Campaign One

The campaign played by players Pickle, Goob, Greg, and Talen. It was set in a custom setting created by Gloom and took place in 893 A.C.

## Plot

### Crow Peak

Seeking the Icons of Sin to remove a curse from Sah, Belxari and Sah found themselves in Mudwall preparing to journey up the nearby mountain to Crow Peak. They joined up with Lady Felicia, who intended to go to Crow Peak in search for a cure for the ailing emperor of Auguste. After convincing the local goblins to grant them safe passage to the castle and accidentally kidnapping a child, they went to the cursed castle. They cleared it out of most of the dangers, retrieving their first Icon, Gluttony, though he claimed to be Wrath, and obtaining a cure for the Emperor.

### Mudwall

Upon returning to Mudwall, they discovered that some of the miners had gone missing, and agreed to go down into the caves to search for them. They found themselves in the Underdark, dealing with drow who had taken the miners as slaves. The matriarch of the drow possessed another of the Icons of Sin, Pride, and agreed to give it to the party in return for assistance in finding some of their own people who had gone missing. They destroyed the monster that was eating her patrols, but the matriarch was killed in the combat. They took the second Icon and, before leaving, helped a man named Gadley retrieve a large crystal. The party went back to town to report their findings. There, they discovered that Richard Dukazel, the owner of the mines, had himself gone missing. The party searched for him, but found that he had been killed by mindflayers. They encountered one of the mindflayers named Zargosa, who asked if they had encountered Gadley and to be informed if they ever did. The party agreed and fled, refusing to help the mindflayer. Belxari used a scroll they had found, a strange version of Find Familiar. The spell summoned a silver wyrmling named Chrysa to their side, who proceeded to travel with them despite the fact that she was like six.

Upon returning to town they discovered that a doppleganger named Darbo had decided to take Dukazel's position. He shut down the mine and decided to open a magic school to provide the town with work. He asked the party to keep an eye out for potential instructors. They also encountered Goon, a demon smith who lived and worked within a protective structure designed to limit the effect of his demonic presence. Goon decided he liked the party and took them back to Crow Peak where he instructed them on the use of the Demon Doors, large silver doors controlled by magical rods such as one the party had discovered in Crow Peak. Behind one such door was an airship created for the demonic incursion during the Calamity 900 years prior. Goon decided to travel with the party to ensure that the airship was safe to use. First, however, he stepped outside in his demon form, which prompted a celestial named Basilicus to descend upon them. After explaining the situation, he agreed to help purify the airship and to the arrangement of Goon's travel with the party. The party completed the paperwork for the airship in Mudwall, naming it the Raquesval — Infernal for "Everyone Dies" — and traveled to Auguste.

### Auguste

In Auguste, Felecia left the party, though she was shortly replaced by Yval. The party, invited by Lady Felicia to an event of the royal family, obtained fancy clothes and attended the event, hoping to steal the Empress Elise's crown, the third Icon of Sin, Greed. While there, a group of ninjas attacked, prompting the party to interrupt their own plans. The ninjas turned out to be members of the Fourth Act, having infiltrated the party. Merric, the leader of the attack, revealed to Belxari that it had been intended to be a distraction so they could extract the emperor's grandchildren. What he failed to explain was that they had been hired to rescue them from an attempt on their lives by the empress. They eventually found cause to take over the accidentally interrupted rescue those members of the royal family — the crown prince Stanislas, Margot, and their young children.

The party decided to hide the royal family at Crow Peak. As they journeyed back to Auguste from there, they were assaulted by gnomes riding giant bats and wielding dinosaurs. They had been attacked there twice before already, but this time they were stopped and the party was asked to help them. Their number was slowly being diminished for reasons they could not discern, and hoped for help. The party agreed and landed. They entered the cave the bats lived in, and explored it. They discovered a dragon in the depths, which they successfully defeated. They also encountered Gadley once again. He had located another of the elemental crystals he was collecting, and they agreed to once again help them. After doing so, he wiped their memories, and they forgot they had ever encountered him there. Once again returned to Auguste, the party made an agreement with Empress Elise to retrieve the Moon Pillar from the Mirage Temple in exchange for Greed.

### Miscellaneous

The party cleared out a couple of angel fortresses and learned the locations of a few other Icons. They met Tabitha at one of these fortresses and learned the history of several races, including the creation of dragonborn and the founder and emperor of Auguste. For some reason they went to the Platinum Disc and met Chrysa's mom, Qymrenth. The party found another angel fortress, where Belxari activated a machine that reassembled a construct there. The construct, which they encountered several times, they named Seeker, as he had none of his memories and was hoping to recover them. He knew only that Basilicus had been performing some sort of experiments, and that he had been a victim of one of those experiments.

The party was picked up by a functioning angel fortress, where their ship had to be repaired and Goon rescued. They learned that Basilicus was hoping to bring back an old god of some sort, and also that someone was stealing elemental gems, which was disrupting the balance of the world.