Best of Both Worlds, 20191013

This Best of Both Worlds (BBW) "world-traveling campaign" was run on 13 October 2019. While BBW actually overlapped and included parts of many other campaigns; only those with events on Edyleine are listed here. Note that by design the game sessions do not show the distinction between PCs and NPCs.
==Game Master==
*Miley Spears
== Main Characters ==
* Audrea Daleos: magic user of Trynser City
* "Draotameia" (original name Edyth Grey): hermana de Surrea/former slave of Aborea
* "Juan de Fulmando" (original name Juan Silvio-Vagle): guard/alchemist/former slave of Aborea
* Sir Juan Montero: knight of Orden de Oldonia
* María del Carmen Benítez: priestess of Leathania/Ladatinia
* "Matías Rosario" (original name Matthias Burkhart): squire of Sir Juan of Orden de Oldonia/former slave of Aborea)
* Romietta Twingate: priestess of Samorojia
* "Williams Freedman" (original name Chadwick Williams): armorer/former slave of Aborea
* "Virgilio Guerra" (original name Virgil Augustas): scout/former slave of Aborea
== Events ==
=== 1742 ===
Flowering 41 (Middleday)/March 28, Year 43 of Justin VII (Monday): The ship The Arrowhead, sailing under Captain Filiberta Bartley with First Mate Olin Hoskins, arrived at Aborea from Trynser City.  The ship had planned to dock at Deep Harbor, but its passengers who had lived in Aborea tried to convince the captain to land in Smuggler's Quay; the ship docked at Deep Harbor.  People who debarked included Audrea Daleos (magic user of Trynser City), "Draotameia" (original name Edyth Grey, hermana de Surrea/former slave of Aborea), "Juan de Fulmando" (original name Juan Silvio-Vagle, guard/alchemist/former slave of Aborea), Sir Juan Montero (knight of Orden de Oldonia), María del Carmen Benítez (priestess of Leathania/Ladatinia), "Matías Rosario" (original name Matthias Burkhart, squire of Sir Juan of Orden de Oldonia/former slave of Aborea), "Williams Freedman" (original name Chadwick Williams, armorer/former slave of Aborea), and "Virgilio Guerra" (original name Virgil Augustas, scout/former slave of Aborea). Edyth Grey kept her slave name but used "Draotameia" for the trip.  They had come to rescue family members from slavery.
The group claimed to be adventurers who would be willing to serve in the militia of Aborea if needed (this was a common requirement of wealth-gaining adventurers there).  Secretly, they planned to infiltrate and then rescue slaves, especially family members.  However, they were told that, starting three days earlier, the city-state of Aborea was "besieged" by monsters who came from the city's labyrinths, and mercenaries were desperately needed.  The group became concerned that the slave family members they had come to rescue might be in even greater danger than they were from being slaves, so agreed to help, although Draotameia, who was bent on revenge, resisted.
The group overheard someone talk about "jumping the gates," and inquired.  They learned that "gate jumpers," people who had gone through magical gates, were needed.  Puzzled, and as Juan, Sir Juan, Matias, Williams, and Virgilio had very recently come through gates, some of them twice, they asked about it.  They were directed to speak with a priestess of Samorojia named Romietta.
Priestess Romietta Twingate said that too many gates had been opened too close together in time and space, and it had a dangerous ripple effect.  The ripple caused an ancient gate deep in the Aborean labryinth of Prince Lucretius Valarius that had been closed for centuries to open.  Beings had begun coming through from another world.  It was suspected they were being sent by the worst of them, the legendary demonic red dragon Thiazolin which they believed was sending creatures through to attack Edyleine.  The priestess and others had determined that the gate could only be closed from the other side, but even they could not not go through.  Only someone who had gone through one of the "jumping gates" could enter it from Edyleine.
Audrea said she had gone through one of those gates, but Juan contradicted her and said she hadn't because she hadn't gone to or from a gate of Millisymph.   She said she went through a gate created by Prince Leowine Vandarvaskard.  The priestess asked when and where that was.  When told it was in Trynser City on the last day of Ulthrane, the priestess said, "Yes, that would be one of the jumping gates, perhaps the one that started it all."
The priestess said the group could help fight monsters that had already come through.  But only someone who had been through a jumping gate could enter the ancient gate that had been closed centuries before to block out Thiazolin; it was otherwise a one-way gate to Edyleine.  However, the interactions of the various gates made this unpredictable.  Romietta said she and other priests and priestesses would try very hard to open a safe way for anyone who passed through a gate to return, but it could not be guaranteed.
Draotameia said she hadn't come all that way to get stuck "in some hellhole."  She said Aborea could deal with its own problems.  Priestess Romietta said the threat was too big to stop at Aborea; it could easily cross the sea and attack Trynser City as well, perhaps going directly through a place where several gates had been opened in succession.  Juan said, "That means us."  Priestess Romietta's assistant said the labyrinth of Prince Lucretius  was one of the most dangerous in Aborea.  Romietta said, "No.  Right now, it is the most dangerous."  The group left for the labyrinth.  (Best of Both Worlds 2019 10 13)
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