Campaign Part 1 Recap

Basically my understanding of the events up to the hiatus.

* **The Forest of Novelty**
	+ The original party (Kristianna Vysoren, Ömorhen Vysoren, Ga'arel, Tobias, Shawarma, Zuko, and... uh, Zeusus Nutz) are transported to the Forest of Novelty in Limbo [why were they sent there, who sent them there?].
	+ After a few fights, they meet Stinny and he sends them to fight some spiders. The party helps him, then takes a message from him to his brother Mossy (might have the two mixed up).
	+ They enter a portal and are sent back to the material plane. (Zuko is for some reason sent to Valhurst (City) separate from the rest)
* **The Battle of Torvas**
	+ The party arrives to see the city of Torvas burning. They rush in and fight the invading Valhurstian force. Robitussin and his group join the defense of Torvas and are paid by Captain Onir for their help.
	+ Captain Onir enlists the party to find how the invaders get into the city and they find out that they entered through a deep tunnel under the walls.
	+ The party is given the option of investigating the tunnel or traveling to Redwyn to inform The Wise Fool in exchange for payment, or just get their bearings in town
	+ The party chose to get their bearings and chose to take a bounty for Cedric Crewe. They earned the reward for the bounty.
	+ They also take a personal quest from Falk Mistsplitter to travel to the Shrine of Lathander to retrieve a Scroll of Amnesia so he can forget his wife who died in the invasion of the city. The party completes the task as asked, but Tobias breaks Lathander's rules and is given convincing memories of a fictional companion named Edmund.
* **The Invasion of Shellyn**
	+ The party then investigates the hole the Valhurstians used to invade Torvas. The party travels through part of the Underdark [Or maybe they decided not to and they traveled over land?]. The party joins Redwyn in attacking Shellyn, successfully taking the city [?] with the help of Redwyn's Azers, soldiers, and scouts. Parts of the city are burnt down.
	+ On the way to Shellyn, the party encounters Basilisks, then later a blind man. Ga'arel gives the man a basilisk eye so he can see but will turn anyone he looks at to stone. He then joined the party in battle and was killed, and Ömorhen destroyed it [cite Micah].
	+ A boneclaw sent by Kiaransalee captures Shawarma and brings him to Valhurst (City).
	+ Zuko, who has been working for Kiaransalee brings Tobias and Shawarma to her. She chooses to spare them as she is intrigued by their potential and wants to use them for her own gain.
	+ "Shawarma has been taken by a Boneclaw, who ran off into the Val Mountains with him impaled on one of its claws. The party finds themselves at dawn outside the cave the Redwyn scouts used as a camp outside Shellyn, with smoke rising from within the unwalled city. By familiarity with the scene at Torvas and the color of the smoke, it’s obvious the smoke originates from funeral pyres around the city in the wake of the previous night’s attack." (Main Story 2: 12/15/18)
* **The Journey to Valhurst**
	+ The rest of the party attempts to chase the boneclaw but can't keep up, and just follow its tracks through The Val Mountains.
	+ On their journey, they encounter James Windstorm being attacked by a group of 5 ogres. In this fight, an ogre named Ogga betrays the others and kills them.
	+ The party arrives at a small hamlet, Hillden, a town mostly populated by halflings.
	+ When they arrive at Valhurst, the hill giant standing guard (Glorn) asks them to state their business [how did they get in?]
* **Valhurst**
	+ Kiaransalee enlists the party to retrieve the Silver Choker of Attunement from the Crypt of the Pointing Orc. She gives them small silver trinkets that allow them to move freely in the city.
	+ Ömorhen enters a high-stakes poker [?] tournament.
	+ Kiaransalee brings James to the Phoenix, who tells James that he needs to find the staff.
	+ The party takes various odd jobs in town.
	+ One of these odd jobs involves a wizard whose young daughter stole his custom spellbook and ran off into the mountains with the family dog. The party manage to save her and retrieve the book, and the wizard gives his book, The Book of Chaos to the party, giving up his craft.
	+ The party spares Oggin and frees the evil wizard's other test subjects.
	+ James finds a fire beetle egg at the Crypt of the Pointing Orc.
	+ After returning from this mission, they're given a reward and access to the royal armory, the option to request custom items, and one item each from the DMG loot table.
	+ Kristianna spends time in town ~~being a fucking nerd~~ researching the eternal wars, the history of Valhurst, and Mr. Bigsby.
	+ Kiaransalee informs the party that stopping Fraz-Urb'luu from assembling the staff is the priority rather than the war with Redwyn. She sends them to Torvas.
* **Back to Torvas**
	+ While journeying to Torvas, the party is ambushed by rune hunters who have been tracking Kristianna since she and Ömorhen left Aquila.
	+ Kristianna is killed, but Ömorhen uses a spell in the Book of Chaos to trade his soul for hers, causing his warlock patron Mr. Bigsby, aka Fraz-Urb'luu, to claim his soul. He also taunts the party and brags about how he's going to conquer the world with The Staff of Power, I think.
	+ The party discovers Hex lying as a heap of scrap in the middle of nowhere.
	+ While in Torvas, the party is sent to Redwyn (City) by portal to speak with The Wise Fool, who gives them a book that allows different members of the party to see different pieces of the staff.
	+ The party meets Voltuun, a knight who has a grudge against The Silver-Tongued Serpent and agrees to help them root out The Silvertongues' hideout in Torvas.
	+ The party follows Voltuun's lead to find a woman named Guenevere in Torvas. They discover that Guenevere was the wife of Falk, who now has no memory of her. Falk's son, Naran, asks the party to reverse the spell. The party travels back to the Shrine of Lathander. The party is unable to use the Scroll of False Mind to undo the damage [?].
	+ The party is stopped by some Redwyn soldiers on the way back. They lie and say that they are citizens of Redwyn, so the soldiers search them and find their Valhurst identification trinkets. Kristianna calls the leaders of both nations "petty," and the soldiers take offense to this insult to their king. A fight breaks out, and a diviner is able to teleport back to town before the party can stop him, so even though the party eliminates the rest of the squad they are going to be identified as criminals.
	+ However, the party is not stopped when they return to Torvas.
	+ The party lays low while searching for the Silvertongues' Torvas Hideout.
	+ The party find the sewer grate that leads to the hideout and use Guenevere's silver ring to open it. They clear it out, but the Warlock of the Fiend who had the Wand of Lolth used dimension door to escape but dropped the wand.
	+ The party reads The Silvertongues' Torvas Hideout Orders.
	+ When they leave the sewer, they're attacked by Silvertongues, but Onir and some guards help them. Onir asks them if they really committed the crime they were wanted for. They successfully lied to him and he helped them escape town.
* **Journey into the Desert**
	+ The party buys a cart and multiple barrels of water for the journey to find The Dust Caravan's lair.
	+ An encounter with a large purple worm damages the cart and destroys a lot of their water.
	+ The party tracks the Dust Caravan into a maze of canyon passes in the northern Red Desert.
	+ The party finds the door to the Dust Caravan's lair.