Nobles and Neckbeards Sessions Page 2

### **Friday, July 24th, 2015**

The tunnel through the mountain to Kael Drakkel was finally finished and Dallin Martell now continues on to connect Thurgadin to it. Upon returning to Rutch the Legion of Dööm find some disturbing financial news that High Lady Renly is no longer supporting Rutch and taxes were about to increase, this was even more complicated by a royal decree that each city in the Sevoh Empire would have a Rodcet Nife church to help keep its citizens healthy. The house decided to not only fund the new church, but also pay a Lord's share of taxes in order to keep the standard of living for it's citizens. Then the group decided to complete their exploration of the Brilliant Catacombs rather than sell the rights for 7000 gold. Inside the facility they found a magical fun house full of strange traps, wonders and creatures, among them was a Rallos Zek demon named Thoruk whom they released in exchanged for a battle favor token. In the end Jarrett Tastybiscuit defeated the lethal WarMech, found the Dark Iron Aethir Artifact and released a trapped dwarven sorcerer named McElroy. He seemed crazy but thankful. He escorted the heroes out and took his building with him.

### **Friday, July 31st, 2015**

Rika received a vision from the Eye of Veeshan while sleeping, who demanded that she steal a valuable object from an estranged dragon. Gathering the Legion of Dööm together, she shared her vision's details and informed them that their target was on a small island just south of Seacrest, known as Erud's Isle. Taking a boat from Seacrest, the group encountered an aboriginal village in the process of a human sacrifice to the residing dragon, which was stopped through Rika's physical intervention (though at the cost of a few other villager's lives). Gnilon sought information from the recently-deceased through his Necromantic methods while Jayce questioned Rika's "faith" in a being that engages in activity such as this, but was rebuffed by Gnilon. Climbing a small mountain further along the island, the group discovered a den of small dragons and their target, the one who reigned above them: Onyxia. After long deliberations and countless close-calls, Gnilon used potions to go invisible and then duplicate the object of their theft while taking the original, but woke Onyxia in the process, who stormed out of the den in a rage and disappeared. Escaping the mountain, the Legion of Dööm discovered that Onyxia had razed the village in her anger, leaving no apparent survivors. Annoyed, Jayce again confronted Rika on her desire to worship a goddess that partakes of meaningless violence and collateral damage like what they were witnessing, but was once more rebuffed by Gnilon, who instead suggested that they get their bearings together and plan a mission of vengeance against Onyxia for what she'd done. Carrying the Ruby Fang with them, the group then returned home.

### **Friday, August 7th, 2015**

The Legion of Dööm (minus Rika, who was on leave of absence to spend time with a mentor in Eldric's Crossing) received a dinner party invitation from High Lord Ringles of Seacrest, stating his desire to thank them for their previous request of multiple maidens from the clutches of Bathory the vampire. Among other faces at the party were Christine Banks, who was one of the captured maidens that was rescued (not not recognizable at the time), and Lord Coldain, a dwarven noble who had taken up residence in Seacrest as part of the integration pact between the Empire and the Dwarven territories, but strangely neither Lady Llewlyn nor Lord Tuber, both of whom also lived in Seacrest. During this party, the group was given the gift of a strange but wonderful object: a collapsible ship, which changed from pocket-size to life-size with only a few select keywords. After testing it out over the coast of Seacrest, the tracking crystal suddenly alerted them to the presence of another potential Aethir Artifact in the vicinity. The crystal led them to a tourist's attraction known as Wendolyn's Cave, and they followed along with the rest of the touring crowd even when a branch in the path gave suspicion in the direction the crowd did not go. Afterward, the group asked the tour guide for permission to investigate, which they were granted; with Beaks' help in removed a cave-in, they trekked to the back of the cave and fought against three stone sentries for the rights to a pair of boxes. Victorious, they claimed their prizes: a magical totem that could transform into a full-size gryphon at their command, and, much to Jayce's further chagrin, another tracking crystal, along with a comment from Oliver. Returning home, the group received a letter, which turned out to be yet more taunting from Oliver; thoroughly aggravated, Jayce stormed off to set up another Q&A session with Aesis.

### **Friday, August 14th, 2015**

Gnilon had finally broken through with a plan to go after Oliver. Pretending that a trip to Bryling was nothing more than an ordinary meet-and-greet session with a subtle sparring match thrown in for good measure, Shilana used her telepathy in accordance with coded movements during Rika and her opponent's match to determine where Oliver was hiding, what to be on the lookout for, and a host of other information-gathering questions. Afterward, the Legion of Dööm hatched a plan to simultaneously go after Oliver at a location near Mantua while creating schemes of protection for Oliver's intended assassination targets (which were to be offed if he ever caught wind of Rika turning against him). As the Legion neared Mantua, the first of multiple sleeper agents were alerted, and a massive battle to protect Arya took place upon the airship of Silverpoint, floating high above the Legion of Dööm's fort. Joseph Gage, Sir Piper, and a host of other defenders were victorious in holding off the assassins, but this was but one fight of several yet to come...

### **Friday, August 28th, 2015**

As their allies behind them fended off the assassins sent by Oliver during the Legion of Dööm's encroachment upon his domain, the group strode through Mantua in their search, coming up empty in an outlying location and requiring the use of their tracking crystal to pinpoint his location in an underground bunker-like coven. Despite repeated attempts to request his surrender, the inevitable battle ensued; despite his legion of archers, daggermen, and the cunning wile of Oliver himself, the Legion of Dööm were victorious; Rika herself was given to delivering the final blow and ending her emotional and mental imprisonment once and for all. Following their victory, Rika, Shilana and a handful of now-leaderless archers stayed behind to watch over Oliver's body while the others went to bring in the Mantuan authorities. It was just as well, as a chimera found its way inside from elsewhere, and was swiftly put down by the two ladies and their archer assistants. After a brief discourse on the events between the Legion of Dööm and the authorities, including revelations about Oliver's relations and purposes outside of the cult he led, Rika and the Mantuans took over cleanup and funeral preparations, while the others returned to Rutch and their keep; Jair, once a questionable ally of Oliver's, returned with them, as the Legion promised aid in a quest of his own as thanks for him not turning his blade against them during the fight.

### **Friday, September 11th, 2015**

With Oliver out of the way, Jayce was finally able to put his plans in motion for hunting down information relating to a number of things, most specifically the mystery surrounding the Aethir Beings and Aesis himself, as well as a few personal inquiries regarding Lady Llewlyn and her history. Gathering the Legion of Dööm together, the group set off for an invisible library known as the Archive of Asmodeus that lay a short distance away from Silverpoint, and with a few aids from Llewlyn herself, entered and gradually descended its depths, solving strange riddles and puzzles all along the way. Encountering a massive collection of books at its lowest point, the group scavenged what information they could before a sound above alerted them to potential danger, whereupon they fled, narrowly avoiding an engagement with a menacing Dracolich that was waiting for them at the base floor. Once home, Shilana and Rika broke news regarding a dangerous trip to the Plane of Hate in order to save Shilana's brother, Malacai (Mordecai?), to which the majority of the group agreed to assist with. Jayce also confirmed the survival of a single child from the orphanage disaster in Seacrest, announcing his intent to acquire the child and return with it, whereupon it would potentially serve as a young follower of Cazic-Thule under Gnilon's tutelage.

### **Friday, September 18th, 2015**

Over the span of a few days investigating and researching their findings from the Archive, Shilana received a letter acknowledging her spiritual and valorous progress in her craft. The sender invited her and her allies to partake in a trial of related circumstance, to which they agreed. At a familiar temple in the Desert of Ro, the group proceeds to undertake a series of events that encourages honor, valor, and compassion, with obvious success in all three. Shilana's reward for her success was a reforging of her holy-themed weapon, granting it new powers and capabilities.

### **Friday, September 25th, 2015**

Lord Martell announced he will soon be a father and a visit from High Lady Renly has the Legion of Dööm build an aviary for more convenient communications between major groups. Moira decides to take her son to Dwemer to be a leader for the darkiron dwarves. After a dragon attack on the Wizard Coast, south of Seacrest, on an Izar vessel leads the captain of the Pööpshööt Pirates to make an offer to the Legion of Dööm to work together and kill the dragon. They quickly realize that this again was Onyxia, a dragon who they had no love of from before, and agree with the plan to attack her. After riding in the ex-pirates siege skimmers they were able to shoot Onyxia out of the sky and finish her off, only to have her ominously disintegrate with visions of a cloaked figure on the water. Sparing no time the two groups divided up the dragons horde and took two of the Izar emerald cases. Inside they found two flawed Aethir Artifacts and proceeded to dispose of them. However, they found that the cases would work well in hiding their own artifacts.

### **Friday, October 2nd, 2015**

After several weeks of preparing, Jarrett had finally furnished enough truth-forcing potions to allow the Legion of Dööm to flush out the presumed Black Snake spy that was still in their ranks. After a lengthy procedure and the self-imposed resignation of a few of the staff, no spy was uncovered, but Arya's bodyguard was implicated in a possible situation where she assisted the Black Snake assassins through charmed or unconscious means. Unfortunate though it was, she was dismissed from service. Rika left for Silverpoint and took Arya with her, and a short while later, an invitation to Loxly arrived that encouraged the Legion of Dööm to participate in a marathon-style series of games to be hosted there. Competing against a series of other teams, the group came from behind in the first few events to an astounding and surprising victory in the final stages, taking home gold medals and a favor token from the city of Loxly, specifically High Lord Crowe. It was also made aware to them that Lady Moxy was apparently the owner of an Aethir Artifact, but despite Gnilon's attempts to bargain the Favor Token for its exchange, she would not part with it.

### **Friday, October 16th, 2015**

Beaks tries to garner support for the idea of using some of the strange, magical, and as-yet uninspiring crafting materials that the Legion of Dööm has amassed in their storage to create something wondrous, in order to give the outside people an idea of what the group is capable of. Affirmations are split due to concerns about whether the group actually wants that kind of attention or not (due to the Aethir Temple being directly underfoot), and the idea is more or less shelved for the time being until Beaks can get a better idea of what to shoot for. In the meantime, Franklyn West comes to visit and announces the discovery of a new and unstable metal called Magnetite that has extreme gravitational effects on metallic objects anywhere near its vicinity. Eschewing their fancy gear for something less lustrous, the group follows Franklyn's directions to a mine nearby in order to clear out potential threats for the miners that will be coming in at a later time. A few strange creatures and a couple of malevolent living dolls later, the mine appears to be free of danger, and the Legion of Dööm chisel out and take a bit of Magnetite from the mine for their troubles.

### **Friday, October 23rd, 2015**

On the eve before the Ymir Festival is set to take place, the Legion of Dööm hold one more house meeting to divulge some concerns about previous days events and of future days' events, including the harboring of a fugitive in a nearby village of Shilana's and Rika's, and the motives of a group that seem set against the Gnomes and their ambitions. As well, Jayce hands out the invitations to the Festival and the teleportational rings that go with them, and also describes his findings about the magical paintings that they took from the Archive of Asmodeus. After some testing, the group finds that the paintings seem to work as temporal gateways to a specific room, and half of them insist on using it to travel to Cobalt Scar instead of wasting several of the rings. In whatever ways they choose, the group (along with Arya, Carson, and Kevin) eventually transport themselves to Stonescar, and make their way north to Elwynn Forest, chancing a potential engagement with an unknown Centaur herd along the way that chose to keep its distance. Once at the Festival, the group was given maps and a program/schedule on the week's events, and met up with Jayce's parents and (at least for a few seconds) his sister, who quickly kidnapped him. One opening ceremony later, the Festival was officially underway!

### **Friday, October 30th, 2015**

With Ymir's festival underway, the Legion of Dööm took up the challenges before them in participated in many events that spanned the first two days, engaging the natives and learning about the country and its customs and inhabitants in the process. Victories and failures alike were had, friendships with the leading parties were established, and portions of the other side of Jayce's life were opened up to the other five members of the group to acknowledge.

### **Friday, November 6th & 13th, 2015**

Ymir's festival continued, bringing many games and challenges for the Legion of Dööm as they took a break (somewhat, and in varying degrees) from the labors of nobility back in Sevoh. Jayce took some time to reacquaint himself with his friends and family outside his colleagues, gaining new friends in the process; Shilana engrossed herself within the religious kinship of Jayce's parents and, together with Rika, met up with the adopted mother of the Perkins family's orphaned child (both of whom seemed to be doing very well) and discovered an unspoken secret between Jayce and Setsuna. Rika also discovered firsthand the nature of centaur merriment, including nearly matching the Greenlight Warders' leader, Tegira, in a feat of strength. Gnilon went toe to toe with the best archer in the country, forcing a stalemate that had never before occurred in the history of the tournament's program; this ended in both contestants walking off without acknowledging victory. Jarrett attempted to become close to Jayce's sister, Rae, but was ultimately taken by her with disinterest. At the conclusion, the Legion of Dööm was honored by mention from the leaders of Ymir and given thanks for their involvement in the challenges and festivities. The six left for home, where Jayce took only a short rest before packing again for a stay at Lady Llewlyn's keep in Seacrest; it was also discovered that High Lady Renly's illness (which had been acknowledged before their departure) had not passed during their trip.

### **Friday, November 20th, 2015**

Gnilon leaves for some needed time away from everything and everyone, but before Jayce can enact his travel plans to Seacrest, Carson calls a meeting for important matters that cannot wait. As it turns out, High Lady Renly is being forcibly removed from her post by the King, and no current lords or ladies of Rutch are qualified to take her place, according to his majesty's decree. Votes will be taken throughout the country, therefore, to decide the next High Lord or High Lady of Rutch; in the meantime, concerns are discussed between the remaining members of Dööm regarding the looming trip to the Plane of Hate, with new additional information regarding a gnome that may or may not come calling for certain treasures that were looted following Onyxia's defeat. In order to limit the amount of potential conflict in their absence, Jayce instructed Carson to simply give away the emerald anti-magic cases if the gnome, named Halv, comes to their demesne and asks about them specifically. Fearing said gnome's erstwhile intent, Jayce also retreated to Cobalt Scar with the current loose Aethir Artifacts and left the Onyx of Marr with them, but not the Crystal Strawberry. Two weeks then passed, and as the group rejoined and confirmed their last plan statuses, the Legion of Dööm and Hope Marr crossed the dimensional rift created by Gnilon, gaining access to the Plane of Hate... and immediately faced off with its first despicable inhabitants, emerging victorious against multiple hellacious Ghasts not thirty seconds after their arrival. Collecting themselves after their victory, the group prepared to engage the target of this operation: the fortress of Mith Drannor.

### **Friday, December 4th, 2015**

As the Legion of Dööm approached Mith Drannor Rika managed to talk her way into the building while the mischievous hot-pink goblin named Scamp teleported Beaks to the prison inside the building. As the group found each other again they also found a couple of interesting people in the cells, the previously thought dead Lord Renly and a strong minotaur named Maul. Lord Renly claimed that the current King Mithanel Whitefang killed the previous king using the Godsbane Scepter, an artifact that allowed the user to wield the powers of the Gods for their own. He also used the Scepter to kill a god and memories of it, Terris-Thule, the goddess of nightmares, dreams and sleep. As the party progressed further in the fort each door lead to one more confusing thing until the found Shilana's brother Mordecai. Shilana and Hope Marr attempted to bless his soul on and summoned a hooded man who she has seen before during the battle of Onyxia . Identifying himself as a judge of the Tribunal he took Mordecai to the Plane of Justice to be judged. After this the entire fort was pulled apart by its leader and Ric'Pod's old boss, the drow Kya. However one way or another the Legion of Dööm used their items to get out of the Plane of Hate and traveled back to Rutch to meet their new High Lord, the Coldain General Chillax who explained what he wanted to do with the city and that the gnomes and halflings of Ak'Anon have defeated their elven enemy and believes eventually Sevoh will be pulled into this war. Now with a young Lord Renly, their weapons broken and new threat of war our heroes seem to have ninety-nine problems, but the Plane of Hate ain't one.