ok... here are sketchy bits of what i remember of the beginning...
help me out here people... throw in details and suck where you can.


"Return to me my Yuth"
	We were sent out to gather a specific poison from the
mountains east.  had to find someone and secret signals etc etc

"Got any marchmallows?"
	Porosiant burnes...big deal... ;)

I sewer we'll listen to the gypsy next time. (or Were is the rat?)
	The wererat lunch

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palentire quest:

first had to recover book from the lost secret library
found library under local gangs hideout.
lots of things in the library.  including lots of lost herbs.
and wonderful books...
bandets held us in trapped... the light elemental was here (obvious
daldan had then become a shaman)

garth and cal got books of their profession, which are not 
available elsewhere.

we escaped from the library. via greehouse roof
taking lotsa books....


went to this one town where we were chased some people about after they set
fire to our boat.


finally commisioned a boat and set sail for the north.

went north found place.... trapped with blowdarts, etc... used snake
rope to get the palentier out (there were two, yes?) 
then trapped by the hoard of archers and guy with black "demon" armor.
of which half was killed by margrube ( i think) while kal was fighting
off the panther... i remember there was a cloud of some sort.

clothes and such were taken and we were left for dead, but we managed
to stay warm  and free ourselves...




August 20, F.A. 1993: The campaign begins.  Most players get at least a 
little solo time to establish their characters.  Newt loses his purse.

9/1/93: The party officially forms (most of the party had already met 
one another).  The initial membership: 
Daldin/Trey, 
Newt/Philip, 
Feathalion/Garth, 
Margrub/Kevin, 
Rowena/Meg, 
Gurthbar/NPC.  
Gilarien/Lori never actually joins the party.  

They agree to work for Ethuilas, Istar of Porosiant, for one silver piece a day. 

Adventures: "A messy message."
	We were sent to deliver a message to porosiant.. we found out
the message instructed the reader to kill us, but we held strong...
it turned out to be a test.  We were givin a box to return

9/1-9/4 First mission:  taking a message to Porosiant.  The message, as 
Flip noted in his post, called for the bearers' executions.  Yeah, it 
was a test.

9/5-9/8 Return home to Minas Tirith.  The party encounters the Ithilien 
Bandits and drives them off.  Fea is nicknamed "Slayathalion" and 
everyone decides that Daldin is psychotic about his daggers.

9/9 Lotus/Kris and Vilyawen/Julie are introduced.  They join the party 
the next day.

9/11 Evening attack at Gurthbar's house by an evil cat-thing.  The 
players are stunned to discover that the attack had nothing to do with 
their characters.

9/14 Leave for Minas Ithil to talk to the Seer.  The party has Cleric 
troubles beginning in Osgiliath, and at King's Crossing certain members 
perfect bungee jumping without the bungee.

9/16 Minas Ithil.  The party prevents an assassination, talks to the 
Seer and hears of an upcoming disaster in Porosiant.  They head south 
the next day.

9/20 Porosiant explodes.  Several party members become local heroes.  
They celebrate by crawling into sewers without magical weaponry in 
pursuit of wererats.  Nobody dies because the party throws Newt down and 
sits on the manhole cover.

9/28 After helping to establish civil order, the party goes to Minas 
Ithil after Ungolnaur, a nasty poison.  Vilyawen and Rowena leave, 
Doresgal/Greg and Angrim/Regan join.

9/29 Daldin gets skunked.

Autumntide The party parties in Minas Ithil.  Daldin becomes disgusted 
with Lotus.

10/3 On the way back to M.T., Newt meets a werecat in Osgiliath.

10/5 Daldin kills a Sorceror in the Hallows.

10/8 The party arrives in Bar-en-Tinnen to look into rumors of a ghost. 
 They find Indis and a guy who is promptly killed.  It takes three days 
to get out of legal entanglements, and the party heads for Porosiant 
with Daldin on a stretcher.

10/14 En route to Porosiant, the group meets the Company of he Chalice, 
Ethuilas's high-level group.  Doresgal's "mother" fries the other 
group's hunchbacked Seer.

10/16 Daldin is healed; the party heads north to deliver a message to 
Vilyawen's mentor.

10/19 The fight with the Bandits' Dog.  The party meets a unicorn, and 
only Gurthbar can tame it.

10/24  Back in M.T., the party goes to the circus.  Miriel/Jackie joins. 
 Lotus leaves on special assignment.

10/29  The party arrives at Feathalion's Swamp in the midst of a 
horrendous heat wave.

11/1 The party breaks up a gang of river bandits.

11/4 At Micandor's Tower, the party goes hunting.  Daldin decides to 
leave an eerie rock alone.

11/8 Were-Newt mauls Daldin.

11/9 The Big Fight with the Mewlips.  Gurthbar goes home in a bucket.  
Feathalion gets the Paladin Sword.  Newt gets the Nazgul Medallion.

11/18 Newt and Lomiel strike a deal with Old Mist to get Gurthbar back 
in exchange for the spear-tip of Aiglos.

11/23  The party exorcises Hithir House.  Doresgal and Angrim leave, 
Lotus returns. 

12/1  Tarisil and Daldin become each other's familiar.  The group leaves 
for Mt. Doom to dispose of the Medallion.

12/4  Mount Doom: The Talnak woman, the Crown of Nurn destroyed, and 
Newt falls off a cliff.  Various unpleasantries ensue between the party, 
Fidan the Undertaker, and some evil shadow-thing.

12/10 Feathalion and Miriel marry.  They are made the Viscount and 
Viscountess Hithir.

12/11 Nimble/Greg is introduced by being swatted against the wall by a 
sleepy Margrub.

12/13 The Palantir Quest begins with the party heading towards 
Annuminas.

12/24 The Jugglers' Hall: The party is in a play.

12/30 Kal/Ted joins the party in Tharbad.

1/3 The group gets sucked into the Spirit World on the Barrow Downs.  
Vampires, fungus, and roses, and Margrub nearly becomes undead.  Nimble 
disappears shortly after the party's return.

1/6 Taren/Michael joins at Bree.

1/10 Annuminas.  Criminals killed in their sleep, a fireball in the 
stairwell, and many, many books.  Miriel has her hair-raising vision.  
Newt realizes that she is pregnant.

1/21 Back in Tharbad.  Ships have been sabotaged, criminals are chased 
but get away.

2/4 Big Storm.  The party explores the Isle of Himring, and discovers 
ancient weaponry (including the Spear) and an evil thing that sucks 25 
points of Constitution from Feathalion before he kills it.

2/15 The Ice Bay of Forochel.  The party gets the Palantiri, but has 
them taken away by Vacros.  The group is left naked in the Arctic in 
winter.  Gurthbar has a nervous breakdown.  Miriel's spells save the 
party.

3/23 Back at the Juggler's Hall, the party pursues a false lead, beating 
up some bandits and thieves at a hideout by the Anduin.  They get back 
to M.T. with the orbs, but find that the palantiri have been switched.
Miriel and Gurthbar leave, Cirnan joins; Feathalion, Taren and Kal get 
their spirit familiars.  Lotus picked up her familiar on the way south.

4/1 Following the trail of the false palantiri, the party gets into a 
big fight with some assassins.  Humility is learned.

4/16-4/18 The party is in Esgaroth pursuing leads.  They finally get 
their info from the Green Man, a smuggler, after a wonderful scene 
between an invisible ferret and a bulldog.

4/20 Fortune-telling from the gypsies makes many people nervous.

4/27 The climactic battle at Sarn Goriwing against Taladhan.  Estelrom 
joins.  Daldin is killed by a tree.  Newt loses his soul.  Taren is 
scattered to the winds.  But the party gets the goods.

5/28  The party returns to M.T. with the Palantiri. Taren is brought 
back the next day.

5/30  The party has an audience with the Nimistar and are pardoned for 
their various crimes.

6/1  Daldin's Memorial Service.  Grimmdul loudly mourns his kinsman.

6/7  High Court in Minas Tirith.  Significant Magical Rewards are 
distributed, as well as various elevations and promotions.