Thaddeus Wangshingle and Winslow Mudfish

The other day I came across some old character sheets from 2005 to 2006. I played a thief named Winslow Mudfish and my friend played a cleric named Thaddeus Wangshingle. They started out in small town and tracked a group of mysterious men in black plate mail to the city of Karameikos. There, they thwarted an invasion and eventually wound up getting sucked into the Abyss, where they both perished.

Here is Winslow Mudfish in all his glory. A simple small town thief, who would go on to achieve both great and not so great things.

The most mysterious item he ever got was "The Jawbone of the Gods."
I never figured out what it did.

In the Abyss Winslow got transformed into a bugbear and got a new character sheet.

There are a lot fewer notes on the Abyss.
The Abyss does not contain a lot of NPCs with adventure hooks apparently.

Here is Thaddeus Wangshingle. I believe this drawing depicts Thaddeus after he lost all his equipment being teleported to the Abyss and not his sartorial choices in Karameikos.

The Dread Rod in the lower right corner of this page is the item that finally did everyone in. It wound up completely corrupting Thaddeus. The party wanted to throw it into a portal to the elemental plane of fire to destroy it, but Thaddeus had other plans and rebelled against us.

Here is Thaddeus completely corrupted by the Dread Rod. He started calling himself "Deus Judas," which was also the name the Dread Rod called itself. Honestly, he looks a little less evil here than the hirsute bondage daddy that was his previous incarnation. 

You don't need as much other equipment when you are the human form of the Dread Rod, I guess.

In the end the party fought Thaddeus and some demon, whose name escapes me now. The party won just barely. Winslow Mudfish, seduced by the power of the Dread Rod tried to grab it as it hurled towards the elemental plane of fire. He did reach it, but could not extricate himself from the pull of whatever gate connected the Abyss to the elemental plane of fire. He was sucked in and burst into flames clutching the Dread Rod in paroxysms of agony and the ecstasy of power.

The rest of the party, Norvin the dwarf, guy we found in a cage, and elf with two swords made it back to Karameikos, teleporting into a fountain in the middle of the city.  The End.

Oh yeah, I forgot, They were completely naked when they returned to the prime material plane.