11/29/2025 Hans GM 8 Sessions The Necropolis of Anentropol
The party went to the villa and found out the group of adventurers they hired cleared out the villa and discovered a grotto in the basement.
A ghostly child awakened the party and told them to meet his master in the garden by the fountain. When they went out, they were introduced to Mort (Death), who asked the party to go on a quest to help them claim a soul they had been seeking for thousands of years, Faroh Hemkaraho. Hemkaraho is in the Necropolis of Anentropol which is located to the west of Redkeep across the Rift Sea.
The party set off in the goblin airship, Quipper, and crossed the mana wastes, where they were attacked by a Leydroth. After passing through the mana wastes, they came to the goblin hills, where a group of goblins was having a party after raiding some goats from a nearby village. The goblins were impressed to meet the great warriors who had slain Bloggerd. Gablor was the new leader of the goblins. The party feasted with the goblins and spent the night.
After another day's travel, the party arrived at the Elf Forest, where they met elf scouts Al’rel and Aeros. The elves told the party of the war with the kobolds from the canyons to the north, which was led by the renegade elf sorcerer, Calagorn, and his blue dragon. The party agreed to help the elf king, King Eleran, and the princess, Princess Brenovair the Fair. Shortly after nightfall, the kobolds and Calagorn attacked the army encampment.
12/07/2025 The party was awakened by the sound of thunder and several blasts hitting the camp. When they came outside, they saw the elvish army being assembled in front of the camp. The morning mists cleared to reveal a horde of kobolds swarming out of the canyons to the north with a blue dragon and rider circling the battlefield.
The dragon destroyed the elf army, Bork took out most of the kobolds, the gargoyle "wings" were prevented from capturing Princess Brenovair. Boots tripped the dragon, allowing Knyrr to slay Calagorn by driving his guisarme through Calagorn into the dragon. King Eleran was nearly slain but Lisicia saved him by zapping him with an electrical blast of life. The dragon flew away to fight another day. The kobolds fled back into the canyons.
After the battle, the elves buried their dead and had a solemn banquet in honor of the heroes. They presented the heroes with potions and a rune.
After a few days, the party set off for Red Keep across the Dusty Desert and the Brown Hills until they reached Parto Redkeep. Redkeep was transformed with the factories and the necromancers' laboratories burned. Their were some sunken LTC ships in the port, replaced with smaller, faster skiffs and merchant vessels.
They were brought to the Sultan Qatil, who welcomed them with another banquet in their honor. Lisicia tried to find some information and talked to Rod Kamin, who told him the Bhuka goblins might have information about the Necropolis.
The library at Redkeep described the Bhuka as living in the desert across the Rift Sea and mentioned the ancient city of Anentropol being located near the delta of a great river.
The party departed Redkeep and set out to explore the wilderness. They set out from the coast and began crossing the Rift Sea. They observed the rare event of two Krakens mating, a pair of merfolk frolicking and casting spells, before reaching the far shore. Continuing west from the coast, a herd of pegasi was flying above some grasslands. They then entered an arid grassland inhabited by sheep farmers, some tall hills with caves, and some ruins. The party decided to explore the ruins.
12/20/2025 The party discovered a mine where the bones of Anentros were mined. After defeating the guardian of the mine, an Aolaz, they discovered a mosaic map which indicated the location of Anentropol. The party explored the mine but found it was depleted of any precious magical substance that used to be here.
The party flew until they discovered the Necropolis of Anentropol, a land of eternal night. There was a procession of the dead moving through the city. They noticed a cart with a caged angel in the procession.
The party found an open area to land the ship near the pyramids and talked to one of the shop keepers and found him to be an undead mummy. The market had shops for mummification equipment, weapons, armor, and chariots.
The party then traveled to the Enclave of the Archangel Gavrio. The archangel asked them to help free one of his lieutenants who had been captured by the undead.
The party traveled to the gothic quarter and found an enormous castle with a sign “Blood Given Feely” beside the door. After offering a blood sacrifice, they were met by the Countess Lady Siccale, who turned out to be the mother of Carmilla/Mircalla. She challenged the group to a game of Vampire Chess while her husband, the Count, was out hunting. The party held the game to a stalemate, so the Countess granted them a boon which was to have an audience with the imprisoned angel. The angel turned out to be Sandriel, whom they had met before in Hell. They were accompanied into the dungeon by two vampire guards with wolves.
1/17/2026 As the party talked to the prisoners, a bell sounded, alerting the guards to the Count’s return. The guards told the party they must leave or the Count would be angry. The party attacked and killed the wolves and the vampires and released the following prisoners: Two children, Max and Jane, a cleric and warrior woman, three barbarians, three gnomes, a nobleman and his two servants, a wraith, and the Angel Sandriel. The angel, Sandriel, rewarded the party with a magical angel feather for rescuing her.
The party hid and lured the Count down to the dungeons, then attacked him. After a fierce battle, they were able to defeat the Count and his elvish minions. The Countess gifted the party her ruby necklace (similar to the Necklace of Allure) in return for ridding her of her abusive husband.
The party returned to the Citadel of the Archangel with the heads of the slain vampires. Archangel Gavrio dealt with the vampire heads and healed the party.
The party decided to explore the gates to the Congress of Immortals (The Dome). They spied the wraith they had freed on one of the city walls. The wraith told the wraith guards, “These aren’t the adventurers you’re looking for. Move along, move along.” On one of the gates to the dome, they discovered some magic runes which revealed the following icons: Feather, Gem, Pan Pipes, Star, Circle, Heart. The angel feather and the necklace gem seemed to partially activate the gate.
Lisicia found a Necromancer’s Market near the Dome and asked a Necromancer about the band that was playing in the procession, discovering it was a skeleton marching band.
The party traveled to Skele-town and talked to Punkinhead Jack, who had a set of panflutes. Jack told the party his arm had been stolen by a creature called “The Bone Collector,” forcing him to give up playing his prized violin and switch to the pan flutes. He would be willing to give up the pan flutes if the party could return his stolen arm. He would be willing to point out where the bone collector lived.
2/3/2026 Party slayed the bone collector and went to visit Ghoul Town, where Marshall Damon, the sheriff of Ghoul Town, challenged them to a shoot-out.
The left Ghoul Town and returned to the gate, where they met the Wraith King.
2/15/2026 Khamul, the Wraith King, returned as the party waited inside the inner city and demanded their intentions. He explained that his ring bound him to the service and protection of Alyssamir, the wyrmwraith. He was once king of a great northern realm on the Encanto Gulf, called Rovimyr.
Bork was able to lift his curse and remove the ring. Bork succeeded at a will save and safely stowed the ring in his bag.
The party next decided to go up to the great pyramid where they encountered a group of gnolls. Knyrr was able to bypass the door of the pyramid and open it from the inside with his Earthglide cloak. The party discovered how the ichor and the void light torches were able to materialize the doors of the rooms.
The party defeated the mummy guardian, removed the mummy's heart from a canopic jar, and drove off the ancient mummy.
As the party exited the tomb, a ghoul child ran up and declared, “The sheriff needs you down in Ghoul Town lickety-split!”
2/21/2026
The party followed the ghoul child to Ghoul Town where they discovered a swarm of massive spiders infesting the town and capturing the ghouls. A few ghouls were holding out including the Sheriff, Marshall Damon. The party joined the ghouls and destroyed the giant spiders including a massive Leng Spider that had set up a gigantic web in the center of town. The Sheriff awarded each of the party a tin star making them honorary deputies for their help in defeating the spiders.
Boots recovered from paralysis at Miss Lilly’s Emporium and joined the celebratory festivities in Ghoul Town eating toasted spider flesh which tasted suprisingly like shrimp. The party took a long rest and traveled through Ghoul Town, up the long stairs that lead up the cliff to the Gothic Quarter, past the vampire Queens castle, through the gate of the Wraith Lord and up the gate to the Congress of the Immortals. Purple and green jolts of energy flashed into the across the sky as the pressed the six objects into the gate: The Bone Pan Flute of Jack Punkinhead, the Ring of the Wraith King, the Ruby Necklace of the Vampire Queen, Heart of the Ancient Mummy, one of the Tin Stars of the Ghoul Sheriff, and a Feather from an Angel. The followed a tunnel into a vast arena as the doors closed and sealed behind them.
The Lich, Faroh Hemkaraho (Dr. Bones) floated 100’ in the air above them reminsciing about his childhood. The PCs told him of their mission and a fight ensued. Hemkaraho introduced them to his reengineered version of Lord Regnolit who had been transformed into a Golem (Guillotine Golem). Alissamir the Wyrm Wraith emerged from the floor and attacked.
The party was able to defeat both Lord Regnolit and Alyssamir. Only Hemkaraho remained standing at the end of the session but the party was severely injured.
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