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<b>Session 1:&nbsp;</b> What the Tide Washed In (26 Mafeeti 779 to 30 
		Mafeeti 779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Malek discovers a 
			dwarf clutching a sword on the beach on evening.&nbsp; He tells Koth 
			and they take him to Koth's home to rest.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">When the dwarf 
			awakens, he says that his name is Daane and that he and another 
			slave, a Sandoo named Rhyssh, escaped from a slaving ship.&nbsp; He 
			doesn't know what became of the Sandoo.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Malek and Koth ask 
			Ward for help.&nbsp; Ward, who is bored, agrees.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Malek and Koth go to 
			Barry, a young cleric of <a href="../Counsil%20Deities/Tfop.htm">
			<span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">Tfop</font></span></a> 
			who is a friend, and ask him to care for Daane while they locate the 
			Sandoo.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">They find that the 
			Sandoo is being held by the town guards until a group can arrive 
			from Palumbton to take him away.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Koth goes to his 
			father for advice.&nbsp; His father tells him that the group from 
			Palumbton&nbsp;will most likely kill the Sandoo, and the dwarf is 
			they find him.&nbsp; He says the only way to save them is to get 
			they out of North Palumbton.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">While Daane recovers, 
			they plan an escape.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">
		<b>Session 2:</b>&nbsp; Running Away From Home (1 Napay 779 to 5 Napay 
		779)</p>
		<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The night before the 
			group from Palumbton is set to arrive, Koth and company attempt to 
			rescue Rhyssh.&nbsp; They lore one of the three guards out of the 
			building he is being kept in and knock him out.&nbsp; The other two 
			come out and fight with creatures Malek has summoned while Ward and 
			Daane free Rhyssh.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">With Rhyssh freed, 
			the six go to Koth's home.&nbsp; Koth's father gives them some 
			advice, and when the guards come to Koth's home, he delays them 
			until Koth and others and get away.&nbsp; They flee towards nearby 
			Mount Fury.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 3:</b>&nbsp; A 
		Huntsman, A Grovetender, and A Flamemaster (6 Napay 779 to 10 Napay 779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The group reaches 
			Mount Fury and begins the long trip around it.&nbsp; Before they can 
			clear the mountain, they are caught by a Huntsman named Scain from 
			Palumbton.&nbsp; They manage to fight Scain off after killing his 
			Vass apprentice.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">As they continue 
			their journey wounded, they are attacked by two Ettin.&nbsp; While 
			they are able to survive the attack and learn of the existence of a 
			cleric of <a href="../Counsil%20Deities/Habastly.htm">
			<span style="text-decoration: none">
			<font color="#000080">Habastly</font></span></a><font color="#000080">
			</font>in the mountain, they are also badly wounded.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">They find a cave 
			which they believe to be the home of the cleric of Habastly, but is 
			actually the home of Gainer, a Flamemaster of
			<a href="../Counsil%20Deities/Sutyr.htm">
			<span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">Sutyr</font></span></a><span style><font color="#000080">.</font><font color="#000000">&nbsp; 
			He tricks them into coming in and almost captures them all.&nbsp; 
			Daane stays behind to give the others time to escape, but is 
			captured.</font></span></li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The others watch as a 
			Daane is taken to a cave in the mountain.&nbsp; While they are 
			deciding what to do, a human approaches them from high on the 
			mountain and bids them come with him.&nbsp; He is Mortin, the cleric of <a href="../Counsil%20Deities/Habastly.htm">
			<font color="#000080"><span style="text-decoration: none">Habastly</span></font></a> 
			and <a href="../Prestige%20Classes/Grovetender.htm">
			<span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">
			Grovetender</font></span></a> for the area.&nbsp; He offers them 
			healing and a place to rest.&nbsp; They agree.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The next day they 
			return to near Gainer's cave to plan a rescue.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 
		4:</b>&nbsp; Become the Hunter (10 Napay 779 to 13 Napay 779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">As the group watches 
			the cave, they see Scain and some others approach.&nbsp; 
			Rhyssh discovers that Gainer is going to sell Daane to Scain.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">They plan to attack 
			Scain after he leaves Gainer's cave.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">As they are trailing 
			Scain, they notice some Ettins not to far away.&nbsp; Rhyssh is able 
			to lore the Ettins near and then trick them into attacking Scain.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">During the battle, 
			the group rescues Daane and leaves.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">After the battle, they rest with and 
			thank Mortin.&nbsp; He suggests they go east, to the city of 
			Habastalai, home of his religion.&nbsp; The group agrees and leaves.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 
		5:</b>&nbsp; Habastalai to the East (13 Napay 779 to 23 Napay 779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">While traveling east 
			through the rough lands around Mount Fury, the group encounters many 
			Ettin as well as several other dangerous creatures.&nbsp; Some they 
			run from, some they fight.&nbsp; They recognize the Ettin that had 
			captured Daane, and try to track him down.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 
		6:</b>&nbsp; 
		Tracking Basics (24 Napay 779 to 29 Napay 779)
		<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">They find that the 
			Ettin comes from a tribe of hundreds that lives on the base of Mount 
			Fury.&nbsp; Rhyssh discovers that they are trying to perform some 
			great summoning ritual.&nbsp; Partially for revenge and partially to 
			stop the summoning of what the group assumes is a dangerous 
			creature, they plan to attack.&nbsp; After days of reconnaissance, 
			they find a tribal leader.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">They send for the 
			Mortin to help them.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 
		7:</b>&nbsp; Double the Prophet (30 Napay 779 to 24 Progonust 779)
		<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">They begin their 
			assault at midnight.&nbsp; Malek's summoned creatures and Mortin's 
			called lightning cause mass 
			confusion, while Rhyssh's arrows come from all directions from 
			outside the village.&nbsp; The Ettins are confused and disorganized.&nbsp; 
			Koth, Daane, Malek, and Ward rush towards the home of the leader.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Reaching the leader's 
			home, they charge inside and are greeted by Dire Wolves and a 
			praying Ettin.&nbsp; They kill the wolves and attack the Ettin, who 
			yells that they cannot stop his prophecies, and that his glory will 
			come to pass.&nbsp; Koth then crushes one skull, while Ward splits 
			the other.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The group leaves the 
			town and collects Rhyssh and Barry.&nbsp; They continue their trip 
			to Habastalai.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">
		<br>
		<b>Session 8:</b>&nbsp; City of Life (25 Progonust 779 to 28 Progonust 
		779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Shortly before the 
			group reaches Habastalai, and now moving through a forest terrain 
			none of them has ever been in before, they fall into the web of an 
			Ettercap and its spiders.&nbsp; The group is immobilized and nearly 
			killed when two clerics of Habastly, hearing the battle, arrive.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">A gnome and a 
			bugbear, named Fitzgnwitz and Ooma, drive off the Ettercaps and 
			spiders.&nbsp; They introduce themselves as guardians of the forest 
			around Habastalai and offer to take the group the rest of the way.&nbsp; 
			They agree and go to Habastalai.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">For several days, 
			they rest and heal in the overgrown city of life.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">It is in Habastalai 
			that Daane tells the rest of the group of a cabal known as the Day 
			Turned Dark.&nbsp; He says that he plans to continue to the port of 
			Northut where he can sail to his home of Port Springs and continue 
			to battle the cabal.&nbsp; He offers the other a chance to come with 
			him and see the world, gaining knowledge so that they can one day 
			return to Palumbton and challenge its bigoted ways.&nbsp; They 
			agree, and Rhyssh concedes to go as well, since he has no way of 
			reaching the desert alone.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>
		Session 9:</b>&nbsp; Summoned to Hunt (28 Progonust 779 to 8 Baston Sun 
		779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">After leaving 
			Habastalai, the group is set upon by Gargoyles, Wyvern, Spiders, and 
			Mephits.&nbsp; Malek quickly determines that all of these creatures 
			are being summoned.&nbsp; For days, they are harassed until Rhyssh 
			finally catches sight of their tormentor.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The summoner brings 
			every creature he can to fight off the group, but it is not enough 
			and he is forced to flee.&nbsp; Daane says that he believes the 
			summoner was a member of the Day Turned Dark.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The group continues 
			their journey more peacefully.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 
		10:</b>&nbsp; A Hag in the Way (8 Baston Sun 779 to 27 Baston Sun 779)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">For weeks, the group 
			travels more or less peacefully through the forests and plains.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">As they near the city 
			of Northut, they approach the coast.&nbsp; One night, a hag attacks 
			the camp.&nbsp; Once again, the group's unfamiliarity with the land 
			put them in harms way.&nbsp; Although they survive, Ward loses his 
			eye in the fight.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">The group reaches 
			Northut.</li>
		</ul>
		<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px"><b>Session 
		11:</b>&nbsp; The Biggest City They've Ever Seen (28 Baston Sun 779 to 
		New Year's Year 780)<ul>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Once in the city, 
			they quickly discover that there is a bounty on Daane and quickly go 
			into hiding.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Trying to stay 
			hidden, Daane attempts to find passage on a ship.&nbsp; He encounter 
			Evanni Silverheart, a member of the Horari-Taka Corsairs and a 
			captain that agrees to take them to Port Springs.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">Before Daane can get 
			back to the others, they are attacked by bounty hunters.&nbsp; They 
			drive off the bounty hunters, but kill one in the process.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">When Daane returns, 
			they are attacked again, this time they are forced to run to the 
			ship to escape.&nbsp; When they reach the ship, Evanni drives off 
			the bounty hunters.</li>
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			<p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px">As they are about to 
			leave, Ward announces he has had enough.&nbsp; He plans to return to 
			Palumbton and abandon Daane's quest.&nbsp; He asks if anyone will 
			join him.&nbsp; Barry, homesick and fearful of the open seas, 
			agrees.&nbsp; The group says farewell, and goes their separate ways.</li>
		</ul>

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