Aerois - Episode 184: The Horrors of Hadar

Katie Morrison as Aila

Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**The Horrors of Hadar** is the 184th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 14th May 2023 from 5PM to 8PM BST.

*The Stormchaser and it's(sic) crew are flanked on all sides by many different minions of Hadar!*

## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

* Mark welcomes everyone and introduces the players.
* The campaign is almost 5 years old.
* Shout out to Jolene Khor who has been making some custom music for the campaign which is now official High Rollers music. Trott has been working with Jolene to produce the music which can be found here. So far, there has been one track played during The Infinite Staircase episode (183) but more music will be released in time and it is possible that the main Aerois theme may be added to the album. It is possible (likely) that High Rollers will continue to work with Jolene moving into Campaign 3.
* Reminder that you can support High Rollers on Patreon and YouTube to get access to extra VoDs and behind the scenes videos, early access to podcasts, and rambly blogs from Tom. This supports running costs of the studio, new custom minis/terrain, and new equipment.
* Thank you to everyone who bought the custom art cards and the pins. There was a signing stream on Tuesday with embarrassing stories and discussion of the fun bits of the campaign.

### **Recap**

*"The Champions have set off into Astral Space accompanied by their allies to take to the final fight against Hadar, the Red Star, the Entropic God of Consumption. Accessing the sub-plane travel space called the Infinite Staircase, the Stormchaser and the other ships in the fleet make for the Broken Veil, a war front that has been the staging ground for the conflict between Kalus Valkyrian and Hadar for thousands of years. Here, the Champions will meet with the rest of the Valkyrian fleet and make a desperate assault to reach the plane of Entropis, a world where the breach point into Hadar’s prison can be found. During their time in the Infinite Staircase, Qillek Ad Khollar attempted to use the oracle powers of his Eye of the Storm to learn more about what awaited them. With one use of the eye, Quill learned more about the world of Entropis and Hadar’s connection to it, but with another, he attempted to scry on the whereabouts of Xarkira, a powerful mage and former friend of Kalus Valkyrian, now turned traitor and corrupted by Hadar.*

 *Xarkira, using some unknown power, laid a magical trap for Quill, triggered when he attempted to use the Eye to ask about her. The magical trap destroyed Quill’s eye and nearly did something far worse but was interrupted by a quick-thinking Sentry, who used magic to protect Quill from possession, and severing the connection. Without any time to really recover from this event, the Stormchaser was pulled out of the Infinite Staircase and into a desperate Astral Space battle as the forces of Hadar have aggressively struck against the Valkyrian fleets they were meeting with.*

 *Three vessels – an abominant bioship, and two corrupted Valkyrian cruisers, bear down on the Stormchaser as the rest of their allies fend off similar attacks of their own. With help arriving in the form of Thalia and the Twinstar Longbow, the Champions still need to defeat their foes and aid the Valkyrian fleets."*

### **Part 1**

*The Stormchaser and it's(sic) crew are flanked on all sides by many different minions of Hadar!*

Part 1 Full Description

### **Part 2**

*The battle continues on the deck of the Stormchaser as the crew fight back against Hadar's Horde!*

Part 2 Full Description

## **YouTube Timestamps**

0:00:00 - Intro
0:05:00 - Dun Duns
0:05:58 - Part 1
1:22:22 - 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**

* Trivia 1
* Trivia 2

## **Quotes**

* **Oh yeah...** ([ link])
**Tom**: I would like to cast *Spirit Guardians!*
**Mark**: You can't cast spells.
**Tom**: I would like to *move*!

* Quote 2