Dragon Sledgehammer

A 5th edition campaign ran by Looweeja and Zerxrez set in Drakkum. The player characters were all Manaknights who were hired by Monikaa Scrill to assist her in a investigation, a serial killer loose in Magnacerta!

### Characters

Vaynya [insert details] [Include character sheet]

Everit Darkflame [insert details] [Include character sheet]

Kay Blackbrook [insert details] [Include character sheet]

Decker [insert details] [Include character sheet]

### Campaign

#### Intro adventure:

The level 2 gang was on a mission into the [insert family name here]'s old manor, to retrieve a ring of wishes. The party entered into the sunken manor through the chimney. And quickly deduced a clue from the house's motto: "[Insert house motto here]". From this, the characters entered the library after Everit cast light, to brighten up the surroundings.

In the study, there were greeted by a malfunctioning automaton named Jeeves who offered each character a cigar and refering to them as his master, which only Kay accepted. Investigating the books revealed that they were all blank, but when Vaynya asked Jeeves to retrieve the family book, it opened up a passageway that was a stone slide, leading downstairs. Kay immediatly slid down, and sucsessfully managed to cast mage armour while doing so. The rest of the group showed more hesitation (Especially [Insert Popcorn character name]), but one by one they all decended below.

The hidden chamber was filled with gold and the wishing ring! Suspecting a trap, the group was *hella* sus. Opening a door showed a secret entrance to the manor's kitchens, however when the doddled near the threshold, Everit was struck by a thrown cleaver! Combat had started.

Everit quickly rushed into the room, facing yet another malfunctioning automaton. In his haste however, he got wacked on the head by a frozen turkey! {Yes, actually}. It seemed that the walk-in freezer was in a sort of turret mode, and would fire at any creature that moved within it's line of sight. [Add more details]. His unconcious body limp in the freezer, a quick burst of inspiration from the dragon aspect Valrunga awoke Everit! {natural 20 on death saving throw} Fearing what would happen if he stayed in the freezer a moment longer, he cast thunder wave, which in the contained area of the freezer destroyed it from the inside! The gang all beaten and bruised, found a masterwork parring knife in the body of the deranged chef automaton. The group reconviened and went back into the treasure room.

Kay, disliking the smell of the rancid unthawing meat, quickly snatched the ring of wishes from it's pedistal to speed things along. Sensing that it wasn't cursed or trapped, Vaynya cast mage hand to carefully inspect the pile of gold coins and bars in the center of the room. After inspecting some of the gold [Insert Popcorn character name] believed it to secretly be made of platnium, however Vaynya correctly deduced that it was unfortunatly mere tin. And it was hollow to boot!

Exhausted and bloody, the group went up the stairs, and left the manor, not pushing their luck any further.

Back at the outpost of the Manaknights, they heard of an interesting offer from Scott [insert last name] about a job oppertunity...

#### Session 1

The gang travels in a fancy carrige bought by the people of Drakkum to transport them over an enormous bridge. On which it seems like various gnomes are living. The group decides to call themselves Champions of the Mets, to disguise their relation to the Manaknights.

At the end of the bridge, they meet a Silver Dragon born named Bwenden holding up a wonderfully illustraited sign with the party name on it. He tells them he is their chauffeur to the city and to bring them to their emplyers. Unfortunatly he only had a single ring of Draconic speech, and so Kay was unable to comunicate to many characters for the remainder of the session. While [Insert Popcorn character name] was very suspicios of bwenden, Vaynya hit it off and even decided to go out on a date with Bwenden.

They make it to the capitol building, which is a giant lighthouse, and boasts a dragon egg, and serveal ballista. They enter into the building and are greeted by their employer, Monikaa Scrill, a kenku investigator. She quickly takes them up a couple floors to be introduced to Xavier Whistlewart, the mayor of Magnacerta and direct superior of Monikaa. He welcomes them to be part of the team and vacates his office, letting Monikaa tell them about their first assignment;

Numerous cult markings were placed around the scene of the murders and so Monikaa askes the player characters to sneak into a library and steal books about them, their titles being "Cult markings for dummies", "Symbols and their meanings", and "100 signs you’ve accidentally joined a cult (Don’t worry, we’ve all been there)". The PCs are agast at this level of brazen lawbreaking and offer a compromise, they assume disguises and fake identities to check the books out instead, which Monikaa agrees with.

To sort out their disguises the gang goes to a hotel named Romanian that is also pre-payed for. Once in their room, Kay and [Insert Popcorn character name] quickly use their magical power and a sink to completly destroy the handmade sign, so they leave no trace as to who they are. While Vaynya and Everit scout out the library, Kay and [Insert Popcorn character name] go for food. (The group and GMs split up)

##### Scouting Mission {Arcane, Arch and Zerxrez}

Upon entering the library, they both saw a character that both had a history with, Ronnoc Darkflame(1). While Everit chose to avoid his cousin. Vaynya went up and talked to her, and Ronnoc trusted Vaynya enough to give her a sending stone and an advanced pistol.

Everit and Vaynya discovered the books they were looking for, and discovered that the librarian was a flumph, a psyonic creature that speaks telepathicly. Eager to report their findings Everit went out looking for their other two members, while Vaynya stayed inside reading.

##### Taco Time {Popcorn, Jeb and Looweeja}

[Insert what happened here]

Once all together, the gang hatched a cunning plan, to get Kay drunk enough so that the flumph would get drunk as well, and so it wouldn't remember them! Unfortunatly Kay was a little too drunk and Vaynya had to assist in the subterfuge. Eventually they got the books, and while Kay used her real name, left a false address.

The gang then split up until they were called upon by Monikaa for their next mession!

#### Session 2

The session started out with Vaynya and Everit discussing purchasing property elsewhere in Magacerta, as the Romanian was too fancy for them (It even had stair assistents!).

##### Package

They then got a knock on their door, a vallet which had a package for them from Monikaa. Inside the package was this note:

“First of all, thank you for the books! While there isn’t anything in here yet that helps out the case, I’ll keep looking!

A little background before your assignment, the serial killer/cult commits the murders in cycles based on the rulers, first it is a green (or chromatic) dragonborn, then it is a Urealms elf from one of their major families, then it is a Dwarf, the taller the better, and then finally a Silver dragonborn, before the cycle resets itself.

We’ve already had a poor blue Dragonborn found dead, along with a Urealms elf. (Right after that I started searching for a task force to help me) and now it’s been a couple days since the last reported murder. I think it’s today! I’ve found two such individuals for you to follow for your shift today, make sure they do not see you and they go about their regular business, we might be able to catch the criminal in the act! This might be a bit of a long shot, but in regard to decoding information I’ve got it covered myself and you're paid weekly, best get good use out of ya! ; ). If they both remain alive and mostly uninjured at the end of your shift, I’ll include a bonus for next week!

~~Sincerely, Monikaa Quill

P.S. I heard you all are wanting to set up a permanent base of operations, that’s great! If you purchase some lodging elsewhere, just let me know and we’ll stop paying for the room at the Romanian, you’ll get a substantial pay raise!

P. S. S. I’ve included another ring of Draconic in the package. Sorry Kay!

P. S. S. S. Good luck out there, it’s really something![2]"

Also included was weekly wages from the Manaknights, 5 platnium for each, and double for Everit, the leader. Two personalized documents about each of the potential victims, and another ring of Draconic, for Kay to wear.

With their mission in hand, the group split up to follow each of the characters; Everit and Decker tackling one, while Vaynya and Kay following the other.

##### Everit and Decker

Their target they were set to follow was a lady by the name of Henrietta Beardbeard, who worked at a pet shop and left her homeland of Variisia due to her genetic condition. [Insert what happened here]

Vaynya and Kay

Their target they were set to follow was a man named Senderson, a dwarf who seemed to be consistantly between jobs. Kay kad seen him a few times at the forge. Wanting to remain in the rain for the least amount of time as possible, they went to the forge to hopefully find him. Which they did! He was finishing up working on a sword for someone, and then started to work on a smaller project which neither Kay nor Vaynya could see. After around an hour Senderson went back to his house, Kay followed stealhily, and while Vaynya had trouble driving Kay's cart, devised a solution using mage hand and an apple that convinced the donkeys to drive her back to the hotel.

Senderson did not stay long in his house, departing in a bit of a fancier suit, and carrying a flower, he then led Kay, and eventually Vaynya into a small resteraunt run by the Flambe family where he met up with a blue dragonborn, they were on a date! Kay got a table nearby, within sight but not earshot, while Vaynya remained outside in a nearby park, though thankfully in a gazeebo and out of the rain. Sensing an opportunity for a date, Kay's patron, Dave took the seat opposite and started conversing with Kay. Over the course of their date, Dave revealed he knew of Senderson, and very tentitively suggested taking him on as a warlock as well. Kay was up for this idea, and suggested they meet sometime soon. Dave with his enhanced perception was able to easily eavesdrop on the conversation between Senderson and his date, revealing to Kay that while they do love eachother, the dragonborn unfortunatly had to leave town amid the serial killings, which Senderson was greatly troubled by. They then packed up to leave, with Kay following slowly, while Dave payed for the meal.

### OOC

During session zero, the players were all handed a campaign handout:

[1]Specifically the Ronnoc played by Arch in the Ryoma Catsi's Basement Busters campaign.

[2] The City of Magnacerta was currently experiencing a hurricane due to a weather roll of a natural 12 on Mythgnomer's GM screen.