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2011 August 18 - Lofton Castle Beowolf, Jennish, and Kasskar are recruited by Gregor the Naturalist to seek out a giant squid in the caverns under Lofton Castle. There, they're apparently beguiled, and attacked by giant spiders in the confusion. Soon after, they're driven off by the pickpocketing tentacles of an unseen sea monster. 2011 September 1 - Meade Hospital Morgue Beowolf goes one win, one loss at the illicit bareknuckle boxing ring under The Whipsaw. Kasskar, Jennish, and Beowolf are recruited by Herndon the anatomist to steal a body with goiter from the Meade Hospital morgue. While searching in the morgue's Great Hall, they're accosted by walking dead and defeat them. 2011 September 15 - The Hedgepeth Beowolf, Jennish, Kasskar sail to Hilde on the Hedgepeth, with captains Burns and Krill. They meet Mikal, a young stowaway. Off Pitcairn on Hilde, the Hedgepeth takes the Blackwells ship Durst as a prize. Scoping out a greencake facility they plan to plunder on Lake Annika, the characters are attacked by guard wolves and defeat them. 2011 September 29 - Muninn The party meets Aeris, an impressed sailor on the Hedgepeth, and Prosper, a haggard man lost on Hilde. They win a pitched battle with greencake facility guards. They find the greencake guarded by Muninn, the great patriarch of Hilde's wolves, and Kasskar overcomes him. Nearly killed by Muninn, Beowolf and Aeris have visions of Hollin. 2011 October 13 - The Dowager The Hedgepeth finds the Dowager, which has been caught in the ice off Hilde for two years. The survivors' camp is a scene of horror, and the party is ambushed by some survivors, but brings the rest on board. Continuing towards Highpyre a few nights later, Burns emerges from the captains' cabin shaken, accusing Krill of witchcraft. The accusation divides the crew, and Krill and four others die fighting. 2011 October 27 - Highpyre The party finds Beowolf's birth city, the burned ruin Highpyre, and a Witches' Chorus there judges their deeds so far. With the explorer Ammiral, they find the meteor Noreste in the surreal hell-town Bruegel, and Aeris drives off spirits protecting it. Heading home from Hilde, a second Krill appears on the Hedgepeth, not knowing how he got there. Not sure who or what the second Krill is, the party sets him adrift with the first Krill's corpse. 2011 November 10 - The Whipsaw Kasskar tries to turn the Whipsaw's illicit boxing to profit by introducing prize purses and his own hardened fighters. But the Hobnail street gang attacks during the first match, protecting their turf from the party and the boxer Godwin, a member of the rival Coopers' Union gang. The party wins the grisly fight, but the Whipsaw crowd favorite Mulebeck is killed fighting on their side. 2011 November 17 - Haas A mob attacks Werner's sanctuary for pregnant girls and untouchables, saying Werner harbors an abomination, and the party turns them back with cannon fire. Afterwards, the party meets the "abomination" Haas, a corpse-like man with no pulse and no breath. Hass tells them how he was murdered and unnaturally resurrected, and presses them to avenge him. 2011 December 1 - Ignatius Aeris helps Haas take revenge on his killers, a gang of homeless living in an alley near the Mooncalf hostel. Afterwards, they go to Meade Hospital to find the experimenters who resurrected Haas. Searching there, they're attacked by Ignatius, another resurrected man controlled by cruel-looking probes in his exposed brain. 2011 December 15, Part 1 - The Brothers Volker Searching Meade Hospital further, the party finds the Volker brothers, the experimenters who resurrected Hass. Beowolf kills Alaric Volker, but with help from the demon Lebrecht, Gerholt and Harlan Volker escape with Prosper as their hostage. The party meets Ord Redding, a foreigner looking for Prosper. 2011 December 15, Part 2 - The Oracle The party takes Haas to Gramercy book store, a new safe house suggested by Werner's midwife Wren, and discover that Gramercy's cavern basement houses Hollin's secretive Oracle. Oracle adepts Aliester, Indvik, and Mari summon Deva, a spirit who tells Haas of the restful plane Hereward. The adepts open a portal to Hereward on Apogee, and Haas and Indvik enter. 2012 January 5 - The Mooncalf The party discovers that Kasskar's neighbor at the Mooncalf hostel, Ishild, is a five-hundred-year-old lich and destroys him. Beowolf takes Ishild's ring, not realizing the ring is Ishild's soul focus, and has to destroy Ishild again when he reappears to reclaim it. Kasskar discovers that a Hobnails enforcer, Auld, started the Shambles fire that killed his family. 2012 January 19 - Heath Prison The party goes to Heath Prison hunting Auld. They find the ancient Dera'a Prison enclosed inside Heath, and find the divine prison Narshasa sealed under Dera'a's panopticon. They track Auld there and kill him, with Kasskar administering the coup de grace. They meet the Witches' Chorus a second time, who suggest that Beowolf may not be human. 2012 February 2 - Tolland Wood Aeris enlists the lich Ishild in a tentative partnership. Told the Kirsi could help rescue Prosper, Ord leads the party west towards the Kirsi home Renhannes. Heading into the Tolland Wood, they fall in with Paine's mining company mercenaries, but the combined party is ambushed and routed by Eastmarch Clan trolls. 2012 February 16 - Shear Pass The 17-year silvermote brood drives the party underground, into the stone age home of Mound Clan trolls, who they defeat. They continue to Shear Pass, where they find the admiralty warrior Reinhardt seeking oblivion and mingling with vampire-like necaratu. They learn that Shear Pass touches Murnan, the plane of necaratu and hapless dead. 2012 March 1 - Damadara The party continues west inside the Shear Pass fortress. Necaratu attack them at the fortress crypt and kill Reinhardt's man Stapleton. The party finds the Murnan portal under the fortress tower, and Ord kills the necaratu Damadara in single combat there. They escape the pass and enter the Kirsi valley Renhannes. They're welcomed by the Kirsi Court, revealed to be fairies. 2012 March 15 - Inkling The Kirsi tell Ord about Prosper's origin and the Kirsi exodus from Hollin. They ask Ord to install the changeling Bruhl as the rightful heir of Raven House and as Kirsi high priest. The party travels to the lost city Balibana, where Ord and Aeris put down the Raven House usurper Inkling and his fairy gang, River Jack, Bandy-Bandy, and Moonboots. 2012 March 27 - Word Without Warning Knocked out trying to open Inkling's safe, Kasskar dreams of a globster in Hollin. Opening the safe on a second try, the party finds the assassin spell Word Without Warning. In Tulun, Beowolf pulls the harpoon Hosingen from the bull whale Huhner. The party goes to install Bruhl as Kirsi high priest at the temple of Boreas, where Raven House priests beguile them and turn them against each other. 2012 April 26 - Prosper The party puts down the west wind Zephyr, who has usurped the Kirsi god Boreas. They liberate the Kirsi Oracle, who tell them Prosper is in Hollin's City of the Dead. There, they find Prosper and a resurrected Alaric Volker controlled by Volker brain probes and have to kill them. They meet a second Prosper, who answers Ord's questions and heads for Renhannes with the dead Prosper. 2012 May 10 - The Inkeri The party finds Harlan Volker's lab in an abandoned cistern under the City of the Dead and defeats him. They meet an Inkeri camp in Gibb Park. There, young Inkeri challenge Beowolf's presumptive leadership, saying he is not human, and Beowolf kills Belwe in single combat. They find Beowolf's family business burned by Hobnails and cannot find his parents.
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