Prologue[edit | edit source]
Session 0: Siesta!
Date: 1 Orbraze
Session Tags: Celebration, Mystery, Survival, Time Travel
Characters: Felix, Isa, Thia, Diyu, Isaac, Gopher [All NEW!]
DM: Thomas (5/17/2026)
Important NPCs: Larkin, Grilma Willowblossom, Ivan, Countess Sansuri and her Cloud Giants, The Shepherd, Gale, Yuki
XP Gained: 3
Important Things that Happened:
- Players entered the city of Ravel during Siesta to join the First Annual Celebration of The Great Year, held 57 years after the Siege of Ravel. All characters were asked what made 523 PR so great for them, and the players answered with various levels of seriousness and comedy. For Ravel, it was great for it finally finished rebuilding after The Fantasial Freeze
- The group bonded over the mysterious pre-historical runes on the Nightstone as well as Isaac's various magical paints
- The party was greeted by City Councilwoman Grilma Willowblossom, a well studied Healer of the Sanguis Clinic, as well as her mother, Gale, who informed them of the pre-historical nature of the Nightstone and assured the party it was a good omen
- Grilma then gave a key-note speech to gathered crowd. The speech is an edited transcript of Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hills We Climb," which was first presented at Joe Biden's 2020 inauguration. The speech can be found here.
- After the speech, a Goliath named Ivan who seemed to know to much about the party expressed his gratitude for them being there, before a mysterious rain began falling, and the crowd was ushered indoors.
- The Shepherd stepped out into the rain, removed a rune from the Nightstone as a band of Cloud Giants and Goblins teleported into the celebration from the clouds. The Shepherd shouted to the party, before using the magic in the rune to freeze time around Ravel, and striking down Grilma in one clap of thunder, and then dissappearing in a burst of purple magic.
- The Cloud Giants then began pulling the Nightstone out of the ground, and combat began as the party attempted to stop them. The party put up a valiant effort, taking down two of the giants with the help of various NPCs, but could not withstand the onslaught of heavy blows from the Giants. Before any characters could be killed, Ivan returned, alongside a halfling named Bimp and a Kitsune named Yuki and removed the party from the timestream, taking them to Creation
- Yuki informed the party that the events that just happened were not supposed to happen, but could not give them much more info without causing a paradox.
- The Timelost Party now awaits in The Lost Libraries of Quelmar, Yuki's home in creation, for Ivan's arrival, as well as an explanation about what just happened, alongside of new fear of this mysterious Temporal Thunderstorm.