The Story so far...

Active Party: Glorc Emberwound - Goblin Sorcerer - Dan Lily - Halfling Wizard - Kay A.R.A.N. - Warforged Artificer - Bill Ignis Rokas - Human Cleric of Prometheus - Tim Tevye - Elven Warlock - Lauren Galin - Minotaur Barbarian - Robert
Inactive Party: Kroa Windpioneer - Leonin Paladin

The Story begins with Lily and Glorc held captive by a pirate vessel led by Captain Forthwind. Kroa is pursuing the vessel as his own mother and sister are also being held. A battle breaks out between the crews and Lily and Glorc escape the cells. After the captain is defeated, a third ship enters the battle and sends undead to attack the party. A mage on board the vessel begins casting powerful spells that kill Kroa's mother and injures the party. The mage kidnaps Kroa's sister and uses a spell to destroy the other two ships.
The party awakes on the shore of an unknown Island and takes shelter in a cave. They find ARAN in an inactive state in the cave. ARAN activates upon sensing the presence of nearby undead and aids the party in dispatching them. After exploring the island, the party finds an old dwarven ruin with a locked door and a dead excavation crew outside. With further exploration they find a pirate fort on the island and; after killing the pirates; find survivors from the excavation. A dwarf named Brittria Coldforge informed them they were on Skywatch Isle off the coast of Laudia. They also met Ignis Rokas, who joined the party. Kroa fell into a magically induced sleep, triggered seemingly by a rune imprinted on the chest of each of the party (Save ARAN) and Brittria. Returning to the ruin the manage to unlock the door and head inside. They are attacked by a large warforged that knocks Glorc unconscious before being destroyed by the Party. After searching the ruin, the party finds an airship in a hangar on a higher floor. They spend several days repairing the vessel and left the Island, heading towards the city of Ferroshale.
The airship had a critical failure during the voyage and crashed into the ocean. The found that the magical crystals powering the engine had shattered and did not function as intended anymore. They used conventional sailing to reach Ferroshale where they made port. ARAN stayed aboard the airship while the rest went to Poor Larry's Tavern. The Tavernkeep Larry passed a message along to Ignis that an old friend by the name of Trase Goldvine was looking for him. He wanted to meet in a cave outside of town. Glorc, Lily, and Ignis went to the bookstore "Hidden in the Stacks" and left Lily to do some browsing. Glorc and Ignis left the city and went to the cave in order meet with Trace. Instead they found a goblin lair that quickly became hostile. During the fight, Trace appeared from the shadows and began aiding them in their fight. Ignis was downed in the fight by the Bugbear leader of the goblins and died before Trace or Glorc could aid them. They rushed him to the chapel of Frigga and pleaded they revive him. The Priestess agreed on condition that they compensate the church for the materials. They tithe was paid and Ignis was resurrected. The party then went to Ignis' chapel to Prometheus within the city and rested there.
After the party awoke, Trace revealed himself to be Lily's older brother Aster and that he had come to the city in search of her. He had also been operating an insurgency within Laudia for some time and was hoping to help overthrow the regime for one that would be friendlier to outsiders. After some parting words with Lily, Aster left to assist his fellow guerrilla's with setting up a base in the goblin cave. The party did some shopping at Harfoot's Hopes general store. They picked up supplies for the journey and new clothes for Lily and Glorc to replace their rags from the pirate ship. They then went to check in with Brittria, who informed them she was having the airship towed to Fallow's Landing. There they could seek repairs and replacement for the crystals. The crystals were determined to only be found in the Underdark and Glorc confessed to spending some time there having been trapped after falling through an entrance somewhere west of Ironbury. Brittria urged the party to make the journey by land rather than sea with her as the pirates and mage may still be searching for them by sea. She then requested the party had to the blacksmith Iron Tales to pick up tools and other supplies for the journey.
The party met the blacksmith Torgor at Iron Tales as well as the Orc Babuk. Torgor was friendly and caring towards Babuk, while Babuk had a child-like innocence. Babuk showed the party an impossibly intricate clockwork device and took particular interest in Glorc, who shared a similar appearance despite his size. After departing with the tools, the returned to the airship and to rest. Upon awakening they visited Poor Larry's again to attempt to recruit sailor's to assist Brittria on the journey. Unable to find any, they left only to find Torgor racing towards the airship. After catching up and questioning him, the discovered that Babuk was arrested on false vandalism charges. The party went to the prison and discovered that the charges were faked in order to force Babuk into slavery in one of the mines outside of Javerse. The party bribed the guard to release Babuk to them under the condition that he leaves Ferroshale and doesn't return. The party meets up with Aster outside the prison and returns to the airship.
Upon returning, Torgor informs the party that he and Babuk would be joining Brittria aboard the airship and Aster informed that several of his guerrilla's would be making the journey as well. With a full crew Brittria bid the party farewell and they left before the guards realized there was a missing prisoner. They began the journey towards the border with an initial goal of the farming town of Nightdrift. Along the road, they ran into a pair of travelers being accosted by wolves. After helping dispatch the wolves the Elf and Minotaur introduced themselves as Tevyevalin and Galindarai. The were traveling out of Laudia in search of something and offered to join the party on their journeys.