Aerois - Episode 186: The Dragon’s Call

Katie Morrison as Aila

Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**The Dragon’s Call** is the 186th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 28th May 2023 from 5PM to 8PM BST.

*The infiltration team races through the Fenrir while the Stormchaser is stuck between a Dreadnought and a Kraken... but Quill has the Spear of Johandrius and it's desperate for a spot of fishing!*

## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

* Mark welcomes everyone and introduces the players.
* Merch: there is still a good deal of merch available at freshstore.co including the standard and liquid core dice sets, a hoodie, shirts, and so on. They are trying to clear out stocks so that they can get new merch into the warehouse, so please consider supporting HR by grabbing yourself some themed merch.
* Big news! High Rollers will be moving studios for Campaign 3 and beyond. Through no fault of their own, they will need to leave the current studio **after Aerois finishes**. The space will be larger and nicer (and more expensive) and will necessitate some ways of HR making more revenue to cover costs. This may include more Patreon content, or more other cool stuff. They do have a new place locked in, and it is recognised that the support that they receive through Patreon is a huge help. There may be a couple of weeks with no streams and general disruption as the crew take everything down, move it to the new space, and set up again – they will keep disruption to a minimum. There will be behind the scenes updates on Patreon and YouTube Members showing the moving process. The new studio has air conditioning!
* (This episode was pre-recorded due to Mark having a very busy schedule.)

### **Recap**

*"Our Champions are on their way to the plane of Entropis that sits at the edge of the Astral Void. Here, on Entropis, is where they will find the breach point into the Far Realm to finally confront Hadar, the Red Star, the Endless Hunger. In doing so, they have allied themselves with Kalus Valkyrian and many of their friends from Aerois, but one obstacle stands in their way – to reach Entropis, the Champions and their allies must fight through an enormous fleet of Hadar’s corrupted Astral Ships and strange aberrant creatures that orbit the world. One of them in particular, the Fenrir, a Ragnarok Class Astral Warship, built by Giants centuries ago, is a powerhouse that threatens all of the Valkyrian fleet.*

*To destroy it, a mission has been planned: the Stormchaser would fly in close, send over a small infiltration team to disable the Fenrir’s barriers and arcane wards to allow Thalia and the Twinstar Longbow to fly inside it and to destroy it from the inside. To do this, the party have split into two teams – we have Nova, Aila, Hope, Scout, and Norfir on the infiltration team heading into the Fenrir itself while the rest of the party are on the Stormchaser defending it and their allies from horrible creatures and defences around the Fenrir. After a desperate piloting scenario, getting the Stormchaser close enough, the infiltration team attempted to jump over with Nova nearly being separated from the rest of the team but quickly recovering to the best of their ability and heading inside.*

*Meanwhile, the Stormchasers have been fending off an Astral Dreadnought which is attacking the Stormchaser whilst an Astral Kraken is currently being distracted by the goddess, Siaska."*
### **Part 1**

*The infiltration team races through the Fenrir while the Stormchaser is stuck between a Dreadnaught and a Kraken... but Quill has the Spear of Johandrius and it's desperate for a spot of fishing!*

The party is still split into two groups- the infiltration team within the Fenrir and the Stormchaser group who are busy fighting an astral Dreadnought and a Kraken. Lucius orders Oriya to use evasive manuvers to separate the ship from the Kraken to focus on the Dreadnought. Quill wields the Spear of Oracles, javelin style according to Tom, and throws it towards the Kraken, as well as calling for Johandrius to appear. As the spear hits the atmosphere of Astral Space, frost builds up upon its haft before the ice is shattered by crackles of lightning. A shape appears from the lightning, growing in size as Johandrius, a huge blue and white Tempest dragon, forms. He spreads his wings, greeting the party as he says "Hello, old friends".

Switching to the infiltration group, Hope, Norfir, Scout, Nova, and Aila are in a gun chamber of the Fenrir after just defeating the Giant manning the gun. Hope casts "Pass without a Trace" on the party and Nova casts "Invisibility" on Hope and Aila as they begin to make their way into a corridor the ship. The Fenrir is dark, the ship in bad shape as skeletons of giants and decomposing bodies of abberant creatures litter the floors. The ship is also badly damaged, with broken ceilings and crystalline wires sparking with power. Scout is horrified by the sight, trembling as they take everything in. They make their way into a T-junction as they choose to go left. They find a storage room with a large stone dias engraved with Giant runes. Aila also notices an open metal cage and a displacer beast, or a panther-like creature with six legs and tentacles, roaming the room. Aila also looks to the corridor to the right, and finds a cylindrical chamber with a disc connected to chains, as a rudimentary lift. Hope tries to befriend the beast with no luck.

As Oriya navigates the Stormchaser, the ship is flanked by the Kraken and Dreadnought. Dannica blasts the Dreadnought with a fiery blast as it bites and swallows Protector. It also claws Lucius and Sentry before Johandrius uses his lightning breath on the Dreadnought and Kraken and infuses Sentry with Storm Light, a blessing that gives her extra lightning damage and allows her to fly. Using her new flying ability, Sentry slashes the Dreadnought with Starbreaker, her lance.

### **Part 2**

*The Stormchaser takes a devestating*(sic) *blow while the infiltration team inside the Fenrir have to make a terrible choice!*

Part 2 Full Description

## **YouTube Timestamps**

0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:35 - Dun Duns
0:07:33 - Part 1
1:31:12 - Part 2

## **Featured Characters**

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

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

#### **New NPCs**

* New NPC 1
* New NPC 2

#### **Returning NPCs**

* Returning NPC 1
* Returning NPC 2

#### **Mentioned NPCs**

* Mentioned NPC 1
* Mentioned NPC 2

## **Featured Locations**

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

## **Trivia**

* Mark gets 2 Natural 20s in one turn, as the Dreadnought attacks Protector and Sentry. Thankfully Lucius was lucky!
* Trivia 2

## **Quotes**

* Quote 1

* Quote 2