Intro "The travelers from the Scary Door" Plot in Davaon | World Anvil
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Intro "The travelers from the Scary Door"

Upon entering the portal you feel an illuminating shred of atoms beaming into your self. A faint light blinds each adventurer and they encounter a distinct scenario only known to that person.   Jackson: You find yourself looking at the two faced moon its judgment peering into your soul, you know its no where near, but you feel it's face to face with you. A cold stream moves slowly down your arm and you notice something cold and hard in your hand. You look down and see blood streaming down your arm all the way to the blade of a knife. You look forward and see a body sprawled out and strung up by its limbs. You think its a man but his face is shadowed over. The body is dripping blood into a silver bowl sitting on an altar. You look back at the moon and feel its judgement, but it feels different, why could that be?   Smudge: You feel a high pressure on your body followed by a shocking cold. Your mind feels hazy and you try to open your eyes, its bright but they won't open. You find yourself unable to breath and you begin to realize your in water. You struggle until your body finds the strength to push yourself up. Your mind grows more and more hazy, but the light is getting brighter so you must be going the right way. Finally, you emerge to the surface and gasp the biggest breath you've ever had in your life. The light blinds you and as you wait for your vision to adjust you see the outline of people moving around you. When your eyes finally adjust colors unimaginable to humans, they fill your head overwhelming your senses. You try to adjust your focus on the beings surrounding you, from what you can tell they are floating off the ground, maybe from wings. A glittery powder falls from the beings. You rub your eyes in an attempt to adjust them, but when you look up from that everything you witnessed is gone, and you appear in a prairie with everyone else.   Joel: You find yourself sitting on a bench staring at a fire, the sound of a fiddle plays in your mind. As you look up it appears your in a log cabin, there are people to the sides, perhaps it's an inn. You find yourself staring deep into the fire, the music grows louder. When you find the strength to turn your head, you see there are people talking, fighting, and partying. But you do not hear words, you see them, appearing from the mouths of drunks, whores, and barmaids. You notice a band but you don't hear the music they are playing, the song in your head is too loud. You see the notes coming off of each instrument, its easy to tell their tone. Looking down at the fire, you close your eyes and sigh. When you open them the music is gone and you find yourself standing in a prairie with everyone.   Mohammad: The darkness swarms around you, whispers begin to fill your head. "give in" "let us take you" "the world doesn't need it." These voices are agonizing and you begin to feel a funding in your head, you no longer can tell if your eyes are open or closed. Suddenly silence is around you. An arm reaches out to touch your shoulder, when it does a flash of colors circles your head and shoots down inside you. Your strength and sanity grow and grow. Before you know it the darkness that sent shivers down your spine has dispersed. A bright aura floats in front of you, and as you claw your way towards the light you find yourself with the party, in a gorgeous prarie.   Grace: You feel a surge of anger grip you by the head when you suddenly realize you were actually being grabbed for a head but. Your instincts kick in and you slam your head forward. Crashing into the greasy sweaty skull of a metalhead. He's unconscious in front of you. You hear the sound of death core playing over a shitty blown out speaker, and people around you moshing and dancing uncontrollably. In the back of your mind you wonder if everything you just experienced with Jackson, Cedric, Mohammad, Joel, and Smudge was real. You're in a happy place now wondering why you just imagined all of that. You continue watching the band. The band members look to the audience and choose someone to go onstage. They point to you, and without hesitation you climb up. The drummer stands up and gives you his sticks. Uncertain about this you take a seat and feel an unnatural rhythm to the song. You tap the stick together and slam on the drums. Thats when it all ended, you find yourself no longer at the concert but the drums sticks are still in your hands. The adventurers are in front of you, and past them is a massive prairie.   Cedric: You walk through the portal, its very bright at first, but soon your eyes adjust. You find yourself still in the lab and disappointed it didn't work. Irritatedly you turn to ask what could have been wrong with your design, but when you turn back everyone is missing. It must have worked, or everyone is playing a massive joke on you. You scratch your head in contempt and walk towards the machine, it looked different than before and not even activated. The sound of a large thump hits the lab table behind you. You flip around, and a small covered culture sits on the table in front of you. It hops in the air and slams back down on the table, shocking you. Immediately it jumps and slams back down again. You walk eerily towards it, the culture jumps once more slamming down before you grab. It's sealed all around, it hops out of your hand. Fumbling for it, you catch it out of midair. Inside their appears to be nothing but a mossy clump. You attempt to open it, but it won't pry. It leaps one more time out of your grasp, you dive for the specimen and land in a field once again back with the adventurers.

Plot points/Scenes

The party now is together, they may have a short discussion before Lonlics arrival.   After the encounter they are left with the choice to wander the vast prairie or head straight to Egalitaria. It is a three hour walk to Egalitaria, and it appears to be high noon.   When they arrive in Egalitaria four soldiers stand outside the city walls. Smudge is the only one who reads "Welcome to lick muh ball" when arriving at the sign.   In order to enter the city they must show forms of ID and go through a customs check. It begins by them revealing their ID's   "Welcome to Lick-muh-ball this is the capital of Lick-muh-balls ID please" If characters respond uneasily "look I don't really care where your from, we just like to keep track of those coming and going" If players hand over ID's easily then he responds "Umm where are you from again?"   Explorers may respond however they like "Hmmm I see" The security officer of the check point looks puzzled when first looking at the ID's. He then grabs a giant wooden stick, on the top you can see burn marks and a carved hole. He Slams the stick on the ground three times, a saw appears out of the ground and you all watch as it carves a circular hole in the floor. A slightly smaller valgarian appears from a hole in the floor. "What the fuck frank we told you never to do that again" Frank (farkla) replies "uhh sorry sir I heard the taps so I took the quickest way" The man replies "Uggghhhh we don't have time for this, take these ID's real quick to the consolatory" Frank drops down in the hole with the ID's "that'll be just a second"   If adventurers ask about them taking the ID's "You should be getting your ID's back in just a minute, gotta run a couple atonomonic data real fast" Should the adventurers ask about atonomoni data "It's simply a device that uses the DNA from your ID's to make you temporary citizens of this country, seeing how you're all not from around here we sure are glad to be your first destination on your adventure, seeing how you don't already have ID's and know about atonomoni" Should they not, he stares very skeptical at them; he tries and make small talk "You're in luck coming this week, tomorrow is opening for the Brawlzania everyone of you should go check it out. People from around Davain go to see the event. Damnit where is that SOC I don't got all day let alone you."   After about a minute, Frank returns from the hole with envelopes wrapped in a thin hemp rope. It reads "DI." "here you go sir, ummmm how do I put this lightly" Frank arms come out of the hole and he almost slithers his way up and out of the hole. He looks at the party and points to Cedric and Mohammad. "They took your ID's". He continues pointing.   Await's Cedric and Mohammad's response "well you see it says your land of origin isn't in our database so they already shipped them off to add them. This guesser can explain the rest, in the meantime chow." Frank jumps in the hole in the floor and you hear the shattering of glass followed by an "oof" Cedric and Mohammad's reaction   "don't worry your ID's will be processed and ready in a few days, in the meantime heres temporary temporary citizen ID's, please enjoy time in our city" He then sorts out each players ID and they can enter the city.   The city has many signs that only Smudge can read.
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