Background: Three players and an NPC Locathah cleric have been hired by a man named Erik representing the village of Torlynn to brave a ruined keep and break a curse of ice and snow.

Underway: So the players used tactics, cooperation and a mostly reasonable distribution of loot... truly impressive! The module was ran as close to the book as possible, with only the bone scepter by the sub boss changed to a Rod of Retribution (destroyed by Lemont) and the Ratling minions (Ratlings?) were retconned to Tasloi since a large and wide variety of goblinoids live in the region. With all 4 players barely surviving the module, their party now expands to 6 as our one night replacement Scarlet Roze the Tiefling warrior joins the party as well as an Aarakocra Ranger named Suroh to travel to the capital of Mayaernic to collect the bounty for the rescued as well as collecting a reward from the Elven Carpenters Guild for saving the guild members from a frosty doom within the warlock's keep. In addition, an old warrior bestowed upon the party a small box that expands into a shitty house when commanded, but it seems to attract nothing but trouble as they journeyed southeast.

Postmortem: I was originally going to run B2 The Keep on the Borderlands, but due to the length of the dungeon crawl portion I decided to use Quest for the Silver Sword from Thunder Rift BECMI Series. It is a good starter dungeon crawl with a very good amount of start up magic items and the addition of a unique item of great value (the bell) along with a skull that offers the possibility of gaining an intelligence point permanently. While definitely less challenging than B2, the assortment of monsters are challenging with two possibly deadly encounters.

Cartilage: The party used the control crystals gained throughout the module to create a stable gate to Sharpspire in Chauntless. This of course, would not be the actual destination since all gates are redirected to Buthhazel.

Keywords: Aberrations, Humanoids, Undead.