Level up

We are levelling to 21, as per James, DM. This will happen during YCON, (yurt) CON.

Cauldron

Trixie and Smily check out the corner of the cavern, and see a steaming cauldron. A form emerges from the cauldron, claiming to be Vard. "Your existence will no longer be tolerated." He uses a smoldering eye attack on Kynareth and Rhadhar. The battle is on! The cauldron hisses, and a troll appears and attacks Kynareth. Falcon attacks with a Ray of Frost. Vard retaliates, but misses. Kynareth attacks and hits for fire damage. Skelder hits both the troll and Vard. Friar Jim uses Turn Undead, hitting both Vard and the Troll, and pusing them and the cauldron into a nearby creek. Vard is also immoblized as Trixie attacks, bloodying him.

The trolls attack Skelder, dealing some damage, and Falcon returns the favor. Vard shakes off his immobilization and attacks with a baleful eye. However, he does no damage. Kynareth teleports next to Vard, and sends a bolt of lightning at Vard, which misses. However, he then teleports to the trolls, and hits them. 

Another troll appears and attacks the bard.  Skelder attempts to jump in the cauldron, yelling, "Great deeds require great sacrifices."  However, he is pushed away with some psychic damage. Friar Jim releases the power of the sun, killing one troll, damaging all enemies and stunning them as well. 

Rhadhar leaps to the attack, but another troll appears from the cauldron and attempts to attack Friar Jim, but accidentally hits another nearby troll. Bo Jangles hits a troll, and Falcon hits as well. Skelder attacks Vard, causing major damage. Friar Jim attacks with Searing Light, blinding Vard. Rhadhar takes advantage, attacking with shrouds. Both trolls attack the bard, and he responds with a dirge of inescapable doom. 

Skelder, wanting to get into the cauldron, discovers that we need a scroll to perform a ceremony on the cauldron. We don't seem to have that. Skelder attacks Vard, stuffing his head into the cauldron and killing him. Friar Jim heals Bo Jangles, who uses his Magic Mandolin of Magnificence to discover a door behind us in the cavern, a possible hiding place for the scroll we need. Falcon uses a shock sphere, which misses, fortunately, because he also would have hit some allies. Kynareth also attacks using an area spell, hitting Bo Jangles and Friar Jim. Friar Jim, rattled from the attack, misses. Kynareth is hit by a troll, and retaliates with dual lightning strike, killing 2 trolls. Skelder kills the final troll, and we use the key from Vard on the door.

We find the scroll, and find out how to destroy the cauldron. We destroy the stone cauldron. In the vault we find a life force amulet (worth 1,600,000 gold) +4 magic scale armor, +3 lightning mace, 1,080 gold, jeweled statue worth 2500, 1000 gold emerald and fire opal, and black pearl worth 500. 2 mithril rings (15,000 each).  We find Sun Wrath, the sword which we can return to the Baron, who gives us a prize goat from his herd. His name is Kenny. He follows us and carries our load, giving a +1 movement bonus. 

Rhadhar gets amulet

Kynareth gets armor

Friar Jim gets the mace

the other 3 get 12000 gold each.

Kenny will be the team goat and mascot.

Onward

After dispatching the Dark Initiate, we sneak into a cavern through the chasm. We see a cat-like creature lying on a bed of straw. Bo Jangles engages in chemical warfare, but the displacer beast endures. It appears to be asleep. The Sorceress Trixie suddenly appears, joining Blue is High on a whim for some entertainment before retiring for the evening. Rhadhar attempts to sneak up to the beast, and gets very close before Skelder yells out "Coup de Grat!" Rhadhar administers poison, and the beast goes limp.

Going around the corner, we are confronted by 3 Ghost Troll Renders. Trixie deals stinky smell damage. Rhadar attacks, and pulls one troll away from the group. Friar Jim gets hit, and then Kynareth damages the other two, then teleports and attacks again. Friar Jim misses, and Falcon attempts a concussive echo, hitting a troll. Kynareth is hit by ongoing necrotic damage. Skelder misses, and Trixie steps up and unleashes an emotional attack on the troll, blooding it. Friar Jim dodges an attack, and Kynareth shifts, and unleashes a flame cyclone, hitting 2 trolls. Rhadhar gets hit, and Friar Jim strikes out weakly, hitting one troll. Trixie finishes off that same troll while one of the remaining trolls hits Kynareth. Skelder hits, but Rhadhar misses. Kynareth hits one troll, knocking it prone. Bo Jangles misses, and Friar Jim hits one troll, healing Kynareth at the same time. Falcon attacks with lightning speed, bloodying the second troll. Skelder kills one troll, and the other hits Bo Jangles and dodges three more attacks, before Falcon conjures an army of snowmen, scaring the troll into retreating.

Full Moon

The full moon rises over the Feywild as Blue is High. Rhadhar has just disappeared from the throne of Skalmad. Skelder's new eye protrudes from his eye socket, a pulsing red gem. The rest of the band follow Rhadhar into what we hope is the Feywild. We reappear again near a crossroads. We see rolling hills and trees, with the ruins of a fortress, and a door beckoning us to enter. We do.

We enter through a small hole, and we find ourselves inside, with a chasm interrupting the path.Bo Jangles does a gonad punch so Rhadhar can teleport across the chasm. Kynareth throws Bo Jangles across, and we follow the path to find pieces of a statue. Friar Jim finds a gem inside the head of the statue. It doesn't seem to be magical, but it looks very similar to the gem in Skeldar's face.

We continue to a crumbling out-building. We are hit with black fire, and a Femorian Dark Initiate comes out of the outpost. Falcon misses her with his Ray of Frost. Kynareth hits her, and she teleports a short distance away. Rhadhar attacks, but misses. She hits most of the party with a gaze, dazing us. Skelder unleases the dancing lightning, hitting her. She looks at Skelder and seems to tremble. Friar Jim hits her with Searing light, blinding her. Kynareth hits her with a spinning kick. She hits several party members with a black flame. Skelder unleashes the smoldering eye, and she shudders. Friar Jim uses Beacon of Hope and begins to heal the party, since several of us are bloodied. Falcon hits with a ranged attack, and Kynareth whiffs with 2 attacks. Rhadhar misses as well. Skelder focuses his eye on the Femorian Dark Initiate, and she falls prone, trembling in fear. We ask about the Cauldron, and she replies, "the Fortress!" We ask again, and she replies, "Vard. King Vard guards it." Worried about her following us, we kill her, and take her guard wages.