A Distorted Revelation

**A Distorted Revelation** is a four-part campaign that first screened in the first quarter of 2023. Set on a ship travelling from Athkatla to Baldur's Gate, it is DMed by Ali Alderete, and is a sequel to A Divergent Dream.

## Player characters

* Tetch, played by Shaun Smith
* Charlie, played by G
* Malagak, played by Jonny
* Wesley, played by Joe Hare
* Oricha, played by Liz Drake

## Plot

A group of adventurers fight a strange creature in a ship's ballroom - and we flash back to them all arriving on the gigantic, four-masted "cruise" ship, the Dorothea's Chateau. Joined through connections with the barman on one of the lower deck bars, Rick, and a wait-staff member called Isabella, the party assemble - Malagak and Charlie are both hunting down a mysterious object, last seen on the upper decks, while Wesley appears to have another agenda. Oricha is looking to perform in one of the theatres to upstage a rival/friend, Orrin, while Tetch is looking for weresharks...

Together, the party are roped into performing with Oricha, and in doing so are given a task by Orrin - they need to retrieve a box from a locked storage room for Tessele, a famous bard who is travelling onboard - and the party agree to help. Finding it protected by constructs and oozes, they manage to abscond with a strange mask. Both Tetch and Oricha briefly wear it, and realise they can see through people (like an x-ray) - and Tetch notices an unconscious wereshark in the next storage room, prompting thoughts from him around sinking the ship.

Heading back to the lower decks, Oricha realises that the mask lets her see that a huge number of the crew and guests are infected by small aberration parasites - and the party work out that the mask can implant such parasites, but has run out of its daily charge. They reconnect with Isabella, who tells Charlie (and, by extension, Malagak) that the item they are looking for is called the far gear, and is part of the Orrery of the Wanderer.

Returning to Orrin (who has a parasite), they are introduced to Mildred, who offers to take them to the upper decks. Oricha and Tetch stay with Mildred and manage to remove the parasite with a remove curse spell, while Charlie and Malagak scour the upper decks for the far gear, and Wesley offers to take Mildred onto the top deck of the ship - a ruse that is soon discovered as he tries to throw her overboard. In their struggle, lightning hits one of the main masts and splits it, tearing a large hole in the upper decks and allowing the rest of the party to see Wesley's fight and help. Together, they turf Mildred overboard - although Wesley does not elaborate as to why he wanted her dead.

Finding the far gear where the lightning hit the ship, the party see the storm around them intensify as the people infected with parasites are dragged to the walls of the ship and absorbed by it, as the ship appears to turn into a gigantic aberration of its own! Tracking down the culprit in one of the private theatres, the party fight them, but their battle is once again drawn onto the top deck as Tetch has visions of incarnations of Tempus, his god, and the elven god Araleth Letheranil fighting this aberrant ship as the storm continues to intensify - and he continues to make plans on ways to sink the ship...

## Trivia

* DM Ali allowed the players in this campaign a plot point - an opportunity to drive the narrative and make a change in their favour. They used it during Wesley's fight with Mildred, allowing the rest of the party to rejoin and help.

## Twitch Clip Archive

* I wouldn't say FRIEND
* A titanic spoiler...

## Media

The poster for A Distorted Revelation by G McDermott.A typical scene from A Distorted Revelation.