The party returned to Oleg's to see if he had any silvered weapons following their encounter with the werewolf.  Vlad received a letter from home when he got there and additionally, Jhod informed the party that Joseph was feeling better, at least sort of.  Joseph had finally been reincarnated but the process had turned him into a ratfolk.  The party reprovisioned and Vlad informed party that several of them had warrants out for their arrest but that Vlad's had been quashed thanks to his family's connections and resources. 

The party then set out in search of the Lost Temple.  Following the directions that Feldspar's friends had given them, the party was able to find the clearing in which the Temple of Erastil had once stood.  They found a pool in the center that was filled with algae infested water and the crumbled remains of a stone temple in front of a cliff face that had been carved into a huge symbol of Erathis.  As they were investigating the area, a large grizzly bear emerged and attacked the party.  The party was able to beat the bear down with ease but Feldspar and Micka both insisted that the bear not be killed.  With the bear unconscious the party made camp for the night and the following morning Micka was able to use a spell to speak with the bear.  Micka learned that the bear was once a druid who had long ago gone insane after the "monsters won".  The bear also made some reference to a town called New Sehir and then told Micka that he was tired and that he wished to finally be put to rest.  Following their conversation, Micka gave the bear his wish and the party looked on as the bear shifted into an elderly human man, then a skeleton, and finally crumbled to dust.  With the bear put to rest, the pool in the center of the clearing immediately became crystal clear and the party discovered that the pool had healing properties. 

The party then traveled northwest from there and a day and a half later came to a clearing in the thick forest that their mounts refused to enter.  Even Micka's and Vlad's animal companions refuse to enter the clearing.  The party decided to investigate the clearing and discovered what looked to be the remains of a long abandoned town.  In front of what appeared to be some sort of town hall was a brazier that was burning bright and a single bush with red flowers and deep green leaves.  Feldspar didn't trust the plant and so he shot the plant with an arrow.  The plant responded by shooting Feldspar with some thorns, causing him to start running.  Micka was hit soon after by the plant and also started to flee.  The rest of the party though was able to kill the plant, though both Feldspar and Micka complained that they did not feel as hearty as they had before.

The party once again rested for the night and then decided to explore the town further.  They soon found a stairway heading beneath the old town hall and decided to follow it down.  When they reached the bottom of the stairs they found an even older set of ruins that the town above had been built upon.  As they explored the tunnels beneath the town, they soon found an area guarded by four skeletons.  Feldspar became excited and immediately ran to attack, killing a skeleton in an instant as another retreated.  Joseph then turned the remaining skeletons and the party made short work of them. 

Following the skeleton that ran lead the party to a room with five more skeletons and beyond that a small chamber where it appeared a human had set up a lab of some sort.  The party fought through all the skeletons but soon found that the cleric in the far chamber was formidable.  He enabled his scythe to fly out and slice through Torm's eidolon and then return to his hand, knocking the eidolon out.  As the party closed on him though he began to channel negative energy into the party and soon Joseph, Vlad and Cice were all unconscious, with the party learning that Joseph had once again died.  Torm and Feldspar were able to kill the cleric and revive Cice and Vlad and the party soon surmised that the cleric was attempting to reincarnate somebody when he poured a salve on a severed hand.  Feldspar then took the hand and smeared as much of the salve onto Joseph as he could, hoping that the substance would work on his friend too. 

Following the battle with the shambling mound, the party was able to limp back to Oleg's with the bodies of Feldspar and Joseph in tow.  Jhod told the party that he would be able to help them in the morning but that he needed to rest up and gather some resources first.  The following morning he began his preparations and produced a pair of scrolls of reincarnate, indicating that prior to finding the Church of Erastil he was a druid.  He soon began reciting from the scroll as he poured the oils over Feldspar's body and as the party watched, the dwarf began to grow and morph before their eyes.  It was not long before Feldspar opened his eyes only to discover that he was once again a human, although he didn't feel quite as hearty as he did before engaging the shambling mound.

Jhod then turned his attentions to Joseph and started reciting from the second scroll.  Unfortunately, as he performed the ritual something went awry and Joseph failed to wake up.  Jhod indicated that it seemed as though the scroll was working but that something appeared to hold the process up.  He informed the party that he would continue to monitor Joseph and conduct more research in an effort to determine what has gone wrong.  He assured the party though that he was confident that it was only a matter of time before the cleric came around. 

Around this time the party also encountered another traveler at Oleg's.  The human introduced himself as Torm and stated that he had heard there were adventurers that had been granted a charter of exploration in the region and that he was hoping to join up with them as he wishes to one day open up a business catering to adventurers, though this latter part he only said while out of earshot of Oleg.  Since Bob the Summoner had ridden off when the party got back to Oleg's (presumably south to the River Kingdoms), the party was only too happy to welcome another member to the party, especially given Joseph's current condition.  The party was equally happy when they learned that Torm was also a summoner, though Mika seemed less sure of Torm and his "unnatural" companion. 

As the party went to set off later that day, Joseph was still not better and Cice offered to stay behind and look after her friend while the party continued to explore the Greenbelt.  Their explorations started out simple enough but the first night when they were camping their tent collapsed during Feldspar's watch.  An examination of the area revealed that three of the tent pegs had been pulled from the ground but no tracks could be seen around the tent.  As the party began re-pitching the tent, Feldspar wandered out into the woods to try to figure out what happened.  Mika followed and soon observed Feldspar talking to himself.  Feldspar would claim that he was talking a beautiful, but invisible woman but Mika thought perhaps something was wrong with Feldspar and that he was suffering some sort of side effect from the reincarnation.

The rest of the night went uneventfully but as the party was exploring the following day Vlad had about a gallon of milk suddenly released on top of him.  Again nobody saw anything but Feldspar swore it must have been his friend.  It was at this time that the party began to think that maybe Feldspar had been reincarnated as a mage and that he was casting minor magic spells to mess with the party.  These relatively harmless incidents continued for the next couple of days and the party continued to blame Feldspar, but he continued to insist it was his friends (as he now claimed there were two).  The party insisted that Feldpar was going crazy, especially since he kept changing his description of his friends.  Feldspar finally insisted that "she was a beautiful lady and that he gave her his marbles!" 

As the party slept one night, they were attacked by a pair of pistol wielding bandits who shot Vlad while he was on watch.  Vlad was soon knocked out but the rest of the party was able to easily dispatch the bandits and then revive Vlad.  The party gathered the two pistols and the little bit of ammo that the bandits had left, and would later trade one of the pistols for a wand of cure light wounds.  When the party checked back in at Oleg's, Joseph was still out of it, but a package had arrived from Restov and with it a note from Karsten Lebeda instructing the party to bring the The Stag Lord to justice.  Also included was 1,000 gold pieces for their early success in fighting the bandits.

When the party set back out they traveled to the west and through a region that was littered with powerful bear traps.  They avoided most of them but accidentally set off a couple.  When they camped that night they were again attacked, this time by a werewolf.  As Feldspar lay bleeding on the ground after another bite from the lycanthrope, the werewolf suddenly fell over unconconscious.  Shortly after it was killed by Vlad, Perlivash revealed his presence and indicated that he had put the werewolf to sleep in order to help his friend Feldspar.  He also indicated that Tyg-Titter-Tut was nearby but that she wouldn't reveal herself because the rest of the party wasn't as nice as Feldspar.  Perlivash then told the party where they could find the Lost Temple and when Vlad gave Perlivash a gift of some dried meat, the faerie dragon told Vlad that he would end any pranks directed at Vlad. 

The next morning the party awoke to find that a severe cold front had moved in, dropping temperatures to below zero.  The cold front lasted several days and the party decided to shelter in their tent with a roaring fire going rather than risk traveling in the cold.  When the cold front finally passed, the party continued to explore with a focus on heading toward the location of the lost temple. 

The party picked up where they left off last time, beginning with an interrogation of the bandit Kressle.  Upon questioning the bandit, the party learned that there is a larger group of bandits in the area, under the leadership of The Stag Lord.  Kressle mentioned that there is a fort to the south where the Stag Lord lives and that all their spoils go to the fort and the bandits are then given their cut of the spoils after delivering them.  When questioned as to why she chose the bandit life, Kressle merely stated that people had always tried to take from her and she learned early on that if she didn't take back, she'd just be a victim.  Despite being given numerous opportunities, Kressle refused to repent for her crimes.  With a heavy snow falling, the party decided to take the boots from the bandits and tie them up in the tents for the night.

The next morning the party awoke to find that nearly five feet of snow had fallen over the past twelve hours.  They also discovered that all but two of the bandits had died during the night due to exposure.  The remaining bandits were Kressle and Sylvano Baggio.  With the snow having finally stopped falling, the party set off to return to Oleg's to report on their success and to turn over their captives.  Along the way though they questioned Sylvano and learned that he was much more accepting to rejecting the bandit life and trying to earn an honest living.  Sylvano also revelaed more information about the Stag Lord, stating that he was a cruel and brutal leader, but also a drunk.  Given his cooperation and his willingness to leave the bandit life behind him, the party decided that Sylvano would be spared and allowed to travel to Brevoy.  However, Kressle still refused to repent for her crimes and was thus, executed by Vlad Black after Joseph Lagrange consulted his harrow deck. 

After nearly two days of travel, the party finally returned to Oleg's with their one remaining bandit.  As they arrived they discovered that a group of mercenaries had arrived from Restov to serve as guards for Oleg, lead by Kesten Garess.  Kesten did inform the party that he was looking for a bandit by the name of Falgrim Sneeg.  He warned the party that Sneeg was dangerous but promised a reward should Sneeg be brought to justice.  The party also learned that Jhod Kavken, a priest of Erastil, had arrived at Oleg's.  Jhod then informed the party that he was searching for a lost temple to Erastil that was rumored to be hidden somewhere in the Stolen Lands. 

After resting up and trading with Oleg, the party went back out into the wild to start exploring the Greenbelt in earnest.  Early on, their explorations proved fairly easy, encountering a pair of worgs, but having little trouble dispatching them.  They then came across the ramshackle hut of Bokken.  They traded with Bokken and then learned that the hermit was on the lookout for fangberries.  From there they continued to travel south where they encountered the lair of a trap door spider that had clearly been very active in the area.  They were able to kill the spider and when they investigated its lair, Vlad found a cryptic map.

The party then circled back to Oleg's and reported what they had found before resting up and heading south again.  They traveled mostly due south from Oleg's, toward the area where they found the bandit camp.  Unfortunately for the party, as they traveled through the forest, they were ambushed by a shambling mound.  Joseph was killed almost instantly as he was grabbed by the giant plant and then squeezed to death.  The party rallied and tried to fight off the plant but soon Feldspar fell victim to the creature as well after he was slammed by the plant and knocked unconscious.  As the party fought on, they were at last able to slay the creature, but not before Feldspar succumbed to his injuries.  With sullen hearts, the party carefully loaded Joseph and Feldspar onto the horses and returned to Oleg's. 

Wondering how to get started? Here are a few tips:

1. Invite your players

Invite them with either their email address or their Obsidian Portal username.

2. Edit your home page

Make a few changes to the home page and give people an idea of what your campaign is about. That will let people know you’re serious and not just playing with the system.

3. Choose a theme

If you want to set a specific mood for your campaign, we have several backgrounds to choose from. Accentuate it by creating a top banner image.

4. Create some NPCs

Characters form the core of every campaign, so take a few minutes to list out the major NPCs in your campaign.

A quick tip: The “+” icon in the top right of every section is how to add a new item, whether it’s a new character or adventure log post, or anything else.

5. Write your first Adventure Log post

The adventure log is where you list the sessions and adventures your party has been on, but for now, we suggest doing a very light “story so far” post. Just give a brief overview of what the party has done up to this point. After each future session, create a new post detailing that night’s adventures.

One final tip: Don’t stress about making your Obsidian Portal campaign look perfect. Instead, just make it work for you and your group. If everyone is having fun, then you’re using Obsidian Portal exactly as it was designed, even if your adventure log isn’t always up to date or your characters don’t all have portrait pictures.

That’s it! The rest is up to your and your players.