Legends of Arcadia: Genesis: Episode 01

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==Synopsis==
People in Acropolis are created by Malkis. Voraci and Malkis have an argument. Malkis informs the people that Voraci will send an ogre army to Acropolis and they begin preparing for the assault with Izual's help. After talking to Malkis, the party goes to scout the ogre army in the forest downriver while other people start building a wall. As soon as they reach the forest, Jun is attacked by a giant spider which the group deals with quickly. In the forest, the party comes across a few ogres playing. Jun lures one away and they set an ambush and unintentionally slay him while Nyx creates a distraction. Abaddon gets knocked out in the fight and brought back the town on a donkey. They inform Malkis of what they did. Malkis heals Abaddon, Kael helps build the wall and set the traps. Jun tries to lure ogres to the north side (where the wall is) by himself. He walks into Voraci and ogres holding a ceremony for the dead. Jun is noticed, Voraci sends an ogre after him and calls other ogres to the 'arena'. Ogre chases Jun to the clearing where the ogre gets killed by the party.
==Recap==
===January 1st, Year 1, Age of Heroes===
The party spring into existence in Acropolis before the god Malkis. Malkis appears as a Human Male 5'8" 260 lbs, balding, has a belly, with a red beard growing on his face. He greets the party on their creation. He says the humans are his chosen. Izual however is another species from a previous world created by the gods.
Voraci then comes into the town and gets into an argument with Malkis. Voraci appears as a Human Female, late 30s or early 40s, stern face, darkish hair swept to the side with bangs, wears loose-fitting clothes, Izual explains the situation to the newly created Humans about who these gods are and their powers. Malkis is the god of Chaos and Voraci is the Goddess of death.
Malkis comes back to the party and asks them to defend the valley from her ogre army. Malkis says things will be better for him once the fight is over. The rest of the townsfolk will be defending the town. Malkis gives the reluctant party some gold, then heads off to speak with the Sheriff he just created.
The party talk amongst themselves about how they can scout out the ogre army. Izual says he came to this world to save the people from Voraci's army. The party buys a map of the valley from a man named Bob.
In the sky, a comet is leaving the world and one coming to the world.
The party goes with Bob to the market square where Malkis is talking to the townsfolk about building a wall around the town to the town mayor. Kael asks Malkis for some acid and Malkis makes it appear on Kael's forehead, burning him. Malkis says the Ogres are at the forest downriver, the Darken Wood. Jun asks about the river and Malkis shows Jun and the party to the spring to the start of the river. Nyx & Kael buys some spell components in the market square & the Magic Shop which is run by Clara. Kael meets with the Sheriff, Rob, and takes a sword from the armory. 
The party set out from Acropolis walking down beside the river. They pass by farms and orchards. As night falls there are no stars in the sky. The party set up camp.
Nyx sleeps restlessly. Abaddon prays to Malkis. Abaddon then goes to sleep and screams in his sleep.
===January 2nd===
Nyx asks Abaddon to not scream at night in his thoughts as she has read his mind. She does a tarot reading and pulls out the Hanged Man card. Kael asks Abaddon about what is it like to be a cleric. Jun gives Abaddon a drink.
The party head down river and each the forest of pines and cypress trees. Jun and Nyx race to touch the first tree. A giant spider crawls towards Jun. The party fight with the giant spider, with Abaddon getting the killing blow. Abaddon helps Kael gather some venom.
The party then set up camp outside the forest. Kael produces a great amount of acid during a spell for Jun to use. Jun drinks his whole flask of liquor to store the acid inside.
Overnight the party hears drums. The party assumes it is a ceremony being done by the Ogres for Voraci.
===January 3rd===
The party wake up and see some townsfolk from Acropolis cutting some trees down on the other side of the ride. The party calls out a warning about spiders, but the party's warnings aren't heard.
The party then head into the Darken Woods and scout. The party comes across the abandoned ogre camp. Jun finds the tracks of 12 ogres have headed north. The party follows the tracks to the river and finds 9 of the ogres in the water playing. Izual hears talk of the 'arena'.
They decide to lure one ogre away from the rest and speak with it. Jun is the bait, he tosses a rock onto the sleeping ogre and produces noises with a branch to get its attention. The ogre follows him into an ambush as the party attacks, trying to knock the ogre unconscious. 
Ambush doesn't go well, despite being by Abaddon. Jun tries to knock the ogre to the ground, but he grabs Jun instead and smashes his head into a tree, knocking him unconscious. Nyx creates an illusion of an ogre practicing combat, to mask the sounds of the fight, as to not alert the other ogres. Izual prays to Martha to bring Jun back to health, casts , and Jun gets back into fighting shape. The ogre hits Abaddon in the groin, knocking him unconscious. More blows are exchanged until Izual, finally, slays the ogre, accidentally causing too much damage. 
Keal pulls out a vile and collects ogre blood. They hoist Abaddon onto the donkey. One ogre notices them from the top of the hill, seeing that, Keal casts , and the party breaks free. They bring Abaddon back to the clearing and Malkis wakes him up. They find out killing the ogre was a mistake, as it will only speed up ogres' preparation for the assault.
They decide to create a ruse and bring the ogres to the north side of the wall. Kael uses his engineering skill to speed up the process of building a protective wall and hidden pit traps. While they are doing that, Malkis gives the workers whiskey. Kael suggests he gives them all the drink at the end of the day, and Malkis agrees after some persuasion. Kael's manservant, Manfred, collects the booze from the workers.
Jun tries to draw ogres to the north side by himself. He finds ogres in the middle of the ceremony of honoring the dead, with Voraci present. After the words to the fallen dead in a telepathic "all language", Voraci calls the ogres to purge the insubordinate minions of chaos from this land. She directs the ogres south, to the 'arena'.
Jun throws a stone into the river and shouts out saying the ogres's enemies are on the north side of the river, and retreats. Voraci orders one ogre to kill Jun and the rest to keep going to the Arena. The lone ogre is slowed by the river while Jun runs back into the clearing. 
The ogre crosses the river and runs into the clearing, then stumbles directly into Nyx's spell (created with her using witchy blood magic). Seeing the spell, Jun misunderstands the purpose of it and turns back to attacks the ogre. The rest join in, Abaddon and Jun quickly bring the ogre down, as Malkis cheers in the background.
===Experience===
Everybody gets 462 exp + individual. Nobody hits LVL 2.
Category:Legends of Arcadia: Genesis Episodes