Arc 1: Dragons in Dungeons

Arc 1 focuses on five adventurers who, shortly after meeting, go off in search of a missing woman. It is a classic D&D adventure with a straightforward plot, something simple for the start of the podcast.

## Arc 1 Characters and Players

 **DM** (Haley - She/Her\*)

**Deb** (They/Them) (played by Pax - He/Him) is a Tiefling Bard who stands at a mere 5 feet tall. They are a 20 year old baker who has spent their whole life around Summerview. Deb uses their baked goods to help them with their magic. For example, giving a scone could give inspiration. Deb is a sweet tiefling who gives out free pastries during their daily deliveries and after SK-73 gave an angry shoo one time and Deb hasn't visited the library since.

**Hope Lovejoy** (She/Her) (played by Jenny - She/Her) is a 200 year old high-elf that comes from a rich family. She has been sheltered all of her life and being the youngest of 16 she was told her way to help the family business was to pray for them, so that's what she did. Hope spent so long praying that she became a cleric and is only now leaving her family home to go on an adventure to visit extended family. On the way she meets Thavius.

**Sir Mister Person** (He/Him) (played by Gus - He/Him) is the most plain human fighter you've every met. Mister Person is his real name, but after training with knights at the capitol Mister Person assumed that made him a knight (it didn't). Mister Person came back to Summerview and insisted on being called Sir Mister Person, as that's what you'd call a knight.

**SK-73** (He/Him) (played by John - He/Him) is pronounces Skeventy-three, like seventy-three but with an 'SK' at the beginning instead of just 'S'. SK-73 is a 420 year old Warforged Robot Wizard. Sk-73 was created to be a librarian and after years is more than that, but personally, he'd consider himself a "librarian first and scholar second but never a wizard" (SK-73's character sheet). He only remains functioning by his use of Ray of Frost to keep from over-heating and the crank on his back that happens to be his arcane focus. SK-73 lives in Summerview (more specifically he never leaves the library).

**Thavius** (He/Him) (played by Kyle - He/Him) is a Shadar-Kai rogue of an unknown age. Having spent all of his life in the shadow realm ferrying souls, Thavius is a very bland elf. While doing his job a soul was found to not belong in the shadow realm and so Thavius is sent on a quest to go find where this soul belongs and put them there. The soul was then turned into a soul coin and Thavius went through a portal to the Material realm. Upon entering he immediately meets Hope Lovejoy who watched him exit the portal.

The icebreaker question for this arc was: What D&D class (and subclass) would you have?

* Kyle: would like to be a Chronurgy Wizard ("the Time Wizard"), because time magic is fun
* Pax: would probably be a College of Eloquence Bard, because they ("unfortunately") did six years of speech in school. He thinks he would be the best bard anyone has ever seen.
* John: has no good reason, but thinks he would be a Gunslinger Fighter.
* Jenny: would absolutely not have answered Time Wizard if someone hadn't already said that, so she chose Time Sorcerer, and of course she knows exactly what that is and doesn't simply recall it from one of her deep scrolls on DnDbeyond.
* Gus: would like to be a Druid, maybe Circle of Dreams, simply to be able to change into animals. He thinks he would choose two levels of druid for the wildshape, and then something else.
* Haley: wants to be a College of Lore Bard, simply to be able to use Cutting Words in real life.

\*Haley has since changed their pronouns to She/Any.

## Arc 1 Plot (Full Arc Spoilers)

### Episode 1

We start the Arc in the Rose and Thorn tavern in Summerview. Deb is bringing deliveries, Sir Mister has finished a shift and SK-73 is on his way. Deb and Sir Mister sit at a table when SK-73 enters demanding answers as to where a missing librarian is.

While the bar keep walks off to look, Hope and Thavius enter the town and then soon after the tavern. After interesting introductions a bar tender, Amaura, comes over to the group and tells the party about her missing betrothed, Aura. Aura went off to Thymore six days ago and hasn't returned, which is not normal for her.

The party begins off out of town and makes it a distance before they stop for the night. Thavius takes first watch and nothing happens. Hope is next and sometime during her watch an arrow finds her shoulder and combat starts.

### Episode 2

A battle ensues and by the end the adventurers won and they find out from one of the attackers that something sinister is going down at Thymore. The group releases the only attacker that is still alive before heading to Thymore.

Upon entering the "village"(its very small) the group hears a deep dark laugh coming from the mausoleum.

### Episode 3

The party interacts with Van who over the course of Hope and Deb buying trinkets, slowly morphs their appearance to have; Hope's eyes, Thavius' hair, Sir Mister's build and height, and Deb's skin tone. The party, now creeped out a bit heads to the mausoleum and enters.

They enter into a small room with the far wall having a wall of placards(four by three) with names of deceased who's bodies should be contained inside.. Upon opening them, a trap is sprung, Sir Mister gets a cool sword, three black dragon scales, two shiny gold coins and a single body in only one fo the crypts. The last one they open is Damir Mortyss and the back has no wall so the party crawls through and slides down deeper into the mausoleum.

At the bottom the party runs into two skeletons that they take out without issue and then face a big room with two hallways. One on either side.

### Episode 4

After defeating the skeletons the party begins to look for clues as to where Aura is. With the help of SK-73's portent roll, finds a single foot print. Looking around there is a big door and two hallways. Thavius and Sir Mister go down one hallway.

Thavius enters a room with an ooze and gets a brass key. Sir Mister enters a room and it seems as though the walls are closing in on him(it's very traumatizing). After finding out that it's an illusion, Sir Mister gets the copper key.

The group gets back together before going down the other hallway. Sir Mister enters a room and fights a shadow version of him that appears, Deb enters to help and after grabbing a silver key, they leave and Sir Mister finished them both off. Hope and Thavius enter a room with levers and after pulling down three of them to spell key, they get the bronze key.

Once again the party gets together and above the door in the main hallway. An inscription appears above the door after the put the keys in; "The center of creation, the heart of a home. What keeps you sane in the dark when left alone. I do not live, cold and hungry I die. Use me here plainly, what am I?"

After thinking for a moment Deb says "Fire" and the door opens.

As the door opens, a floating, fiery skull is there. He claims to be the king, slams the door at the end of the hallway and the episode ends.

### Episode 5

The episode starts with Sir Mister and Thavius taking off down the hallway towards the stone door, they trigger a trap and Thavius steps on a spike, As they keep going Sir Mister is then hit by an arrow in the shoulder. Hope carefully follows behind and heals Thavius.

Deb and SK-73 looks around at the things in the hallway and find plans to take out the Royal Family (excluding the three-year-old prince)

Sir Mister and Thavius work together to slowly make a small hole in the wall. This does injure the two a bit and Hope attempts to heal Thavius a bit more before they continue their journey. She only heals him a little and steps away from the group to have an emotional side bar with her goddess, Pelor, sad about the little healing she's been doing. The prayer is heard and Pelor and she gives Hope back a spell slot and gives her just a pinch of comfort. She is a lot happier after the prayer. Pelor ruffles Hope's hair.

After an inspiring speech from Hope, the party opens the door and heads into the next room. The Skull rises up from behind a stone alter.

### Episode 6

Very quickly the fight begins and Mortyss the flaming skull attacks the party with a fireball that knocks Hope and Sir Mister out cold. Deb brings up Hope first and then Hope brings up Sir Mister. SK-73 makes his first attack in the campaign with a fire bolt. Thavius and Sir Mister try and get close to attack. Thavius is successful, Sir Mister can't get in range. SK-73 gives jump to Sir Mister so he can attack. The group take Mortyss out.

Down a hallway there was a room filled with fire and golden dragon inside clutching an egg. After being prompted, SK-73 looks into the room and speaks to the dragon in Draconic. The dragon transforms into Aura, who they've been looking for and she explains that she was protecting the egg and got stuck.

The group leaves and heads back to Summerview where Aura introduces Amaura to the egg that will be their child once it hatches. Amaura is excited and then the party says their goodbyes and Hope and Thavius leave Summerview. Hope promises to write.

## Trivia

* Episode 5 was the first listen party on the Patreon Server

## Fan Additions

* Spotify Playlist created by Petall from the Patreon Discord (posted with permission)
* Document explaining the songs
* Which of the Dragons in Dungeons Character are you? (Quiz created by Petall)