On the return of Grettir and companions from the Emeo Gate the Stigandi sets sail northwards once more to Bulu also known as Sulphur Island. The island is a volcanic cone with a single smoking craterous peak and many deep fissures along its flanks that ooze lava or belch black fumes. The harbour marked upon … Read more
Girindor flies Wilf, Jason, and their new chum Ubaron to Dingradur to meet Yspadadden. He is always delighted to receive customers – especially new ones – and Ubaron wants a magic sword. He has just the thing and sells him one he has just made called Wyrd Serpent. It is not only a fine blade … Read more
Elf-napping Grettir and Paradoxides were still on Basi. They were joined there by Ubaron, Wilf, Jason and Girindor who had tired of the snow and ice of the northern world, and by elements of Grettir’s family, including his wife, Kistin, and his fiesty twin daughters Signy and Katla. They were housed as honoured guests of … Read more
The party return to Magdalen to investigate a tale told them by Jusper Herath of the Sable King. The Sable King was said to be a powerful magician who could transform himself into a Manticore at will, but who had lost his reason in the process, turned upon his own people and become a recluse. … Read more
It all started with a bar room brawl in a seedy dockyard tavern in Chittagong where Yspadadden, Ubaron and Ranulf were trying to have a quiet pint. The local enforcer was an extremely short, wide fellow who looked like a dwarf, except that he didn’t have a beard. He was remonstrating with a large group … Read more
Not long after Zargon’s attack upon Dingradur, one of Yspadadden’s regular customers arrived in the Porch and called up for Yspadadden. The dwarven smith came to the gallery and could see no-one there. This was not surprising since the visitor was the Invisible Man and was only ever encountered as a disembodied voice. He was … Read more
The Rangers have disappeared. Nickar has gone with them. Enquiries with Ivar Forkenbeard, whose halls at Ringrond are linked to their base by a teleport ring, suggest that whatever happened was not entirely a surprise to the Rangers. There had been some sort of recall message and those Rangers who had been in Ringrond suddenly … Read more
Ubaron arrives in Dingradur to equire whether his armour is yet ready. It isn’t, but Yspadadden and Ranulf avail themselves of Ubaron’s transport magic return to Chittagong with him. There they meet up with Wilf, who like Ubaron is waiting for Paradoxides to finish his sums so that they can go with Grettir to find … Read more
It is almost half way through May and Paradoxides is still doing hard sums in a tower in Basi. Grettir grows impatient. He thinks there is no harm in having a bit of a reconnaissance to Uskedir. Ubaron teleports himself to Atlanis with Grettir to arrive around midnight in local time. They are still a … Read more
Everyone is still kicking their heels waiting for Paradoxides to finish his sums. They teleport out to Basi to see if they can help. They can’t. So Girindor flies them over to Magdalen to see Jusper Herath and do a spot of foraging for alchemically useful plants. What they find there is much better distraction … Read more