Aerois - Episode 188: The Herald of Hadar

Katie Morrison as Aila

Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**The Herald of Hadar** is the 188th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was prerecorded and broadcast on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 11th June 2023 from 5PM to 8PM BST.

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## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

* There is no “bit” this evening to open the episode.
* Mark welcomes everyone and introduces the players.
* Merch: there is a big sale on the FreshMerch store – up to 60% off the whole range. The Blessing glitter dice and tankards are now sold out. Everything has to go by 19th of June 2023.
* Mark presents this PSA:
> "Tonight’s game is going to be intense, and it might get quite stressful in the way that epic conflicts often are. We understand that many of you really love the story, and love these characters and us, and we’re so grateful for that passion, but if the stress of this kind of scenario is a bit too much, please do look after yourselves first. The VoD’s going to be around for when you feel up for watching it. If you feel anxious, upset, or angry, please do yourself the kindness of stepping back, taking a minute – none of us want any of you to be upset or angry about the game, so please do what’s best. Alongside that, I want to say as well that mistakes are going to happen – rules-wise, RP-wise, lore-wise, tactics-wise, and that’s ok. Mistakes are ok, even if that means stressful consequences.
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> It’s very much one thing to sit at home and watch us play, (it’s another) to be here in person and make these quick, snap decisions. You have the wonderful comfort of it not being your characters and being able to see everything in the big picture – we don’t always get that when emotions are running high here, so please be patient, be kind, and ultimately, let the dice and the players’ choices shape the story and where it’s going. I also want to say that I’m going to be playing a pretty nasty villain tonight, and if I do horrible things to the Player Characters (which is probably going to happen), it is not me, as Mark, doing that to my friends – that is me just trying to play this villain as she deserves to be played. We’re all friends here. I’m not trying to ruin the game, I’m not trying to win, I’m not trying to be a tyrant DM, I’m just trying to play this crafty villain.
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> This will also have a lot of homebrew mechanics, there’s probably going to be a lot of non-RAW rules decisions being made. Will it be perfectly balanced? Most certainly not – I’ve done my best, but I’m not perfect. Will it be fair? We’re going to work our best as a group, me and my friends, to make sure that any decisions we make are as fair as possible, and if these guys don’t like it or think it’s unfair, they’re going to call me out on it because (*indicating the players)* you guys know that you are empowered to do that and to speak to me if we need to (whether that’s on stream or off stream), but we’ll talk about it. I wanted to put that out there because I do think these next four episodes in particular are going to be pretty intense, and I know that a lot of people really love this game and these stories, and it gets in you. We get it. There’s a lot of pressure, there’s a lot of emotion, there’s a lot of love for these characters and these NPCs. I do appreciate that out there, emotions might run high, and I just want you to look after yourselves – don’t stress yourselves out, it’s a bunch of mates playing D&D."
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### **Recap**

*"The Stormchasers’ journey is coming to an end: they’ve travelled across the stars with fleets of Magitek ships and unexpected allies to the last frontier, a plane that sits on the edge of the Astral Void, a place where an old god was imprisoned long ago. Entropis, an ancient world that is now nothing but grey stone, crumbling ruins, and endless dust. Here, the Champions of Aerois marched on, moving through Entropis in split teams with their allies and friends alongside them, rescuing their forces, destroying enemy weapons, and stopping a powerful ritual. Eventually, they arrived at the crashed Tassadar, the vanguard of the Valkyrian Astral Fleet, where Kalus Valkyrian himself was establishing a forward post, ready to launch their final assault against Hadar.

Thanks to the Champions’ efforts, their allies and friends survived the battle, and whilst there were losses to their military forces, they seized victory and stormed an ancient temple. It is here that the demi-goddess Valla, one of the oldest friends and a member of this strange family, was set to find the space between the planes and open the way into the Far Realm, into Hadar’s prison. But before she could do so, treachery struck – Valla was caught in a magical prison, and one of Kalus’ bodyguards plunged a strange red and black knife into the goddess Siaska before revealing themselves to be Xarkira, a powerful mage and former foe of our champions."*
### **Part 1**

*The Herald of Hadar, Xarkira, has revealed herself and her schemes to stop the Stormchasers! It's time to take her down!*

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### **Part 2**

*Things are going pretty rough against Xarkira but the Stormchasers start to pull out some pretty powerful spells to outmatch the evil sorceress!*

Part 2 Full Description

## **YouTube Timestamps**

0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:22 - Dun Duns
0:07:21 - Part 1
1:33:44 - Part 2

## **Featured Characters**

#### **The Stormchasers (Player Characters)**

* Aila
* Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto
* Qillek Ad Khollar
* Sentry
* Nova V'ger

#### **New NPCs**

* Xarkira
* New NPC 2

#### **Returning NPCs**

* Aratreides- the king of Gideon, once killed by Kalus now resurrected by Xarkira.
* Returning NPC 2

#### **Mentioned NPCs**

* Mentioned NPC 1
* Mentioned NPC 2

## **Featured Locations**

* Location 1
	+ Sublocation 1
	+ Sublocation 2
* Location 2

## **Trivia**

* Trivia 1
* Trivia 2

## **Quotes**

* Quote 1

* Quote 2