MASTER PLOT: The Rise of the Black Snake
-Strange activity begins to occur in the two continents over the summer season- nights start to last longer and become darker and more dangerous, and strange shadowy beasts start to attack towns.
Harvest festival: The party is invited out to the harvest festival in Amun'Hn, along with lots of the other members of the Hekan Guard. As they party around and generally have a good time (prep some party games for this), night starts to fall suddenly and a dark fog rolls thru the town.
Suddenly a BUNCH of fucking shadowfell dogs and beasts come running thru the town, killing and attacking ruthlessly. The party must help the guard fight them off and kill a nightwalker and nighthaunt, along w/ shadow mastiffs. They find that huge portals have been torn thru the town and night seems to be permanently set on Amun'Hn, for the moment. They can either continue to fight or help people evacuate.
It's scary. The town is cleared out several days later, but the town still needs to be rebuilt. Rane sets the members of the guard who were there on a path to figure out who the hell caused this and opened the portals to the shadowfell, and try to find out if it'll happen again. Attacks also occurred in several other major cities, and all of the portals seem to have opened up to the shadowfell. Rane suspects it's the work of some necromancer, but aren't sure who or why
The party has a few leads to follow- The first step is going around to the scouts around Heka and seeing what they say. It'll be revealed that these attacks have occured in a few diff continents as well.
-Cults regroup, things are quiet for a while. Parties either assume the evil is defeated or get sidetracked by bigger political/whatever business- perhaps some shennans in the feywild or what have you. OH MANNYS HUSBAND IS ALSO CAUGHT UP IN THE FIGHT AND IS INJURED VERY BADLY OR TAKEN BY THE SHADOWFELL FUCKS? Some clues to the cults bigger motives show up in the aftermath, but not enough to work things out fully just yet.
-More icons are kidnapped- the party is sent out to investigate Wadj’hn and Nekh’hn to see if they can find out where they went. They find signs of weird activity in the town and traces of more portals to the shadowfell- the cult aint fucking done yet!
-The party is instructed to find and retrieve the Icon of Osiris from the shadowfell. Assuming they can retrieve him from the lair of a huge black snake thingy, he tells them some of the plans of the cult of the black snake- along with ASPEN.
-At some point, Henu Netjer itself is attacked and the Icons briefly lose their ties to the gods. The party has to fight OR run to escape, the people of Henu-Netjer have to relocate.
-They have to hunt down aspen and kill him it's a whole ordeal etc etc. Once they kill him, they assume their quest is done and the party rests.
-SIKE JUST KIDDING, a year fucking later during the harvest festival a snake eats the fucking sun! ITS SPOOKY DARKNESS HELL TIME FINAL FIGHT TIME BABEY!
3/8/2020 Plot Revamp
Party has been sent to perform recon on different places around the world. Each area has had it's own suffering at the hands of the Shadowfell.
Dodeik/Astria: Shadowfell forces were attempting to grab the Titan's Blood (In Astria) and Titan's Body (In Dodeik). Once united, the two artifacts would resurrect an ancient power from the time of The Rending. The main forces stationed there were Herald Wolfe, Crier Wolfe, Sigmund Artiom, and Sithen Arul.
Feywild: Countess Sye has been attacked and cut off from her ties with her goddess. She cannot fix Squall's problem, but she wants to ask him to help root out the cause of the attack. Main force there is Ault.
Kula: King has been killed. No guard stationed there currently, but a LOt of people from Or are stuck while Ming and Temis fight over who gets the crown.
Kelt: Haxx has dissapeared. They assume it's because of the Shadowfell attacks- and it is, kind of. But instead, he was just mildly injured and is actually hiding with a nice man. He doesn't want to be king.
The Frigid:
Aberrant Lands:
Riarin: Some dark creature has been attacking the city at night, somehow evading capture the entire time. It's a creature that seemed to make it's home in Woodridge before, but has been moved down since the attacks. It's one of June's supposedly dead husbands.
MEANWHILE, IN THE SHADOWFELL: Aspen is fucking PISSED that his attacks weren't more successful and is currently torturing prisoners to try to find weak points in the guards attacks.
Gerenth is going to hear Andreas responding to sending at some point and the message will be cut off. Gerenth is also fucking PISSED at Julian for escaping. Probably going to message whoever sent it back and tell them he's watching.
They're getting a slow idea of who the party is and the fact that they're coming for them. They'll be sending people to track them eventually- specifically, Xiao, who seems like a kind older gent.
Plot points/Scenes
INTRODUCTION
The party is invited into the Hekan guard.
-Strange activity begins to occur in the two continents over the summer season- nights start to last longer and become darker and more dangerous, and strange shadowy beasts start to attack towns. It seems as if they've been sent there by someone, and the party starts picking up tiny little clues about The Cult of the Black Snake.
-In the fall, during the harvest/flooding festival, when the veil between the planes becomes thinner, the cults make their move and start tearing open portals to Shadowfell. Ensue big boss fight, parties either find a way to kill it or have to go hunting for allies to help them.
-Cults regroup, things are quiet for a while. Parties either assume the evil is defeated or get sidetracked by bigger political/whatever business- perhaps some shennans in the feywild or what have you. OH MANNYS HUSBAND IS ALSO CAUGHT UP IN THE FIGHT AND IS INJURED VERY BADLY OR TAKEN BY THE SHADOWFELL FUCKS? Some clues to the cults bigger motives show up in the aftermath, but not enough to work things out fully just yet.
-More icons are kidnapped- the party is sent out to investigate Wadj’hn and Nekh’hn to see if they can find out where they went. They find signs of weird activity in the town and traces of more portals to the shadowfell- the cult aint fucking done yet!
-The party is instructed to find and retrieve the Icon of Osiris from the shadowfell. Assuming they can retrieve him from the lair of a huge black snake thingy, he tells them some of the plans of the cult of the black snake- along with ASPEN.
-At some point, Henu Netjer itself is attacked and the Icons briefly lose their ties to the gods. The party has to fight OR run to escape, the people of Henu-Netjer have to relocate.
-They have to hunt down aspen and kill him it's a whole ordeal etc etc. Once they kill him, they assume their quest is done and the party rests.
-SIKE JUST KIDDING, a year fucking later during the harvest festival a snake eats the fucking sun! ITS SPOOKY DARKNESS HELL TIME FINAL FIGHT TIME BABEY!
Plot type
Master Plot
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