Campaign 2 Prologue

Ari and Bart are two high school aged boys attending the Gibberlet Educational School in Silverwrench. Ari's uncle Ben has recently arrived back in town and wishes to take the boys out for Ari's upcoming birthday.

The three start their night at Durka's House brewery in the Marketon district of the Reprieve. There they meet an old friend of Ben's and fellow explorers guild member Magnus Darkstone. The boys get acquainted with Magnus for a while before they make their way to their next stop, Crash Landings.

Their time at Crash Landings is brief, to their knowledge at least. After a rather questionable drink, served up from a reserve in Urrig's stash, the boys find themselves waking up in a very unfamiliar location.

Miles from the city they started their night in the boys find themselves sleeping under Doran's Anvil, and without Ben. Once fully awake the boys take stock of the situation, Ari without his wheelchair, Ben nowhere to be found, and a strange pillar of smoke coming from the woods nearby. The boys begin making their way back toward the city when they find Ari's chair overturned along the side of the path to the anvil. They decide with chair in hand that they should investigate the origin of the smoke.

They find a large cabin in the woods and a very large verbeeg sleeping in the stables outside. They wake the giant and discover that this is a friend they had made the night before. Wallace saw the boys with Ben and a orangish red skinned kobold. He assumed Bart was Yarihan and that the gnomes and kobold were his captives. He soon found out this was not the case and decided to join in their merriment. To his surprise these creatures that were well under half his size could really hold their liquor. Wallace passed out on his way back to his house.

The boys decide to take the information of a fourth member of their drinking party, the kobold, and try to get some answers about their identity. They made their way back to the last place they remembered being, Crash Landings. The welcome was not a very warm one, as Urrig was quite upset with Bart for firing off his gun indoors the night before. He said all would be forgiven and he would return Bart's gun if he managed to come up with the funds to repair the damages. He told them that they said something about heading over to the crooked docks before they were kicked out the first time. They then left for a while only to return again and have a run in with the bouncer Redman later in the night. Redman informed them that they tried to rush passed him, but said that it didn't work and that it should have gone off by now.

Eventually the boys made their way back to Durka's House for some food to try and cure their massive hangovers. There they met a waitress that had been working the night before. She told Ari that he and Ben had spent around an hour there talking, but Bart had run back to his house to grab something. She told them that they then went to the Crooked Docks, just behind Crash Landings, saying that they had a plan to get Bart's stuff back.

Once at the Crooked Docks Bart and Ari found an old homeless man that filled them in on a few of the details of their evening. He said that the boys had a brilliant plan to set off an explosive behind the bar and then Redman would investigate and they would rush in and take the gun. The old man said he saw them plant the explosive in a barrel and run off. He felt it would be dangerous to have something like that just burning away to he relieved himself on the wick and disposed of the explosive in the river behind him.

After some diliberration the boys decide to seek out Magnus Darkstone again, in hopes that he could shed some light on things. Magnus wasn't able to do much as far as Ben's whereabouts, but he did know where they could find kobolds. He brought them to a bar where they found a table full of kobolds talking in hushed voices. Magnus spoke with one in particular, Delos, for sometime before getting the desired information. Delos had wanted to show Ben a mine he had discovered that was rich with ebony and obsidian. The only catch to this was that it was in Yarihan territory. Ben and Delos were ambushed and Ben was taken.

Magnus told the boys he would handle things from here and they should go back to school and just leave it to him. Magnus would not return for several months.

When Magnus finally does return the boys are finishing their final week of school and are preparing ways to try and find Ben themselves. Magnus explains the situation after speaking with Ben: Ben has been taken by the Yarihan and has thought of a few ways to get himself free. The group decides that the best way will be to wait for a meeting with Lo'Kang and another slaver and try to escape then.

However before leaving to meet Magnus, Bart must make a speech at the Progress Day presentation. After a wonderful display of his new firearm, the crowd erupts over this wonderful new piece of equipment. Fel then takes the stage to unveil a new air ship that had been developed by gnomish engineers.

After the presentations are complete the boys finish their preparations and find themselves standing in front of Darkstone Jewelers.

Session 1