Icewind Dale: Corrupted

**Icewind Dale: Corrupted** was a twelve-part campaign that ran in the summer of 2019, DMed by Chris Hislop. *Icewind Dale: Corrupted* was produced by Adventurers Wanted, but in-universe elements and many of the characters transferred across to Roll Together's campaigns.

## Player characters

* Ashra "Ash" Beckett, played by George Lockett
* Ivy Derne/Persephone Yrremont, played by Rebecca Hare
* Prosp'rus, played by Emma Rose
* Milk, played by Red
* Viktor, played by Poe Villiers

## Plot

In the Icewind Dale, the party are all working for (or even members of) the Arcane Brotherhood as they dig beneath the ice, looking for a mythical lost Netherese city. Their encampment, in the Howling Ravine, is running out of food - and miners have been attacked, and some are trapped! Camp leader Ashra Beckett puts together a team including Brotherhood interrogator Milk, local guide/bodyguard Prosp'rus, camp medic Viktor, and curiously able miner Ivy, and they all head into the depths.

They find a strange gigantic arm, frozen into the ice, and beyond that their first look at the city Synoreax, with strange buildings crashed at peculiar angles. They are attacked by frost giants and ice trolls, and save the rest of the miners, and also discover a strange black ooze, that appears to be a kind of food - but also extends some strange kind of mind control.

Back at the camp, everyone considers whether eating the ooze is wise - and a plan is hatched to head to the home of Kenna, Prosp'rus partner and one of the miners, whose tribe live on the Reghed Glacier and should be able to help. Arcane Brotherhood enforcer Colbeck also speaks to Ashra and Milk about Ivy - and mentions that a shadowy organisation called the Pitch are looking for someone just like her.

Travelling onto the Glacier, the group (including Ivy's sister, Aspen, and Viktor's friend Cyrus) continue building rapport as Viktor and Ashra, who both ate the ooze, realise how that mind control is affecting them. Kenna tries to take them on a safer route through tunnels, but find more of Synoreax’s remnants in an underground lake, with more corrupted frost giants. Ivy reveals to Ashra that she is Persephone Yrremont, and that she is on the run from the Pitch - and now that people know that she is who she is, she has to go on the run again - but will see this through first.

The party arrive at the Kohliar Hot Springs, and face off against the dinosaurs that live in the strange jungle beneath the ice. They also encounter Kenna's people, the Tribe of the Caribou, who have also become corrupted, and go to find their priest, who sought guidance at a holy site deeper within the Hot Springs. On the way, they find more remnants of Synoreax, and some hints as to the research centre it was for food production.

The holy site, The Mouth of Tempos, is a lava-filled rocky outcropping, where they saved the priest from a magma roper. Together, they managed to use Prosp'rus' aura of devotion to clear the corruption from the tribe, and Prosp'rus gave Kenna P’s holy scythe. In return, Prosp'rus was given a (now iconic) dinosaur-bone greatsword.

With the tribe having found access to Synoreax proper, the party descended into the city, fighting Coldlight walkers on the way, and discovered a magical factory for the creation of food, with gigantic silos of grain being processed into the ooze - and some shambling mounds! Moving further, they discovered an aboleth, The Devourer, living in the ooze tank, protected by frost giants and miners from the Howling Ravine camp that had eaten the ooze and excavated through to it.

A sneak attack gave them an early advantage, but Milk fell in an attempt to trick the Devourer, utterly destroyed by his elder god patron. He reformed out of the ooze itself, making a last-ditch deal with a demon through his familiar, Melinoe, and the party vanquished the Devourer, but not before its spirit inhabited a giant Netherese statue!

Making their way out, Persephone decided to tackle her issue with the Pitch head-on, with Ashra severing ties with the Arcane Brotherhood and coming with her. Milk also severed ties, deciding to travel south with Prosp'rus and "start a cult, or open a bar, or both", while Viktor would take the survivors back to Ten-Towns. However, the camp quartermaster, Garvenor, had stolen away with a barrel of the ooze, which still seemed to be corrupted and channelling the Devourer's spirit...