Learn that Sarricsol has a third eye on his forehead
Sarriscol announces the party has 10 days to hang out while he does research in the ruins
Party decides to immediately leave the ruins
Party is met by an undead messenger from the ruling count palatine of the New Duchy of Avernus, declaring that the party must cease and desist
Undead Messenger Geoff declares he cannot leave until the party agrees to stop meddling in the duchy's affairs; party says "lol bet" and just... leaves because they have horses and the guy is on foot
Meet crab druid tiefling pirate Captain Aphrodite, bring her along for the ride because her boat is stuck in a river in the middle of the continent
She wants gold
Party rests, Órlaith dreams of journal events
Next day: encounter a travelling potion seller that turns out to be a demon
Muzin kills her in one shot
Party saves the horses
8/29/23
Party travels to Wynzora
Aphrodite learns about the gods
𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔊𝔬𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔊𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔶
Party stables horses, argues about horses, learns about a celebration in Renvoke
Ferried across Pike Lake to the Renvoke celebration
Party is convinced the cultists will strike, scouts the celebration, nothing actually happens
"Encounters" with the local vendor stalls
Aphrodite charms her way into free real estate
DB & Kiernan con the blacksmith and ruin some armor that they manage to sell for 50 GP
Muzin buys Reigner a fancy bow
Órlaith disapproves.
Party wants to do a good deed, conveniently gets called over by the mayor of Renvoke to do a good deed
Task: find a lost caravan and a town that was likely raided by pirates
Day of travel
Kiernan and Órlaith reveal the 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝓁𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝒟𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈
Meet and help some vagabonds on the road
Night of "rest"
Randall the Raccoon is discovered as Aphrodite's crewmate
He tries to rob DB
Muzin almost kills him
Aphrodite almost kills Muzin
Please help
Reigner finds enough eggs for a party's worth of quiches
9/4/23
Reach old ruins of temple to all the gods
Flayed man tied to front of green dragon statue
We take him down, give him his last rites, and bury him. Definitely no funny business during the burial. Certainly no arguing about how to dig a hole with a broken shovel and a giant badger druid, no sir.
Discover a very angry letter to Sarricsol and a ring of paladin-ing
Kiernan Identified DB in the evening
Spoiler alert: it's just DB
Continue journey to Dessyrul to look for the lost caravan
Gain a stone messenger raven and learn about Muzin's wife & 5 kids in the Shadowfell
Arrive at Dessyrul
City is full of holes from the underground
Lost caravan is definitely dead
Meet Kit, a pirate who is friends with Aphrodite because they are both pirates and all pirates know each other
Aphrodite does a good deed! by offering Kit a Goodberry
Debate how to lure out the burrowing spider, Reigner definitely doesn't come up with a plan that was just Muzin's plan that they both took from Órlaith
Explore hole, kill spider
Plot to overthrow pirates
Aphrodite learns a little more about the gods prayer
Sarricsol reaches out, wants the party to go north
✈️9/11/23✈️
Next morning
DB continues trying to learn magic w/ help of Kiernan and Muzin
His worms get tinglier
Kit touched horses (specifically Bolt)
Randall eats glass
Aphrodite ranks animals
Reigner scouts ahead
Goodberry is a new way of counting HP in the world
The game shakes a little bit at this revelation
Meet traveling party returning from ruins of Valinor
Cultists in the area confirmed
Cultist Eye-conography
Enter the ruins of Valinor
Confirm patrols in the area
Debate going to the library (we go to the library)
Cannot stable horses because there are no stables
Find a mage safe in the forbidden section, rip it out of the wall
Call Sarricsol to help open it, he projects himself and has a very purple glowing third eye
Safe contains very not evil, totally cool grimoire
Órlaith's forbidden book counter goes up by 1
Travel to the port fort
DB chokes out our trackers, we interrogate Dirk
Dress up as Dirk, Kirk, & "prisoners" to get inside
Run to Commander Crag's office, ready to fuck things up
9/25/23
Fort raid
"Ambush" Commander Crag's office
Beat up Geoff the Snitch Bitch & everyone else in the area
Find the Monster Manual book on monsters that Sarricsol requested we find
Have a super brilliant exit plan to leave the fort while the enemies are caught in magic vines. Definitely nothing goes wrong in this multi-step plan
Escape through an Arcane Gate summoned by Sarricsol
Catch up w/ Dirk & Kirk
Debate morality of killing cultists
Órlaith promised to grant them mercy & freedom if they complied earlier
Kill Dirk because he kills Kirk in the morality argument
Kiernan reveals some things. About himself. That requires some followup.
Return to Sarricsol, hanging out at the Floppiest Fish
Weird smiley void Thor shows up to blow up the building, steals Sarricsol (and the grimussy we worked so hard to get, by extension), and leaves
Author's note: this is the exact descriptor I have in my notes of the dude. I don't actually know what the hell he was
11/20/23
Save Lush the bartender from the explosion caused by Toblin the tall hooded goblin-looking motherfucker
Party investigates Sarriscol's room
Kiernan promises not to steal anything even though Aphrodite really wants to
Catch up with Mayor Silverfall about what happened, confirm that we are not terrorists
Message Sarricsol
He... escaped? Is running away???
Tells us to "read the book" (the Monster Manual, not the Grimussy, we lost that one 😔)
Muzin reads. He's so good at reading. Goddamn can he read a book
There's a lot of lore revealed here. It was a lot to take in. The author kindly requests that we consolidate notes, if the DM will give us the information on the side
Party spends time discussing their next destination. We got a lotta fuckin options. Decide upon investigating the Very Hungry Purple Worm, everyone's favorite bedtime story
Party goes to bed. Mostly.
Kiernan and Órlaith fix up the bar and have a chat
The two buff elves doing physical work, shirtless, in the light of the fire, is the fanservice scene for anyone who wants it
Kiernan is tasked with finding out what his mystery deity wants
He promptly gets yelled at by his deity as the very first interaction with them
Party goes to the mayor's office to drop off the cultist notebook. The mayor burns it. We tried.
Off to the Very Hungry Purple Worm!
Meet Kiernan's half-brother Finley and some elf mercenaries on the road
Defeat the elf posse & keep them all alive
Aphrodite dies because she kept fighting
Kiernan's dad wants him back because his real son is dying. Kiernan says "fuck that and fuck you lmao"
Convince the mercenaries to take Finley ransom
Party acquires 4000 GP just like that
Where will we spend it??? Guess we'll find out
DB begins to reconsider blind allegiance to Kiernan. His thoughts awaken
11/27/23
Discuss what to do with Aphrodite's body
Muzin loots the corpse in her honor
DB & Kiernan have a chat about trust, totally non-confrontational or threatening without DB carrying a big axe or anything
Diggy diggy (shallow) hole, give Aphrodite last rites
Formally (or as formally as you can get with a fake rite) dub DB a high elf: "Duliya of House Black, First of Her Name"
Kiernan teaches him the way of elves (they're fucking????)
Órlaith gives him a brand new battle lizard named Leonard
Leonard's favorite food is rabbits. Leonard is also a spirit that does not need to eat.
Travel time
Encounter small, emaciated child chillin on a boulder
Kiernan knocks the kid over, the child explodes
Note from the count: we are not allowed to go back to towns anymore. We intervened in.. two? three? too many cultist business practices
Órlaith offers to spar with DB to test his new axe. It goes poorly. Órlaith definitely should've won but DB's worms are cheating
Kiernan breaks the curse
Party determines "Klaeon" is the safeword
Magic forest time, we're getting closer to the Very Hungry Purple Worm
Try to be nice to scared pack animals. Bread is very threatening to them, apparently.
Kiernan makes breakfast, Jeremiah proves he has no idea how to fish
DB is the throat goat
Órlaith meditates on the Very Hungry Purple Worm's location because, in the words of Jeremiah, "the forest moves"
Jeremiah informs Muzin that the worm wants to talk to "the elf," and since Muzin is the only elf in the party, that must mean him
DB calls Jeremiah ugly
He was being the best high elf he could be
Find cultists fighting a worm
Fight cultists fighting the worm
The worm has T-Rex rules
Jeremiah makes wizard war
Jalen gets like 3 crits
Party does not kill the worm
Meet the Very Hungry Purple Worm
It's not actually purple, it's more like black
Worm speaks Wormese. We become fluent in Wormese
It's actually an archfey deity trapped in this form and this forest, cursed by Zezdan. The "man of death, man of metal" cultist keeps it fed and takes its secrets. It will share its secrets with us if we find the amulet to free it.
Muzin gets funny vibes from mentions of "man of death, man of metal"
Worm is dubbed Mark
Kiernan promises the worm he'll break the curse & return it to its grave
Worm makes biig hole
Travel through hole south to Sunnydale, the town that holds the worm amulet
DB tries to tickle Jeremiah
Party tells bad jokes
Except Muzin. He's too cool for bad jokes
Arrive on the coast
Jeremiah dives down a dune, eats sand, fireballs the ocean, does not catch any fish, has never seen or heard of a fishing rod
Kiernan collects clams for dinner. Tells clam facts
Nighttime watch sees a dragon get shot down on the island off the coast
DB has a bad dream, talks to Muzin about it & dying in the past
They bond over shit-talking Kiernan, confirmed new besties
Arrive at Sunnydale
It is "the happiest place on Varith"
Time to investigate Mayor Goldendimple and sleep at the Merry Hearth Inn, run by Daisy Sunsparkle
12/11/23
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