Starting Point Leilon

"**Starting Point Leilon**" is the 71st session of the Legend of the Leaves campaign.

It took place in the Demonic Eruptions questline of Arc 5: Dead Souls Rising.

## Synopsis

After five years the Leaves regroup at the "Starting Point Leilon Tavern" in Phandalin. The members are summoned by Malcer who recently discovered a way to lift the curse that prevents resurrections of the dead.

# Story Development

## Part 1

Lorilon is awaiting the rest of the Leaves to arrive in Phandalin after Malcer sent the message. He retreats to the Villa of Leaves to get ready for their meeting.

Meanwhile, the first one to arrive is Bambara, who introduces himself to the tiefling barkeep Siro at the Starting Point Leilon Tavern, ordering a ginger root beverage and noticing portraits of the Leaves hanging above the bar's bottle display.

Bambara notices Raijin studying the enormous map of the Sword Coast hanging on one of the tavern walls. A gift from Gundren Rockseeker, as we find out. Lorilon wrote the word "New" above the title "Sword Coast" to indicate his believe that is not a representation of reality as it should be. The map is noticeably missing the city of Neverwinter, Leilon and Port Last.

Tarbo, a halfling waiter, brings Bambara and Raijin food and the two of them catch up, battering racist insults at each other, while the other guests around them start whispering and wondering if it is really the members of Leaves.

After a while, Malcer arrives on a rok in Phandalin, to the surprise and amazement of the townsfolk. Darius arrives shortly after on his pegasus and joins the rest of the party in the tavern.

Tarbo is sent to get Lorilon from the villa. As he arrives there, he sees Lorilon geared up at the graves of his brother and sister behind the villa. He asks Trabo to serve the best gin to the party they have. Tarbo does as told and returns to the tavern and even being offered a seat by Bambara at their table.

While talking and joking around, being surrounded by an ever-growing mass on onlookers, they notice a teleportation spell being cast from in the crowd. However, none of the other patrons of the tavern have seemed to notice it.

Lorilon misty steps behind Bambara while they where talking and greets his old companions. However, the greeting with Darius turns sour as Darius mistakenly interprets Lorilons fist bump for an attack and retributes unproportionally with a kick to his knees. They, however, patch things up and Lorilon presents them with quilts he has ordered to symbolize their friendship.

While drinking and catching up deep into the night, the Leaves are interrupted by an old human male who introduces himself as Volo. He makes it clear that he is delighted to see them back together and gifts them hi book "Volo's Guide to Monsters".

After he takes his leave, however, the Leaves discover that he left behind a map of Chult. Studying the map, Bambara discovers strange embossments of common characters at the backside of the map.

## Part 2

After resting at the villa, the party decides to visit the harbor and try to find a ship that would take them to Chult. They come across Gawin, a male human ship captain working for the Lionshield Coster in Luskan. He offers them to take them to Luskan free of charge, where they could more easily find a ship that would take them to Chult.

Lorilon, in the meanwhile, visits Fossa at Wave Echo Cave, using Darius' pegasus, to say goodbye to her. While waiting for her to get a parting gift for him, Lorilon discovers in one of the boxes of used equipment the dwarves are carrying a shield with similar engravings on it as the ones on the map of Chult Volo left behind the night before. Lorilon takes the shield and receives Bracers of Defense from Fossa which once belonged to her mother Noukhood.

Before sailing away, Lorilon and Bambara visit their tavern in Phandalin, where Lorilon instructs Tajana to keep an eye out on the tavern while he is gone, while Bambara asks Tarbo to give him strong schnapps without anyone knowing.

Matrim comes to say goodbye and to ask them if they could retrieve Rangor's body so "he could get his wife's uncle to restrict him". He then tells them about how he spoke to Rangor and that he is not willing to come back to the living.

The party meets at the docks at sails north with Gawin and his crew of about 30 seamen. While sailing to the area where once Neverwinter stood, Raijin starts a conversation with Gawin about the reality of things. Gawin reveals to them that he cannot be convinced in an other reality than the one he knows about and suggest to Raijin and Bambara that people who follow such theories are either delusional or indoctrinated by a cult, or both.

Lorilon and Malcer, in the meantime, overhearing this conversation agree that it would probably be better to keep to themselves their believe and knowledge about Neverwinter. Their conversation is interrupted by two aboleths and a hydra attacking the ship.

While dealing with the monsters, the party notices meteors heading towards the ship from the skies. Janus speaks to them telepathically, saying he has waited for them to be united once more. Malcer manages to push the ship into a more favorable location. The party notices Gambino at the back of the ship concentrating on the spell but too late to prevent him from casting it. The impact of the meteors destroys the ship.

Malcer saves them by casting a spell that lets them walk on water. Lorilon casts pass without trace and increases thereby their chances for survival on high sea. They make their way towards the shore to the east. On their way, they come across a body in a captains uniform, similar to the one Gawin wore, floating face down in the sea. They ignore it and continue their journey.

After three hours, the Leaves arrive at shore a few hours south of Luskan. They discuss to either rest or power through up north. After a few moments of trying to gather information about their location, they decide to continue their travel.

At 23:00 they arrive at the gates of Luskan. Greeted by guards who ask for autographs in their book about the party's adventures, the party makes their way to an inn inside the city to rest.

# Featured Characters

## Leaves

* Lorilon Duskwalker
* Darius Lonewalker
* Malcer Lynk Hornraven
* Bambara Grimmgrin
* Raijin Shou Ho

## New

* Siro Belhala
* Tarbo Lightsun
* Gawin Lore
* Tajana Voling
* Volothamp "Volo" Geddram

## Returning

* Gambino Marino
* Fossa Steelbreaker
* Janus Safeguard
* Matrim

## Mentioned

* Noukhood Steelbreaker
* Gundren Rockseeker
* Rangor Tomir

# Quotes

## Player Characters

* Darius (Lorilonu nakon pozdrava): "Ja mislio ti hoćeš da me udariš. Ja se samo znam normalno pozdravljat."
* Lorilon (Dariusu): "Za prijatelje ja sam spreman dati život. Za Malcera, za Raijina i za Bambaru... i samo da znaš... i za tebe ću biti spreman život da dam."
* Malcer (Lorilonu na brodu): "Mislim da priču o Neverwinteru trebamo držati za sebe do daljnjeg."
* Raijin (Bambari pri susretu u kafani): "De stani na neko bure da te mogu zagrlit."
* Bambara (Tarbu): "Donesi mi najžešće piće koje imaš i koliko god možeš ponijeti da te niko ne vidi."

## Non-Player Characters

* Siro Belhala (Bambari): "Uživo bazdiš više nego što se priča u pričama o tebi."
* Volo (Listovima): "Junaci i jesu najčešće loši ljudi koji su natjerani učniti nešto dobro za druge."
* Gawin (Raijinu): "Ja ne mogu zamisliti drugačiju realnost nego onu koju poznajem. Možeš li ti?"