Lost Mines of Phandelver

### General Overview

Lost Mines of Phandelver is the story of a group of heroes who are trying to prevent Ragnarok, the Norse end of the world. It is based off the original story of the same name that Wizards of the Coast produced as a module for players to use. While there are many references to this story, it is not set, or follows the tale that it tells. Lost Mines takes place in Phandelver, which is set in the middle of the Norse Pantheon and retells many of the stories and legends from it's history, with some exciting twists.

### History

Lost Mines of Phandelver was created by Ed Greenwood in 2014, this version was written and played by Jacob Baguio. It tells the story of Heroes of Phandelver (who are currently named the Middy G's) and their quest to rebind Fenrir and stop Ragnarok, but the villain Black Spider has other plans for Fenrir. The story follows these (living) characters:

- Osiris Blackwig: Barbarian Ravenite Dragonborn, leader of Tribe of All.

- Elaine Blackwig: Cleric/Paladin Half Elf, Osiris's wife, daughter of Loki, acting mother of the group.

- Silk: Druid/ Wizard Tiefling, grandchild of Freyr and moral support.

- Hitori Tamashi: Rogue Fire Genasi, resident thief, pyromaniac, and self-proclaimed orphan kicker.

- Mr. Hunky Dory: Tabaxi Bard, lead singer of the band "Lt. Bell Peppers"

- Lo Long: White Dragonborn Fighter, son of general Xue Long and one of the most feared warriors both alive and dead. (previously resurrected)

- Kaine: Rogue Half Elf, twin brother of Cry a former deceased member, the quiet and dangerous type.

- Panupa: Monk Half Elf, cold as ice ninja who can kill you without you ever realizing.

- + (NPCs and Deceased)

The story is separated into Acts, side stories and oneshots will be listed differently.

### Act 1

The party meet by getting a job from a mysterious buyer. They are tasked to deliver a cart to the Lionshield Inn to collect their money. When they take it, the cart is stolen by the Red Brand Ruffians. They managed to sneak in when they interrogate three of them about the cart and in the Red Brand Mansion, they meet their leader Iarno (Glasstaff) Albrieck, or Ian for short. He agrees to let them take it if they solve a problem of his own, which is to kill the bread monster in the kitchen. After they do, they get the cart and are able to turn it in for money, but not before getting another task.

They hear about a task to rescue a man from the Goblin Caves named Sildar Hallwinter. Supposedly he'd been kidnapped by the goblins. After they rescue him with the help of another prisoner named Candy, they are paid for their troubles. They also rescue a sea elf by the name Finbar in the process. But while in the cave they discover an axe that is submerged in the water, with runic scriptures on it in draconic that read "Leviathan", so naturally they take it. In another store, Osiris gets his attention caught by a golden looking sword that almost speaks to him (figuratively). There is writing on it as well that say "Sumarbrandr" with a mysterious symbol carved on the pommel in the shape of a fist with the letter HOS on it. He buys it and is invited to dinner with the Ruffians. Ian tells them about a prophecy he had heard about Ragnarok. Everyone of course asks because they have no idea what he means, but he explains further with a lot of exposition.

TL;DR Version: While it's true that Fenrir escapes and ends the world, it's possible to rebind him and stop that. He's getting loose, and someone needs to stop him.

Ian mentions that there are weapons that are tied to the prophecy as well, including Sumarbrandr. Osiris gets a book from the Ruffian library and sees that Sumarbrandr is in it, as well as the Leviathan and so much more. These weapons are called "Divine Hands" and they are remnants of the Norse Gods old armory before switching to dwarf smiths. They were created by the Hands of Steel over 200 years ago. Osiris equips the sword and once it activates, the blade floats up and starts to talk. They name him Jack, Jack Black. Ian tells them they can use Jack to get to one of the Nine Realms Nidavellir to create the rope that's needed for Fenrir. Before that, Ian tells them of loot in the goblin cave which they want to get, unfortunately during this raid a party member is decapitated and killed by mistake, Artemis their drow monk. They bury him and keep the head as a memory. Another member Ae is also killed by a heart attack from a shirt smoothie. The party is introduced to Diana, an air genasi monk. Diana fins a pair of gauntlets in a store, later to be revealed as Storm Gauntlets.

The name "Lost Mines" refer to the mines the dwarves made to access all Nine Realms. They were lost, but not out of commission, and they had to use it since apparently the Nine Realms were closed off for centuries before they came along. Once in Nidavellir, they met the legendary smith Eitri and asked him to create a rope to bind Fenrir. He needed a few things first. A spool of silk, healthy deep fried food, hair from a short beard of a dwarf, a golden dragon scale, a bucket of lava and an intelligent flower. While getting them, Dannabelle, the human rogue, finds a cave with a large leather boot and promptly puts it one. It's later revealed as a Divine hand; the Boot of Vengeance. Another thing they discover is a hot spring, and Artemis's head is dipped into it and brings Mimir to life. Mimir would join them on the rest of the adventure. Once the party had all that, they were set, that was the easy part however.

Once they got back they spent sometime doing more tasks to get stronger and better. then came along Alfheim. They headed to Alfheim to meet with Freyr so they can continue their quest. Freyr was the Lord of Alfheim and Light Elves, they needed his help. He was also the prior wielder of Jack, who resents him because he broke the "bro code" and the "blades before babes" pact. Some of the party gets caught breaking into a house and are arrested. They manage to bail them out and meet with Freyr. But before they can do that, they are ambushed by the forces of Muspellheim, a fiery soldier named Dante who attacks the party to steal Jack. The party beats him and gets a new weapon in the form of the Crushbow, which he stole. It goes to Cry

Once they get what they need, Cry meets her father Mr. P, who tried to take advantage of the crowd and the party by selling them a faulty contraption. The contraption is a creature called the Clockwork Reliquary which has the skeletal body of Artemis and a head of a Mindflayer, which separated Lo and his battalion in a fight. He despises it, and decides to kill it on the spot, however it had a venomous attack which fatally wounded Lo.

As Lo laid lifeless, the last thing he saw was a winged woman on a horse and a golden light. Lo is dead.

End of Act 1.

### Act 2

With Lo dead, they decide to get him back. If legends are correct, he should be in Valhalla for the honored deceased. So they decide to go to Asgard and drop Mr. P with the Ruffians as punishment. When in Asgard during a beach episode, Silk discovers a golden helmet in the water. It's her Divine Hand called the Harvest Helmet. Diana and Silk also meet up with Finbar again, but it's exposition. When in Asgard and they meet the gods, they want them to interrogate an intruder. The intruder is Dante, they manage to convince him to join the party.

Lo wakes up in Valhalla, which looks like a hotel. He learns he can't die in here after seeing a guy get impaled. He's invited to dinner by the manager Helgi to review his death. The party enters and Odin tells them to get him out, they need to get the master key in his office in Valhalla. They learn that the squirrel Ratatosk has it, and subdue the monster to get it. They break Lo out and are confronted with the Valkyrie captain Gunilla, but they knock her out to leave.

The party goes back to Phandalin and meets Hitori, a thief who tries to steal from them. He joins in after they discover a local trailer park selling illegal drugs and dug up the deceased Ae as fertilizer.

They get to Jotunheim to find a relic that Elaine had seen in her dreams, a spider sceptre and a webby armor. They have to traverse a dungeon which is inside of an ancient Jotun, the first giant named Ymir. Mindflayers had overrun the place before, but seem to be dead now. When reaching the end of the dungeon, the party finds the Spider Sceptre, but before grabbing it, it flies into the hands of Black Spider. They meet for the first time here and they find out he's Elaine's brother, Trickster's Son. He had killed Loki before they could get to him, and escapes, but they got the armor the Web of Lies.

The party goes to Vanaheim to continue their mission, which they have been to before but it doesn't matter. The first time they go to Vanaheim, they meet the rogue Charlie who stops them to make sure they aren't sketchy. Freyja asked them to deal a creature called the Acid Queen there before she can help.

The second time they go there, the place has been overrun with fire giants and Freyja had been kidnapped, along with Freyr. The citizens were being captured and imprisoned by Surtr the Lord of Muspellheim as a part of his conquest. Dante, being the son of Surtr is against this and helps the party to defy him. The party interrogates a group of chefs that work for Surtr and Hitori gets his Divine Hand from them, Torchshot. They learn that he had hired a traitor to Vanaheim who goes by The Chef to create food monsters as a way to take over. The Chef is revealed as Charlie's father, and they break into Surtr's stronghold and defeat the Chef. Charlie isn't too happy with the news and goes rogue. Surtr comes in and tried to steal Jack from Osiris, but with their combined strength and Surtr's fire, it breaks Jack in half and effectively kills him.

End of Act 2.

### Act 3

They weren't done yet, they still had an army and the party stages a revolution to save Vanaheim. With an army behind them, they managed to corral the giants and army in one spot. Dannabelle crushes the whole army in one stomp under his gigantic boot which has grown to ridiculous proportions. Devasted by the loss of Jack, Osiris repairs the sword, but it has no soul inside.

When they return to Phandalin, they realize that their favorite NPC, Apple Boy had been kidnapped. They find out that a cannibal black market is running underground led by Dannabelle's father. Once they find him and Dannabelle kills him, he makes the workers disband and ends the market. Seeing his job is done, Dannabelle walks into the fog at night, never to be seen again. They meet their next party member Mr Hunky Dory, a glamrock singer who's on tour. they also briefly meet the comedian Jon Miscellaneous, Hunky Dory's rival.

The party gets a message from Glory Hill City, a kingdom outside of Phandelver, Mr Hunky Dory helps them get there on his magic tour bus. When they get there Lo is greeted by his friends and his father who tells him that a dragon had been attacking lately and the Dragonlord needs his help. They say that it's a weird one since it had 6 arms and rings on all of them. When they fight it, the dragon turns into a half elf, Mr. P, and the one controlling him was in fact Charlie who is seeking revenge for their father's death. Later they find out Charlie was actually trying to break in underground to get to the Hands of Steel, who was under the Dragon Tower. They go into the dungeon where he's being held and meet for the first time an air genasi lady named Hecate who sells them a variety of weird magic items and a key to the dungeon. Going through the dungeon, Hitori faces his dead mother and shoots her in the face and they finally make it to the chamber of the Hands of Steel. He claims he can fix Jack by getting him to Helheim and asking Hela for help. He is also revealed to be Osiris's grandfather in this scene before leaving as it's an emergency.

Side Note: Charlie is revealed to have another Divine Hand, specifically Dannabelle's Boot of Vengeance. It is unclear if Charlie killed him for it or not, the time frame of when is obscure as well. In Helheim they see some deceased members like Ae, Artemis, Dannabelle and others.

In Helheim the land of souls, they find pages left by Black Spider detailing his time here and his origins for destroying the world. When getting to Hela, she says she can fix Jack, but only if someone gives their soul to her. Either their soul, or a soul in her realm, she doesn't care. The deceased soul of the Chef volunteers, maybe as an act of retribution for his crimes. His soul is merged with Jack and he is brought back to life.

The party go to Tribe of All after some adventuring and find out that they can actually find a way to kill Fenrir. They need nine ingredients from the nine relams. The Tribe of All's magic expert Visitor, tells them the following.

- The Seashells of Jotunheim's Ocean

- The Sun of Nidavellir

- The Moon of Alfheim

- The Hunting Horn of Hela

- The Tooth of Jormungandr

- The Scale of Niddhogg

- The Fruit of Yggdrasil

- The Eternal Flame of Muspellheim

ann the Dreadroot of Vanaheim.

First they get the dreadroot from Vanaheim, easy enough. But then they must go to the Feywilds to get the Fey Diamond from the, you guessed it, Fey Queen. They go in, steal it, turn the queen to a fern and leave. Easy enough.

It turns out they need it for the real ingredient in Yorksfire, Hitori's hometown. Charlie is there waiting to kidnap and assassinate Dante because he is a son of Surtr. Before they can, Cry steps up and duels Charlie. She loses unfortunately and is killed by Charlie, who gives them a second chance in Vanaheim to be with Freyja as a reward. Charlie doesn't kill Dante, instead let's him go out of pity.

The dungeon they go through is called the Maw of Fire, but they soon realize it's the body of Jormungandr the World Serpent. The reason Jormungandr isn't reacting is because his body is infested with Mindflayers. The final battle in his body is against their leader, the Elder Brain. The Elder Brain reveals the truth about the night Silk's parent's were killed. Dante was the one who started the fire. Devastated by this, Silk forces Dante to leave and never to see her again. He listens and walks away from the adventure.

End of Act 3.

### Act 4

The party still gets Jormungandr's tooth in exchange for the diamond. Hitori gets a special morph knife in return. Hecate meets with them and gives them a side job to take out her competition, or to do things for her in return for a reward.

Back in Tribe of All, Osiris learns people from his outer tribes have been kidnapped and taken to Black Spider's city Neight Veil. The party decides to go to Neight Veil and break them out. After some sneaky stuff and a run in with a plague doctor, they get help from a spy on the inside who supposedly defected from Spider. She leads them in and they find the prison.

Before hand, Hecate sells them a truesight camera, which reveals illusions.

When in the prison, the defector meets up with them, and using the camera it turns out to be Black Spider. Luckily Mr Hunky Dory summons his bus and gets everyone inside to drive off. Black Spider catches them in a giant web and Hitori burns it to escape. They literally drive through a wall of zombies to escape into a boat. On that boat, Hecate delivers a message to Silk from her grandad about her 21st birthday. They go to Vaxton for a relaxing day, and ghostbusting. The day after, Black Spider reveals to the whole world the identities of his personal army the Four Horsemen.

Back to their quest, the party goes back to Helheim to get the horn. They soon discover it's in chaos due to the horn being used over and over. Hecate who is mourning over the grave of Nezznar (Black Spider) helps the party get to the castle unharmed. On the way there, Silk adopts a Helhound she names Sy. They soon discover the horn as well as Hela had been taken over by one of the Horsemen, Joy Morningstar. She offers to let them have the horn if they can defeat her warrior, Charlie who has 3 Divine Hands in their possession. They'd been hypnotized with the help of Jon Miscellaneous and used for combat. After beating Charlie unconscious, Joy gives them the horn as a woman of her word, but not before leaving a present. She sets her Divine hand to self destruct before leaving. The party throws the weapon into the sky where it explodes violently. They find Hela incarcerated with a similar magic rope they had and free her. Before leaving, Elaine give her sister the present Hecate told her to give. Upon exiting, the present is a foam bomb prank gift that engulfs her castle in elephant toothpaste.

When they get back to Phandalin, they tie up Charlie and interrogate him. After some considerations and negotiations with Charlie, the crew find out that the seashells of Jotunheim are in the Jotun Ocean, but to get there they must get to Barovia in the Commonia Kingdom, for their tree will not be able to lead them to the Jotun Ocean as planned. On the way Black Spider puts a bounty on their heads. During a bathroom break, Hitori finds someone in the woods, it's Dante. He tells them he's on a secret quest at the moment, and not to tell the others. Hitori slips a tracker bullet on him and promises to keep it shut. back with the party, they find Thor in one of the outhouses, and he says that his hammer had been stolen. He wants them to find it. He thinks giants stole it.

Once in the ocean, they realize it is much similar to a normal sea, but everything is 100 times bigger. Simple fishes like salmon or guppies are the sizae of fully grown whales. Speaking of whales, they arrive to the city of Yotelantis which is inside of a giant whale carcass. There they take a break and go shopping, which is where Silk got her pet mimic cloak she names "Finn" and where Charlie gets his famous jellyfish hat. Charlie takes this time to unwind and relax for once, the whole time he'd been on a revenge quest, now he can just connect with friends. Hitori and Panupa rob a bank. They also find a small crystal in the vaults. The party meets up with Finbar who tells them that the shells were stolen earlier and that he needs help to retrieve them. After taking a long rest, they are awaken by Finbar who tells them that Neight Veil police are outside looking for them. This is because Silk told someone they were here by mistake, the bounty is still on here.

Finbar sneaks them out to where the shells may be. A wrestling competition called Rumble for Ragnarok, who's main prize is Thor's hammer. The host is Thrymm, son of Thrymm son of Thrymm. One of the giants from the story of Thor's missing hammer. The constellation is a new servant who is wearing the shells as a crown. Her name is Soleil Caldera, and she was tricked by a mystery woman to go here by giving free tickets. To win the hammer and save her, they have to compete. Lo is chosen for the big fight on the last contestant who is revealed as Modurk the Remorseless. The party meet the other contestants, Gary Grimm, Dirtwing Duck and Jerry "Jormungandr" Grappler. The party manages to individually beat them all, but when it came to Modurk, Lo was almost killed. The only reason he didn't die was because Hitori managed to shoot the chain holding the hammer and land it on Modurk. In the chaos, the giants get mad and try to attack them, and Leonan steals the shells from the party. They get away with the hammer and Soleil safely. It turns out Hecate was the one who gave her the tickets, but makes it up to her by giving her a Divine hand. Soleil goes home right after with a new Divine Hand.

The party sets their eyes towards Alfheim for the Moon of said place. To go there, Mr. Hunky Dory drives them to the Merlus Dynasty. When getting there, they see a giant screen with Jon Miscellaneous on it, which annoys Hunky Dory. Getting to Alfheim, the party hears about a festival and head over. It turns out that Jon had used the Moon to hypnotize Alfheim into loving him and turn it into night, which is deadly to Light Elves. he also put the Horsemen under a spell. Jon turned the entire realm into his own personal musical, which he sang songs like "The Greatest Show", "My Shot", "Johnny B Goode" and so on with the appropriate context to his plans. His plan is to overthrow Black Spider with the Horsemen's help. Joy finds a loophole through the help of the Heroes.

First she suggests winning against a flyting, ancient duel of insults. Hunky Dory loses and loses his guitar. Next she suggests to win against him at a battle of the bands. When she realizes that they won't trust her, she returns him the guitar as a peace offering. The only way to actually beat Jon is to get his ego down low enough that the Moon will reject him. If they don't succeed, Alfheim will be dead at the end of the week. They break out all they have and perform Bohemian Rhapsody as their song. Jon is so distraught that he tries to kill them with his Divine hand and the Moon. After being beaten in combat, Black Spider comes in when he hears about Jon's plan and blows his head up. He lets the Heroes keep the Moon for now, soon he will have it.

End of Act 4.

### Act 5

When the party gets back to Tribe of All, Visitor tells them that the GlamourNet is down. They need to get to Nidavellir to fix it, since it's the source of all their communications.

In Nidavellir, they see that the whole town is turned into stone, when they find Eitri, he tells them that someone used the Sun of Nidavellir to do this. All they need to do is put running water over them, but they need to find who did this first. Eitri tells them that the entrance to the GlamourNet is in Goldilocks the Dragon's cave. When they enter, the GlamourNet center is an old looking factory. They are met with one of the Horsemen, Kindel Inferno, who reveals she is Dante's blind sister. Kindel is a streamer on the popular streaming service Glitch, and she traps everyone into a dungeon for clout. She got increasingly frustrated with how easy they went through and berated them with insults. Hitori makes a golem using a golem machine in the dungeon and keeps it as his assistant. he names it Tor, When they escape, Hitori sneaks in and confronts Kindel head on. It was a long fight and they find out a few things. Kindel can see heat signatures, she can't see people with low body temperatures like Lo and Panupa, if she uses her arm too much, it explodes. They tie her up and take her along with them, after taking the Sun from her. Eitri later reveals that she was his apprentice and taught her everything she knows about engineering, but resents her for founding Finnore tech.

Kindel hates every second with them.

Back in Tribe of All, Lo agrees to a favor with Hecate to deliver a package to Natasha the Dark.

The party gets to Niflheim and finds Dante in the snow. Silk gets a heartwarming reunion with him. After a lot of hijinks and Kindel insulting her brother, Lo makes it to Tasha's castle which was difficult to get to as a result of her illusion magic. Turns out the package was Doordash. She does agree to help the party, but she needs to find a priority first since someone else asked. That someone else turns out to be Modurk, who has become an echo knight at this point. She sets up a competiton of Body, Mind, Soul, Honor and Heart to see who is worthy. Lo of course passes, but not before the Horsemen fighting them. Dante is fatally wounded, but manages to push through it when he unlocks his full potential with the Crushbow after facing his emotions with Silk. Kindel gets away. Tasha gives them a large pair of tongs to take it. The party manages to get to Niddhogg the Ice Dragon to steal his scale, after a beach scene where Tasha gives back Kindel, and successfully get the scale. Silk gets kidnapped though.

Silk is taken to a nature like atrium where she is met with Niddhogg who she helps with his insults. the party goes up to Asgard and meet with the Norse Gods for help. Odin claims that Heimdall had been missing so they put a statue in front so the giants won't notice and that they think he's with the fruit of Yggdrasil, a legendary fruit which can kill a god or take away their immortality. The fruit is in the Atrium, the most dangerous jungle in the universe where every extinct, non extinct and nightmare animal is. It's also where they meet with Leonan, who hunts them down like prey. Joy is also up there, but Silk punches her off the tree, Lo faces off with multiple clones of Modurk and is preoccupied.

Silk manages to take the fruit, save the party from Joy and Leonan, and is awarded with a legendary druid staff. Charlie gets a tip from one of Hecate's spies and Lo reveals later on that the person in the footage might be Modurk in disguise.

Before they can go, Jack is kidnapped by a B-rex and the party must retrieve them. The giant bees are being controlled by Ratatosk. The party kills him and gets back to see that Tribe of All is burning, the items they collected were stolen and that Kindel was a fake. the Horsemen were here all along and burned it to the ground. Osiris takes an oath to destroy Neight Veil and begins his metamorphisis to his Titanwing Form.

The assault on Neight Veil consisted of the forces of Tribe of All and Glory Hill City. Xue Long and the Tribe's Dragon would distract Neight Veil's dragon Korvax the Melter. Meanwhile they would enter in and take a direct assault to the Horsemen, and to free the Kuo-Toa which Visitor and Scourge discovered Black Spider had kidnapped. On the direct assault, the heroes finally took out one of the Horsemen, Lo had killed Modurk the Remorseless. Lo took his hammer and gauntlets as a prize. As for the others, Kindel had spared Hitori, Leonan escaped and Joy fleed as well when she realized she was all alone. After killing Modurk and evacuating the city, Korvax was crushed using the Boot of Vengeance operated by Scourge, they save the Kuo-Toa, and Hitori used the arm Kindel stole from Hecate and melted the city to the ground.

End of Act 5.

### Act 6

The party travels to Muspellheim to retrieve the flame. On the way, they discover that it's the home of a hot new game show. It's later revealed that Kindel is the one who hosts it, and called it "Muspell Mayhem" after Hitori's ultimate attack. The agme show consisted of questions pertaining to them and the adventure, whoever won can go get the Flame. Whoever lost stayed behind to fight her. The party at this point was separated, it was team 2 consisting of Lo, Osiris, Elaine and Mr Hunky Dory who won and went to get the Flame. Team 1, which consisted of the rest stayed behind to fight Kindel.

The Eternal Flame is guarded by and Ancient Red Dragon.

*to be continued...*

### All Characters

These are all the major characters who have showed up so far.

- Osiris Blackwig

- Elaine Blackwig

- Silk

- Mr Hunky Dory

- Panupa Shimada

- Lo Long

- Hitori Tamashi

- Kaine

- Cry

- Artemis

- Ae

- Diana

- Dannabelle

- Charlie Fierro

- Dante Inferno

- Hecate Lakeler

- Scourge

- Fallen

- Vecna

- Visitor

- Kindel Inferno

- Joy Morningstar

- Modurk the Remorseless

- Leonan Crestfist

- Jon Miscellaneous

- Black Spider

## Trivia

- Jon Miscellaneous is a parody of John Mulaney

- The Four Horsemen were a concept idea that was given life when pointed out they were the heroes' foils.

- It's a twist on the LMP story, but also started out as a lot of Magnus Chase references due to the fact I was reading it at the time.

- Kindel is the most popular Horsemen

- Hitori is voted to have the coolest Divine Hand

- Divine Hands were a throwaway concept that I expanded, and inspired by weapons from another friends campaign. They were called "Imperial Arms" there.

- The original names were "Godly Mistakes"

- Charlie is based off Alex Fierro of the Magnus Chase Series

- Dante is a Zuko rip off

- It is implied (and basically canon) that Charlie and Hecate have become a couple recently.

- Dante has feelings for Silk, but she doesn't reciprocate.

- There have been many players in this game, very few have stuck around.

- LMP has been going on for 2 years.

- LMP might have gone much differently if the pandemic wasn't a thing.

- My hands hurt typing all this.

- This page was created by Jacob Baguio