Session 0: The First Night[edit | edit source]
Session Tags: Survival
Characters:
DM: James (12/5/2024)
Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Bidwell
XP Gained: 3
Important Things that Happened:
- Players left the city of Ravel onboard the SS Exodus after taking on a small contract to work the ship on its voyage south towards Galik in Amusa.
- We learned that Whales are elusive around Osugbo and that some sailors believe that Birds ward off Whales.
- After meeting and making rough acquaintance, the captain invited the crew to the Captain's dinner, where they were told to protect the precious and dangerous-sounding cargo which lived in a lock carriage on the deck.
- After hearing that a possible whale was nearby, Mr. Putney hesitantly left dinner and got some fresh air, getting a first row seat to the beginning of the Arctic Autumn as a mysterious force on the horizon seemed to zoom by, freezing the ocean water in its wake.
- When the ice reached the ship, the jostle nearly killed the lowly (Level 1) crew, but after getting their bearings, the team left the cabin and were shocked to see the dangerous creature...a dire turkey...had been thrown off the ship and was scrambling quickly away into the frozen sunset.
- Getting onto the Exodus' dinghy, the team took off into the night, kept safe and warm by Kara's fire-bending elementalist powers.
- Avoiding a near-death collision with pirates (whose cover was blown when Rosamund's mystic powers revealed their emotions and thoughts), the team sailed into the next day, freezing and huddled around a precarious fire on the dinghy.
- Finally catching up to the sleeping turkey, the team's Aarakocra tried some bird-like rituals to coax the beast back, but instead imitated a challenge to the alpha Turkey. In the quick brawl that ensued, Rosamund was nearly killed, but quick thinking from Kara, Putney, and Quimbleton put the bird into an exhausted state, ready to return back.
- Once they returned the bird, the team learned that there would be no voyage to Galik...indeed, the realm had frozen over, and a strange winter had begun: A Fantasial Freeze.
