Ghoulbreak, Farm Isles, Lightless and ...

The hearty adventurers had decided to enter the Ghoulbreak parallel and board up the shack.  Melisana had gathered some wood, nail and a hammer from the stables and the group headed for the ghouls  Demin led the charge in and fired his crossbow at the wandering ghouls.  Alhellara entered with a Turn Undead, Gofin threw a shroud on one ghoul and hit it successfully.  Pretis and Mara entered to attack as quickly as possible.  Lythandar and Melisana headed for the shack.

Crossroads

While looking through the SW gateway the party discussed what to do next.  Try and attract the ghouls to move through the gateway and pick them off as they came through.  Charge through and try for surprise, go back and try and find another route through gateways yet unexplored.  Finally the group decided to move through the gateway two or so at a time, spreading out on the far side to try and surprise the ghouls.  As usual Demin moved in first followed by Gofin, Pretis, Mara and Lythandar.  Bringing up the rear were Alhellara and Melisana.  The party got a first attack on a couple of the ghouls but one noticed them right away and moved forward to attack.

Twisted

The group took a short rest and did some checking of the area.  They found bodies with skeletal hand and eye tattoos and also bodies with grinning skull paraphernalia.  They recalled that Iuz used the grinning skull symbol.  Looking around Lythandar found three items that indicated arcane magic.  The items turned out to be a Stormwalkers Cloak +3, a Reliable Staff +3 and Defender's Scale Mail +3.  Discussion ensued and Melisana took the Staff, Pretis the Scale Mail and the Battle Standard from the previous encounters, and Demin took the Cloak while giving his Cloak of Protection +3 to Gofin.  Just as the party started to examine the arches in this realm a group of Centaurs came out of the tents and approached the group.

Checkpoint

The hearty adventurers looked around the circle of arches.  Inside the arches more bodies, with the skeletal hand with eyeball tattoo, were found.  The inner circle was about 90' across surrounded by 16 archways standing 40' high.  Melisana decided to circle the outside of the archways looking through each to determine if there was a pattern.  Alhellara stood in the center of the inner circle monitoring the archways to see if anything moved, came through an arch, etc.

Circle of Stones

After taking an extended rest the party arose and looked over Tovag Baragu again.  It seemed to consist of several circles of stone monoliths.  It appeared to be around a mile from one side of the complex to the far side.  As the group was preparing to eat a light brunch Pretis called out saying that she couldn't stand up.  Melisana and Alhellara moved over to examine her and found her laying on the ground where she had spent the night.  Pretis was able to feel her legs but she couldn't move them or stand up.  Everyone started discussing what could have happened when Pretis said that for the last couple of days she had been having a hard time keeping up with the party.  It seemed as though this was soon after they left the library.  Lythandar recalled that they had fought the living shard in Vor Rukoth and maybe this was related.  So Alhellara prepared to perform the Remove Curse ritual and Melisana decided to attempt to aid her.  The ritual was performed and Pretis was able to regain her feet.

Quills of Danger

The party faced three Trolls attacking a flat bed wagon.  Demin, Mara and Alhellara spotted another Troll hiding in the scrub to the left of the party.  The battle was started as Gofin moved forward to shroud a Troll and attack it.  Demin fired a bolt at the hiding Troll and Alhellara blessed the party.  After the Trolls moved forward to attack the party was surprised by a sudden burst of quills from both sides of the roadway.  Out of the woods appeared two Duergar Hellcallers who moved toward the party.  Pretis and Lythandar both maneuvered around to attack the Hellcallers, Pretis seeming to move rather slowly.

Blood Grounds

The group spent an extended rest in the Library and woke refreshed the next morning.  Speaking with the Luminary did not reveal any additional information and the group decided to press on towards Tovag Baragu.  They left the library and found themselves again in the Ruby Court.  Leaving the court they followed the same path out that they came in on.  As they turned a corner in the Blood Grounds they saw before them four Dragonborn.   The Dragonborn moved menacingly toward the party and a battle was engaged.