*
Through
the Darkness Into Dream -- November
4, 2004
"Holy
Emperor Rehoboth was no longer welcome in Ptolus...."
*
Councils
and Plans -- June 24, 2004
"The
Runewardens were called before the Commissar and the
Twelve Commanders...."
*
Once
More, Against Chaos! -- May 6, 2004
"The
Runewardens arrived back in Ptolus with an idea of what
needed to be done...."
*
This
Is the Way the World (or at least the city) Ends
-- April 2, 2004
"Seers
had been seeing foreboding omens for a long time...."
*
A
Tale of Two Liches -- January 29,
2004
"The
Company of the Black Lantern needed to find a criminal
in Ptolus named Aggah-Shan, who had stolen an important
book they were hired to recover...."
*
The
Jewels of Parnaith, Part 3 -- November
7, 2003
"Having
made their way out of Imn, the Jewel of Energy, the
group passed through the next colordoor using
the illitor into Av...."
*
The
Jewels of Parnaith, Part 2 -- September
4, 2003
"Following
Sister Mara's divination, the group, with their new
allies Kor and Asa, attempted to breach Damarkan's tower
from underneath...."
*
Ptolus
Comes Alive! -- August 15, 2003
"The
Ptolus game has technically ended (yes, I am way, way
behind on the Ptolus updates). However, I'm going to
be starting up the game again..."
*
Lies
Within Lies -- July 3, 2003
"Before
Gaerioth left with the other adventurers to explore
the Seven Jewels of Parnaith, he, Sercian, Vexander,
and Tellian took a well-deserved rest. They had just
dealt a terrible blow to their enemies, the dark elves
that had kept Sercian prisoner for so long...."
*
The
Jewels of Parnaith, Part 1 -- May
8, 2003
"Having
gathered everything they believed they needed for a
foray into the mysterious Seven Jewels of Parnaith,
the adventurers were ready to go...."
*
Black
Rain -- April 24, 2003
"As
a mystical black rain fell on Ptolus, cutting off the
world from the power of the gods, Helmut Itlestein plotted
nothing less than the invasion of the Holy Palace...."
*
The
Challenge and Aftermath -- April
3, 2003
"To
get an item they knew only as the orrery, the intrepid
band of heroes formally challenged the item's current
holders, House Vladaam...."
*
The
Challenge Is Issued -- February 6,
2003
"Having
walked, unaccosted, out of the Dark Reliquary, Shurrin,
Aliya, Mara, Zophas, Canabulum, and Urlenius deserved
a nice long rest...."
*
Heroes
Against Evil -- December 12, 2002
"Mara,
Shurrin, Aliya, Canabulum, Zophas, and Urlenius the
Star of Navashtrom decided to enter the Dark Reliquary
to rescue the trapped soul of their ally, Andach the
druid...."
*
Chaos
and Deception -- November 7, 2002
"With
the Black Lantern elves interested in taking on dark
elves, Urlenius the ogre-mage contacts Mara, Shurrin,
Aliya, Canabulum, and Zophas to tell them about the
chaos temple he helped find down in the sewers...."
*
The
Revenge of the Black Lanten -- August
7, 2002
"Gaerioth
and Sercian, back in the surface city, learned from
a monk of a minor order that there was some trouble
at an apartment house in Oldtown...."
*
The
Box of Shadows, Part 2 -- July 3,
2002
"So,
Serai, Aliya, Shurrin, Zophas, and Mara had just left
Storamere's lair. On the way, they were hounded by shadowdancers
and shadowmages...."
*
An
Asylum and a Palace -- June 27, 2002
"Serai,
Aliya, Shurrin, and Mara had, much earlier, learned
that a shipment of chaositech was coming into the city
through Mahdoth's Asylum...."
*
The
Box of Shadows, Part 1 -- May 27,
2002
"Serai
Lorenci learned that an elf by the name of Daersidian
Ringsire could tell him more about a strange key Serai's
mother had given him...."
*
The
End of the Company? -- May 9, 2002
"The
Company of the Black Lantern was still determined to
explore the unexplored. They ventured into Dwarvenhearth
yet again..."
*
At
Last! A Ptolus City Map! -- May 3,
2002
"This
map of the City of Ptolus by cartographer Rob Lee was
commissioned for The Banewarrens...."
*
Bonds
Forged -- March 15, 2002
"The
Company of the Black Lantern had been driven from Dwarvenhearth
after a surprise attack by dark elves somehow already
inside the city. Undeterred by this turn of events,
however, they went back in, more prepared than ever...."
*
The
Lords of Dust and Ash -- March 8,
2002
"Sister
Mara, Serai, Shurrin, Aliya, and their new ally Zophas
found themselves in a strange place -- transported via
the Signet of Shallamoth Kindred to a strange chamber
called the Tourbillion...."
*
Getting
in Deep -- January 16, 2002
"The
Company of the Black Lantern continued to poke around
the cave where the slain red dragons lived. They made
an ally of a sort of fungus druid...."
*
Dungeons
and (Three) Dragons -- December 8,
2001
"To
continue with the story of the Ptolus campaign, we go
now to the Company of the Black Lantern. After their
dealings with the other PC group involving Helmut Itlestein..."
*
The
Union of Two Adventuring Companies --
November 8, 2001
"Getting
out of the Dark Reliquary was going to be really difficult.
Not the least of the group's worries was that a marilith
named Drusii seemed to taken an interest in them...."
*
Crypts
and Crime Lords -- October 18, 2001
"When
last we left our heroes, the newly-christened Company
of the Black Lantern had gotten trapped near an underground
prison, and the other group was on its way to the Necropolis...."
*
The
Story Continues -- October 12, 2001
"So
Mara, Aliya, Serai, and Shurrin learned that the Temple
of the Rat God, whom they knew to be in league with
the ratmen, sought someone with knowledge of machines
to help with a job...."
*
The
Story Begins -- September 21, 2001
"Now
that you know a little about the city and the player
characters, let me show what happened when they came
together for the first time...."
*
Life
in the City -- August 24, 2001
"So finally, without much more ado, let's talk
about Ptolus, the city, itself. The following is a brief
summary of some of the more important aspects of the
city...."
*
Technology
in Ptolus -- June 22, 2001
"Technology
has advanced in Ptolus, through the study of the forces
of law, so that gunpowder fires bullets from single-shot
dragon-pistols and dragon-rifles...."
*
Characters
in Ptolus -- June 15, 2001
"The
following bit is another excerpt from the handout I
gave the players in the Ptolus campaign. It may seem
strange that, in a campaign that's supposed to be true
to D&D, I've altered the races somewhat. There were
two reasons for this...."
*
Geography
-- May 19, 2001
"Here is the geography part
of the handout that I gave to the players of my campaign.
Although the entire campaign takes place within a single
city called Ptolus, the surrounding world still plays
a big part...."
*
The
Ptolus Campaign -- May 11,
2001
"Here is the first part of a handout
I gave to the players in my campaign. It discusses the
overall feel and nature of the campaign...."
*
Ptolus:
An Introduction -- April 28,
2001
"Ptolus is the name of a city with
extremely ancient origins and a long, convoluted past.
It's also the name of the campaign that I have set there...."
