A. Ilmak and Garrick the Mad went to search the tomb of Vecna for the eye. They fought legions of ghouls guarding the tomb in the ruins outside Erelhi-Cinlu, the drow city. Once they reached the tomb they found the crypt was opened and a V was carved into the stone wall. They killed some mindflayer scouts investigating the ruins when they departed to return to the surface.
When they returned the surface they learned that Veszafein the drow had beaten the party to the tomb and seized the eye for himself. He used the eye to capture and imprison Orcus and is now the ruler of Ironview, and the new head of the Archmage Council.
B. Hotspur has a lifelong oath to free all unjustly imprisoned beings, so he lead the prisoners adjacent to the temple in a slave revolt against their drow masters. This revolt significantly weakened the city's defenses. Sensing the city's weakness, the mindflayer launched an attack from the ruins next to the city, where they had been amassing a small army. The troglodyte mercenaries retreated back across the sunless sea, leaving only a small number of drow city guard to defend the city against the mindflayers' army of aberrant creatures.
The liberated slaves found a gate in one of the city's mage towers that lead back to the surface world near Summerspring, which the Drow were using to deploy scouts seeking the world tree. Hotspur lead them to the surface where they sought refuge in the great Feywilds. The encampment was overrun and scattered by an evil army of Feywild creatures that are headed out of the woods and on their way to Mistmeadow. Hotspur used his animal form to warn Mistmeadow of the impending attack by evil winged and crawling creatures from the ruins of the ancient city at the heart of the feywild.
C. Triel, Garret, and Brock freed three political prisoners, The Young Sir Blackshore (the Duke's son), Prince Shadowmarsh (heir to the throne), and Queen Esmerelda of the Dwarves of Ironview. They proceeded into the Demonweb where they fought a doppleganger of Garret who appeared from a cursed magical pool and then met a ferocious band of Tanar'ri. Garret beheaded the most powerful demon with the sword of Kas.
The party also slew several drow priestess acolytes who were breeding demonic hybrids. They found and rescued a Gnome who explained that his people had been imprisoned by Lolth and forced to build the great machine that made the red mist and her silver spidership that she uses to travel between worlds. He offered to help them disarm the evil machine.
They advanced further into the demonweb and found the city of spires where the red mist was coming from. Inside they found Lady Xyrlynn and her generals, who were preparing for battle. They engaged and defeated Xyrlynn and her generals. Brock beheaded Xyrlynn and burned the rest of her body. A terrible demon creature with a stinging scorpion tail crawled out of the Demonweb and killed Esmerelda and Prince Shadowmarsh, before it was defeated. They found several magical items including a magical mirror, the money she had taken from them, the dagger of Tanar'ri, and the Hand of Storath.
The gnome crawled down into the machine which was about 1 mile cubed in size and was suspended in the web under the spire city. He destroyed the machine and great gushes of fire erupted from it, destroying the spired city. The tower the party was in had 12 gates to other worlds. They initially selected to grab an emaciated and imprisoned elf they found just inside one of the gates leading to a great battlefield on the plane of Hades. They grabbed the elf and retreated back through to the tower then went to another gate before the tower was destroyed collapsing the gate behind them.
They found themselves in the plane of Soulfreeze near Aseroth's temple monastery. In the nearby town they tried to befriend the locals to no avail. The locals retreated when the elf they had freed in Hades turned out to be Lolth's crazed silver dragon mount. The dragon had been corrupted since her days as Aurshnee, a fair elven goddess, and now hungered constantly for mortal flesh. The party put down the dragon, and Young Sir Blackshore delivered the killing blow with a crossbow bolt through the eye into its brain.
Using the magical mirror they took from Xyrlynn, Triel found a way to summon a gate back to Mistmeadow and the party left the Abyss as Aseroth's servants arrived in the snowy village to capture them. Back in Mistmeadow they learned that the world of Gladomain was at war. Below are several events taking place in the outlying areas of Greater Gladomain:
1. Zirakas the Evil Jungle Prince is marching north out of the Foreverglades to seize the abandoned keep of Shadowmarsh Cliffs.
2. Ironview is marching to reclaim and rebuild the ruins of Marshgate. Nortumals forces burned the keep and retreated into the Foreverglade Marsh.
3. The Goblin Lord has laid seige to the catacombs beneath Mistmeadow to reclaim the corridors the Duergar moved into when the the Bear Khan was killed in his court.
4. Draconis has requested a muster of all available forces to return to the capitol city and defend the Empire. The gnoll, orc, and other barbarian hordes on their city-states' borders are growing larger each day and they have trouble coordinating their defenses due to internal squabbling following the Emperors assassination. His assailant disintegrated the emperors body with a powerful magical poison, preventing resurrection of the body after death.
5. The Drow city of Erelhi-Cinlu is under seige by the Mind Flayers that live below. The city's reserves were weakened by the slave revolt and when the mind flayers army marched on the city, many of their troglodyte mercenaries retreated back across the sunless sea.
6. Baron Redspawn has sent orders for his army to march on Lighthedge Point and capture any deserters that have left Summerspring for the Duchy. He has informed the Duchy that harboring deserters will be seen as a declaration of war against the Empire. The Sybarite Isle and Kodrus Vale have both sent forces to defend the city at the request of the Mayor of Lighthedge Point, who says he has no intention of bowing to the Baron’s threats.
7. Mistmeadow is recovering from Lolth's machine. One in ten people were consumed by the abyssal creatures that stalked the city for the past several weeks. There are rumors that the Goblin Lord has been pressing the Governor to allow them to use Gladomain Keep and the catacombs below. The Governor has not acquiesced, but it is unlikely he could oppose them if they chose to use force. The local have no great love for the Duergar, who have taken liberties with the locals of Mistmeadow and are suspected of having enslaved several citizens.
8. The Eastern Kingdoms of Turath have declared war on Barovia. A great cloud of thick gray magical mist has expanded out of the Barovian mountains and is enveloping their lands. Those cities that have been swallowed in the mist have not been heard from again. Many have entered the misted lands, including the famed order of templars known as the Red Cloaks, but none have returned.
9. A new ruler has taken the throne in Laxryxith after saving the lands from pirate invaders from the stars. The old minotaur King retired and gave his crown to their new hero, then set sail to the west on an exploratory quest, as is the tradition among the kings of Laxryxith.
10. The Shogunate of the Heavens is liberating the desert shieks' cities that were occupied by the Dark Lord Nortumal's forces. Most of the occupiers have retreated into the swamps to Nortumal's tomb/lair. Nortumal is rumored to have grown even more powerful since his defeat on the Isle of Nidhogg in the underdark.
