Castle Crashers

*"BING BONG, FUCK YA LIFE!" - Grex of the Castle Crashers, on their momentary visit to Castle Ruthwalker, in the presence of Volkair Rikliv.*

A short campaign set in 5AP pertaining with the immediate aftermath of Robin's Heist of Helion Manner. The party attempts to hide from the consequences of their actions taken during the heist while evading the wrath Valrin and his contingent of the Knights of Tyr.

This attempt failed, and the group was all slaughtered horribly after being uncovered.

to date, the only campaign with 100% **MEN.**

## Characters:

* (Tanner)- Grex- goblin arcane archer fighter he/him [DEAD]
* (Mich)- Malik- aasimar monk he/him [DEAD]
* (Zach)- Cornelius/ Killian Fargrave- tiefling divine soul sorcerer he/him [DEAD]
* (Annie)- Jerry- warforged armorer artificer- he/him [DEAD]
* (Andrew)- ????- dragonborn paladin he/him [Killed by Knights of Tyr Off-Screen as Valrin Hunted for the party]
* (Cameron)- Slatra Skullcracker- Goliath Vengeance Paladin he/him [DEAD] Dread Blackheard - Tiefling warlock [DEAD]

## Escape from Selene, and Castle Crashing

In the immediate aftermath of Robin's Heist, the party parted ways with the infamous thief on the eastern coast of Ruthwalker apart from Malik, who stayed behind to maintain the group's cover and avoid consequences. After a short questioning, Valrin sent Malik to locate the rest of the group who seemingly vanished moments ago and bring them in for questioning with a batch of knights on a boat to the mainland.

Arriving in the coastal village of Selene, the party met up with Slatra: A goliath warrior looking for glorious death in battle. The boat with the knights arrives in town, and the party takes shelter in a local tavern as Malik moves ahead, ordering the knights not to follow him. After meeting up again with Malik inside the tavern, the knights outside move into the tavern and surround the party..

Cornelius uses his helm of teleporting in an attempt to escape the situation. However, the artifact doesn't work as intended: and the group ends up randomly teleporting around wildly. Momentarily, the party ends up in the Menagerie Coast, In a distant Tavern, in Front of Valrin in Helion, Castle Ruthwalker, and many more before finally ending up in the outskirts of Selene. While momentarily in Castle Ruthwalker, the group interrupted Volkair's evening dinner. During this time, Grex told Volkair "Bing Bong, Fuck Ya Life".

After a short skirmish with some Knights, Cornelius used the helm again to teleport the group to the small town of Echo.

## Echo

After getting some advice from a stranger in black armor calling himself 'Abimer', the party decided bunker down in a small castle-like outpost for the time being. Slatra decided to go hunting alone, and was subsequently eaten alive by a shambling mound. The party, hearing his war cries, went out to investigate the situation. After killing the shambling mound which killed Slatra and escaping multiple other mounds, the party returned to the outpost. They contacted Robin for help, who gave some advice and said he would send help.

The next day, Malik and Cornelius went into town to buy groceries and search for tools to further repair the outpost they live in. After recruiting a new ally, buying two fresh apple pies, and large bag of groceries, the trio learns that there will be a caravan of traders will be arriving in town the next day. They arrive at the outpost in time for a large group of dire squirrels to assault the small castle in an attempt to steal the ration soup which was being made in the pot,

During the battle, Grex and Jerry defeated a battlegroup of dire squirrels attempting to breech into the eastern wall of the keep the squirrels succeeded in devouring the first apple pie. While Cornelius saved the bag of groceries, his fireball killed the remaining squirrels in the southern battlegroup, killed Malik, and most sorrowful of all, incinerated the remaining pie. Malik was revivified later by Cornelius, but both pies were tragically lost in the fight with no chance of recovery. They were both buried in the courtyard. Afterwards, meat and pelts were harvested from the fallen invaders.

After a discussion over dinner where Malik said there was "an odd sort of silence", Grex spoke out loud to the sky, attempting to contact whatever shadowy presence that multiple members of the party said they felt.

Afterwards, the party continued to stock up on supplies from a caravan of traveling merchants that visited the town annually for festivities. This included mason's tools and a functioning trebuchet.

On second day while the merchants where in Echo, the cheer utterly vanished from the air. Investigating this, Grex, Malik, and Dread found that the Knights of Tyr had found a tiefling in Echo. Dread intervened before they could execute him while the other two fled back. Dread was killed, as was the tiefling he was attempting to save.

## The Castle Crasher's Castle gets Crashed by Valrin

The day after Dread died, a heavy fog rolled in. As everyone continued to work, Grex noticed that the words to the south were perfectly silent. Shortly after, A trio of trebuchets escorted by two battalions of Knights of Tyr lead by Valrin himself bombarded the outpost. Malik realized that something had tampered with Cornelius's teleportation helm. As the gate was hastily battered down, the knights stormed the stronghold. Meanwhile, Grex attempted to bargain with the shadowy figure to which he had spent the last few days insulting. The mage next to Valren teleported to him and began to converse with Grex. It became apparent that whatever was controlling this person *was* this presence. This being offered him a deal: To carry a message to Mt. Celestia saying that "Those who cast me out will watch as this world becomes mine" after he died in exchange for offering him the power to become remembered. After boosting an arrow to destroy one of Valrin's siege weapons and wounding him, Valrin flew into a rage, turned into his true draconic form, and ravaged the ramparts of the castle.

The Castle Crasher's Defenses where quickly overwhelmed, with Grex dying in a hopeless last stand against an enraged Valrin while everyone else was ran down and killed while attempting to escape.

## Aftermath

Like all the other places Valrin had visited on his many attempts to track down the infamous thief, Valrin violently subjected the denizens of Echo to the judgement of the Knights of Tyr. The town was decimated as purges and public executions occurred. It was left a sad, fearful place whose misery echoed off the trees around it.

Days after, Robin Banks would hear of the aftermath of the battle and the state of Echo. This would be the eighth time Valrin had decimated a populated settlement looking for him. He noted the oddities surrounding this event, such as how Valrin somehow got back the sword Robin stole during the events at Helion, Valrin's huge growth spirt (he should have still been a wyrmling, yet was doing the far more damage than an adult dragon), the odd coincidence of how everything happened to go down at one of his favorite off-the-map spots.

He decided that drastic measures had to be undertaken.