The Duke, the entrails, & the Gilded Keep

The party finds the front door to the Dukes Mansion locked. Graz'Nuk uses a dimension door spell and gets the group onto the roof then directly into the Dukes bedroom. They find him undressing with the help of his servant. They cut out his entrails and tie him to the bed in them. They systematically kill everyone in the place which amounts to about 20 humans. They loot the place of treasure and steal a bunch of Flags, Banners, & tunics and head out west towards the Gilded keep.
On their way, they encounter a few Knights of the Realm. At first the ruse was going well. then it turned real bad quick. Just as about 20 cross bows were about to unleash into the group Graz'nuk was able to charm the leader of the knights. They passed them without incident.
The group arrives at the Gilded keep. Rollin summons a plethora of varmints to destroy all of the crop of the outlying farms surrounding the keep. The group gets inside the walls with another charm from Graz'nuk. Once inside they seek audience with the "Kingsward". when they finally gain admittance, they see and old man who can barely walk and a few servants. The booby trapped chest they planned on using on him does not pan out. The Ward appears to be a magic user and seeing the chest opens it from afar. Seeing this happening Nyrissa quickly cancels the fire spell she prepared to go off when opened. At the sight of the plan not working, Vigga calls her nightmare and charges the throne. The mage is dead before he even has a chance to react. the group starts killing the rest of the servants. but the last one tries to escape. Konrad bashes his head into the stone floor until his brains litter the floor. when the group branches out and slaughters the staff of the Kep, they notice that the servant Konrad killed was actually the Kingsward, not the old man. They prepare false documents to be sent throughout the rest of Longincane telling all to send as many soldiers as possible to the south eastern tip asap. They then burn the Gilded keep to the ground and ride north towards Notworth.

The kings Mission

The group settles in nicely to their plush rooms here at the castle. Vigga makes nice with the crown prince. He invites her to spar. Vigga almost kills him in the process. The king asks if they would do quest for him.He asks that head into the rival kingdom of Longingcane and cause as much havoc and destruction as they can to create chaos and thwart their current war plans.
The group agrees and are all outfitted with supplies. They take a small boat to the south eastern corner of Longingcane. The approach a small town. They head over to the Duke's manor house. Out front sits a young mage. They swiftly kill him and prepare to head inside.

A King's Welcome

Konrad & Marcus emerge hours later from the crypt holding the fabled Sun shade diamond. They explain that the Lich didn't want the necklace anymore. he also said that it shouldn't get into any of the gods hands either. Lap dog tries on the necklace and gets stricken with a pretty bad curse. Marcus is there to save him though.
The party does not return to the church of Noram, so Konrad can keep his magical item that was lent to him for now. The group decides to get a boat to get to the east and inform King Forthington about his traitorous son.
Vigga slaughters many on the way.
When they arrive in Forthington, they are greeted warmly by the King. He is quite interested in the News they bring. They tell him how his son, Prince Harrison was taken by the soldiers of Duke William Notworth of the Longincane Realm. They explain that he compromised the Forthington realm by giving away secrets about the castles defenses. The king agrees with Vigga that his son was a traitor and deserved to die. The King invites the group to stay within the castle as his guests.