Upcoming End of 23
Cog -
With the many dealings the team has had with Sava Cogson he has promised Finn an audience with Cog himself. Now that the team has defeated Revetan Sava has to make good on this promise.Cog is currently deep underneath the Dreiduaras Dome in Oraheim. He is researching a way to enter the Dark Domain of Aer'Chabadzael. He now believes that destroying all of the seals at once will remove the magical protections on the domain. The danger is allowing the Dark One to escape but if he moves quickly it will also allow him in. Taking a team into the Dark Domain and killing the Dark One there will kill him once and for all.
Cog worries that killing Aer'Chabadzael in the material plane will allow him a chance to return to his Dark Domain and reconstitute. If he succeeds it will also render all of the Fallen Powerless and mortal. To do this he will need to locate all 13 seals scattered througout the world and bring them down into the Dreiduaras Dome to use the arcane machinery down there to destroy them.
DM Note: access to the arcane focus from Lord Vedemire would be very helpful in this regard.
Need to find locations for all of the Seals!
Who is Temovar Plok? This was the agent who paired Rega Ragnash and Finn together to hunt down Cog. He should probably be Isringus or Revetan the Reclaimer. Both would be interesteted in killing Cog. Or it could be Cog himself who is wanting to aid the group fighting against the dark one.
Mausim Storylines, Copenhaus and Alcala
Mausim is the reincarnation of Encealadus Calwyn, an ancient hero who helped to imprison the dark one at the end of the Human Elven Wars in the Second Age.
He is hated by Electra who blames him for her imprisonment in the Sarcophagus. It was really Bella Caix who cast the spell. Recently Charmayne Daedaulus used him to steal a valuable elven necklace. His presence opened Calwyn and his wife's tombs allowing Daedalus access to the necklace. She intends to use the power of the necklace to summon a great demon into being.
Copenhaus - As they arrive the guards will be much larger than usual due to Vernabogge’s survival of the fittest philosophy. He is very much an analog of Apocalypse, he views everything through terms of strength. As they arrive he will set up a dinner party to greet them. He will tell them everything he is up to and list off Mausim’s crimes against Copenhaus. He will cheerfully explain that they are fugitives and criminals and must not leave the city BUT they are free to move about the city as they please. He has set up a game where bounty hunters and other adventuring teams will hunt them through the city. Survival of the fittest, he applauds their durability and the fact that they have defeated the worm known as Lord Vedemire Darkhorse. He explains that darkhorse was a business associate but he always deplored his weakness and his weak minded machinations and confidence man schemes. He serves the Dark One because of the Dark One’s strength. He explains that there is always a higher power, but one must never stop striving for being stronger and surviving.
Teams hunting the players :
Exatron and the Ghora’s Mask
San Cisco
Bryce Dallas Five, need new characters for this since it’s 30 years later
Whistling Bird - A group of Vanara and Tabaxi monks
Crimes against Mausim are as follows: • Grand theft Aerial, a griffon “True Grit” • Instigating an Escape, Felony. The escape of Prisoner 4428 Trick Redfern • 27 counts of Assault on duly deputized soldiers of Copenhaus • Tax Avoidance to the sum of 458 gold. • Treason and Sedition - Joining the underground resistance movement known as Catspaw. • Associating with an enemy of the state Unacather Baramus Plot Points in Copenhaus!
Vernabogge has created a bomb, a thermonuclear device that he will detonate in the Underdark. He is fomenting a war not just between the five houses and the city states but his grand plan is to start a war with the underdark and the surface world. All to create death and chaos for the Dark One and to create stronger survivors for his survival of the fittest mentality. The Lion’s Wing resistance group is focused on this.
The Catspaw resistance group led by Mausim’s sister is focused on getting political prisoners out of prison before they are killed in the gladiatorial games. Specifically her father who is being held in high security prison.
The team also needs to find the key that unlocks the shield around Vernabogge’s phylactery. That should be hidden in the manor house that he is using as his home base.
The Tannelmimic
Wes has been copied and his memories replicated in this Tannelmimic. It has yet to be found and is going to continue it's murderous spree throughout the Eigerlands. It was given these orders by Lord Vedemire who is still very angry at his defeat. Though he is still reconstituting he has sent different creatures out into the world to try to kill the team.
[the doppleganger's true name is Veluchrus Chrid, they are sexless and genderless and are usually created by Lord Darkhorse.]
He Murders people and poses the bodies in obscene ways. His Modus Operandi is flaying the skin of the torso open and leaving the organs intact but visible. He also always leaves a light arrow that is shoved through the oral cavity into the brain that gives the corpse an eerie glowing light from the eyes. Authorities call him the Ripper Raven due to the raven like mask he wears, identical to the one that Wes has. He makes sure that someone spots him near the crime scene.
Whenever Wes and the team get close to a large population center someone will spot Wes and call the authorities.
WANTED POSTER:
- The man known as Wes, a Ranger of the Ashen Forest
- Known murderer and larcenous thief.
- Accused of seven brutal slashings in the City of Stoneport. (The light arrow killings)
- Accused of the murder of Baron Harken Quail of Allachi. Hung by the neck at the city square.
- Accused of brutally slaying the lower minister of Hellenox, Reccip Nuxhall and his wife. Run through with a broadsword.
- Accused of theft of several thousand gold worth of jewels and equipment from the city of Stoneport.
- Accused of Grand Larceny in the city of Helletowne, including several trained horses.
Has offered to set up a meeting with Cog and Finn in the near future. He said that he will meet Finn in the City of Orahero at the Temple of Fire's Ember. A stronghold of the Fifth Element.
Exatron Saul needs to show up again too. He demands to know where Cog is and will kill Sava to get the information. Or maybe just decide to take Sava instead and pass him off as Cog.
Vertagon Al'Reshi - A brass Dragon of the Vellikis Desert of Ventenheim
WES Storylines
ASHEN FOREST WAR for the Orb of Lifeseed
Characters involved-
Kestlerender / Vickander Kent, Willwug Leafside, The Kormirra Sisters, The Knight of the Deadrose. Miljoco in the DarkFae Realm as well. The Orb is a powerful artifact, sometimes known as the Antikythera device. Legend has it that it has the power to control all life in the Ashen Forest. Both creatures and plant life. Imagine commanding an army of insects, Tree horrors, or wolves to Marshall against your enemies. Truly the power to take over the world if handled properly. Also it would have the ability to fight the Dark One’s forces of undead if necessary.
The Orb is hidden in the Dark Realm or maybe even in between the two Dimensions. It explains Wes’s importance to all of the forces of the Ashen Forest. He holds the key to easy travel between dimensions. He is the key to finding the Orb.
He is also wanted by many authorities, including Nuth Welker, for the crimes of the Tannelmimic.
The Will of Hellenox - +2 Sword Turn Undead Once per day. Action to cast Cure Wounds. 6 charges. Radiant Blast - 1 Charge for 1d8 radiant damage The Faith of Hellenox - Shield +1 Use a charge to change spell damage to Radiant Turn Undead Once Per Day
To attune Hellenox will come to the wielder in a dream, pulling the PC into the Dreaming Realm. There her avatar will ask them several questions and peer into their heart judging if they are worthy or not.
Bon Vee and Crashe Storylines
Crashe is the reincarnation of Verilius Treta Rivendrias an ancient elven hero who fought in the Human Elven wars of the second age. Near the end Verilius teamed up with Encealadus Calwyn to turn their focus to the evils of the Dark One. They succeeded in imprisoning him in his Dark Domain. The process of this drove Verilius insane in the end. The rituals required to create the seals were dark and dangerous. The guilt and horrors he witnessed broke him in the end. These thoughts and memories are beginning to bleed into Crashe's mind.
NOTE: To do our final quest into the Dark Domain of Aer'Chabadzael Bon Vee and Crashe will need to be separated from the eye. This will require the help of a powerful wizard or perhaps the Kormirra Sisters. Their combined hag abilities would be useful in breaking the eye's enchantment and keeping the souls intact. They would require something in return…
Virgil Capsaicin -
Virgil fell into the river during the battle on the bridge. While trying to defuse the bomb with Nuth he lost his grip and fell into the fast moving water. For now though with the team scattered once more he is on his own. Need to decide where he washes up.
Archos Storylines -
Archos is trying to attune to the Will of Hellenox but has been unsuccessful. He also has the Black Web Gage on his left hand. A gift from the Dark One after he grabbed some pods from Allesandre Manor.
Truffle Storylines -
Truffle is still trying to get revenge on the East Tellenheim Company for killing her family. The ETC and a specific officer were responsible for decimating her island and extracting the valuable shardrock mined from the dormant volcano. During their operation a massive lode of rock exploded killing several hundred and destroying the ecology of the island. The rest of the Tortles and lizardfolk on the island either died from starvation and disease or fled. Truffle's family were killed in the explosion though her half brother and first cousin escaped right before the explosion. Or were they taken prisoner? The ETC officer responsible was one Captain Banastre Triskelion. A human man in his fifties.
Nuth and Demaia Storylines -
Nuth is once more being courted by the Assembly of the Weave. They want him to look into the Vault heist in Warshaw and see if they can't find the culprit. The Weave wants to take credit for the collar of course.
A former convict has either escaped prison or was set free. This prisoner holds a grudge against the two investigators who captured him… Nuth and Demaia. He also happens to be one King Arric Lee, who is still hoping to find the exact location of the Shatterfall. He is close and that stint in prison almost cost him his chance to become incredibly powerful. If he ever sees them again he has sworn vengeance.
Rango
Rango's family was killed by the Beak and Bear Hunting club. They attacked his village 10 years ago and then came back a couple of years later. If Eman comes this week we will begin the Copenhaus campaign against Vernabogge.
If Eman is out this week a storm will blow the ship off course and towards Alcan Island. They will be stranded on the northern coast of the island and be hunted by the Beak and Bear Club who will try to kill the Aarokocra in the crew as well as Rango. Send the team into a nearby forest for timber to make repairs to the ship.
Future use, possibly developed by Exatron Saul and Ghora's Mask:
Super Adaptoid Golem: Learns damage types. First two types of one damage hurts the golem but then it adapts and is immune to that damage type from then on. Remy (ryan's bard changeling)
One of their flaws is that they are so motivated by revenge that they would drop everything to slay their lover's killers. You can determine how many there are but they have a Kill Bill list, if you will.
I call the character "We" because this is how they refer to their true self. Again, We are Kaleel, Sasha and Remy. Would be cool to find ways to really confuse the group when they perhaps see that written somewhere or perhaps someone say Remy's death and mentions it to one of the team members?
Death of Maris: With Maris’ death his link to the cursed Bident is broken. The sea god Thassa will come to reclaim it creating a pulse wave or other affect that may move people off the bridge!
This round belongs to the frozen sea god known as Thassa: A sea spout explodes from the ocean below as a beam of light streaks down from the sky. Both meet at the spot on the bridge where Meris the Triton lays. The bident he carried on his back glows with a bright blue light and lifts into the air rotating slowly. The light burns any who touch it, Mausim you can feel the heat where you stand only ten feet away.
A massive ethereal figure forms towering over the bridge, a female figure made of sparkling white and blue scales brings her clawed hands over the triton's body. You all watch through the rain, lightning, and smoke as Meris lifts into the air rotating with the bident. A godlike voice booms out around you "This one and the Dekella are not yours to claim! All land dwelling heathens must never breach the oceans of the frozen deep! You are warned!!" A bright flash of lightning blinds all who watch this scene and when you blink the bident and meris' body are gone!
In the swirling madness you see Vernabogge raise his hands and laugh maniacally. He says "What wonderful madness you all bring to this fight!"
Week of OCT 13th
As the city of Copenhaus falls into chaos two of Vernabogge's lieutenants try to sieze power and the Manor House of the Nuxhall's. A Goliath man named Ragvan Hightower and a psychotic serial killer called Insolent Howl see this as a perfect opportunity for murder and mayhem. Howl is a tabaxi woman with the look of a black panther. She is the daughter of Princess Mew and has her psionic abilities. Hightower is a former barbarian of the Aerodon Steppe and has a bloodlust that rivals Howl. Clearly not true believers in the Dark One or Vernabogge, they are very happy to steal coin and kill all in their path. There will be no reasoning with these two.
The team needs to find the Key to Vernabogge's phylactery.
-Manor Map with three Floors
-Stats for Hightower and Howl
-Use Strike Team soldiers with both attacks and poison as minions
-Tokens for Hightower and Howl
Future of Copenhaus: The team needs to decide the future of Copenhaus. Reinstall Baron Nuxhall as ruler and bring in the Navy of Penthos as security. OR let Copenhaus choose it’s own destiny going forward free of the Five Families, but risk their security and defend themselves with the Griffon Air Corps and their own forces. Mausim’s Father has diplomatic experience or one of the other prisoners in his cell is Kavina Odo a human woman in her sixties who used to be a minister.
The team will need to speak with Yovotan Candor and learn about the key.
Cat, Baramus, and Jugwell will try to gain control of the aerie, the Griffon Corps base of operations. They will get help from Citrine Wagtail in removing the control collars from the griffons.
Lastly the team needs to deactivate the magical force shield that is preventing Mausim and Finn from leaving the city. Luckily the device powering it is in the same building as the key to the phylactery.
If we are starting with just Nuth and Finn let's attack with Insolent Howl right away maybe as they travel to help with the griffon corp
Need to decide What's Next: Kill Vernabogge permanently by destroying his phylactery (The Painting)
The Search for Cog:
Need another Exatron Saul encounter. Meet with Sava Cogson again. Add in Reva Ragnash to Copenhaus to speed this along. It's time to explain what he is really up to. He shows Finn the Raven's Slumber crystal. If possible attempt to trap Finn inside briefly with a wisdom saving throw DC 18.
Rega explains that Adventure Team Grimm trapped him inside this device for months and treated him like an animal. He has dedicated his life to revenge and with this improved Raven's Slumber he can trap all of them inside and throw it into the astral sea. The new crystal is attuned to Rega only, if that attunement is broken the crystal is set to teleport into the astral plane, forever. That means when rega dies either violently or old age, adventure team grimm will be trapped forever in the crystal floating through Astral space. A fitting punishment.
Future use, possibly developed by Exatron Saul and Ghora's Mask:
Super Adaptoid Golem: Learns damage types. First two types of one damage hurts the golem but then it adapts and is immune to that damage type from then on.
Once we get back on the road:
The Dead Tree
A section of forest that has a dark history. A horrific series of murders leaves this place susceptible to the Dark one's influence. He manifests in the tree and summons three massive undead creatures from the soil beneath. The tree itself attacks the players with roots that grab and grapple.
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