Aboleth Group D&D Blog

10 th Dec 2019, 7:45 – 11:00pm In-game timeline: Start of session, day 14. End of session, day 17. Our “Heroes” are surveying the scene of a ruined tower, a large, colourful tent, ground covered in bodies and webs, and a clean and tidy well that is crying out to be investigated. Derrick seems to have learnt a new word during the last battle - "carefully". He "carefully" walks over to one of the humanoid bodies on the group, and "carefully" investigates it. He sees that it appears to be a zombie, now dead (for the second, and possibly final) time. The other bodies lying around also appear to be zombie-like. Other than the 4 that the party killed, there are around 4 others that were already dead when the group arrived. Derrick "carefully" approaches the body that is lying in front of the tent entrance, which is another zombie. Now that Derrick understands what "carefully" means, he no longer bothers, and instead hoofs the de...

Mirtul 8, 1489 DR Arrived at the Well. No one has been here for decades! Should be a good place to find historical artefacts, and maybe learn about the place. Set up tent outside ruins of the tower. The team is working well together – this should be a good dig. Mirtul 12, 1489 DR Ready to start the dig within the tower. Fed up with getting fresh water from the stream – looks like the well itself still has fresh water, so I’ll put some of the team on to repairing the well head to save all our trips to the stream! Mirtul 15, 1489 DR First find in the dig – some notes written by a Wizard, obviously staying here en route to the old Forge of Spells. Implies this place had some sort of inn or resting house as part of, or alongside, the tower. The notes are very fragile. I’ll transcribe their contents later. Mirtul 20, 1489 DR Finished repairing the well head, so I can now get fresh water when I want it. That’ll save my energies for the dig. Found a few more coins, but not...

The Corruption Of The Realms This book is written in an ancient elvish script, that is difficult to fully translate. Spending some time studying the book, however, reveals the following general information.... Back in the year 460 DR there was a total eclipse of the sun in Faerûn which had been long predicted by shamen, but was unusual in that it lasted many days, rather than the usual minutes of such an event, due to a celestial anomaly. Day became night, people panicked in the streets, thinking that a great calamity had befallen them. Kings and Lords lost control, civilizations were disrupted, clan truces fell apart and, in places, mass suicides inflicted family groups. Creatures of the night took advantage of the extended darkness and rampaged across the land. Lycanthropes were the most intelligent of these, and, with the help of other beasts, overthrew cities and empires. This period was known as The Cleansing by those responsible, but as The Corruption by those that...