Chronology of Adventures

This article contains a chronological list of chapters experienced within adventures in Grand Pridain and Beyond.

## **Dammed If You Do (1/1/1642 - 2/1/1642)**

Moddeus Hulix arrived in Pebblefoot on the first day of the year 1642 A.A. accompanied by Persondrew Spid on route to completing his task of collecting signatures for the Declaration. Galius Morn and Penerence Aster landed on the beach outside of Pebblefoot after surviving the sinking of a ship and are discovered by Moddeus. Curious about the interaction Jecily Bright leaves the cottage she had been hiding out in and joined the conversation. Their introductions are cut short by the screams of a woman from the village.

Within the town square they discovered a large golem made entirely from shifting pebbles that all contain holes, this creature was holding a young woman within its chest. The group fight the being and manage to destroy it, but not without Penerence accidently mortally wounding the woman inside with a Magnify Gravity spell. The commotion drew the attention of a group of goblins who are holed up in the local tavern. After asking for their assistance to help the injured woman the group spent some time in the inn learning about the goblins, who are introduced as the Gnawth Company and are lead by the hobgoblin Rizent Lowpitch. The mercenary group recently captured an escaped convict named Phitus West and brought him back to the village to collect on his bounty, but before they could be paid a large number of the population were cursed and trapped in a magical stasis.

The group investigated the site of the curse, where Galius freed a draftgoat tied to the Hanging Stone. In thanks the goat (named Yuge) joined him as a friend. Penerence discovered a large amount of residual arcane energy in the area. The party then spotted a strange person spying on them, who they caught and revealed to be a corvian representitive of the Chamber Door Flock named Tokara. Galius pumped him for information before letting him leave. He said he had been dealing drugs and other contraband in town and was setting up an outpost in the nearby shipwreck of the Brass Nag.

After breaking into the manor of the reeve of the county the party are attacked by a celestially possessed telescope which they defeat via the clever use of mirrors. During the fight however Jecily peered into the telescope and became transfixed by the micro-starscape held within, which seemed to communicate with her. Coretrix Seawoodster was drawn to the courtyard by the sounds of combat and questioned the party about their purpose. When it is revealed Moddeus is looking for the reeve Coretrix offers to fetch him and lets the group into the manor.

Reeve Anthoswold Pace met the group in his seemingly abandoned entertaining room and agreed only to sign Moddeus' declaration if they helped to resolve the curse. The group spent the night in his empty servent's quarters. During the night Galius caught Persondrew sneaking out, and joined him for a training session in the garden. The following day the party revisited Gnawth Company to check on the woman, who is revealed to be Berlette Burdle, the owner of the local adderstone shop. She revealed she was not at the execution of Phitus West which is why she is not in stasis, but whatever happened there trapped arcane energy within her adderstone stock, forming the golem around her. Berlette also discussed a strange visitor to the village in the days leading up to Phitus' execution, a blue skinned noble that Moddeus recognised as Yseusette Aldeter.

The group searched for clues of Yseusette within Burnhope's Bookery, and found a purchase made in her name for a steamy romance novel but nothing more.

After this the crew headed to the beach and met Hitchathrift Mikk in his makeshift tavern. While drinking from coconuts and making friends with the ogre the party discovered a drawing that Mikk had sketched pinned to the wall of a blue skinned woman and a man along with a severed hand and stoppered bottle of water. Mikk said that the man was Phitus West and he had been in a few days before his execution to trade something with the blue skinned woman. Jecily attempted to communicate magically with one of the frozen villagers and was successful, talking to Alexalf the baker. This confirmed the victims were still alive. Alexalf told Jecily more clearly about the events of the execution, where a blue skinned woman revealed a mummified hand holding a candle with a green flame and said something causing everyone to freeze in place. Pisaac also noted that he had seen a blue skinned woman around town and leaving alone in a cart on the day of the execution.

Before they left, Pisaac of the Gnawth Company entered the tavern to ask Mikk to deliver more food to the mercenaries, he seemed a little put off by the adventurers but warmed up to them. As Mikk left to assist the goblin the party went to see Anthoswold again and ask about the hand in the picture where he revealed that this might possibly be a Hand of Glory, an artifact of old magic that is highly illegal, which is made from the hand of a hanged person and that they would need potent magic to reverse it. Jecily remembered the purpose of the old healing spa below the manor and the party investigated the source, which Anthoswold claims that he sealed up years ago to make space for his research.

Following an illuminated Persondrew, Galius investigated the blockage of the spring and found that a group of magically mutated beavers had built a dam within the cave system. Using the same strange magnetism that drew Yuge to him he calmed the initially hostile creatures down and befriended them, buying Penerence time to enter the cave and get a sample of the restorative water. After gaining their trust Galius led the beavers and the rest of the group back to the village, using their mutant abilities to spread healing throughout the villagers, restoring them to their faculties. Moddeus was rewarded with the reeve's signature and the party demanded that the village now must live in harmony with the beavers and use them to return their diminishing home to prosperity. The gang entrusted Mikk with the task of looking after the beavers and being the bridge between the two groups of natives.

As the party reflected on their victory and Moddeus wished everyone good riddance a large explosion rang out across the village, from the direction of the Brass Nag. While everyone had been distracted the Gnawth Company had began an assault on the hiding place of Tokara, who was now standing atop a mechanical spidertank which was firing slugs into the advancing mercenaries.