The Fantasial Freeze/The Story So Far

Session 0: The First Night

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.

Session 1: Cold Feet

Session Tags: Survival, Onomancy, Boss Battle

Characters: Adebimpe, EltoLinda, Luv, Clover, Laris, Jaxzo'Ilan

DM: James (1/3/2025)

Important NPCs: Nhart, Otto Bremer

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

• Working and staying at a shelter in Ravel to stay away from the cold, the heroes are imposed upon by a group of thugs who were looking to take blankets to stay warm from the arctic conditions outside.
• After Luv paid the thugs off, the team convened at a local Quest Board, noting a few of the crazy things happening in town at the moment, including:
  • A bone dealer named Otto Bremer who wanted whale bones
  • A baker whose fires seem to be magically extinguished by an unknown force
  • A citizen who gets the uncanny feeling they are being watched via Elemental Scrying
  • Reports of a vision from the Onomancer's Guild of a Kaiju-Sized Penguin
  • Worries from citizens about local tortle Captain Kronch
  • Several notices about Pirates in the region.
• Eventually the team settled on investigating the mysterious penguin vision, and went to the Onomancer's Guild where they met with Nhart, an onomancer who showed them his visions: A massive penguin breaking through the ice sheets of the ocean, sending locals fleeing in fear, while an unknown group of 6 stand vigilantly opposed to it.
• The team got along well with the Onomancers, though team Mystic Laris was highly suspicious, going with the popular thought that Onomancy is an "invasive" form of mind magic that shouldn't be practiced.
• After being given rations and a warm place to sleep that night, the team awoke refreshed and ready to hit the road. However, once they reached the city's frozen harbor piers, they ALSO caught the glimpse of Something Large, Monstrous, and Whale-Shaped, lurking in a back alley.
• As one of the team members was Clover, an infamous monster slayer, an order was given and the team pursued the beast. Eventually it gave an ominous warning to Adebimpe via telepathy: "You all will pay for the sins of the past". Which was enough reason to go ahead and fully kill the beast in an epic battle across Ravel city rooftops and parks.
• Once the beast was slain and the team totally exhausted, it was decided to backtrack and instead sell this Whale-Shaped corpse to Otto Bremer, the whale bone dealer, who rewarded the team with a Magic Swimming Ring of the Princes, and A Portrait of a Spoon.