Liante Tar-Proxime (Story Arc/Dawn Timeline)

As our unlikely three stowaway on a Yale Family merchant's ship. A fateful encounter with the legendary Pirate Captain Jordan Ericka led to the capture and eventual release of the party before the ships were destroyed, leaving the survivors adrift in the sea, washing off on a deserted island simply called Awakening Island where many questionable experiments had taken place.

Plot points/Scenes

As our unlikely three stowaway on a Yale Family merchant's ship in the cold storage, the group steal a few magic items before Ido sneaks his way throughout the ship, discovering the Elven Captain Orfang, Eloise's personal helmsman who takes her exotic exports from both Ensante and Ozmia, the latter of which is where the ship was headed, or so they thought. Once they made themselves comfortable, a storm had settled in quick, leaving the captain dumbfounded as to how such a storm could be so potent, yet so sudden. Amidst the deafening chaos emerged Jordan Ericka, self-proclaimed legendary pirate who offered the lives of the party in exchange for ceasing their struggle to take hold of Eloise's stock. Her possession of the Legendary Sacred Blade Windforce also proved to be a powerful ambassador. When Oddmind had asked her why she did what she did, she deduced that what she was doing was giving back to the community that the 1% failed to do so, referencing Eloise's hoarding of magical items as an example.
Oddmind submitted, as Jordan let the group lodge with her as the Elven shipmates who previously made a deal with Oddmind's party, were tied up and thrown in the brig for representing all that they despised. All but the aforementioned Oddmind had taken drinks with the local pirates as Phil Flexswift accidentally woke up with Jordan and him in the same bed. Later that day, some double agents on the side of Elora Yale had sabotaged the ship, rigging it to explode and causing the other shipmates to drift to an unknown fate. The party members along with Jordan washed up on Awakening Island, an abandoned mass of land where the soil was incredibly fertile, yet lifeless. Plants that grew on it were sentient, and would attempt to impede on their progress before finding a rustic old cabin with a picture of a spunky redhead, and a blonde lady in a labcoat which was later revealed to be Elena Bellasara. Jordan had also disappeared once she was left to create a raft to get back home. Once the group made it deeper through the twisted forest, the vegetation would contort around a massive laboratory, where Oddmind opened with a Thunderwave spell.
Into the depths of the moldy, forgotten facility, the intercom's voice could not be heard among all of the growing spores and other nasty vegetation which cultivated in the most notable victims to this island, the Drow. The Drow that lived here were experimented on in an attempt to reach their Goddess known as Lolth, which lead to a failed attempt to become spiderlike, only manifesting in their ribs being disfigured but still able to climb above unto the rooftops. Phil Flexswift himself found a map of the facility, noting the missing gears needed to repair the broken elevator which lead to a huge monstrosity loosely possessing powers over the Drow that lived on the island and the plants in and outside the facility.
During the search for these gears, once Oddmind and Ido walked into a chamber, a thought to be inactive construct drops down from the ceiling with an earth-shattering thud as the crimson lights in its eyes illuminated the room. After a hard-fought battle, the ancient golem of gears was fallen, dropping a fitting gear, and releasing a specimen lying in rest in a brackish fluid who identified herself as Skye Shadowfang, a rogue who knows Elena personally and expected that if someone were to slay the golem, it would be her. Disappointed, Skye reluctantly chooses not to kill those that freed her as a note was left for her by Elena herself. Now aware of the horrible mistake Elena made, she sets out to free the Drow from her torment, and find Elena by joining the party to confront the massive thing that lives within the bottom of the Elena's compound.
Making their way to the bottom of the dungeon, the party regroups with Phil Flexswift to confront the soon revealed proxy for Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders. Its screams echoed through the facility as they engaged in combat with the massive tentacles. Phil used his magic fork to turn one of the eyes into a meatball and defeated one tentacle blocking the way, Ido and Oddmind would also clear the way as the creature revealed it's hideous self to the group and all of them were left in shambles by the end of the vicious fight.
At the very end of the fight, Jordan had emerged as the creature had dropped the Legendary Sacred Blade known as the Venomshank, and took it for herself, revealing her as one of the members of the infamous organization known as Third Finger, a group of delinquent punks who have taken the sacred blades for themselves for unknown reason. The weakened party attempted to fight, but were blown away by the Windforce's dominion over the weather and were unsuccessful as her band of thieves all laughed as they exited up the elevator. However victorious against the synthetic God, they take the submersible device back to much better lands.

Themes

Horror, Mystery, Grievous Bodily Harm, Skye

Plot type

Overarching Story, Horror