Session logs from 2016

The main campaign started in 2016. The years have been broken up to make these pages easier on the web client, and to create a more intuitive reading experience. For the following year of campaign and one-shot diaries, see session logs from 2017.

## Session 0: Character Creation

February 20, 2016

This was the first meeting of the initial D&D group, where we created characters, and talked loosely and very briefly about homebrew rules, table etiquette, and the campaign setting. The Characters created were Ulhirr, Lo-Tha, Bryn, and Willow.

## Session 1: Welcome to Kavaad

March 5, 2016

Willow, Lo-Tha, and Ulhirr met near the docks on the market of Kavaad. Bryn followed Burbas'Tel, snuck into the Cult of the Shadow. The party teamed up and accepted a quest to look for Yara’s husband and child in Greencrest.

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## Session 2: Greencrest

March 20, 2016

The battle of Greencrest resulted in the death of most of the villagers, but also the goblins, with the exception of a couple of stragglers. Willow, Ulhirr, Bryn, and Lo-Tha saved most of the village, but very few of the villagers.

## Session 3: The Werewolf’s Cave

April 15, 2016

After leaving Greencrest, the party met Hammund, Harran, and Heidegar. Chasing the goblins into the mountains, the party came upon the werewolf Finildan Tessilthir.

## Session 4: Arcanum Square

May 5, 2016

First encounter with Ozfurt, Waywocket, Apo’Otu. The party left Harran & Co. behind to pursue the general of the goblins without them.

## Session 5: Vow of Enmity

May 22, 2016

Encounter with Hinnaura Tessilthir the vengeance paladin. Creed joined the party. Attacking Narltoc’s camp. Willow was captured by Burbas'Tel. Avtoor and Ongorwere rescued.

## Session 6: Twiceborn

May 28, 2016

Bryn met the Makate tribe. The others snuck in and saved Willow, retreated into the old dwarven mines, and fought Burbas'Tel off. Lo-Tha, Willow, Creed, and Ongor died, but were reincarnated by Ra-Sok, the Makate tribe’s druid.

## Session 7: Shadow Arrow

June 12, 2016

Bryn’s trial and inclusion in the Makate tribe. Kovauk went to hunt for Narltocand Garziz. Bryn led the party to the Greatsword. Drana made drama with Ulhirr. Finding Godric’s Egg. Meeting Trufzo. This was the first time Creed disappeared.

## Session 8: The Greatsword

July 4, 2016

I honestly can't figure out what happened this session. It's been a long time, and It's not very well documented. This might be the session when the party met Trufzo and Theia, but I'm not sure…

I'm pretty sure we spend two sessions in the tomb (Ella calculated how much air we had in there between sessions). We also had a PvP fight to level Willow up from 4th to 5th lvl (so that she could cast dispel magic on the ceiling/floor).

## Session 9: Gamrion’s Tomb

July 8, 2016

The party met Theia and entered the Tomb of Gamrion Riverfang. Here, they were trapped in an enormous room with reversed gravity. The party looted Gamrion’s tomb and met Wakkra, an orc woman whose soul was captured within several items. The Fel Scepter awoke and absorbed most of the other items’ magic. Daeszal’s Fang had successfully called Bryn to this place and seduced him with the promise of power (alignment change CN-->NE).

## One-shot: The Rusty Dragon

August 7, 2016

A band of adventurers joined the crew of the Rusty Dragon in a quest to help the druid Belara “save” the Lightkeeper and bring “harmony” to the island of Tol'Anar.

## Session 10: Escape from the Tomb

September 4, 2016

The party escaped Gamrion’s tomb and were met by a wounded and crying Theia, and her undead family rising from their graves to attack the interlopers. Bryn killed Theia with Daeszal’s Fang, even as his fingers were ethereal and useless. Willow guided the others to Syllior, where Kelp joined the party and helped them do research on Daeszal. Willow received a new druidic focus from the spirits of the Salt Coast and her god, Mannanan.

## Session 11: Leaving Syllior

September 18, 2016

The party helped Imnili Ipravel with a cargo of basilisks. Bryn took an assassination job from the Black Kraken of the Ashen Fist, but would’ve died without the help of Daeszal. Krogan helped Bryn infiltrate the Longstrider Citadel with cat Willow in tow. The others watched over Ulhirr under the full moon. Seeing Leonara secretly meeting with Burbas'Tel, Bryn and Willow went on the offensive, but they had to flee and regroup. Lo-Tha spoke to Silvarax, the Huntmaster of the Golden Hope in Syllior, about possibly joining the guild.

## Session 12: The Hunt

October 16, 2016

Leonara came to confront the party on what they knew of Burbas'Tel, but Bryn killed her and escaped, outrunning Dalion Sohl and the knights of the Longstrider order. Kelp and a local soldier from Syllior carried Leonara to the Obelisk where she was put under a *gentle repose* spell once the priests realized she couldn’t be brought back. The clergy sent Kelp with the party to stop Bryn, defeat Daeszal, and save the princess’ soul. The party chased Bryn north through Balzamar and Central Kavaad into the barony of Arrovale. Bryn stayed in the shadows until the party needed his help against a group of trolls. After helping the guards of Oxgrave Tower, the party made their way to the Monastery of Barendain. On their way through the mountains, the party witnessed a young/adult green dragon fall to Narltoc’s warband on a battlefield of dead goliaths and goblins.

## One-shot: A Wild Dream

October 20, 2016

A strange and surreal dream slithered non-canonically into the slumbering minds of the group. Avtoor was the evil goblin king of the Feywild, one-eyed and talking animals had built a society there, and our heroes were very different for a while. But it was all a dream. The end.

## Session 13: A Mammoth Task

October 30, 2016

The party hunted basilisks, but needed Aknarr’s help in restoring people from stone. Ulhirr chopped a giant eagle in twain with a single swing, while on his way over the rope bridge to the monastery. Harran, Avtoor, Lady Elmira Dushiuri and the party journeyed north to Tauryun, through the Ridge of Blades, encountering displacer beasts, and the Akathagaru tribe of goliaths. Arriving in Tauryun, Elmira asked Bryn to tell of a local boogeyman story. After defeating the undead spirit of a drowned maiden, they got a good night’s rest.

## Once-shot: The Westbank Witches

November 13, 2016

Ungarn and Zwakstog were forced to leave the Royal Academy, so they took the long journey to Sinria. On their way, the two encountered a coven of hags who were attempting to open a planar well to the lower planes through a dark ritual and an amulet capable of aligning itself to the positions of the planes.

## Session 14: The Haunted Swamps

November 14, 2016

Trekking through the swamps, the party encountered the “tree men” from Bryn’s boogeyman story. They discovered a shambling mound that was spreading blights. After killing the shambling mound, the party freed one of the trees from its curses of animation and hunger for human flesh.

## Session 15: Counterspell Mania

November 20, 2016

The hags that had cursed the trees thought they could scare or kill the party, and attacked under the guise of “cute” hedgehogs. Several counterspelled counterspells later, the hags lay dead on the ground. An encounter with owlbears and some charm effects from Daeszal later, the party was almost at the capital.

## Session 16: An Awkward Dinner

December 14, 2016

The party arrived in Nrannasand visited the Circle of Guardianswith Lady Elmira. Willowvisited the bath houses and the grove of the Old Tree, Nimlaroth. Kelpand Ulhirrwent shopping and had dinner in a fancy elven restaurant. Lo-Tha, Creed, and Brynstayed at Bryn’s family home where an awkward dinner insued, and Bryn and his friends were sent out into the garden, where they started drinking, heavily. As the full moon rose, and Willow was in the Feywild, Ulhirr transformed, and so did his evil sentient ring. Willow and Udhros Orixidorarrived in time to save the day.

## One-shot: Dragonslayers

December 31, 2016

Celebrating the new year with a quest to kill a dragon… if you can get past the centaurs, that is.

For the following year of campaign and one-shot diaries, see session logs from 2017.