Kori the aasimar fighter-cleric,
Aegle the winged elf kensai monk,
Page in a Book the tabaxi rogue, and
The Flake Bros (Wally the Wizard and Cham the cleric) -
with appearances by Puff the gnome/dragonborn druid and Malath the half-elf bard.
4U 28: Aegle returned to Waterdeep with Wally’s body. The team got him resurrected and were going to head into Skullport when the Phoenix rose from its egg and the team had to defeat it at the port. Page bought the sailing ship “The Bull Frog” with a mostly elf and half-elf crew. They sold the Phoenix egg to the Xanathar and then the team (Kori, Aegle, Page, Cham, Wally, and the barbarian King Slayer) planeshifted to the Shadowfell, to the palace of Orcus…
29: The team joined the assault on the palace of Orcus, defeating an army of undead that included minotaur skeletons, bodaks, a lich, a vampire lord, shadows, and a zombie beholder (in addition to the swarms of zombies and skeles). The Skull Lord joined the fight, but S’dothian (Malath’s shadow dragon patron) came and helped the team. The group ended with just Kori, Aegle, Page, and the shadow dragon alive. Cham’s body was destroyed/sent to the Astral Plane along with the destruction of his bag of holding and Aegle’s portable hole!
30: Kori, Aegle, and Page had S’dothian take them to a cave where they were able to get a safe rest. S’dothian told them about Malath, back at home, having impregnated Shalendra Floshin being faced with the decision to marry her. Malath also told S’dothian that the green wizard had been captured by Klauth. With the Raven Queen’s forces now controlling the palace, Kennara was there in charge wearing the Paradox Pendant and guarded by two shaman sisters. The team allied with a hag who helped them defeat the shamans. Kennara teleported out to safety. The team arranged for Malath and Shalendra to have a proper wedding with Lady Faenya presiding in her Feywild palace; the archfey blessed the couple so that they could have an eladrin child. Puff showed up at the wedding reception.
31: Kori, Aegle, Page, and their hag ally teleported into one of Klauth’s treasure caves, where they battled: kobolds, dragonborn, half-dragons, and vetern lizardfolk. They rescued the Green Wizard (GW), though they accidentally spread a bunch of Klauth’s treasure across the Astral Plane (with a bag of holding/portable hole accident). The hag left the team because she was an enemy of GW. GW revealed that Klauth took his TREEdis to Mystara, where it was trapped behind a powerful magical barrier. Klauth’s mistress gave the team some grief before finally letting them have some cursed magic items.
32: The team was assaulted by a tarrasque (from another world), a powerful fire giant lord, and some weird canoloths; Aegle died in the battle. When Kori and Page teleported out to save themselves, they went to Waterdeep to hire an elven cleric, the tarrasque and fire giant also ended up in Waterdeep pursuing them. The team hired Mortimer the monk, a bounty hunter, to join them. The griffon-rider guards finished off the tarrasque, but the fire giant escaped. Meanwhile, the team went to the elven Temple of Elemental Evil, where they fought off some dragons and elementals that had been attacking Puff’s gnome girlfriend. She revealed the truth about Puff – that there were 2 of him because of a simulacrum spell.
33: Kori was teleported away from the others (Page and Mortimer) to participate in a game hosted by the ancient power known as the Quiz Master; he also brought Aegle from the afterlife (who had been in a primordial realm because Lady Faenya is actually the primordial god-being Akadi), the Green Wizard, both Puff and his simulacrum, and Kennara. They were put on 3 teams (Kori & Kennara, GW & Puff, Puff & Aegle) and forced to play a version of Jeopardy. GW sacrificed himself and the Puff simulacrum since one of the teams was going to have their souls devoured. Kori and Kennara won, getting all of the magic items from Puff and Aegle. Aegle had a chance to tell Kori what he had learned from the primordials before getting the Quiz Master to send him to Corellon’s realm in the afterlife. Kennara went back to Waterdeep, where Puff persued her. Kori returned to Page and Mortimer, who had been defeating the remaining elementals coming out of the ruins of the elven TOEE. Kori used her new knowledge to seal the elemental nodes there.
34: Kori, Page, and Morty discussed everything, realizing that Kennara was behind much of what had happened in her plot to ascend as the new Raven Queen; also, Shar was trying to destroy Mystara which was why it was behind a barrier – with the elemental lords actually protecting it, not “imprisoning” it for nefarious purposes. They walked to Tholme and got Brexi to tree-port them to Waterdeep, where they found out Puff’s cult forces had taken the Shaman Supreme after raiding the church of the Raven Queen. After resting, they paid a wizard to teleport them near Elvenport, where the elemental cults were.
While infiltrating the cults of the Steam Lord and Storm Lord, the team found out Puff was going before a tribunal; when they went into the palace of the elemental lrods, it brought forth a repressed memory from Kori’s childhood and she realized being here was her destiny so that she could return to her own universe and help save her own Mystara with this same plan of having the elemental lords (which Ryali has power over) seal the world away from Shar. The team saved Puff, who suggested they go steal the TREEdis and take it home.
Their plan worked. They got the TREEdis, saved Prince Mursalin, put in the dial from the universal tree, and used the TREEdis to return to Kori and Puff’s original universe. There, they met with the church of Ryali and gave them the info needed to save Mystara from Shar.
35: Kori, Prince Mursalin, Puff, Page, Morty, and the team’s hired fighter had saved Mystara and had to decide what to do with themselves; they didn’t want Kennara to get away with things so they made one more trip into the 4th Universe, this time with a Semuanya cleric and a gold dragonborn paladin of Ryalia (named Malia) with them. They gave the orb of transference to Kennara and tricked her into thinking they were on her side; they got her into the ancient frog temple from the Mere of Dead Men and took it to Shar’s domain. They got Shar and Kennara both trapped in the temple, along with Shar’s lover Cyric.
After trapping the god-beings in the temple, they shrunk it down and took it back to Waterdeep and – eventually – Semuanya’s realm, where they gave the sealed temple to the goddess of survival; the cleric they brought with them chose to stay there. They communicated with the elemental princes so they could free Mystara in 4U. They had also spoken to Klauth and his dragon council, making sure they wouldn’t go on a rampage; Kori gave the silver dragon there the book of elemental power that she had been carrying around. In the end, the team returned to Kori and Puff’s original universe.
Epilogue
For retirement:
*Puff went back to his Old Gnawbone, after removing the dial (destroying it) from the TREEDIS;
*Page was living a new life on Toril, in a universe that was new to him (but similar to where he came from);
*Mortimer, like Page, was also living a new life on this version of Toril;
*Kori & Prince Murselan finally got a chance to settle down and have a family, on her Mystara;
*Malia stayed on Mystara as well; and
*Malith was the only one from the core group who stayed in 4U, raising his family with his wife Shalendra Floshin.
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