[Grynn] The Mouth of Gods, Sunhome, Halrua and the Oath of Leiges

So there was some kind of a session I missed in which there was a great deal of glory, treasure and interesting things on an off night. I suppose Tock was off contemplating books he had memorized or something.

Traveling through the desert, the group came upon the Mouth of Gods. This location is one of the only places that can penetrate the planar barrier. A series of riddles were asked which Tock won and was reward with the ability's of his latent fay bloodline [Nymph's Kiss] as a result. Inside there were nine slots, representative of the nine alignments. Upon investigation of the items, Mira took a magical hand puppet, Tock took Gaia's Blessing and Calwen took a powerful sword designed to kill Undead. Most of the other items were too dangerous to deal with. Between becoming a champion of light and taking a blessing from another deity, Labeoras Enolath was...'disappointed.' Like most of the Gods on Grynn, she was jealous of anything that didn't involve obsessive devotion to her and her alone despite Tock's full intent to worship her and create an honor in her name. Indeed, earlier he had been given one of the items that the group had forgotten they had taken from Ulshania (the mad elf) and sacriced it to her. In the process, he became a chamion of light, gaining all kind of new abilities including the ability to aid his companions slightly in bright light. The group then went farther into the cave and saw a brass dragon. It didn't give them any treasure because apparently they had sufficient. Tock asked if he had any books. There were two history books which Tock read and later sacrificed along with several others to Laboaelas Insecure. She seemed somewhat temporarily mollified. Tock asked if there was anything they could to do help the Brass dragon. In the process, he gave them lots of valuable information about things going on in the world and brass dragons he was worried about. Tock agreed to help as he could. Because of this, the guardian dragon offered to mark Tock. Since this mark would prevent other dragons from marking him and bending his will to theirs, plus the fact that this guardian was a goodly dragon, Tock agreed.

Along the way the group ran into two idiot wizards who were very tough. They died when Mira got close enough to them to kill them. Oh and Tock killed a lot of Hellhounds. They were after the Four. Then Snidely Whiplash came out from a rock and monologged. No one really cared. Tock did care that the bastards deliberately disintigrated his Holy Shot Gun of Awesomeness. Apparently, the weapon's power was so extreme that their intelligence briefing included instructions to eliminate this item.

Then a shadow dragon Mira had dealt with before and a BUNCH (as in a BUNCH) of shadows came through a gate. The shadow dragon hadn't thought about the stupidity of trying to kill someone who worshipped Lathander and had a sword designed to kill shadow dragons. It died, but not before the shadows had shlurped the party a lot. Calwen, Tock and the others killed lots of shadows. Before it died Mira cast statue on it so its body parts could be salvaged. Tock ate its heart and THIS time gained power from it, including an increase in strength and constitution as well as a resistance to Cold.

Then they ran into a bunch of giants that were good but sensed the evil with them, so Mira had to convince them that they were serving the greater good by guiding this evil to Sunhome to be healed. The giants escorted the group to Sunhome.

At Sunhome, Belvin dedicated a shrine to his goddess but there was no room for Athena at Sunhome except a spot inhabited by a bunch of homeless people. One of them was strangeled to death nearby, and Belvin didn't stop it. Aretemis was less than pleased with this as were the authorities who arrested him.

When the group found out about this the next morning they were, to say the least, concerned but could not see the exact site because it might tamper with the evidence [and allow Tock to use his aftersight ability] but they did all speak to Belvin's good character. A convoluted series of events then took place, the long and short of which is that Mira deduced that Halruan agents (refer to Snidely Whiplash above) were attempting to determine if the group had evidence about Snidely's wicked deeds. They did. One of the two dead dumb wizards had a journal. Concerned that Snidely was going to threaten Baron Greyskull (...name not exact) the group teleported with the Four back to Halrua and Castle Greyskull where they informed the Baron of Snidley's plans. Baron Greyskull was pleased and smote Snidley and blessed the group with power from the Haluran isle that made their soul's stouter.

The group the then teleported directly to the Citadel Adbar where the Oath of Leiges was present. Since he wasn't a delegate, the group put Tock in charge of security, which was pretty elaborate including a diversionary illusionary council, locks on the doors, coded arm bands, interviews and a gnome that could see through illusions. We'll see how well it worked.