The torture of kalaidus timeline

## Time Elapsed

* Session 1 - Zaerhel to Normalville - 4 days
* Session 2 - In Normalville - 3 days
* Session 3 - Return to Zaerhel - 2 days
* Session 4 - Saving the orcs - 1 day
* Session 5 - Traunt bridge and Locc Mangyr - 5 days
* Session 6 - Bavacs crater, cave and Schventles exile- 3 days
* Session 7 - Saving Pontar to Bandit hold - 4 days
* Session 8 - Bandit camp, frozen lake, frozen cavern, Azrus border and Kaerbrok Keep - 10 days
* Session 9 - Kaerbrok Keep to the Collapse of Bartleton Tower - 3 days
* Session 10 - Mindflayer loyalists and Kain kill - 4 days
* Session 11 - Finale - 2 days
* Total in game time elapsed - 41 days
* Irl time - 2nd February - 30th June
* First action of the campaign - Number 4 perception check (unnatural 20)
* Last action - Revivify on Gemini

## One shot

* The mindflayers descend on Azrus after their plan is successful and the sun is blocked. The party first meet here and try to escape
* 3 civilians saved at bakery
* Himeno healed Zaid and saved him
* Party escapes to the Azrus outskirts and survive 5 long years

## Zaerhel

*Session 1*

* Campaign opens with a (lengthy) speech from Asphalt in a dilapidated church detailing the current situation and his plan to restore sunlight. He gives the party a checklist of items needed to get into Azrus:

1. A radio Signal range booster
2. A mind flayers ID
3. A second arm
4. A map of the sewers
5. A way across the first river
6. Diving Gear
7. A way of translating undercommon, deep speech and Qualith

* Shventle used his bread ring in front of starving people before the party promptly leaves for Normalville

## Yoriah

* Told by the locals they will need to do some work in order to get a boat that can take them to Normalville. Job involves investigating a missing mage who was sent to revive the marsh
* Discovered withered mage corpse within the marsh
* Number 4 devoured the corpse of the mage
* Schventle cast a plague on Yoriahs crop, dooming the village
* Schventle has been spotted 2 times using his bread ring, and bounty hunters are now after it (party are unaware of this at this point)

* **(part of session 3)** Upon returning, Zaid acquires gemini, and found Verrona in a ring

## Normalville

*Session 2*

* Witnessed Saeir drag 2 people away upon arriving
* Went to meet Kanna, a scientist researching ley lines and mana. She asks the party to investigate mysterious deaths in Normalville where people turn into mummified husks by bringing her some for research
* Went to an apartment in search of husks and found looters, sent them away with no combat
* Assaulted in a nightclub whilst searching for a radio signal range booster by a bounty hunter gang after Schventles ring.
* Spared bandit captain, Schventle cut off 1 finger, party told he was sent by a farmer in Yoriah
* Detonated Tuckers (radio show hosts) head, killing him after failing to convince him to hand over the signal range booster. Killed 1 guest in a booth in front of the other who was spared after being mentally pressured.
* Party fucked around on the radio show after killing Tucker
* The party revisits Kanna who asks them to help her map out the ley lines which takes them to the colluseum.
* The party and Kanna are attacked by the last dragonling who, unknown to the party, was attempting to protect its eggs. This act thrusts dragons into extinction.

*Session 3*

* Fixed cathedral roof for Gertholt and got 2 divinations.

## Return to Yoriah and Zaerhel

* Return to Yoriah with the boatman. Upon return, they realise the town is no more. Few know it is the fault of Schventle.
* Put poster up with a phone number although nobody has a phone anymore
* Called Gryn stinky and then followed them to the scrapheap (see scrapheap and bog for chronological order)

*Session 4*

* (after bog) Attended fish festival
* (after bog) Zaid sees Saeir arrive in Zaerhel as the party leaves for the last time. He does not tell the party.

## Zaerhel Scrap

* Schventle gave bread to the orcs as a peace offering after offending them They are told the only way to broker peace is to bolster the towns food supply
* Gryn also gives info to Zane on Pontas whereabouts

## Zaerhel Bog

* Number 4 went to the ethereal plane during combat and on return joined Himenos cult to revive Big Jimmy
* The party meets Boggaert, and fails to convince him to save the town. However, he speaks to Gemini using his druidic power who convinces him to help, thus saving the orcs and allowing the party to obtain the sewer map.

## Traunt Bridge

*Session 5*

* Zaid sees a giant worm (Neothelid) as they travel from Zaerhel into the desert. He does not tell the party
* Met Asphalt in Traunt and gave him the signal booster
* Zaid received info on his parents

## Locc Mangyr

* Killed an android and his bird in the basement
* Found many strange magic circles (mana teleporters, as of yet unknown to the party)
* Collected 2 PDA’s containing important lore on the current situation
* Found Asphalt a new arm
* Discovered much of number 4s backstory
* As they travel away from Locc Mangyr, Zaid and Himeno also notice the Neothelid and tell the party

## Bavacs Crater

*Session 6*

* Collected mindflayer pda and discovered surviving Illithids went to Bavacs Cave

## Bavacs Cave

* Collected Mindflayer keycard
* Tortured the final goblin in horde

## Schventles exile

* Schventle attempted to steal mana crystals from Number 4 resulting in his exile

## Saving Pontar

*Session 7*

* Saved Pontar successfully, and discovered he was seduced by a vampire lady. He left Zane of his own volition, and didn't return out of guilt. Zane allows the two to live peacefully in his shack, suspecting he will never return.

## Traunt Bridge 2

* Asphalt makes copy of the sewer map and gives it to the party
* Kain and his supporters converge on Traunt Bridge to purge it
* Nerion helps the party repel the attack, earning him a spot in the party.
* Zanes infamous road roller antics and Nerion nearly 1v1ing a mindflayer
* Killed 2 mindflayers, one escaped. However, Traunt Bridge has been thoroughly destroyed and the parties efforts are in vain.
* Neiron decides to leave Traunt Bridge and join the party

## Pickrin

* Upon entering they find the whole town has been turned to husks
* Found Limes who translates the mindflayer PDA's. He tells them the Android and bird they killed in the Mangyr basement were friendly and could've also translated
* Limes agrees to leave his dead town and travel with the party

## Ruth Encounter

* The party finds Ruth in a dumpster and he accompanies them to his camp, telling them he bumped into Asphalt as a lure
* He also reveals he has a device which can control the Neothelid

## Bandit camp

* Ruth guides the party to their living quarters for a rest and says Asphalt will meet them in the morning
* During the night there is an attempted assassination on Zane but Number 4 is in the same room to help save him, leading to discovery Ruth has Asphalt in Prison and everything till now was a ploy to kill Zane. Zane divulged his whole past to Number 4 afterwards.
* The party agrees to break Asphalt out and escape
* Half successful prison break. The party break out Asphalt but are discovered by Ruth at the end and decided to attack him.

*Session 8*

* Saeir kills Ruth and escapes the bandit camp with the Neothelid controller, but not before Ruth calls the Neothelid on himself, destroying the prison, himself and anyone left inside.

## Langrenn

* The party are approached by a bird-like man (and his bird wife, Filo) claiming to be Zaid's dad who tells him that he has the ability to make him human. The party agrees to follow and the operation is a success.
* Mid return, they encounter a travelling Kanna and her bodyguard (the bandit captain from the club) who give them a leyline map that she has been working on. They are last seen journeying into the frozen north alone.
* Upon returning in Langrenn they are told of diving gear left at the bottom of the lake. They Collect dive gear and killed an ice giant that was harassing Langrenn
* They eventually decide to go to see the lake surrounding Azrus for themselves. They are informed by Neiron that it is guarded by his patron, an Aboleth, however they do no let this deter them and continue to Azrus Border.

## Azrus Border and Kaerbrok keep

* The ‘zone of truth’ incident
* Made friends with githyanki captain at Azrus border who divulged his relationship with the Githzerai at Kaerbrok. They journey to Kaerbrok and after talking to the Gith there, agree to check out the mindflayer fuckery to the south to attempt to find a way of resurrecting their dead captain Mordrue.

## Contract 3

*Session 9*

* The party find a single use well of souls the mindflayers had abandoned. Using this they resurrect both Big Jimmy and Mordrue in the same body.

## Kaerbrok to Azrus

* Using Mordrue as a bargaining chip they secured the Giths last dragon who they Rode to the sandbar. They then dove into the second moat and did an underwater puzzle to open the gate to Azrus
* They arrive in Asphalts Dugout who gives them some objectives before they head to the final PC:

1. Find a new computer
2. Find a way into the Mindflayer Hive
3. Investigate Dragon Mountain
4. Kill one of the Ulitharids

## The fuck dungeon and the Mindflayer vr world

* The party entered Dragon Mountain and discovered the mindflayers were using it as a breeding ground as they need brains to survive. The bodies were placed in pods, where the brains were kept active by forcing them to live to various simulations.
* Hopping through the simulations the party discover plans for a basement hidden beneath Bartleton Tower

## The great collapse of Bartleton Tower

* The party decides the best course of action is head on, and attempt to bait Ulitharid Kain out of the base by offering Zain and Number 4 as sacrifices. This does not work and the mindflayers immediately attack.
* As hundreds of mindflayers descend on the party, Number 4 rages and turns into an Empyrean using his wild magic. After a few uses of earthquake the Bartleton Tower is gone as well as most of the city surrounding it.

## Number 4’s Astral Plane adventures

* Made friends with an amoeba named number 5. Nearly killed by astral plane residents before becoming a timeless wanderer

## Return to Asphalts Dugout

*Session 10*

* Asphalt released the fastest man he could find in dragon mountain to replace Number 4 during the panic of the Bartleton Tower collapse. He joins the party after realising he has no other choice

## Sewer treatment

* Killed all the cultists apart from Olof, took him hostage and attempted to bait Kain out. However the party realised they had no way to get into the Mindflayer Hive after they had killed him and fled before he arrived

## Lorry Land

* Discovered a teleporter into the Mindflayer Hive under the fountain and killed Kain, instilling fear in Saeir. Olof betrays the party and lives, never to be seen again

## Mindflayer Hive and Mothership

*Session 11*

* After sneaking through the hive they discovered the pc was a fake, Obfuscious died trying to bait mindflayers as his allies escaped
* Asphalt tells the party to meet him at Gertys bakery. However, he is killed by his son, Brick, before he makes it. There were no signs of a struggle
* Asphalt had left one final note leading the party to believe the way to destroy the dyson sphere is to destroy the Mindflayer Mothership in space. So the party hijack a Mindflayer Nautiloid and head to the Mothership, destroying pursuers as they exit the atmosphere
* On the way, they find Zolaris preparing for his master plan
* After discovering the truth, they decided to help anyway and headed for the Mothership.
* During the fighting Zaid died, as well as Gemini
* A tough battle with elder brain Saeir ensued, but he was eventually killed by an unarmed strike from Zane
* Zaid is revived, as well as Gemini, after the fight ends. The loss of the ships captain leaves it self destructing in space. The party flees the exploding ship.
* Zolaris transports survivors safely to Yoriah as thanks, where they see a starving Schventle failing to revive the town as the sun returns to Kalaidus.
* However it is too little too late, as the mana has all been used during Zolaris' resurrection, and the last remnants of life are doomed to peter out with no way to reproduce.