Voyage to the Ivory Coast (and back)

Yog the Beast and Kiness the Cunning buy and fit out a small cog and take a voyage to the Ivory Coast, way to the south. They hire a professional helmsman called Orr Half-ear and recruit a large and multifarious crew that includes Grettir, the berserkers Eric, Clarence, Grunt and Brodin as well as the … Read more

Blue Dragon of Yarr

The party slay the Blue Dragon of Yarr that blasts lightning. Oloin and Merith are killed. A number of interesting artefacts were found in the loot.   Ref A15a OE Date: Winter 675 Characters:  Sho Rembo, Nickar, Eggo, Ivar, Gerindar, Larna, Shizarem, Oloin, Merith.  NPCs: Gadan Real World: When – Pre-Christmas 1980 ; Where – … Read more

Return to the Lodge of Hakkar the Swift / Grettir’s Wedding

This was really two separate trips with slightly different personnel. The initial trip is a re-exploration of the lodge of Hakkar the Swift (see A6). The next trip takes place on the eve of Grettir’s wedding to Kisten the middle daughter of Yithmak the White, Lord of Sequarl. At his betrothal, Grettir had been presented … Read more

The Sequarl Dungeon

Sometime after Grettir’s nuptuals, the party return to the exploration of the secret dungeon under Sequarl. This time they go with the blessing of Yithmak, who is no fool and negotiates a half share of everything found down there along with all artefacts associated with the House. They discover the Old Imperial Treasury of the … Read more

Vulcanheim

Nickar reveals that he has the power to travel between the planes of existence.  By way of demonstration he transports the party to the fiery plane of Vulcanheim, where they land on a desolate moor. There the party encounter a hunting party of Fire Giants with Hellhounds.  In the ensuing combat the Fire Giants and … Read more

The House of Bagurn and After

Grettir has been employing researchers in Chittagong to scour old manuscripts in the city’s libraries for mention of ancient sites in and around Sequarl.  They discover that there was another noble house to the west of the Sequarl, the House of Bagurn.  Unlike Sequarl, they had no Black Rock keep to allow them to resist … Read more

Tomes of Koralev

Eggo and Yspadadden return to the place they know as the Naga Dungeon (B2, B30).  Ivar, Silden and Paradoxides are with them.  The find that a band of orcs has once more made camp in the upper levels of the ruin, but these perish under the axes of the dwarves.  Yspadadden finds once more the … Read more

The Giants’ Castle

Yspadadden has a cunning plan to recover Gore Raver. Gore Raver was the axe dropped by Silden when he transformed into a werebear and ate the gnome (B22) back in 678.  It was presumed to have been picked up by the Fire Giant they were fighting at the time.  The axe was a powerful Dwarven … Read more