The Fifty-Fifth Session

October 16, 2021, Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

An energetic encounter with lake trolls on the river to Greyharbor results in four trolls dead and one swimming away. The Party buys supplies for desert travel, and seeks passage on a boat to a new town. Salris finds his brother, and reveals himself to him.

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Last session

Thalia told off The Party for hiring assassins. We were gifted The Regular Inn in Quadroads by its owners, and renamed it to The Irregular Inn. Then we teleported to Ren's house in the Woven Council, hiked overland to the eastern river, and rode the river down to Riverbend.

At Riverbend, we decided to take passage via ship rather than traipse through the desert to the northern jungles.

Downriver

We're on the boat to Greyharbor, and we spend the second day floating downriver. Night falls and we pull into shore. Salris spent the day thinking about what he was going to do in Greyharbor, and about what he had done in Greyharbor. Jerry spent the day fending off rocks.

The next day, Salris has finished his woolgathering and continues piloting the boat downstream, excellently doing a great job.

When a green-skinned blubbery creature rises from the river to try to swipe Percival off his perch at the bow, Percival does a great job of not getting swiped. He's a Bard! He stays on his feet, even when the boat bobbles.

Round 1: Five Lake Trolls surround the boat and begin to attack the Party. Vurguron and Jerry are pulled overboard; Jerry returns to the boat. Ryltar Slows the trolls. Percival Polymorphs one troll into a fish.
1. Two more trolls appear: one on each side of the boat. One greener and one redder.
2. The first, greyer troll attacks Percival with two claws attacks and a bite, dealing 29 damage.
3. Vurguron is grappled by the green troll, and pulled into the water.
4. Jerry is grappled by the red troll, and pulled into the water.
5. A white troll appears next to Jerry, and attacks for 40 bludgeoning and slashing, and some of the red troll's blood splashes on her weapon, for a -1 to attack.
6. Vurguron struggles.
7. Percival turns the greyer troll into a salmon with Polymorph.
8. Ryltar casts Slow on all five trolls, and succeeds.
9. Jerry breaks free from the red troll, swims back to the surface, and climbs into the boat. She casts Hunter's Mark on that troll.
10. Salris casts Synaptic Static on the red and white trolls, doing some psychic damage to them.
11. The boat sails 20 feet downstream.
Round 2: Vurguron breaks free of the trolls holding him underwater, and swims to shore. The rest of the Party attacks the trolls consistently, and Salris gets to try the Whip of Wounding out on a troll.
1. The trolls on the left side of the boat, holding Vurguron, attack him, but miss. They are still Slowed.
2. The trolls on the right side of the boat swim to catch up with it. The green one attacks Salris for 30 damage. The white one attacks Vurguron, and still misses.
3. The fish troll swims around some, and jumps into the air to try to slap Jerry. It fails, and falls into the water.
4. Vurguron, underwater and surrounded by 3 trolls, tries to break the grapple again, and succeeds. He swims to shore, and attacks the three trolls with Firebolt. The trolls are a little warmer now.
5. Percival Inspires Jerry.
6. Ryltar casts Cone of Cold on Vurguron's three trolls, and does a shitton of damage to them: 39 to two trolls and 18 to two.
7. Jerry slashes the marked troll twice for 35 damage.
8. Salris attacks that same troll twice with his whip, for 10 damage, and one Wound. (That's 1d4 necrotic per turn.)
9. The boat moves 20 feet downstream.
Round 3: Vurguron jogs along the riverbank, keeping up with the boat, as everyone attacks the trolls, and the trolls attack Vurguron. One troll attacking the boat is knocked out by Percival's Thunder Boomerang.
1. Two trolls move to Vurguron, attacking for a decent amount of damage.
2. The white troll follows the boat.
3. The red troll follows the boat, but is no longer confused by Synaptic Static. It takes 4 Necrotic damage.
4. The Fish is no longer Slowed.
5. Vurguron suggests that we land the boat. The trolls next to him are the green and the Toa Hordika Matau, and he attacks the green one for 14 slashing 4 radiant, and then 10 slashing 4 radiant. Then he runs away.
6. Percival throws his Thunder Boomerang, stunning the white troll and doing 6 bludgeoning 7 thunder.
7. Ryltar Cone of Colds the troll next to the boat, as well as the two that were attacking Vurguron, dealing 29 to the white and Matau trolls, and 14 to the green.
8. Jerry attacks the red troll for 33 damage.
9. Salris attacks the red troll twice with his Flametongue and once with the Wounding Whip, missing with the whip. The sword does a Fireball's worth of damage to the troll, but it's still alive.
10. The boat moves 20 feet downstream.
Round 4: The downed white troll revives, and Vurguron downs a shore troll. More damage is dealt, in both directions. Jerry manages to kill the white troll.
1. The trolls on shore dash to catch up with Vurguron.
2. The red troll advances, and attacks Jerry for 12 damage. She keeps Hunter's Mark active. The troll passes a Wisdom save, and is no longer slowed.
3. The white troll is still stunned by the thunder boomerang, and is floating dead in the water.
4. Vurguron casts Blur on himself, and then runs away from the slowed trolls. They're still unable to both catch up with and attack him in a single turn.
5. Percival casts Fireball for 29 damage on the underwater white troll, and 58 damage to the
6. Ryltar channels a sorcery point through his middle fingers to a fifth-level Cone of Cold on the white, green, and Matau trolls, for 47 cold apiece.
7. Jerry makes two attacks against the red troll, expending her Orcish Fury for 27 slashing.
8. Salris whips the red troll for a little damage and another Wound, hexing him.
9. The boat moves 20 feet downwind.
Round 5: Jerry is downed by a troll, and is revived by Percival. Incensed, she casts Lightning Arrow and manages to hit half the Party, as well as turn the Polymorphed fish back into a troll. Vurguron kills a shore troll.
1. The red troll, no longer slowed, makes claw, claw, and bite attacks, missing once and critting Jerry. She takes 26 bludgeoning and loses concentration on Hunter's Mark. The troll takes 6 damage from its two wounds.
2. The two shore trolls, green and Matau, advance to Vurguron.
3. The salmon swims to keep up.
4. The white troll catches up with the boat. It's still slowed.
5. Vurguron attacks the green troll, for 15 slashing and 4 radiant, bringing it down. It's not dead, but it is down. Sus.
6. Percival casts Fireball on the Matau, white and red trolls, for a ton of damage, but no one is down.
7. Ryltar turns a fourth-level spell slot into sorcery points, and then casts Ray of Frost at the white troll, hitting and slowing it. And downing it.
8. Jerry re-casts Hunter's Mark on the red troll, and uses Whirlwind Attach to attack white. She deals 19 damage to white, misses Red once, and deals 10 to red.
9. Salris attacks the red troll, dealing 22 magical slashing, and 5 fire damage, downing it, and 4 necrotic. Then Salris whips the troll for a 5 whip and 6 necrotic damage and another Wound.
10. The boat moves 20 feet forward.
Round 6: The trolls down Jerry again, and she is revived again. More damage to everyone.
1. The red troll takes 9 damage from its three Wounds, and revives. One claw attack lands on Jerry.
2. The green troll revives, and moves, and attacks Jerry with a bite. The combined damage downs Jerry.
3. The white troll does not get back up. It's dead.
4. Vurguron attacks the green troll, attacking and attacking and attacking, killing the troll.
5. Percival walks to Jerry, and casts a fourth-level Cure Wounds for 19, and a Bardic Inspiration for Ryltar.
6. Ryltar leans off the edge of the ship, and Ray of Frosts the red troll. It goes down.
7. Jerry decides to fuck the trolls. She casts Lightning Arrow and misses with her dart, dealing only 14 to the red troll. The Matau troll takes 11 lightning. And so do Jerry and Salris and Percival. Percival loses concentration, and the fish turns into a troll again. She throws another dart at the Matau troll for 9 piercing.
8. Salris whips the red troll twice, killing him. The Matau troll, next to the boat, takes 2 fire and 13 slashing.
9. The boat moves 20 feet.
Round 7: The remaining shore troll decides to attack the boat instead of playing catch-up with Vurguron. Jerry is downed again! Revived, she downs that shore troll.
1. The Matau troll shrugs off its wounds, and catches up with the boat.
2. The grey troll claws at Jerry twice, knocking her down.
3. Jerry revives with Relentless Endurance and makes an attack with Orcish Fury and her glaive, dealing 17 slashing to the grey troll.
4. The grey troll makes another claw attack, and downs Jerry again.
5. The Matau troll is closest to Vurguron, but it's in the water. He casts Ice Knife for some damage.
6. Percival casts Cure Wounds on Jerry for 16.
7. Ryltar Slows the first two.
8. Jerry casts Hunter's Mark on the Matau troll, attacks it twice and the grey troll once. The Matau troll is downed and takes two death saves, and the grey troll takes 15 damage.
9. Salris swords the grey troll for a nice amount of slashing, fire, and necrotic, and then some whip and necrotic damage, and a Wound.
10. The boat moves forward 20 feet.
Round 8: The shore troll revives, but is finally killed by Jerry. The lone remaining troll takes a significant amount of damage.
1. The Matau troll revives and catches up with the boat. It attacks Salris for 9 damage.
2. The grey troll catches up with the boat and attacks Jerry, but misses. It is no longer wounded.
3. Vurguron moves up some and swims to the boat.
4. Percival heals Jerry for 19.
5. Ryltar Ray of Frosts the Matau troll.
6. Jerry kills the Matau troll, and then does 14 slashing to the grey troll, to whom she has moved Hunter's Mark.
7. Salris swords and whips the lone remaining troll for a little sword and fire and necrotic damage, 6 whip and 5 necrotic, and a Wound.
8. The boat moves 20 feet downstream.

The troll decides to swim away. It's lost four companions, and still hasn't managed to get anything from the boat.

We're still on the boat. And ouch, that hurt.

We eat lunch and take short rests, and Ryltar pilots the boat safely down the river.

We pull over for the night, and sleep once more in Percival's dome.

The next day, we make it to Greyharbor without incident.

Greyharbor

Salris disguises himself as Leon.

The river widens out into a bowl of a natural harbor, with a massive rock face at the edge of the coastline. The rock face has a natural cut in it, where ships can pass from the cove, through the rock wall into the ocean. The channel has traffic in both directions, and there's a lot of traffic. Lively horns and whistles and signals.

We find a public dock and collapse the boat.

We're looking for desert clothes and travel north; Leon will go off on his own to take care of some business. And we shall meet him at the Splintered Mast.

The cove itself is a marketplace of trade goods, of stilted houses and docks and warehouses,

Ryltar and Jerry ask after desert clothing, and are directed to the Majestic Pixie, which has all varieties of clothing, run by an older half-orc, long in tooth, with the air of an established seamstress. We explain our needs to her, and she finds for us the standard clothes: Tuscan Raider chic from head to toe.

For 4 gold, we get the full set of sand wear for the Party: turbans, scarves, veils, wraps and robes.

We get Ryltar a coolie hat, and a few more waterskins.

The seamstress gives us a napkin-sketch map, which shows the jungle to the north of the desert, and grassland north of that. The Viridian Sea is around Greyharbor, and a continent is visible to the far northeast.

TKTK insert map

We go to the cartographer's store that the seamstress recommended, which is full of illustrations and maps. There's a chart of the Viridian Sea and its inlets, and a map of Setton, which is the jungle north of the desert. We buy those two maps for 5 gold apiece.

The maps show a city on a river where the Setton Jungle reaches the sea, and so we go to look for passage. But before that, dinner.

We go to find the Splintered Mast tavern, and are warned that it's probably not the place where anyone'd want to go.

The Adventures of Leon Ziki

He goes to the nonspecific place. Knocks at the door; it's not locked. He pushes the door open. It sweeps open a path in the dust. To keep the illusion of being a Human who does not have Darkvision, he lights a torch. He looks around the dust and cobwebs. One table leg is broken, chairs are missing. Kitchen is bare.

He goes upstairs, to the room where Salris and his brother slept. The beds are made and covered in dust. Traditional bunk beds. Nothing the bedroom.

So now he goes to the other room, where The Act happened. (In the house, not on a ship. That's why he had to stab his mother.) There's still the stain. There's a scroll.

Leon Ziki picks up the scroll and opens it. It's in Salris's brother's handwriting:

I still live. I will find you.

The windows are closed, the doors are closed. Leon leans on the table, next to the wall, and drops the Mask of Many Faces.

Crossed arms.

Recasts his disguise, and goes out into the harbor.

Salris' ship, the Grey Mist, is not in the harbor.

Leon goes back to his house and knocks on the neighbor's door.

"Hello?"

"I was sent here to Grey Harbot to look for the Dereshar Brothers. Do you know where they went?"

The neighbor invites him in for a glass of water. The neighbor says that the Dereshars were set upon by pirates. But they only found one body: the father. The others, no idea.

Leon thanks the neighbor for his time, and goes back to the Dereshar house. Drops his disguise, latches the door. Ryltar goes back to the bedroom and flops on his bed.

"Those guys have probably bought all their stuff anyways. I have a little time. Where did you go, where did you gooooo? You little shit."

He puts the disguise back on, and walks out, to the tavern.

Finding passage

The Harbormaster is a black Dragonborn, and when we ask, he says there are many ships headed to the city in Setton. It's a regular route.

The Flying Banshee: reputable
The Sea Wolf: reputable

Both are cargo ships, but they do take a few passengers. The Flying Banshee will leave this evening, making a stop at the Cumberlite Isles. The Sea Wolf will take direct passage to city, leaving in four days.

The Flying Banshee sails with the tide; if we get there in an hour with gold in hand we should be able to board. The harbormaster gives us directions, and we tip him a gold piece. He says he'll tell them to look for us.

The Shattered Mast

The tavern is made from a broken ship; the door is the prow and a mast leans drunkenly over the street. Leon Ziki enters and goes to the bar.

The barkeep notices him: "You're not from around these parts; what can I do you for?"

Leon: "I'm looking for information. What do you know about the Grey Mist?"

The bar falls silent, even the music.

"You probably need to talk to Bladebrand over there," says the barkeep. He calls out, "Captain! A question about your old ship."

There in a corner is a Tiefling with an open coat, bare chest, tricorn with a slash, boots propped on the table, a rapier, a glass of wine in his hand.

"And what wretched soul gave you that name," asks Seamus Dereshar.

"Gimme two of what he's drinking," says Leon, dropping a platinum on the bar. He takes the glasses over to Seamus, gives him a glass, sits down.

"Where'd you hear of that ship," asks Captain Seamus, who has an eyepatch over his right eye.

Leon drops his Mask of Many Faces, and Salris looks his brother in the face for the first time since That Night.

Next session

The Party levels up to 11.

And now we'll gain some new map regions?

Ongoing plot questions:

Is Salris' brother also a bearer of the curse that afflicts Salris? Or is he just part of Rezzik Brazzik now?
What's up with Salris' Celestial dagger?
We know how to trap the Jester, with Magic Circle
What's going on with the stars? Are Ryltar's theories about colors and significant plot-relevant things' colors correct?
How can the Mummy Lord be defeated?
Determine how to resolve the Eta'el-Kerjes plot
Remember to un-petrify Ockoh in the Ice Lord Wint's Lair

Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

Date	Name	Excerpt
Apr 25, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Session	The Party drops off Seamus with Salris, and returns Llewyll to the Woven Council. We then rest up, and return to the dungeon to kill the Beholder. Looting ensues. And then Embersia draws from the Deck of Many Things.
Apr 11, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Session	We explore the tunnels underneath the audtionhouse, and find many treasures and expensive things, including Llewell, the son of Thallia, heir presumptive of the Burning Blood. Several people almost die, including Llewell, but we find the painting of A.R.N. and kill it before teleporting back to Quadroads. We've made a new enemy: Xanathar the Beholder, who owned the horde we raided.
Mar 28, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Session	We start the auction, and reach the intermission. We slaughter a bunch of people. Then we get stuck in a puzzle for an hour, trying to find the painting of A.R.N.
Mar 14, 2026	The HUndred and Thirty-Sixth Session	We go to Setton and do some reconnaissance, finding little.
Feb 28, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Session	After planning out the next few sessions' heisting, we take a quick relaxing trip to West Haven to repair our relations with Magister Andraste Netyoine.
Feb 14, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Session	We leave Lanthet and return to Quadroads. Salris can't come, so Seamus is convinced to come in his stead, and we head to Setton. A.R.N. desires our services for a heist: killing a painting.
Jan 31, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Third Session	In Lanthet, we kill a bunch of elementals and summoners, and rescue Merrill.
Jan 17, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Second Session	Merrill in Peril. We go to Lanthet, and discover it beseiged by tribal summoners and Earth, Fire, and Lightning Elementals. We decide to attack the elementals.
Jan 3, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-First Session	We solve a political problem for Vurguron with some minor violence, and incidentally unocver another Cult attempt to kill lots of people, this time in the South Haven.
Dec 6, 2025	The Hundred and Thirtieth Session	We save the Ascendants, burning even more spell slots. Ryltar has to give up the Ice Heart of Winter to Enigma Cortex Belladonna. The Ascendants send us to South Haven, to help the Draconic Empire.
Nov 8, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Session	We explore the Quadroads a bit, and interfere in an immolation of religious materials. Many cultists are killed, and two people rescued, but at significant cost. We take a short rest.
Oct 25, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Session	We fight Belladonna. We don't win. And around us, everything gets worse.
Sep 13, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Session	Mer-fey backstory! Embersia's divine intervention returns the fey realm to its origin, and the Fey to their original forms. A pact is made, boons granted, and the story of the Fey Seeds told. The Party returns to the Material Plane, and is met by Shadow Belladonna.
Aug 2, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Session	The Mummy Lord Degrazil is killed. We start the renewal of Lake Renewal, and discover a population of beings in an underwater forest at the bottom of the lake.
Jun 7, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Third Session	After saving one Ascendant, we get boons from the others. Salris experiences an attempt on his soul. We return to Viper's Cove and find the remnants of a ritual. We travel to Sky Diamond Academy, rescue Guy from some vines, and learn that Belladonna has been tracking down parts of her self to reassemble them. There may be a connection between the prophesied stars and her fractured self.
Apr 26, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Second Session	With more fighting through the dungeon, we locate the missing Ascendant and save them with a Teleport. Then we exit the temple.
Apr 12, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-First Session	We decide to go hunt down the missing Ascendant. We enter the damaged temple of Oghma and begin to delve its basement, encountering many different enemies.
Mar 29, 2025	The Hundred and Twentieth Session	We return to Quadroads. The Cultists of the Burnt Tree have been wrecking stuff in Quadroads, and we've been asked to help eliminate them. Also one of the Ascendants might be missing. Moon has a thing for Ryltar.
Mar 1, 2025	The Hundred-And-Eighteenth Session	Jerry gains new tools; Jarasoom steals from Jerry to benefit Embersia. We find the journal of Orrel, describing where the last battle against Belladonna. The Drow appear at the Library.
Feb 15, 2025	The Hundred and Seventeenth Session	We continue to explore the Arcadia Infinatum. Jerry delves too greedily and too deep, and gets chased by even more corrupted knowledge-seekers. Rajahtesh tempts Ryltar with all of Ioun's knowledge. Percival is challenged by Jarasoom, the huge Brass Dragon, and doesn't impress him. Embersia searches for knowledge of the Library itself.
Jan 18, 2025	The Hundred and Sixteenth Session	We meet the library's Arbiter and Guardian, and explore the library. We found out some things about the prophecy, and the past.
Jan 4, 2025	The Hundred and Fifteenth Session	We run away from Dirius. We find the Library. Embersia admits she was in love with Sergith and let the Shield get stolen.
Dec 21, 2024	The Hundred and Fourteenth Session	We encounter and defeat a Demilich. We break into a chest and save Embersia from her first death, and then Dirius decides to attack us.
Dec 7, 2024	The Hundred and Thirteenth Session	We find the source of the mysterious desert statues: a Medusa! Thanks to a show of trust from Ryltar, we solve her curse without fighting her or an army of protective statues. And then we fight some sandworms.
Nov 23, 2024	The Hundred and Twelfth Session	We spend months journeying across the Red Sands, and encounter some strange things.
Nov 9, 2024	The One Hundred and Eleventh Session	In the Red Wastes, we spend some time travleing. Dirius and Ryltar do their questioning.
Oct 26, 2024	The Hundred and Tenth Session	Dirius' expedition sets off across the desert. An elephant is involved.
Oct 12, 2024	The Hundred and Ninth Session	Vurguron cleans house. We learn that Sergith was working for Belladonna. Vurguron details a paladin to support the Party, and the Party goes off to Zennar, where they meet with Dirius and the Harbingers of Discovery.
Sep 28, 2024	The Hundred and Eighth Session	The Prima Dominous competition: Can Vurguron defeat Sergith?
Sep 14, 2024	The Hundred and Seventh Session	We find the Platinum Scale of Bahamut.
Aug 17, 2024	The Hundred and Sixth Session	Vurguron sneaks into the Open Session and invokes Prima Dominus. It doesn't go as he expected.
Aug 3, 2024	The Hundred and Fifth Session	Vurguron networks to gain support for his Prima Domnius challenge against Sergith for control of the Third House, and gains support of many houses.
Jun 8, 2024	The Hundred and Third Session	We travel to the South Haven, to Vurguron's home. Vurguron's family has been usurped; they no longer control the Third House.
May 11, 2024	The Hundred and Second Session	The Prodigal Son returns to the Byron home, and breaks with his father.
Apr 27, 2024	The Hundred and First Session	We discover the false priest, and a plot to open a portal with obsidian pumice "wrenches". This comes to a head at the Umberlee service, as the false priest summons a shoggoth. We kill th false priest and the shoggoth, placate Umberlee, and then close the portal.
Mar 30, 2024	The Hundredth Session	After extensive planning, we search around and find the location of the Thieves' Guild base, and throw out the plans. Bugfood's sister Miranda is extracted from her cell, and then we roll Plan A: Percival the Stoat Seller. This allows us to bypass a couple of fights, and cut direct to the Big Bad fight against the entire Thieves' Guild, whom we splatter across their underground lair.
Mar 2, 2024	The Ninety-Ninth Session	A short summary of actions: interrogate the Thieves.
Feb 17, 2024	The Ninety-Eighth Session	Having teleported to the area near Maymoor, the Party sets out to find Bugfood. Finding him, the Party then sets out to find Miranda. We enter an underground base of some sort, kill some Thieves, and are flushed out when they flood the base. We did not find Miranda, but we did capture a Thief, who gives us directions to where 'The Brigade' can be found.
Feb 3, 2024	The Ninety-Seventh Session	We learn of the history of the Dereshars' curse, and upset the crew of the Nightmare. Then we sink the ship and return to Quadroads, where we revive Seamus and prepare to go save Bugfood.
Jan 20, 2024	The Ninety-Sixth Session	We save Salris.
Jan 6, 2024	The Ninety-Fifth Session	Some retconning happens; we pick up some other plot threads. Belladonna still attacks Quadroads; we still brief the Ascendants. Then we go to Dirius' talk and learn of Dirius' upcoming expedition to the First Library in the Red Wastes. Percival's father sends a message. Jerry dreams of Bugfood.
Nov 11, 2023	The Ninety-Fourth Session	We go to tackle the little ghost, which turns out to be Belladonna. Oops. She's partially freed now. So we go off to find Salris, and aid him in his situation at Viper Cove.
Oct 14, 2023	The Ninety-Third Session	Shopping in Quadroads, and we plan improvements to the Regular Inn. We gain access to the Teleportation Circles of the Temple of Ioun, and check in with Moon. We gain audience with the Ascendants tomorrow. Thrai is happy to hear that we've done some stuff, but now she needs us to deal with a spectre. And Bugfood leaves us a message about Salris.
Sep 30, 2023	The Ninety-Second Session	Jerry dies. Jerry lives. We smash the canoptic jars. We recover Ockoh and some flail snail shells..
Sep 16, 2023	The Ninety-First Session	We return to Sky Diamond and learn some things about Belladonna: she caused the Divergence. Then we go to the pyramid, learn of the Quadroads mission to explore it, and enter ourselves. It's a small little pyramid, but it's also hard to get into without dying. We defeat the first floor, and find the second.
Sep 2, 2023	The Ninetieth Session	We fight the Mummy Lord Degrazil at Lanthet, and almost kill him, but fail to prevent him from taking Kerjes' body back to his Lady, Mistress Silra Edenair, also known as Belladonna.
Aug 19, 2023	The Eighty-Ninth Session	Having finished our goals in the Yuan-Ti temple, we teleport to Sky Diamond Academy. Guy catches us up on the nature of the stars: they represent items made with Fey Seeds. We have 3 of 6, maybe? Also the divination professor at SDA is a fraud, it seems, but for a bard he's really good at teaching divination. We're responsible for his upcoming disciplinary hearing.
Aug 5, 2023	The Eighty-Eighth Session	We kill a whole lot of Yuan-Ti, and recover our stuff. Vurguron and Jerry nearly die.
Jul 8, 2023	The Eighty-Sixth Session	The mysterious entity under the tree is revealed as Belladonna, also known as Nightshade, Poisoner of the Mother of the Forest! Enemy of Wint! Furthermore, she's the patron of Salris and his brother! We skedaddle back to Setton, and do some shopping. Salris leaves on a quest.
Jun 10, 2023	The Eighty-Fifth Session	We go to Kerjes' tree, find Eta'el. The Sky Giant claims the hoard, and denies our claim, so we fight, and we win. Then we go to investigate the mysterious thing in the basement of the tree, which is …
May 27, 2023	The Eighty-Fourth Session	We kill time in the Woven Council, go shopping, and hold a small party. Then we hit Level 14.
May 13, 2023	The Eighty-Third Session	Kerjes shows up with the Roc; we kill her.
Apr 15, 2023	Strategy Session: Defeating Kerjes	We come up with a game plan, meet a Magister, clean up the demons, and do some prep work. We have a team, and we have more weapons.
Apr 1, 2023	The Eighty-Second Session	We run around the city, do some combat, and try to figure out what we'll do when Kerjes shows up. A long rest occurs, so we are finally feeling a little healthier.
Mar 18, 2023	The Eighty-First Session	We find Ren's body, which is mostly scraps. We then find the portal, and manage to close it. Jerry is a Giant Ape now.
Feb 18, 2023	The Eightieth Session	Lanthet is beseiged. We set out to lift the siege by closing the demon portal, which might be in the governor's mansion. After a quick treck through the sewers, and encounters with The Lost Boys and a Sewer Sarlaac, we enter the governor's mansion and kill the Marilith, since she happens to be there. And then we scamper off into the sewers again.
Feb 4, 2023	The Seventy-Ninth Session	We arrive in Lanthet, and discover a city beset by demons. Entering the city, we sneak arounduntil we locate Jerry's family in a beseiged temple. After breaking the siege, we escort the trapped people to a more-defensible location. Kerjes returns, notices our presence, and demands our heads by tomorrow. Kerjes was wounded, and Ren's sacrifice damages her again.
Jan 21, 2023	The Seventy-Eighth Session	The Party departs the Forest with borrowed gear, and arrives in Setton. We kill a Rakshasa that was impersonating Ryltar's girlfriend, but lose the girlfriend. After restocking,we travel to Ren, who tells us that Kerjes is on the move, headed to Jerry's hometown.
Jan 7, 2023	The Seventy-Seventh Session	The Party is captured by the Yuan-Ti. Jerry goes John McClane. The Captain of the Verdant Guard is revealed as an agent of Kerjes. Ryltar rescues the Party with Dimension Door. We set off in search of new equipment, reassurance that Kerjes will not go after Jerry's family, and revenge upon the Yuan-Ti.
Oct 29, 2022	The Seventy-Sixth Session	The people of the forest go their different ways. The West Haven militia returns to the Yuan-Ti stronghold, to attack it, and the Party follows. But we are betrayed by the West Haven captain, leaving Jerry alone and all else captured or dying.
Oct 15, 2022	The Seventy-Fifth Session	A Potion of Diminuation lets us carry the tree out of the Yuan-Ti stronghold, and we successfully replant the Lady of the Forest on her throne. Percival becomes her Protector, and we return to the Touched village. Jerry cures Majorie.
Oct 1, 2022	The Sevnty-Fourth Session	We slay a great many Yuan-Ti, but not their self-deifying leader. The prophet, Sev, leads us to a fungal grove where the Mother of the Forest sleeps, and we try to wake her, to no avail, It's time to contact Bugfood!
Sep 17, 2022	The Seventy-Third Session	We discover a batch of prisoners in the temple, free them, and arm them. Then we clean up after some guards, before discovering the biggest baddie yet in the room: A Yuan-Ti Abomination.
Sep 3, 2022	The Seventy-Second Session	Dungeon crawling time! We hack and slash our way through the tunnels beneath the Yuan-ti ziggurat.
Aug 20, 2022	The Seventy-First Session	The Party reconnoiters the Yuan-ti city, then waits for an opportune moment to sneak in. Under heavy rain, we enter the city, and blast our way into the temple, killing guards with overpowered magic, and finally we come to the open stone door. Inside is a dark room, and noises.
Jul 23, 2022	The Seventieth Session	Commissioned by the Ancient Elm, the Party goes to find the Mother of the Forest, who may have been kidnapped by the Yuan-Ti. We find a Yuan-Ti compound in the forest, and Salris reconnoiters it.
Jun 11, 2022	The Sixty-Eighth Session	Percival emerges from a short coma determined to help the Forest. We persuade him to join us on our quest to rid the forest of corruption, permanently. To the northwest we travel, and get caught in a series of painful encounters. Jerry almost dies.
May 28, 2022	The Sixty-Seventh Session	Heading to the Jimenju tree to find out more about how to become TOuched be the Forest, we encounter Percival. He's pursued by one of the Eyes of the Forest, which we kill. Salris' new patron expresses itself in his casting. Then the half-Elf Werebear Fernard leads us to the Jimenju tree, which is very very creepy.
May 14, 2022	The Sixty-Sixth Session	The Party continues snooping upon Majorie's Tribe, and eventually confronts her. We are introduced to the tribe, and the Speaker, and learn of the mysteries of the forest. The tribe are eating poison all the time, but aren't harmed because they're Touched By The Forest. They do this to prevent the spread of the forest's corruption, when the Assassin killed the mother of the forest, leaving behind the Ancient Elm and the Assassin's Tears.
Apr 30, 2022	The Sixty-Fifth Session	A.R.N. pays the Party with a quick teleport to the Kulahaar Wilds, where Majorie was last seen in a scrying painting. There, we cross some weird forests to snoop on Majorie's Tribe. They're doing weird things, staring at the sky all night, with glowing eyes.
Apr 16, 2022	The Sixty-Fourth Session	With the artist A.R.N. saved, the Party returns to The Hunter's Table to rest. Vurguron finds a friend of his father, who challenges Vurguron to a fight so that he may hand over a legendary shield to Vurguron. The Party restocks on potions, and then returns to A.R.N. to get paid. A.R.N. does some scrying, and we see our first image of Majorie in a long time.
Apr 2, 2022	The Sixty-Third Session	The Party explores more of ARN's mansion, and wins a poetry slam battle. Then we find ARN, and the statue that ARN is carving. The Party nearly dies in the process.
Mar 19, 2022	The Sixty-Second Session	We begin to explore the second floor of A.R.N.'s mansion, and discover the basement accidentally. With the assistance of a painting, we manage not to die as we make our way through the courtyard into another section of the basement, and from there, into the kitchen. There's more tunnels left to explore, however, and we're still in pretty bad shape.
Feb 19, 2022	The Sixty-First Session	Majorie is alive and with her tribe, so the Party decides to go do some social networking by rescuing A.R.N. The first few rooms of the mansion of A.R.N. nearly kill us.
Feb 5, 2022	The Sixtieth Session	The Party arrives in Setton, and visits a hunters' guild. The Party learns of a quest to to save an artist, missing in a mansion. Ryltar makes friends with the Half-Orc scroll-scribe Guleva. Salris changes patrons. Jerry ponders our next steps.
Jan 22, 2022	The Fifty-Ninth Session	The Tall Missionary takes the Noble Daughter hostage, and dies an innocent at Ryltar's wand. The murderer is revealed as a Rakshasa, which had disguised itself as the Noble Husband. The sea monster disappears, but a curse lingers over the ship until it is removed. The ship is repaird and sails on. The Party offers custodianship of the Regular Inn to the ship's boy, Xander.
Jan 8, 2022	The Fifty-Eighth Session	We interrogate nine captives about the death of the carpenter's mate, Xaban, but get no useful answers. A baby manticore is discovered in an unmarked crate in the hold, and exonerated of the murder. Its owners, two crewmembers, are chastised. An aquatic beast approaches the ship, and the murderer is revealed.
Dec 11, 2021	The Fifty-Seventh Session	The Cumberlite Isles hide a bloody secret, beneath their verdant hills. We nope the fuck out of there, but not after first going on a drunken bender. The ship's complement discovers a thief onboard, and then a saboteur-slash-murderer.
Nov 13, 2021	The Fifty-Sixth Session	Salris catches up with his brother, Seamus. Seamus now captains his own ship, cursed to resurrect anyone who dies on board. The Party skedaddle, boarding passage to the Cumberlite Isles, and defeat a Sea Dragon along the way.
Oct 16, 2021	The Fifty-Fifth Session	An energetic encounter with lake trolls on the river to Greyharbor results in four trolls dead and one swimming away. The Party buys supplies for desert travel, and seeks passage on a boat to a new town. Salris finds his brother, and reveals himself to him.
Oct 2, 2021	The Fifty-Fourth Session	The Party talks with an upset Thrai. We mysteriously gain the deed to the Regular Inn in Quadroads. After teleporting to the Woven Council to pick up some potions and say hi to Ren, we fload downriver to Riverbend, and thence to Greyharbor.
Sep 18, 2021	The Fifty-Third Session	The Party is celebrated in Quadroads. Majorie is fine, but in the deserts of the north. Salris decides not to follow through on his latest assassination contract. Ryltar identifies the Far Realm Shard, and attunes to it. The celebrations are attacked by assassins targeting Dirius, and the Party saves her life.
Aug 21, 2021	The Fifty-First Session	We sprint towards Quadroads, interruped only by a midnight battle with Rezzik Brazzik and two bands of assassins. Kerjes is on our tail, as are the Drow. The Drover dies, and Ryltar puts a hit out on Dirius with Rezzik Brazzik. Thrai is aghast.
Aug 7, 2021	The Fiftieth Session	The Party finds Thrai's missing Halfling companion, who is full of spiderlings. He dies. Thrai blows up the cave system, which we escape just barely. We name the ensuing depression as Rogo's Lake, after the Halfling. Percival teleports away, and the the rest of the Party begins the trek back to Quadroads. Among the loot is an ominous note messaging Majorie, Jerry's daughter.
Jul 24, 2021	The Forty-Ninth Session	The Party defeats the Flesh Weaver, and several spiders die as well. We take a long rest inside a Tiny Hut provided by the new bard, Percival, and discover a giant obsidian pumice stone surrounded by corpses.
Jul 10, 2021	The Forty-Eighth Session	The Party ventures into the spiders' caverns. They discover antimagic spiders, phase spiders, swarms of spiders, lair actions, and the dungeon boss: The Flesh Weaver, an Aberration of Drow and spider and tentacles. Much combat happens, downing Jerry and Vurguron, who are both revived.
Jun 26, 2021	The Forty-Seventh Session	Bugfood disappears to take care of Remmy the Squirrel. The Party leaves Quadroads with a send-off from the Ascendants, and with a small party of escorts for the trip. After many days' hike, and a battle through the spiderwebs, the Party enters a cave.
May 29, 2021	The Forty-Sixth Session	We seek out details and possible funders for a mission to kill the source of the spiders. Little did we realize that the Knights of the Summer Court had become renowned for their defense of the West Haven. The Ascendants, rulers of Quadroads, commission the Party to solve the spider menace, and furnish us with 10,000 gold and a Goliath guide named Razorleaf. She lost her entire scouting party to the spiders, but she knows where they come from.
May 15, 2021	The Forty-Fifth Session	Zelrathi elects to remain on the mountain until the eclipse, to stay with the Couatl known as Arye. The World Spire's fear-reading abilities cause the Party some trouble, until we fly off on Bugfood's giant eagles. We return to the mountain's foot, and then Quadroads, and then the Temple of Ioun.
May 1, 2021	The Forty-Fourth Session	Bugfood meets his doppleganger. Arye reappears. The Party tries not to think about pink elephants. And then we find the Gloom Grove.
Apr 17, 2021	The Forty-Third Session	Ryltar is lessened. Salris' backstory is revealed. Zelrathi learns how small his patron really is.And the veil between the planes grows thin.
Apr 3, 2021	The Forty-Second Session	Moon meets Lolth. Jerry meets a Yuan-ti. Ryltar meets Dirius. The climb continues.
Mar 20, 2021	The Forty-First Session	The Party begins to climb the World's Spire. Some leave their names at the bottom of the mountain. We take the right-hand path from the House of the Zenith, and encounter the mad man Samuel, a terrible goat, and Bahamut. The Party survives.
Mar 6, 2021	The Fortieth Session	The Party defeats some new spiders, chats with Eta'el, and departs Leen. In Quadroads the Party meets up with Zelrathi and rediscovers Moon.
Feb 20, 2021	The Thirty-Ninth Session	The Party goes shopping, and then teleports to Wint's Lair in the Lost City of Storm's Eye. Wint's Lair has been ransacked, so we head north. Leen is covered in webs, and the gang is trapped in a forge's chimney by spiders.
Feb 6, 2021	The Thirty-Eighth Session	The Party pushes through to the Woven Council, and gains access to Ren's personal Teleportation Circle. Ren explains the political problems of the Woven Council. Ryltar connects recent events to a prophecy.
Jan 23, 2021	The Thirty-Seventh Session	The Party travels from Sky Diamond Academy to the Great Banyo Tree, where they traverse an enchanted hedgerow maze, kill many monsters, and discover Kerjes' power. New quest: trap Eta'el.
Jan 9, 2021	The Thirty-Sixth Session	The Mummy Lord is bluffed, and we escape to Sky Diamond Academy. We tell the Deans about the Mummy, of the aberration spiders, of Moon's betrayal, of the Drow expedition to the Underdark. Moon is summoned to Sky Diamond Academy, and receives her sentance. We prepare for the expedition to Kerjes' Tree.
Nov 28, 2020	The Thirty-Fifth Session	Several days' travel later, we are woken in the night by the distant sounds of cultists sacrificing bodies to a Tree-mother. In the ensuing fight, Bugfood plants a bean. The cultists outclass us, though we manage to kill the reincarnated Jester, and the fight is ended by the bean's sprouting into a mummy's pyramid.
Nov 14, 2020	The Thirty-Fourth Session	We leave Zelrathi and Moon behind at the Temple of Ioun in Quadroads. Viroth Aiodon, a Blood Hunter, joins the Party. A night in a spiderwebbed village reveals giant spiders full of pink flesh and strange crystals.
Oct 17, 2020	The Thirty-Third Session	Having done such a good job defending Leen, we new escort its refugess to Quadroads, dragging a bound and gagged Moon along with us. We fight some trapdoor spiders and save the day. Zelrathi introduces us to the charming, crowded, con-artist-packed city of Quadroads.
Oct 3, 2020	The Thirty-Second Session	We prepare to leave Leen, but the spiders attack. And then we get a quest from a Firbolg, to save a magic Sky Staff from the home of a spidery woman named Kerjes who lives under a tree.
Sep 5, 2020	The Thirtieth Session	We discuss what to do next, and send a message to Guy with updates. Then we set off for Quadroads, in search of magical ingredients.
Aug 22, 2020	The Twenty-Ninth Session	We find ourselves on the shore of a giant lake, trade with the locals, and make our way to Malcolm's Wharf, where Rezzik Brazzik reappears.
Jul 25, 2020	The Twenty-Eighth Session	The Party escapes the Underdark, leaving behind untold treasures and exciting combats to steal away with the Ice Heart of Winter.
Jul 11, 2020	The Twenty-Seventh Session	A session that is 90% combat, with no big revelations and little progress through the Snow Caves of Hoth.
Jun 27, 2020	The Twenty-Sixth Session	With further exploration, and many dead ice rats, the Party makes it through the catacomb of the Ice Lord to a deeper tunnel. Zelrathi is pulled into a snow wall, and begins to suffocate.
May 30, 2020	The Twenty-Fifth Session	After a quick and painful battle with a giant shark, we enter the Lost City of Storm's Eye and find a pair of mysterious twins. The temple at the peak of the city is frozen solid and full of sleeping dwarves and stabby ice dwarves. The expedition's head Drow have disappeared into the city.
May 16, 2020	The Twenty-Fourth Session	After an exciting, firefly-lit evening, the expedition finally trudges into the Lost City of Storm's Eye.
May 2, 2020	The Twenty-Third Session	The expedition ventures into the Underdark, and surmounts many obstacles.
Apr 18, 2020	The Twenty-Second Session	The party spends a few days in Leen restocking and getting their fortunes told. Then the expedition rolls into town. We meet Vicar again, and he introduces many new faces to us. But is this expedition made of the baddies?
Apr 4, 2020	The Twenty-First Session	Spiders. Spiders? Spiders! The Party continues to the southwest, and finally arrives in Leen, where—
Mar 21, 2020	The Twentieth Session	On the road again! Would you like some tea while you travel, or perhaps a generous helping of vines?
Jan 25, 2020	The Seventeenth Session	Salris' contact Rezzik Brazzik is revealed as a Greater Demon. And at long last, the Party completes its journey to The Sky Diamond Academy, a school of magic-users that is apparently buried in extradimensional space beneath a mountain.
Jan 11, 2020	The Sixteenth Session	We bury Tula, and meet a new companion: a coffeelock named Zelrathi.
Nov 16, 2019	The Fifteenth Session	Fair is foul and foul is fair; we find an old lady in a cottage who lets us spend the night if we help her with her yardwork. Trade happens, and we end up helping a nearby town where her granddaughter, the daughter of Boris Highhelm, lives. Things don't go well.
Nov 2, 2019	The Fourteenth Session	The Party's weregild is forgiven, and the party makes bank. Minor shopping ensues. The Party departs West Haven for Sky Diamond Academy, on horses, and travels two nights.
Oct 5, 2019	The Thirteenth Session	The Party captures Kalina, kills an ice dragon, finds the elemental egg, reunites its halves, saves the frozen arena, and takes a well-deserved long rest. The Party reaches Level 5, and gains many new magical items.
Sep 21, 2019	The Twelfth Session	The arena is frozen over, and the VIPs are missing. The Party aids in the defense of the city by battling a number of goblins, and encounters a Jester. Thalia's last wishes equip Salris with a quest to imbue an elemental egg with her ashes. The Party enters an icy plane in search of the perpetrator Kalia and the egg she used.
Aug 10, 2019	The Eleventh Session	Might of the Magus ends with Ryltar's win. The Spell-Slinger Spectacle ends in a catastrophic explosion. Tula spends days meditating.
Jul 27, 2019	The Tenth Session	Time for the Battle of the Beasts.
Jun 29, 2019	The Ninth Session	The Party gets their stuff back from the impound lot, and talks with many important people. Plans are discussed for making a lot of gold quickly; it is suggested that they participate in the tournament. Tula rides Bugfood in the joust, and doesn't do well.
Jun 15, 2019	The Eighth Session	The gang spend a night in jail and receive visits from a number of people, including a mysterious figure that grants magical feathers. The trial is held; many things are learned, and the group is convicted. The Party must pay a heavy cost.
Jun 1, 2019	The Seventh Session	The party recaptures the West Haven Beastmaster's ogre and kuthrik, and spends a night at the inn owned by Jerry's former CO. With guards on the lookout for the Party, can they clear their names before being thrown in jail? No.
May 18, 2019	The Sixth Session	This is a shopping episode. Many social faux pas are made; in the Haven there are those who would seek to thwart the festivities of the solstice.
Apr 20, 2019	The Fifth Session	The party encounters ruffians on the road, and then victims of a goblin raid. Finally, we reach the West Haven.
Apr 6, 2019	The Fourth Session	The party escapes the Kobold Cave, and returns to the village of Hillthorpe. Having rescued Kan, the party is acquired by Kan's mother Valna, the mayor, to escort her to the West Haven for the equinox meeting of the Council.
Mar 23, 2019	The Third Session: Kobolds continued	The Party continues exploring the Kobold cave, and finally finds Kan, the child we had been looking for. Then we kill the big bad Kobold chieftan.
Mar 9, 2019	The Second Session	The Party continues to faff about in the Kobolds' cave.
Feb 9, 2019	The First Session	What business has a Drow, a Human, a Half-Orc, Dragonborn and two Tieflings, riding a stolen Kobold cart through the woods, pulled by two giant weasels?

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