Koriel "Kori" the aasimar (human-looking) arcane archer,
"Puff" the gnome dream druid,
and Aegle the winged elf kensei monk!
DM Note
Downtime sessions can be a lot of fun because they break up the normal pace of adventuring. For this one, I had us go month by month (which somewhat annoyed one of the players, but was needed in case they wanted to do something that would alter what would happen in future months). I even put in some “plot traps” that they managed to avoid.
4U Session 14 Log
Homebrew Campaign (Alternate Forgotten Realms)
[Modules: Homebrew]
The team (Kori, Puff, and Aegle) took a year of downtime in Elvenport while their magic items were being made for them. Major events included:
*Puff learning elven from Aegle;
*Kori learning draconic from the eladrin prince (Mursalin);
*Aegle painting;
*3 druids from the High Forest came to have one of them challenge Puff for status in a druid ritual; Prince Mursalin asked Puff the throw the fight and he did;
*Aegle worked for the local wizards by getting monster eggs from the mountains, thus getting him black goo (which he took to “Grandma” in Tholme and learned that the goo was evil – she took it to destroy it);
*Aegle also scouted the two yuan-ti tribes of the swamp; one of them had occupied Tholme;
*meanwhile Kori had befriended Prince Mursalin and had a deal to to tell him one secret a month as he got to know her better; Kori found out Shar had destroyed Mystara in this universe
*Ariela the female winged elf showed up trying to woo Aegle; she came up with a plan to turn the two yuan-ti tribes against each other in a snake civil war.
At the end of the year, Prince Mursalin and his right-hand man (the half-elf Riverrest) revealed that they had been testing the group and decided they had great respect for them. They told the secrets of Mursalin’s family – how his grandfather had made a deal with demons and how his father felt horrible shame. Mursalin, thanks to Kori’s encouragement, embraced Ryali’s ways. He also explained he needed the group to, eventually, take on an elder elemental that wanted to destroy the city.
The wizards of elvenport had been sacrificing kobolds in a blood ritual to keep an elder elemental at bay, but some day it needed to stop and they needed to defeat the primordial enemy. Puff suggested Prince Mursalin join the group while they traveled and became experienced enough to take on the elder elemental. The team left the next day to go travel to the cave of the silver dragon in the nearby mountains – though Prince Mursalin mentioned that he had sent for a beautiful gnome girl to come in hopes that Puff would like her and marry her.
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