Episode 1: "Welcome to The League!"

"Welcome to The League!" (TALx01) is the first episode of The Adventurer's League.

In the small town of Greyspire, an odd assortment of heroes are approached with the proposition to join The Adventurer's League and investigate a town gone missing...

## Synopsis.

### **Applicants Wanted, Apply Inside.**

In the small town of Greyspire on Murka's east coast, a mismatched group of adventurers approach The Adventurer's League building. These heroes introduced themselves to one another as Malchar the Tiefling Sorcerer, Tellan Necrul the Firbolg Cleric, and Engel the Warforged Artificer.

Waiting for them at the front doors of the building was a robust yet older dwarf. He introduced himself as one of the founders of The League and welcomed them.

The dwarf explained that many years ago, while on his first adventure, his cousins fell to their death due to him and his companions lack of experience. He founded the league as a way to prevent that and to have a place for other adventuring types to meet up.

Showing much interest in joining, our trio entered "The Launchpad" and enjoyed several brews, courtesy of The Beard Brothers Brewery before meeting a duo, that little did they know, would be their first contacts of their first League assignment.

### **A Town Gone Missing...**

Dynamic duo Craberos Willowflow, a Firbolg with a head of bright green hair, and Vorpos Bommlabin, a Gnome sporting matching yellow hair, explained that they were Druids from the town of Applehurst, which is around a half a days walk from Greyspire. The two had gone off to help a lost Displacer Beast cub return to its mother, and when they returned back home, their home was gone. The buildings, people, all of it was swept clean along with a chunk of forest. Unsure of where the town could have gone or what happened, the pair reached out to The League to track it down, promising a payment of 200 gp.

### **Ain't Never Had a Friend Like Me.**

During their walk to Applehurst, our new party encountered a human in distress. He introduced himself as William Williams, and thanks to a spook by an Owlbear, had dropped his Grandfather's urn into a sinkhole, and couldn't reach it.

The party happily helped, with Malchar using a clever "Shape Water" spell to use the mud to return the urn. Unfortunately, after getting the urn back, William began to violently rub it, exclaiming to his "Grandfather" that another group of saps had fallen for his trick, unleashing an Efreet onto our party. A bloody battle followed this before William Williams was vaporized and the Efreet followed quickly behind him thanks to his master becoming a pile of ash.

### **Part of The Union.**

Arriving to Applehurst, the party spotted an odd sight, as the large open area of where the town once was, had been swept in perfectly clean and orderly paths. The other odd sight was the batch of Constructs walking around wearing white and blue protective gear, surveying the surroundings.

These constructs revealed themselves to be here on official business of Jeffar Bayzozh and Azamon. This is where they were going to build their newest shipping and recieving facility. According to the constructs, the former residents have been relocated and generously compensated for their troubles.

Some snooping around the site poked many holes in this story, as the party discovered numerous remains of humans, halflings, and dragonborn.

Tellan, using Speak with Dead, had a brief conversation with the head of the Dragonborn who had perished in the event. He explained that the town was leveled by an army of Gelatinous Cubes and that the townfolks were either captured or dissolved.

Deciding to wait it out for futher leads, our party rested at the edge of the site, where they witnessed a Yagnoloth and several Bearded Devils arrive through a portal to check in on the construction. As the Yangoloth jumped back through the portal, our heroes rushed after him, vanishing on the other side...