Chagrin Carnival (C.C.)

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Chagrin Carnival (C.C. for short) is the first campaign of Luctus, featuring Chagrin as its main focus.

Chagrin, an unseen force of evil. Its physical manifestations used to be so rare, stories were written about them. However, it seems a mysterious organization has managed to find a way to create artificial chagrin creatures and even worse…. they can corrupt creatures with it.

C.C. ran from 21/09/2021 until 15/07/2023, running for nearly 22 months and taking 68 sessions.

## **Characters**

### **PCs**

* *Astan* - Changeling, Sorcerer - Shadow / Warlock-Undying
* *Evelynn Corvus* - Agios Harpy, Fighter-Eldritch Knight / Wizard - War / Rogue Multiclass
* *Joka Lindle* - Silver Dragonborn turned Chagrin Spawn, Cleric- Spring Domain / Paladin Multiclass
* *Ta-Lo* - Goliath, Monk-Dragon Dancer / Barbarian Multiclass
* *Trix Goldweave* - Goblin, Ranger - Drakewarden
* *Twi Ta* - Kenku, Rogue-Thief

### **NPCs**

* *Ace* -
* *Lovecraft* - Inkmancer - Ink Menagerie
* *Irina* - Agios Harpy, Fighter - Void Knight

## **Story**

This link contains a collection of Campaign Recaps maintained and recounted by their Players:
Session Recaps

### **Summary**

Enter a campaign story summary here, hitting main plot points and locations.

### **Session Recaps**

Session 1 - Goblin Troubles

Our party of adventurers arrives in Medil a capital city of Yuethor and so they are called for by a local saying they looked like the risk-taker type. The woman that called out to them was selling so called cold cream which was indeed cold and creamy. She then proceeds to tell them that if they are indeed searching for some money to make then they should go to Nathaniel, the local contact of Commerce guild. Party approaches so called Nathaniel and he begins to explain what would be their mission. Dealing with a goblin-pest problem sounded pretty easy till one of them was corrupted by chagrin and transformed into a dangerous beast. Party takes a short rest and then decides to continue on to the place where they were meant to meet one of the people the party was meant to work with, unfortunately the only thing they met is some weird type of owlbear person who looked infinitely more stronger than our heroes and then just before they ready to venture to see what happened inside the ruins, group was stopped by a beautiful Harpy knight.

Session 2 - Chagrin: Myth or Reality?

Our party meets Irina, void knight working together with her companions to fight and prevent chagrin. She shows off her powers in front of the party to let them see just how powerful she is, also killing the corrupted Corvinus Grimblood so he would not suffer anymore. After that the party follow Irina back into the town where they explain what transpired to Nathaniel and meet Lovecraft, one of the Irina’s companions. Told by her that there is more to chagrin than anyone would ever think and chagrins spawns do actually exist and are a genuine threat to people. So the party decides the chill out for a while before resting and getting even more involved with even more weird shit.

Session 3 - Local Infestation

After waking up party meets up in the tavern and gets some breakfast, as for some reason Astan decides to make big mistake by messing with Eve’s food. She was indeed very menacing at this point in time. Party’s leisure is unfortunately stopped by them getting a new quest and so the party reluctantly proceeds to the riverside where they are attacked by Chagrin-corrupted tadpoles, which by the way… HAVE GROWN IN SIZE. During the fight one of the tadpoles makes Joka absorb something which later forces him to make multiple wisdom saving throws. During the fight Eve and Twi Ta both lay eyes upon a black figure observing the situation from far up in the sky.

Session 4 - A Lethargic Day

Party returns from their assignment and so they decide to leisure a little bit while waiting for their employers. Astan and Joka notice a mysterious person with an umbrella standing in the corner of tavern and so both of them decide to mess with that person, but no reaction bores Astan and so he leaves. Joka on the other side, forced by his curiosity touches the mysterious person and after a while even he is bored. Few hours pass and Joka decides to check on HQ to see if Irina and Lovecraft are back. Just before entering through the door he notices blood all over the handle and slowly seeping blood from door’s underneath.

Session 5 - River of Tentacles

Just before entering the HQ Joka awakens in another place, another plane. He seems himself from an isometric point of view and a weird figure surrounded by tentacles. The figure explains the situation and let's their name be known. Lethargy one of the major Chagrin stands before Joka offering him power, since he strives for balance and asks him to stop Minerva, the organization behind all of the corruption incidents. Joka accepts and then comes back to his body standing before the bloodied door which he instantly opens. On the other side he finds Irina and Lovecraft severely injured to whom he immediately tends by using divine magic. Shortly after that the rest of the party is called over to get a new assignment. They have to stop Minerva from summoning powerful chagrin which would lead to destruction of Medil. On the way party notices massive amount of tentacles swimming down the river and the one behind it was a giant chagrin corrupted octopus. The fight begins, acid is spilled all over the battlefield every time the enemy is hit and some party members get hurt. After a while it looked like the octopus was on it’s last leg and so Astan decided to go all out, just this once. Unfortunately for him Irina decides to kill steal the octopus the moment she comes back as “reinforcements”.

Session 6 - No Rest for the Wicked

After the battle everyone falls to the ground exhausted(besides Eve because ye) and the party together with their employers try to decide if going through the portal is a good idea looking at how beaten up the party was(we were lvl 2). It was decided that staying and regaining strengths is a better idea and so the party rests also leveling up(lvl 3). As the party wakes up they are informed that they will be trained and helped by another member of the group. The door gets blown away destroying the opposite wall as a giant tiefling enters the HQ.

Session 7 - Sudden Changes

As the new day starts with a shadow looming over the party sleeping in the HQ, Joka notices that he has indeed changed into something entirely else. Giant tiefling introduces himself as Ace best boyo/bro. He will be the one responsible to look after party’s training as well as leading them to one of the places they will be able to choose. Party goes together with Ace to Barrelling Whale so Eve would not be excluded from any information. Noticing that Joka looks much different now, Eve performs a simple check up on him coming to conclusion that he is indeed dying. Ta-lo and Astan get some bonding time Ace by barrels full of ale, Twi-Ta has fun imitating and spending time with local bard lady, Trix gets instantaneously smashed, Joka begins to really smoothly dance to the melody and Eve takes a part in game of chance with a random customer-lady winning a favor and a 1-year payment for a room in the same tavern.

Session 8 - A Choice That Will Matter

Eve gets herself food that gets eaten by Ace so she becomes really pissed off, but then he pays her 10 gold for that. When it’s finally decided that party should start thinking about their next move almost all of them go back to HQ, besides Eve cause she still wanted to finish her food and Joka waiting for her. After that Joka grabs Eve’s hand and kind of forcefully pulls her to the HQ. After a long discussion, party decides to search more about Chagrin and Minerva in the Elbashakyan Sultanate and its Temple of Forbidden Knowledge.

Session 9 - Last Day in Medil

Party uses whatever time they have left to have fun and make memories in Medil as they might never return. Astan calls over people from the streets and alleyways to the tavern and pays for their beers and ales. From this day onward people of Medil will remember Allen a kind and beneficial man who saved all drunkards from wasting their money for one day. Eve goes out to have a really fancy dinner by her lonesome, maybe next time someone else will be sober enough to accompany her.

Session 10 - Journey Begin!

As the journey begins and party together with Ace leave Medil, they come across a self sufficient plot of land in which a sole rabbit spy of Sultanate resides. He gives party a few pointers and then leaves, but even before the group continues on, inky messengers of Lovecraft arrive to inform that their master and Irina are already fighting Minerva in Panton. Joka decides that time is of the essence and that they should leave as fast as possible and so it happens. By the border of Sultanate our heroes make friends with Abdir, a Tabaxian retired warrior and his giant scorpion Herbert on which he rides.

Session 11 - Camel Racing

While travelling with a new friend our heroes made, Herbert, he notices a camel racing track which he recommends as a perfect place to stay for the night and also watch the race itself. Eve berates Trix to not give her personal information to strangers and pouts. Many different, weird and interesting people are gathered around the track and as the party proceeds to buy some tents they are greeted by person who called themself “Oracle” they sell party a few tents, but some of the party members manage to break their tents and then they need to get new ones. As Joka was broke, he lends money from Ta-lo that he promises to someday return.

Session 12 - Time is of the Essence!

Party wakes up and for some reason one of the random people starts asking if they have a Harpy in their party and if he can see her, cause he’s never seen one. While most of the party stops him and Astan tries to cast a spell so the guy would walk through the desert as long as he can, but he terribly fails. Joka asks Eve if sometime she could help him with taking care of his hair and she agrees. Just before the camel racing starts, once more Joka says that time is of the essence and the party decides to leave, leaving behind Abdir and Herbert. After another hours of travel, group arrives in Arkezula oasis where they decide to stay for the night. Ace has dokis for administrator and Joka tries to wingman him, but it does not work out. During the night party has terrible nightmare in which they fight two abominations, one representing Astan’s true form and one representing a Chagrin corrupted entity. After waking up they notice the secret of Arkezula’s water resource and confront the administrator about it.

Session 13 - The Desert is truly a treacherous place

While Travelling through the desert continues, party encounters flaming skeletons which they quickly dispatch and resume with the travel.
Stumbling upon an isolated and abandoned cult temple, group discovers that it was dedicated to some kind of deity that despised God of Wisdom.

Trix rushes to the only closed off room in the temple and as Twi Ta helps her with opening the door, she finds an old amulet lying on a pedestal. Before even informing anyone she puts it on and then…

Session 14 - If it isn't the consequences of my actions

Eve finds stuff out about the amulet, then proceeds to convince the group to burn the temple. Arrival at Narbad. Trix’s iris on one of her eyes transforms into a weird triangular one. Straight away Eve tries to remember as much information she could about the eye and what it could mean and with 29 history check she gets all the information she could ever wish for. She remembers that only people who were destined to do great things had an eye similar to this one, whether destined for great good or evil. Joka leaves as he do not want to take a part in burning the temple which Eve proposed and the temple is no more. Shortly after, party arrives in Narbad, the last city before the temple of forbidden knowledge.

Session 15 - Narbadian Hospitality

At the party enters Narbad, Ace presents all members with 100 gold pieces to spend for whatever they would ever want to and so unfortunately(for dm) party splits. Joka goes gambling and loses twice so he has to pay by working in a restaurant. Ta-lo gets himself some new bracers and keeps on asking all of the people that might know something if “they’ve seen those tattoos”. Trix gets herself some nice spices, Astan keeps on thinking if he wants to steal from the bazaar and Eve for some reason dyes her cloaks in a really shady way. After that, has a short talk about the next day and then rests, but without Joka because the had to work(+1 exhaustion). Our heroes venture out of Narbad and then randomly encounter a geyser valley which is the fastest way to the temple. Party goes through almost unscathed and levels up to 4.

Session 16 - Goddamnit Astan!

More travelling through the desert proved to be more difficult since the desert is treacherous, and party gets one encounter after another, once meeting broken carriage that crushed some people. A magical earth golem which almost killed Eve, Joka and even Ace who wanted to help Eve get through the golem in a stealthy way. After that party rests and fights some sneaky snakes and some crawling scorpions. Next morning party meets a caravan camping in the middle of the desert with their sheeps and armed eagles. Obviously Astan has to fuck up and threaten them so we have to roll initiative and then they get destroyed by Ta-lo. Wowie.

Session 17 - The Temple of Forbidden Knowledge

Party finally arrives at The Temple of Forbidden Knowledge and gets stuck at the entrance since the door to the temple requires a password that “Every person travelling through the desert knows” after a few minutes the party finally realises that the password is a phrase that haunted them throughout the whole journey “Desert can be Treacherous” and the door opens letting the party inside. Though surprised by the atmosphere of the place and by their expectations being entirely different from what was before their eyes they finally reached their destination. Welcomed by Librarian themself the party learns that before getting access to any of the books they must first get through one of the books and so they enter one of the books. This time greeted not so nicely by shouts of some kind of a pirate or sailor captain, they see a kraken laying a siege on their ship only to get swallowed minutes after.Waking up inside of the kraken the meet the ghosts that belonged to the Captain and his ship crew which is pretty fastly destroyed by Joka and persuaded by Ta-lo, Captain killed last one of his crew only to run away. Further down the way they meet a Black Winged Kenku who could also speak, he related to the party the legend of the sky god and sky creatures and after that asked the party some questions, letting them out shortly after.(Level up to 5.)

Session 18 - Chagrining Around

After the group gets out of the Kraken book they finally get a library card that allows them to enter all of the books. When the party wants to get into the Chagrin chapter they are met with two people, Hiyo and Daniel, who share that they are also connected to Irina, Ace and Lovecraft. The party spends a few moments talking with them about Chagrin and what they experienced. Joka himself finally though a bit nervously reveals that he was turned into a Chagrin spawn. He’s bombarded with questions which were too much to him since he was not able to answer most of them. After the talk the party learns that Typhoon is not far away, and so they ventured forth to meet Ta-lo’s old comrades.

Session 19 - Fateful Encounter

As the group enters the ruins, they spot a figure sitting on the throne at the other end of the building. It was Ken, the former friend of Ta-lo and possibly the one that killed his old master.

Hearing that the party had no intention of approaching him themselves. Ken was the one that decided to make a first move. After a short exchange between Ta-lo and Ken the battle was initiated. At the beginning everything was looking quite well but then 2nd phase begun, their foe’s appearance changed and with that his power grew. When the situation started to look grim Ta-lo stood up to his past and defeated the enemy.(Non-lethally)(Level up to 6)

Session 20 - A Flesh Wound

As Ken is finally defeated the half of the party starts exploring the temple of Xerion and the rest took began to take care of other things. Ta-lo and Typhoon take care of the bodies the belonged to their fallen comrades and Eve together with Joka tried to figure out how to take the red orb which resided in Ken’s eyehole out. Fortunately enough just moments before Evelynn was meant to touch the red orb, Joka have seen a vision of Lethargy ordering him to destroy the orb, but at the same time warning him to not touch it.

Joka stops Eve and after planning for a bit together with Astan they figure out the worst possible way to get the orb out by stabbing now soulless Ken into his eye. Cause of that his body dies and Ta-lo gets angry. Eve not caring much about that goes to an astronomical study to get some more information.

Session 21 & 22 - Fearful Night

While Joka, Ta-lo and the surviving members of Typhoon were taking care of the dead, Astan, Trix and Twi Ta were investigating the eastern part of the ruins. Eve decided to take a closer look at the west part which turned out to be an astrological study. Inside she found a planetary model of the planetary system in which Luctus resides, some ingredients for the creation of runes that we saw in the middle room. After a further inspection she found some interesting information that concerned Chagrin, Gods and creation of artificial chagrins also possibly revealed a name of another planet in Luctus’s solar system. When everyone was finished it was decided to spend the night in the ruins and after some back and forth between Ta-lo and his former friends, everyone besides Joka who decided to take 1st watch, have gone to sleep. Joka suddenly feel asleep which was caused by pressure of an unexpected guest, who slipped in under the cover of the night and stole the red eye orb that was the power source of Ken. Twi Ta and Joka caught a glimpse of the guest but both of them were forcefully put back to sleep and since Joka tried to resist he also was mentally made see nightmare’ish visions which together made him frightened for life. After everyone woke up and started inspecting the surroundings they found out that the remaining Typhoon members were slaughtered which made Ta-lo actually break down on everyone’s eyes. The moment everyone left to bury the bodies of the last members they found out that Ken’s body was also taken. This night the sky was filled with a single pillar of smoke but even though Ta-lo lost his friends, Joka’s faith diminished and the orb was stolen, our heroes are still going to push on forward. Next time in Chagrin Carnival.

Session 23 - The Sponsored Ad Break

This episode was sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS and NORD VPN Poggers, also the party decided to return to the temple of forgotten knowledge, but before that we found a fuck ton of gold. I like money so pls spongebob work for free. We also got some more info on chagrins and we will try to get even more information by fighting in the pit, at least that’s the idea for now since some of the party members might want to visit other wings.

Session 24 & 25 - Research

In the pit the group buys armor and items from a mute Dwelf and Trix is promised to get a last name if she proves herself by a title of the pit. Charlotte Goldweave, human woman. When the group returned to the entry room of the temple the annoying fat man was back but Trix sneaked up and got some revenge on him then they went into the Chagrin book. “someone else can give a recount here” After moving out of the Chagrin book there was another encounter with the fat man that ended with him being kicked out of the temple.

Session 26 - Book Walking

Not really muched happened, party spent time reading books and learning about the strengths of the titles. At the end choosing to fight Charlotte, Blade of the Pit.

Ta-lo’s new quote is “How strong are you?”

Session 27 & 28 - The Forbidden Knowledge

At last the battle with Charlotte, Blade of the Pit begins. During the fight the title proves a significant gap in skill between herself and the party. After a few rounds Charlotte reaches low enough health that she is forced to retreat into her book and summon a powerful demon that is completely invincible. Fortunately after another few rounds Librarian shouts that the fight would end here and Charlotte herself takes the party to the Owl’s Wisdom. Party learns that they should go back to Medil and search for a certain person. (Level up to 7 and 8)

Session 29 & 30 - Back To Medil

After leaving the study chapter in the temple, party acknowledge a presence of familiar persona.

Ace came back to the temple greeting everyone with big bear hug! He tells the party has changed since the last time that he saw them. Together with Ace the party gets before the entrance and speaks about what they learned, by trying to keep it vague since walls have eyes and the desert is treacherous. After sharing information and dismissing the annoying bunny, Ace explains that he was fighting on the frontlines with other members of Vulcan(Irina and Lovecraft) and hands them golden brooches which finally makes them official members of Vulcan, which is an organization fighting Minerva. As an additional gifts he then presents them new weapons to each and everyone of the party members. The group decides to take some time to study and then rest, so they would be ready to depart next day. Eve learns some spells, Trix gets some maps, Twi-ta goes to learn about the principality of Heth so he can find how to make his mission easier. Astan tries to figure out more about the shepherd of lost souls and Ta-lo tries to get a slayer of demons. The party finally rests and then uses some kind of portal to depart into Medil. After a few minutes of rift travel the party arrives at the capital city of Yuethor, remembering the old times they get into the Barrelling whale and meet some of their old companions.

Session 31 - Sleep with the fishes

While party has some fun in the barreling whale, Trix decides to eat a crystalized kraken's blood together with Char and then the consequences of her actions finally reach her. She begins to see a hateful farmer boi who makes her really angry and keeps her annoyed. She then gets the party to help her, with little to no results. In the meanwhile Ta-lo, Joka, Astan and Twi-ta decide to get some cold cream, and then party gets together once again to reflect upon the information that they gathered. After some small talk the group decides to have a look around the places related to chagrin in Medil, and so the group departs upon the ruins within which they met Irina. Inside of which they find a staircase hidden under an altar. Unfortunately enough half-way through the staircase the party notices that its filled with water and so Astan decides that he wants to be the one to swim down. He gets back barely alive and brings back with himself a fish mafia. Trix tries to converse with them with little to no result. Fortunately enough Eve reveals that she can cast shape water and leads half of the party with her through the cave.

Session 32 - Dieeping Around

As Astan, Joka and Ta-lo wait for Eve, Twi-ta and Trix scout a bit of the underwater the dungeon. They have a small talk wondering about what might be down there. In the meanwhile Eve gets slashed by a scythe traps while making a mistake together with others. After some time they finally decide to go back and meet with the rest, to find an actual way to get through the dungeon. As they come back to the barreling whale the party begins to search for Nathaniel and the water Genasi who might help with their current situation. As the rest tries to get some help, Eve decides to kill Diep since he did not want to leave her room. Astan and Trix get to the Commerce Guild headquarters, but the only appointment they can get is friday in 26 moons. For some reason Trix decides to go and sneak through the building that the country is run in. Ta-lo, Twi-Ta and Joka get to the water Genasi and as he explained the limits of his powers, they decide to get a water breathing spell scroll. Eve gets into an argument with Astan as he begins to blame her for Dieeeeeeep's death, during this time she keeps denying side-dieeep's death before he wakes up.

Session 33 - Underwater Dungeon

In this episode of Chagrin Carnival, the party ventures deep into the underwater dungeon which is under constant surveillance of crystal statue-like minotaurs, who beat the shit out of Joka for being bad at stealth.

When the party figures out the 1st part of the dungeon Trix jumps into a no-see through water and we roll initiative.

Session 34 - Party Gets Smacked!

Pain and near-death. I wonder if Trix’s personality would take a turn if somebody of the party ends up dying. (LMAOOOO!)

Session 35 - Dungeon of Wonders

The Party finally gets out of the death trap only to find themselves in another predicament. As after following one of the corridors they arrive in a dead end, but they also find one weird and surprisingly light disc with a sun symbol on it. They decide to tie it to Joka since he’s become a Joka-baloon. Trix and Twi-ta scout ahead another of the corridors only to find a bag of holding full of stuff waiting for them at the other side. With some unfortunate struggles the party is finally able to get the bag out of the trapped corridor only to find mostly not-so useful stuff inside and a mimic. He’s a cutie! My lord! Praise, my lord Mimicus Magnificus!

Session 36 - No Way To Run

After having another talk with the small mimic, during which the party learns his origin and that he was cursed. They begin discussing what their next move should be and so they decide to retreat for the moment so the group would able to come back the next day after resting. Unfortunately the road back got completely blocked by the crystal minotaurs, leaving them no other choice than go deeper into the dungeon. As venturing forth continues they find a place to rest as the water gets sucked out. Suddenly everyone wakes up to Trix’s and Char’s scream echoing throughout the dungeon.

Session 37 - Tentacle Trouble

Following Trix’ scream, the party stumbles into a huge room as they see Trix being flung through the air by massive tentacles.

Before the group gets a grip, they spot a somewhat familiar figure at the opposite side of the room: Silba.

Session 38 - Look At Him! He's Dead!

Ta-Lo gets knocked unconscious, then gets absorbed by the boss Silba (who gains his stats for a while). Unable to stop this, the party tries to quickly figure out a way to safely eject Ta-Lo from Silba before Ta-Lo’s time runs out.

After a few cruel minutes, Ta-Lo succumbs to his wounds inside of Silba and gets more permanently absorbed as his spirit leaves his body.

Session 39 - Eye For An Eye

As the fight comes to a close, Silba goes into a rampage. First knocking Joka unconscious and then absorbing him to strengthen himself. Silba follows Trix and Astan into the corridor, where he delivers them critical hits that nearly knock them down. Twi-ta and Eve follow the mysterious man’s movements. The situation starts looking grim, but the day is saved by Trix who finally defeats the man made of silver liquid. Ta-lo’s dead body and Joka’s unconscious body break free from the absorption. As soon as Joka awakens he realizes the situation and together with Astan he begins chanting the prayer to the goddess of life, to bring the leader of the new Typhoon back from the dead. Ta-lo wakes up, but his sight is not the same, and the eye he’s lost might be now lost forever. After the party calmed down, Eve decided to poke the remains of the boss, which in turn resulted in the remains entering Eve’s body… GROSS! After a long rest, the party sends a message through Sending to Ace and after receiving his response, everyone besides Eve decides to instantaneously jump into the portal left by the massive “octopus?”. Where will the portal bring the party? Will Eve jump into the portal? What happens next session, on Chagrin Carnival!

Session 40 & 41 - Crossover

Watcha lookin’ at? Go see the Insidious insurrection recap. It’s so cool… come on, go on, be on your way. I’m sure you like Daiyu, don’t you?

Session 42 & 43 - Intertwined Objectives

After a bit of morning shopping both groups gets the assignment from Ace to investigate a warehouse just down the street. Trix and Twi ta takes the lead and scales up one of the walls to the roof to sneak ahead and try to listen to whoever is inside. After returning to the rest of the party Twi ta tries to pick the lock to the warehouse but is discovered so when everyone bursts in whoever is inside has gone into hiding. Let the hunt begin!

Session 44 - We Are Not Alone In This

Fighting continues as one of the twins is striked down and then absorbed by the other one. Together with the demon accompanying them, they transform into a Fiend called “Black”. Unfortunately for the enemies their fusion does not help as Owlbear Sorcerer decides that it is the time to run and so he teleports out together with the Owl Knight. Black is left behind by themself and commits a suicide by driving their sword through their chest. As a result of that they explode hurting everyone around them and so it seems that the makeshift group made of two parties was able to stop whatever was happening here. The parties also discover a trapdoor that leads to some lab-like facility in which members of Insurrection and Minerva probably experimented with flesh of Primordial beasts. They also find a note containing information about the relation between the two organizations and so the time to split again has come.

Session 45 - Any Signs Of Murder?

Something something, rp session.

Session 46 - A Message To The Goddess

Joka sends a love letter question to the Godess of Life in an attempt to gather some information about the murders that’s happen in Riz’arion. ”Hello, my goddess I was wondering where can we find the killer that killed the patron of bubbling slumber inn, in Rizarion. Apparently they have also killed before all of the people that person killed were quite brutally slaughtered unlike the Panton's assassins. They're also chagrin related as far as we know.” He got played, cause her servant was utterly disgusted by Joka’s actions and his appearance. wow. Also lover’s quarrel! And now it’s Sewers time! Poggies!

Session 47 - Sudden Changes

The session starts with Trix getting a message from Bag O’Rice. “be careful of the vials, I'm a hyena now". After entering the sewers the party started to search for any clues of the murderer. When the party finds themself at an impasse as to where to go after they found the walkway broken Trix scouted ahead and finds not only a nest of sewers monsters but 3 individuals talking in a hushed tone. Trix returns to the party and relays the information she’s gathered and the party starts to make their way to the 3 individuals. Just before the party reaches the spot where Trix found the people Joka and Eve gets cold feet (excuse me? +1) and decide to stay behind. Astan, Ta-Lo, Twi ta and Trix sneaks up to the individuals but are spotted and a conversation starts. After talking to them for some time without getting any useful information except that they are also after the murderer the party reunites and starts to figure out what to do next.

Session 48 - Map Completion 76%/100%

During the group’s exploration of the sewers they found a Goblin named Trik who lived down there. She shared that she has indeed seen the monster aka murderer and even saw him kill innocent people. Her testimony also made the party learn about her necromantic studies as she has also kept some of the bodies for herself. Eve investigates the murder scene and Joka keeps on balling his eyes out as something within him is saddened. Party then finds a storage room full of dead bodies which were probably the corpses that Trik has kept for herself. Joka and Astan decided to give them a proper funeral by burning their bodies and praying for their souls. Exploration continues as the newest members of Vulcan finally reach a separate room with some kind of contraptions and a hole leading straight down. After a bit of time being a musclehead was a way to go for the first time and the hole gets filled up with the liquid from inside of the contraption. The episode comes to a close as the monster that the party hunted jump out of the hole…

Session 49 - Fighting Owl22

Before the party could defeat the boss, it suddenly escapes by burrowing a new tunnel.

Session 50 - Tomb of Angels

Following OWL22 into the tunnel system it has dug under Riz'Arion, the party ends up in a surprising location: A large room with six coffins, each bearing the name of one of the party members, and an angelic weeping statue. Upon closer inspection, the statue bore the same appearance and name as Irina, the harpy from Vulkan. Using an old feather of hers, the party discovers a hidden message left behind by the room's creator: Magnar. It turns out that Magnar was married to the previous Goddess of Life, Irina.

Session 51 - Dead Weight

After gathering the party and making sure everyone is fine, we collected the corpse and left the the tomb meant for the group and Irina. Then we went to check up on Trik. We found Trik dead with a second goblin head and a mysterious note the party collected together with the corpses, for information gathering. As we were deciding our next course of action, Joka sent a message to Ace requesting a meeting as soon as possible. After getting some information from dead Trik, the next step was to share information with our companions trying to fight the insurrection… Though both of the attempts failed as both Dariusz and Bag might have either been transported to another plane of existence or have died in battle.

Session 52 - An Uninvited Guest

The party begins to rest as they wait for the morning to come. Soon after the group begins to fall asleep, a voice and knocking on the door can be heard. Not sure what he should really do Joka wakes up others and together they begin to contemplate what to do with the uninvited guest. Even though it was not a good idea to unlock the door, the vague messages from whatever could be on the other side were driving everyone (besides Eve) mad.

The person on the other side was actually a well acquainted spy from the Sultanate. They barge in and offer information that the group might be interested in, for the small price of everything the group has learned so far.

Session 53 - Gambler's Delight

Gamble on the market.

Session 54 - The Last Rest

After resting again the party is welcomed by their comrades from Vulcan, who quickly enter the headquarters and fall asleep from exhaustion. It is decided to keep on waiting till they wake up, so the talks about the future and what happened to them can take place. In the meanwhile Astan and Ta-lo decide to go and have a talk with Reaper William which did not bear much fruit. At the same time Joka, Twi Ta and Trix decide to have a look around to find the fairy lights. Twi Ta with his falcon-like eyesight notices two possible places that might be the gates to the Owl-person’s realm. As they investigate one of these places they find a deadman inside of Sweet death inc. Before even being able to inspect the place of murder, guards rush in and accuse the trio of committing the crime that transpired. After a few arguments Twi-Ta and Trix are able to convince guardsmen that they are not the ones at fault. They get back to the HQ to report on what happened. Unfortunately, Dieeep who was an eyewitness threw Astan under a carriage and said that he was the one that killed that old man.

Session 55 - The Calm Before The Storm

The party gets a little bit more rest as their Vulcan comrades awake, welcomed with quite a lot of questions, mostly directed towards Irina. Party thinking that she might have been the last goddess of life, and they try to reason and inquire with her, though she instead denies everything that party says even when all of the evidence is leading straight toward the void knight bird lady.

After finishing that topic, it gets switched to “what should be our next move”. The future within which the 6 newest Vulcan members might have to clash with the unfamous vampire Clovis is getting closer. After leaving the HQ, the identity of Vasimian who was following them around ever since they came back from sewers. Unfortunately as he notices that something is not right he disappears into the streets of Rizarion. The only thing left for the party to do now is to go and find the Owlbear’s hideout.

Session 56 - Owlbear's Circus

After all this time, the party finally enters the owlbear’s hideout. As they begin to look around, Trix finds a mimic… and then another one… Before she manages to find another one, mimics’ remains begin to move towards each other. Trying to stop their movements many things are tried, stabbing, freezing, burning. Nothing works. While Eve and Joka try to figure something out about the chair, Twi-Ta sits on it and transforms into the Owlbear.

Session 57 - Seeing Stars

Twi-ta gets transformed back to himself as the magic that shifted his form was dispelled by Joka. Eve continues to mess with the chair and learn about it, as Astan figures out what’s on the outside of the tent. Seeing the stars above and below him he calls others to see what he did. After the rest of party tries to figure out what’s up with the ship they come back and begin to dispel the magics that the chair was enchanted with. Alarms resounds throughout the room as all of the mimics awake and begin to march towards the group. Stopped by the tiny hut casted by Eve, monstrous alive furniture begins to fuse and form an image of a room, a room with two blood red eyes gazing straight at them.

Session 58 - Greatness Is Achieved, Not Given

As we found ourselves in an entirely different place. We were welcomed by the one and only ancient vampire Clovis, instantly all of the party began their preparations for the encounter. Those few seconds took forever to pass as the great undead coiled himself with an anti-magic field, which even after all of our efforts was still not dispelled…

Discovering the abilities of our enemy did not help as the weight of lives belonging to my comrades grown only heavier and heavier with each breath I took. All of my body was sending me signals to run away as the doom seemed imminent… but I would not falter, after all we’ve been through together. I have made up my mind to try and bring everyone back alive once again, even if it will have to cost me the life I own. Oh, the great goddess of life grant me power. Oh the great dragon grant me strength. Oh the great god of death grant me peace of mind if these moments will turn out to be my last ones.

Session 59 - Clovis The Arch-Vampire

The hard-fought battle continues as the fatigue starts to grind down the group's morale.

Session 60 - A Bittersweet Rest

Clovis is defeated, but he manages to escape. The party gets to rest up in Zaman’s dimension. Having come a little too close to their defeat once more, Joka and Eve take this last opportunity to say what was on their mind for a while now and decide that, if they manage to survive, they would try this "dating" thing together.

Sessions 61 to 68 - Magnar The Blasphemous

The fight with Magnar begins and ends here. Someone else can write a fight writeup.

Session 69 - The Aftermath

With Magnar defeated, the heroes arrive back at Riz'Arion. Most of the party join the city in its celebration of their victory. Eve decides to stay with the semi-unconscious sleeping Joka at the calm headquarters instead, though Ace bursts in to try and them both to the party by force. Using her unique new gooey constitution, Eve escapes Ace's giant grip though she ends up having to relinquish her boyfriend to Ace as he rushes back to the party.