Adventures in Acala

Adventures in Acala is a series of short games - usually one shots - set in the World of Acala that are not part of a larger campaign. Some of them take place in Clifford of Stollington's crystal worlds, some follow members of the Adventurer's Guild, and others follow events elsewhere on Acala. These adventures span various times and locations in the Acala World Sphere.

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## Clifford's Worlds Adventures

### Hail to the Chief/Queen

Taking place in Ioria, Nyla and Zuremak were two thieves enjoying a life of crime and killing. They came upon some artifacts that allowed them to bend reality by casting the wish spell. They tried to use these artifacts for their personal gain, but ended up rewriting the history of their world so that Nyla became the queen of the country they lived in and Zuremak was a poor failed thief. They were able to find each other again and were able to find the artifacts again and tried to fix the world. Instead, they made it unstable, creating singularities that swallowed and dissolved the world into nothing. The crystal sphere Ioria was in shattered and Nyla and Zuremak, as the source of the singularities, were ejected into Clifford's cabin in Acala. The adventure was named Hail to the Chief during the first session, but after Nyla became queen, it changed to Hail to the Queen for the second and third.

### Defend the Base

On Zorix, Romulose and Falowar worked for a fascist regime in a futuristic world. Their base was attacked by a group of rebels, but the pair were able to successfully defend their base and put down the rebellion.

## Non-Guild Adventures

### Hunt for the Lost Treasure

Kunjamuk Altiar, Celeres, and Beiqen Nailo teamed up to find the hidden treasure of the Cathran Flats. They followed a map they had found to a remote cave in the desert where they fought a sand elemental. They barely survived, but they were able to defeat the elemental, which turned into a normal man. The man told them it was his duty to guide those worthy through the cave to the treasure. When they arrived at the treasure chest, he told them that in order to claim the treasure, they would have to sacrifice one of their own. Kunjamuk and Celeres killed Beiqen. The man told them that the key to the treasure was loyalty and that those who were not loyal to their allies were not worthy of it. He teleported them and Beiqen's body back to town, where they were arrested to be questioned for his death.

### Battle of Rustflat Pass

A dworc named Tyrul Strong-Arm lived with his orc family in the Red Hills. Constantly bullied to live up to his heritage, he joined the never ending fight between factions of the Red Hills. The different factions had agreed to leave the stretch of land as the Rustflat Pass neutral, as it allowed passage and trade to the Cathran Flats. The orcs had received word that the dwarves had entered the Pass, and Tyrul was part of a group that went to confront them. When they arrived, they found a group of dead dwarves. Humans from the Cathran Flats had attacked and killed them, declaring war on the Red Hills in the process. The orcs were able to fight back against the humans, defeating the steam golem they had built from a steam engine. But this was just the start of the war between the Red Hills and the Cathran Flats.

### Pirate Adventure

Uriel Stepskipper and Farrygn Schlange took work on a pirate ship to earn some gold. They ended up in over their heads as the pirate ship they were on was attacked by a kuo-toa vessel and their new god Lordlplorp. The kuo-toa have the ability to conjure gods simply by worshipping them, and Lordlplorp posed a major threat to those travelling the seas and potentially to everyone in High Willibrord. Uriel, Farrygn, and the other pirates were able to defeat Lordlplorp, but the kuo-toa still pose a threat with this dangerous ability.

### The Gauntlet

After the events of Ice Cold Freedom, the biannual Whitewall Gauntlet continued. Prisoners Kraigen Kilmore, Zinthrya, and Malcer Hornraven were the first to enter the gauntlet after the fall of Dark Lord Thaal and were able to survive, winning their freedom and 10,000 gold.

## Guild Adventures

### Hungry Dwarves

Korvarn the xvart and Mahiri the aarakocra took a quest to help a goblin village located in orc territory. The posting claimed that orcs were raiding their wares and killing their livestock. They had to talk to a man from the village in the tavern to find out where to go. When the two arrived at the village, they saw dead bodies littering the ground leading in. The bodies looked like their flesh had been picked clean. The village seemed empty, but the adventurers were ambushed by dwarves. While fighting them, the dwarves would tell them how "delicious" they looked and how good a meal they would make. The adventurers killed the cannibalistic dwarves and when they returned to the tavern, they reported the man that sent them there to the guards.

### They Want Your Blood

Perika Poison Tongue the yuan-ti, Kishori the centaur, and Tiberius the wolfman took a quest to investigate disturbances in the Shadow Forests near the large stable shadow crossing. The disturbances turned out to be vampires. It was known that vampires existed in the Shadow Plane, but they had never been seen on the Mortal Plane before. The adventurers took care of the vampires and warned the Royal Hunter's Guild to be vigilant about guarding the crossing from them.

### Thousands of Years of Evolution

Perika Poison Tongue and Mahiri took a quest to help the Royal Army with an issue in the Northeast Territory. People of the cliffside Eloi civilization were being abducted by large humanoid creatures called Morlocks. While the adventurers were investigating the affected Eloi village, a Morlock attack occurred. Targets were marked by blowguns shot by more slender, longer limbed Morlocks while the targets were retrieved and pulled underground by the taller, more muscular Morlocks. Perika and Mahiri found the underground tunnels the Morlocks used to take the Eloi and followed them underground. After navigating through a series of tunnels, they found themselves in a room full of cages with a more human-like Morlock with a brain that extended down the top of his spine that called himself the Uber Morlock. He explained that they were simply harvesting their food supply. The adventurers were not satisfied with his explanation and they fought. The Uber Morlock and his minions nearly over powered them, but they were able to kill they Uber Morlock, sending the others scattering. Afterwards, they found another Uber Morlock in one of the cages. This one was missing his extended brain and thanked the adventurers for killing his violent brother.

### His Name is Irdo

The Adventurer's Guild held a meeting of available adventurers at the Dire Wolf Tavern in Midhaven to discuss an ongoing issue. In the woods to the west, adventurers were going missing. The guild chapter's leaders were asking for volunteers to investigate, warning that there was a risk of death and that no one was obligated to go. Korvarn, Druxun the minotaur, Tiberius, and Seto Glaiveblade the orc volunteered to go. When they got to the area of the woods where adventurers were going missing, they were attacked by red, green, and emerald drakes and a viashino who called himself Irdo. Irdo was upset that adventurers kept trespassing in his woods and swamp and decided he wasn't going to stand for it anymore. He would kill any adventurer that came into his home. The adventurers were able to defeat the drakes and fight off Irdo, who retreated, swearing revenge on the entire Adventurer's Guild.

### Mind Your Rats

Kreista Evolan, Ralu, and Krag Ebonsteel took the only quest on the quest board at the time: a request to clear out a rat infestation at castle Everantha in the Kefelion capital Everanthor. The rats turned out not to be normal rats as their brains were exposed and glowing. The party fought swarms of them before being confronted by the mind flayer that created them. It was a close battle, but the party was able to kill the cranium rats and the mind flayer.

### The Missing Child

Kreista Evolan, Ralu, Ham von Hamington, and Eugene "Skullcrusher" Sugarbottom took a low-paying quest to save a missing child. They followed a lead to an underground cave where they were attacked by hobbes. They managed to survive multiple hobbe waves and made their way deep into the cave, where they saw a succubus nymph keeping the lost boy in a forcecage and performing some kind of spell on him. While fighting the nymph and hobbes, the boy started to change. Ralu cast vortex warp to get the boy out of the cage and Ham flew him out of harm's way on his flying shovel. The party defeated the nymph and brought the boy home, albeit slightly disfigured.