A brief retelling of past events.....

The start of our current campaign took place outside of the city, about 50 miles away from Ptolus on the South Road. The group was much larger at that time, consisting of 7 players. They struggled through a haunted inn and battled a demon spider. Along the way they freed a caravan guard named Fred Cooperson from the clutches of the demon spider. They then journeyed to the city.

They became involved at that time with a black smith named Elias Inthower. He hired them to find a key to a vault below the city. Elias believed the key to be held by small time criminals in the Docks District. The group infiltrated a warehouse in the docks district after staking the place out and finding it to be used as a front for said criminal activity. They broke in, fought several criminals and as Ogre, and managed to acquire the key.

From there they joined the Delvers guild to gain access to the library. They researched the key and found the likely place it was held. So they traveled underground only to become embroiled in a conflict between a small kobold tribe and a group of the Plagueborn chaos cultists. They assisted the kobolds in defeating the cultists and freed their young Black Dragon queen from the clutches of a strange Chaositech mind controlling parasite. Unfortunately nearly all of the kobolds died from a horrible wasting disease. This caused the young dragon queen abandoned her small underground demesne. But not before she informed House Dallimothan of the groups actions, earning them favor with that noble house. The newly minted Delvers found the door that the key went to, but chose not to open it. It appeared to be sealed for a reason and had they had come across a small cell that most likely held a vampire at bay. They surmised that they had been duped by Elias into almost unleashing something very evil.

This is when things went from bad to worse. They gave the key over to Jevicca Nor for safe keeping in the vaults of the Inverted Pyramid. She asked them to investigate the Banewarrens after the release of a self proclaimed avatar of chaos. They made it into the first rooms of the Banewarrens before being forced to retreat. On their way out they ran into Fred Cooperson once again, he had become a Delver and been hired by the Church of Lothian to investigate the Banewarrens. The group was glad to see that he was doing well. They left Fred and his group to guard the entrance and went to look for a key to travel further into the Banewarrens. Their investigation led them to Pythonese House looking for an artifact called the All-Key. After their first foray into the house they were unsuccessful in getting the key and were ambushed by Vai Assassins hired by Elias. All but 3 were killed (this is when our group split up and got smaller). This brings us to the present.....