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Common Year 585

Harvester

Jarkin's Request - Harvester 12, CY 585 (Real World Date: Oct. 12, 1996)

• Answering a herald's call, four adventurers arrived a the manor house of the Lord Jarkin, a powerful merchant living in the independent city of Randell who bought his title from the Northern Aerdy herzog. And so the campaign begins!

Sunsebb

The Quest For The Serpentine Owl - Sunsebb 15, CY 585 (Real World Date: Nov. 3, 1996)

• The adventurers have been strong-armed by Randell's leader of the Canter Guild into retrieving an expensive totem owl from a band of goblins.

Common Year 586

Fireseek

The Nabassu Battle, Part 1 - Fireseek 15, CY 586 (Real World Date: Nov. 3, 1996)

• The party hunts down a nabassu demon haunting the depths of the Adri Forest.

The Nabassu Battle, Part 2 - Fireseek 28, CY 586 (Real World Date: Dec. 29, 1996)

• The adventurers continue their fight with the demonic invader, nearly losing one of their own in the process.

Missing Sagas

• The Trial of Squire Eric - ??? (Real World Date??)
• The Burning of Innspa - ??? (Real World Date??)
• The Arrival in Obsidian Bay - ??? (Real World Date??)
• The First Obsidian Maze Expedition - ??? (Real World Date??)
• Isle of the Scarecrow - ??? (Real World Date??)

Flocktime

• Lewandrew's Legacy - Flocktime 3, CY 586 (Real World Date: May 12, 1997)
• Kalib's Resurrection - Flocktime 20, CY 586 (Real World Date: May 17, 1997)

Readying

• Fire-eaters - Readying 22, CY 586 (Real World Date: July 7, 1997)
• Slickblade - Readying 23, CY 586 (Real World Date: July 14, 1997)

Coldeven

• Time's Fall, Part 1 - Coldeven 11, CY 587 (Real World Date: Dec. 22, 1997)

Common Year 590

Patchwall

The Battle of Fort Diligence - Patchwall 4, CY 590 (Real World Date: Oct. 1, 2001)

• The Blackrazors return to the Duchy of Geoff to wage war against the giant invaders.

The Battle of The Lea, Part 1 - Patchwall 6, CY 590 (Real World Date: Oct. 26, 2001)

• The Blackrazors fight their first engagement with the giants' second wave.

The Battle of The Lea, Part 2 - Patchwall 7, CY 590 (Real World Date: Nov. 3, 2001)

• The Blackrazors continue to fight giants, and some surprising giant-kin, as they work their way across the Geoff countryside to The Lea.

The Battle of The Lea, Part 3 -- Liberation - Patchwall 9, CY 590 (Real World Date: Nov. 9, 2001)

• The Blackrazors finally reach The Lea and fight a difficult battle with ogres, hill giants, and fire giants. Victorious, the party ends the siege and successfully completes their mission for the Grand Duke of Geoff.

Pregmere: Of Caravans and Escape Plans - Patchwall 9, CY 590 (Real World Date: Nov. 23, 2001)

• The Blackrazors have broken the siege at The Lea, and now decide to take the fight to the giants. They ambush a supply caravan and rescue the giants' human slaves.

Pregmere: Illusions on the Plains of Geoff - Patchwall 24, CY 590 (Real World Date: Dec. 7, 2001)

• Having freed the former citizens of Pregmere from slavery, the Blackrazors try to chaperone them to the relative safety of The Lea. Along the way they use their considerable magic and their fighting skills to waylay the pursuing giants.

Pregmere: A Giant Pursuit and a Blackrazor Offensive - Patchwall 25, CY 590 (Real World Date: Dec. 14, 2001)

• The Blackrazors fight off another band of giants, and a fire elemental, thereby blocking any pursuit and allowing the freed Geoffites to reach The Lea. After seeing them to safety, the adventurers launch a sneak attack against Pregmere itself.

The Seventh Arm, Part 1: Lost in the Tarwood - Patchwall 28, CY 590 (Real World Date: Dec. 21, 2001)

• The Blackrazors twart an attack on a wealthy merchant and get hired to investigate the circumstances behind the attack.

Coldeven

Assault on the Flying Fortress of the Cloud Giants - Coldeven 6, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-01-10)

• Using the Psionic gate they took from the derro, the Blackrazor A-Team pursues Valeron to Durengard, the flying fortress in which the Cloud Giants lead the marrauding of Geoff.

Pregmere: The Sky Gods Strike Back - Patchwall 28, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-01-11)

• Feeling (over?) confident from their recent successes, the Blackrazors venture out to meet the fire giants of Pregmere on the scrub plains of Geoff. A surprise is in store for the adventurers, however, as the giants' "Angel" makes a devastating, and revealing, appearance.

Readyreat

The Seventh Arm, Part 2 - Readyreat 6, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-01-11)

• The Blackrazors seek out the legend of the Seventh Arm in the Tarwood.

The Seventh Arm, Part 2 - Readyreat 7, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-01-18)

• Vaser joins the Blackrazor B-Team expedition in the Tarwood.

The Seventh Arm, Part 3 - Readyreat 8, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-01-25)

• The Blackrazor B-Team investigates the ruins beneath the ruined tower they found in the Tarwood.

The Seventh Arm, Part 4 - Readyreat 23, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-02-01)

• The B-Team continues its adventures beneath the Tarwood, encountering an odd prismatic portal.

Pregmere: Revenge of the Blackrazors - Readyreat 14, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-02-09)

• The Culmination of the Blackrazors' recent campaign in the Grand Duchy of Geoff finds the guild summarily defeating a giantkin warband of appropriately giant-sized proportions. Alas, all does not go well, as one of their own is taken from them shortly before the battle commences.

Sunsebb

The Seventh Arm, Part 5 - Sunsebb 1, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-02-15)

• Their continued exploration of the dungeon under the ruined tower leads to furious battles with undead and extra-planar creatures.

Rescue of the Lost Gideon, Part 1 - Readyreat 15, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-02-22)

• After defeating the hordes of giants and giantkin over-running the town of Pregmere in Geoff, the blackrazors turned their attention to their companion Gideon, who had been kidnapped by derro prior to the final glorious battle with the giants. The trail led in to the Underdark beneath Geoff, where traps, monsters, and numerous threats awaited them.

Rescue of the Lost Gideon, Part 2 - Readyreat 19, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-03-01)

• Having entered the Underdark to rescue Gideon from the derro who had kidnapped him, the Blackrazors explored many trapped tunnels and fought a lair of nagas. Eventually they were able to unlock a hidden passage, and were on their way to what they hoped would be the place of Gideon's imprisonment (and not his death).

The Seventh Arm, Part 6 - Sunsebb 4, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-03-08)

• The B-Team looses two of its own as they complete their mission in the Tarwood and return to Obsidian Bay.

The Assault on Kala - Sunsebb 6, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-04-12)

• Learning from the god Trithereon that their plan to rescue their original bodies from the Scarlet Brotherhood had been detected, the Blackrqazors decided to bring the fight to the arch-mage the SB had sent to OB to curtail their plans. Fighting such a foe would be no easy task, but it would be made ever more difficult for having to occur in the part of the Obsidian Maze known as the Horns of Medusae. The best of the guild went in, but would they return?

Erilar's Debt - Readyreat 26, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-04-19)

• Nightengale, the high druid of the Pomarj, sent word to Erilar that she now required him to perform the service which he had promised earlier as payment for a favor. He gathered a party of Blackrazors together to complete the task that she presented to him.

The Purple Orc Plot - Sunsebb 11, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-05-31)

• When the Knights of the Sword approached Tanevir about a disturbance in and around the town of Malcolm’s Crossing, he dispatched a crew of Blackrazors to investigate.

Attack of the Clones - Sunsebb 17, CY 590 (Real World Date: 2002-06-28)

• The Blackrazor A-Team storms the Scarlet Brotherhood compound on the Tilvanot Penninsula to rescue their original bodies.

Common Year 591

Fireseek

The Dwarven Stronghold, Part 1 - Fireseek 1, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-07-12)

• The Blackrazor B-Team is tasked with helping to reclaim a long-forgotten Dwarven stronghold deep within the Dranchensgrabs.

The Dwarven Stronghold, Part 2 - Fireseek 2, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-07-26)

• The B-Team continues its exploration of the abandoned Dwarven stronghold they've been tasked with reclaiming.

Return to the Valley of the Purple Orcs - Fireseek 8, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-08-02)

• The Blackrazor A-Team heads to the strange valley the B-teamers encountered outside of Malcolm's Crossing on the Pomarj.

Purple Orcs Are Trees? - Fireseek 8, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-08-23)

• The Blackrazor A-Team fights, and destroys, a large Orcwort tree and a host of its wortlings.

The Dwarven Stronghold, Part 3 - Fireseek 8, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-08-30)

• The B-Team moves further underground as they descent into the lower levels of the Dwarven mines they are exploring.

Readying

The Destruction of Zaund - Readying 12, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-09-20)

• The Blackrazor A-Team takes on the vampire Zaund and his undead lieutenants at the manor home of the Duke of Geoff.

The Infiltration of Pest's Crossing - Readying 26, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-11-01)

• A small group of the Blackrazors sneaks into the town of Pest's Crossing to discover what they can regarding the Giant forces controlling the town and the lands of Geoff surrounding it.

Coldeven

Following the Giant Caravan - Coldeven 5, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-11-08)

• The full complement of the Blackrazor A-Team returns to Geoff to investigate the source of the Giant invaders' power.

The Slaying of Skel - Coldeven 6, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-11-22)

• Beset by Frost Giants and the White Dragon protecting their fort, the Blackrazors fight fiercely, and ultimately successfully.

Valeron at the Frost Giant Fort - Coldeven 6, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2002-12-15)

• The Blackrazors storm a frost giant outpost and find the archmage Valeron waiting for them there. Despite being deplete from earlier battles, they fight valiantly, drive him off, and take the fort by force.

Murder at the Prancing Manticore - Coldeven 9, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-03-14)

• The Blackrazor B-Team is hired to protect a merchant as he whiles away an evening at a luxury gaming establishment. In ture BR fashion, mayhem ensues.

Planting

Return to the Dwarven Stronghold: The Lava Pools - Planting 6, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-06-27)

• The Blackrazor party is again invited by the Dwarves of Kelez-Mar to assist them in reclaiming their once-great stronghold. However, one of the Dwarves' company was waylaid, and the BRs are tasked with learning what befell him. A trek across the Drachensgrabs ensues, culminating in a fight with a band of Ravagers and the discovery of a magical lava pools also once controlled by the Dwarves.

Flocktime

The Dwarven Adventure: The Knights Resurface - Flocktime 6, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-07-06)

• The Blackrazor party, now Gideon, D'Klar, Moraim, and Thorvald, agree to escort representatives from Kelaz-Mer to the lava pools and then to Mogelsville and OB. Along the way, however, tracks indicate a flying wagon, and then the party comes face to face with some Knights of the Iron Nation, much to the party's chagrin.

The Dwarven Adventure: Face to Face with Flame - Flocktime 20, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-07-27)

• In OB, Thordubak receives word that the Dragon under Kelez-Mar wants to parley. Thorducak sends D'Klar and the party as his representatives. Back at the stronghold, the party fights spectres and other undead in the Forge level to get down to the mines below. There, they are brought before the Dragon Flame himself, who tasks them with adventuring further into the Underdark to earn his flight from the ruins claimed by the dwarves.

The Shadow Within, Part 1 - Flocktime 17, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-08-24)

• On the heel of the death of vehement anti-draft opponent Councilor Golari Drammenstad, and just after the Blackrazor Gaiseric is shaken down by members of the Sellsword Guild for protection money, Obsidian Bay is shocked by a series of brutal murders. The first victim of these new murders is one of the Blackrazor Guild’s own: Calvin Cloudmore.

The Shadow Within, Part 2 - Flocktime 18, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-08-24)

• The Blackraozrs investigate the brutal murder of one of their own: Calvin Cloudmore, Billet of St. Cuthbert.

The Shadow Within, Part 3 - Flocktime 19, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-08-24)

• The Cuthbertian cleric Calvin Cloudmore is dead and the Blackrazors think they know what did it: a vampire.

The Shadow Within, Part 4 - Flocktime 20, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-08-24)

• The murders pile up, including the master of the Sellsword Guild, and the Blackrazors making a startling -- and deadly -- discovery about the murderer's identity.

The Bloodsworn, Part 1 - Flocktime 21, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-09-07)

• In the wake of their battle with the shadow demon Argolith, the Blackrazors learn of the the Bloodsworn, a cult of fanatical followers of the demonic tyrant known as the Bloodlord.

The Bloodsworn, Part 2 - Flocktime 22, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-09-08)

• In which the Blackrazors find the Bloodsworn's "Den of Bile" and slay the foul demon-worshiping cultists, only to find that a second, larger lair exists deeper in the UnderOerth.

Wealsun

The Bloodsworn, Part 3 - Flocktime 23, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2003-09-14)

• In which the Blackrazors destroy the Bloodsworn in their demon-tainted lair.

Into the Viper's Den - Wealsun 18, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2004-01-13)

• A contingent of Obsidian Bay's adventurers -- including a handful of Blackrazors -- is charged with a mission of intrigue and espionage within the occupied provinces of the Principality of Ulek.

The Defeat of Galnathrundak - Wealsun 9, CY 591 (Real World Date: 2004-02-06)

• The Blackrazors launch an assault against Galnathrundak, the red dragon who controls the lowest level of the dwarven stronghold Khelez-Mar.

Red-Eyed Killers, Part 1 - Wealsun 27, CY 591 (Real World Date: Feb. 20, 2004)

• The Blackrazors arrive in Fury Bay, where they are formally hired as mercenaries, are branded as such, and are given their first assignment: tracking down and killing the lizardmen infesting the Devil Eye Marsh.

Richfest

Red-Eyed Killers, Part 2 - Richfest 1, CY 591 (Real World Date: March 12, 2004)

• The adventurers have received their first mission -- kill a clan of lizardmen in the Devil Eye Marsh. After a night exploring Orc Habor, they set out.

Red-Eyed Killers, Part 3 - Richfest 3, CY 591 (Real World Date: March 12, 2004)

• The Obsidian Bay sellswords delve deep into the lair of the lizardmen haunting Devil Eye Marsh.

Ready'reat

Maure Castle: The Unopenable Door - Ready'reat 15, CY 591 (Real World Date: Oct. 10, 2004)

• A few weeks after their victory over Tharizdun's Doomdreamers, the Blackrazor Guild learns of a possible portal to the Fading Land of Necros within the ruins of Maure Castle. Concerned that their old enemies in the Cult of Death Undying will learn of the portal, they decide to investigate the rumor and do what they can to make sure it remains secure.

Maure Castle: Changes - Ready'reat 25, CY 591 (Real World Date: Nov. 19, 2004)

• The Blackrazors press deeper into Maure Castle, accidentally releasing an elder air elemental and stumbling across a cache of magic items (many of which turn out to be cursed).

Maure Castle: The Iron Golem - Ready'reat 25, CY 591 (Real World Date: March 25, 2005)

• The Blackrazors plunge deeper into Maure Castle, and find its terrible iron golem guardian.

Maure Castle: Scrappy's Doom - Ready'reat 28, CY 591, Real World Date: Sept. 23, 2005)

• A horrific doom befalls Gaiseric as the party continues their exploration of the ruins of Maure Castle.

Maure Castle: The Hand - Readyreat 28, CY 591 (Real World Date: Sept. 30, 2005)

• After the apparent death of Gaiseric by a symbol of death hidden by a tapestry (at least until Scrappy lifted said tapestry) and subduing the Seekers' tyrg trainer, the Blackrazors push on deeper into Maure Castle.

Maure Castle: Enter the Elementalist - Ready'reat 28, CY 591 (Real World Date: Oct. 14, 2005):

• The Blackrazors continue their exploration of Maure Castle, and are joined by their long-time neighbor (and one-time guild member) Sven Kildare.

Sunsebb

Maure Castle: The Ghost in the Cavern - Sunsebb 1, CY 591 (Real World Date: Nov. 11, 2005)

• The Blackrazors fight off an ambush by the last of the Seekers, then uncover the lair of the gnoll cleric they'd fought a few days earlier. But a still greater danger lies a few dozen feat away in a forgotten cavern...

Maure Castle: Seltaren - Sunsebb 1, CY 591 (Real World Date: Dec. 2, 2005)

• The Blackrazors retreat from Maure Castle to the city of Seltaren in the Duchy of Urnst, where they hope to sell much of their accumulated loot, and learn more about the ruins and the cults that once dominated them.

Maure Castle: In the Shadows - Sunsebb 5, CY 591 (Real World Date: Dec. 16, 2005)

• The Blackrazors retreat from Maure Castle to the city of Seltaren in the Duchy of Urnst, where they hope to sell much of their accumulated loot, and learn more about the ruins and the cults that once dominated them.

Revenge of the Mummy, Part 1 - Sunsebb 6, CY 591 (Real World Date: Dec. 23, 2005)

• The Blackrazors have looted the Vault of Long Shadows within Maure Castle and returned to Obsidian Bay seeking guidiance on how to unlock a magical chest they found there, as well as to rest and recover in preparation for a new assault on the ruins. Little do they know that an old curse has finally caught up with them...

Revenge of the Mummy, Part 2 - Sunsebb 7, CY 591 (Real World Date: Jan. 6, 2006)

• An old desecration has come back to haunt the Blackrazors, as an undead sect of mummies seeks to destory the ones they call the "Defilers of the Golden Sarcophagus". But now the Blackrazors and their allies have tracked down a possible lair of the sect, and look to return the favor.

Revenge of the Mummy, Part 3 - Sunsebb 7, CY 591 (Real World Date: Jan. 12, 2006)

• The Blackrazors explore the ruins of the Temple of Hextor in an effort to track down a sect of mummified villains. Little do they know that soon the mummy will be coming to them...