A Divergent Dream

**A Divergent Dream** is a four-part campaign that is running in the fourth quarter of 2022. It is DMed by Ali Alderete.

## Player characters

* Winnow, played by Evey Larham
* Garnott, played by Josh
* SERRA, played by Natalie Winter
* Navri, played by Vee
* Lazare, played by Nathan

## Plot

Winnow and SERRA return to Esmeltaran, in Amn, after a botched adventure. The Adventurers' Guild, known as The Guild (TM), after registering SERRA as Winnow's familiar, offer them a new job with Robert the Squirrel. He has also requested Navri Shimmer, bard extraordinaire, and her entourage of Garnott and Lazare, to join in this job. They are tasked with tracking down Mr Kasel, a tortle, who was recently seen at a nearby circus.

Heading to the Gothic Circus on Lake Esmel nearby, the party discover that Mr Kasel was kidnapped from the circus, and are offered more information by the circus' coven of medusa seers - in return for replacing some missing circus performers during the show. Garnott, Navri and SERRA all perform well, and are gifted with a vision:

* Garnott witnesses a family tree being damaged and trimmed.
* Winnow meets an otherworldly being, who seems linked to their tattoo.
* SERRA sees two potential siblings/shared souls.
* Navri sees her future self, with an air of unfamiliarity.
* Lazare views his god, but receives choices from another entity.

They also all see a vision of Mr Kasel, on the far side of Lake Esmel. When they return from their visions, the circus has disappeared - and it appears the tea was drugged, as many hours have passed! Lazare continues to drink it. The party decide to cross the lake by boat, although Winnow decides to swim - which encourages SERRA to do the same, although she cannot. As she steps into the water, she is returned to the boat by strange ephemeral tentacles - which she refers to as the Lonely One - her patron.

The party arrive on the far side of the lake and enter a hidden cave - and are attacked by strange aberrant humanoids wearing masks, as the pool they are in fills with piranhas. They manage to defeat the aberrations, and SERRA puts one of the masks on - which creates a projection of the Lonely One, who warns them (cryptically) of the coming of the Corpse Star.

Moving further through the cave, the party find a tiled kitchenette/living space, but set off traps within that include exploding marbles and harpoons! Discovering a secret door, SERRA attempts to grease the lock and heat the inner workings, which just starts a fire that threatens to suffocate them all - although they do manage to escape thanks to Navri's clairvoyance spell.

On the other side of the secret door, they find Mr Kasel, also wearing a strange mask - and floating facedown in a pool, leading to the false assumption that he might be dead. An attempt to cut his mask off teleports all of them to a strange dreamspace with impossible architecture, where a manifestation of Mr Kasel is infected with an awful, tentacular, nightmarish creature. They fight the creature, alongside two nothics (who claim to be SERRA's lost siblings), and Garnott's heroic actions lead to him throwing the creature off the structure they are on, presumably killing it...

## Trivia

* Winnow claims in the first episode that you can never trust a squirrel - whether this bears out with Robert has yet to be seen.

## Twitch Clip Archive

* Not a parsnip
* Delicate movement
* Parsnips
* Under Languages: Sarcasm
* Strength?
* ACHOO
* Evey with the most important question!
* Communication Logistics
* Jape?
* Plural?
* Hearing mishap
* White Stuff
* Party Dissonance
* DM humour
* Team Work
* Release the Quacken!
* Splitting Party Members in half...
* Splitting hares...
* stars do, in fact, have anuses...
* stars do, in fact, consist of hot gasses...
* not, in fact, a star...
* Navri antagonizes Winnow with her existence.
* You can't trust anyone with nuts.
* Untrustworthy Nuts
* More description please?