Flight from Purgatory

(a.k.a. Castlevania)

A Dungeons & Dragons (d20) (version 3.5) game run by Chris (Holmes), inspired by the atmosphere of the Castlevania series.

Currently running on Saturdays at 7 or 8pm EST on the Sandwich.net IRC server.

Last updated: 090808

(It's the Chapter One poster!)

Characters

Adam Smith (NinjaDebugger)
A teenage boy with a deck of formidable magic cards.
Artwork: (none yet)

Biff Mouser (NinjaDebugger)
A cute, talking housecat with a life for every new day. Familiar-for-hire, not to be confused with Theodore's cat.
Artwork: (none yet)

Charlotte (Demota)
Devout Pelorite and escort of the Inquisition.
Artwork: (none yet)

Murdock Mudskipper (Rudyard)
Called Skip. A jungle halfling rogue (not the thief-y type) with his heart bent on vengeance for his plague-decimated tribe.
Artwork: [1] [2]

Nyyx (Maha)
Natalia Ruthven, an unnaturally pale fighter with strange connections to Gregor's castle. She was apparently once a nun.
Artwork: [1] [2] [3]

Olivia Terrania (Mechalink)
A follower of Boccob, a woman with olive skin and black hair, dressed in a traveling outfit.
Artwork: (none yet)

Deceased PCs:
Gabriel Zaitsev (1TM) - Whip-wielding warrior taken by an addictive golem armlet. Became an NPC guard in the dead city in Gregor's demiplane.
Jonathan (1TM) - Gruff ranger/rogue with sticky fingers.
Lucas (Pretzel) - Called Brother/Father Lucas. A local priest, once imbued with essence of Marrash, once a lich, then bonded with the skin of a demon. Killed by Graycloak, who shattered him with a Cone of Cold.
Roland of Boccob (NinjaDebugger)- A cleric of Boccob, healer, and unheathily talented diviner. Killed in the Damacine Golem fight and now part of the amalgamated entity representing the Order of Boccob.

Retired/NPCed PCs:
Brute (Pretzel) - The one-third ogre otherwise known as Brute Servant of Pelor, Redeemed of All Evil by the Holy Church, Ward in the Care of Priests of the Church on Nine Storms in the Eastern Lands.
Oberon - (1TM) Human warlock. Formerly of the Pelorian Inquisition's mercenary group.
Siobhan - (1TM) An aggressive, outspoken female paladin of Pelor with a huge frackin' maul.
Theodore [1] - (Ed) Our resident wizard, better known as "David the Gnome." He also has a pet cat. Formerly a snake oil salesman.

NPCs
(These are my own notes on the party's knowledge - they could be flawed and are incomplete, so feel free to correct me.)
Alexandre du Pre - (Deceased) Mysterious traveler in gray who gave Gabriel the golem armlet. Keeps a boy servant.
Amarette - Cleric of Wee Jas, now the bearer of Alexandre du Pre's secrets.
Evelyn - Insane witch and researcher for Graycloak.
Graycloak - Undead denizen of the castle. Responsible for the jungle plague.
Gregor - Vampire lord of the castle. AKA Piotyr.
His Eminent Remains - A figure in black. Gregor's messenger. Mercykiller of Lifebreak.
Jordan - Kronenburg's blacksmith.
Lydia - Vampire, Gregor's ally and Nyyx's mother.
Olaf Kleppen - Mayor of Kronnenburg, alchemist, and ex-alcoholic.
Palanquin Hassad - Necromancer. Gregor's former master.
Perdo - Flashy undead mage who worked with Evelyn to form a pericarp breach in Gregor's demiplane.
Piotyr - Deceased priest of Pelor, once hero of Kronnenburg. AKA Gregor.
Simon - Gregor's crony, a self-proclaimed "artificer of life." Stephen Kleppen - Gregor's late teenaged vampire lackey, once Olaf Kleppen's son.

Resources

Reference materials from the GM.

Synopsis - A timeline put together by the GM.
World Map

Logs

Our game started as a live tabletop game, which had no logs; and, unfortunately, a harddrive death caused me to lose our earlier IRC logs. I'll try to clean these up as time allows.

Chapter 1 ~ Empty Chapel Choir ~

070323 - Escape from the collapsing demiplane.
070330 - First meeting with Gregor.
070406 - Return to town and meeting with Mayor Kleppen. Introduction to Biff.
070414 - Preparations for reentering the castle.
070428 - Meeting with the figure in black, Gregor's messenger.
070512 - Battle with Graycloak and his Riders. Lucas is killed.
070519 - Lucas' funeral.
070526 - (Incomplete log!) Returning to the castle and battling constructs.
070602 - Golem battle continued.
070609 - The Pelorian Inquisition sweeps through Kronenburg.

Chapter 2 ~ Abomination Quartet ~

070616 - Arrival in Providence, meeting with the Contact.
070623 - Biff leaves the party after a conflict with Oberon.
070630 - Splitting up with Oberon after a confrontation and planning to travel north.
070707 - Gating to Misted Vale and meeting Roland and Boccob's Contact.
070714 - Leaving Misted Vale and traveling north.
070721 - (log unavailable) Fast-talking some winter wolves and continuing north.
070811 - Finding an abandoned camp, figuring out where the bandits are located, and talking to the loggers.
070818 - Hunting bandits and smashing some heads.
070825 - Continuing toward the camp and catching a few ex-bandits afflicted with a Pact of Return.
070901 - Trailing the bandits to their cave and commencing combat.
070908 - Finishing combat and capturing the "man who cannot die."
070922 - Looting the cave, reporting back at the logging camp, and continuing on to Misted Vale.
070929 - Delivering the undying man to the Library and doing some shopping.
071013 - Interrogating Brother Khalid (the undying monk) at the Great Library and speaking with Boccob's Contact.
071020 - Arriving in plague-ridden Stovograd and speaking with the people in charge.
- 071020b - Side-conversation between Roland and Nyyx.
071027 - Gathering more information, heading into Stovograd, and destroying one flight of gargoyles with an Incite Riot/Fireball combo.
071103 - Continuing the rooftop advance and fighting another flight of gargoyles before reaching the tower.
071110 - Reaching the top of the tower and defeating a stone dragon.
071124 - Escaping the collapsing city and discovering there is more work to be done.
071201 - Reentering the town to fight an animated graveyard.
071208 - Bringing down the corrupt earth elemental.
071222 - Discovering that the source of the plague in Stovograd lies in the Realm of Shadow.
080105 - Gathering forces from town to prepare for the fight against the creature underneath Stovograd.
080112 - Descending the pit beneath the collapsed tower in the center of town.
080119 - Beginning the battle against the undead beast and its zombie minions underground.
080209 - Boss fight, continued.
080215 - Completing the boss fight. Nyyx's shadow becomes that of a little girl.
080223 - Battle aftermath.
080301 - Battle aftermath, continued.
080315 - Battle aftermath, continued; meeting and speaking with Amarette, the cleric of Wee Jas.
080329 - Battle aftermath, continued; attending the town hall gathering.
080405 - Travel preparations, leaving Stovograd, and fighting a strange amalgam beast.
080412 - Traveling toward the jungle.
080426 - Arriving in the infamous City of Secrets.
080510 - Slipping away from Wee Jas' sacred city. Biff Dominates a masked lady.
080517 - Reaching a jungle border village.
080531 - Meeting Olivia and moving deeper into the forest; uncovering a nasty surprise in the Shadow Elf village.
080607 - Moving on from the Shadow Elf village and arriving in Skip's old village.
080614 - Camping at the halfling village, then traveling toward the source of the curse.
080621 - Entering the temple ruins.
080628 - Temple continued.
080705 - Meeting Gregor at the bottom of the ruins and getting down to business.
080712 - Finishing the battle with Gregor. Biff is a vampire slayer.
080719 - Cleaning up after combat.
080802 - Exiting the temple and discovering that Gregor is not completely destroyed after all.
080816 - Returning to Misted Vale after Gregor's defeat.
080823 - Researching in the Great Library.
080830 - Debriefing the Boccobite Contact and receiving answers to a few questions.
080906 - Arriving in Lifebreak, returning Lydia to H.E.R., and discovering that H.E.R. is Nyyx's stepfather.
080920 - Descending into the crypts below Lifebreak.
080920 - Crypts continued.
081004 - Crypts continued.
081018 - Crypts continued.
081025 - Crypts continued.
081108 - Crypts continued.
081115 - Crypts continued. Encountering a tentacled ship beast (boss).
081122 - Continuing the tentacled ship beast boss fight.
081206 - Returning to the Lifebreak throne room and learning that the Well (prison) is under siege.
090103 - Approaching the Well to defend the prison tower.
090110 - The Well continued.
090117 - Defending the Well, attempting to destroy its most dangerous prisoners, and coming up against some of the Damacine Golem cult's harder hitters.
090131 - Finishing up the fight at the Well.
090207 - The Damacine Golem breaks through.
090214 - Fighting the Damacine Golem and retrieving the Red Stone from Stavograd.
090221 - Continuing the Damacine Golem fight and reaching the main tower.
090314 - Continuing the Damacine Golem fight.
090321 - Destroying the Damacine Golem. The Pact of the Seven Temples is broken.

Chapter 3

090411 - Skip receiving Bloody Smile from H.E.R., meeting Adam Smith.
090418 - Arriving in the desert town and chatting up some of the locals.
090425 - Checking out the market and visiting Abigail Deschains.
090502 - Conversation with Abigail continued.
090509 - Starting out into the desert and taming some sort of sand drake.
090606 - Entering desert ruins.
090627 - Continuing ruins exploration and encountering representatives of the Incarnadine and Peraclypse.
090711 - Continuing the conversation with Peraclypse, then escaping the ruins.
090718 - Revisiting the ruins to retrieve the non-human skeleton and narrowly escaping Peraclypse again.
090730 (mini) - Conversation between Olivia and Nyyx.
090801 (mini) - Nyyx and Olivia chat it up with Adam.

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