SOMETHING TELLS ME WE ARE NOT IN FORTLAND ANYMORE GRAZNUK

The group decides to take a ship off of Fortland in search of new adventure. They quickly realize that they are on the worst possible ship. it is filled with Ion worshipers. After some slight altercations the group burns the ship and all it inhabitants and jumps onto the escape boat. An intense fog rolls in.
The group finds themselves on a small island. The fog is intense and there is no sign of life. Not even waves in the water. Konrad starts digging only to find blood in the whole. A lot of blood. After trying to get their whereabouts, Konrad cuts himself. and drops a drop of blood in the whole. Almost instantly 3 gnomish vampires appear and demand that they fill a water skin with his blood. They refuse and threaten the the vampires who quickly disappear. Konrad comes up with the idea and soon enough the group each drinks a drop of each others blood and poof!
The group finds themselves on the storage level of another ship. they are all part holding a small bottle with a dark liquid and floating in it is a small island. they head upstairs and find that they are on a large but strange river boat. They are told that that they will get off when the boat stops. the boat arrive and the group is ushered off the boat. they find they are back at the ports of Forthington, but something seems much darker and different. the place is pretty run down as if through years of neglect. They ask a passerby what year it is, it is the same year and date the group left....

The Paladin messenger party

The group makes their way towards the first city in Gridencon Only to be turned away. Apparently this is a very "holy" city. The pope of Shine-ra resides here. The overly good paladins at the front gate dent them entrance. They do however allow the group to purchase stuff which is brought to the gates for them. Through divine powers by Marcus, they are able to determine that messenger will be leaving soon with the info they seek to destroy. They quietly wait for the messengers to leave the city and wipe all of them paladins off the planet. Shortly after they realize that they have been scryed upon and a large bell/ horn is sounded. before long a slew of dragons can be seen answering the call. the group teleports back to Forthington.
The king of Forthington gives the group the option of continuing to do missions for him or to leave. The group ponders their next move over a royal bath.

THE GOLD DRAGON

THE GROUP PREPARES FOR THE COMBAT WITH THE PROPER SPELLS AND ATTACKS THE DRAGON IN HIS LAIR. JUST BEFORE THEY KILLED THE DRAGON. WHICH WENT PRETTY WELL, NO MAJOR CHARACTERS IN JEOPARDY OF DEATH, KONRAD USED A TRUE SEEING SPELL AND FOUND OUT THAT TWO COLOSSAL DRAGONS (GREAT WYRMS) WERE IN THERE TOO, BUT STAYING INVISIBLE, PRESUMABLY THE PARENTS OF THE DRAGON THEY WERE FIGHTING. AS KONRAD WAS ABOUT TO WARN EVERYONE, THE DRAGON WAS KILLED AND THE TWO TURNED VISIBLE. THEY BASICALLY WERE NOT INTERESTED IN THE GROUP AND WERE LEAVING THEM ALONE TO TEND THEIR DEAD SON. VIGGA MADE SOME COMMENTS, THE REST OF THE GROUP ESCAPED THE LAIR. VIGGA WAS HIT BY 179 POINT BREATH WEAPON THAT SOMEHOW THE GROUP COLLECTIVELY WAS ABLE TO KEEP HIM FROM DYING. CRAZY SHIT. THEN THE DRAGONS LATER CAME TO THE CAMPSITE TO WHERE THE GROUP WAS. APOLOGIZED FOR THEIR SON KILLING THEIR HORSES WITHOUT REASON, GAVE THEM NEW HORSES BUT ORDERED THEM TO LEAVE THE REALM. THE GROUP GOT THEM TO AGREE TO ALLOW THEM TO STAY FOR ONE WEEK TO HANDLE THEIR “BUSINESS”.

The Next quest

The group enjoys a much needed vacation while the various magical items they commissioned are completed. The king proposes to them several different missions with which to chose from. They decide to take the one that seems to fit them best. It is to head far south to the Kingdom of Gripencon where it is believed that monarch some how knows about Forthington and their involvement in the destruction of most Longincane's royalty. The king asks them to infiltrate, find out what is known, and make sure the word does not get out to the rest of the kingdoms.
On the journey south, they come across a great Gold dragon as they enter into the Gripencon kingdom. He breaths a fire cloud that nearly kills some of the group. They retreat and wait to meet up with the rest of their party so they can collectively rid the world of this foul beast.