Playing Dice with the Universe

 Dragonlance Chapter 7 Skull Cap aka the ups and down of Flint Firefoge Having landed at the bottom of the shaft the party advance through the next set of door down a corridor to more doors, this time covered in scorch marks.  As they examined these they heard a horrible splat sound from behind them!  Returning to the bottom of the shaft they saw the mangled body of Flint lying in a pool of blood.  Tanis's best friend was dead! Then before their eyes his wounds started to heal and within minutes Flint was fully healed.  Goodmoon declared it a miracle of the gods!  People were just not sure which one. The next chamber contained a five headed dragon statue in a room full of invisible walls.  The 'statue' turned out to be animated and blasted bolts of fire severely injuring Tasslehoff.  Riverwind came up with the idea of using the door as a giant shield.  Together with Caramon she hacked it from the wall and the pair advanced on the construct....

  Having escaped Pax Tharkas with some 800 refugees everyone headed south into the pass.  Fortunately while the fighting was happening Marita and some of the other escaped slaves had loaded hand carts with food, blankets and other supplies.  This would provide about four days worth of food for everyone. By the following morning the refugees had organised into five distinct groups based mostly on the locations the people had come from.  The leaders of each consulted with Tanis and Caramon as to where to go next.  These groups are - The townsfolk.  People from Solace and other towns led by Brooke Stonemason. The Seekers.  Those from the Lordcity of Haven led by Highseeker Locar. The Belivers. A small number that have converted to the old gods and are following Elistan. The Plainsfolk. The largest faction of all the tribesmen.  Lead by Briar an elder from Que-Teh. The Free Folk.  Travelling merchants and Sailors.  Lets by Marcus Shatterston...

  Chapter 5: Pax Tharkas The light from the blue staff lit up the passageway as the heroes entered the Tomb of Kith Kanan, First Speaker of the Sun.  The secret doorway sealed shut behind them leaving no way to go but forward.  Reaching a crossroads they turned right towards the stench of decay.  This passage let into a large burial chamber.  Goldmoon cast a protective spell to aid her friends but this triggered the tomb guardians to animate and start shuffling out of the crypt.  With fifty walking corpses in front of them the party fled back to the crossroads and picked a different direction. This time they found the actual tomb of Kith-Kanan.  His mummified body was sitting on a throne flanked by two stone statues and he a magical great sword across his lap.  After some discussion on what do, as most of the party did not want to touch the sword, Goldmoon cast Speak with Dead to ask how to get into Pax Tharkas, which turned out to be through the ...

After the long and difficult climb the party started to set up a small camp in the ruined temple and sort through the stuff they had grabbed from the dragon horde before it, and the building, fell into the sea.  Tasslehoff had scooped up a pile of golden coins on a shield.  Raislin pointed out the shield was magical and the Kender agreed to swap it for the Potion of Supreme Healing that Caramon had picked up.  Amongstly the other treasures Tanis found a ring of Water Walking and Raislin had a magical wand. As this point the Aghar, along with Crank the Ogre, returned from their trip into the outside.  Over Crank's shoulder was the large barrel of Rum whose location Flint had traded with the Dwarfs for information.  A bit of argument broke out when they saw Tasselhoff was wearing the golden chains proclaiming him King of the Mountain.  Bupu challenged him to fight for leadership of the clan and when he refused the other Aghar started to pull out their we...

  Flint gets sliced by Khisanth Chapter 3: Dealing with Khisanth. Returning from the tombs the rest of the party saw Tasslehoff running down the stairs shouting at the Aghar who were running away from him to stop.  Flint called out for them to come back and as they hesitated Tasslehoff and Raislin murdered the three friendly Aghar!  Flint was very upset and Tanis has to stand between his two friends to keep them from fighting. Continuing down the corridor the party came to a T-junction where lots of Aghar where forming a disorderly queue waiting for the lift.  Flint talked to the couple at the back and found out the lift was bringing more Draconians up to this level.  He and Riverwind charged around the corner and cut down the two guards and then stared in wonder at the mechanism beyond and the ogre standing there happily eating the head of the guard Flint had just decapitated. Looking down through two great holes the party could see one giant cauldron...

Chapter Two: Enter the Draconians. Having spent a pleasant evening in the Elven treetop village the party were surprised when a blind ancient elf came out for breakfast and starting saying the priest of the old god should be killed!  Tanis and Raislin talked to him and he told them Qualinesti had been forced to join with Istar under threats of destruction from the Kingpriest and they would never be subjugated again.  The views of this 400 year old elf who had lived through the cataclysm seemed at odds with the stories of the great empire that had united the world in truth and light. Travelling east the party reached the old road bridge the only decent crossing over the white rage river for miles.  Looking south towards New Port Caramon spotted smoke on the horizon.  Changing their plans the party headed off to investigate.  They were ambushed by strange lizard like creatures who walked upright.  Raislin blasted several with a burst of fire in response to wh...