The Doom Snail Arc

The Doom Snail Arc was the first arc in the Crusaders of the Truth campaign.

In Mundus Memia, five strangers meet in a quest that begins with a request. As they travel, they reveal clear talents, suggesting they are no ordinary group. Soon, however, it becomes clear there is much more to their mission than they first realized.

The soon to be crusaders meet in the town of Mundus Memia in the town tavern. That evening the famous dragonborn bard Rodney Rune was performing solo after his band broke up and he ran out of money. At the bar is a barely conscious MotorKnight a human fighter enjoying his favourite pass time of drinking himself to death. Behind the bar is Juke Nukem an elf theif who at the moment is stealing the bar tenders wallet. In walks TV Wizard a curious abomination of plastic, wires, and cathode ray tubes whom is somehow allowed to live by the grace of the gods. At some point in the evening a fight breaks out for unknow reasons and being the strangest people in the tavern the four are kicked to the curb. Outside the four dust themselves off and become quickly acquainted before being confronted by the taverns owner, Arin Raptorego who is swiftly punted into the next county by a drunken MotorKnight. With that initial blunder out the way the four became known not yet as the crusaders but for now known simply as "the band of idiots".

In there travels after leaving Mundus Memia the group is ambushed by member of the cult of jade frog who coerces them to join. Curious of the cult the group decides to check it out. Making contact with the cult it takes all of 10 minutes for the band of idiots to cause an upset between them and the cult. After the brawl ends the cult is completely wiped out and the band of idiots loots whatever is left from the camp including a strange enchanted pink spandex body suit. Further in their travels they come upon castle Grindledoof and meet Lord Gringledoof and his wife Lady Gringledoof whom rule over county Memia. Gringledoof tasks the adventurers with returning his kidnapped son from a local bandit hideout which the group accomplishes without trouble. The band of idiots is rewarded for their efforts and have won Lord and Lady Gringledoof's favour. Gringledoof then informs the adventurers of a looming threat discovered in the bowels of the near by Mount Girk, known simply as "the doom snail" and the group heads out to investigate. While resting MotorKnight disappears, ripped away from reality by MR.N a omnipotent deity residing outside of space and time. In his absence Jook, Rodney, and TV wizard recruit Half-elf paladin Daniel Taire to fill in after Daniel is instructed by his god to assist the group in their adventures. Now with Daniel's help they continue their investigation of mount Girk. Upon discovering his hideout, the doom snail or as he called himself "Lord Purflas" who then tries to strike a deal with the adventurers. Reading the the contract thoroughly Rodney realizes it's a bullshit deal and after Purflas insults Daniel's mother the group attacks and defeats the snail with great success apart from Daniel almost blowing himself up. the adventurers place pruflas's limp body in a glass jar and make their way back to castle Gringledoof. MotorKnight whom now has returned to this realm, catches up with them on and the 5 continue on to report their success to Lord Gringledoof. On their way they stop in town for some drinks at the tavern where a local tiefling, who was also studying the doom snail informs Daniel not to hand him over to Gringledoof lest the snail corrupts his mind. While Daniel is conversing with the teifling MotorKnight and Jook sneak away to "take out a loan" from one of the cities banks. Learning of this Daniel scurries out of the tavern leaving the snail with Rodney to go find his delinquent party members. To his frustration he is too late and intercepts MotorKnight and Jook on their way back from robbing the bank. The two deny any involvement with the recently stolen from bank and because Daniel has no evedence to pin them to it he leaves in a huff. The three return to the tavern to find Rodney hitting on girls and the snail missing from the jar. Furious Daniel MotorKnight and Jook report back to Gringledoof about Purflas's escape and pledge to find and capture him once again.

The party spends the night at the inn and during the evening Jook and MotorKnight are kidnapped by the local rat mafia for stealing the gold the had in the bank. After finding their rooms empty in the morning Daniel and Rodney go out to look for MotorKnight and Jook. They leave the inn recruiting the help of dwarf monk Doofus Loofus and set out to find their missing contemporaries. They find and free MotorKnight and Jook and defeat the rat mafia and uncover a cult of rats located deep beneath the city, which the rat mobster were connected to. The party investigates and through a bizarre chain of events MotorKnight inadvertently becomes a religious figure to the rat cultists. While being worshipped by the rats MotorKnight is given a cool sword and a bushel of grenades at tribute. The rats eventually join in a group prayer averting their gaze from MotorKnight who takes this opportunity to escape with the rest of the group and they rendezvous back on the surface. Later that week Castle Grinledoof holds a festival and the group takes part in its festivities. Rodney performs his songs, Jook steals from tourists and Doofus proves his skill in apple bobbing, and most notably was MotorKnight roping Daniel into a pit fighting tournament which they win. While searching around the castle grounds for the doom snail the party encounters a group of aliens crash landed near a cave. They cautiously approach the aliens who turn out to be friendly and gift MotorKnight with powerful energy weapons. On the final night of the festival the party is invited to castle gringledoof for a feast to celebrate and they drink and eat all night. In the small hours of the morning while sleeping in the castle the party is attacked by Purflas's minions, who of which were part of an army Purflas had been building while the party was goofing off. The six adventurers fend off the attackers narrowly escaping their own death. That morning Lord Gindledoof orders an assaults on Purfulas's lair with the band of idiots at the frontline.

The party leads the charge against Purflas's lair on horseback. MotorKnight, Daniel, Jook, TV Wizard, and Rodney split from Doofus and Gingledoof's Men to attack Purflas directly. The 5 siege the castle and fight back a few of Purflas's goons and manage to break into pruflas's lair to once again capture him in the glass jar. However it turns out to be a trap as the party is surrounded by Purflas goons. MotorKnight gives Daniel one of his grenades for his god to bless as a hail mary attempt to escape and defeat Purflas's men. By the divine blessings of Tyr himself the grenade is blessed and becomes a holy hand grenade of great power. Daniel Lobs the grenade at the horde of Purflas's orcs and with divine providence he fumbles the bag and an orc manages to catch it and throw it back at our heroes forcing TV Wizard to cast an orb of protection around him to shield them from the blast. Now trapped and out of options the 5 plan their final stand. Just as all seems hopeless TV Wizards fires to life and shouts triumphantly "TENSERS FLYING DISK" Casting the spell below himself and his compatriots lifting them in the air to safety. While flying MotorKnight drops his remaining grenades on the horde below and manages to defeat a few. The disk carries the party all the way to Purflas's tower and they prepare for the final battle against the doom snail. The battle begins as Purflas turns into his demon form and attacks the imposing adventurers. blow after blow are dealt on both sides and in the final moments Daniel is single handedly holding off Purflas but it is not enough as Purflas looms over him for the killing blow. Disreguarding the potential danger to the nearby Daniel, MotorKnight Counter attacks Purflas with a mighty blow his laser sword pierces the air and slices Purflas clean in half, narrowly missing a stunned Daniel. In the end a hard fight is fought and won by the party but victorious none the less. Purflas returns to his snail form and once again is placed in the jar. Regrouping with Doofus and Gingledoofs men they have TV Wizard seal Pruflas in the jar for all eternity then send him to a distant and empty dimension to rot alone for all eternity. The party returns to castle Gringledoof to celebrate their victory before parting ways and heading on their next adventures.

## First Appearances

### **Party Members**

Jook Nukem

Motor Knight

Rodney Rune

TV Wizard

Daniel Taure

### **Allies**

Carlove Silverkin

Doofus Loofus

## Trivia

* While Doofus does make his first appearance in this arc, he does not become a playable character or party member until the following arc.
* This was the first campaign, and due to Eddy's inexperience, decided to go for a more comedic tone (mostly).
* Mundus Memeia is quite literally the meme of Doluna, as almost every location and character is a direct reference to something else, additionally it had some of the more silly encounters, such as the Goblin Birthday party.
* Originally Eddy made about 6 side quests, but the party wanted to keep moving due to Eddy having too many. Don't make too many side quests kids.
* Tenser's flying disk is the size of a CD and cannot lift the weight of a person let alone 5. But since it was pretty cool the DM let it slide