BLOOD AND SOULS FOR MY LORD ARIOCH : ELRIC OF MELNIBONE

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The Desert Light, and a Side Adventure in the Writhing Swamp

Where riches are won, nightmarish creatures are met and an ancient mysterious relic is recovered.

Autumn 2,301 Meldigian Reckoning

On the way word reaches the party of a Black Dragon terrorising farmlands near the Writhing Swamp. The party hunts and slays two black dragons only to be nearly slain themselves by a even more fearsome Frogemoth in the swamp. The party returns to Dresden with the dragons hoard and heads south again.

The cryptic map leads the party south beyond Irilian to an ancient abandoned fortress overlooking the trade road called "Tomorold". From here a light is seen in the desert and the part follows it to find an old palace like fortress half buried under the shifting sand dunes. From a high tower in this fortress shines a light. The party's horses will not go near the building and indeed a sense of foreboding is felt by everyone. Within is found an amorphous tentacled creature of nightmares which nearly defeats the party. Upon its vanquishing the sense of evil and dread departs.

In a chamber deep beneath the complex the party finds a secret room guarded by 5 headless creatures made of sand which the party slays. In the center of the room is a pedestal on which is a green/grey stone in the shape of a pentacle. Enveloping the is a ball of white flame. When touched by the Ankara he was enveloped in this flame and as if under control of another force he turned and said the words "rise Lythanicus the Keeper" whereupon a crumbling skeleton in the room swirled up into its old form the flashed away from the chamber like a comet. After this the party decided to head back to Dresden.

[ Introduction ] [ Halls of Tizen Thane ] [ Trouble at Embertrees ] [ The Chagmat Spiderfolk of LBM ] [ Attack of the Fishmen Assassins ] [ The Desert Light ] [ A Dark Rising at Irilian ] [ A Wander in the Forest ] [ The Retaking of Blue Hills Keep ] [ The Valley of the Earth Mother ] [ The Battle of Dungaelen ] [ The Forest of Doom ] [ The Dragon Hunt ] [ The Wandering Trees ] [ The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun ] [ The Quest of the Great Oak ] [ The Sacking of Little Boy Mountain ] [ The Hunt for Zolta the Black ] [ The Abduction of Pharin ] [ Assault on the Githyanki Fortress ] [ The Githyanki Offensive ] [ White Plume Mountain ] [ Tomb of Horrors ] [ Necklace of Brisingamen ]

Credit : This adventure was based on as side adventure "The Desert Light" edited by Albie Fiore that appeared in White Dwarf Magazine #29 1982.