Adventurers of Berth chronicle

Congratulations! Welcome to Berth!

Congratulations! Welcome to Berth!

Congratulations! Welcome to Berth!

Congratulations! Welcome to Berth!

Everybody (except Mint) meets Lady Luxorian for the first time. The meeting does not go super well.

The party gathers in the far-flung regions of New Solaria to feast and enjoy the hospitality of the Ironmind family. We also have the opportunity to meet Winadane's favorite trio of troublemakers, only two of whom turn out to be present. An attempt to rescue the third from their own questionable choices follows.

Mint and her mysterious cousin join their mana in a ritual older than the Empire. Mint can now remember that she has a cousin!

Mintheseria Luxorian graduates from the University of New Solaria's wizard course a year earlier than she was originally scheduled to do so, despite having a serious memory issue disrupting her education and, of course, not being a wizard. She handles the paperwork quickly and quietly, aided as always by her mother's loving encouragement.

The party and the crew of the Storm Herald, the ship on which they find themselves after Lady Luxorian's unplanned teleportation, are enjoying a lovely afternoon on the sea, playing with a handful of sea creatures which have come to investigate the ship. This idyllic scene is unfortunately interrupted by the shrieking arrival of a crashing airship. Attacked by goblins issuing from astral portals, operating under a skeleton crew, and currently on fire, the Windy Wave crashes into the sea. The Storm Herald's semi-retired pirate of a captain is initially reluctant to intervene, but a slew of goading insults from the ship's carpenter gets him moving. The party is able to save the Windy Wave's crew, retrieve some of its cargo, and defeat the harrying goblins in an epic battle.   Whisper snipes goblins from the deck of the Storm Herald and manages not to leave the memory of anyone concentrating on a spell affecting her. Mint shows off her aasimar transformation to return several spell points to relevant people. Callista employs her fly speed and knack for evading area effects while rescuing whoever she can. Ari knocks herself unconscious by bending a high-level spell to her will, unlocking a wealth of magical power from somewhere deep within.

An incredible casting of the Dispel Evil and Good spell from Ari onto Mint manages, against all odds, to free Mint from her mother's control. Because Lady Luxorian is a celestial, her magic turned out to be vulnerable to such interference, and the divine magic from a deity that the Lady did not expect is able to peel back several long-term spells.   Mint discovers that her mother took ten years of memory from her, and in the moment she is freed has a flood of recollection from her previous life. She is also loosed from her mother's Planar Binding, a permanent tracking spell, and a host of other, lesser effects intended to ensure obedience. The Lady is, perhaps predictably, pissed. She calls to castigate her daughter, and Mint answers the phone with one of the most metal lines of her life, "And what do you plan to do about it?"   The consequences of this action are many, and have yet to be fully understood. The ones we do know are as follows: Mint's hair and eyes change color (revealing that Mint is actually colorblind), ten years of memory are returned (hazy though they may be) to Mint's mind, Mint's old personality begins to leak into her new one, and the Lady's power base is significantly disrupted. Poor Captain Demos also gets a ton of angry sendings, and gets drunk about it.

The party arrives in Coveharbor after several days of sailing through storms. They immediately encounter some entreprenurial urchins, take rooms at an inn frequented by the local criminal population, and begin their investigation into the shipping lane disruptions. Ari inquires after her temple contacts, Mint makes friends with a hopeful priest of Meean, Callista sees a ghost from her past, and Whisper hunts down a potential source of information in the local government.

The party, pursuing a lead from Ari's temple contacts, investigates the Temple of the Waiting God. There, they discover that a portion of misguided worshippers have been lead astray from Luxren's light. These foolish souls have taken to worshipping the concept of the Waiting God again, claiming that Luxren is not, in fact, the manifestation of that long-awaited deity. Under the guise of a new convert, Whisper sneaks into the temple and is welcomed with open arms by the head priest, a druid pretending to have recieved the blessings of a god which no longer exists.   In the bowels of this temple, to which Whisper is escorted after a series of hijinks including a manufactured fit of religious ecstasy, the party discovers a dragon turtle wyrmling. There is a brief skirmish, after which the false priest is captured and turned over to the lawful authorities. The baby dragon turtle, whose name is Woe, has been eating Kuo Tua and has developed magical powers.

Upon returning to Coveharbor the intrepid adventurers fulfil a number of obligations and are paid for their efforts. One of these discharged duties is the handing over of a briefcase filled with mysterious coins to the Magistrate Arasic. An exchange of favors is arranged; the magistrate will tell our party where she is getting her coins, for indeed we have been told that Lady Luxorian wants these coins enough to stop pursuing her daughter in exchange for a few of them, and in exchange, a few documents will be lifted from a high-security vault in the Coveharbor Clocktower.   The party befriends the Flamekeepers, an older adventuring party, and leaves one member behind in order to pursue several leads back in New Solaria. Thank the gods for teleportation circles!

Thanks to a handy teleportation gate and some friendly airship crews, the party (now consisting of Ari, Mint, and the wizard Svall) arrives in Stillport, the tiny town on the edge of the great northern continent Aesuquane. The fall season has ended in this part of the world, and the long night of winter is closing in. The adventurers arrive with one of the last supply drops that will come in before harsh weather isolates the whole continent from mundane travel for four months.   Shortly after arriving, our heroes are attacked, because of course they are. Mysterious flute music lures them to the warehouse district, where a trio of combatants pounce. Before the fight can really gear up into something worrying, one of the attackers recognizes Ari. The man calls off his friends and apologizes for the attack, explaining that they were told to expect envoys of Magistrate Arasic and given reason to assume those envoys would be hostile. Understandably upset, the party refuses to trust him until Mint recognizes several features he shares in common with Ari.   The man introduces himself as a member of the Frostguard, a group within the Expeditionary Force which rescues unfortunate souls cast up on the shores of Aesuquane during the warmer months when such endeavors aren't simply suicide. We follow him to the Long Night Inn, where we find Mint's old friend Myra huddled by the fire warming up after just such an inadvisable venture. Two very important conversations occur, information is revealed, and at the end of all this, a high elf with purple eyes walks in and spots Svall. For whatever reason, this makes our new wizard panic, which Ari picks up on through her circlet of telepathy.   Everything is quite tense, and no one knows what any of this means for themselves or the party as a whole. How exciting!