Meteor

## Summary

A bunch of adventurers gather in front of a lighthouse unsure of what's happening. Some interactions happen and John Jacket gets robbed. An archmage named Karakor appears and returns Jacket's money. He choses the party and brings them to the top of the lighthouse.

After the party is gathered, a meteor falls on the land behind them. They're tasked with finding the meteor as a team. The group is given wing suits to help them get there faster. The archmage decides to make this a competition with the winner getting some slippers enchanted with something movement related.

Karakor sends the party upward and they race to the impact site. After some trial and error, Jacket wins the race. They notice that the meteor is very hot and that the earth itself is scared. The paladin, Gaia, flies over to Rejoice's pet dragon and notices the extreme heat. Everyone rendezvous with the dragon and the bird, Holly notices that something was dragged away. The group follows the trail with John scouting ahead into an underground cave. The cleric, Grimnir, takes a tumble but the bard Rejoice catches him.

The group finds the large glowing rock in the cave with several empty suits of armor standing in procession. The woman in front of the rock comments on the group's lack of stealth along with the meteor's magical capabilities. She introduces herself as Gardeena and admits to want to study the magic from the meteor. She asks them to leave but Gaia is unsure of Gardeena's intentions. Rejoice senses an odd light-blue metal in the meteor and tells the group that they should back off for the time being. However as they leave they hear someone with a small army going after the meteor as well. Holly tells Gardeena of the ambush. She decides to see for herself but warns Holly not to get any funny ideas.

Gardeena lifts the group out of the cave and to the impact site. Gaia, Grimnir and Rejoice see figures in the trees. Rejoice tells them to leave various times only succeeding when being intimating. Gardeena is flabbergasted and leaves the meteor outside. Everyone in the party is confused especially Holly. Apparently those people were a part of the cult of the eternal flame based northeast of the town of Waterdeep. Grimnir offers to carry it but is unable to lift it. The party does cool down the meteor enough so that it can be pushed without problems. Gaia and Grimnir lift the meteor and begin moving with the rest of the group.

As they leave, Holly spots a fairy and grabs it before it gets away. Some more fairies and their leader appear telling her to let go. Holly does so and Rejoice apologizes for her. To make it up to her Rejoice plays a tune on her violin. The leader known as Queen Amaretta appreciates the tune and seems to recognize Rejoice from somewhere. She's likely close to a fae creature of some kind. Amaretta mentions some strange people heading to the valley ahead likely to ambush the party.

Holly gets the first attack on the soldier in front and lands her attack while Jacket misses with his. Rejoice attacks an approaching soldier with mind spike while one of the sorcerers summons flaming walls as the entrances to the gorge.

As Holly whiffs her attacks, Grimnir summons mirror images of himself along with a spiritual weapon. A swordsman attacks John while a sorcerer attacks Holly with magic missile. Gaia then throws a javelin at the sorcerer that put up the flames while enchanting her polearm with ensnaring magic. Johnny then fires rays of frost at the two enemy sorcerers.

Jacket is attacked by another swordsman so he tries to get another attack in before falling back. A swordsman attacks Gaia with a crossbow. Rejoice tries to retaliate but misses. She does distract the close mage from getting a shot off but he does pull off a mirror image as well. Holly then attacks multiple times on one guy before backing up. One of the swordsman tries to attack Johnny but misses. Grimnir tries to inflict wounds on the swordsman attacking Gaia and attack him with the spiritual weapon but he misses on both attacks.

A pair of swordsmen try to attack Grimnir's duplicate but miss. A sorcerer tries a lightning bolt on Gaia but she blocks it with a spinning polearm. Holly then catches a crossbow bolt aimed at her and throws it at the ground. Gaia tries attacking but Grimnir's visage gets in her way and she misses. Vortex tries to go for the sorcerer that didn't duplicate with another frost spell but misses.

John Jacket goes in for another stab sneaking around Grimnir's duplicate while another swordsman fails an attack on the duplicate. Piccolo lands on John Jacket's shoulder and heals him using healing light. Rejoice then attacks one of the guys attacking the replica of Grimnir with a bolt of lightning. The multiple sorcerers then use magic missile and hits a duplicate. Holly chugs a minor healing potion she had on hand before landing an attack on the swordsman Jacket was fighting.

The swordsman gets an attack on Gaia while the swordsman fighting Jacket trips and gets his blade stuck under Jacket's boot. The sorcerer that didn't use mirror image vanished as the swordsman finally hits Grimnir's visage but it was a duplicate. Gaia blesses herself, Holly and Jacket. Johnny Vortex wears down Gaia and Jacket's fighters with magic missile. Jacket then picks up the rapier and stabs the swordsman with his own blade.

One of the fighters goes after Johnny but gets sliced by Gaia's polearm and misses his attack on Johnny. Rejoice attacks the real enemy sorcerer with mind spike. The sorcerer attacks Gaia in retaliation with magic missile and while she staggers, she stands firm. After some more attacks from both sides, the group takes down the cultists leaving two alive to interrogate.

Rejoice performs a type of séance to rest the families of the cultists with Holly helping out. Grimnir finds two health potions as he joins Vortex in attempting to help out Rejoice. Gaia strips down the cultists as Piccolo moves the dead bodies to the side of the road and finds a bag of gold among the dead bodies. Gaia then ensnares one of the dead bodies with divinity while Jacket ties the other one to a tree.

Once the KO'd cultists recover, Rejoice begins asking why they attacked them. He doesn't say and his body catches on fire. He leaves a skeleton that turns into dust on the wind so Grimnir decides to charm the other cultist. It turns out he's from the cult of the eternal fire set on burning the world. He also mentions the leader of said cult being Vanifer. They also learn of her location in a town northeast of Waterdeep in the Dessarin Valley. They were also after the meteor because it burned fiercely upon entering the atmosphere. He mentions that the person who sent him there was from Red Larch, a city that Gaia knows about. He also remembers a detail that he's supposed to mutter a spell if he's caught. Jacket tries to stop him but it's too late.

The group takes the meteor back with Jacket taking some of the enemy's longswords. Thanks to Gaia and Grimnir, they head back to Waterdeep where Karakor's tower is. They're teleported to the tower's top where Karakor was impressed with their efforts. He begins looking over the rock when he hears that the Cult of the Eternal Flame was involved. He identifies it as meteoric iron. Karakor then strips and beefs out. He holds up the rock and begins pouring magic into it. He then takes Jacket's waterskien, turns the meteor into a liquid and puts it into the waterskien. Holly pokes him with her wings after he 'deflates.' He mentions that the meteor is edible and gives it to everyone to taste. For Holly it tastes like strawberries and rice. Gaia it tastes like apples and grapes. Rejoice it takes like honey and chicken. Grimnir tastes beef and cream. Vortex tastes bread and peanut butter. Jacket tastes pineapples and peaches while also getting his wallclimbing sneakers.

Karakor mentions that Grimnir and Rejoice get healing abilities while everyone else gets extra abilities with their attacks. Holly gets fire powers while Gaia gets acid abilities, Vortex gets lightning abilities and Jackets gets ice abilities. Karakor mentions that the powers do have a limit but recharge after a night's rest. He also mentions that Rejoice and Grimnir will heal others next to them with a simple glance.

Karakor mentions their story is only beginning. He also says he cannot help them further. Gaia asks if she can keep the wingsuits but is denied.

## Notable Events

* The first battle of the series is actually a race.
* Gardeena, Karakor and Queen Amaretta are introduced
* The party learns of the Cult of the Eternal Fire.
* Joshscorcher introduces meteor points to this campaign. Rejoice and Grimnir get meteoric healing and gain three points with every level while the others get meteoric retribution in the form of elemental attacks and gain two points with every level.