The Wolfsheads Band

DM: Craig
Adventure: Tomb of the Lizard King: I4
Date: 28th March 1990

The Wolfsheads:

Aldor of Tempus: human, male, Cleic 8 (F3), CN
Gilfronden: elf, male, Fighter 6/ Mage 6, CN
Murwood: human, male, Bard 7 (F 5/ T6), NG
Shartor, human, female, Mage 3 (F4), CN
Shamahl: human, female, Druid 5, N

Aurura: human, female, Fighter 5, N

Aldor and Gilfronden head back to Waterdeep with Shartor's body. They leave Murwood (now a statue) in the swamp.
On the final days tramp through the marshes they stumble across a battle. Several adventurers are fighting off a band of lizardmen. The Wolfsheads come to the rescue driving off the lizardmen but not before one of the new party, the Bloodied Claw dies. The two survivor agree to accompany the Wolfsheads back to Waterdeep. They are Shamahl, a druid, and a dwarven fighter called El-Kasar.

Back in Waterdeep they arrange to get Shartor raised. Shamahl agrees to join the party on the return to the Lizard Marshes. They rest in Waterdeep for a few days then start the return journey.Back in the swamp they locate Murwood's statue and use a scroll to restore him to normal.

Near the evening of the third day in the swamp they are attacked by 3 fog giants. The battle is bloody and most of the Wolfsheads run for safety after being pounded by the giants, leaving Aldor to fight them. Gilfronden uses a fireball spell from his scroll to kill the giants. Aldor survives the blast thanks to his plate mail of fire resistance.

The next day they find an old temple and begin to explore. Killing a few lizardmen guards. Murwood locates a secret door and finds himself in a large cavern where he discovers Alucius, a very old black dragon) and flees. The dragon flies out of the cavern via another exit and attacks the Wolfsheads from behind. The PCs flee into the dragons cave. Gilfronden and Shartor hit it with fireballs but then Shartor is killed by the dragon's breathe. The rest of the party manages to slay the dragon after a tough fight. They take much treasure (scimitar +4 defender, plate +1 & 31,000 gp in gems) then head back into the swamp and set up camp.

They rest up for a couple of days then return to the temple. They penetrate into the lower halls and are attacked by brigands. The brigands are slain and the party explores their level without finding anything of interest so they return to the room where the battle occurred and question the brigand leaders via Aldor's speak with dead spell. At this point three trolls stumble across them and attack. The trolls die.

23rd April 1990
The Wolfsheads explore deeper into the underground complex beneath the temple. They discover a clerical ceremony in which two humans are about to be sacrificed and rescue the two sacrifices- a human thief (Marney) and a human fighter (Aurura- Mark) who agree to accompany the party.

In the head clerics room they find a statuette of a demon and Aldor outraged breaks it, thus summoning the demon! The Wolfsheads shit themselves and flee pursued by the demon. It corners them in a dead end but they manage to wound it and make it flee back to its on plane- for the moment...

The Wolfsheads leave the temple to rest up for a couple of days and regain their strength,

Returning to the temple they are attacked in the great hall by 16 zombies and 14 wights! But fortunately Gilfronden kills the wights with a fireball and the zombies are quickly killed.

They find a trap door and head down into the lower levels, but they trigger a trap and the stairs turn into a slide. Aldor and Aurura both slide into a pit, Murwood is left clinging to the top of the slide while Gilfronden casts a featherfall followed by a fly spell and so escapes. The lower part of the pit is full of magical flames and Aurura is burnt to death but Aldor survives, once again due to his magical armour and manages to escape.

Pressing onwards they find several canoes on the bank of an underground river start paddling. They soon enter a large cavern and are attacked by giant crocodiles but they make it to shore. They see a large building in the centre of the cavern and head towards it. They are attacked by a band of wights. Four wights are killed before the others are turned by Aldor but not before Murwood is drained of two levels but the wights touch.

They head into this under temple and eventually locate the vampiric lizard king responsible for the lizard men raids and slay him.

The Victorious Wolfsheads return to Waterdeep.

Treasure:
Dragons Horde: scimitar +4 defender, plate mail +1, 75 gems (31,000 gp value)
The Lizard king: 3,000 pp, javelin of lightning, javelin of piercing, 8x dust of disappearance, ring of wishes (1), potion of extra-healing, scroll (clerical): resist fire, cure critical wounds x2, raise dead.