Lena Copperleaf

Art of Lena by Raziel.

**Lena** is a half-elf fighter and adventurer. She is played by Jess.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Lena is a fairly muscular young half elf woman. She has longer black-green hair that she usually wears up in some way or another, and has light green eyes. She has several scars on the left side of her face and both eyebrows from previous fights. Her ears are pierced with multiple studs and her left ear held an dangly earring that she recently gifted to Harland. She also wears a ribbon necklace that was gifted to her from Harland

**Personality**

Lena has a fairly serious personality, giving any job she undertakes her full consideration. When her time is her own, she enjoys relaxing with her friends and goofing off. She is very straightforward and forthcoming.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Lena was raised with her brother Niko by their mother in Port Zoon. Lena looked up to her brother, and thought the world of him. Sometime in her childhood the General saw Lena’s potential and started teaching her how to fight in his school. Niko fell behind in his own sword studies and when he turned of age he left Port Zoon to find a teacher so he could again be the best.

When Lena was 16 she was conscripted into the Zhelezo forces, she soon fell out of touch with her family. At some point during her time she had a bad run in with pirates and received a miserable concussion for her trouble. Shortly after this she left the Zhelezo and returned home. Years later she works security at events.

## **Tide of Retribution Arc**

Lena arrived at Palma Flora after being hired as extra security for the shark hunting festival. When the Sahaugin attacked she met Leo, Ullabark, Unavira, and Harland. Together they fought the Sahaugin off and ended up seeking refuge from the Wavechaser and it’s captain Three Earrings.

Aboard the Wavechaser Lena grew uneasy as her suspicions of piracy grew. However she was able to grow closer to the party during this time as well. Three Earrings offered payment if the party returned to Palma Flora to seek out a scepter the Sahaugin were seen using. Though the party was doubtful of actually giving the scepter to Three Earrings they agreed.

After a quick trip to Bisaft Isle for supplies and to drop off the Palma Flora refugees. On the way back to the remains of Palma Flora the Wavechaser was pursued by a Zhelezo ship. Lena told her companions some of her past, especially regarding the Zhelezo. They initially tried to reason with the Zhelezo but after being attacked the Tides party fought back. While the commander of the ship was killed the rest of the Zhelezo were tied up.

Initially the Tides party took command over the Zhelezo ship for the remainder of the trip to Palma Flora. When they went to the bottom of the ocean to find the scepter they fought a force of Sahaugin and Shark creatures as well as a Sahaugin warlock. They interrogated the warlock as to the source of her powers and found that she had sought the help of a sea serpent named Uk’otoa.

Returning to the surface the party decided to hand the scepter over to Three Earrings—not willing to risk the lives they had already bargained over and not sure how well they would fare in a fight against her and her crew. Setting the Zhelezo ship and crew free the Tides Party once again embarked on the Wavechaser. They went with Three Earrings to a meeting with her contact to sell the scepter. This contact was none other than Lena’s brother Niko.

As the siblings caught up with the Tides Party in tow, Niko asked his sister to accompany him to the North saying he had a job that she could help with. Torn between her brother and the new family she was making for herself, Lena left the party for the time being to see if she can mend the relationship with her brother.

## **Wails in the Night**

### Arrival

Lena traveled with Niko up north. After several weeks of travel they arrived at an undisclosed location. Lena went with her brother to help him search for the artifact he was looking for it. However Lena was found by a kind gentleman on the banks of Ivory Lake alone, unconcious, and clutching the scepter the Tides party had given to Three Earrings.

The kind gentleman brought Lena to Uthodurn’s adventure guild “Clashing Swords” thinking she might belong to it. Instead Lena met the Frozen Sick party (Remedy, Laelrith, Kroosh, and Nyx) after being healed by Laelrith. Lena expressed confusion and disorientation both at where she was and what had happened. Lena continued to spend time with the Frozen party, and later that night met the baby dragon Merric. Initially hesitant about a baby dragon, Merric won Lena over when he started speaking and was very cute.

Lena visited the Vellum Steeple Archives with Nyx and Kroosh. She researched local myths surrounding the Ivory Lake, and while she found some interesting information nothing that would have necessarily linked her brother's goal with the area. The party then visited the Plexus Post and Alosrin Crafina's store with varying degrees of success. Lena helped buy some magic sending paper from the Plexus Post and Kroosh distributed the paper after a conversation about who the party might be sending their letters to.

### Molaesmyr Banshee

The next day there is a local fair, and a competition against the Glass Blades. Lena participated in the rope braiding, cup guessing, archery, and ladder racing games. She lost at all but the ladder racing, which after a close race with Kroosh, Lena won. The party entered the tag team competition against the Glass Blades as the "Silver Dragons", and though Lena held her own she was knocked out. However as a whole the party beat the guards which would allow them to join the "Clashing Swords". As the crowd was cheering the party on a young elf girl, later identified as Nell, who was yelling at the guards about their poor detective work on her father's death.

The party followed her and offered to help. They went with her to her family's store "The Tangled Treetop" where they heard the story of her father's death. After Nell told the party of some people they could question, the party went to examine her father's body at the temple. An initial talk with the clerics of the temple went poorly and so the party conducted a heist, where they figured out that Nell's father was killed by a creature that kills by fear. Between the visit and the heist the party had a conversation about how their lives had been touched by ineffective guards, death, and murder. This caused Nyx to be upset, and while Kroosh was comforting and Remedy apologizing, Laelrith and Lena went to get comfort donuts and bonded. Kroosh and Lena, who are sharing a room, both write their letters on their magic sending paper and find out they are sending their letters to the same person--Harland! The party also later officially joined the "Clashing Swords" guild and when asked what their official group name was for paperwork Remedy replied, "Dracones Noctis".

   The party then returns to the archives to research creatures that can kill with fear, after coming up with a short list with the most likely creature a banshee. They then go to Nell's grandparent's house to find out more about who in their family could be haunting them. After gathering the extended family in one spot they wait out the night to see if the banshee will attack. Part way through the night the banshee does attack, the party fights back and seriously injures the banshee before the banshee fades away. Laelrith fell unconscious during the fight, and upon revival her hands are tipped white. Nell's family tells Dracones Noctis that there is a mine behind the house, where the banshee might have gone. After preparing to fight the banshee again the party sneaks into the mine and searches for the banshee. They eventually find her and battle her again, killing her. They return Nell to her family's house and her grandmother pays the party 80 platinum.

### Spa Day Slumber Party

The party takes a few days to recuperate after the banshee. They do a quick cat rescue job for the Clashing Swords. After completion of the job they return to the temple of the Arch Heart to check on Laelrith's hands, the priest is unable to heal Laelrith without a larger spell, which the party helps to pay for. Nyx and Merric go shopping and get a ribbon from Enchanter Alosrin from the Twisted Glass. Nyx gathers the party to go to the store, where they order a necklace of disguise for Merric. They grab a yeti job from job board at the Clashing Swords
. After leaving the Clashing Swords the party leaves Uthodurn to allow Merric to stretch his wings. While the dragon is flying the group discusses their families and past.

On the following day, a note has been slid under Kroosh and Lena's door that Laelrith's hands have gotten worse and she has some business that she needs to get in order. She informs them that she is leaving the party. Kroosh and Lena inform the rest of the party what has happened. Once again the party returns to the Vellum Steeple Archives to do some research on yetis. As the party prepares to leave Uthodurn to hunt the yeti down they are reminded that Nyx is sensitive to the sun. After some creative brainstorming they return to the Twisted Glass to see if Alosrin is able to help come up with a solution. He is, in the form of an enchanted parasol. The party will have to wait another few days before they can pick it up. In the meantime the girls decide to go to the bath house while Remedy and Merric go home. On their way they stop and procure some wine. They have a very fun time at the bath house playing never have I ever, getting to know each other better, and braiding each other's hair. Nyx also pulls a small prank on Lena about the types of animals that can be found in Xhorhas On their way home they stop for cupcakes that they can eat while they drink their second bottle of wine. Before going to bed, they deliver a glass of wine and some cupcakes to Remedy. Then they have a sleepover in Kroosh and Lena's room with lots of pillows.

## **Uthodurn and the Outpost**

### The Yeti Hunt

After the sleepover Kroosh and Nyx take Merric outside to enjoy the snow and have a snowball fight. Lena and Remedy go back to the mine where they fought the banshee to look for the safe passage he had seen. They are able to find it and manage to open the door. Halfway through the tunnel they decide to get the others before they move on. Once they have everyone they go through the whole passage which leads to a room in the Vellum Steeple, Nyx steals a few pieces of paper, before the group hears someone coming. They return to the tunnel and hear "Carric I thought you were watching this room?" They then head back to their rooms in the Broken Stool. There they find that the papers they found are a current map of the Syvalier Wood and an old map of Molaesmyr, which they copy. Lena suggests they return the maps, which the party agrees to but after they are finished hunting the yeti.

The next morning they pickup the parasol and go out of Uthodurn to hunt the yeti. Throughout the first day of travel they go through the mountains, and reach the region's graveyard and its' keeper Anbera. While she is very kind, she is a little unsettling and the party moves on. As they continue Merric lets us know that he smells something different. Between him and Kroosh, who has spotted some tracks, they follow the trail to some mammoths. Nyx also pulls another small prank on Lena, about how old she is. As they go up the mountain they find a dead mammoth and some footprints. However the group decides to go to sleep as they have had a long day.

Kroosh and Remedy take the first watch of the night. Towards the end of their watch they both become curious as to what mammoth tastes like, and decide to go to the dead mammoth to procure a sample. Shortly after they leave Nyx is awakened by her alarm spell going off, and when she looks outside she gets cold but does not immediately see anything. When she continues to look she spots a yeti. She looks for Kroosh and Remedy but can't find them so she goes to Lena's tent. Lena goes outside upon waking where she is paralyzed by the yeti. After the yeti injures her he picks her up and tries to leave the campsite. Nyx and Merric are able to stop and kill the yeti, rescuing Lena. The next day they investigate the direction the yeti came from but upon finding another yeti they decide to return to Uthodurn.

### Return to Uthodurn

They return to Uthodurn with the head of the yeti, to the Clashing Swords. While they are waiting for the dwarf who hired out for the yeti head an elven woman comes into the guild looking for a group of heroes to hire. She tells them to meet her at the Whistling Canary at 8 that night. When they meet her, she introduces herself as Nadenka and lets them know that she is looking for her friend named Carric, who missed their drink meeting and has not been heard from since. She tells the party she will pay them 400g to find out information about where he is discreetly.

The next morning Dracones Noctis heads to the address Nadenka had given them for Carric. It is a building attached to the archives. After knocking on the door to the living quarters with no response the group decides to go into the archives and wait for a member of the Cobalt Soul who was studying at the archives thinking that Kroosh could use her connections to gather more information. While waiting Nyx begins to look for relations between Xhorhas and Uthodurn. Lena, Remedy and Kroosh look for the map room they had previously entered from the hidden tunnel. Kroosh trips and falls, drawing an auditor's attention to the trio, and Remedy tries to spin it as a security inspection. Nyx casts Unseen Servant to distract the auditor allowing the trio to sneak into the restricted hallway. There they find employee records that gives some limited information about Carric and his schedule. Nyx, in making herself useful to the receptionist who needed more help from the auditors to deal with the chaos of the Unseen Servant, is given keys to the auditors housing. The group reconvenes in the hallway leading to the auditors apartments. Finding Carric's apartment they knock to no answer and break into his apartment which is empty of people if not items. Lacking any new leads Kroosh has a conversation with the Cobalt Soul member which also provides no new information beyond that of Carric and his child being fairly quiet. The group goes back to the archives where Kroosh has an argument with an auditor and Nyx, disguised tries to talk to the same auditor about a meeting she was supposed to have with Carric. After leaving the archives Nyx drops her disguise only to be found out by the auditor who introduces herself as Lutéce. After a tense, mistrustful, conversation with the group about Carric and their desire to help him, Lutéce brings Dracones Noctis to her apartment where Carric has been hiding out.

Carric explains to the group, once Lutéce leaves to give them privacy, that he had worked for Nadenka who was not great but also was not the worst, and that she worked for a family from Shady Creek Run. However he felt guilty about the work that he did (keeping watch while thieves stole relics from the archives relating to Molaesmyr) and no longer wanted to do it. Additionally he felt that one of his coworkers wanted him dead to gain his position. In a panic he had decided not to meet Nadenka and had been hiding since.
He had sent his son Fox to stay with his eldest son Allain. Dracones Noctis decides that they will help him and his family leave Uthodurn and at least get him to a boat to somewhere. They have him write a fake letter laying a false trail towards the Empire that they can give to Nadenka. Carric also gives them a real letter to give to his sons so that they will trust Dracones Noctis. On their way back to the Broken Stool they stop at the Twisted Glass to pick up their disguise necklace for Merric. They test it out by Kroosh turning into Lena. As they are leaving Nyx asks Alosrin if he had heard of letters being delayed from the Dynasty. He replied that he did not have any pertinent connections left, but advised Nyx that if she was feeling homesick to look at the stars. When the group returns to the inn, they give Merric his necklace and he practices being disguised. The party decides to go to a dog park so that Merric can see some real examples of dogs. While at the park they see a bear chasing a bad guy, when they pursue the bear they are told is the Ivae'ess and to leave her be. After dropping Merric back off at the inn the group sees the bear once more though the bear runs off and a woman named Reani shows up offering to tell the Ivae'ess what the group needed. They give her a basic understanding of the dangers the Shady Creek Run families could pose to the city and move on. Remedy and Kroosh apologize to Nyx for leaving the camp during their watch.

That night as Lena is asleep she dreams of a ship. Its the day that her ship was attacked and she got her head injury. The day replays itself and as Lena finds herself again saving her friend anger starts to boil in her chest. Suddenly she's not on a ship she's on a platform and the water is rising and Nikko pushes her off and the anger hits at his betrayal. Lena wakes up, safe, holding the rod that is vibrating. Something shifts in the air and suddenly the anger begins to drain away. The next morning at breakfast Lena tells the group about her dream and her concerns. After some discussion of the object Lena gives it to Kroosh who puts it in her bag, and Lena instructs her to tell the group if it starts to give Kroosh nightmares.

### Escape from Uthodurn

Dracones Noctis then goes to Allain's home where the group spots watchers. Remedy and Lena are allowed in by an elven man, Allain. Further inside waits Fox, and Allain's partner Chaedi who is high on skein. As Lena and Remedy explain what is going on and that the group needs to leave more watchers come to the apartment, and they make a plan to leave immediately. Nyx turns Fox invisible and Allain and Chaedi are given cloaks. Nyx distracts one watcher and Kroosh trails behind them to make sure Nyx is safe. Remedy leads Allain, Chaedi, and Fox back to the inn and Lena goes the opposite direction being obvious that the group doesn't know where Carric is. After introducing the family to Merric, Dracones Noctis goes to the Whistling Canary to tell Nadenka what they have found. The group tells her that they found a note and the family but no Carric. While the news doesn't go over great, Nadenka seems to believe them and pays the group for their troubles. On their way back to the Broken Stool they stop at the post office to see if they have any letters and to find out what had happened to the mail from Xhorhas and are told that Dock Master Merry Armor at the Outpost would know more. They also stop at a clothes store to buy the family clothes appropriate for winter travel. Kroosh and Nyx return to Lutéce's apartment to tell Lutéce and Carric of the plan and that they should meet tomorrow around noon at the dog park.

The next morning the group continues to prepare to leave Uthodurn. Lena makes sure that the Broken Stool will hold any mail for her and the group continues to shop for supplies. They also stop at the Clashing Swords to lay a trail that they plan to come back to Uthodurn after they stop at the Outpost to check for news on the mail. Cindra from the Clashing Swords also tells the group of another way to leave Uthodurn further down in the city that is closer to the Outpost. They check it out and decide this way would be better for their group to leave through. The group shops some more with Nyx and Lena returning to the Plexus Post where they buy two potions (Nyx a pink potion and Lena a slight multicolored potion) as well as three more magic paper birds. The group returns to the Broken Stool where they gather their belongings and the family and leave. Kroosh and Lena take the family to the other exit while Nyx and Remedy wait for Carric, who they eventually find, and they join the rest of the party just outside Uthodurn.

They travel that day finding an abandoned campsite and they take some supplies from a backpack found there. During Lena's watch she plays with Merric and during Nyx and Remedy's watch they talk about Rosohna and Remedy's family. Merric has a nightmare and goes to Kroosh for comfort. The party continues to travel the next day entering a forest. A tree has an inscription claiming this place as one of give and take, that it is a place to leave gifts. Nyx leaves the dagger that the group had found the day prior and Lena leaves a blue quartz that she had gathered from the banshee at the base of the tree. Things are very awkward between the family. During the night while Remedy is taking watch an undead ice troll stumbles upon the camp. Remedy wakes the group and they fight against the troll. Lena is knocked unconscious but Remedy gives her a healing potion. The party finishes the night's rest. When Nyx wakes her pinky nail is silver and Lena has 6 purple berries. As the group is traveling for the day they find a flower growing from Lena's hair! Lena begins to worry that she is turning into a plant. Allain talks to Kroosh about learning how to fight. As the trees start to thin the group finds another spot to camp for the night. Carric and Remedy talk about the adventuring life and wants to know how Dracones Noctis can have a life without a home. Nyx shows Lena her nail and presses it against her cheek when Lena asks if it does anything. Lena pretends it hurts her and then laughs telling Nyx that her nail is just cold. During the watches the aurora can be seen, causing Lena and Remedy to talk about bioluminescence on the ocean. Chaedi during Nyx's watch gives Nyx some skein and Nyx takes the drugs during her watch.

The next day after a few hours of travel the group enters the Outpost. They talk to a guard named Dabron who tells them what to expect of the town. Eventually the party finds the Dock Master who tells them about captains who would take the family to the Menagerie Coast, mentioning one Griffin Windshot. However Windshot has gone to investigate a shipwreck in the Gulch which is where the missing mail had been found. The party is interrupted by a group of sailors led by someone named Hestin. The party leaves to procure rooms from the inn. They find that the tavern is the main fancy building they saw on their way into the town and the rooms are actually cabins a little ways away. Lena, who had thought maybe the magic would fade once they left the forest, finds that her hair is still sprouting flowers. She begins to like them as her confidence that she is not turning into a plant grows.

The group learns of the current trouble in the Gulch and discuss with the family what they would like to do. The family decides they'd rather wait to see if something can be done in the Gulch, especially once we tell them we are fairly sure Nadenka believed us and didn't follow us to the Outpost. Remedy and Lena leave the cabin to find supplies for dinner while Kroosh gets a feel for the cabin. Lena and Remedy go to a small market to buy some fish and are then directed to a warehouse for further supplies where they meet a small goblin named Froggy. Froggy is talking to the Captain Treasurearm (the sailor Hestin) about things that have gone missing from the warehouse. Treasurearm is mean to Froggy and flusters her before leaving. While she helps the duo find what they are looking for she explains that even though she keeps excellent records, supplies keep going missing! Remedy suggests that we could maybe help her but we would have to discuss it with our friends. Froggy tells Remedy to just let her know what they decide but that she would be grateful for the help. When they return to the cabin, Nyx has placed Alarm spells around the cabin. Dracones Noctis decides to watch the family for a few nights to make sure they are safe before helping Froggy. The rest of the night is spent comfortably as Remedy writes a letter to Alder, Nyx converses with someone magically in her head, and Kroosh continues to train Allain. The next morning Remedy tells Nyx, Lena, and Kroosh that he might be able to get letters to loved ones if he can find the right connections. The group writes their letters and hands them off. Remedy talks to a crew member of a ship and makes a connection, but the crew member tells Remedy that they won't be sailing until their captain, Windshot, returns. Remedy returns the letters to his party members. Kroosh and Lena go back to the warehouse. Froggy is looking much the worse for wear and said that even though she stayed up to watch things still went missing. Lena promises to help and Froggy gives her some armor she was looking at as payment. While they are at the warehouse, Nyx and Remedy hang out and Remedy begins to teach Nyx how to pick locks. They also talk about Nyx's past and Nyx admits she is lying about her age, in part because she feels like no one would trust a young elf. When Kroosh and Lena get back its decided that Kroosh and Nyx will stay with the family to make sure they are safe while Merric, Remedy, and Lena will go to the warehouse to see what is stealing the supplies. During the night they find out that the supplies are being eaten by a mimic! They battle the creature, eventually victorious. They tell Froggy if she hears anything else to hide and that they will talk to the dock master in the morning on her behalf. Lena, Remedy, and Merric return to the cabin very tired.

### A New Friend

The next morning, after the events of the previous night are explained, Dracones Noctis checks on Froggy. She lets them know that the rest of the night was quiet, but that she would appreciate if they told the Harbormaster Wynnmyst what happened. On their way to her office, the party sees a commotion at the harbor as there is a new boat. They meet the captain, a triton named Munikyn, in Wynnmyst's office. Munikyn is exploring and mapping the waters near here and is interested in the area where the mail has gone missing and Wynnmyst is willing to pay the party to deal with the disturbance so Munikyn agrees to take on Dracones Noctis as passengers on her boat, The Coral. Before the party leaves the Outpost they instruct Carric's family on next steps to take both if the party survives and clears the way, and if they don't. Windshot's cousin has heard the party is going after the missing captain and offers some advice to Nyx, and asks her to look out for Windshot.

## The Poisoned Seas

The party makes their way onto The Coral and everyone acclimates to their new situation. Remedy and Lena are both a little uncomfortable being on a boat again for different reasons. Later, the party decides that if they are going to be spending time with Munikyn and trusting her to navigate them to the right spot she should know about Merric. Munikyn promises Nyx she won't hurt Merric. The next day Lena and Munikyn talk about Munikyn's time on the seas compared to Lena's, with Munikyn declaring that the Coral and the ocean are her home. Munikyn shares that her goal is to draw a better map of the Gulch after seeing a bad one. Over the course of the next few days the party fights steam elementals, weather a bad storm, encounter the remains of a ship wreck, conduct an at sea funeral, and make it to where the water is 'wrong'. They find an island with a stone with draconic and thieves cant inscribed instructing readers to "Take the leap you will be safe". Dracones Noctis decides to jump off the island cliff into the ocean. As they dive into the water there is a slight glow deeper that Munikyn and Lena follow.

They are sucked into a bubble-esque space that is dry. Eventually the others follow and enter the dry space as well. They find two doors-an opened wooden door and a metal door that says "let the blood of the sickened flow". They follow the open door to a library. Nyx finds a note that declares Yedriast has been set free to ravage a new and changed world; that "its sickening the shores while the snake of the shadow is sickening the earth." Kroosh finds a key that opens the metal door, which seems to be a torture chamber. They go back to the wall where Nyx drinks some poison and the party is allowed to walk through to a large antechamber. The party hears a strange noise coming from the chamber below them. They investigate and find a huge creature snoring in front of a door! As the party tries to hide the creature awakens and enters the room it was guarding, closing the door behind it. Dracones Noctis tries to set a trap but the multi-headed snake creature sees through the magic and taunts the party. As the party regroups Merric confesses his nerves, Nyx tells him that "good dragons need to protect people." They head back down to the lower chamber, trying to draw out the creature unsuccessfully. The creature throws out a dead body to further taunt the party. Lena recognizes them as a member from Nikko's crew. Resigned, Dracones Noctis heads into the room to fight the creature. It's a hard battle, Lena slices one head off, Kroosh gets the second head and Remedy kills the creature. There's another person in the room, the missing captain! When the creature captured her Nikko's crew-mate was already dead suggesting Lena's brother had been here quite some time before. Lena finds a map on the dead crew-mate's body, which Munikyn tells her is a more recently made map.

The party goes back up, and the water still feels wrong. They go back to the library to try to learn more, only successfully learning more about Yedriast and the Great Serpent. The first time the creature went out in the water it created the weird slick in the water, so the party believes now that the creature is dead, it will eventually go back to normal. Back on The Coral the party talks about where to go next, settling on Asarius because Kroosh and Remedy both have interests there.

## The Road Home

### Leaving the Gulch

While the party wants to go to Asarius, they worry about their charges they've left in the Outpost. Griffin offers, as a favor for rescuing her, she and her crew would take Carric and his family to the Menagerie Coast. Nyx sends a message and Griffin's crew is going to take Carric's family with them and meet Griffin at Jigow. The party starts to travel again, still a little shaken up. Kroosh and Lena talk about Harland, Serendipity, and why they trio split up. Kroosh asks Lena if Harland was okay, the last time she saw him. Lena tells her that he seemed okay, but wasn't sharing many secrets. Kroosh shares a small secret with Lena about Harland, that cheers Lena up. They also talk about Nikko, and if they think he can be helped or just stopped. That night during watch Kroosh and Nyx talk about the rod Lena had found with her last party and had since given to Kroosh. Like Lena, Kroosh too had a nightmare and was concerned. Nyx suggests switching who has the rod and Kroosh gives it to her for now.

Over the course of the next few days a cold works its way through most of Dracones Noctis infecting everyone but Munikyn. During their travels to Jigow the party fights a large shark, Lena and Remedy talk about bravery and cowardice and bad boat experiences, Munikyn explores an undersea column and meets a merperson. The party also learns about Alder, meets some sea elves, and fight a kelp creature. After fighting some strange black birds Remedy sees a bottle in the water with a message inside as well as a ring. Munikyn wants to keep the ring for herself but Remedy pays her for it. The note is a last request to return the ring to the letter writer's father in New Haxon. While Lena has never heard of New Haxon, it elicits a strong reaction from Kroosh and Remedy. The party has an intense discussion on if they will return the ring, who will return it if so, and it ends with Nyx wrist pocketing the ring, refusing to let more people close to her hurt. During their eleventh day on the boat land is sighted and by the end of the day they are in Jigow.

### A Sleepy Fishing Town

Dracones Noctis prepares to dock and says their goodbyes to Munikyn. A guard approaches the party, seeing through Remedy's disguise but Nyx convinces the guards she's here on Marble Tomes business and the guard tells the party to use the correct dock next time. Griffin takes the party to a building called the "Wart Pimple Tavern". While Griffin approaches the bar keep, Thisbe, the party picks a table and sees a notice board with several things on it. Griffin introduces Thisbe to the party and they find out that the tavern has no rooms but Thisbe suggests a hostel nearby, The Glass Hook. Nyx messages Alder, Remedy and Kroosh get drunk. Griffin parts ways with the party, promising to find them when her ship and crew have docked. The party goes to explore The Eye of Newt, a shop advertising coupons on the notice board, they also go to "Troublesome Tomes." There they meet Saga, a tiefling with a passion for stories. Lena tells Saga about the forest where she got her flowers while Kroosh tells them about being in the empire. After their shopping adventures the party goes to find the Glass Hook. They rent a room with four bunk beds from the orc lady running the counter. Before the party takes a nap Merric lets them know he is tired of being a dog and wants to be able to be himself. The party re-explains the danger but tries to come up with other disguises for Merric. They are unable to find a compromise and so for now, Merric agrees to continue being a dog.

After the nap the party splits up: Remedy and Lena go and search for someone who can do some scouting of Asarius and the situation there while Kroosh, Nyx, and Merric go looking for dinner. Remedy and Lena talk about how being guards impacted them and if they had killed while being guards. Remedy shares information about how they left the guard and circumstances after. Kroosh gets her purse stolen but she and Nyx are able to catch the pick pocket. Both groups go back to the Glass Hook and eat before they head to a meeting on the hill they had seen advertised on the notice board. It is a group of druids, discussing the surrounding communities and how they can help them! Dracones Noctis hides from the meeting and eavesdrop, The druid group talks about a creature that is harassing travelers that they are having a hard time dealing with. They also mention that Merfolk say the threat in the gulch has been taken care of. The meeting ends and the party hears a loud slam of a staff on a rock nearby. It is the druid who led the meeting-they want to know what the party thinks we are doing. Lena gives an explanation but the druid is not impressed. The druid leaves the party, but when they get back to the Glass Hook they find that the druid is staying there too. Nyx asks more about the creature mentioned during the meeting and offers taking care of it. The druid, unimpressed by Dracones Noctis, tells them that the circle would just have to save them and that there is no payment to be offered. The party takes their leave and goes to their room.

The next morning when the party goes to breakfast they learn the druid is named Erbel. There is some light antagonizing of the druid though the party stops when the host of the inn tells them off. They go find the goblins Remedy had hired and find out Remedy isn't being sought in Asarius as he is believed to be dead. Remedy, Nyx, and Kroosh decide they are going to try to pick pocket to pad the party's funds but Lena declines to participate-so she holds the party's money in case they get caught by the guards. The party makes their way to an armory shop called the "Clink 'n' Clank" Lena leaves after the party starts to shop lift and when she comes back a goblin has found the party and says that Griffin is looking for them. They meet Griffin at the dock as her ship has come in and she has regained her captain's title. Carric and his family are also on board! They mention there was someone shady at the Outpost and they left just in time to avoid that. The party is paid for dealing with the problem in the gulch and Nyx is given a letter from Lutecé. The ship leaves to take Carric's family to the Menagerie Coast.

The party helps Lee, another notice board advertiser, write a love letter. They then go look for crabs to race in the crab race that was also advertised on the notice board. During their search Nyx gets bitten by a snake and the party takes her to an apothecary called "Hank's Tinctures for Ailments and Maladies." Hank, a bugbear, helps Nyx and tells the party how business has been rough lately. Nyx sends a message to Alder meaning to tattle on Remedy for his part in the snake misadventure and Alder tells Nyx that he may be stuck in Asarius and can't meet them anymore. Remedy tells the party about Alder's past and the people he used to work for might be the reason Alder can't leave. Nyx and Remedy talk about their time in Rosohna, and Nyx shares to the party about her sister Thalia. The party decides they will head to Asarius as soon as possible to go help Alder. Because they will miss the "official" crab race they have their own. Lena's crab wins the race and Lena wins a feather which she puts in her hair next to the flowers still blooming in her hair. The party goes about finding transportation to Asarius and decide to take a coach. They will pay half of the money now and half later when they have gotten there. Nyx messages Alder one more time to tell him the new plan and the party goes to sleep.

### Between Two Towns

The next morning the party bids a not-so-fond farewell to Erbel before going to meet their coachman, Gobrur and his two horses Bonesnapper and Sorrowskinner. They chose to travel quickly over safely. The party travels and tries to keep an eye out for threats. There is a tree blocking the way and Gobrur asks for help. After a small skirmish with tree like creatures the party continues. They meet a tabaxi named BytheBy who stays with the party for a night before going on their way. During the night Kroosh and Nyx talk about a poetry book whose author hurt someone dear to Kroosh.

In the morning the party has to move slower due to one of the horses being hurt the day before. Kroosh tries to craft and Nyx messages Alder. Near the end of the travel day Kroosh receives a message from Tryn at the Cobalt soul on behalf of Expositor Zay asking if Kroosh was alive and coming back, which prompts the party to start to discuss what's next for them. After finding out Kroosh is in Xhorhas the expositors tell Kroosh to keep up the good work and stay there. Lena finds out that Rosohna is a city of darkness. The party makes camp and Kroosh takes the first watch, choosing not to wake Remedy for the second just waking Lena. Remedy is a bit upset but Kroosh explains they were worried as Remedy hadn't really been himself lately. Remedy says it will be better once he's back home. When they start to travel the next day Remedy sees a black shape moving in the sky-the party hides and eventually it disappears and they are able to go back on their way. As they make camp for the night Remedy talks to Kroosh again about how Remedy wants to be able to help their friends. Lena and Kroosh spar and Kroosh wins. Merric stretches his wings and tries to teach the party how to fly. He's unsuccessful but he does manage to fly Kroosh and Nyx around a little. The night passes uneventfully besides a cart that Lena sees on her watch, and some cheesy pick up lines traded between Kroosh and Nyx.

The next day, Kroosh asks Nyx what she would need to be able to send a message to one of her siblings, and Nyx explains how Sending works. They decide not to try it yet. It's cloudy and looks like rain and Lena digs out her jacket from her pack-just in case. The rain does eventually come, making for rough messy travel though Merric loves the rain. The cart gets stuck in the mud and Lena falls down in the process of trying to get it unstuck. They get the cart unstuck and continue; as they travel they discuss the plan for Asarius. They plan to reunite Remedy with Alder, Lena would like to go to a spa, and they should maybe get a better more legal map. Remedy worries about getting the party in trouble and wants to split up but the party doesn't want to leave him to his own devices. Remedy offers his house as a place the party can stay. As they finalize their plans they make camp and split for watches. Lena and Kroosh take the first watch and talk about how they already miss Remedy. When morning comes they get back on the road and have an easier day of travel. They see a Kryn army pass by them and Lena asks about the noise that the armor makes. Remedy goes invisible as a precaution and seems to know someone. The rest of the day goes by with little fan fare and they should be to Asarius in a day or so. Lena and Kroosh spar again, this time Lena wins. Merric writes Remedy a goodbye card. Kroosh and Remedy talk about Remedy's time in the card and Remedy confesses something to Kroosh. She offers a place that was once a sanctuary for her and her siblings though it is trapped. The last day of travel goes by fairly quickly and Remedy transfers custody of the party funds to Kroosh. The party makes their way to Remedy's house and meet Alder as he and Remedy embrace.

### Retrieving the Letter

The party decides to have a sleepover in the living room. Alder and Remedy catch up and discuss what they both want-which is to be safe and happy. Alder tells the party what he has been doing since the ship Remedy was on sank. He started doing some art forgeries and when Alder tried to quit the house was broken into and an incriminating letter was stolen. Alder is afraid if he leaves this letter might be leaked and Alder will have to watch his back for both officials looking to arrest him and the crime family he worked for looking to get back at him for snitching. He tells us the contact he has is named "Hatch" and this person would be able to answer more of their questions of how to get Alder out of this situation. They decide to set up a meeting and come up with contingency plans. Merric again complains about being a dog so the party makes him a dragon-bjorn and tell Merric to disguise himself as a baby Dragonborn. Happy to be not traveling the party does some light shopping. When they get back to the house Remedy gives everyone some ink-Lena's is teal. Remedy gives everyone some more presents and Lena gives Remedy the gift she had for him. Kroosh becomes upset and goes to the back yard. Alder returns home and says the meeting is set.

The party decides Lena and Alder should talk to Hatch and give Lena the Rod of Tides and two scimitars as bargaining chips. Nyx and Remedy will be outside to trail Hatch if necessary and Kroosh will trail them. While they wait for Hatch Lena and Alder talk about Alder's life in Asarius and Lena finds out there's a fight pit in Asarius at a tavern called the Four Corners. Merric gives Remedy his letter and the rest of the party goes outside. Lena tries to channel Harland and his way of persuasion. She doesn't do terribly but she isn't as successful as her friend probably would have been. Hatch has been told he can't let Alder out of the "business agreement" for less than 1000 gold. Hatch asks if Lena is there for moral support and she tells him she is there to convince him to release Alder. She offers the Rod and Hatch does a few tests on it. She tells him an edited story of how she got the Rod in her position and that it was worth a lot of money. Hatch offers a deal: for the Rod, 200 gold, and a job, Alder can get the letter back. There is something in the tunnels that their business associates use and they need it cleared out. The party has three hours to prepare themselves and head to an address Lena and Alder are given. The party goes to the address at the given time and they are blindfolded and put on a cart. Dracones Noctis is told not to die and not to bring trouble back, they should find a corpse or bring back what the corpse was carrying as proof that they dealt with whatever the issue is. The party travels through the tunnels and eventually come across some reptilian creatures that attack! They fight the creatures and find more nearby. Eventually they find three skeletons and a pouch. Nyx copies some of the letters on the back of the pouch. Dracones Noctis goes back to where they were and the party is again blindfolded and led back to the cart. Hatch gets the letter and gives it to Alder before bidding them all fair well.

### Goodbye's

The party returns to the Minnowbrook house. They make plans to get dinner the next day and go to the fighting pit and they make plans to get a group tattoo. There is some discussion about possibly clearing Remedy's name but he said he was guilty to some degree and they would have to kill people. Kroosh, Lena, and Nyx offer to sell Remedy's house in due time so they don't have to rush to sell it before they leave. They pack up the house and Remedy and Alder decide to leave the morning after they go to dinner.

The next morning (the first of Thunsheer) Remedy asks Lena to help make breakfast and they have another discussion about Remedy's past and future. When they return to the group they discuss ideas of the group tattoo. They find out no one in the group has any yet, and Lena is very excited about the idea. They decide on a snowy mountain design as a nod to Uthodurn where they all met. Merric wants one too and Alder paints one on his wing. The rest of the party gets their tattoos from a little goblin. They then go to the Four Corner Tavern. After watching a few fights Kroosh, Lena, Nyx, and Alder fight against one another, Lena wins. A group of drow come in during the fight and Remedy listens in to their conversation. The drow talk about the front. After the fight Nyx runs into her mentor Marianus. They have dinner and enjoy each other's company. When they get home Kroosh gives Remedy his present and they all go to bed. Remedy makes breakfast one last time and they all say goodbye. Remedy and Alder leave Asarius with their dog Bluebell by their side.

## The Spirit of War

### Hello's

Nyx, Kroosh, and Lena debate about following Remedy and Alder to make sure they are okay, but ultimately decide to leave them be as Nyx can check on them later with Sending. The group makes a to-do list that includes feeding Merric a vegetable. They do some shopping and get their more legal maps. Kroosh receives another message from the Cobalt Soul about a report that Kroosh should be on the look out for. When they get back to their for-now headquarters of Remedy's former house, Nyx reveals to Merric that she has learned how to fly! Later that afternoon Nyx has a meeting with her mentor so the group returns to the Four Corners. When they get there Marianus isn't there yet but other drow are so Nyx goes to talk to them, and they introduce themselves as Lybrina and Dreslan Beltune. It turns out Beltune is Nyx's mom's brother from a past life. There is some ruffled feathers as the duo don't think very highly of Marianus and think Nyx would be better served by a different mentor. Eventually Nyx is pointed to Marianus' room. She doesn't seem very impressed that Nyx brought Lena or Kroosh but welcomes them all in anyways. She and Nyx talk and she teaches Nyx a new spell. Kroosh and go back down to the bar to spend some time while Nyx is copying the spell. They look for the report but don't have any luck finding it. They also look for a job board but don't find any of those either. Not sure what else to do they decide to go to the fighting pit and fight as a duo. An older human man jumps into the pit with them, his cape billowing behind him. He tells them he is looking for a party and wants to test their mettle. Kroosh and Lena work well together and Kroosh gets the last blow against the man. After the fight they talk to him more. He introduces himself as Gavriil Sunsetter. He has a job from Lady Olios and he is looking for a party to go on a mission. He admits he's not entirely sure of the job but needs fighters. Kroosh gets Nyx and they talk aboutit as a group. After Gav offers to pay 5 gold just to meet and hear about the job the party agrees to hear out Lady Olios.

## **One Shot Appearances**

* Dream World (DM'd by Hex)
* Battle Royale (DM'd by Hex)
* Copper Dragon (DM'd by Hex)
* Halloween 2021 (DM'd by Dusty)
* Valentine's Day 2022 (DM'd by Raz)
* Battle Royale 2: Abandoned Monastery (DM'd by Hex)