Into the Greedy Green/The Story So Far

This page is the campaign synopsis as told by the DMs, to read a more detailed, fun, and lengthy synopsis of the campaign, see Into the Greedy Green/Player Recaps

Recap #1

Recap #2

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Greedy Green

Chapter 1 focused on introducing and growing the player base to the core concepts of the campaign: There is a big dragon war, and dragons are back and crawling all over Isonhound. This is a campaign with lots of wilderness exploration, and LOTS of big bads to slay.

Session 1a: Asar Ogalas (New Beginnings) - Velathidros

Characters: Trina (Starting XP 6500), Arlin (Starting XP 6500), Varryn (Starting XP 1500), Kris (Starting XP 1500), Mallen (RIP)

DM: James (1/9)

Dragons Encountered: Velathidros (Slaughtered), Sro, and Flame

XP Gained: 3350 (670 each)

Important Things that Happened: Welcome to Synàra, a central hub of regrowth in the middle of the Woldlin domain of Isonhound. Every year, the great festival of Asar Ogalas brings together the locals, and brings in the curious. With countless activities to partake in, the fun is never ending....unless, of course, you hear the siren.

When called to action, a group of five brave warriors, tasked with helping the town's own overwhelmed militia, stomped down to local Varryn's neighborhood and help rescue his own kin from being extorted and attacked by the great dragon Velathidros. It took their combined forces (and the morale boost of trusty lionkin Kris) to tear him down, but dramatically they prevailed, opening the door now to further adventures...into the Greedy Green!

Session 1b: Asar Ogalas (New Beginnings) - Sro

Characters: Tordek (Starting XP 6500), Durian (Starting XP 1500), Ulka (Starting XP 1500), Spinel (Starting XP 1500), Dancer of the Boreal Valley (Starting XP 1500), Grandmush (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (1/21)

Dragons Encountered: Sro, Flame, and Velathidros

XP Gained: 2460 (410 each)

Important Things that Happened: Welcome to Synàra, a central hub of regrowth in the middle of the Woldlin domain of Isonhound. Every year, the great festival of Asar Ogalas brings together the locals, and brings in the curious. With countless activities to partake in, the fun is never ending....unless, of course, you hear the siren.

When called to action, a group of five brave warriors, tasked with helping the town's own overwhelmed militia, fled to the city's capital building to evacuate any possible civilians, they learned just how powerful the Silver Greatwyrm Sro could be. And how easy it is to get lost in the rubble, destruction, and confusion that lays in the wake of a Silver dragon who REALLY wants something. Despite the odds being stacked against them, they used their ability to be non-threatening to sneak in and rescue the mayor at the last second!

Session 1c: Asar Ogalas (New Beginnings) - Flame

Characters: Alenka (Starting XP 1500), Einari (Starting XP 1500), Jeb (Starting XP 1500), Violet (Starting XP 1500), Miles (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (1/22)

Dragons Encountered: Flame, Velathidros, and Sro

XP Gained: 2890 (578 each)

Important Things that Happened: Welcome to Synàra, a central hub of regrowth in the middle of the Woldlin domain of Isonhound. Every year, the great festival of Asar Ogalas brings together the locals, and brings in the curious. With countless activities to partake in, the fun is never ending....unless, of course, you hear the siren.

Session 2: Azuspear

Characters: Trina, Arlin, Kris, Violet, Miles, Buho (Starting XP 6500), Jeb (RIP)

DM: James (2/12)

Dragons Encountered: Azuspear the Blue (+ His wyrmlings), The Green Stag (Mentioned)

XP Gained: 8700 (1242 each)

Important Things that Happened: In the city of Deeplake, important scientific progress is happening at the Church of Innovation, but at this particular branch, all is not as it seems. When the scientists began to push harder on the players to kill all the blue dragons (even the babies) a series of interrogations showed that this Church was compromised by an unseen force---The Green Stag. However, besides uncovering conspiracies, the team also took the time to investigate the blue dragon's old lair, finding it inhabited by a dangerous Behir, a monster who nearly wiped the team out before they put it six-feet-under. Having now taken some Caeruleam for themselves, the group begins to look more into its uses and benefits.

Session 3: Sro II

Characters: Durian, Ulka, Spinel, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Aman, Einari, Stan (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (2/18)

Dragons Encountered: The Great Sro, Belle (technically a human but polymorphed into dragon)

XP Gained: 6950 (992 each)

Important Things that Happened: Rising high in the Isonhound mountains, Sro keeps his own precious lair...of MAYORS. Sneaking up to Sro's home, the group of heroes rush into danger, alerting Sro's own ward along the way. Though tensions were high among the team, with Dragon Lovers vying for the praise and attention of the Great Sro, while the Dragon Slayers looked for any opportunity to slice him down. By Sro's own admission, perhaps the world IS ready to fight dragons again, and for passing his curated test (and lesson) of strength, the team took home Mayor Ludvater to his poor heartbroken wife.

Session 4: Prelnirith

Characters: Varryn, Tordek, Einari, Harold (Starting XP 6500), Mallen (Starting XP 1500), Junky (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (2/20)

Dragons Encountered: Prelnirith the Topaz Dragon

XP Gained: 3435 (573 each)

Important Things that Happened: A hoard is raided! Escorting the greedy Topaz dragon to his lair on the coast, the team fought alongside the dragon to tear up some goblins who had raided its lair in its absence, and when the dragon wasn't looking...took a little bit for themselves! However, when Mallen is caught raided a shelf, the once allied dragon turned on the group, quickly beginning the retreat! High tensions, epic stakes, and one magic arrow of blinding later...we were all alive, on the SS No Sink, and on our way out, with well over 500 GP worth of gems and artifacts successfully stolen.

Session 5: Bleucorundum I

Characters: Trina, Arlin, Durian, Grandmush, Violet, Amber (Starting XP 1500), Zevendell (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (3/7)b

Dragons Encountered: Bleucorundum the Sapphire Dragon, and an unknown gemstone dragon egg. The Green Stag (Mentioned)

XP Gained: 4150 (593 each)

Important Things that Happened: A child?! With an Egg!? You betcha. It wasn't Pelota, it wasn't Toblerone, it was TARIAN! After interviewing all 6 suspects, the heroic teams known as "The Awesome Tieflings", "The Dragon Mushers", and "Hot Blood" combined all the clues they had individually gathered in order to crack the case. Unfortunately for them, the Awesome Tieflings also happened to let Tarian's wiles and charms convince them to let him out of his house. So now instead of tracking him down at home, the team braved the wilds, tracking the child through the woods until they came very close to the lair of the great Sapphire guardian. Fighting one of the dragon's thralls, a PHASE GELATINOUS CUBE, everyone barely survived, and decided in the end, that the egg belonged with the dragon, and Tarian was doing the right thing after all.

Session 6: Kobold Dragonshields

Characters: Ulka, Spinel. Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Stan, Junky, Mallen, Ferris (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (3/11)

Dragons Encountered: About 15 Kobold Dragonshields. You heard me, some Kobolds are Dragons. Also the body of an unknown red dragon, and the sabotaged egg of said dragon. The Green Stag (Mentioned)

XP Gained: 2850 (407 each)

Important Things that Happened:

• Delving deep into the vault of King Glub, a group of heroes fought off a powerful set of Kobolds that were enhanced with draconic power.
• It turns out "King Glub" or whoever he was, has been dead, and the Kobolds were defending its egg, still nestled under the boney corpse of its mother.
• HOWEVER, the egg itself had already been compromised, having been destroyed by a creature calling himself "The Green Stag"

Session 7: Harkial

Characters: Einari, Indy (Starting XP 1500), Cyan (Starting XP 1500), Ophelia (Starting XP 1500), Joshua (Starting XP 1500), Tokax (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (3/20)

Dragons Encountered: Harkial the Red

XP Gained: 14,850 (2475 each)

Important Things Established/Occurred

• Draconian armies (See Fizban's) sometimes escape into the world and cause terror in the name of the dragons as part of the big ongoing war against the realm. These armies also can include kobolds, dragonborn, draco-orcs, and any other relevant Tiamat faction.
• The coastal towns of Fasiltum  and Jakalla were attacked in this latest wave, Jakalla was a total loss, despite the best efforts of those present. This particular wave of Draconians included a young red dragon, Harkial, which was the root cause of so much destruction.
• There's one really angry Kobold who survived the seige on Fasiltum, the only survivor, who disappeared mysteriously at the end.
• Legends of "Pinky the Dragon Slayer" are going around now, about a single soldier who slayed a dragon (in truth, he was just the one manning a cannon that happened to land a death blow)
• There is now a group of wanna-be heroes of the realm who survived the seige, calling themselves The Benevolance so they might show up at some point.

Session 8: Hydrinth

Characters: Búho, Kris, Tordek, Durian, Violet, Boros (Starting XP 2700) Dad-Bot (Starting XP 1500)

DM: James (3/22)

Dragons Encountered: Hydrinth the Bronze

XP Gained: 5940 (848 each)

Important Things that Happened:

• The players named the Titicaca River out of Sneerwell
• Some of the players learned about Wovenstone and Caeruleum. One is organic, powered by the lightning glands of dragons. The other is inorganic, magic Feywild rock that eminates magical power.
• The character Kris is retired now, leaving the campaign to go work on his research he got on BOTH the above power sources to try to develop a new engine. Bye Kris!
• Lots of mentions of the Goldveins, and it's mentioned that the Goldvein dwarves historically were known to have a rare horde of powerful crystals
• Some of the players earn special Pickaxes that can turn wovenstone to gold.
• The team did encounter Hydrinth the Bronze Dragon, but ultimately made peace with him
• It was established that Vegepygmies live in the Green and sometimes dam rivers to make lands flood and get real moist

Session 9: Lindwurms I

Characters: Tordek, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Boros, Dur’kalak, (Starting XP 1500), Vadath (Starting XP 1500)

DM: Kyle (3/24)

Dragons Encountered: Lindwurm’s x2

XP Gained: 4180 (836 each)

Important Things that Happened:

• Party caught word of a tavern owner in Seglock that was looking for a group to venture north for an escort mission.
• The tavern, The Lock and Keg, owned a satyr named Rory, asked the party to travel North to Chillcrest Forest and bring his daughter home, a New Dryad named Wisty. She was part of a relief effort in north Sylvanry; in an area with a series of recent attacks by unknown creatures.
• The party traveled North to Chillcrest Forest, just as Wisty’s camp was under attack by Lindwurms. The party engaged the Lindwurms on an icy pond just outside the camp. The battle was hard fought and unfortunately Wisty was slain by a Lindwurm just as Vadath was lunging to protect her.
• The party vanquished the lindwurms and Tordek attempted to revive Wisty but it was too late. It’s possible that something in the Lindwurm’s vile saliva prevented such healing.
• After the dryad perished, a purple sapling began to grow from the corpse. Dancer cut the sapling from Wisty’s body and placed it in a container. With Vadath carrying the corpse itself, the party returned to Rory and gave the satyr his daughter’s remains.
• He didn’t seem too distraught; claiming that he can have her brought back because “i knows a guy”.

Session 10: Longfang I/Cheshire I

Characters: Einari, Violet, Grandmush, Arlin, Trina, Búho, Dad-Bot

DM: Dave (4/5)

Dragons Encountered: Longfang (Mentioned)

XP Gained: 3661 (523 each)

Important Things that Happened:

• The party members heeded the request of the Order of the Watchful Eye and reported to the barracks outside their cloister in the town of Gammelgard.
• They met a dwarven alchemist by the name of Falgrim Norest. He is an alchemist in service to the Order and would act as their contact for the mission, as well as future missions.
• The players were sent to scount the Northern Snowy Mountains. The first thing they encountered was a group of three emaciated orcs. emaciated, under dressed and under armed. They were completely submissive and answered all their questions without resistance. The orcs told them they were run off their land farther up in the mountains. A green dragon called Longfang ran them off with a hoard of nasty odd looking goblins. The group ultimately let them go.
• Following up into the mountains, they came into a large clearing about the size of a small village with rough mountain walls rising up all around it. In this clearing they encountered a large group of strange goblins similar in look to what the orcs had described. And eventually came to a 25 foot statue of a Dwarf outside a massive sealed off stone archway. The players, exhausted, returned back to Gammelgard to report their findings.

Session 11: Tragdor

Characters: Einari, Dur'kalak, Durain, Indy, Tokax, Delphi (Starting XP 2700)

DM: Kyle (4/6)

Dragons Encountered: "Tragdor" (One very fake and hallucinatory dragon made by an old crochety wizard)

XP Gained: 3798 (633 each)

Synopsis:

• The group of adventurers found themselves in Indy's home town of Briar Glen. As the sheriff, she was informed that there was some trouble with Gertrude at the general store, so the party decides to go investigate.
• At the general store, Gertrude informs the group of a recent break-in and robbery attempt by a fairly young kobold. Gertrude managed to overpower the kobald and had him incapacitated in a back room, working off his crime.
• The group then decides to talk to the kobold, as they learn he is one of many kobolds working for the great dragon Tragdor.
• The players located and fight the kobold community. After dealing with the conflict, the group entered a nearby shack and found a concealed staircase, leading to a hidden attic. There the group discovered the true Tragdor, an old wizard looking for 'retirement', who uses the fake illusion dragon as a front and to get Kobolds to go out and get stuff for him.
• The party then decided to take Tragdor's bribe of gold and loot, but still dismantled his fake kobold society, and put him under on the watchlist for the sheriffs of Briar Glen.

Session 12: The Green Stag I

Characters: Harold, Cyan, Ensign (Starting XP 2700), Reylendor (Starting XP 2700), Kihlek (Starting XP 2700), Herneldo (Starting XP 2700)

DM: James (4/9)

Dragons Encountered: Unnamed White Dragon Wyrmling Orphans, and The Green Stag

XP Gained: 3696 (616 each)

Synopsis:

• The players discovered and pushed the Green Stag out of his hiding place, a white dragon's lair in the north known as the Cave of the North Wind.
• The players rescue Raritan (the person, not the place), the first mate of the SS NoSink
• Kihlek the Green Fang is confused for the Green Stag.
• Ensign gets a Crystal Ball.

Session 13: Longfang II

Characters: Tordek, Dancer, Vadath, Boros, Kellen, Akagane, Khan

DM: Dave (4/12)

Dragons Encountered: Longfang (Mentioned, possibly it’s presence was sensed by party member)

XP Gained: 4200 (600 each)

Synopsis:

• The group was briefed by the dwarven alchemist Falgrim Norest in Gammelgard and informed that the first group that ventured forth into the foothills of the Northern Snowy Mountains were successful in finding both the entrance to the lost dwarven citadel and the odd, mutated goblins. The task of this group would be similar but in a different area of the foothills.
• The night before they reached the mission destination, a heavy fog fell over the encampment and surrounding area. At least 1 Dragon was detected in their wide vicinity by Dancer their ranger. Even so, no attack came to them.
• The next day the group traveled on further and came to the remnants of a road that snaked up into the mountains in the direction they were going. Following the road they came to a clearing where they found a hoard of goblins fighting a group of orcs. The players stumbled into the party by failing to sneak by. Ultimately, the players were successful in defeating both of the other groups.
• Upon traveling farther along, they came to ANOTHER 25ft statue of a dwarf and sealed stone archway similar to the one the first group found.
• There was evidence of Kruthik activity near the statue and archway.
• Tordek cast Meld with Stone and merged with the wall. He came out a few moments later claiming that the wall was actually an earth elemental that was tasked with blocking the passage way. The players learned the story of what was behind the archway:
• Inside the vault was "Those who had earned Moradin's Wrath. Turned from him. Sealed for All Time"

Session 14: The Green Stag II

Characters: Miles, Stan, Ulka (RIP), Ferris, Delphi, Vadeth, Jo (RIP)

DM: James (4/20 [blaze it])

Dragons Encountered: The Green Stag

XP Gained: 1857 each

Synopsis:

• The conspiracy in Deeplake (See Session 2) came to a close with a fun light hearted improv.
• Miles the Tabaxi Bard was rescued from being a thrall slave and then helped spearhead a hunt to find the Green Stag
• The Stag's Hoard is also missing.

ONE MONTH PASSES AS THE PLAYERS LOOK FOR GREEN STAG

• 7 Adventurers Entered a cave where Sro the Silver Greatwyrm put them to the ultimate test, to stop "the Greedy Green Dragon".
• In an epic battle, the first true dragon slaying of the campaign, 5 of the 7 make it out with their lives.
• But Miles rescued his platonic bandmate Tiriana, and helped kill the stag, completing his Character Mission and retiring.
• The bounty is claimed by Vadath and Delphi, who will take this victory and go on to found the Band of the Iron Hawk.

Session 15: Vezoth the White

Characters: Tordek, Violet, Varryn, Boros, Siobhin, Alenka, Reylendor.

DM: James (4/30)

Dragons Encountered: None unless the soul of Vezoth the White is counted.

XP Gained: 512 each

Synopsis:

• The Wold Order make their first appearance, summoning heroes in secret from across the continent to join them back in Synara where the campaign started.
• There they reveal that there is a powerful Dead Dragon, one of Tiamat's Heralds who was thought to be killed years ago, but who's soul was in fact trapped inside Alenka's head, as Alenka is a walking manifestation of 1000 souls.
• The team was sent by the Order hunt down a massive lost tower thought to hold the answers to killing a "Dead Dragon", they discover it hidden in a cavern near the Barrier Peaks.
• The Cult of Att-Anallo stalks the players, following them to the tower after ambushing Reylendor earlier in the adventure (The cult is obsessed with a dark power from the far realm.)
• The tower held many strange blueprints, diaries, journals, and templates in a foreign language, all indecipherable even with Comprehend Language (beacuse it's written in Galactic Standard)
• While tinkering in the tower, the worst happens: Thinking that a fancy teleportation device will fix Alenka, instead Alenka collapses, and the 1000 souls of her essence escape, being teleported across the realm.
• Tiamat's Herald Vezoth escapes across the ocean to Amusa.
• Other chaos ensues, and Boros is infected with a MSN, while Tordek dies in a fit of sacrifice.

Session 16: Drakkoths I/Echamus I

Characters: Arlin, Vadeth, Nockdus, Grandmush, Tokax, Kihlek

DM: Kyle (5/10)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained: 533 each

Synopsis:

• Wisty's sapling (see Session 9) is given to Grandmush, which vows to do right by Wisty.
• The party arrives at Seglock after hearing that refugees have fled there from Hallasen after it was attacked by Drakkoth. There they see Ferris speaking with an elderly refugee.
• After briefly speaking to both of them, a "priest" named Echemus agrees to guide them to back to Hallesen. The priest is unable to give much info on the attack because he says he wasn't there.
• They arrive and discover that the drakkoth are still finding survivors and piling the dead in the center of the village. They sneak into the village and most of the party unleash a powerful first round of attacks.
• As all of the Drakkoth make their way to the battle, the "priest" that guided them here sneaks into the village and charges across the battlefield. He changes into a Crystal Dragon mid stride, grabs one of the drakkoth by its head, and takes off up into the sky.
• The dragon and drakkoth appear to have a brief exchanging of words before the dragon releases the drakkoth and it plummets to its death. Echemus takes the information from this interrogation to the Moon.
• The players do hear part of what the Drakkoth said:

  "The One Who Waits Will See you Soon

Session 17: Silent I

Characters: Durian, Ensign, Delphi, Herneldo, Silent, Cynthia

DM: James (5/13)

Dragons Encountered: Sardior (Mentioned), Bleucorundum (Mentioned)

XP Gained:

Synopsis:

• The Death Demigod Silent is released from the custody of the witch Yggwilv thanks to a Wish by Delphi.
• Bleucorundum was confirmed as being part of "Sardior's Court"
• The witch Yggwilv told Ensign, Delphi, Durian, and Herneldo about Sardior the Third Pillar, officially name dropping the idea of this great neutral power that has been long gone.
• PC Cynthia got a big tiger beatle mount.
• The players learned that there are dragons in every plane and land, including the Shadowfell and Feywild.

Chapter 2: Horatio Rises

Session 18: Cheshire II

Characters: Percy, Cecil, Arlin, Vadeth, Reylendor, Kellen, Mumiy

DM: Dave (5/17)

Dragons Encountered: None

XP Gained: 740 each

Synopsis:

Session 19: Cheshire III

Characters: Arlin, Vadeth, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Spinel, Violet, Nockdus, Percy,

DM: Dave (5/24)

Dragons Encountered: Longfang (mentioned)

XP Gained: 910 each

Synopsis:

Session 20: Echemus II

Characters: Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Buho, Trina, Nockdus, Ensign, Dur'kalak

DM: Kyle (5/25)

Dragons Encountered: Echemus

XP Gained: 900 each

Synopsis:

Session 21: Cheshire IV

Characters: Arlin, Vadeth, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Percy, Spinel, Buho

DM: Dave (6/10)

Dragons Encountered: Longfang (mentioned)

XP Gained: 810 each

Synopsis:

Session 22: Cheshire V/Drakkoths II

Characters: Nockdus, Delphi, Cecil, Elric, Ren, Barbie, Omni

DM: Kyle (6/16)

Dragons Encountered: Drakkoth

XP Gained: 785 each

Synopsis:

• This adventuring party came together and met when they all independently answered a public posting to take care of a matter of national safety for Isonhound. The posting requested them to meet at an inn in Gammelgard called The Second Breakfast.
• Once there, they are greeted out of the rain, offered a table, asked about their food order, and all wait for their contact to arrive, an older dwarf named Dippy, whom all the staff in the inn seem to hate.
• Dippy reveals that he is a member of the Order of the Watchful Eye, and that the Order has been attempting to deal with some 'Gooby Goblin Creatures.' Dippy also informs the group that the last known location of some of these creatures was in an underground 'blunker' in a recently abandoned village known as Graften.
• The group finishes talking and gathering information before bidding Dippy a wishful goodbye and headed south towards Graften.
• When they got to the village, the group took a careful, stealthy approach. They investigated a few of the buildings through the windows, only to find them ransacked and abandoned as Dippy said they would be. Eventually, they narrowed down on a building that they believed to be the bunker, and used magic to open the door from the distance. It wasn't until Omni stood in front of the door that an ambush began.
• A few goblins filter out from the other buildings, closing in on the group. However, the party manages their own and stays in relative good health. Between intimidation from their sheer power, and actually killing some of the goblins, the party fares well.
• After a few rounds of combat, however, three Drakkoths appear. Nockdus recognised one in particular, and informed the group to watch out for the Drakkoth's weapons in melee.
• The fight continues on, with the three factions fighting all against one another. This time, however, the party doesn't fare quite as well, getting much more hurt this time.
• Cecil, being the brave leader that he was, utilised a tactical retreat into one of the abandoned buildings, which the Drakkoths were too large to enter. There, he used his arcane abilities to throw a chair out a window, smacking one of them on their head.
• Meanwhile, Barbie used her intense strength and might to intimidate one of the goblins, effectively turning them into a minion to do her bidding, and convinced some other goblins to stay away from her and give her information on the location of the bunker.
• Elric Shadowslither Darkheart Overlord of Nightmares and his patron sword THE SLAAT graciously help Delphi in an altercation with one of the other Drakkoths. Elric, using all of his swordsman might, delivers a death blow, leaving the body cleaved at his feet.
• Upon seeing their compatriot fall in addition to Elric Shadowslither Darkheart Overlord of Nightmares' taunting, the other Drakkoths decide to rush him. This gives Omni an opportunity to attack, and delivers another death blow.
• The third and final Drakkoth, upon fully realising his situation, decides to flee off into the woods. Nockdus in one final act, decides to shoot blindly into the tree line and manages to clip the Drakkoth one final time.
• The group then heals up, and investigates the bunker to find many many dead bodies. They collect whatever loot they can, and return to Gammelgard to report back in to Dippy and collect their reward.

Session 23: Mentztonalcoatl

Characters: Karl (Starting XP 2700), Aesir (Starting XP 2700), Cyan, Joshua, Cynthia, Silent,

DM: James (6/19)

Dragons Encountered: Mentztonalcoatl (The Father of the Pearl Dragon Tlayohualcoatl)

XP Gained: 1215 Each

Synopsis:

• The party responds to a posting by the Wold Order. We first spent a hot minute at the new temporary headquarters, a staging ground while the Greedy Greeners find their footing in city. They especially were interested in the dark altar that Delphi set up that invokes the death god of Silent.
• Silent met the adventurers and encouraged them to go on this quest, maybe she even anticipated some might die? Who knows!
• When they got there, it seemed very cut and dry: Traps, hallways, baddies in the form of Cult of the Dragon Cultists. But ultimately the team was green in a very different way: Their inexperience and susceptibility to impulsive decisions (playing loud music in the caves, brute forcing their way through traps, and attacking/blowing up suspicious things without hesitation) caused them to not only miss a short rest, but trigger a number of things that hurt them along the way.
• Eventually, 3 suspiciously dramatic Tiamat Cultists fought and tested them, and within 2 rounds, most of the team was dying no thanks to all the traps they had already triggered. They fought hard and took down one of the Cultists in a fiery rage of vengeance, causing all of the mages to flee. Cyan permanently went down in this battle.
• As the players reached the end of the dungeon, they realized the Dragon of this hoard was not a real dragon, but in fact a River Dragon, a type of sea-serpent like dragon, that was being used as a Stand-in over the hoard. However, the River Dragon taught the team how to take down the illusions of the dungeon (by de-attuning the Selune Splinter) and gave up the hoard to the victorious heroes.
• The River Dragon gave the team a mission to revive his daughter, but that's for the players to disseminate and we'll see if it ever actually comes up again. They have to collect all the missing bones of his daughter who have been collected by adventurers and dungeon delvers in the past

Session 24: Cheshire V

Characters: Vadath, Arlin, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Cynthia, Nockdus, Spinel, Búho

DM: Dave (6/28)

Dragons Encountered: Tiamat Turned out to be Horatio's Dracohydra

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 25a: The Gates of Seglock U - Center Gate

Characters: Trina, Stan, Reylendor, Grandmush, Nockdus, Durian, Violet Lorinda

DM: James (7/1)

Dragons Encountered: Tiamat Turned out to be Horatio's Dracohydra

XP Gained: 1707

Important Things that Happened:

Session 25b: The Gates of Seglock U - Left Gate

Characters: Asheer, Pot'tu Kobb, Dur'kalak, Cecil, Karl Anders, Tokax

DM: Dave's Story, James' Execution (7/6)

Dragons Encountered: Tiamat Turned out to be Horatio's Dracohydra

XP Gained: 1430

Important Things that Happened:

• Players watched the recap/intro video to get caught up especially on the Cheshire Goblins
• We started our festival going straight into the BANG explosion. Players ran down the street as the festival closed up shop.
• Inside the gates of Seglock Univeristy, this group was the closest to the building that Cheshire/Dracohydra was infiltrating so they got a good show of it, and had to dodge a prismatic breath spray first thing, which already put the team in terrible shape (two went down).
• Now with the team in bad shape, Kyle helped the Dragonflesh Abomination make his debut, crashing out of a nearby building damaged by the siege. It began a chase of the players through the city as they tried to avoid its acid spit and the various obstacles of a city under peril.
• After 5 rounds (~2 hours) they finally escaped him, and in the long, dramatic, and daunting chase, also managed to get him down a bit of health (though he has regeneration so it wasn't as much as they'd have liked)
• Once they caught their breath and could effectively heal from the Tiamat attack and damages incurred in the chase, they witnessed the Cheshire Goblins also heading towards a Firearm warehouse.
• When given the choice to chase the goblins to the warehouse or to head back all healed up to kill the Kaiju, they votied 4-3 in favor of finishing off the Abomination
• They found him in the middle of a battle with city forces, and used their surprise round to knock him down a notch. After 2 rounds of actual battle, they managed to finish him off, with one player taking the acid glands.
• Much discussion over the Moonwell, was it working? Was that Tiamat? Is this abomination considered a dragon? Who knows!

Session 25c: The Gates of Seglock U - Right Gate

Characters: Patches, Omen, Vadath, Linden Rue, Tristram, Delphi, Amund Zen

DM: Kyle (7/15)

Dragons Encountered: Tiamat Turned out to be Horatio's Dracohydra

XP Gained: 771 xp

Important Things that Happened:

Session 26: Aftermath of the Attack on Seglock

Characters: Eurus, Omen, Nockdus, Búho, Percy, Amund Zen

DM: Kyle (7/20)

Dragons Encountered: None

XP Gained: Varying (4th levels proceed to level 5)

Important Things that Happened:

Session 27: Thymor'ala the Black

Characters: Ensign, Thuchor, Joshua, Silent, Harold, Alanis, Markoth (and a cameo from Dur'kalak, commentary by Cynthia and Tokax)

DM: James (7/23)

Dragons Encountered: Thymor'ala (Black Dragon)

XP Gained: 1208

Important Things that Happened:

• Joshua receives a vision in his coma:

  "You see before you the end of all things. The great black dragon rises up from the dark depths, its eyes glowing with a terrible green light. A tower looms in the background, its top disappearing into the clouds. The mountains trembles and explodes, sending a shower of rock and dust into the air. The world is coming to an end. In the distance, you can make out five figures dressed in purple, green, white, blue, and orange. They're calling something, but you're deaf. They must be doing this. You can't understand how; it must be their fault. Their fault! Their fault! This is their fault! The end of the world is their fault! But you can stop it! You must stop the big black dragon before it is too late!” •

• The team headed out towards the Relith Tower, possibly the tower from the vision, near the Barrier Peaks. But failed their traveling/survival checks and got lost.

• Failing their travel checks, and landed themselves in the Burning Forests, ambushed by the dragon living there.
• Spent the rest of the session fighting said Black Dragon, they got it down to 10 HP before it flew away. They had 2 FULL ROUNDS of trying to take out the last 10 HP but failed every roll.
• Dur'kalak himself showed up at the store and we dropped a Dur'kalak on the board in that last round to even let him take a shot and get the killing blow. But he rolled low too.
• Dragon got away, everyone vowed to kill that dragon no matter what because it almost killed everyone several times.
• They still were able to track the Dragon thanks to a well timed "Hunter's Mark", and went to its hoard, raiding what little was left there as the Dragon is moving to a new secret location.

Session 28: Mentztonalcoatl II/Sro III

Characters: Hugo, Kluck, Tristam, Linden Rue, Markoth, Volrac

DM: James (7/29)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained: 1866

Important Things that Happened:

• The party met in the Trout's Toe, the tavern in Seglock where Professor Galloway thanked Linden and Tristram for coming out and accepting this meeting. Galloway's contact with the Wold Order was looking for new heroes to delve into the FireGates (See Session 23)
• Once the team was formally introduced in the tavern, they went out to the dungeon (after causing a tavern fire they extinguished), did a lot of scouting around, and ran into SRO THE GREAT who told them they shouldn't be fighting a Dragon in it's own lair (Rule #1 baby!)
• After more scouting, the team found out the dungeon had imprisoned a dragon to serve as the main threat. This made Sro pissed. He cited the "Law of Consequences", essentially stating "These guys did a fucked up thing, that's a good dragon that's now an enslaved servant of the Wold Order, who turned out to be behind the whole thing" and Sro ordered the team to take down the dungeon and free the dragon (with a 22 rolled by Linden on a dispel magic to break the magic bind)
• After lots of very deadly fighting with the baddies inside the dungeon, they raided the hoard that was set up there, learning that it was a fake hoard that the Wold Order puts in place as part of the testing grounds. They took the hoard, and even got to fly Sro back to Seglock.

Session 29: Olympia Magisteria

Characters: Pum, Cecil, Ren, Volrac, Ignidicus, Reylendor

DM: Guest DM John (8/6)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained: 1500

Important Things that Happened: The 128th Annual Olympia Magisteria

• The players were attending the final game of the tournament when the tournament director is seen running thought the stands with a panicked look on her face. It turns out that the two teams that were supposed to be in the finals are missing.
• Because this final game is like the Super Bowl, the director needed anyone to take the field or else risk the crowd's anger and the loss of financial assets. The Adventurers agree to participate in the last game as "Celebrities."
  • Game 1 - Played in the "Giant Chemistry Set" arena. Seglock crushes Gammelguard.
  • Game 2 - Played in the "Giant Ant Mounds" arena. Seglock barely beats Gammelguard again
  • Game 3 - The two teams teamed up to play against a group of veterans. Played in the "Eldritch Nightmare" arena. It is a tight fight but then the adventurers pull out an amazing series of plays and defeat the Veteran team

Session 30: Thymor'ala the Black II/Mothers I

Characters: Linden Rue, Kluck, Pum, Dur’kalak, Tristram, Kihlek, Pot'tu'N'Kobb

DM: Dave (8/11)

Dragons Encountered: (Thymor'ala the Black)

XP Gained: 1643

Important Things that Happened:

Session 31: Drakkoths IV

Characters: Cynthia, Grandmush, Durian, Markoth, Harold, Ferris, Trina

DM: James (8/14)

Dragons Encountered: Drakkoths, (Bounty Board Mentions of) Flame, Prelnirith, Azuspear, and more...

XP Gained: 1150

Important Things that Happened:

• The players killed a bunch of Cheshire creations! With Drakkoth Blood a plenty from the University, one-shotting Fang Mounts, Cheshire Goblins, and Glaive Guardians has become more sport than work.
• That is...until the blood ran out. When they went back to Professor Nguyen at the university for more Drakkoth Blood they were told there was no more...the projects funding was all taken away. The Baron explained his personal decisions in a town meeting, but the players were able to cunningly persuade him to start putting money back into the Drakkoth blood projects.
• The Baron also made it clear to the adventurers that there are many in the city, especially in his circles, that fear the presence of more and more "Heroes" and "Guilds" is drawing unnecessary attention to Seglock, especially as rumors of eggs are abound.
• Until the lab experiments can be back up to speed, the group was approached by the Protectors of the People, a grassroots organization looking to expel Dragons from the land, as well as "Dragons", a term they're using to describe the powerful money hoarders of Isonhound like the Baron.
• The PotP had a great map tracking Drakkoth migrations, and pointed the team in the direction of a group that he believed was going to ambush the city of Raritan, the team followed the tracks, and fought the Drakkoth, ultimately leaving 2 alive: one for Seglock, one for PotP. The Blood is back and flowing for everyone!

Session 32: Uhlm

Characters: Asheer, Delphi, Elric, Spinel, Eurus, Ona

DM: Kyle (8/17)

Dragons Encountered: "Uhlm"

XP Gained: 2359

Important Things that Happened:

• The team was summoned by a scholar from Deeplake who had been studying an old text, which referred to a dragon that could sway the outcome of the war. He discovered a riddle that he was having trouble with, but deciphered that the first lines referred to Direheart Pond, nearby.
• At the pond, the team solved the riddle, which involved Elric kissing a frog, who turned out to be a satyr called the Curator. The Curator revealed that he planted the riddle and claimed he had a mutual self interest with the adventures. He said he is a curator of a place of "pure evil", the Shadow Forge, which is capable of producing some pretty nasty creatures. He said that Horatio Cheshire has found the forge, and worried that he would create even more Cheshire monsters. The Curator required a fey key to return to the forge and ensure the forges remain shut down. However, he gave the key to a dragon called Uhlm for short (Uhlm doesn't like being referred to by his full name) for safekeeping. The curator opened a portal to a town in the plane called "Thaer".
• Thaer, the adventures learned, is populated by about 15 people that....are weird disturbing replicas created by Uhlm. The plane seemed to end at the small town's borders. Uhlm did indeed have a fey key, but informed the team that 3 keys were needed to access the Shadow Forge...and no other keys exist. But Uhlm could essentially revert time in the plane, sending the team (key in hand) back to the portal to once again find Uhlm (who wouldn't remember anything) and another instance of the key...twice.
• Each time the plane was reverted, however, it started to fight back. Much fighting and yelling ensued, including one moment where Eurus threw a death knight over the edge of the town. The other death knight banished Ona back to Deeplake with one of the keys. Ultimately three keys were obtained. Spinel, and later Ahseer and Delphi, attempted to persuade Uhlm to return to world of mortals and help them in their cause, but he would not be convinced. Uhlm helped usher the adventures to the portal, before the second death knight could cause more damage. The team met up with Ona, and turned over the 3 fey keys to the Curator.

Session 33: Mothers II

Characters: Arlin, Violet, Pot'tu, Boros

DM: John (8/23)

Dragons Encountered: N/A

XP Gained: 1563

Important Things that Happened:

Session 34: Cheshire VI - The Shadow Forge (Fundraiser Event)

Characters: Arlin, Violet, Boros, Delphi, Durian,

Vadath, Markoth, Cynthia, Linden Rue, Tristram,

Tokax, Percy, Amund Zen, Drang, Amber, Zevendell,

with setup help by Pot'tu Kobb, Harold, and Grandmush.

DM: Dave, James, and Kyle! (8/27)

Dragons Encountered: Horatio's DracoHydra!

XP Gained: 5000

Important Things that Happened: Horatio was hunted down and killed. Despite being a massive adventure, that's really the only important thing in the overall story that happened here.

Chapter 3: Night Approaches

Session 35: Flame II

Characters: Clank, Kaba, Naxxradormu, Orifyire, Rakim, and Rex

DM: James (8/28)

Dragons Encountered: "The Doritos Dragon"

XP Gained: 3680 XP Total (525 per character)

Important Things that Happened:

Session 36: Mothers III

Characters: Clank, Eurus, Amund Zen, Delphi, Naxxradormu, Airavata

DM: John (9/8)

Dragons Encountered: N/A

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

• The party was contacted by Archie who was attempting to save his job. In Session 33, the party kept the Mother Joy candy and did not deliver it. The person who donated it found out and was mad, the people who didn't get it then found out and were mad, and Brenna found out and was pissed.
• Archie nearly lost his job, but he came up with a plan. On his own he gathered adventurers to take out some cultists who have been harassing villages in the area. The took the party to the PotP headquarters to tell Brenna. Brenna is not happy and wants to cut off working with adventurers completely because if they can't be trusted to take donations to needy people then they are no good to the PotP.
• Archie pleads with Brenna ("Come on Brenna! Taking out cultists is what adventurers are known for.") and Brenna relents. Brenna then adds an additional request to the party. She puts up 1,000gp (money that was donated by Pot'tu) to get whatever documents from the Mayor of Synara that were just delivered to the cult. The party goes to the cultists and fights them. In the aftermath they recover the documents which include a letter from the mayor to his son in the cult and a pardon for all the crimes the son has done (murder, kidnapping, and theft). In the letter the mayor says that he will make it look like the son was acting as an undercover agent all along and even use this fake situation to have the son point the finger to some of the mayor's political opponents.
• Half the party delivers the son back to the mayor and negotiate payment to keep everything quiet, and the other half decide to go to Brenna to deliver the documents.
• The mayor agreed to give weapons and armor to the one group if things stay quiet, but the other group blew the deal when they turned over the documents to Brenna.
• Archie got to keep his job!

Session 37: Bleucorundum II

Characters: Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Zevendell, Amber, Vadath, Omen, Markoth, Drang

DM: James (9/11)

Dragons Encountered: Bleucorundum

XP Gained: 1043 each

Important Things that Happened:

• The Players are recruited by Markoth to come visit the Protectors of the People headquarters on a very special request directly from the top: Brenna has a lead and wants answers on Echemus, a strange otherworldly Dragon she fears is in the area but she can not find.
• The PotP had (apparently) picked up a prophecy from the Crying Scryer during a regular drop off near Hallesen: "Cave un Eros, et erum te cavebit", which lead Brenna to investigate the Cavebite Stream, where an strange charming/fearful auras in the area confirmed draconic activity.
• Omen had a very thoughtful exchange with Brenna. Brenna gave Omen one of her gold-blooded scales.
• When the team went to the Cavebite Stream to investigate the lead, they were hit with essentially a Siren's Song, turning off their minds, relaxing, and floating downstream, where they were pulled into an underground river and ultimately an underground sapphire dragon lair.
• Ultimately the players were able to win over Bleucorundum by making themselves a "Neutral" party. They paired off their evil/good players with hand holding, and let the CN/LN characters travel alone. This "Balanced" the team and granted them entry to the hoard room.
• Bleucorundum gave a big and ominous lore drop, explaining that it is waiting underground here attuning to a similar Amethyst dragon that seems to be even further underground. They also heard references to another dragon "High Above" and another "Of Another World".
• The Team said they will go help in the search out for Echemus, who they suspect to be the dragon from Above, and were lent some items from the hoard to use, with the curse that if they hurt a dragon, the weapons/armor will disintegrate.

Session 38: Drakkoths V

Characters: Tristam, Thuchor, Felicia, Mabel, Ona, Linden

DM: Kyle (9/14)

Dragons Encountered: Drakkoths

XP Gained: Vast in the lore department

Important Things that Happened:

• The party was invited to the PotP hideout to escort the next shipment of sale items to Seglock. They had a little little Tea party, although there needs to be research on biscut making in the area.
• Archie told the party that yesterday he had just given up on finding intel on a dragon when while in a village south of Seglock, he overheard a cabbage salesman speak of Echamus. Archie then questioned the salesman and the salesman said that he had just met Echamus. The dragon had traveled through the village disguised as a wiry old man.
• The salesman voiced his concern to Archie that Echamus was suffering from delirium.
• The normally revered Echamus seemed fixated on finding a particular. Echamus says that he is hunting the dragon and that “blue coward in hiding” can’t hide for long. Echamus stormed off, heading towards Raritan.
• A war horn was heard from somewhere outside of the hideout. An NPC rushed out to investigate and quickly came back and told that Oaky was being attacked by dragon people. The party all decided to go up above the falls and help Oaky.
• Thuchor discussed becoming co-leader of PotP with Archie while he was in charge.
• Everyone gets to the top of the falls to see Oaky surrounded by three Drakkoth. After the horn sounds a Drakkoth shaman and a Dragonbone Golem arrive close to the party.
• They do well during the fight but towards the end Archie is killed and Oaky is one hit from death. The party manages to finish the fight leaving only the Drakkoth shaman alive (sleep spell). They then decide to have a now healed Oaky yeet the shaman over the falls to finish it off.
• Linden uses revivify on Archie to bring him back (one diamond down) and then they return to the hideout. They arrive to a gruesome scene. The two PotP that stayed in the hideout, including Frank, were slaughtered and it appears the Drakkoth tossed the place. Looking at the inventories, it doesn’t appear that anything is missing. The only area that wasn’t entered was Brenna’s quarters. It looked as though they tried to bust through the door but “for some reason” couldn’t and gave up. Linden tried to revivify Frank but he had been dead over a minute (didn’t waste diamond). Archie was upset over his fallen comrades but also feared how pissed Brenna was going to be.

Tristram's first hand account of this battle can be found in the Book of Tristram’s Travels

Session 39: Flame III

Characters: Clank, Ona, Reylendor Aspenmorrow, Hugo Clarion, Oxan Lighkeeper, Nockdus, Silent

DM: James (9/19)

Dragons Encountered: Flame

XP Gained: 3250 each (19500 total)

Important Things that Happened:

Session 40: Mothers IV

Characters: Tristam, Felicia, Oxan, Pot’tu, Drang, Kihlek

DM: Dave (9/22)

Dragons Encountered: none

XP Gained: 700 (Little towards leveling, much towards the advancement of interpretive dance. - T)

Important Things that Happened:

Tristram's first hand account of this battle can be found in the Book of Tristram’s Travels

Session 41: Drakkoths VI/Bazzniagalvinica

Characters: Cecil, Trina, Arlin, Vessel, Kihlek

DM: John (9/24)

Dragons Encountered: ???

XP Gained: 1367

Important Things that Happened: [Players fill this in!]

Session 42: Sro IV

Characters: Percy, Oxan, Violet, Ensign, Cynthia, Arlin

DM: Kyle (9/27)

Dragons Encountered: ???

XP Gained: 1106

Important Things that Happened: [Players fill this in!]

Session 43: Mothers V

Characters: Elric, Hugo Clarion, Asger Snærr, Amund Zen, Drang, Kihlek Vaess

DM: Dave (9/29)

Dragons Encountered: Gideon, Thymor'ala the Black(Mentioned)

XP Gained: 2,250 XP Each

Important Things that Happened:

Session 44: Bazzniagalvinica II/DOS I

Characters: Airavata, Asger, Rakim, Orifyire, Clank, Nockdus

DM: John (10/8)

Dragons Encountered: Bazzniagalvinica, Gold Dragon Egg

XP Gained: 1500 (each)

Important Things that Happened:

Session 45: Echemus III

Characters: Felicia, Markoth, Dug, Silent, Darakhas, Herneldo

DM: James (10/10)

Dragons Encountered: Echemus, Black Dragon Egg

XP Gained: 1456

Important Things that Happened:

Session 46a: Mothers VI - Hagtober

Characters: Asger, Feyjin Eldarhearth, Linden Rue, Kacilius Venrai, Markoth, Asca, Ona

DM: James (10/13)

Dragons Encountered: Gideon

XP Gained: 1328

Important Things that Happened:

Session 46b: Mothers VI - Hagtober

Characters: Delphi, Drang, Durian, Oxan, Tristam, Vadath

DM: Dave (10/17)

Dragons Encountered: Gideon (in human form)

XP Gained: 1100 each

Important Things that Happened:

Session 46c: Mothers VI - Hagtober

Characters: Harold, Kihlek, Reylendor Aspenmorrow, Hugo Clarion, Spinel, Thuchor

DM: Kyle (10/20)

Dragons Encountered: Gideon (in dragon form)

XP Gained: 1766

Important Things that Happened:

Session 46d: Mothers VI - Hagtober

Characters: Clank, Vyuprax, Oxan, Elric, Grandmush, Vessel

DM: John (10/27)

Dragons Encountered: Gideon

XP Gained: 1208

Important Things that Happened:

Session 47: It Went to Kiston (Fundraiser Event)

Characters: Percy, Linden, Tristram, Delphi, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Vadath

DM: Dave (10/24)

Dragons Encountered: Silver Wyrm, Adult Red Dragon, Black Wyrm, a Brass Dragon, a Copper Dragon, and talk of a Topaz Dragon.

XP Gained: 3200

Important Things that Happened:

This session was a one-shot which was won in a silent auction at the Fundraiser in August. While the events were adjacent to the campaign, the characters and experience gained falls into the Greedy Green campaign.

Session 48: The Breach I

Characters: Eurus, Tristam, Feyjin, Felicia, Nockdus, Ona, Linden

DM: Dave (11/3)

Dragons Encountered: None

XP Gained: 985

Important Things that Happened:

Session 49: The Breach II

Characters:

DM: John (11/11)

Dragons Encountered: ????

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 50: Tranquil the Terrible/The Breach III

Characters: Clank

DM: James (11/13)

Dragons Encountered: Faerie Dragons, Tranquil the Terrible (aka The Jabberwock)

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 51: The Breach IV

Characters:

DM: John (11/17)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 52: DOS II

Characters:

DM: Kyle (11/18)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 53: DOS III

Characters: Clank

DM: James (11/22)

Dragons Encountered: Gold Dragon Egg, ????

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 54: The Breach V

Characters:

DM: Keller (11/27)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened:

Session 55:

Characters:

DM: James (11/30)

Dragons Encountered:

XP Gained:

Important Things that Happened: