The Sunless Citadel

## Summery

***The Sunless Citadel*** is the second campaign of *The Bad Girl Coven.* Starting on December 27 of 2022. This campaign takes place after the events of *Rime of the Frost Maiden*; being played while it was on hiatus.

It follows Gemnera and Nemeia and their new crew after the event of *Rime of the Frost Maiden*. Having run away to a distant land in search of new adventures.

## Characters

 Emma
 Annie
 Will

## Story

### The Festival and Oakhurst

The campaign starts with Gemnera and Nemeia arriving to a festival; as soon as they walk in, they are entranced by the musical styling of local barb Ysvi Korgac. They promptly invited her to Tavern Table Recruitment. They spend the day going around to different tents and booths. Such as the fireworks tent from which they planned to steal from, the mystery meat tent, the contest tent, however one stood out the most; the Trinkets and Toys booth which sold both Gemnera a talking doll and Ysvi a nesting doll set, didn't have the talking fish Nemeia wanted. However, the owner told them were to get one. In a nearby town, children had been mysteriously disappearing, the reward for finding them? A talking fish. The crew questioned on if they wanted to do such a quest, but after seeing how much the fish meant to Nemeia they decided to go. But instead of traveling the two day walk, they tried to steal griffins from the festivals petting zoo. This failed miserably and they were promptly kicked out and forced to escape.

Unfortunately, only Nemeia and Gemnera were able to escape; with Ysvi getting lost behind them. With the group being separated Nemeia and Gemnera camp out and rest in the woods, when all of a sudden they're attacked by tree monsters. The two defeat the monsters unharmed and continue on their journey. After making it to Oakurst, Gemnera buys a bow from the local blacksmith. They then go to the local inn and ask about the missing kids and find out their mother lives and runs a potion shop down the road. They then enter her shop and haggle for potions for the journey to find her children Sharwyn and Talgen. They then spend the night at the inn.

In the morning, they leave for east and make their way to a giant ravine. Seeing that there are threats all over the place and that there's a rope going down, Gemnera decides the only way to go is down. The two climb down the cavern, with Nemeia climbing down perfectly fine and Gemnera falling the last 10 feet. After adjusting to their new environment, they're surprised to see Ysvi as she was able to find her way to them. The group then has a battle against giant rats in which Ysvi passes out. With Ysvi on the verge of death, Nemeia uses on of her health potions to revive her. They then traverse down stairs until they find themselves in a courtyard at the beginning of The Sunless Citadel.

### Entering The Citadel

As the group continues in the courtyard, they meet Akito. Gemnera gets caught in a trap but saves herself. Unfortunately, this alerts a giant rat to their location. Nemeia and Ysvi struggle to help Gemnera out of the trap. Akito tries to set the rat on fire. The rat attempts to bite Ysvi but misses. Nemeia continues to try and help Gemnera but to no avail. Ysvi then kills the rat. The group then is able to get Gemnera out of the pit. They enter some empty rooms until they find a kobold named Meepo. Ysvi then gives Mepo a piece of her dragonchess set. Mepo then promises to take the group to Yusdrayl, the kobold leader. The group questions Yusdrayl about several things, including the dragon wormling, the human crew, the goblins, and The Sunless Citadel. They then follow Meepo to the goblin's domain.

### Rescuing Calcryx

The group then enters a room with a giant room with a mysterious fountain with draconic inscriptions on wall. Nemeia reads this aloud and the fountain pours out a mysterious liquid. Akito detects that this is a fire breathing potion. Nemeia and Gemnera quickly gather the potion for later. Gemnera feels an intense cold coming from behind her. Akito senses that the door behind Gemnera has an extreme coldness to it and is trapped.  As they continue with their journey. They came across a hallway scattered with tiny jacks. Gemnera takes charge and stealthily moves them out of the way and being cautious as to not make any noise. She then notices two goblins hiding behind a small wall waiting to attack. Gemnera then decapitates one. The group then enters battle. With everyone on the crew missing their attacks, the goblin stabs Gemnera easily. Gemnera then impales him with her javelin.

The Tavern Table Recruitment continue on with their journey. They try to stealth their way forward. Meepo stumbles into a jail room full of different kobold prisoners. The group frees them and a gnome named Erky Timbers joins the crew. Meepo then remembers that he took them then takes them back through corridors. The group then stealths their way back; Erky Timbers and Meepo accidently alerts rats to their location. The group swiftly defeats them. They then enter the next room. Gemnera finds a luxurious sapphire ring. In this room is another mysterious fountain, however this one is a trap. Everyone is poisoned. Akito then makes goodberries to heal the group. Meepo, then remembers that they gone the wrong way once again and leads them all the way back to where they found Erky. They hear goblins arguing in the next room. Nemeia then convinces them that the crew is health inspectors coming to investigate the sanitation of the citadel. The goblins then take the crew deeper into the citadel.

The goblins lead the crew to Calcryx and as they attempt to take her back, the goblins start to attack. In the battle, Calcryx freezes and kills Meepo. Nemeia sets the goblins on fire but one dodges but ends up falling down a trap door where Gemnera shoots him with her bow. The crew then sets off to return Calcryx to the kobolds.

### The Twilight Grove

The group makes it back to the kobolds with Calcryx. Yusdrayl then gives the group keys for throughout the citadel. The group then travel North for the Twilight Grove. They then find the goblin's throne room and entrance to the Grove. Nemeia and Gemnera once again try to convince the goblin that the crew are health inspectors but they fail miserably. Then a battle commences. As the goblins call in for reinforcements, Ysvi jumps into the pit leading to the Twilight Grove. Everyone but Erky follows behind, with Gemnera and Akito pushing both of the goblin leaders down as well; killing them in the process. Erky retreats to the Kobolds following the chaos of the battle.

After jumping down the pit, the group finds themselves in a creepy dingy cave covered in glowing fungus. Gemnera sees that there's an undead skeleton and tree monster. After beating them in battle, the crew investigates and loots their bodies along with the goblin leader's corpses. They then investigate a nearby room after hearing voices coming from within. As they enter, they find it full of weapons and hides, with large rats guarding the entrance. After Nemeia kills the rats, the crew raids the room and takes a rest.

During their rest, the resident of the cave, Balsag returns and attack the intruders immediately. After a long battle, the crew continues their rest. When they wake again, the move towards the east and come across a makeshift lab full of goblin workers. Startled by the crew, they attack. Afterwards, the crew interrogate all the remain goblins. Being told the Druid and humans are south. The crew then continues their journey going south east in a crevasse created when the Citadel sank. Seeing a mysterious glow they go to the light. The source of the light being a fire snake that also attacks the crew as soon as they get near it. With most of the crew being badly damaged and Gemnera nearly dying the crew rests before returning to the lab. Going through the only door left, the crew encounters a gardener bugbear that sees the crew as pests invading her garden. During this battle, Ysvi and Nemeia try to break through a door going north; while Akito and Gemnera fight of the bugbear. After defeating her, the crew checks every door they can. Deciding to go north which leads to what appears to a place of worship dedicated to the dragons. Nemeia reads some draconic inscriptions which both gives her a boost in charisma but also summons an evil shadow. After fighting the shadow the crew marches further into the Twilight Grove. After enter the private office Belock, the group comes across another door. After listening in through the door, Nemeia can hear whispers and muttering; Gemnera tries to sneak in but the door creaks behind her alerting a group of goblin gardeners to their presence. Halfway during the battle, one of the goblins calls for back up bringing in even more gardeners and twig blights. After defeating all enemies, Ysvi and Nemeia investigate the room for hidden secrets. Not seeing anything of interest, the crew moves forward. Stumbling across more twig blights all the way through the rest of the cavern.

## Belak

Eventually, finally make to Belak and his henchmen; Sir Braford, Kulket, and three twig blights. Belak yells at the crew to stop advancing , but they don't listen instead they chose to fight. Ysvi and Gemnera fight without a second thought, but Nemeia decides to investigate the change in color of their skin. Discovering that Belock and his friends have bark skin which gives them greater defense. After this Belack's minions cast entanglement with only Ysvi not getting trapped. The group free themselves and retreat back to regroup.

After recovering from their battle, the group attempts to trick Belak and his minions while Gemnera tries to sneak around them. After failing to impress Belock with their dance moves Nemeia, Ysvi, and Akito enter combat with Belock and his crew. Gemnera then steps on and breaks a twig alerting a mind controlled Sharwyn. The crew then defeat Belak, Sir Braford, Kulket, and Belak's twig blights. The death of Belak frees Sharwyn from the mind control. In her dying breath, she tells the crew to destroy the Gulthias Tree. The crew looks up and sees the bodies and faces of different people including Talgen. They light the tree on fire and then leave to tell everyone what they discovered.