Story Summaries

## Arc 1: Goblins in the sinking Cavern

After meeting there handler from the Navigators guild and then having had a conflict in the local Vistani market. The party was sent to a town called the sinking cavern where there were reports of goblins in the town. When they arrived they found that the townsfolk were all under some form of hypnosis and were hailing the Nilbog. They met the contact given to them from the head of the Vistani market and this contact introduced them to goblin hiding out in a cave. From this goblin named Ackem they learnt that a warband of goblins were occupying the town because their leader had become a Nilbog, A Goblin overtaken by a god. They Also learnt of a child in the town who they went to see and found out after a conflict with the warband that the girl was being treated as a surrogate daughter of the Nilbog. They were also made aware of a powerful being below the town and the contact, Bluebell, Offered to take them to meet him. Before this they scouted the entrance to the warbands camp. When doing so they ended up in a situation where they made friends with a Bugbear captain of the warband. They then went with bluebell to meet the powerful man who lived below the town and they became friends of and 3 of them became servants of this being named Elardin. Upon leaving they found the town under attack by Gnolls and they saved the life of the bugbear captain they met earlier. They then went to save Hannah and succeeded with a party member dying in the attempt. They retreated with the Bugbear captain and met the Nilbog who gave them permission to remove all the town members and the rest of the warband to safety ahead of a large battle about to happen between him, Acken and the Gnoll force on its way. The Party successfully evacuated the warband and people to New moon cove and an agreeable deal was arranged with the cities lords to take on the human population but for the goblins to make their own way in the slum outside the city or with the Vistani. The party were brought into the Vistani Amhat clan.

## Arc 2: The Wideborns

The Party were hired by Marx, the handler from Navigators guild to find his drinking friend Oscar who had gone missing while the party were away. They quickly met Oscars large family and were told about his proclivity for drinking in low rent pubs and so they were escorted to his most known one by his younger brother Tim. However, The discovered very little about Oscar but did discover some information about Carvers hall the mysterious Black market. While returning to the Silver Sheaf pub which was being used as an impromptu base they were ambushed by Kenku and a mysterious purple creature. After winning this fight they returned and found the pub damaged having been swarmed by other Kenku. Upon righting the area the party settle in. The morning after Elara Oscars mother reveals that Daisy his youngest sister is a Changeling being hunted as an escaped slave from Dopplegangers. Betsy, Oscars Fiance and business partner reveals to the party that Oscar had a thing for gambling and tells them his favorite place and the party go to investigate meeting one of the lords in the process. When there they work out they are being watched by some kenku and after a plan to follow them fails only Althea manages to follow them and she brings down the building they are in while being confronted by another doppleganger who is in disguise as Elara. The party then went to Carver hall with the information they were given and using Elardins name were able to gain access to Rook the head of Carvers Hall. Rook told them that Dopplegangers like to be near water and after exploring along the docks a little they found an abandoned warehouse with a Doppleganger in and some prisoners tied up one of which was Oscar. The party managed to save Oscar and an Elf girl but the rest died in fire and one was savaged by a hellhound.

In payment for saving Oscar Elara gave them part all the wideborns proerty in the city under the understanding that Daisy, Now named Fi could work for them in disguise. The party agreed and Marx granted the a new rank in the navigators guild.

## Arc 3: The Prank

The party were tasked with finding items for Villis, the head of SOSHRAI (The society of short heighten races and individuals). In payment he would give them a stone, One Elardin was particularly interested in. The items were for him to pull a prank on Lord Stouthart and consisted of a hag fish, some crackers and the underpants of Lord Stouthart. The party split.

Those who went for the fish met Ramona and Osea and ended up finding out about Osea's lady love Proxi so that he could please her and then catch them a fish. This ended in gaining the Fish and Proxi now working as an actress for the Crumbles.

Those who went for the fire crackers agreed to help Da Xeng a local Tao Shenii Merchant and her deliveries. However while gaining the firecrackers they also managed to gain a threat from a rival Vistani Clan.

Finally the party reunited to get the Lords underwear. After an opportunity from Althea failing a recon mission. The rest of the party infiltrated Stoutharts rooms and after dealing with his guards found his underwear and returned to their Silversheaf.

The commotion in the castle made Villis re-consider his prank but he gave payment. Althea focused on the crystal. She stood before a very old Teifling who demanded she free him. It was agreed that the stone would be given to Elardin.

## Arc 4: Journey North

The party quickly were given knowledge that Marx had gone missing in the North as well as Grismeka being kidnapped. They met Varren a high level member of the Navigators Guild who introduced them to Batta and Vara who joined the party and they began their journey North.

After an ambush on the road they cleared out a group of Orc bandits and helped Niggle a small creature be reunited with his friend.

Some members found a village named Boarbond. Here they were contracted with finding the thing that lurks in the woods and killing it. When they found it it turned out to be a weretiger who informed the party that Boarbond was occupied by Wereboars who would kill others on their hunts. He said that if the party wanted to fight those in Boarbond he would help but if not he would disrupt them the best he could.

Whilst in Boarbond they also met some elves who said they were hunting something of greater evil that stalked the woods than the weretiger and that they would meet them in an abandoned tower off the road should they wish to help the elves in doing so.

They met up with the elves they met in Boarbond who informed them they were hunting a Green dragon. They then traveled to the local town where a guard let the know of weird things happening in the town. After stocking up on supplies they returned to the elves camp and began the journey into the forest to find and hunt the dragon. After a skirmish with the dragons servants the found his layer. After four floors of challenges they faced the dragon who downed them almost immediately. The dragon took mercy on them and let them go but all the elves were forfeit.

Upon heading back to the town. They gained a contract from the mayor to stop rats emerging form the sewers at night.

They Began their investigations with Brandon in the sewers guild who informed them of north a Dwarf who had been injured recently named Rorrig who had reported a creature wandering down in the sewers and a young man who was staying at a local brothel named the Randy Lizard who had been going down into the sewers to investigate something.

After causing problems in a local brewery the party moved to visit Rorrig who was less than friendly with them. This went from simply unfriendly to hostile when the party spilled all the bear over his front room but before fleeing Nickolai and Temro decided to leave a gift for Rorrig on his top floor climbing up and pissing through a broken window. Caught in the act Nickolai took a crossbow bolt while running from an angry dwarf.

The whole party accept Althea decided to return to the Varda leaving Althea to go to the randy lizard and meet with a girl named Marie who had talked to the young man investigating in the sewers. She did and convinced a nervous Marie to tell her what she knew. Althea found out that the mayors secretary basically ran the town taking payments from all the businesses and keeping them doing well. She was shady and apparently the young lad thought she was responsible for the disappearance of his mother. She also learned this boy, Named Amin, was the son of the Mayor. It was then that drink were brought and before Althea was able to detect the poison Marie was already dead. Althea managed to escape by turning into a bug and flying through the chimney of the place.

While outside in the commotion she spotted the Secretary approaching the lizard and found out that she had payed for the girl to be killed and it was now being pinned on Althea.

She returned by morning and explained all that had happened to the rest of the party.

They set off to the sewers guild to get down and find out what had happened down there.

Brandon went with them and after getting below ground and having some conflict with some rats the creature Rorrig mentions made itself known. Jumping out of the darkness it brought with it it killed Brandon and downed both Althea and Nickolai in the fight before the party worked out it only attacked those that attacked it, although that didnt answer why it killed Brandon. The explored the sewers and after nearly being taken by a large group of rats and having to make their way past several grates they ended up in the presense of a strange old man.

The man told the group his name was Brownthorn and he would tell them of the creature if they promised him something in return. He informed them the creature the had met was the body of what once was Amin and after finding his mothers corpse his body and soul split leaving the creature and the ghost they would find ahead of them. For this information they would find him his phylactery, which was in his words in the secretaries possession.

the group moved forward to find a ghost standing over the body of a woman. All though the approached calmly the ghost lashed out and a battle ensued with the party dispatching the ghost just as the body arrived and with out the soul the body of Amin simply faded away.

Investigating the Womans corpse they found a knife marked with the sewers guild symbol marked on it.

They found a way up to the city streets but quickly found out they had been surrounded by guards, the secretary and Rorrig. The secretary payed Rorrig for the information on them snooping around and where they would pop up and he left. However before a battle could commence the party drew the Secretaries attention with knowledge of Brownthorn.

A trade was arranged.

The next day the Secretary arrived with a young boy and plenty of guards and some misjuged words led to Brownthorn now in the form a massive muscular man emerged from the ground beleiving he had been betrayed.

Combat arose and the party were able to convince Brownthorn they were friendly, and the defeated the secretary who upon her death transformed into green hag On her they found another stone much like the one Villis had.

The town was freed and after some explaining the mayor organised a party in their honor. but before this they went into the hags office.

In here they many things

* A tiny dragon known as the traitor and named by breezy to easy.
* The hag was part of a coven working with a cult of red dragons.
* Entrance into the hags
* A note from the coven telling the hag to hide the traitor

Later they attended the party at which several key things happened. the owner of the brewery who the party caused problems at challenged Nickolai to a battle to the death and lost. The party were given the honor of passing sentencing of those who colluded with the hag. The had Rorrig killed, the madame of the randy lizards hands cut off and her second forced into indentured servitude. They met Brandons sister and the other memebrs of the sewers guild and agreed to both provide money for a statue of him and come to his funeral. finally they met a Vistani family from a different clan, the only clan (before Perseus) to allow tieflings to join. They were also told the legend of King Daen and his fight against the Tiefling cult who tried to take over Rathka 300 years ago.

The Next day the party left making their way to Mountains foot.

## Arc 5. Mountains Foot and Eka Pass

On The way into Mountains Foot the party came across an enormous wolf blocking the road. Managing to ensure it did not attack them they saw its master a large Orog arrive and swoop away with it. They then found a camp of various peoples. They met a group of Dwarves who wanted to enter the city to move past to Eka pass and back to their home. They were by trade and reveled with Nickolai who managed to gain some information about the state of the city. They also met a Landoran woman her skin marked with burns and her dwarvish companion Bonk who revealed that they were head to Eka pass to get back to The Landoran Commonwealth. They had been summoned by Visilius Oakenfriend and offered money to kill one of his sons. They also met Honey, The sister of their Friend Meloon in New moons cove. Honey offered them shelter at their farm that she lived at with Dewey her brother. The party went and agreed with Dewey that he would sneak them into the city in his next grain shipment. They stayed their for 5 days before this. Nickolai made contact via arrow and javelin messages with the Orog from before and agreed that the party would find another Orog woman trapped in the city and the Orog would give them Grismeka. He also caught a stoat. Temro had a vision while communing with splitter of him standing before an alter and a pair a massive green eyes. Althea made contact with the Teifling inside the rock claimed from the Hag who both healed Altheas damage from her previous contact and asked for Althea's help in the future, That they had too look after each other. The party were then successfully snuck into the city by Dewey and the party made their way to the merchants district where they found a tavern that they learnt was currently held by some Vistani men. The Vistani let them in and offered them a place to stay. They explain that they were trapped and wanted to leave. They showed the party the tunnels that run under the city and showed them the problem. A magical barrier that blocked the tunnel out of the city. Althea was able to dispel it and the party were heralded as heros and given some option. Head off to Eka pass, Stay in the city or go with the Vistani to see Mother Green. They decided to stay in the city and find the Orog. Which the location was shared as the Vistani were infact hired to find an Orog for Lord Northborn one of the four lords of Mountains Foot. The party explored the tunnels and found Northborns lair. Here they found the Orog and they removed her to and got her to safety. In the tavern the y held up until Delu Folami another of the four lords showed up. Not long after confirming Northborns involvement, Lord Northborn arrived with Lord Pont. Battle ensued and both Lord Northborn and Lord Folami died in the conflict but Lord Pont was swayed and became an ally to the Crumbles. After resting the party investigated Northborns Girlfriend and quickly found out that she was a succubus. Pont made a plan to seige the keep while the party snuck in and dealt with Lord Bracknell inside. They completed this and after dealing with some cult members and demons they found themselves fighting to stop a Teifling woman from being summoned from a gemstone. After fighting with a horrible bone devil they succeeded and rang the bell in the tower to stop the battle below. This succeeded until an enormous red dragon showed up. The dragon began smashing everything up knocking out Temro in the porcess who was quickly saved. Nickolai and Perceus received information from Elardin. He was on his way. Before they new it an enormous Copper Dragon showed up in the mountains and a great battle ensued. Pont ran up to them and conflicted said he could help. They convinced him and he agreed and he revealed that he was silver dragon who joined the fight. With his help both Elardin and Pont were able to defeat the dragon. In the aftermath Pont fled, and Elardin had to recuperate. Over the coming days they met Read Softbelly King of Eka pass who informed them he had summoned Elardin when the Orog launched an assault on the pass. Elardin had dealth with that problem and then seen the dragon. The Orog band later returned Grismeka to the party. The party learnt about the Tal Vashai and their memebrs and then the party moved on heading south to Elaris.