DW Session 1: Arrival in the Elflands
General Summary
5/4/896
- Party lands in Elflands docks
- Been at sea for two months to get to Kassadeia
- Emperor Polonius III died after almost 450 years on the throne
- World leaders coming from all over to pay respects
- Queen Astrid’s in tow, with newest generation of party
- Adam and Elan are the old vets, back from solo journeys
- Elan’s been on a mission for Rexfur
- Adam’s donned hero identity of Blue Lighting
- Amara, Roland’s daughter, was forced into working for the RKB as a last-ditch reform effort
- She rebelled against Roland’s expectations, became a pirate
- Cereus, Catriona’s son, joined as well
- His parents are nobility now, and he wants to find his own identity
- At the docks they get fifth addition to the team, a half-orc named Gell!
- He’s a monk, chef, pretty burly dude
- Prichard wanted to join, but he’s busy teaching at Kassadeia's healing college
- Party arrives in Kassadeia, the capital of sprawling Elflands Empire
- Glistening towers and elven architecture dot skyline
- But there’s also rampant poverty and discrimination against the Elflands' minority races
- Party has the night off before the funeral tomorrow morning
- Amara gets wasted at dirty dive bar named Creaky Elbow
- Drinks some kind of black liquid from rusty bucket
- Cereus goes to fancy bar called Polished Elbow
- Has some expensive ale from Kiri-Kawa Territories
- Tries to chat with a rude elf guy, buys him a drink and leaves
- Adam goes crime-fighting as Blue Lightning
- A halfling maid is being harassed by a couple of elves
- They say she hasn’t paid her ‘halfling tax’
- He absolutely clobbers the two, leaves them with broken bones
- Gell talks to the homeless, specifically a gnomish man
- Gnome guy complains about taxes and discrimination
- Gell suggests that he just needs to work harder
- The next day it’s funeral time
- Astrid warns party to be on best behavior
- She’s concerned about Amara doing something reckless
- At the Cathedral of the Ageless One, lots of important world names showed up to pay their respects
- Paoli is there, bragging of recent political successes
- Cpt. Tarkov shows up, since he’s a head of state now
- He tried to convince Amara to rejoin pirate confederacy
- He leaves her with parting gift, address for ship takeoff
- The funeral begins, Empress Ophelia of the Elflands gives long eulogy for her father
- As she ends, a massive explosion rips open right wing of cathedral
- All the territorial governors were sitting there, Gell rescues a couple
- As he tries to get away, a throwing kinfe lands in back
- Three figures in theater masks appear in wreckage
- Boss Fight: The Characters
- Two characters have tragedy and comedy masks on
- They use throwing knives
- One character has mask with bloody tears coming from eyes
- They cast spells like wind wall and ice storm
- Everybody takes a good bit of damage, surprisingly
- Cereus summons a sabre-tooth tiger, Amara goes into barbarian rage mode
- Cereus disintegrates comedy mask, Adam punches tragedy to death
- Gell focuses attacks on crying mask, stuns them
- Adam takes some quick swigs of Joseph between hits
- In a concentrated effort, party deals close to 90 damage
- Gell finally gags and ties up stunned character
- They take off mask, reveal that it’s a young female halfling
- Gell picks her up and carries her outside to authorities
- Outside the wounded are being treated
- Queen Astrid's arm was broken, but she’ll recover
- Elflands guards take halfling away for brutal interrogation
- Astrid thanked RKB for help, they get drinks at Polished Elbow
- Astrid talks about dead governors, rising instability
- She’ll speak with Empress Ophelia about plans tomorrow
- Amara and Cereus complain about living in their parent’s shadows
- Gell talks about how he’s never been outside Malakarth’s temple
- He hopes not every temple blows up like the Ageless One’s did
- Adam shows up after drinking some Joseph and fighting crime
- Him and Amara and Gell get into king of the hill fighting match
- Adam wins against Amara, but shockingly he loses to Gell!
- Amara flirts with Gell, but he doesn’t get it
- The next day they show up in royal chambers with Astrid and Ophelia
- The two of them have come to an agreement
- The RKB will investigate this terrorist group further on behalf of the Elflands
- In return, Elflands will provide fleet to deal with rising pirate threats in Myltev
- This will continue the two nations' centuries-long alliance
- However, there is a development with the terrorist group
- Elflands guards found something in the wreckage
- A milk bottle, with a label reading “Courtesy of the Characters”
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