Windfall

"**Windfall**" is the 74th session of the Legend of the Leaves campaign.

It took place in the Demonic Eruptions questline of Arc 5: Dead Souls Rising.

## Synopsis

The Leaves get separated in northern Neverwinter Wood before managing to reunite in Luskan, where the loyalty between the members is put to a test.

# Story Development

## Part 1

Malcer and Darius go on a hunting trip with Ivy and manage to hunt down a deer. Malcer retrieves a bag of devouring from a pitfall trap on their way.

Ivy confesses to them, after she sees their capabilities in the wild, that the ring she were using to reattach Malcer's leg is not a ring of spell storing. She shows them her shadowfell mark tattooed on her arm and explains that every time she uses her powers, Igwillv visits her, trying to steal her soul.

Darius convinces her that she should still try to heal Lorilon's leg that night and that they will protect her in case Igwillv visits her again.

After returning to the camp, they find Lorilon preparing a cattle and a fire to make breakfast. Raijin is fast asleep.

While eating, they discuss the situation with Bambara and talk about what they should do. They decide on waiting for the night to see if Ivy will manage to heal Lorilon's leg. Ivy explains to them that Morgur's Mound is used by her former tribe the Blackfeathers for storing valuable items, but also hostages.

Ivy leaves in the evening for unknown reasons, asking the party to keep an eye on her camp.

In the meantime, Bambara is visited by an unknown figure who gives him the option to take his life or escape the underdark. Bambara decides to escape and is greeted by his unknown rescuer on the surface of Morgur's Mound.

### Part 2

It is 10 in the evening and Ivy has still not returned to the campsite. Lorilon notices a glowing stone in one of her bags among herbs and other utensils. Darius takes the bag and takes it a hundred feet into the woods.

The shimmering doesn't stop and Lorilon decides to take out the glowing stone, thinking it could be a message from Ivy. As he reaches inside the bag and touches the stone, he is immediately teleported to Luskan.

Malcer and Darius, who just saw Lorilon disappear, try to figure out what might have happened. Ivy returns a few minutes after and explains that she doesn't know what the stone does. She then takes them to a small lake in a wild part of the woods where in the center of it a giant crystal shimmers in the same way the stone did.

Malcer finds a druidic looking staff floating in the water. Darius decides to touch the crystal, which activates a lightning turret trap. The two of them manage to escape the turrets and, while heading north, come across abishai.

After Darius succeeds to negotiate with the leader of the demons, the abishai offers them to drink from a skull he produced from his bag. Both of them refuse and the abishai offers them an alternative to being killed: to bleed on his weapon and soak the ground with blood.

Darius and Malcer agree and both cast remove curse on themselves while cutting themselves on the blade of the blue abishai's halberd. The abishai is happy and leaves with his troops.

Darius and Malcer escape Neverwinter Wood to the north, where Raijin meets them afterwards, as he woke up to a devastated camp. He found them following the scent of their blood.

The three of them are greeted by Tarela Gilff, who know has a new crew and a new boat. She offers them a ride to Luskan.

Lorilon in the meantime tries to find a healer who could help him with his leg. He finds out that the best physicians are on board of the 5 fleets who govern Luskan. He also finds out that in two days a doctor from Mirabar will come by to attend to the people of Luskan.

Lorilon also learns, while speaking to Alusair, that Tasha has no sister: she has multiple personalities.

## Part 3

The party reunites in Luskan and is greeted by Bambara, who presents them the spell focus they were after.

They start discussing their fate as a group and are interrupted by the abishai attacking the city, killing a few citizens in the process.

The Leaves fight them off. However, Leofrick Mornigfall, the guards captain, confronts them and asks why they led the demons into the city. Bambara convinces him to write it off as a "natural catastrophe". Being at the mercy of the Leaves, he agrees and repeats Bamabara's words, as he sees children running after the corpses of their dead parents being scraped up from the street by the guards.

Malcer decides to take their conversation outside of the city limits.

In front of the city gates, the Leaves reassess their relationship with Bamabra. Darius immediately decides to leave and heads towards the harbor to return to Neverwinter. Lorilon speaks to Bambara, who show him a cape he found in the underdark. Lorilon recognizes the emblem of Mistilon on the cape. As he hugs Bambara, he has a vision of his sister Milindara being cloned by a drow, referred to as "Mother" in the underdark. He also sees Lithor, a male drow noble, who orders Milindara's guards to keep her food to a minimum.

Lorilon leaves afterwards to find Darius. Raijin says goodbye to Bambara and leaves as well, wishing him to retire peacefully form adventuring. Malcer sets up camp in front of the gates and tells Bamabra that he can not trust him, for he has not given him a good enough explanation for his actions.

Bambara then leaves and rents a room in an inn in Luskan, drinking himself to sleep.

Lorilon convinces Darius, over a beer in the harbor, to continue traveling with them. Raijin sees them drinking and notices Torrent Nemesh, his former student leaving a ship. As he walks by Raijin, Torrent smirks at him, saying that he should not embarrass himself wearing "that", refereeing to the cape of the White Lotus Raijin was wearing.

The earth starts to tremble as Mount Hotenow explodes in a fiery eruption to the south of Luskan. The Leaves receive a message from Arahna asking them if Kronin is with them and what is going on in Chult.

# Featured Characters

## Leaves

* Lorilon Duskwalker
* Darius Lonewalker
* Malcer Lynk Hornraven
* Bambara Grimmgrin
* Raijin Shou Ho

## New

* Lithor von Loth
* Torrent Nemesh
* Alusair Oberskyr

## Returning

* Ivy Redstream
* Tarela Gilff
* Leofrick Mornigfall
* Arahna von Sventh

## Mentioned

* Calama Glasseye
* Kalmin Gvizd
* Xalvador Farlight
* Igwillv
* Tasha
* Milindara Duskwalker

# Quotes

## Player Characters

* Darius (kada su ih opkolili tureti): "Malcer, fataj šnjuru"
* Lorilon (pričajući s Bambarom): "Tvoja ljubav za tvojom majkom nije vrjednija od naših života."
* Raijin (pričajući s Bambarom): "Mislim da je dosta, starče."
* Malcer (pričajući s Bambarom): "Želim samo jedan odgovor od tebe, a da nije neke zagonetka."