The Ascension Campaign

**Ascension** is the name of the campaign involving the player characters **Sir C4RB0N, Himo Nailo, Valkas Vamberveld,** and **Beceira Riven**. The campaign took place in the early summer of the year 5262, and lasted for a couple of months of in game time.

## Timeline of Events

Rough Timeline (very unfinished, and some copy/pasted notes from the campaign doc)

### Aresdale

* Hired by Jem Vye, met in Aresdale. Investigated dried up river.
* Went to Ordwood, unblocked river. Returned to Aresdale, investigated distant smoke. Site revealed Hourglass Symbol + tracks leading east (towards Iravein)
* Notified (by Jem Vye) of body appearing in Ensmouth. Went north, bandit attack + Yarrow who helped party. Captured Yarrow and transported him to Ensmouth guards.

### Ensmouth

* Investigated murder. Lead to the deceased’s house. Riv saw a Dire Wolf. Also saw Marcus Tyul wanted posters up in town
* Discovered cultists responsible for death and tracked one heading across the river.
* Learned of river’s undercurrents from boatman, and about a traveller called Darrion long lost (purple gem ring). Purple gem ring is Darrion’s arcane focus. He is a magic user, perhaps an artificer using instruments to test samples and areas.
* Sneaked into cultist’s lair. Fight ensued killing all and saving a man who gave a false name and appearance. The man later returned to the boatman to leave a message then fled. Experienced purple magical mist causing hallucinations
* Contact with Jem Vye through Parchments of Communication - learned of disease from Lanend.
* Leaving Ensmouth heading north encountered hired group looking for Himo. Sent by Earl Weme. Dealt with/recruited. Also passed 2 Vistelle en route whom Valkas conversed with.

### Lanend

* Went up to the castle to see diseased people. Full mystery involving theft of Zeruth Ring from Horron by Rema (and her magic that causes memory loss), then discovering Rema responsible for causing disease and creating flickers, and some sent to the black mountains to explore. Maimed and captured Rema. Also dicovered parchment of communication with mystery person using the comms code 271401 and the directional symbol.
* Bards college, meeting Daniel Cravitz at the restaurant, and the play. Chat with Lora Kren and Cravitz
* Seeing the phalanx leader head up to the castle
* Discovered letter to Cptn Arthur Cormus from ex city guard Leader Sebastian Durrant about going to Elvergrove to right a wrong.

### North Lanend

* Headed north out of Lanend intention of going to Newtide to deal with Weme. Came across circus, and met Kyra the Mystic who used mists from the shroud of the adraks. Discovered C4RB0N wasn't his real name, and Valkas was being searched for. Immediately after, 5 bounty hunters found the party and delivered a letter to Valkas from Lucy Mornhagen requesting help in Erlenstad.
* Zombies flooded the circus. The bounty hunters helped the party eradicate them. Bounty hunters guided civillians to Souis.
* Party continued north, came across house on south shore of Hessenthal lake. House previously owned by High Priest Andrea Gouram, died in war of shadows. Riv drawn magically to house, down to basement. Touched a set of old brass weighing scales. Saw a vision of Faceless capturing and interrogating Gouram. Searching for something (Hoarth, Hinue). Killed Gouram, but leader had an outburst of magic connect him to the scales.