1376-1390: Campaign Overview
For this campaign I weaved together the modules: Out of the Abyss, Savage Tide, Legacy of Fire, and Curse of Strahd’s “Death House” with a bunch of Homebrew Multiverse Stuff
1376: TFK v. Drow Houses
RPG Date: 1498 DR, Month 4, Day 29
Still turned into drow, TFK (Blueblood III as Fallenleaf, Borngray II as Priestess Roperlsayer, Gabe as Oozie, Saeval as Spiderheart, and Sarthelius as Missiler) defeated the enemies at the Tower of Vengeance: 20 animated suits of armor and 4 gargoyles. They retrieved the loot that was left behind and used raise dead on Karva, bringing her back to life. The fighting dwarf wasn’t too keen on the idea of her party being drow.
They returned to Menzoberranzan, where House Mother Va’Zarbreena Do’Rahel asked them to kill Grin (because he had been plotting with House Fey-Branche to assassinate her). They successfully took down Archmage Grin and his death Slaad bodyguard. Va’Zarbreena and her head house servant Salutations the deep gnome teleported out to go visit with one of her dwarf grandsons, leaving the house in in the control of Borngray II as Priestess Roperslayer.
As a group, with the army of bugbears and drow house members, TFK defended themselves from the assault by House Fey-Branche and went and conquered the other house. They called a city council meeting to make it official and have everyone recognize the authority of their new house name: House Slayer. Sarth/Missiler was appointed the new archmage of the city.
The leaders of House Slayer were invited to a meeting with House Melarn in which they were attacked and had to defend themselves. They ended up having to kill the house leaders and guards at the meetinghouse. Saeval went undercover to go spy on the mercenaries in the city. Sarthelius refused to give back the demon-worshipping book that was recovered from Grin.
1377: The Eldreth Veluuthra v. Menzoberranzan
RPG Date: 1498 DR, Month 5, Day 4
Still drow, TFK (Borngraray II as Priestess Roperslayer, Blueblood III as Fallenleaf, Gabe as Oozie, Sarthelius as Missiler, and Karva as a dwarf slave) were on their way to speak with House Faen-Tlabbar when they were ambushed by a band of mercenaries (that included Saeval, though he wasn’t actually trying to kill them). They had to kill 5 elite drow assassins and 2 goristro demons (1 of which they banished).
They met with the new city’s leader, the house mother of Faen-Tlabbar, and indicated that they needed to have a council meeting the new morning. Once the council was assembled, Sartha/Missiler announced that she had scryed and seen an army coming to assault the city through a secret tunnel (the one from the Tower of Vengeance); she offered to lead all of the city’s slaves through the tunnel to defend the drow. Since they had already lost half of the city’s population in the recent turmoil of the house battles, the mothers on the council agreed to the plan.
Deciding they had done enough to disrupt Menzoberranzan, TFK returned to the Eldreth Veluuthra army encampment (after doing a magical sending message to make sure they wouldn’t be killed on sight as drow). Borngray II and Blueblood III met with their fellow Blade Lords to plan the invasion. They waited just one more day.
They had Eldernath use gate scrolls to send in the hired 10,000 duergar fighters to the front of the city; Torynnar had used gate scrolls to get the slaves to safety (with Sarthelius leading them out to start new lives) and place the EV army in the secret tunnel so they could come up from behind to flank the drow.
Borngray, Gabe, and Talindra Amalith stood strong leading one branch of the army while Blueblood III and Karva led another branch through the city. Without their slaves, and with their forces surrounded, the drow were defeated by the EV; during the battle, Eldaerneth Spellstalker was killed by enemy forces (which meant the Blade Lords council consisted of remaining members Torynnar, Saeval, Talindra, Borngray II, and Blueblood III).
As a result of the battle, 200 drow surrendered as prisoners of war. Gabe offered to let them go resettle in one of the ruined villages near Theymarsh as part of the Feymarsh Kingdom. The EV numbers were dwindled down to just 2500. The remaining duergar were in control of Menzoberranzan (though their red dragon had been killed by the drow).
Sarthelius/Sartha decided to remain a female drow, but the others all had Borngray II pray to Corellon and return their bodies to their previous selves. The EV rewarded each of the battle leaders with 25,000 gp. Borngray II (5,000 gp) and Gabe donated (5,000 gp) a lot of their money to the drow survivors to help them build up a new city. Blueblood III used her reward money to throw a huge festival/celebration in the High Forest to honor the fallen fey and elves.
They decided they had reached a point in which they should be able to take some downtime to rest and train for future endeavors.
1378: Down Time
RPG Date: 1498 DR, Month 5, Day 28
After the 2 weeks of partying in the forest were over, the group decided to take down time. They split up the group loot from all of their adventuring (22,800 gp each).
Borngray II donated 10,000 gp to the Evermeet elf families.
Blueblood III had the Lady of the Lady arrange for a magic tattoo of anti-scry.
Sartha decided to lead the new drow village as it was being rebuilt, as the Archmage of New Menzoberranzan, spending 20,000 gp helping them; last time the Borngray brothers had already donated 10,000 gp to help the drow resettle.
Gabe and Karva upgraded their weapons/armor.
The Theymarsh lighthouse will become the “House of Light” as a temple-keep (150’ diameter circular tower) with special magic vault (located behind a secret door in the basement) only known of by Borngray II, Sartha (who spent 10,000 gp) , Karva (with the masonry skills), and Blueblood III (who spent 23,288 gp to magically protect the vault – from scrying, teleportation, and location of magic items); Borngray II spent 50,000 gp on the construction of the temple-keep and another 10,000 gp recruiting people to live and work there. They decided to store the Thorn-gems in the new vault.
During the 8.5 months:
Blueblood III learned the elven language. She sent 2 fey to the volcano island to search for Ploop. EV council meeting: (1) bards to spread word about EV being good/Corellon followers and (2) politicking to remove laws against EV membership. (Discussed the existence of the Eld/red elves). EV Clans & Sea Elf Island! 2 join in general and 8 want to learn the religion of Corellon. Borngray II realized the possibility of an underwater expansion of the “House of Light” in Theymarsh. Winged Elves: 4 in general and 4 who want to learn the ways of Corellon. Thus they realized they could add a “nest” area to the top of the lighthouse.
16 Clan Groups visited
1 = Cormanthor (recruit higher level elf clerics to join: 4) & in general 8
2 = Ardeep 4 general + 8 acolytes
3 = Border Forest: 7 general + 7 acolytes
4 = Chondalwood: 1 general + 8 acoyltes
5 = Evereska: 6 general + 4 acolytes
6 = Evermeet: 2 general + 8 acolytes
7 = Greycloak Hills: 4 general + 8 acolytes
8 = Grey Forest: 6 general +8 acolytes
9 = High Forest: 2 general + 4 acolytes
10 = Methwood: 1 general + 2 acolyte
11 = Misty Forest: 4 general + 1 acolyte
12 = Moonwood: 4 general + 7 acolytes
13 = Neverwinter Wood: 4 general + 6 acolyte
14 = Urlingwood: 8 general + 4 acolyte
15 = Wealdath: 4 general + 1 acolyte
16 = Winterwood: 4 general +6 acolyte
Total = 94 acolytes, 4 experienced clerics, and [67?] fey “general above” + [new number for general recruited by Talindra and Torynnar]
*2 pixies were turned into vampires, told the group about Ploop going to the Abyss, to Orcus’ old lair to meet with his guardians there.
*Of the newly trained clerics (50% go home at the end of their training – 44 left, half of them travel amongst the EV to spread the word, which would leave 22 at the temple); 4 Cormanthor clerics stay to run the temple;
And they visited Gael at Reyal Keep, where she had been pregnant and gave birth to twins (1 boy and 1 girl).
1079: Fighting Ploop’s Vampire Forces
The Lady of the Lady told them about the importance of Barovia and how the multiverse worked.
They fought: 1 skeleton, 6 vampire spawn, 1 half-orc vampire lord, 1 death cleric, and Ploop – killed Ploop. Random encounter with a lich.
Freed the soul of Anarchocles, destroyed the Wand of Orcus, ended with plans to go assault Yeenoghu’s lair in the Abyss.
1380: Fighting Overlord Gouzrak
The group assembled at the Blueblood cave home in the High Forest, with Fluter and the children there. Melany, servant of Malcanthet, arrived with invitations for them to go to Shindilavri, saying Malcanthet didn’t want them to all go die fighting Yeenoghu.
Shindilavri! Met with Malcanthet.
Theymarsh: found the spies of Malcanthet in town (2 sages, 2 paladins in the guard, and 2 bards at the EV tavern). +1 day. Resurrected Ploop. Discussed friendship. Said goodbye to Anarchocles, encouraging him to go out into the world.
To cavern with the mural – released Overlord Gouzrak, talked with him for a long time (with discussion of the Starstrands and Shadowstrands), realized he had a ritual book written in Ancient Thornian, killed him in awesome wizard battle.
Back to Theymarsh, got Sage, had Oran send Twigs to take Sage and ritual book to the Feypatch – to Shindilavri – reported back to Malcanthet and worked out a deal; she was frustrated that now all of their fates were in the hands of Oran (who she looked down on because he was weaker than Blueblood I, her former lover); she agreed to go with her army to kill Yeenoghu and kill him herself if needed while the PC group conducted the ritual – once Oran released the Sage – but for now, she gave up the thorn-stone inside of her to the Ilitu women to be put in the vault there with her other stones. Malcanthet also suggested Ploop start worshipping her.
1381: Fighting in the ruins of Suldolphur
From Before:
*Sage in FeyPatch, decoding the ancient Thornia ritual book.
*Malcanthet waiting, figuring out how/when to attack Yeenoghu.
*Blueblood III assumed she would know if Yeenoghu attacked Oran’s Palace
*Ended at Malcanthet’s place
This time:
Divided up loot. Karva discussed Watchtower, reminded the group she was a part of Meanderson’s Merchant Mercenaries.
*1 Group of Gnolls with 1 Ogre Master attempting to summon Yeenoghu
*9 Hyenas, a pack of Gnolls, 1 Gnoll/Half-Black Dragon, 1 Halfling Druid, 1 Adult Black Dragon
*Halfling surrendered, map was to City of Brass
*Used rock fungus to contact Malcanthet to tell her about it so she would know that the group thinks Yeenoghu was going to invade the City of Brass for its weapons and/or to take over her palace there.
1382: Fighting at the Warehouse in the City of Brass
The group fought the eneies at the warehouse: 2 Bronze Golems, 12 Azers, 1 Bodak, 1 Huge Fire Elemental, 2 Large Fire Elementals, 4 Medium, 7 Small; Male Noble Marid Bard named Shazathared; 1 Brass Juggernaut; 4 Efreet; 6 Fire Mephits; 6 Red Kobolds; 1 Barbed Devil in charge of the slaves; 1 Djinni named Iavesk; 1 Noble Salamander; 10 Lesser Salamanders; 22 Fire Cult Lizardfolk; 1 8-Headed Pyrohydra; 10 Fire Giants; 12 Hell Hounds; 6 Magmins; 1 Tough Old Dire Tiger; 12 Giant Dragonflies; 1 Male Genasi; 1 Adult Red Dragon.
The adventured ended with Sartha teleporting the group back out into the City of Brass market.
1383: Fighting for Shendelavri in the City of Brass
Spoke with Noble Salamander Shazathared, informed about red dragon; they assumed the group was working for Malcanthet and said her palace would not be standing by the end of the day. They returned to Waterdeep – to Watchtower, where they noticed people painting the building blue.
They spent a long time acquiring a vorpal sword for Blueblood III. +1 day (slept as VIP at the Watchtower). They teleported back to Theymarsh.
Stuff, stuff, Malcanthet’s Palace in Shendelavri – then to her courtyard in the City of Brass to fight: Ancient Red Dragon with 6 Salamanders and 4 Fire Elementals. They got the dragon hoard and had Malcanthet’s people planeshift them back to Theymarsh to rest.
*Gnome Ranger/Druid made a mushroom mansion for Blueblood III – she had her family move there!
Next time: Sage will be ready, armies ready – attacking Yeenoghu / ritual! + recruit a dozen fey to live in that forest.
1384: Fighting Yeenoghu & his inner sanctum defenses
The plan came together with all of their forces working to kill Yeenoghu and get the last of the thorn-stones. Ploop was killed and a Hyena formed out of his dead body. All together, they killed: 3 goristros, 1 marilith, 32 gnoll "Fangs of Yeenoghu," 2 glabrezu demons, 1 balor demon, 4 large gnoll fiends, 1 large hyena fiend, and Yeenoghu himself!
1385: Emergency Meeting
*While waiting for the Sage of Theymarsh to return with the info about the ritual…
*Sell/divide up the loot (gave magic swords and spears to elf clerics and battleaxes and greatswords to Feymarsh army; Ploop’s 30,000 gp given to Ryali’s people/church – Karva delivering when she goes)
*Gabe is romancing the Princess of Feymarsh
*Karva is going to negotiate with Watchtower
*Sartha wants a seat on the Eldreth Veluuthra’s Leadership Council as one of the Blade Lords
*Malcanthet sent an ambassador to get her items, but the group reminded her that it’s supposed to be a direct trade later.
*Eldreth Veluuthra sent a message for an emergency meeting:
News: The Knights of Anarchocles were planning to assassinate the Blade Lords and disband their organization; will offer to help start up and lead a new organization under a new name. Should the Blade Lords strike first, offer to meet with them, or wait for their attack?
Talindra, Borngray II, and Blueblood III got Sartha, decided to fight in a cave. They tried talking with Anarchocles and 2 Planetars and 1 Deva, but ended up battling them and having to kill them. The angelic forces killed Torrynar and Saeval.
1386: Preparing for the Ritual
Borngray II, Talindra, Blueblood III, & Sartha rested at the retreat after verifying the deaths of fellow council members. The next morning they had a council meeting with Talindra, Blueblood III, and Borngray II.
Sartha teleported them, with the dead bodies, to their museum in Waterdeep, where they met with the High Curators. Asked for a meeting with the other 14 clan lords, to be arranged in a week’s time. Talindra went off.
Sartha took Blueblood and Borngray to the Feywild to meet with Oran. The Lead Inquisitor from the Alpha Omega Organization was there and asked them questions.
Blueblood wanted to go visit her grandfather, but didn’t. AO guy left to setup a meeting with agents from the Starstrands and Shadowstrands; Sartha left to go talk with Talindra and the High Curator of the EV Museum. Hiral came in to guard them.
The AO guy returned with purple cloak lady (Farlaxia) and white robe guy (Brelun the Good); they ended meeting with offers to join both organizations, but the AO guy was upset and left (implying he would try to get someone to intervene); Farlaxia threatened them, Brelun didn’t. Hiral spoke with them about his family and Moradin; Blueblood asked Hiral to have Moradin send a dwarf army to help protect Feymarsh.
Blueblood & Borngray plane-shifted to the Theymarsh Temple; Blueblood got Thorn keys, etc from the secret vault; Gabe met up with them (he and the Princess were talking about potential wedding dates); Blueblood used the mushroom house to commune with Zuggtmoy/Malcanthet.
Karva and Sartha showed up – Karva with Ryali symbols all over here. They all talked. They went to Zug’s palace and traded out stuff, getting the final Thorn gems. They went to Oran’s place (again), and met with the Sage of Theymarsh. They discussed the ritual.
When they get back, they sent Sartha to get Talindra; Gabe went to organize the defenses; Karva and the Sage went with Blueblood and Borngray to the Cathedral (with the old dwarf leader of the Cathedral). Blueblood wrote a note for Talindra and gave it to an EV bard.
The dwarf leader of the cathedral was de-mind-scrambled by the Sage and explained more about the ritual. Blueblood and Karva took the Sage and Dwarf to the vault while Borngray waited for Talindra and Sartha – once they arrived, Borngray gave Talindra the list of new Blade Lords (explaining that he would likely be stepping down, but Gabe should be added, as well as: King Melandrach, Sartha, and together they would need to appoint a 5th member (probably a Fey ambassador/nature-oriented individual). Talindra agreed to the suggestion. They also agreed to make a rule to not have any balenorn/undead members.
Blueblood left the Green Blade with his family while saying goodbye to them. She also left her adventuring journal with the previous generation’s ones as well. They all then went to the PM/TR family keep and said goodbye to Gale and Thane.
They then went to say goodbye to Kya the inn owner, but she decided to go with them (since Borngray finally admitted his desire to court her).
Going into the Cathedral:
Borngray II, Blueblood III, Karva, The Sage, The Old Dwarf Cleric, Kya Kaysu + the other 5 cleric leaders from the Cathedral stopped when they were preparing to do the ritual…
1387: The Results of the Ritual
From talking about the 2 sides of each stone, the Sage realized they should do the ritual in reverse to channel the “good side” of the duality of the stones.
*Battle: A Shar representative showing up saying the Purple Hammer was a tool of her master Shar. When they did the ritual, the mists of Ravenloft saved them from becoming trapped in newly restored Thornia. When Borngray II hammered in the rose stone, it created a huge flame from the purple hammer and its smoke swirled around Borngray and seemed to pull him into the rock. Blueblood was next – they were in a flat area with gray stone under them and they felt the heat of the burning fire nearby and saw so much smoke that they couldn’t see clearly more than 15’ in front of them – but from the smoke emerged Zuggtmony/Malcanthet who was angry – she yelled out “You tricked me! You’re trying to steal my power and keep the treasure for yourselves!” (She attacked; they had to kill the Zuggtmoy form and then the Malcanthet form – thus freeing the beautiful and kind Shindelavri, who said she must go – she didn’t belong there – she thanked them and said it is time for her to rejoin Corellon and that she could no longer interfere there); Karva appeared.
*They were taken to the Domains of Dread, which were capable of holding a reality within them without destroying the universe to do so (that’s what’s been going on – Ryali needed the Domains of Dread available, but Shar had power over them in the Shadowfell so she needed that changed and a deal worked out with “Death”/the “Dark Powers” and AO to make this happen [the new home of the Domains of Dread will no longer be the Shadowfell, but instead reformed Toril, brought back by this ritual].
The team found themselves in the Domains of Dread, at the “Death House” where they had to solve the mystery of the 2 children there at the haunted house and kill the monsters inside.
After resting, the group left the clerics behind at this house (and the Sage too, who drew them a map to Ancient Barovia, where they hoped to go confront Strahd)…
1388: Ancient Barovia
Ancient Barovia. They found Strahd.
Strahd told them the only way to commune with “The Dark Powers” (a.k.a Death & his council) was to be Domain Lords – and the only way to do that is to kill Domain Lords and take their power/position from them, which was very rare. But who was in control of Restored Toril? Ryali? Shar? AO?
They realized they were inside a version of the Domains of Dread inside of the restored Toril version of the universe. They killed a Far Realmsian version of Fraz-Urb’Luu. They found the raw chaos energy hidden in ancient Barovia and they used it as a weapon to destroy the Domains of Dread inside of this reality. They ended up on the restored world of Toril, which had evolved over time without the Spellplague having happened.
1389: A New Reality
Borngray II, Blueblood III, Karva, Kya, and their sage friend hired a wizard to teleport them to Candlekeep. They dropped off the sage to learn about this world. Borngray II & Kya went to the library in Waterdeep and hired Darnit the Half-Elf to help them learn about general world history for the last 150 years while Blueblood III meditated to Oran; a pixie calling himself Mr. Green Pixie visited with her. Together as a triumvirate – Karva, Borngray II, & Blueblood III bought the Mere of Dead Men for 550,000 gp (183,333 gp each). They named their new kingdom Thornia (with plans to make parts of it the Feywild, Karvaland, etc.).
They anticipated the swamp would have its master lich, 2 black dragon twins, and a green dragon – all of which their ancestors had dealt with back on their version of this world. They also interacted with Pexlin, the Lord & Master of the Wizard’s Guild. They Sent Kya off with 10,000 gp to buy a small shop. The rest of them went with the wizard to the Mere of the Dead Men to Naerytar Castle. There was a new sprite familiar called “Spriggan.”
1390: The Retirement of TFK
Borngray II, Blueblood III, Karva, & Pexlin arrived in the Mere of Dead Men: Naerytar Castle – where they found this reality’s version of Borngray I. They explained where they had come from and Borngray I was happy to treat them like family, thus allowing Borngray II a chance to have his father again.
They defeated the elemental lords that battled them. Blueblood III chose to be the Lady of Air while Karva chose Earth. Blueblood III talked with Oran and switched from being his servant to becoming his lover. She also worked for Corellon through the EV of this world. Oran and Blueblood II ended up having 4 kids (over time; they were blue air genasi). Karva used her powers over the earth element to destroy the Mere of Dead Men’s cloning facilities and to kill Lossarwyn.
Borngray II, Borngray I, Kya, the clerics, and the sage found a way to leave this reality and returned back home to Theymarsh on K-T; Blueblood III and Karva stayed behind. On Kalibruhn-Toril, Borngray II brought the alien Borngray I to his mother Glora (who was happy to get to know the man who was very similar to the man she originally met as Borngray I); Glora and this Borngray I easily fell in love with each other. They brought the family together.
Corellon sent Borngray II (who brought along his romantic interest Kya) to Shindelavri’s “sexy elf world” to spread the world of Corellon’s faith (with Shindelavri’s permission, of course).
1391-1400 = Side Adventures during the time of The Fey Knights
[To Be Updated Later…]
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