Note: I suppose it’s time to reveal that the heart of this
campaign was an adaptation/reworking of the adventure The Emerald Spire (from
Paizo, made for Pathfinder), but disguised as “The Obsidian Fang” instead. The
green/emerald stuff became purple/obsidian. Also, the players didn’t want to do
a huge dungeon crawl, so parts of what would have been levels of the Emerald
Spire just got moved around to other locations.
The RPG SAGA continues in the 4th Universe
The team: Kori the aasimar arcane archer, Aegle the winged
elf monk, and Malath the half-elf rogue-bard
4U 17: After dealing with the Umberlee-worshipping sahuagins,
the group returned to Waterdeep. They recruited the NPC cleric Nesmira (a
half-orc from Nesme). They ventured back to the swamp, where Klauth had
destroyed the Bayou Brigade fortress. They fled and ended up getting a coin
from Koil.
18: Lady Faeyna’s agent brought the group through a portal
to her palace in the fairy plane. The group received info about the Floshin
family, who were guardians of an old elf temple with a portal that could go to
the plane of Shadow. They had a run in with the temple guardians and Koil. They
went to the plane of shadow, did the Shadar-Kai rituals – turning Malath and
some NPC hirelings into Shadar-Kai.
19: [This was a re-visiting of part of the module Scourge of
the Sword Coast] The team left their hirelings at Elvenport, with enough
training to continue advancing on their own. Nesmira and Doth accompanied Kori,
Aegle, and Malath to the Floshin family estate. The team fought the possessed
Shalindra and a green dragon; they saved Shalindra, who then romanced Malath
(which might result in a child). The team reported back to Lady Faeyna, who
told them about Ryali’s goal to vanquish Tharizdun; Malath left the Koil coin
with Faeyna.
20: The Green Wizard recruited the team to go fight some
devils in the 9 Hells, which resulted in a huge battle. An Erinyes surrended to
the group and romanced Aegle (which could result in some children in the
future). Malath communed with his shadow dragon patron (named S’dothian). The
next day the team killed the mummy lord druid dragon while the Erinyes made
plans to start an uprising and free her people from the ice devils.
21: Malath went off wit the Green Wizard, but Puff arrived
with a mission for Kori and Aegle on the fire elemental plane; there is an
artifact that they could get that can transfer energy and could help them in
their future battle against Klauth. In the City of Brass, they almost got
tricked in a tavern called The Blue Leprechaun, but they eventually made their
way to battle the palace forces of an evil prince and princess so they could
get the orb of transference. They took a portal to Kalibruhn, where they made a
resting silver dragon champion of Bahamut.
22: The team finished off the servants of the prince and
princess from the palace in the City of Brass. After looting the place, they
once again spoke with their new silver dragon friend. He took them to a secret
kobold temple in the sewers of Waterdeep; Puff trained to transform into a
bronze dragonborn of Bahamut. They spent a month of downtime.
23: Puff needed to go work for some nobles to pay off his
debts. Malath returned with news from the Green Wizard. A tiefling woman (who
seemed to be working for Kennara) came with a warning that a group of fiends
was about to try to assassinate the team, but offered that if they gave the orb
of transference to her mistress that she would stop the fiends for them. They
refused the offer and there was a huge battle in the Yawning Portal. Nesmira’s
soul was devoured, but the team defeated the assassins.
24: Durnan (of the Yawning Portal) suggested the team
recruit Wally Flake, the wizard – who needed the team to help him rescue his
cleric brother Cham. The team accepted, went through Undermountain, fought some
Shalathel worshippers, and went through a portal to fight the Erut (alien plant
people). Malath had to keep submitting himself to some bloodsucking vines to
get the team through secret passages, but they defeated their foes and overcame
the traps. After rescuing Cham, they took a bunch of dwarven artifacts they
collected back to a temple in Neverwinter.
25: The Green Wizard showed up in Neverwinter and took the
team to the planet Yarth, to trade magic gear with the wizard lord of Blueberry
Farms; unfortunately, he also brought news that Prince Marsellan (of Elvenport)
had been petrified and was in the Green Wizard’s portable hole. In fact,
Elvenport had been attacked by the Skull Lord and other servants of Orcus (who
went there in retaliation for Ryali trying to take over the part of the plane
of shadow that Orcus controls). The team went to Elvenport and fought the
forces of the Skull Lord, defeating all but the Skull Lord himself (who
teleported away).
26: Kori, Aegle, Malth, and the Flake Bros were at the ruins
of Elvenport when the ground exploded and the phoenix – along with several fire
and air elementals – were released; a rift to the steam elemental plane had
opened up along the edge of the river, going through the center of the village.
Wally and Kori were both killed. Malath managed to teleport himself and Cham
away with Kori’s body. Aegle saved Wally’s body, but had been split off from
the core team. In Waterdeep, Malath had Kori resurrected and then said he was
going to retire from adventuring. He offered to recruit a replacement for
himself.
27: Kori and Cham met Malath’s replacement, the tabaxi known
as “Page in a Book.” Durnan told the team there were “Barbarians at the gates
of Waterdeep” and the city leaders needed a team to go find out why there were
there. The group agreed to deal with the problem, but found out these
barbarians believed Ryali had sent them to take over the city and convert it to
Ravendeep, a city of Ryali followers. They also saw Puff, who claimed to have
infiltrated the Steam Lord and organized a parade before flying off in
airships. After coordinating with Lady Silverhand, the team convinced the
barbarian King Slayer and Shaman Supreme (who called Kori “The Conduit”) to
stand down and accept a temple and manor instead of trying to conquer the city.
King Slayer also agreed to go with the team when they try to defeat the forces
of Orcus on the plane of shadow.
Meanwhile, Aegle should be flying back to Waterdeep with
Wally’s dead body in his portable hole…
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