Grammy's Country Apple Pie

## Campaign Overview:

Grammy's Country Apple Pie, also referred to as "Season 0," is the first official campaign run by Becca. The goal of this campaign was to act as a test run for future campaigns, to help players get familiar with how D&D is played, and to help the players get a feel for playing as their character. Due to this, the campaign only lasted for one session and is considered separate canon from the adjacent main series lore, using some of the same characters as the Secrets of Edál campaign. The campaign began and ended on February 12th, 2022.

The following is a list of the campaign's party members and the player who played and/or voiced the character: Evander Elfbutcher (Becca), Naïlo Morningstar (Kaydee), Iolas Ivyvale (PJ), Jak (Roy), Daxter (Roy), Evander's horse, and Tinkerball (Kaydee).

## Campaign Lore:

The campaign began with party members Evander, Naïlo, Iolas, Jak, and Daxter answering a quest from Tyndarius, an old man described as "ancient wizard," much to the party's amusement. Tyndarius requested that the party retrieve Grammy's country apple pie recipe for him as he is an old, fatigued man and cannot get it himself. After some negotiating, the party accepts Tyndarius' request to retrieve the recipe for Grammy's country apple pie with the deal that they would each receive two gold pieces up front, two more gold pieces upon the quest's completion, a decades old pair of Tyndarius' boots for Io, the accompaniment of Tyndarius' imp (later named Tinkerball by the party), and a piece of cheese for Daxter.

After accepting the quest, the party began their journey towards the location on a map that Tyndarius indicated was where Grammy's Bakery used to be. Because the trip was a two day long journey, the party agreed to stop at a local town to rest between the two days. However, on their first day they got sidetracked after hearing rustling in some bushes off of the path. After a not so stealthy investigating, and Jak's mage hand removing all the bushes around the area of noise, the party stood face to face with a confused and somewhat startled black bear. While the rest of the party attempted to attack the black bear, Io was focused on gathering nearby berries in an attempt to tame the bear. After many poor rolls, spells cast, and missed attacks, the party eventually retreated without the successful tame or the defeat of the black bear. Following the encounter, Evander was left significantly wounded, later healed by Naïlo and rest, and Io receiving some scratches from attempting to tame a startled black bear.

The party soon made their way into town and made their way to the local tavern. While in the tavern, it was clear that the party looked out of place, receiving stares from around the bar. While at the bar, Io tries to order the "strongest drink" the tavern owner has. After some initial disbelief that Io was old enough to purchase, let alone handle, the drink, the two began to fight. After being insulted by the bartender based on his and Tinkerball's strange appearance, Io attempts to trick the bartender into getting the drink by saying he is Tinkerball's father, accompanied by Tinkerball batting his "big beautiful eyes". After the tavern owner saw through Io's attempt to con his way, unsuccessfully, into getting the drink under the false pretense that Io is Tinkerball's father, Evander pays a gold coin for everyone's drinks, getting everyone a shot and Io his pint of whiskey. Io goes off to sit with Tinkerball at a table alone, thinking the party would follow and drinks 3/4 of the pint. After Tinkerball asks for a sip, he promptly falls asleep on Io's shoulder. In the meantime, Jak orders a piece of cheese for Daxter much to the tavern owner's delight and the party begins to take a seat at a table separate from Io. Before doing so, the tavern owner tries talking to Evander about how strange the party is before the tavern owner realizes Evander is also strange. After some time, Io goes to sit with the rest of the party and tells them that they're all going to be best friends.

After everyone finishes in the tavern, they move over to the inn to get rooms. Evander again pays to get the party all their own rooms, but pays a little extra for a larger room that he and Naïlo can share. After rolling the only nat 20 Io would get this campaign, Io was able to see the obvious in that Evander and Naïlo were staying in a room together with the included dialogue that Naïlo told the inn keeper that Evander treats her well after his concern for her well-being given her tipsy state. After seeing this, Io promptly passes out on the lobby floor as the rest of the party goes off to sleep in their rooms.

In the morning, the party heads back out on the road to reach Grammy's Bakery. After some time, the part reaches a lush garden with an old tree with a humanoid face in front of a building that appears to be Grammy's Bakery with apple orchards to either side of the building. After speaking with the tree, the party learns that goblins have taken over Grammy's Bakery and have been patrolling the outside recently. Hearing some laughs from the orchards, Naïlo leads the party to investigate the noise. Upon their arrival, they notice an apple that was thrown and some more laughter. The party soon found the source of the laughter in the form of the Dryad Sisters. The three sisters from left to right, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, tell the party that they know where the recipe for Grammy's country apple pie is, but they must be persuaded first. It becomes clear that Rosemary is the leader of the three sisters and does much of the talking and negotiating with the party. However, Io attempts to connect with the sisters better by commenting on the fact that he and Sage are similar because they're both "sages" and both have golden eyes. After failed negotiating, Io begrudgingly offers a gold piece in return for the information. The Dryad sisters tell the party that the recipe was split into two pieces. One piece was located in Grammy's front office and the other inside her apartment. With this new information, the party moves towards the bakery to try and sneak in without the patrolling goblins noticing.

The party makes it behind the bakery, but soon finds that the giant waste pile that accumulated behind it has grown violet fungus. As the fungus grows towards them, the party manages to run or fly away in time, avoiding the fungus' tendrils. However, the party makes it to safety only to hear approaching footsteps from patrolling goblins. With some quick illusion magic, Naïlo is able to create a false extension to the bakery's wall to keep them hidden. While behind the illusion, Jak also takes the time to prepare a goblin costume, though it is admittedly not very convincing. Before they can act any further, Evander lets out a sneeze, briefly alerting the goblin guards before they decide it must've just been someone inside of the loading dock. The party moves forward, getting ready to prepare how they want to get inside the loading dock without being noticed. In an attempt to sneak into the loading dock, Io and Tinkerball hide behind some barrels, but not without knocking over several other barrels and making lots of noise.

Upon being noticed, the goblins surround Io and Tinkerball and begin to investigate what they're doing inside of the loading dock. While distracted, the rest of the party moves in and soon a fight breaks out between two goblin guards and the party. After some time, and some poor attack rolls, the party manages to defeat the goblin guards in the loading dock and move further into the bakery to find Grammy's country apple pie recipe. Inside the bakery they find old baking equipment going through the motions of baking through some sort of magic even though the ingredients they once worked with are now long gone. Checking the six massive ovens revealed there were still three smoke mephitis, causing the party to be more careful. Checking the stone storage rooms revealed to hold some old expired pies and bags of exotic spices containing cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. At the center of the room stood a glass cabinet with a smaller mallet hanging on a chain. The party decided to collect the spice bags and had Evander carrying them so they could sell them after their adventure. They also decided to break the glass cabinet, rewarding them with two regular healing potions which could come in handy later.

However, the party soon gets spotted by more goblins, but this time they don't want to fight and instead just beg for the party's help in finding Grammy's country apple pie recipe. After revealing the party knows where the recipe is, chief goblin begs again that they help and asks that they show them where to find the recipe. In order to be cautious, the party agrees under the condition that Evander and Naïlo go to the apartment with the chief goblin and the less angry looking goblin while Jak, Daxter, Io, and Tinkerball follow the angrier looking goblin to the front office. The party splits up and moves towards each room.

Upon entering the apartment, Evander and Naïlo notice that it has become the sleeping quarters for all the goblins. after some time observing the room, they find a locked box they suspect to hold the recipe with a hold in the side of the box. Evander sticks his finger in the hole only to be stabbed with a poison needle that shot out from a spring that opens the box. Naïlo quacking swipes the recipe piece and they lie to the goblins that it was just a trap box. They leave to enter the bakery floor and regroup with the party. Evander survives the poison needle, but remains poisoned for an hour.

When Jak, Daxter, Io, and Tinkerball enter the front office, they notice it is full of books and papers scattered throughout the room. After some time exploring the room, Jak finds the desk drawer that appears to have the recipe inside. Before trying to open it, Io is able to notice that it appears to be a trap and instead asks the goblin to try opening it. The goblin gets stabbed with the poison needle as the drawer opens which attracts the attention of another two goblins. One of the two new goblins walks the poisoned goblin back to the rest of the group to be healed, but the remaining goblin excitedly asks if Jak and Io found the recipe and if they can show him what they found. After some hesitation, they lie and say it's just a list of Grammy's grandchildren's names. The goblin, who admits he can't read, accepts this answer with defeat and walks back with them to the bakery floor to join Evander and Naïlo.

Once regrouped, the party tells the goblins that they couldn't find the recipe and the goblins assume someone must have beaten them to getting the recipe. Feeling defeated, the goblins allow the party to leave the bakery. After another couple days travel, the party makes it back to Tyndarius' tower with their spices and the two halves of Grammy's country apple pie recipe. Tyndarius is happy to see the party's safe return and upholds his end of the deal in giving the party each two more gold coins. Using a mending spell, Tyndarius combines the two halves of the recipe into the original sheet. As an added bonus, Tyndarius had Tinkerball retrieve an additional gift for the party's troubles, a Bag of Tricks.