The Tomb of Alderon

The party enters the kobold lair, looking for adventure. They find a magical pool of water with an elemental in it. Juan the Nameless carelessly disregards the spirit of the text above the room and offends the spirit guardian who drowns him. The party heads back out and camps in the valley, they meet up with Robert the Wizard, an old sage who has studied the history of the region his whole life and has finally made narrowed his search for the Tomb of Alderon, the last Emperor of Nerath, down to these ruins. They bury Juan in the valley outside the tomb.

That night, they are attacked by two chitines and an ettercap while they sleep. They defeat the creatures and head back into the tomb the next morning. They encounter a trap and a gnoll huntmaster with several hyenas guarding a trophy room. The gnoll escapes and they move into the adjacent chamber to find the guardian of the woods hiding there.

There is a misunderstanding and the guardian tries to escape from the party, misunderstanding their intentions. They subdue her and take her outside then later convince her they were sent by the fairy princess to help. The nymph says she cannot help them because her mount, a unicorn is held captive by the creatures in the tomb. The party agrees to rescue her unicorn.

The party re-enters the tomb and finds the cell where the unicorn is held by the gnoll huntmaster. They attack and several ettercaps and spiders drop from the ceiling to join the battle. Robert casts a sleep spell on his foes and friends alike, causing Thorin and a spider to fall asleep. The ettercap in the melee uses this to his advantage and chops Thorin's head from his body where he lays. Robert beats the sleeping spider with his staff, trying to kill it.

Mary is locked in battle with an ettercap as Aelor finishes off the huntmaster and a deathjump spider. The ettercap knocks the paladin to the ground and his ally cleaves her breastplate in twain with it's greataxe and her blood joins Thorin's in the pit. Aelor leaps into the bloodied pit to free the unicorn that is tied in thick webs. He leaps on the steed's back and it teleports out of the pit and charges one of the ettercaps, impaling it on his horn. A deathjump spider leads on Aelor's back and he fights it off.

Robert the Wizard flees the melee after seeing two of his allies die at the hands of the ettercaps. As he retreats back to the main hall he is confronted by a small army of kobolds and their rat familiars. He runs back into the main hall to join Aelor and the unicorn, but is quickly killed by the enemies surrounding him.

Aelor presses a retreat on horseback, ducking as they ride down the hall of the tomb, trampling a kobold in the process. He rides out the main entrance to the tomb and regroups with Artemis and Morrowin outside. He picks up the nymph guardian and they ride back to the fairy woods where he enjoys the comforts of her court for about a month. He then heads back to Whitehead where he stays another month gathering a party to re-enter the tomb.

Aelor finds a party of adventurers to come back to the tomb and explore. They are Whodat Kid the Halfling Rogue, Aubrey the Artificer, and Neyvara the Eladrin Swordmage. They return to the tomb and slay the kobolds. They find some treasure and later encounter the body of Mary the Paladin, recovering her magical sword. The paladin's body is infested with Rot Grubs, which the Artificer freezes with a vial she fires from her crossbow. The swordmage becomes infested with rot grubs but the artificer helps save her before they burrow through to her heart and brain. The party dodges some traps and continues down into the lower level of the tomb.