Enter Jahli

Our tale begins innocently enough in the border town of Sarnia. Now, Sarnia is an interesting place. As the city which hosts the only publicly known gate between the underground nation of the Dwarves, and the forest land of the Elves, it is a bustling city of commerce and diversity. There is no other city like it in the land, and is often a place where the underprivileged seek hope and maybe even fortune. Here we find a small group seeking such fame and glory. A mixed group if any you had ever seen, consisting of two Elves, two Halflings, and an Orc slave. Of course, like most adventurerous beings, the hunt for the quest is often the focus of their lives, as opposed to the hunt itself. Little did they realize that today they embark on the hunt, and a turn of events that will affect their whole world. These five are joined for a single purpose, meet the mysterious Jahli Anolea, who wishes to hire them to retrieve an item for him. They gather at a small tavern in Sarnia and await the arrival of their potential employer. There is Malkovia the Halfling thief, accompanied by his Orc slave, Katrina the Huntress Elf, Colt the Elven Ranger, and Janel's retarted halfling whose name has slipped my mind. After some discussion amongst the five, they are finally joined by Jahli, who lays out his plans for the five to traverse into the underground Dwarven kingdom to explore an abandoned mine shaft to seek a box that contains an ancient artifact that he desires. The following is a quick synopsis of what takes place from over 4 years of gaming, but never blogged. Further detail will be entered in the future, but this will allow me to enter current sessions into the blog with at least a brief history of how we got to that point. On their way to the abandoned mines to get the box for Jahli, they saw a Dwarf army marching towards Sarnia as if preparing for war. In the mines, they ran across many goblins and orcs and rescued an elf and a dwarf. They recovered the box, but Malkovia was killed covering their escape. Katrina managed to retrieve his body and after they were back to Sarnia they were able to resurrect him. They delivered the box to Jahli and got paid, then met a Gnome named David who hired them to slay a dragon that had killed the gnome kingdom so that it could be re-established. Along the way, the now free Uncle Slave freed a theif from a cat temple and was cursed, met an elf woman in Delahale and got married, and probably died at least once. Also, Malkovia dissappeared, one of the other party became a Gnome, and another Gnome known as Captain Zeefur joined the group. Uncle Slave killed the small dragon with one hit, and they helped re-establish the gnome kingdom, making the dragon's old cave their vault. They then headed east to seek info on rumors of "Dark Elves" from another continent. Along the way, they dropped off Jafo the Dwarf they rescued from the mines with someone they befriended on the trip. Once to the east, they boarded Zeefur's ship and headed to Islelana. On Islelana they watched the Dark Elves come into port and receive good through sheer force of will, met a halfling named Carney, watched Carney kill the Gnome magician who was on watch, killed Carney in return, set up a magic shop, discovered a hidden Dark Elf base by some cliffs on the island, found out the dark elves are actually called humans that use technology instead of magic, set to see, blow up some jets with dragon teeth, burn down a wooden ship while excaping captivity from the hidden fort expedition, return to the island, then finally return to the East of Selini. They return to the now large Gnome Kingdom, then head north into some caves to kill a dragon. They make it and kill the dragon, but Uncle Slave is killed again in the battle. They bring him back to the gnome kingdom where he is resurrected again, then head towards Delhale for training. Along the way, the thief Slave had freed so long ago shows she is the Princess of Thieves, and demand a toll (again). They refuse and try to kill her with Gnome wall removers. In Delahale cats begin to follow and attack Slave all the time thanks to the curse from before, so he goes to the temple to get the curse lifted. Here he finds that the thief returned and stole their relic, and he must get it back from the Thieves. The thieve take unkindly to the parties assault this time, and the attempted kill of their leader from before. This starts a feud which sees the death of a new party member within one day, the surrendering of the land boat to the Theives guild, but long term peace between the Thieves Guild and the party.  Uncle Slave is able to recover the relic and return it to the temple, and the curse is lifted. Finally, war is upon the land as the Elves and Dwarves are stacking troops in Sarnia, and the Elves cover the mountains trying to find other ways into the Dwarven Kingdom. Jahli has the group take the box they had acquired for him before, and travel to the Elven Kingdom to warn him of the human's plot to make the Elves and Dwarves fight, so they can conquer the land easier, and to give him the box which contains a weapon that can neutralize the technologically advanced humans. Along they way they find themselves ambushed by humans who have learned of their mission. They send an airstrike to destroy the group and their new landboat. Jacapo teleports Zeefur out of the exploding vehicle just in time, but the box and it's contents are destroyed. The group sneaks its way to the capital where they are greeted with skepticism. The King hears them and believes them, but Jacapo does not like the way the Gnomes are treated and tries to poison the Elves making him a wanted criminal.  A cease-fire is reached between the Elves and Dwarves upon learning of the humans so the group makes a hasty exit and heads home, leaving some of their party in custody of the elves pending Jacapo's capture. Back in the Gnome Kingdom, the group get's their newly built air-boat and return to the Elf Capitol to negotiate. The elves learn of Jacapo's presence on the air-ship and try to capture him. This mess eventually boils down to Jacapo escaping and disappearing, the elves wrath destroying the Gnome Kingdom, and Zeefurs Death while blowing up the Elf palace, staying loyal to his misguided gnome compatriot. Eventually, the rest of the party is cleared, as long as Uncle Slave is under the guidance of the now returned Malkovia.