Pre-Session

## Session 16

Squid and Mika go find someone to get the queen. The queen brings everyone in and pardons the party. Queen to give them rooms. Queen or someone to show them Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

Things I expect to show up:

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
	+ Just waking from unconscious
* Hali
	+ Hanging out
* Squid
	+ Running with Mika
* Tali
	+ Replace Darvin
* Thorus
	+ Hanging
* Tovek
	+ Waking up from unconscious

### Maybe Players:

* Bobs
	+ Just arrived with the two unconscious bodies
* Captain Buffold
	+ Replace Solomon
* Darvin
	+ Healed Artemis

### Recap

Recap: Last session Artemis, Bob, Darvin, Soloman, Squid, Thorus, and Tovek faced the queen's justice, while Hali was there, you know, hanging out. They were found guilty of murder and kidnapping. Before anyone had time to react to the judgement, a secret note was passed by one of the courthouse guards to Bobs, and then two crossbow bolts flew through the air, one from the note-giver. One of the arrows went straight through Tovek's chest, nearly killing him, while the other was aimed at the judge, missing her by an inch.

The courthouse erupted into chaos as the windows exploded, bringing not only the water from the lake, but sahuagins and merrows and sharks and a dragon. The ensuing scramble left many dead, including High Lady Francesca Witherbee, who in a desperate attempt to keep her daughter safe, faced a dragon on her own. In a desperate play, Artemis offered Whisper a favor in return for the parties', Jocelyn's, Mika's, and Judicator Akir's safety. Whisper was able to teleport out a dying Akir and Hali to the top of the lake, along with most of the others, leaving Artemis, Bob, and Tovek behind. Artemis and Tovek fought off sharks and Bob stood his ground (aka hides under a bench) against a sea dragon.

Whisper's friend Jane appeared to take the rest of the party to safety. With Akir revived, Squid and Mika left the party to head toward the palace to go get help.

### Plans:

* Queen
	+ 5 guards
	+ Faceless of Tears
* Mika
* Judge Ionadina Akir
* Palace Amethyst
	+ Mordenkainens Magnificent Mansion is what we'll use for their quarters. Intelligence ability check, highest decides what it looks like
	+ The Throne Room
	+ Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
* Caller Distris Smee
* The Oracle
* The Anders
	+ Say they are in Ruby Rock
* Whisper

Queen likely to pardon party. Xanathar's Guide. Maybe meet the oracle. Downtime. Whisper is going to tell Artemis to go after the Anders' Family (Don, Sah, and Kim).

## Session 17

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Thorus

### Maybe Players:

* Captain Buffold
* Hali
* Tali

### Recap

Last session, Squid and Mika raced to the palace only to meet Dowager King Tallias Salt. Mika sent Squid back to the party by the lake consisting of Artemis, Buffold, Hali, Tali, Thorus, Tovek, and Judge Akir. Palace Amethyst was a bustle with the assault at the courthouse. Mika led the party to the throne room, where the party met no other than Queen Nadia Salt IV herself.

Pleased with the fate of Francesca, the queen pardoned the party and gave them a place to stay in the palace, a library mansion from the dreams of Hali. The queen asked the party about their opinions about Merdia and showed them Xanathar's Guide to Everything, giving the party some cooking recipes and knowledge about horse pregnancy.

The rest of the day was spent healing, shopping, bingoing, getting lost, chatting and scaring away a pathologist, and researching in the library.

As the party turned in for the night, a servant gave Artemis a note from Whisper, requesting they meet at the lake.

### Plans

Anders' Family
Spice canal
Doggie

## Session 18

### Expected Players:

* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Maybe Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs

### Recap

Previously on Merdia: Whisper summoned Artemis to pay up. And she does! Hali, Thorus, and Squid go with her as she murders that Anders Family. Squid is sad! Hali is hungry! Thorus is godly! Artemis gets drunk. Thorus and Hali hang out with Carla Witherbee at a restaurant. They tell her to buzz off. Squid tells papa Squid to buzz off. He gets holy at the Lake Church and is put to bed by the cleric working there.

### Plans

* Get Squid back to palace.
* Have Olly show up to the thing
* Get fancy clothes?
* The Christening
* Indra Ironstorm?
* The Oracle?
* Brannen S. Pieter?
	+ Doggy????

## Session 19

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus

### Recap

Howdy howdy howdy. We're all together. We're all together. Can you tell I'm excited. Last time found Squid waking up in the Lake Church where the cleric there told him the bodies of the Anders family were nowhere to be found. Eventually, the party of Thorus, Tovek, Artemis, Squid, and Darvin all gathered back at the palace to hang with Olly. He revealed he set up the court escape, but his lips were tight with Artemis and the lily around.

Mika took the party to get some fresh threads. The DM was able to pull the party away from a massive clothes montage, kicking and screaming to the Christening of Princess Electra Salt II.

Darvin and Bob met up with Brennen Pieter, Bob's father. Brennen had a little bit of a heart to heart with his son, and presented him with Bear's daughter: Bean!!! Then he drank some poison booze and died. Honestly, a little too quickly. Like a movie would have paced it better.

Tovek was unsuccessfully hit on by a governor.

Thorus high-fived the Ironstorm leader.

Squid and his dad found out that Marcus Straddleblaster was going by Mark Straddle, invented the skateboard, and faked his own death. After Squid knocked him out, the party discovered that "The Shark" wasn't exactly telling the whole truth. Turns out Batarat made a deal with a fiend and Marcus was just a really good surfer that Batarat didn't like.

Squid left his surfboard behind, and the party met up with Mika. She said that the Dowager King wanted to meet them. But then the front of the palace exploded.

### Plans

#### Palace Escape

* Vampire Spawn
* Mika to lead them down secret tunnels. Trust Mika.
* Lead them to room. "Teleportation circle." Door close. Locked

#### Baseless Faceless Disgracess

* Faceless of Tears and four guards
* Artemis: Father's death. On ship
* Bob: Getting kicked out
* Darvin: Aarbles dying
* Squid: Friend Clay getting drafted
* Thorus: Getting told he won't be a soldier

## Session 20

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Captain Buffold
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Maybe Players:

* Bobs
* Hali
* Tali

### Recap

Less session, following the death of Brennen Pieter and explosion in the front of the palace, the party of Artemis, Bob, Darvin, Squid, and Thorus run away with Mika into the secret underground passageways. There, Mika tells them there is a teleportation circle and closes them into a dark room, only for the party to be ambushed by royal guards and the Faceless of Tears, forcing the party to relive tragic memories.

When the party is struck down, they aren't killed. Instead, they find themselves in a prison cell, greeted by Emily, who explains that the princess was kidnapped, and the party is being named as the perpetrators. As the party sits down to rest, Darvin gets a message from his sending stone: Slake is under attack.

### Plans

* Let the party figure out their shit
* Secret Prison
* Possible Mika (now a wereshark) after several months to rescue the losers
* Slake under attack

## Session 21

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Recap

Escape! 4 days in captivity and the solution? Tovek shank a bitch: classic prison moves if you ask me. The party of Artemis, Davin, Squid, Tovek, and Thorus killed some slaves, made an acquaintance with Johnson the Merfolk, and took turns walking on water and sleeping on a surfboard.
And then....A rumble!

### Plans

* Nero
* The Surfer's Summit
* Slater
	+ Slater's Slayer Tsunami
* Ionadina Akir summer home

## Session 22

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

I know shield doesn't work like that. You're welcome.

### Recap

Last session, Squid, Tovek, Artemis, Thorus, and Darvin met Terrapin Whale Nero. Sent by Olly Alex, he swam them on his back to Key Marx to a small tropical island. There, the party met Ripley "Riptide" Silvana, Coco "Nut" Coral, and Squid's old friend Antonio "Ace" Felix. They called the island the surfer's summit, which they founded after deserting from the war.

They've been staying in the mansion on the island, which the party discovered belongs to Divine Judicator Ionadina Akir. Putting that aside, they drank some of her wine and hung out at the house, while Squid surfed and Thorus sent a message home.

In an attempt to free his dad from the surfboard, Squid decided to summon Slater: by surfing a Slater's Slayer Tsunami. With the party's help, Squid took on the wave, and met the demigod. He offered his help, so advice, and Squid landed on shore a changed man.

### Plans

* Squid dad free, loses power
	+ Create Ink
	+ Grandma was a mermaid
		- Grandma: Mallory Suess
		- Grandpa: Unknown. Drowned dragonborn sailor
* Akir is back
	+ Drunk
	+ Self-sailing ship
	+ Knows about Almshiem
	+ Mail Burning Rapier
		- Sorry again about the shoulder. Hope this keeps you warm where you're going.
	+ knows about Frostglen

## Session 23

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus

### Maybe Players:

* Bobs
* Hali

### Fun Facts

Fun fact about Akir: she was actually the youngest judge in Merdia history. She was handpicked by the Queen after she led the prosecution against the Neck Tickler, a notorious vampire without any teeth.

### Recap

Welcome back to Merdia everyone. It's good to be back. What the hell happened last session? Squid released his warlock bond with his father, who returned to his natural half merfolk half dragonborn state, revealing Akir's ex Mallory is none other than Squid's paternal grandmother.

Speaking of Akir, she's back, drunk, recently forced out of her job, and replaced by Carla Witherbee. She burns down the Divine Judicator's summer home. Squid's dad, the Summit Surfers, and Akir decided to stay behind while the party took Akir's boat. Despite being his mom's ex, Batarat hits on her, to the point where Akir decided to join the party on their journey to Slake, following a distress call from Darlus, Darvin's wife. She's been captured in Frostglen by the undersea coalition, along with Darvin's parents.

The night before setting sail, Artemis tries out summon stead, bringing us another party dog: Arya.

Aboard the boat, Akir offers her services as a lawyer and with it Attorney-Client privileged.

### Plans

* See what downtime was, Akir has books and newspapers (fuck)
* Darvin receives a sending from his dad, Darwin:
	+ Hey Darvin kiddo, mom and I love you so much and -- word limit? What do you mean word limit? Shoot, Darlus going to be hanged.
* Battle has teleportation circle where backup can be gotten. Darlus will die on her first turn after hangman goes.

## Session 24

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus

### Fun Facts

Darvin's father, Darwin, was so impressed by the midwife delivering Darvin that he decide to pursue it once he retired from lumberjacking. He's helped deliver almost all the babies born in the last few years in his village, Woodren, Darvin's village, Frostglen, and a few other surrounding villages.

### Recap

Last session aboard the boat, the party took sometime to give Max a chance to give some exposition. Olly is shutting down his theater, the invasion of Slake isn't being covered in the news, no news of pirates captured in the palace attack, the queendom has captured pirates claiming to be the violet lilies, but they don't know much about it. Learned about the aquatic war and about a place called Hiraeth, a place for aquatic tribes to gather, helped the Queendom put down the Sunset rebellion. Also, vampire killing. They turn into mist if you destroy their main resting place. Mallory is from Toll

Tovek and Squid did some surfing, while Bob learned how to write swear words from Thorus. Then Darvin received a sending message from his parents saying Darlus is going to be hanged. The party rushed through the woods and into Frostglen, where Bob was able to jump underneath Darlus's feet to keep her neck from snapping. The party kicked the aquatic guards' butts, got some goodies, and locked a few prisoners.

### Plans

* Darlus to tell them about what happened
* See Darvin's house and chill with his parents, bit of campfire downtime
* Allium tells about Whisper in the trench and Jörmungandr's (Your-man-gand) egg
* Faceless fight!
	+ Someone in the village (Darvin's friendish) Jaralyn rats them out
	+ Teleportation circle to Aquatic camp
	+ DC 25 intelligence check dropping every try. Help actions, bardic, guidance, etc

## Session 25

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

Merdia is a merfolk work for "land that is not wet."

### Recap

* Chilled with Darlus and the rents
* Artemis got a call from the flower after it bloomed
	+ Whisper's main resting place in The Trench
	+ There is an egg they want there
* Talked to the freed people (not very well)
* Talked to the aquatic prisoners
* Got attacked
	+ Teleportation circle
	+ Went back for Thorus

### Plans

* Cave underwater
* Meet The Coalition Underwater Encampment
	+ Guards around trap door (net)
	+ Mallory Suess
	+ Council

## Session 26

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

When they first started dating, Akir and Mallory bonded over constellations. Coming from two different civilizations, they had completely different arrangements and names for the stars.

### Recap

Last session, Tovek, Darvin, Squid, Bob, Artemis, Thorus, Bean, Akir, Serenna, and Darlus took a look at the area they arrived in from the teleportation circle. The cave had a trapdoor which led to water. Going after Serenna and taking a look around, Squid and Darvin with his cloak of the manta ray dove in. Squid and Serenna bonded, Tovek cast water breathing on everyone else, and the whole party ventured forth.

The party met a contingent of coalition guards who recognized them as the Sovereign stealers, and after a tense talk, brought them to Mallory Suess, chief of the Toll tribe. She organized a hearing from the council to decide on the party's fate.

Artemis led the plea, and with the help of Mallory and a mysterious Merrow, received a 67% vote to not kill or turn over the party.

You were all given a place to sleep on the surface. Mallory took Squid aside and asked if he wanted to become part of the Toll tribe.

And then the Merrow spoke to the party with a familiar voice....

### Plans

* Olly Alex aka Aberforth Orta
	+ Story told
		- The Sunset Rebellion
		- Drought
		- Fighting
		- Lusha Jaziri
			* Charismatic
			* Too much to handle
			* Convince coalition to help
			* Set up Lusha
		- Funding of civil rights groups
		- Slave breaking
			* Distributing weapons
			* Burning masters' homes
			* Hiding runaways
		- Assassination of Queen
			* P urple flower
			* King seizing power
			* War starting
			* Violet Lilies surfacing
		- Pirates?
		- Assisting putting together the Coalition
			* Assassinate Riban Mo
		- Second christening strike
			* Couldn't be there
			* Aftermath, king
				+ Lily?
	+ Mind blank

## Session 27

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Tovek

### Recap

Last session you met the being formerly know as Olly, Ab, who gave the party insight into the Sunset Rebellion and how he was a part of it. He ended up forging an alliance between the sub-aquatic people and the people of Merdia to put down the rebellion. After telling Artemis the voice from the lily is Lusha Jaziri's father, Allium, Artemis agreed to some surgical gardening.

The party was then inducted into a secret organization known as the Ravens, and are to use those connections and their connection with Terri to try to find a way to get Frostvir to ally with the undersea coalition.

Then y'all went shopping and found drugs.

### Plans

* Celine Kaya, known as Crow
	+ Has possession of four bags of holding, vault key
	+ In good standing with the government
	+ Works at Slake Bank Group (SBG)
	+ Has been a Raven for years
	+ Zaheer Polat has gone off island
* Raven masks
* Guarded city
* Horses
	+ Moonflame
		- Black with an silver mane
	+ Swift Sparkle
		- Grey with black spots
	+ Buckwheat
		- Brown
	+ Patch
		- Light brown with a white spot
		- Celine's
* https://www.dndspeak.com/2019/03/26/100-fantasy-drugs-and-their-effects/
	+ Maybe hallucinogen
* Frostvir
* Vault under city

## Session 28

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus

### Fun Facts

Celine's favorite color? Brown. She thinks it's nice and doesn't get enough respect.

### Recap

Drugs in hand, the party met up with another member of the ravens, Artemis's old friend Celine. Celine who had been leading a double-life was contacted to help the party find a way to quickly and painlessly overthrow Frostvir maybe. She and the party, with a pony and three horses, rode to Artemis's house. Little Suki reunion and lots of planning.

Celine told the party they could use Terri Powderly to help rally support while they sunk into the city's underground vault to steal the necessary funds to successfully overthrow the current power structures in Frostvir.

After much discussion, the party rode off to the Pieter estate in a hope to trick the servants there into giving them a carriage to sneak their way into the city using a letter with Bob's family's seal.

### Plans

* The Pieter estate has been burned down. A group of concerned citizens burned the words "Free Electra" in the yard. Els M. Pieter sits near the ash of the house on a half-singed rocking chair. She's knitting a scarf.

She has a ring of ice? elemental if the party attacks her, plus some loyal guards nearby https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/elemental-ice

## Session 29

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

I was hoping y'all would envious that Paul got a bonus to a skill.

### Recap

Bob and Artemis went to go investigate the Pieter estate. Oh no, yah burnt. Lady Els Pieter was there. She was all like, "man, I don't love this. But I don't really blame you all that much, Bob because I think you're dumb dumb."

Then y'all schemed. Bob got a chance to see his father one last time. Then more scheming, and now...Frostvir with a tentative alliance with the Lady who wants to be Queen. Any questions I kind of phoned

### Plans

Go with the flow I guess? Not entirely sure.

## Session 30

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

The Rat God is named Marshall, after the Rap God himself

### Recap

At long last, the party arrived in Frostvir, tucked away in Lady Pieter's carriage. While they journeyed, the High Lady wrote a rough draft of Slake's deceleration of independence, to be given to Terri Powderly, in hopes to convince her to work with Pieter and combine elite with non-elite. It hinted at a constitutional monarchy with a democratic legislative body.

At the Pieter's city home, you met Rudina, a long-time loyal servant to the Pieters. Lady Pieter arranged for a disguise maker and someone to find Terri and then left to begin gathering support from other nobles. Celine also left with plans to return after work the following day. The party spent the night in the library, eating tapas, and playing with Bob's stick with a glowing rock on it.

While the party was sleeping, Thorus and Artemis were able to discover some information about the vault, its defenses, and its proximity to a sewer.

In the morning, Jemmim disguised the group. With new aliases, Artemis and Squid went to go to the address were they were told Terri would be, while Bob, Darvin, and Thorus went to go investigate the sewers.

After a couple of disastrous interactions with librarians, Bob, Darvin, and Throus put together a map of the sewer network and find a sewer location out of the way enough to slip in. Not before long as they headed toward the vault were they stopped by the so-called "Rat God of the Sewers"

Artemis gives Squid a tour of her city. They do a vibe check on the way. People's vibes are subpar. After knocking on the small house at the address, on Zasmalalorainacalmika Re Saludayphona opens the door, and quickly slams it shut...

### Plans

* Mika apologies. Thought they were someone else
* Tovek is not disguised
* Mika's story
	+ Those sharks had lycanthropy, she is now a wereshark (maybe obfuscate this)
	+ Told to trap the party in order to get help
	+ Didn't know what was going to happen, but also tried her best not to think about it
	+ immediately racked with guilt
	+ Olly offered her an opportunity to maybe do some good
	+ Has been watching over Terri
* Knock on the door
* Blaze and Fred looking for Terri
* Tense scene and yeah
* Blaze is a dickhead, but motivated by money. Fred along for the ride

* Marshall the Rat God wants the world to become his sewer, and the people his shit
* Crinkle the Crab God has mad beef with Marshall
* They both will ally with the party if they agree to be their undying slaves for all time

## Session 31

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

* Artemis:Aura of protection and Divine Smite
* Bob: The joined halberd has reach
* Darvin: Flash of genius
* Squid: as a cleric you are able to turn undead (look at Prince)
* Thorus: You have an amulet with I think 3rd level cure wounds don't forget
* Tovek: nothing, but well, why don't we get started...(give Tovek his enhanced weapon)

### Recap

Last session the party was split into two groups, absolutely fucking the DM. Darvin and Bob slew the Rat and Crab Gods in the sewers, clearing the path for the party to reach the vaults, while Tovek, Squid, and Artemis found Mika a Terri's house.

Mika was explained she had contracted shark lycanthropy, and was told by the Dowager King Tallias Salt that she would receive help if she, you know, did that whole thing. But afterwards she sought attonement my assisting Terri.

After a tense showdown, the Tovek, Squid, and Artemis released Mika from Squid's bubble, until they were met with a knocking on the door. Some agent of the Witherbees and Fred were looking for Terri.

Obviously that led to a fight. Through the power of friendship, the goddess smiled on the party and reunited Darvin, Bob, and Throus with the others though space and time. With their help the party was able to defeat Fred, worse-for-ware, but alive.

### Plans

* Celine has been found out
	+ Found a dead raven on her desk
	+ Now or never at the vault
	+ Artemis with her, the rest of the party to the sewers
* Vault Golem
* Whisper and Captain Bloodeye

## Session 32

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Maybe Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

The vault's trap reset pretty frequently.

### Recap

If you can believe it, last session started with Fred breaking down. Annabelle's little kid existed in two states, both following the party the whole time as well as being left behind. With Terri and Mika, y'all hid Tovek with a little invisibility and went back to the apartment for a well-earned rest.

But a well-earned rest was not in store. Terri, with Mika left to go get to work, but a worried Celine waited for you, absolutely freaked. Someone left a dead raven on her desk at work. This discovery pushed her to leave and ask the party to go into the vault, immediately.

You took a rest while planning your next move. Through some bag of holding shenanigans and flirting with the receptionist Chris, y'all were able to get into the vault.

With Celine waiting inside, you went in, careful, searching for traps and other protections. But at a certain point, Squid has to abide by his "nah, fuck it" lifestyle, and he grabbed a piece of gold, triggering a hoard golem to attack. Besides Bean who retreated to a bag of holding, you defeated the creature handedly. However, all of the platinum and gold and riches disappeared, leaving only a single chest in the center of the vault...

### Plans

It's time for the big time, Max. Don't fuck it up. Underground vault

* As you open the chest, cold, icy air blasts into your face. For a second. Then it changes, hot, firey. Inside, laid in red velvet is a large, oblong orb. Everytime you look at it, it seems to change. Size, color, smoothness. But you can tell without any sort of check that this is a very magical object, and likely valuable. Also, next to it is a bag of diamonds, worth around 1000 gp.
	+ Then they will argue for 7 minutes about what to do with it.
		- Remind them that the vault with put forth another piece of protection.
* Outside the vault
	+ Whisper has charmed Celine after a bit of a tussle. She looks a lot worse for wear (4 out of 4 health). Whisper is hidden with a 16.
	+ Celine wants to get the egg from the party
	+ Captain Bloodeye (Tokemi Minh) hides behind the vault door (22 stealth)
		- "He" wanted the egg, but try to refer to it as orb. Is totally willing to give the party money for their revolution.
	+ If the party decides to fight, kill Celine, and whomever else keeps the egg from Bloodeye. As soon as "he" gets it, he will teleport of plane shift away.
	+ "Say hello to your mother for me"
* Party returns hopefully. Encourage them to have the drugs.
* Koral
	+ Hallucinogenic (Con save DC 10, Squid has advantage becuase he's watery)
		- Artemis
			* Good trip
				+ Back to candy land
			* Bad Trip
				+ Whisper killing Celine
		- Bob
			* Good Trip
				+ Favored terrain is icy, so icy with bears
			* Bad Trip
				+ Robin and Brennan being like, you're bad
		- Darvin
			* Good Trip
				+ Delicious, delicious rocks
			* Bad Trip
				+ Faceless of Tears busts in, sold out by wife Darlus
		- Squid
			* Good Trip
				+ Endless surf, become the wave
			* Bad Trip
				+ Captian Bloodeye and his mom totally sexing
		- Thorus
			* Good Trip
				+ Meeting Kys and she's rad
			* Bad Trip
				+ Meeting Kys and she sucks
		- Tovek
			* Good Trip
				+ Sailing, perfectly
			* Bad Trip
				+ Dark Caye and this is the only real one
* Delilah Ginger delivers a portal vault to Captain Bloodeye's stash. Reach in and pull out money. Can be canceled at the Captian's behest.
* Things move pretty quickly. Celine pulls off bribes, Terri incites the people, and Lady Pieter allies with political leaders. The Governess is killed, and the Duke and Duchess are captured as political prisoners. Els Pieter is installed as Queen with a council lead by Terri tasked creating a constition. War is offically declared on the Salt kingdom. The party's involvement is made public, and *another* trial is set for you. Queen Pieter assures you the facts are on your side and that your attorney will handle everything. Akir and the Coalition arrives a few days later.

The Queen comes to visit them and make sure they live in the apartment until the trial is finished. Then they will get their own quarters, and a crack at the king.
It takes about a month, but a government is created enough to start your trial. It lasts two days before you are proven to be not guilty and cleared of all charges.
It is the night after the trial, let them celebrate and whatever.

* Marriages
	+ Queen Pieter wants to talk to Bob and Squid.
	+ Bob is now betrothed to Lady Esmerelda Sellic, cousin of the Hook Harbor's governor, Canus Sellic, heir to Arch Bastion
	+ Danee is engaged to Lord Tanka Wrandi, Duchess Wratha Wrandi's nephew and lord of a large part of southern Slake
	+ Avea is engaged to Garrick Hillclock Jr., son of Senator Garrick Hillcloak
	+ Then pull out the big guns, Queen Pieter is engaged to Mallory Suess
		- Mallory asked Akir what she thought, and Akir said it was a "good idea' because she couldn't pick up on cues. Then they had a bit of a fight.
		- Mallory offers to find Squid a betrothal
			* Undersea Coalition
	+ The Queen also says she could find other partnerships for the rest of the party, but she is not their parent, so she cannot make them.

Six months later...(This is probably enough time for a level up)
The Hook has declared their independence and allied with Slake

* Artemis
	+ Zaheer returns a lieutenant in the Slake army
* Bobs
	+ Metting Esmerelda
	+ Marrying Esmerelda
* Darvin
	+ The kids and Darlus return
* Squid
	+ Claudia comes to Slake
* Thorus
	+ Meeting Yu Shi: If you keep your eyes on the sky, you'll get a knife in the back
		- "Master Thorus Ironstorm, due to your alignment with Slake, a noted enemy to her wonderous and mighty, the goddess Kys, you are hereby excommunicated from Ironstorm and exiled from Rapture. Any attempt to return to Rapture will result in your immediate execution and the cremations of your remains, to be buried in the furthest pits of the world.

Thank you, and have a nice day.
-Karanta Ironstorm"

* Tovek
	+ Tovek's mothers, Tosark and Aswev, come

* The king is in Rapture in the Circle. The Alliance is going to run a false flag operation on Divinity while the party is set to go capture the king. Opportunity to use Thorus...

## Session 33

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus

### Maybe Players:

* Bobs
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

Johnson was another witness at the trial, corroborated you had no princess and were in fact imprisoned.

Merdia is both world and the queendom

### Recap

Previously in Merdia...The party discovered a mysterious artifact in the vault. Captian Bloodeye, Captian Albania Vayne's killer and known Violet Lily, hired Whisper to help him retrieve it from the party. They snatched it, and Squid's backpack, and teleported away, leaving the party with a small bag of diamonds as their only spoils. However, an old friend, one Deiliah Ginger, Bloodeye's right hand, delivered near unlimited funds to the party as payment for the artifact. With a little encouragement from Celine, some drugs were did, and then things happened fast.

Slake quickly overthrew rule, with a captured Duke and Lady Pieter installed as queen. The party was speedily tried and acquited of the crimes Queen Salt has accused them of. Afterward, you were given apartments in the city and a promise by Queen Pieter a chance to go after Dowager King Tallias Salt II. It is greatly assumed he framed the party and was he himself part of the plot to kidnap the princess, as a way to reclaim his power from his daughter.

In the meantime, Bob was given a betrothal offer to Lady Esmerelda Sellic, a young girl of the Hook and budding children's book author. Queen Pieter announced her marriage to Chief Mallory Suess, to Akir's chagrin.

Squid made contact with Joceyln Tear, briefly. Darvin reunited with his wife and kids and found Darsi to be a natural spellcaster. He also decided to research about the mysterious orb. Tovek learned some new spells and raised arms to fight around Slake, landing near his childhood home.

Artemis reunited with her family, as well as Zaheer, now a lieutenant in the Slake military.

Thorus met Yu Shi Exironstorm, a Deaf-Blind woman who was cast out from the Ironstorms after losing her eyesight. She took Throus to the beach to tell him about the synergy of the sea and sky, leaving him standing in the water...

### Plans

* Jörmungandr's Egg
	+ There is no information in any library
	+ Information about the Duke having a book from Xanathar's Guide to Everything
	+ Pieter's Guide to Some Things is sectioned off

1. Noble People
	1. Nadia Salt

* Secretly ill
* No magic seems to help for long
* Doctors say she won't live into her 30s

1. 1. Archibald Salt

* Will be killed by Tallias Salt II at his daughter's christening

1. 1. Tallias Salt II

* BETRAYED

1. 1. Xig Dura

* Numerous pages found. No good dirt

1. 1. Delsa Sellic

* Partner was cheating on her
* Once told a friend she wanted to kill her husband
* Husband now missing

1. 1. Wratha Wrandi

* Has an illegitmate son

1. 1. Lady Pieter

* Learned poisons

1. Magical Objects

* Armor of Invulnerability
	+ The Goods have it stashed somewhere, but where
* Cubic Gate
	+ Gate spell, plane shift spell. Where is it? Who has it?
* Ring of Spell Turning
	+ Lost at sea. So far crews have found nothing

1. Chaos Orb?

* Title Page
* Torn

* Squid
	+ Claudia Stauss returns
	+ Baratarat has to come back looking for money
		- Discovered at the Surfer's Summit
* Artemis
	+ Zaheer sold his part of the business to Helena Mazhar
	+ Loyalists + Wartime production
	+ Helena wants in on information, gonna play nice
	+ Research:
		- The Trench
			* No one has ever returned
			* Demons
		- The rebellion
			* Aeon
		- Pirates
* Bob
	+ The Wedding of Els + Mallory, Danee + Tanka Wrandi, Aeva + Garrick Hillcloak, and Bob + Esmerelda
		- Joint wedding to throw a huge, huge party
		- Snowing
		- In the Sisilla Sea
			* Many spellcasters are working hard to shape water to literally split the sea, so aquatic creatures can be in the water, while land-dwellers can be on land
	+ Attendees
		- The Party
		- The entire Toll tribe
		- Other important Undersea Coalition
		- Garrick Hillcloak
		- Rolanda Wrandi
		- Ionadina Akir
		- Zasmalalorainacalamika Re Saludayphona
	+ Bob's attendees
		- Stepjin and Jeetar Marita
		- Canus Sellic
		- Thomas Dura
		- Empress Xig Dura
		- Delsa Sellic
* Darvin
* Thorus

* War Council
	+ People
		- Queen Els Pieter
		- Queen Mallory Suess
		- (Empress Xig Dura)
		- (Canus Sellic)
		- The Party
		- Admiral Pitty Pat
		- General Olaf Highwind
		- (Helena Mazhar)
		- Mika
	+ The plan is to run a false flag on Divinity while the party sneaks into Rapture in the circle to kidnap the king

## Session 34

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

My absolute favorite moment of this campaign, and quite possibly one of my favorite life moments was sitting in silence drinking in all of your shocked, confused, and semi-disgusted faces as you realized Squid's mom, Claudia, had been seeing Captain Bloodeye. Sorry Tucker.

### Recap

Last we left our heroes, Thorus continued to talk to Yu Shi to reckon with his faith and family. Squid reached out to an old friend. His mother, Claudia Stauss, moved in, grappling with her romantic choices in life. Artemis, learning her mother, Helena, bought the other half of the family business from Zaheer, returns to tree-cutting, and after a brief, bloody run-in with some Merdian loyalists, learns more about the malcontent on the island. She also learns more about The Trench, the deepest, darkest, demoniest part of the ocean, and sends a letter to the creature formally known as Olly to try to dig up some information about the Sunset Rebellion.

Darvin spent his time researching the mysterious artifact in the vault. His research leads him to a book in Duke Vincent Pieter's personal collection. A book of pages from Xanathar's Guide to Everything. In a section called "Chaos Orb," the relevant pages have been ripped out.

Tovek set out on a journey to fight for Slake, although inbetween those adventures, he is on his way back to the Sisilla Sea for a very special event.

Bob spent his time working out with Ezzy watching and drawing him. The night Bob's sisters Danee, his older sister, who he last saw in Divinty shopping for clothes, and Aeva, his younger sister returned home, Bob brought Ezzy to meet them. They discussed marriages, spent the night drinking, and sat in the pain of losing their brother. Aeva, buttressed by the alcohol, gave a speech about Bob being strong and capable.

Later, Bob goes to Ezzy's house, where they awkwardly dance around the topics of marriage and sex, further pushed into awkardness by the arrival of Ezzy's mother, Delsa Sellic. Finally, Bob's decides to marry Ezzy, and they fuck, possibly to conception.

As promised, Squid threw an epic bachelor's party, inviting Akir along. There was drinking, flying, bumper carring, and exploding ships, reminding Bob of the night his father died and the party was betrayed by Mika.

### Plans

* Bear is back
* Mika wants to chat with Artemis, pretense of delivering Aeon's message
	+ What do you want to know, specifically?
* Helena Mazhar wants to get in good with Artemis for political reasons

#### Wedding

The Wedding of Els + Mallory, Danee + Tanka Wrandi, Aeva + Garrick Hillcloak, and Bob + Esmerelda

* + Joint wedding to throw a huge, huge party
	+ Snowing
	+ In the Sisilla Sea
		- Many spellcasters are working hard to shape water to literally split the sea, so aquatic creatures can be in the water, while land-dwellers can be on land
* Attendees
	+ The Party
	+ The entire Toll tribe
	+ Other important Undersea Coalition
	+ Garrick Hillcloak
	+ Rolanda Wrandi
	+ Ionadina Akir
	+ Zasmalalorainacalamika Re Saludayphona
	+ Stepjin and Jeetar Marita
	+ Canus Sellic
	+ Thomas Dura
	+ Empress Xig Dura
	+ Delsa Sellic

* Vows:
	+ Esmerelda: "Bobo, I promise to love your dogs as much as you do. To patient and teach you about anything you ask me. To remind you that you are strong, that you are capable, that you are smart. I promise to love you even when it's hard and to remember how much joy your smile brings to the world and to try to make that happen whenever I can. You are an amazing person and I can't believe that I get to be by your side, no matter what, even do decide to steal a princess for real this time, you can count on me. I love you."
	+ Bob: "Ezzy, I promise to push you wherever you want to go. Not just your chair; but your mind and your heart, too. From the first moment I saw you, I knew you were special. I promise to remember just how lucky I am that you love me. You are so smart and fun and passionate. I promise to love you and to make you happy, no matter where my adventures may take me. Of course I also promise to always let you watch me work out. I love you."
* "Place your left hands together. (You see all of the couples press their hands on the other. A cleric for each pair then steps forward, all of them casting the same spells.) The blessing of Earrith: (You feel dirt and rock wrap over both your and Esmerelda's hands, like one big glove for the both of you) May the earth provide a steady foundation on which your marriage can be built. The blessings of Sae: (The clerics cast a second spell. A ball of water wraps around both of your hands. Right now it's basically mud) May the ocean wash away who you were, so that you may have a path to become who the two of you will be. The blessings of Kys: (A ball of warm light glows from each or the clerics staffs. You see the water start to evoporate and the dirt start to crack) May the Sun shine on this marriage and bring good fortune to your union.

(As you pull your hands away, the dirt falls off, the water dries up, the light stops. You see on both of your fingers this polished, identical silver ring)
Just as the goddess were three individuls who came together to create one, the world, so too are you individuals to create to one, this marriage. No longer are you *me and me*. (Akir looks at Mallory for a second, takes a deep breath, and continues). From this day and all days hence, you are *us.*

Go forth into the world as one, and may I proudly be the first to present:

Princess Aeva and Garrick Pieter (Aeva and Garrick take hands and walk down the aisle. Everyone starts to clap).

Princess Esmerelda Sellic and Prince Robert Sellic/Pieter (Esmerelda takes your hand from over her shoulder so you can hold it and push her at the same time).

Princess Danee and Prince Tanka Pieter (They walked behind you)

And Queen Els Pieter and Chief Mallory Suess (The applause for all of you suddenly becomes deafening and thousands of aquatic creatures erupt into raucous cheers."

#### The Old Duke

Vincent Pieter

* Remind them this is the Dowager King's brother

Seems to be living pretty well in his manor.
His trusted servant, Dante, would copy the pages into his book, one day a beautiful woman with hair covering one eye somehow got a meeting with him. He felt calm and trusting around her, and stepped out to use the toilet. When he came back the servant was dead and those pages were missing.

Vincent also knows about her eye, maybe tripped or something. Make sure to use the word's "Bleeding Eye"

This is what he knows: "The Chaos Orb" is the egg of Jörmungandr (your-man-gand), the world-ender. But the egg has wonderous anti-magic properties, and it's chaotic properties are particularlly interesting for study. Of course, no one has seen it before, for only a truly chaotic creature could find the egg.

#### The War Council

* War Council
	+ People
		- Queen Els Pieter
		- Queen Mallory Suess
		- Empress Xig Dura
		- Governor Canus Sellic
		- The Party
		- Admiral Pitty Pat
		- General Olaf Highwind
		- (Helena Mazhar)
		- Mika
	+ The plan is to run a false flag on Divinity while the party sneaks into Rapture in the circle to kidnap the king

## Session 35

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

The last time Mika unintentially turned into a shark was the day before the Pieter wedding.

### Recap

Before death: love. For the first time possibly in his life, Bob was surrounded by people who loved him. Els, Danee, and Aeva accept him into the party. Bean, Bear and he are united together for the first time. And the party, each giving him a wedding present (including Tovek being strongarmed into taking Esmerelda sailing), show support him like he's their brother, or in Squid's case, his uncle.

Before Bob's wedding, Artemis is visited by Mika, giving her a note with the requested information by the artist formerly known as Olly. His answers were cryptic, unhelpful, and seemingly uninformed for someone so involved in the Sunset Rebellion, however, he corroborated Queen Pieter's theory about Tallias being unsavory specifically. Queen Pieter thinks Tallias was somehow involved with the Princess's kidnapping and in your framing. Long ago after the Kerfuffle at the Courthouse, Squid left Mika alone to speak with Dowager King Tallias Salt (who happened to have a child with Mika some five years ago, which Mika revealed in a "trauma dump" to Artemis the night of Bob's wedding). Afterward Queen Nadia pardoned the party.

Bob learned Ezzy was pregnant right before their wedding, but did his best to keep it secret although Squid did pick up on some of those vibes. Everyone was there for the wedding, including Helena Mazhar, Artemis's mom, who gave Artemis sole ownership of the family business. And now Bob is married!

After the wedding, Squid and Bob take some fantasy cocaine, leaving Ezzy taking care of Bob on her wedding night, Claudia met Mallory, Thorus semi-accidentally played liar's dice with merfolk, and Artemis and Mika do some crying but also the sex.

Later, Tovek returns home to his moms, and has a nice time becasue his family life is fine. Antonio met up with Squid at Slake. Thorus went soul-searching. Bob and Ezzy move out to be neighbors with Artemis.

Finally, the time has come. The party is called to a war council. Helena gets in the Room Where It Happens with Artemis's permission.

Queen Pieter meets with the party briefly for her version of a pep talk(?) and to have a moment of love between her and Bob, telling him that she never properly said goodbye to Robin, and he never came home, and imploring Bob to come home.

The war council of Queen Pieter, Chief Suess, Empress Dura, Governor Sellic, Admiral Pat, General Highwind, Prince Sellic, "Captian" Agi-Velo, Reverend Stauss, Ms. Mazhar, CEO, Medic Ironstorm, and of course Daddy Oakhur discussed their plan. Divinity has been holding back on attacking, slowly moving the Atlands into position. So now, a false flag on Divinity while the party goes to Rapture to capture Tallias.

After, Squid, Artemis, and Darvin go to Vincent Pieter, ex-duke of Slake. He revealed, with a little alcohol and a little zone of truth, that a woman covering her eye (which turned out to look red and bloddy) charmed the Duke, killed his assistant, and stole the pages containing Jörmungandr's. Only creatures of pure chaos could possibly find the egg. It has wonderous properties, possibly anti-magic.

You also learned Ol' Vinny seems a bit scared of Tallias and that the Princess's "fake" kiddnapping turned out to be quite real after a double-cross.

### Plans

* Artemis returning home, sending stone with a Dragon Turtle
	+ Basically needs to have a heart-to-heart with mom or is fucked
* Give everyone gifts and let them tell me what they want to bring for the journey
	+ Bob: Esmerelda gives him collar and journal
	+ Tovek: Package from moms of Desire Compass
	+ Thorus: Yu Shi wants to give him a tattoo
	+ Squid: Claudia gives him Big Ol'Bag O' Beans
	+ Darvin: Darlus gives him witches brew
	+ Artemis: Mika gives her Spirit Milk Bones on the boat
* The boat
	+ mid size boat capable of being sailed with a skeleton crew of five people
	+ Three boats in total. Two to run cover
	+ Bearing Salt banners, stolen from the Salt fleet
* Mika needs to bring up the Atlands probably wanting to completely destroy Slake. Need to capture king
* Sail for a while, near the Circle, they'll be attacked if Helena tipped them off
	+ Dragon Turtle and other ships
* The Circle's first mountain has to be over come, then a journey to the center mountain. Top of which is Rapture. Has no roof, but the king is probably in the bottom in the factory, which is physically in the mountain.
* Rapture is pretty isolated. There are few people upstairs in their bedrooms, plus Tokemi disgused as a dwarf in goggles. Make them a coward
* The king is in the roll20 map. Willing to summon Faceless and turn himself into a Faceless
* If they fail, Mika suggests princess
* Mika has called for Aeon, who will explain everything he wants, as a dragon
* https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/stone-defender for guardian malfunctions
* Witch's brew

## Session 36

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

Everyone off mute. This is very dangerous, and you all need to be smart and tacticle and work as a team. If you all die, that's game over. I'm also going to, because this is intense situation, you need to be prepared for your turn, or I will skip you.

### Recap

Welcome back to Merdia. Last time, after Squid, Artemis, and Darvin visited the former Duke of Slake, where they learned about Jörmungandr's egg, the whole party went home to say goodbye to their loved ones before going on their top secret mission.

Artemis went inside to a dark house and noticed a sending stone near the front door with Queen Salt's insigna. She confronted her mother about it, and eventually her mother erupted, telling Artemis that she thinks her daughter is selfish and has made her life hell. Artemis defended herself, stormed upstairs to say goodbye to her sisters and gather her things. Her sisters weren't mad and gave her some magical dog biscuits for Arya.

Bob spoke to his new pregnant wife Esmeralda, and while she said she wasn't ready to go on this adventure with him this time, made him promise to take her next time. She gave him a sick spiked collar for Bean and a journal. Then they fucked.

Darvin said goodbye to his wife and kids, and Darlus gave him a special potion that she and Darsi had worked on. She wanted it to be a surprise, but said to drink it in emergencies. Darvin and Darlus then fucked.

Squid saw his mother, who was cooking for free-loading Antonio. Claudia gave Squid a Big Ol' Bag of Beans that Baratat had left behind the night he and Claudia fucked. Afterwards, Squid hit the surf and casted commune to speak to Slater. He asked him about Tallias, who is hoping to see the party at Rapture, if Whisper is an ally to the Violet Lillies, who is only loyal to whomever pays them, and if Tallias is really in charge of the Queendom, which for all intents and purposes, he is.

Finally, Thorus, already drunk arrived back to his apartment where Yu Shi was waiting for him. She, sorta getting his consent although only a bit because he was intoxicated, gave him a magic tattoo. The tattoo was of the sun meeting the sea, and lets Thorus be in Kysian or Saean form.

After saying goodbye, the party met up for dinner and a sleepover and to discuss strategies. Darvin had gotten some potions of fly, Mika expressed her worries that what happened to the Sunset Landing will happen to Slake, and Throus and his bodyguards gave everyone else the lowdown about Rapture.

Then the party set sail on stolen Merdian vessels. Along the way, they were able to calm Thorus down enough to go to sleep and communed everyday where they learned a ton of stuff about stuff, please refer to your notes because it was a lot.

Finally, the party arrived at the Circle, where after some deliberation, decided to use the potions of fly to fly up and over the mountain to Rapture. Mika said she had a desperation secret backup plan to get them out if need-be.

Likely, the king is in the forge at the bottom of Rapture, but the party dropped in on the top floor with abysmal stealth and were attacked by Ironstorms, including Karanta, Thorus's mentor. Squid quickly killed Karanta, and a hysterical Thorus tried to revive her, but Bob picked up the body, and Thorus followed.

Now, the party is on the first floor with Ironstorms right behind them heading for the stairs down...

Artemis, it's your turn.

### Plans

* The king is in the roll20 map. Willing to summon Faceless and turn himself into a Faceless
* If they fail, Mika suggests princess
* Mika has called for Aeon, who will explain everything he wants, as a dragon
* https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/stone-defender for guardian malfunctions
* Witch's brew

## Session 37

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Maybe Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Recap

Previously, in the heart of Rapture, the party met up with Tovek, while Thorus stayed behind to hyponotize 8 Ironstorms. Artemis was able to calm down Mika, at least for a little, but when they reached the forge, Mika ran off, while everyone else cautiously moved through, navigating the darkness. As a team, you put down a Guardian, and faced off against the Faceless of Anguish. Eventually, Thorus reached the party and very loudly yelled to "stealth."

With the Faceless blocking a path, both Bob and Artemis and Bean leapt over molten metal while Tovek blinked in and out of existance. With a clutch counterspell, you dispatched the Faceless and moved on ever closer to the king. Bob shoved a guardian to it's doom, and Thorus picked up a soul ring of a dead guardian

Along with the Faceless of Smiles, King Tallias held a chaotic sword and knocked both Mika and Squid to near death. But with quick work on a hurt Faceless, you brought the downed members up and surrounded the King. With just a few hit points left, Tallias spat at the party for "ruining everything" and told them they would never take him alive and then took a dagger to his own face and created The Faceless of Love.

### Plans

* Faceless of Love
	+ Breaks the heat-keeper
	+ Con-save DC 15 or take 1d4 damage at end of turn. This raises to 1d6 when the metal is 20 ft high
	+ INT 5, metal raises up by 1d10 feet (maybe make them roll). If things are going to easy, have the metal compound
		- Compound:
			* 1. 1d10
			* 2. 1d4 + 1d10
			* 3. 1d6 + 1d10
			* 4. 10 feet
			* 5. 5 feet
* Mika to suggest the Princess
* Mika has called in back-up. Introduce Aeon.
* Aeon knows about the egg? Learned about it? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OVJAY4LVtenRRXoUkMVTbedfpl8BPE5y8YBKH-YLJ20/edit#
* The Dread Wood
* The Dark Caye to split everyone up:
	+ Darvin
		- On the beach. Maybe his axe
		- Soulforger (reaction to cause someone to automatically succeed on a death-saving throw. Can cast revivify once per day 60 ft away)
			* When he's done, he goes to the woods to save everyone. Soulforger gives everyone their final upgrade
		- Tokemi flashback of her not being good enough
	+ Artemis
		- Don, Sah, and Kim Anders
		- +2 axe
		- Chop off head
	+ Bob
		- Bear (rock)
		- Crushed
		- Something with breaking open the rock. Intelligence increase by 2 and gain resistance to non-magical bludgeoning damage
	+ Squid
		- Batarat
		- Drown
		- All-terrain board (levitate 5 feet)
	+ Thorus
		- Karanta
		- Buried
		- Improved
	+ Tovek
		- The Party
		- resistance/immunity acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder, his choice
	+ Mika
		- Son
	+ Aeon
		- Nothing? Too powerful? Lusha maybe.

## Session 38

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

The Faceless of love wanted to kill Bean and Mika to destroy the things you love

### Recap

You tried to kill love, but love can never die. After exchanging a few blows with the Faceless in the Rapture forge, you realized the molten metal was rising too quickly; the heat was too intense. With Bob blocking the way for the Faceless, but getting stunned more often than not, the party started running and carrying each other. Thorus, who didn't even bother fighting, opting instead to check on his family he hypnotized upstairs, Darvin and Tovek were the first to make it near the entrance, while Artemis went back to help Bob (although she was turned into a crab). With Bob once again stunned, Tovek with his incredibly boosted speed and Thorus with a dimension door got both Thorus and Bob upstairs.

Seeing the molten metal almost at their feet, Darvin downed the potion from his wife. She and some witchy friends were able to cast haste, fly, and enhance ability on him, to allow him to superman grab the stragglers and bring everyone to safety.

Above the forge, at Mika's call was an ancient dragon, offering the party a ride. The creature, Aeon, the artist formerly known as Olly heard about your trials and tribulations, and learning Jormangandr's egg was taken and the fact that its hatching would likely end the world, as well as suspecting the Princess to be on the Dark Caye (the princess being good leverage for Slake's rebellion), all those things I just said which was a bad sentence led the dragon, Aeon, to fly y'all to the Dark Caye.

Along the way, Aeon told you about his past. He, being a dragon and therefore a shapeshifter, fell in love with Lusha Jaziri and married into her changeling family of Tokemi and Allium. Together they help launch the Sunset rebellion, but eventually Lusha came under some sort of demonic or fiendish or otherwise evily affliction, her eye bloody. Her tactics grew more brutal, and sensing he was just helping to put a worse tyrant in power, Aeon turned on his wife.

Years later, Aeon had possession of an amulet with a wish spell. He wished for the knowledge of how to help the world and atone for his betrayal. That wish spell gave him intution, and following it, led to his suggesting inviting all of you to the Christening.

After landing on the beach outside the Dreadwood, Darvin helped Bob write in his journal, while Thorus snuck away from the party to bury his mentor, Karanta. A touching cremation later supported by the sky itself, you went to sleep.

When Darvin woke in the morning, he discovered he was all...alone...

### Plans

* The Dread Wood
* The Dark Caye to split everyone up:
	+ Darvin
		- On the beach. Maybe his axe
		- Soulforger (reaction to cause someone to automatically succeed on a death-saving throw. Can cast revivify once per day 60 ft away)
			* When he's done, he goes to the woods to save everyone. Soulforger gives everyone their final upgrade
		- Tokemi flashback of her not being good enough
	+ Artemis
		- Don, Sah, and Kim Anders
		- +2 axe
		- Chop off head
	+ Bob
		- Bear (rock)
		- Crushed
		- Something with breaking open the rock. Intelligence increase by 2 and gain resistance to non-magical bludgeoning damage
	+ Squid
		- Batarat
		- Drown
		- All-terrain board (levitate 5 feet)
	+ Thorus
		- Karanta
		- Buried
		- Improved Amulet
	+ Tovek
		- The Party
		- resistance/immunity acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder, his choice
	+ Mika
		- Son
	+ Aeon
		- Nothing? Too powerful? Lusha maybe.

## Session 39

### Expected Players:

* Artemis
* Bobs
* Darvin
* Squid
* Thorus
* Tovek

### Fun Facts

This had been a blast DMing for all of you. I'm going to miss it, but all good things end.

### Recap

Centuries ago, two twin changling sisters lived in a tropical paradise called the Sunset Landing. One was a brave and skilled fighter, a powerful mind, an inspiring leader. The other, always in her sister's shadow. The brave one, Lusha, fell in love with a dragon named Aeon, and seeing their island facing tyranny and drought, created a rebellion against the Salt Queendom of Merdia.

Although they fought fiercely and bravely, they were still outmatched, and the other sister, Tokemi, wished to help. But she was pushed away by Lusha. Determined to join in the struggle, Tokemi found a ritual that would make both she and her twin magically tied together in a form of immortality; while one still breathes, the other cannot die.

The ritual permanently marked the sisters so used to being able to change their apperance with blood-like, red eyes, but made Lusha unstoppable on the battlefield. However, Lusha's bloodlust only grew.

Seeing the terror his wife was inflicting on the world, Aeon made a fateful decision: he would convince the Undersea Coalition to join with the Salt Queendom. Then, with Tokemi's help, Aeon and she would put forth a surrender, giving up Lusha to the Queen.

Rather than putting her to death, the Queen trapped Lusha's soul in the Mother Tree on the Sunset Landing, and used her most powerful mages to curse the island.

Lusha and Tokemi's father, with great love for his sister, sought a way to reverse the spell that left his daughter trapped. He tapped into the last of the magic of nature on the island and became one with the Violet Lillies, imploring Tokemi to help in the quest.

Eventually, Tokemi took on the persona of a pirate named Captain Bloodeye, captaining the vessel The Twin. Tokemi cared for her crew, offering democratic institutions, profit sharing, and even a form of a pension.

Later, seeking to atone for his sins, Aeon cast a Wish spell to gain knowledge on how to help the world. He believed the spell worked, but from the shadows, Tokemi cast a wish of her own: to make Aeon think he was working with the knowledge of his Wish but was really furthering Tokemi's goals.

Following his intution, under the guise of the actor Olly Alex, Aeon helped distribute invitations to Princess Electra Salt II's christening to six individuals.

1. Artemis Mazhar. A wood elf who had taken over the family business after her father's tragic passing at the hands of a band of pirates. She bid farewell to her friends Celine and Zaheer and sisters Morgan and Megan. Along the way, Zaheer hinted at having a crush on Artemis.
2. Bob Pieter. A human and realitive of Duke Vincent Pieter who had been kicked out of his noble family for one too many gaffs. While working doing manual labor, his coworkers Jeetar and Stepjin cleaned up his pet: Bear. The rock with a bear painted on it Bob carried around after no longer being able to see his family dog, Bear.
3. Darvin Oakhur. A dwarf cutting wood and making furniture in Slake. He said goodbye to his wife Darlus and three children whose names have never mattered and well, what you going to do (Darwa, Darton, Darsi). Before leaving, Darvin gave Darlus a sending stone to stay in contact.
4. Reggie "Squid" Stauss. A water genasi surfer with the ultimate couch surfer always with in arms reach: his dad Batarat "The Shark" Dudelord. Confined to a surfboard after a deal with a devil to defeat his rival, Squid's father the marid gave Squid magical powers and sick surfing skills.
5. Thorus Ironstorm. Dwarf and necrotic healer living in Rapture under the tutalage of Karenta Ironstorm. He worships Kys the Goddess of the Sky. Before leaving in Karenta's place for Divinity, he was given a gun to protect himself. Will he ever use it? Let's find out
6. Tovek "Windracer" Agi-Velo. Goliath and career sailor. Lover of the sea, the first we see of him he's breaking a chair and looking for knowledge. Although he was unable to find a magic compass and also missed the session where he was going to get one for free, he makes it on the Caviler alright.

For the first time, the party boards the Cavalier and meets her captain: Captain Albania Vanye. Before their journey can even fully begin, the ship is attacked by a Kraken, each person barely escaping with their lives.

Their ship damaged but spirits high, everyone celebrates! Darvin kicked Vayne's ass in one-on-one combat, but the revelry is cut short. Taking advantage of the ship's state, Captain Bloodeye aka Tokemi Jazari boards the ships.

Squid charms Bloodeye's first mate Delilah Ginger, but it's for naught. The literal skeleton crew commandeers the ship, taking Albania Vayne away, and discovering two prisoners hidden in a secret part of the ship, leaving Delilah Ginger in charge of the vessel. The remainin crew and the party kept to silence under a threat to their loved ones.

The Cavalier took a detour to the Kraken's Rest, a secret pirate island hidden in magical mist. The pirates had their own business to attend to, and Ginger gave Artemis gold to buy a potion of alter self from the alchemist Frunk, offering to look into which pirate ship may have attacked her father.

While on the island, Thorus discovered a new church, Artemis and Darvin fought some spiders and got the potion, Squid declined an offer to leave the island with the working crew of the Cavalier, and Tovek met Whisper, a vampire in the business of making deals. Tovek was given business cards used to contact Whisper to distribute others.

At night, the island was attacked by Dame Medeline Quake under the order of Queen Salt. Barely escaping with their lives, the Cavalier set sail for Divinity.

Upon arriving, the pirates aboard hid while Artemis and Darvin tricked the custom officals into not looking into the barrels filled with explosives, letting the Cavalier into the city to later launch an attack.

After leaving the ship, the party met their guide, Zasmalaloraincalamika Re Saludayphona, an elf who has spent her life in service of the Queendom. She brought the party to the Waterways Resort and gave you leave of the city. Thorus visited the Ironstorm Cathedral and left with a big shopping list. The rest of the party went to a bar to get smashed on some swill. There, Squid met some college kids, including the Succubus Amanda, and fire imp Jocelyn. Jocelyn gives him her address for later if he maybe wants to hang or something.

The next day, Mika takes you on a tour of the city, and you even get to see a strike. Oh shit, there was nothing you could really do. Oops. Guess you'll just see a play or something.

After the play, Mika took you backstage to meet the actor, Olly Alex, who was a dragon the whole time. He got Mika to leave for a moment and implores the party to keep an eye on a changeling at the Christening named Tokemi, something you all immediately forgot and made me miss a lot of set up for the final people but oh well. He also asked y'all to rescue the strike leader Terri Powderly from the clutches of the Witherbees. But the address she was being held? Amanda and Jocelyn's soroity house.

Stake out time. While Squid went to go on a little date/a little looking around, you all waited in a cafe where Bob discovered his favorite book. Yadiyada. Things went awry and a fight broke out in the Sorority. Some demon girls died, Jocelyn was knocked out, and Terri was saved. While investigating, Artemis got Lillied. Oops, now there's the voice of Allium in her head. But you managed to smuggle Terri out to Olly and brought Jocelyn to the Waterways Resort.

During the night, you called on Whisper for some information, and Bob made a friend to read to him.

Later, both Witherbee guards and Fred and Mika come because y'all are in trouble. But Mika pulled some strings to get a trial with Divine Judicator Ionadina Akir under a lake.

The trial went ok, but some guilty verdicts were passed. Luckily or unluckily, Aeon called on some friends to give you an opportunity to save Akir and work out a pardon from the queen. Unfortuately, getting out of the courthouse against a fight with a dragon led to Artemis calling once again on Whisper, offering them a deal for whatever they wanted.

Squid and Mika briefly spoke to The Dowager King Talias Salt II.

Safe and pardoned in new accomodations in the palace, you checked out Xanathar's Guide to Everything and met the Queen. You did some shenanigans in the palace and Artemis learned more about removing her flower problem, but before long Whisper came calling.

And, listen, we don't have to go into too much detail about what happened. It ended with Artemis deciding to use the lily to help her get vengence on Whisper and Squid having some beef with papa the Shark.

Party time! Squid meets his father's rivial, Marcus Straddleblaster, and it turns out beating him up with a surfboard was a bad idea because he was innocent. Bob and Darvin hang out with Brennan Pieter, who has Bear's baby Bean as a gift for Bob! But then they drink some liquor poisoned by Els M. Pieter, which was meant for Vincent Pieter. Uh oh! Dad is dead. Tovek doesn't have a threeway. Coward.

Also, the Cavalier explodes the palace or whatever. Tokemi uses the distraction to kidnap the princess, which I'll just give you a little insight, she needed a choatic world for Jormangandr to hatch. There's a free piece of lore for you.

Mika tricked you into getting trapped in a room with a Faceless. Oh no! You lose the fight and are imprisoned. But a little bit of murder later you're out with no problem. Except being stranded at sea, but that's okay because Aeon sent a Terrapin Whale to help.

You made it to a secluded island recently rebranded as the surfer's summit (also Akir's vacation home with love letters to Mallory. What a coincidence!!!).

Squid conquered Slater's Slayer Tsunami and gets a new daddy, Slater! God is better than dad. Akir comes back, but she got fired and hates her life, so worries. Except yes, worries! Darlus and Darvin's parents are in trouble.

You sailed to Slake. Along the way, Bob threw away Bear. When you arrived you beat up some Undersea Coalition people to free Darlus from being. Who is a witch \*pretend to do the laugh.\* But quickly you were sold out and another Faceless showed up.

You escape with Thorus barely making it out alive through a teleportation circle. Just in time to meet the Undersea Coalition and Mallory Suess, Squid's grandma. With the help of Aeon's new form, you plead your case to not be immediately killed and try to overthrow Slake without an invasion. It actually worked.

Aeon helped free Artemis from her lily and gave some more, but not all information. But you agreed to become Ravens and fight for freedom. And guess who else is a Raven? That's right, our girl Celine.

A little talk with Bob's mom makes strange bedfellows, but at least Bob got to say goodbye to his father. And maybe his mom doesn't super hate him.

Bags of Holding shenanigans and flirting abound to steal money from a vault. But all that's in the Slake vault is a lowsy egg that will end the world. Lame.

But Captain Bloodeye wants it, and that guy isn't even real. But Whisper is, and they will threaten Celine to get it. Luckily Captian Bloodeye gave you a ton of cash to pursue the rebellion. Not like it was a ploy to destabilize the world or anything.

Time goes on. The Pieters became royal, Claudia had being sleeping with Captain Bloodeye, but now she's living with Squid. Zaheer became a soldier. Helena Mazhar had been up to no good, looking to get hers by betraying Slake. Thorus did some soul-searching. Tovek sailed around fighting and visiting his moms. Darvin read about the egg and you know, also did the whole being a dad thing. Did I mention Bob got married? And the rest of his family? And Mallory married Els and then Akir got sad? Also Mika and Artemis hooked up at the wedding and then I guess started dating? What the fuck?

Eventually, the Queen called you in for her big-time plan: launch a false flag attack on Divinity while you go to capture the the Dowager King. Before you do, Darvin, Squid, and Artemis visit the ex-duke to get some info about him. It was a little bit confusing, but added some foreboding foreshadowing.

Artemis caught her mom in the act of betrayal and stopped her! But that will have to be dealt with later. Now is the time to sail to Rapture.

You flew in much to Thorus's chagrin, but made it to the forge. Unfortunatly before you could capture King Tallias. he went Faceless. Classic.

With nowhere else to turn, you ran, using some pretty cool skills and creative thinking, and luckily Aeon was a dragon the whole time and flew you all to the Dark Caye.

But the Dark Caye had plans of its own. Now the proper recap:

Darvin awoke on a beach alone. His axe began talking to him about he doesn't belong, how he's not a hero. But one of our self-confident kings would have none of it. He didn't have time for bullshit. He had to find his friends. His axe transformed into Soulforger and a memory overtook him. Tokemi desperately wanted to help, to be a hero, but she was never viewed as such, so she found a ritual to do just that.

Artemis lost her head. Faced with her greatest sin. Paralyzed with shame, she told the bodies of Sah, Don, and Kim she needed to do what she did to help her family. Then she saw Tokemi approaching her sister in the Mother tree. She felt the intense desire to help her family. Whatever it will take.

Artemis and Darvin ran to go find Bob. Bob, going after Bean, tried to climb a cliff but fell, the rock of Bear landing on him and tried to convince him he was too dumb to be liked. Another self-confident king knew that that was untrue and wasn't a nice thing to say. He saw a vision of Tokemi using the solution she found to perform a ritual with her sister. Two ornate daggers to the eye to help them achieve a form of immortality.

You then all ran to Squid, who was swimming toward Slater's Surfboard. But Batarat was there, and he too wasn't very nice. Squid told him off, but was rewarded with drowning. Beneath the water he saw Allium taking on the lilies and telling Tokemi she had to help free Lusha.

Thorus found Karanta in the Dread Wood. She wasn't very happy and started to bury him. Fearing the end, Thorus raised his gun to his temple, but then he saw it. The Sky and the Sea coming together on his tattoo. He became the wind and escaped, seeing the moment Tokemi and Aeon betrayed Lusha. Seeing Lusha's soul being trapped in the Mother Tree.

Finally Tovek saw a vision of the party. But this party wasn't nice and inclusive. They were meanies. A little summon chair action and joining them at the table lead Tovek to see Tokemi aboard the Twin. Turning into Captain Bloodeye. The crew always needing her help to get out of sticky situations.

With the party all together, you went to go look for Mika. But Mika's trail led you to the mother tree. A confused Allium thought Artemis was Lusha, but Artemis gave zero fucks and killed that mother fucker.

Tokemi stepped out of the shadows and told you that Mika was inside the hut with the Princess. She held up Jormangandr's egg and the chaos blade from the king.

Artemis lunged at her, but you see, it was just an illusion. Fused with Lusha's soul, Jormangandr hatched and immediately started to grow.

That's where we are now. You see the giant serpant continue to grow, and the last thing you notice before it crests so that it creates a lot of distance between you and it is a giant, glowing red eye.

### Plans

* The snake moves away but they see the bloody eye
* Let the players discover the hut. Put the book and the daggers in there as well as Mika and the Princess
* Aeon comes to take the party to the fight
* Artemis
	+ Best skill is Athletics +8 followed by Persuasion +7
	+ Do anything to protect family
* Bob
	+ Best skill is Athletics +6
	+ Doesn't always think about consquences of actions, but wants to please
* Darvin
	+ Best skill in History and Nature +9
	+ Felt out of place but has people she loves and wants to protect
* Squid
	+ Best skill is surfing +11 followed by insight +9
	+ Pressured by father
* Thorus
	+ Best skill is religion and Arcana +8
	+ Atone for betrayal
* Tovek
	+ Best skill is Acrobatics and Nature +9
	+ Has people she loves but feels outside of them

#### Epilogue

* Princess and the world-shaking events have created an unstable ceasefire between Slake, The Atlands, and the Hook

##### NPCs

* Akir
	+ Accepted an invitation to be one of Empress Xig Dura's advisors
* Mika
	+ Wants to look for her son
* Aeon
	+ Work still to be done for the Ravens. Disappears into another character
* Celine
	+ Goes with Aeon
* Zaheer
	+ Injured after the war. Thinking about getting into politics
* Meghan, Morgan, and Helena
	+ Offer to get family conseling from Meghan
* Esmerelda
	+ Has the baby. Either named Robin Brennan Sellic or after any of the players if they die
* Claudia Stauss
	+ Plans to go to Akir
* Antonio
	+ Will freeload off of Squid as long as possible
* Darlus, Darwa, Darton, Darsi
	+ Are very happy living in Frostvir
* Queen Pieter and Mallory Suess
	+ Continue to have a very platonic relationship. Suess wants to set up a society near Slake with more centralized power

##### Final Bit

* Thinking maybe celebration of Bob's child
* Visited by Delilah Ginger to give Artemis the message about Whisper