Within the Wicked Wilds/Player Recaps/TLDR

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Tiny Little Digest of Recaps

Book 1

1a: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Bog (Dave P, 4/29/23)

First appearance of the Warden of the Wilds and hostile oozes

• After battling an oblex (ooze) in a swamp, the party met The Warden of the Wilds, who provided a magic brooch for contacting them

1b: Ruins of Maddening Dreams (Keller, 4/29/23)

Introduction of the Green Knight (and hostile gnolls); Bulio joined the TBEC

• After finding an expeditionary group massacred by gnolls and the Green Knight, the party contracted a sleepy sickness while driving off the knight and rescuing Bulio

1c: Spiders and Ichor and Ruins....oh my! (Julia, 4/29/23)

• The party secured a ruined temple of Lolth

1d: Kobold Khaos (Aaron, 4/29/23)

Introduction of Thinwhistle; first mention of Thelrya (not explicitly named); Hunk joined the TBEC

• The party made peaceful contact with the kobold village of Thinwhistle, learned of an ancient and powerful kobold city, and brought the warrior Hunk to the TBEC base camp as a liaison

2: Curious Company (Keller, 5/1/23)

Introduction of the Collector and Jack of Hearts & company

• At a temple near the Scar, the party recovered a mind-affecting book for the Collector and temporarily allied with Jack of Hearts' party against a behir

3: All that Glitters (Julia, 5/10/23)

• After a team went missing while investigating a ley line, the party found them dead but harvested magical flora

4: River Me Timbers (Julia, 5/20/23)

Death of TBEC member Ratchet; First appearance of demonic mushrooms, foreshadowing fungal infection

• The party restored a polluted water source, battled reptilian humanoids, and harvested demonic mushrooms

5: Slim Pickins (Keller, 5/21/23)

• In Galik, the party conducted interviews and hired a new airship crew

6: A Penguin's Problem (Aaron, 5/24/23)

First appearance of demons; Introduction of Mother; Arrival of Pennysworth

• The party fought off demons while repairing Pennysworth's downed airship and escaped as Mother approached, and some of them contracted Sight Rot

7: Winds of Change (Julia, 5/26/23)

Introduction of the Thistlebrook Conclave druids

• The party made peaceful contact with the Thistlebrook Conclave and learned a way to combat Sight Rot

8: The Loss of Tassa (Aaron, 5/30/23)

First interaction with Mother; Tassa's defection

• While acquiring Eyebright plants to treat Sight Rot, the party encountered demons including Mother, whom Tassa voluntarily joined

9: Oblex Infestation Investigation (Dave P, 5/31/23)

• Investigating an ooze infestation, the party found and disrupted the demon lord Jubilex's conduit for amassing oozes

10: Heart of Stone (Keller, 6/3/23)

Introduction of Galidant; First mention of various dragons (Kavanmort, Tiamat, Xevriss, and Alkinimic)

• In a ruined temple dedicated to Kavanmort, the party freed the undead dragonborn Galidant and escaped an attack by the Green Knight

11: Return to the Underdark (Julia, 6/4/23)

Death of TBEC member Dochás

• Returning to the temple of Lolth, the party entered the Underdark, fought aberrations, and made peaceful contact with drow

12 (QuelmarCon 2023): Trials of the Sphinxes (Julia & Aaron, 6/10/23)

• As part of a celebration at the Thistlebrook Conclave, TBEC members traveled through time to face two related challenges and received rewards from sphinxes called The Timeless and The Nameless

13: The Shifting Scales of Mount Alkinimic (Keller, 6/11/23)

Introduction of Lorrie Haslo and the Philosopher's Stone

• At Mount Alkinimic, the party found Lorrie Haslo's team and raided the ancient dragon's hoard, acquiring the Philosopher's Stone (to be studied and eventually sold to the Collector)

14: Nature Finds a Way (Julia, 6/16/23)

• After consulting the Thistlebrook Conclave about a blight near the site of the recent ooze infestation, the party found and neutralized the mutated creature responsible

15: Off the Rails (Keller, 6/25/23)

• While transporting mysterious tablets by train, the party fended off Jack of Hearts' party and learned he had a mole at the base camp

16: A New Hire (Aaron, 6/27/2023)

• On a mission to research Thelrya, the party encountered Tassa in a cave near Thinwhistle

17: Smoke Signals (Keller, 7/1/2023)

Introduction of Ripjaw and the Gearhead gnolls

• The party disabled a forge facility where the Gearhead gnoll pack, led by the augmented Ripjaw, was constructing massive war machines

18: Fossils and Fools (Keller, 7/7/2023)

Death of TBEC member Nester

• The party found and destroyed a vampiric dinosaur that had been preying on Thinwhistle

19: Maze Runners (Julia, 7/9/2023)

• The party escaped a maze-like demiplane to which they were transported while investigating standing stones

20: Road Rage (Keller, 7/14/2023)

Death of TBEC member Lowkey; Appearance of Ferdinand Core (as "the Music Man")

• At Lorrie Haslo's request, the party fought their way across a fast-moving convoy of gnoll war machines to save Lorrie's mysterious cargo -- the Collector

21: Cabin Fever (Julia, 7/15/2023)

• The party battled undead in an abandoned cabin found in the wilds

22: Church Attendance (Aaron, 7/28/2023)

• In a temple pulsing with energy, the party encountered Jim Stacy and fought demons

23: Slow and Steady (Keller, 7/23/2023)

Introduction of Dynia

• In Escargodia, a community of snail-like gastrosapiens on a ley line, the party encountered Talyth, Wiggler's creator; Dynia, a Xevriss-worshipping pumpkin person; and "kopybolds", Alkinimic-worshipping mimic kobolds

24: Alkinimic's End (Keller, 8/5/2023)

Death of the dragon Alkinimic

• The party fought and slew the dragon Alkinimic in his lair

25: Underdark Returns (Julia, 8/8/2023)

• The party battled aberrations in the Underdark and spotted an aberrant dragon

===26: Tassa's Demise=== (Aaron, 8/17/2023)

Discovery of the lost city of Thelrya; Death of former-TBEC-member Tassa

• After Jim Stacy and Tassa (now serving Mother) kidnapped Matilda Shattershield and Lambda, the party pursued Tassa underground, where they slew her, recovered Lambda's body without his brain, and discovered Thelrya

27: Recovery and Loss (Aaron, 8/26/2023)

Deaths of TBEC members Reedy and Sneeze

• After Jim Stacy and Tassa (now serving Mother) kidnapped Matilda Shattershield and Lambda, the party pursued Jim Stacy into the western swamp and won a Pyrrhic victory, recovering Lambda's brain and Matilda (and husband Bjorn, who had set off alone to find her)

28: Doing Hard Time in Thinwhistle (Keller, 9/2/23)

Death of Chief Thrax of Thinwhistle

• The party teamed up with Jack of Hearts to escape a prison under Thinwhistle (run by Ripjaw under the command of the Green Knight)

29: Ice To Meet You (Julia, 9/3/2023)

Introduction of Talon

• In an anomalous ice cave in the jungle, the party drove off a group of gnolls including the hunter Talon -- who inexplicably rose from the dead during the battle -- and slew a hostile white dragon

30: Work for the Warden (Dave P, 9/14/2023)

Acquisition of the Warden's staff

• The party observed (and briefly participated in) a battle between slimes and gnolls and reported it to the Warden, who rewarded them with a druidic staff to protect the TBEC base camp

31: We're Going in Circles! (Keller, 9/16/23)

Introduction of Oliver Vincent Bartholemew (and of Thelrya-linked Drakemire Hollow)

• Guided by the mysterious explorer Oliver Vincent Bartholemew (and affected by his eternal curse), the party found the ruins of the lost kobold village of Drakemire Hollow

32: Hop to It (Julia, 9/23/2023)

• While retrieving fruit from a ley-line area for Nettle's healing soups, the party drove off gnolls, including Ripjaw, who used a magical gauntlet to control a fiery flying dinosaur

33: What Lies Beneath (Keller, 9/24/2023)

• Under Drakemire Hollow, the party recovered the powerful core of a drilling vehicle, likely used by kobolds to escape the destruction of ancient Thelrya

34: Gotta Getta Grung (Dave P, 9/24/2023)

• The party rescued grung children from a gnoll work camp and delivered them to the Warden

35: Honey, I Shrunk the Adventurers (Keller, 10/1/2023)

• At the Collector's Hallow's Eve costume party, the adventurers saved the attendees from Dynia and learned that the dragon Xevriss had returned to Amusa

36: Harvest Hoedown (Keller, 10/15/2023)

• In the Court of Hallow's Eve in the Feywild, the party proved Dynia was responsible for the disappearance of huge quantities of food, which they ensured was sent back to its rightful owners rather than to Xevriss

37: A Hunting We Will Go! (Dave P, 10/17/2023)

• After helping the Warden battle fungus-infected gnolls, the party sought and acquired antifungal Neem plants for developing a cure

38: Disrupting Demons' Designs (Talia, 10/21/2023)

• The party helped the dragonborn Alkir retrieve a powerful dragon statuette before demonic forces could acquire it

39: In the Sewers (Keller, 10/22/2023)

• In Galik, a party of new TBEC recruits rescued a group of kidnapped dock workers

40: Operation Gnoll Tank (Dave P, 10/26/23)

• The party disabled a new gnoll tank at the behest of Gary, the Slime King

41: For Gourds and Glory (Keller, 10/28/2023)

Death of the dragon Xevriss; Introduction of the dragon Jatil Jivelg

• The party slew the dragon Xevriss in his lair (despite a betrayal by Chadwick Sagemoore and an ambush by Xevriss, Jatil Jivelg, and others)

42: He Who Watches Over the Wilds (Keller, 11/4/2023)

Discovery of surviving Old World Dryads; Introduction of the Seven; Revelation of the Green Knight's lore and defeat of Lord Bellaphon

• After finding statues identifying each of the primordial "Sepexillium," the party rescued six Old World Dryads who had survived the genocide of their kind
• The party also learned that "the Green Knight" was not an individual but a mantle conferred by a magic helm, which they retained after defeating the current Green Knight, Lord Bellaphon

43: Man Made Flesh (Keller, 11/12/2023)

Acquisition of The Philosopher's Stone

• The party discovered Paul Fletcher had been replaced by a sapient mimic creature during their successful mission to acquire the The Philosopher's Stone

44: The Node at the End of the Leyline (Dave P, 11/15/23)

• The party sought and found a Thelrya-linked arcane forge, then collapsed the entrance to prevent easy access by gnolls

45: Pixie Pilfering (Keller, 11/25/2023)

• The party infiltrated the court of Fairyflower Mountain in the Feywild and stole a rare ingredient for the Warden's fungal-infection cure

46: Hunk's Vengeance (Aaron, 11/28/2023)

Departure of Hunk

• In the wake of Thinwhistle's destruction, Hunk departed, sullen and empty-handed, after chance thwarted his efforts to find Chief Thrax's body before the enemy

47: Fundraiser Megasession (Aaron, Dave P, Keller, 12/03/2023)

Retreat to Galik; Deaths of Ripjaw and Talon; Introduction of the Gnoll King; TBEC member Sir Yewvane's departure as the new Green Knight

• A sudden and overwhelming attack by gnoll and demon forces compelled the TBEC to abandon their base camp in the wilds and retreat by airship to Galik
• The Warden's druidic staff animated the jungle itself to buy invaluable time while the defenders disassembled and loaded the arcane forge and salvaged what else they could
• The company held off the Gnoll King and slew both Ripjaw and Talon
• Sir Yewvane became the new Green Knight by donning its magic helm, purging the spirit of Lord Bellaphon from the artifact

Book 2 (not yet included)

Not yet included

Book 3 (incomplete)

83: Farmstead Investigation (Dave P, 6/19/2024)

• Introduced the Markster farm and the artificer Derwin
• The party visited the nearby Makster farm, whose animals were being killed by an unknown assailant, and used Derwin's "harvest reaper" scarecrows to establish defenses
• They learned that a child on the farm was protected by a shield guardian called Hopper

84: Men in Tights (Keller, 6/21/2024)

• The party discovered that Jack of Hearts had also come to eastern Amusa and had been robbing travelers, fancying himself a Robin Hood figure
• They found evidence of a fiend having battled a frost giant, foreshadowing the involvement of the infernal fire giant Lieutenant Azha and her master Kalzivach
• They later learned they'd inadvertantly inspired Jack to turn from bandit to revolutionary

85: Storming the Tower (guest DM Drew, 6/23/2024)

• Introduced Gafizmaphram, the Magnificent
• The party recovered a portrait for the Royal Family of Xender Pleth from the magical tower of the reclusive gnome wizard Gafizmaphram, the Magnificent

86: Grave Omens (Julia, 6/25/2024)

• The party explored ruins, finding a graveyard and what might have been a necromancy lab

87: Lost In Transit (Dave S, 6/30/2024)

• Introduced The Mindflayer
• The party recovered a missing Ybmtrymann caravan and encountered a mind flayer in a magical/alchemical laboratory

88: Pop Up Art (Guest DM Nin, 7/2/2024)

• The party recovered a magic mirror — which could manifest people from paintings — from Ymbtrymman for a wizard client

89: The Maiden Voyage of Windrunner (Dave P, 7/9/2024)

• Introduced the harengon guardians of The Well of Souls
• The party took the company's new airship into the Mists of Sotchalla (experiencing unexplained despair), to seek alchemical materials from the negative-plane-linked Well of Souls
• They met the Well's harengon guardians, learned of recent magical corruption in the area, and promised to return