Fracture

**Fracture** is the first long-running campaign for Roll Together, above the usual upper limit of twelve episodes. It is set in a homebrew universe with elements of science fiction and a cosmology wholly distinct from that of the Forgotten Realms, though the player characters (at least in the main cast) originate from Faerun.

Fracture launched in Q1 2023, and concluded in autumn of the same year. It is DMed by Chris Hislop.

## Player Characters

### Main cast

* Astariel, played by Emma Rose
* Ystlum, played by Tom Jancis
* Vuk, played by Ed Cartwright
* Eytelis, played by Lola Johnson
* Clio, played by Rebecca Hare

### Guest cast

* Kida, played by Natalie Winter (episodes 16–19 and 21)

## Plot Synopsis

Five students are trapped in an unknown plane after a school field trip gone wrong - a plane with floating sky islands and strange robotic creatures, where death is not the end...

## Plot

### Episodes 1-8

It's the first day of school at Stoneywing Hall, a magic college in Waterdeep, and the party, who are the latest to join the college, are taken on a field trip by headmaster Keekh Stoneywing. It being a magic college, this field trip takes them between the planes, on a device shaped like a wooden platform with a central plinth, with stops in the Faewild, Krynn and the Astral Sea.

In the Astral Sea, the trip investigate some destroyed ships nearby, and draw the ire of a murder comet - a sentient elemental comet with the soul of a wizard! While the party try and defend the platform, Keekh desperately tries to teleport them away - but the spell takes too long, and Clio and Vuk are knocked unconscious, and Ystlum takes on a more demonic form. Keekh breaks their crystal ball, which seemed to be controlling the device, to remove a silver key. They use it in a desperate last-ditch attempt to flee, which sends the platform hurtling through the planes uncontrollably before crashing.

Coming to consciousness in this strange new place, Keekh disintegrates before Astariel's eyes, and he pockets the key. As the others start to awaken, Vuk realises he's been speared through by a piece of rubble, and appears to be dead - and yet, still moving, walking and talking like usual. Looking at their surroundings, the party realise they are on a floating island of rock, surrounded by crashed ships, and with strange glowing figures floating all over the landscape. Exploring further, they discover that these glowing figures are ghosts (chatting to a pleasant dohwar ghost called Francis), and that Keekh has become a ghost as well!

Looking to find help, they are greeted by a click-clack - a strange, robotic creature with a seemingly amorphous core, which proceeded to pick apart the remains of their transport device. Eytelis tries to befriend it, but the offer of their trousers leads to quick scuffle instead - which is interrupted by a conversation with whomever appeared to be controlling it remotely, who calls themselves Sevit of the Many Hands. Sevit offers to take them in, but mistrust leads to lying and further complications - prompting Sevit to send more click-clacks to "retrieve" the party. With a cloud of click-clacks in the sky forming a face like Sevit's, the party are rescued by Terry, another local who helps them escape through the ship debris, and shows them to the Survivor's Sanctuary inside the rocky island.

Once there, they meet Darvax Crowbeard - who explains that all of the people in the sanctuary have also survived their planar ships crashing, and don't fully understand this strange new world - they refer to these floating islands, which Sevit has chained together, as the Sink. The party all get to know each other a little better (and have some arguments and debates), and meet fellow survivors Aarven, Balthazar, Ssaran and Schamol. Eytelis misplaces Ystlum's sword (after "stealing it", at Ystlum's request), but it is retrieved through the assistance of a strange insect, who now lives on Ystlum's shoulder and appears to be some sort of new patron for his warlock powers.

Darvax introduces his fellow traveller - a Gatecrasher, who also died in their crash. They explain that the dead here cannot travel to the afterlife - the plane is "locked" - so the dead souls reinhabit their bodies, or return as spirits if their body is uninhabitable, and slowly fade away as their body decays. Vuk accepts this well, planning to use his time as best possible - and the group agree to all go out and scavenge for the survivors. After a harrowing climb over the great drop below the islands, they find their way to a crashed insectoid spaceship being attacked by click-clacks, and assist a survivor, who takes the name "Avuklum" in thanks.

With Avuklum's assistance, the party attempt to protect the crashed ship from Sevit's thugs, with Ystlum using the rules of parley to get close, and then striking first when a resolution can't be reached. While a swarm of click-clacks approaches, they manage to escape with some of Avuklum's supplies (as well as part of the ship's hull, which they realise would be suitable to grow crops in/on), and evade the few that follow as they return to the Sanctuary. While Ystlum's guilt about breaking the truce weighs on him, Clio is visited in her dreams by a strange draconic figure, who asks her why she is "in the sky".

The next day, Darvax reveals that he is planning on sneaking into the Hub - Sevit's stronghold at the centre of the Sink - and asks the party to either come with him or defend the Sanctuary, which eventually becomes the party infiltrating the Hub by themselves, with assistance from Terry and Gorn, another of the Sanctuary's scavengers. The reason for this is a strange skyship, 3 miles long, which appears to arrive once every 50 days or so - and Darvax wants to know if they'd be willing to help the survivor's cause.

Sneaking into the Hub as the skyship is docked (and noting that it is called the Thanatos), the party notice that Sevit seems to have very few people at the Hub - and see an army of fully-armoured figures collecting supplies from Sevit, who they overhear referred to as "the Deathless". While Clio is made invisible by Gorn and sneaks into Sevit's office, the others make an unfortunate amount of noise, and are pursued by click-clacks, with Aster trying to be the distraction and being captured. While this happens, the leader of the Deathless quietly informs the others that they don't want to be involved in "local politics", and the Deathless all begin to retreat to the Thanatos.

Aster tries to negotiate with Sevit, but is placed in a room at the bottom of the Hub, which he decides is a "murder room" and tries to free himself. In the meantime, Clio investigates Sevit's office and finds a strange bottle of pills, which she takes with her as she sneaks down to help Aster. The remaining party also try to save Aster, but get caught in a firefight and try to get down quickly, which results in Vuk falling and badly injuring himself. Sevit summons the click-clacks to the "murder room", where they all form together into one giant click-clack (which the party dub the click-clack-commander), and a desperate fight is joined.

Terry sacrifices himself to revive Vuk, while Clio manages to free the click-clacks by taking one of Sevit's pills, which appears to break his control. Aster's attempts to push Sevit out of a hole at the bottom of the Hub are exacerbated as Aster begins to glow, causing damage to those who get into contact with them. Finally, Sevit is killed (and his body is thrown from the Hub), and the click-clacks leave, referring to themselves as a "nightmare" and thanking Clio for freeing them. Attempting to leave, the party realise that Vuk's dead body is not healing quickly, and that he has broken several bones. Finding one of the Deathless armour suits left behind, they fit it to him, and realise it appears to be designed to protect animated dead bodies. Aster also questions their familiar Sameth about their glow, who reveals it is a celestial trait that will happen when they experience strong emotion.

Returning to the Sanctuary, they tell Darvax of their endeavours, who moves to take over the Hub. While resting, the party's dreams are visited: Eytelis has a vision of his aunt, who makes his bow magical; Clio has a longer conversation with the draconic figure, who refers to himself as the World Devourer and asks her to come down to the ground; and Ystlum has a vision of many bugs like his, who all seem to work for a creature called Xiora, who appears to be his new patron - and offers him to change his form from fiendish tiefling, which is a holdover from his previous pact, back to his original self.

### Episodes 9-

Upon completing their rest, the party plan for leaving the Sink, and visit Keekh one last time before heading up the Hub and preparing for their departure. Darvax informs them that there's already a ship docked which might be able to take them elsewhere, and directs them to Captain Antares Shrute, who is looking for some water purifiers that Sevit had promised to trade. Helping with searching for the purifiers, they meet Prifflia Dandorie, another member of the crew, who reveals a mysterious past that somewhat unnerves Clio, while Aster finds the purifiers and commits the party to leaving on Captain Antares ship, the Oryctes.

On the Oryctes, the party meet Hapset Trigg, who refers to themselves as a Proclaimer, and gives the party a more comprehensive breakdown of the world outside of the Sink - they appear to have done this many times before for members of Sevit's crew who also wished to leave. Haps refers to this world as Kolhearth, which used to be presided over by a god called Kol, who vanished 50 years ago, causing the collapse of civilisation. The Oryctes acts as a courier between various floating islands, and they offer to ferry the party to Uhlan, which is referred to as a larger civilisation centre. The party also meet Karenna, the ghost pilot, who controls the Oryctes with Deathless technology that allows her to inhabit/possess metal arms around the ship.

The party make last goodbyes, and prepare themselves to depart for this strange new world...

## Trivia

* The show is described as being in a new, far-flung location, separate from the rest of the Togetherverse. This has been revealed to be a new plane of existence called Kolhearth, but hasn't been explored beyond the Sink yet.
* All of the main cast appear in every episode, with the following exceptions:
	+ Clio/Rebecca is absent from episodes 15–19, and is replaced by Kida/Nat during that time.
	+ Conversely, episode 20 features only Clio/Rebecca, with the other cast members absent.

## Twitch Clip Archive

* Ah teenagers...
* Patron review
* Built in massage function
* That was a quick second half....
* Vuk can have a sort of timejump!
* A fair and concise summary
* Some imagery we don't need
* Ed is a tad salty
* Rebecca gonna Rebecca
* Discussion time
* Who needs context?
* Subscription anyone?
* Ed's Brand
* That's one way to put it
* Oily
* Some experiments are hard to get volunteers for
* Oh dear, Ed
* Astariel has opinions
* Weird berries?
* Sometimes you just gotta sleep. RIGHT NOW!
* Equipment maintenance is important
* Just, ouch
* Vuk is not naturally sneaky
* Ystlum avoids a yeeting
* Not all rainbows are pretty...
* So reassuring
* You are what the goo?
* Could you repeat that please?
* It's gonna be one of those campaigns
* Practical solutions
* Keeping the tone sombre...
* just ouch
* Rope Bridge
* Ghost dating
* Words were chosen
* Clarification is useful
* Such a way with words
* Party needs glasses
* Interesting statement...
* A very British moment
* sorrysorrysorrysorrysorry
* Rainbow hued guidance stuff
* that noise, yes
* Understated attire
* What an uncivilised question

## Media

The poster for Fracture.The poster for Fracture - The Sink.