DM Note
Technically, this log is for the RPG SAGA’s session number 1501 - but I’ve realized that’s a lot of numbers and it’s easier to go ahead and restart my counting since we have a new campaign going on. 1501 - wow - that’s a lot of roleplaying over the years! We've had so many wonderful characters, stories, and adventures. I'm going to be trying out new things. I love low level play and decided to homebrew my own village and quests, setting aside the premade modules and returning to my roots as a storyteller. Here we go again…
Side Note: Tholme is an anagram (sort of) of Hommlet; I’m paying my respects to Gargy Gygax and the old T1/T1-T4 modules.
New Campaign Character Backstories
The aasimar arcane archer Koriel Andrast, follower of Ryali’s love domain, was born on Mystara but spent years travelling through the Feywild. Her divine visions told her about a sacred tree that could unlock a portal, allowing her to go quest; the vision included a berry pie, a barrel of darkbrew ale, a widow mourning her lost husband, and an 18 year old miller’s son. Her divine contact took her to the Forgotten Realms, where she went to find the sacred tree in a forest...
The winged elf kensai monk Aegle had been helping the air spirits fight off dragons in the elemental plane of air. After a victory there that left a magical wound on one of his arms, he was returned to his winged elf clan in the hills to the east of the Graypeak Mountains. The clan hosted a party, celebrating the return of their great hero.
The gnome Davic Eldon Bevins “Greenscale” “Puff” Schepper had been spared by a green dragon, who decided to mentor him in the ways of the dream druid. To honor his mentor, once he was on his own as a druid in the forests to the east of the Graypeak Mountains, he had been secretly sending back treasure to his dragon mentor. He had befriended the nearby winged elf clan and was invited to their party. They called him “Puff” because of his trinket (a pipe with smoke that came out in the shape of skulls).
Puff met Aegle at the winged elf party and revealed his hermit epiphany about a sacred tree in the forest that had the ability to open up a magical portal. Happy to provide some muscle to help Puff check out the sacred tree, Aegle agreed to come along. When they arrived at the tree, they found Koriel standing there. She and Puff shared the stories of their dream visions, which were similar. Aegle helped them find a magical device on the tree with a number tumbler and a letter tumbler, realizing that they had to put in a special combination to unlock the portal.
Kennara, a blue-haired eladrin woman, appeared from the leaves of the tree and claimed to be the guardian of the portal. Aegle doubted her. The team decided to exclude her as they figured out the riddle on their own and kept her from going through the portal with them (by pulling out the number tumbler on their way through, thus closing the portal behind them).
Puff, Koriel, and Aegle appeared at a tree near a bridge, just outside of a village called Tholme. They went into the tavern “The Singing Sword” and found a tiefling woman named Vivacious delivering a barrel of darkbrew ale. Hilarity ensued as they ate pie, drank ale, and found out about the locals; the party also saw a large community bulletin board with various wanted ads (quests, land for sale, etc.).
First, the "Dream Team" went to the brewery owned by Vivacious and discovered her to be a succubus in disguise (after Aegle and Koriel became inebriated and Puff had to quickly make them some detox potions to save them); Vivacious escaped into the woods and her human servants were happy that she was gone.
The Dream Team's adventures in the village also took them to a half-elf widow (mourning the loss of her husband), to the treehouse of the “Gnomes for Hire” (who happily adopted Puff into their group, with official contracts signed), to the arrogant Miller’s son, back to the tavern (where they met the angry goliath owner Jafferton who wanted his stolen singing sword found and returned to him), and to the young necromancer’s tower (where they needed the notes of the dead old wizard to give them clues about restoring the soul of the widow’s lost husband).
Aegle and Koriel rested overnight at the tavern while Puff stayed with the gnomes at the treehouse. At the necromancer’s tower Puff was almost trapped in a magic circle, but they got the old wizard’s journal and convinced the young necromancer to destroy his undead zombie and skeleton guards. Aegle (whom the necromancer thought was a fiend he had tried to summon) had fun taking the magic wand of scorching ray from the necromancer, over and over again. Aegle thought he heard the air spirits calling out to him...
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