leader of the Bloody Eye Clan, who wore the The Bleeding Eye of Thaggurth in one socket. Wardare is magically compelled to take the eye by the insane elven ghost Aerasowyn tha dwelt within it. He immediately sets out for Wardare Tower.[29]

Harvester 28=

  • Gruffud and Thom investigate reports of gnomes who badly beaten up investigating the UnderOerth in their quest to find a naga tongue to cure the poisoned well in the Mudsitters District. They learn that a naga is believed to live in an old kobold lair south of the city, in a stretch of the UnderOerth known as The Great Southern Arc.[30]

Brewfest, CY 591=

Brewfest 1

  • Fueled by Brewfest ale, drunken revelersr turn violent, torching a Wharf District building and protesting against the "Common Draft" for the army. Lodging is tight; nightly lodging and food cost increased by 25%.

Brewfest 2

Brewfest 3

Brewfest 4

  • Brauenmarkt (potion market) held at Guild of Wizardry Compound
  • Rauford/Hawkmas duel fought at Drake Lake Pier.
  • A chimera attacks the Domain town of Darson's Culvert. [33]

Brewfest 5

  • Sir Krovacar Fawkes arrives in Darson's Culvert to hunt and fight the chimera. He subsequently joins the Naga Expedition, which passes through down and helps fight the monster. [34]

Brewfest 7

  • Band of acrobat-thieves reported operating among rooftops in Obsidian Bay.
  • Corin Trithereonite vigilantism is allegedly on the rise in reaction to a mini-crime wave sparked by distracted city guard
  • Brewfest Massacre at Blackrock Village on inner frontier of the Domain of Obsidian Bay; 70 people killed.

Patchwall, CY 591 =

Patchwall 3

  • Naga Expedition arrives at the Southern Arc.

Patchwall 4

  • The Naga is slain in the kobold lair, and her tongue is taken as a cure for the poisoned well in the Mudsitters District.[35]

Patchwall 7

  • The Naga Expedtion arrives back in Obsidian Bay, and the poison well is cured by the Temple of Pelor, much to the ire of the Earth Dragon Temple.[36]

Patchwall 9

  • Strange abberation seen in the sewers beneath the Strange Quarter. Corash and Calarindel investigate and discover a tentacled horror and a strange otherwordly portal. They fend off the creature, and return to the streets above.[37]

Patchwall 10

  • Bounty offered for heads of Bleeding Eye Tribe orcs who have been attacking towns on the northern frontier of Obsidian Bay's domain. A team of heroes decided to take the bounty, including Corash, Thom Silverbow, Sir Krovacar Fawkes and Gerran, a wandering priest of Fharlanghn. [38]

Patchwall 11

  • Sir Fawkes acquires two would-be squires, Broden and Kosen, who followed him out of the city when he left to investigate the attacks by the Bleeding Eye Tribe. [39]

Patchwall 12

  • Twoham is attacked by Bleedy Eye orcs, but the Dark City heroes repel them. [40]

Patchwall 15=

  • The Bleedy Eye raiders are defeated, and Sir Erogin Wardare is freed of his posession by an insane elven ghost.[41]
  • A new well is found contaminated, this time just outside the city. Called "The Black Scour Taint", it seems to have little to do with the mutant cultists of Ylergs though.

Patchwall 16

Patchwall 17

  • A second group of adventures is dispatched to find the first. They are comprised of Ferdiad, Zilanderan and Garth, who find the original party.[43]

Patchwall 24

  • The Black Scour Taint is cured.[44]


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