Infinight Saga Synopsis

## Arc 1: Infinight Interns

Arriving in Boulderay, home of the Infinight's HQ, four adventurers are greeted by the mayor disguised as a guard: Mudd the dirt-loving Furbalg druid, Kyborg the Wood Elf fighter (archer) with a prosthetic arm, Bart the ex-pirate Halfling bard, and Galindor "Gum Gum" the Half Elf-Half Orc barbarian/wannabe wizard.

At the town's inn they meet an elf named Brink Tussler who challenges them to a duel and quickly wins. The guard returns to guide the party to the mayor's office where he removes a false nose and disguise and introduces himself as Mayor Prattle. Prattle explains that the town's heroes, the Infinights, are hiring summer interns. Convincing the party to accept the internship, the mayor reveals that the Infinights are secretly missing and tasks the new interns with finding them. The gang is sent to Infinight HQ to meet a floating sphere named Sorto, and the resident scientist and gear-provider, Dr. Ahem who shows them a vision of Luce's (now known as Paralyte) betrayal: the 5th (now ex) Infinight who captured the others and injured Dr. Ahem.

For their first mission the interns are sent via portal to the desert town of Pyous Pass. Occupied by mantis-people called Pyes, the town is plagued by a mysterious curse that is zombifying the inhabitants. After some shenanigans in town the party finds the town cleric: Mother Abby, who is revealed to be one of the Infinights: Elleve. Brainwashed by an evil sorceress called Paralyte, the legendary Elleve is poisoning the town's well water. Before the interns can defeat Elleve, Paralyte arrives to snatch the credit for saving the town and chases the interns and wounded Infinight out of town. Back in Boulderay Dr. Ahem sends the interns to search for medicinal herbs in the woods, and Elleve's "Inbreather" at a nearby temple to the land's prime deity.

## Arc 2: Deja Ürbloom

For their second mission as interns, the party is sent to Ürbloom, a technologically advanced town that embodies the word "Biergarten", to find the next Infinight: Slique The Symphonious. The team arrives to a destroyed town where they find a dying Brink Tussler and, bizarrely, their own corpses. Brink tasks them with finding him again, and hands them an hourglass shaped device that sends them back in time to before the town was destroyed.

After taking a tour of the town, the interns find an inventor who explains how to re-build the time travel device. As the party explores the regions of greater Ürbloom searching for parts of the device, a mysterious figure atop the clock tower, who later turns out to be Slique, plays phrases of a song with a magical lute that plunges their surroundings into chaos. A wave of emerald light envelops portions of the town, consuming buildings and towns people as plants and vines erupt from the ground and reclaim the shops and homes for nature. Due to the unusual temporal situation, parts of the town have been suffering these worsening conditions for weeks and have become home to dinosaurs and even survivors resorting to cannibalism.

Upon rebuilding the device and traveling back in time to restart the loop, the interns ascend the clock tower and defeat Slique. Once again Paralyte arrives and thwarts the party's plans, destroying the magical lute, kidnapping Sorto, and killing future (now alternate-future) Brink.