Aloha Blues

"**Aloha Blues**" is the 75th session of the Legend of the Leaves campaign.

It took place in the Demonic Eruptions questline of Arc 5: Dead Souls Rising.

## Synopsis

When the Leaves try to assess the situation in which Luskan found itself in, they seek guidance from the wizard Kalmin Gvizd, who offers them a way out of the mess they found themselves in.

# Story Development

## Part 1

Bambara talks to the barmaid Hadriana Stonesworn and asks her to visit him in his room later at night. She takes his invitation as flirting and agrees. He then proceeds to have a meal in the run-down inn he's staying in.

Meanwhile, Malcer is greeted by Pirros Swift, the former bodyguard of Trekk Tobbster. He makes it known to Malcer that he tried everything to save Trekk in the desert, but that he couldn't. He then shows him that he gave up a part of himself to bring Trekk back, but it didn't work.

Pirros explains to Malcer that he got his act straight and works now for a legit business the Lionshield Coster and gives Malcer a sending stone in case that he can help.

Darius visits Leofrick Mornigfall, the guards' captain in Luskan and ask for an audiance. He is granted one and Leofrick shows him Sabin's notes from the Adventurers' Guild in Neverwinter.

As Darius flips though the file on "The Leaves", he discovers that Sabin kept notes on every adventure the Leaves engaged in. The file, however, is riddled with eyewitness reports, which are highly questionable and untrustworthy in Darius' opinion.

In one of them, Noukhood Steelbreaker is accused of causing the fall of Steelpike and rescuing only the ones from the city that stood beside her during the uprising of the people.

Leofrick decides to take Darius to the Lazarus Asylum in Luskan, where Darius has a chat with Kekop. Leforick informs Darius that he is the one who brought the files to Luskan and explains that he got away from them when they first arrested him a few years back. They eventually found him in northern Neverwinter Wood. However, as Leofrick noticed, he didn't have his book he was carrying with him.

Darius is given the chance to interrogate Kekop and finds out that he lost his minds and considers himself to be the god that will rise after Orcus and Vecna are done with their plan for this world. Darius concludes that Kekop is responsible for creating the cult of Orcus that will attack Luskan in three days time.

Lorilon, while on the shitter, receives an epic boon and decides to pocket the toe knife he found in the toilet and gather the remaining members of the Leaves to visit Kalmin.

## Part 2

Bambara conserves Darius' arm in a tincture he got from the Derelict Distillery and returns downstairs to ask Hadriana to join him in his room. She refuses and explains that she will be right with him upstairs once her shift is over.

The rest of the Leaves visit Kalmin at his farmhouse and return his spell focus to him. As he puts his glass eye back into his head, he sees a giant castle floating in the air, shooting cannonballs at the city. He protects himself and the Leaves with a powerful ward and tells them that they have to go. Malcer and Lorilon try to convince him to stay and fight for the city, but he refuses and offers one last time to teleport them to Chult.

The Leaves decide to stay and Kalmin jumps into a dimension door he created, promising them that he will return after the Orcus attack in five days.

As Luskan is being attacked by giant bombardment, Bamabra grabs Hadriana and drags her into his room. She is frightened and paralyzed as Bambara gives her his horn of Valhalla, some gold and a message for the Leaves. He sends her away and makes his way into Neverwinter Woods.

The Leaves are attacked by cannon fire from the flying castle. Suddenly, a mechanism appears on the top of the volcano and starts shooting the castle with meteors. A tower of the castle is hit and falls towards Luskan, creating a big hole in the city walls.

The flying castle changes it course towards the Mount Hotenow, but not before three cloud giants land in front of the Leaves to fight them.

When the party succeeds to kill two of them, Helix Cloudeater, a smiling one cloud giant, offers them to join him in his fight against the "fire parasites" as he points towards the volcano.

The party agrees and decide to meet Helix in the morning at the beach where his castle has landed.

## Part 3

Leofrick approaches the Leaves after the fight against the giants and asks what he needs to do to save the town. They instruct him to keep everybody calm and that they will handle any attack on the city. Leofrick orders the other guards to interpret orders of the leaves as if they were directly from him.

Hadriana makes her ways though the masses and approaches the Leaves with the message from Bamabra. It is a stick of dynamite he has instructed to be lit in close vicinity to them.

Lorilon lights the dynamite. A moderate explosion of confetti covers the battlefield and Lorilon finds a note from Bambara in which he says his final goodbyes to the Leaves, apologizing for the danger he has put them through. The note also contained a drawing of four leaves.

As the rest of the party returns to the inn to get some rest, Lorilon searches Bambara's room. He finds Darius' arm and numerous empty bottles on the floor. As he leaves the inn, he is greeted by a strange figure in the hall of the inn.

He introduces himself as Xolotacl, a half-goliath traveler from Maztica who came to Faerun to find the cause of the sickness that spread all the way to his continent. When Lorilon sees a lighter in Xolatacl's hands, he notices that it has Bambara's signature on it. When asked, Xolatacl explains that it was gifted to him by one of his travel companions Varava of the Yautja Clan (one of Bambara's former allies in the A Hell of a Hundred).

Lorilon invites Xolotacl to join the rest of the party for a drink. He agrees and together they spend the evening in trying to communicate in a mix of giant and common.

As they lay down to sleep, Xolotacl is plagued by a nightmare in which he finds himself in Nidfor being asked by one of the Nidfor children to play with them. The child is quickly disposed off by a tiefling who screams in Xolotacl's face to answer him why he came. Xolotacle, unable to move, remains silent. A second figure emerges from the shadows, a female drow, as the tiefling asks Xolotacle to say his name.

Unable to control his movements, Xolotacl's mouth whispers the name Nidfor Sppiduhr.

# Featured Characters

## Leaves

* Lorilon Duskwalker
* Darius Lonewalker
* Malcer Lynk Hornraven
* Bambara Grimmgrin
* Raijin Shou Ho
* Xolotacl

## New

* Hadriana Stonesworn
* Helix Cloudeater
* Nidfor Sppiduhr

## Returning

* Leofrick Mornigfall
* Kalmin Gvizd
* Kekop
* Pirros Swift

## Mentioned

* Varava of the Yautja Clan
* Trekk Tobbster
* Noukhood Steelbreaker

# Quotes

## Player Characters

* Lorilon (gledajući upaljač): "Hmm... opaljač."