[Summary]
Campaign Hook
Are you ready to join the Rebellion?
On the high fantasy continent of Edinose, the future of the powerful nation of Bakianna hangs in the balance. For centuries, the aristocracy have enacted harsh draconian laws and levied taxes on its citizens. So the people fought back. First, regions splintered off to gain independence. When that became impossible, revolutionaries rose to tear down the oppressors only to be halted by the military. But only for a few more decades. Six years ago the King of Bakianna was assassinated, leaving the nobility to squabble amongst themselves and the Rebellion to grow once more with hope.
Until yesterday, when the most ruthless noble and adversary of the Rebellion, the Lord of Ellmeta City, declared himself the new King of Bakianna. With no aristocracy powerful enough to openly oppose him, he will be crowned in two weeks unless he can be stopped. But that job will not fall to you – freedom fighter, hired mercenary, ally’s spy, or who-so-else you maybe. To enact a successful coup, the Rebellion needs information and the task of gathering this is yours.
Beware though, your fight for freedom will not be an easy path, as you traverse a nation that has cultivated the worst traits of humanity. Will you rise to the challenge? Freedom, yours and all those you love, hangs in the balance.
Campaign Notes
Credits to campaign players for these notes.
- Oleander summoned from parlor of a shop
Nalia summoned from a garden eatery / their room
Mercer summoned from the inner part of the city in a side tavern with a large number of people with instruments
Cordelia summoned from a run down library in the lower city, reading
Kro summoned from some sort of eatery near the docks - All characters summoned to meet at the Jester’s Flagon in an hour
Met with Lawson Thatcher, Branin and Amelia Blades
Lawson Thatcher current leader of the Rebellion
Branin will give firsthand knowledge
The goal is to remove Lord Kikuka - Lord Kikuka must be removed before being crowned in two weeks
Our mission is to procure Lord Kikuka’s journal stolen from Ahylean Banceli (former name)
Was handed off to a powerful mage halfway across the continent
Bounty hunter Helana Merth after Banceli, Merth eventually thrown into Kikuka’s prison
Merth dead, Banceli probably alive
Journal stolen from Banceli and mage
Mage took notes on the journal
No one had been successful in opening the journal – some sort of enchantment, necromancy and something else
Rebellion allegedly attempted to assassinate Lord Kikuka, tried using an ethereal plane to get behind the guards
Knife had turned to rust, ensnared by plants and set on fire at the same time – there had been colored veils surrounding Kikuka before (layers of green, grey and gold)
Hope is that the journal has something to do with what happened that attempt
Rumors of a journal matching the description – Stonewashed townhouse in the Buzeki district
Recent supporters of LK
We must steal it from the richest district in the city from LK supporters within the next two weeks
Meant to be out of town in three days time for an overnight
No spy on the inside, steward is very good
No layout of the house - Need to get house plans from the city archive tonight
Two days the study the plans
Third night to break in - Get it at any cost, no backup, no rescue
- Current Head Archivist: part time mage, not much known about him
- Heist of the city archive at night:
Come in through the front door – guarded by two
Not a busy street at night
Come in through back door
Not guarded but locked
Come in through a small window - Will go through back door, locked
- Looking to get to the center room to where most of the recent history archives are kept
- Successfully retrieved the floor plans from the archives after a long battle with sentient chairs
Burned the archive the down
- After the heist, head back to Oleander’s and rest for the night
- Mercer lays out the plants to Stonewash house
- The chairs will not attack us
- Stonewash House Heist
- Basement level through 3rd floor – ground floor is most important
- Wall surrounds the property
- 20ft tall, 5ft wide – 4 guards on each corner (4 to 8 if family present)
- 20ft wide gap for front gate – 2 guards at night (4 if family present)
- Guards rotate every 20 minutes from each corner
- Gardens are unoccupied during day, an angry and aggressive bear loose at night – can smell too
- Doors and windows locked
- Supposedly no magic
- Study is most likely place for the journal to be kept – mage reported seeing it there
- First floor
- No exterior access
- Will have to pass servants doing extra cleaning – likely more people than usual but still less people than during the day
- Journal may be out in the open or in the vault
- Vault will be locked and have magical guards
- Glif of warding – may need Erase
- Will have two flashbacks each during the heist
- Mercer unable to find specific information about the hirings and firings of servants of Stonewash
- Reiiwa Sonewash head of household, husband (Chithej) passed away
- Known to attend various parties, will drag son around if able
- Not known to host often if at all
- No big parties
- None since the husband’s passing
- Unnamed son in early teens
- Gap of 24-48 hours between heist and return of Sonwash family
- Fighting a bear!
- Bear sleepy time
- Kro not thrilled with Zenna
- Cordelia opens vault, Zenna takes journal and attempts hostage negotiation
- Kro fed up, pledges to protect Zenna with life if Zenna quits the caginess
- Kro now has journal and Zenna is part of group
- Zenna part of secret organization that wants the journal but is not limited timewise
- Ran across Guiluame Ibech, head steward, with 10 other people and request our surrender
- There is an attempt to burn a hole in the ceiling, it fails
- Party surrenders to Ibech, is detained by the guards
- Party is captured and divided up into cells:
- Cordelia and Zenna
- Nalia and Mercer
- Kro and Oleander
Blue up, read down
- Currently hanging out in our cells, maniculled and not thrilled
- Cells are metal bars
- Alone in this section of the dungeon
- Nalia is praying, Oleander is pouting, Kro is working on his breathing, Cordelia is not feeling to great and napping, Zenna is scheming by herself in the corner
- Kro and Zenna bicker for actual hours
- Nalila suggests someone in the Rebellion is the traitor and discussion follows
- Kro and Zenna continue bickering
- Guiluame tries to make introductions – Nalia and Zenna share, Lee
- Guiluame makes deal: kill Lawston Thatcher within next 11 days and face no persecution from Stonewash
- ZENNA’S FORM CHANGES, SHE CHANGES FORMS, SHAPESHIFTER – Cordelia witnesses this
- The party gives their oath to Guiluame, Kro needed to be threatened. Made deal to give oath if Giuluame tells Zenna’s deal
- Zenna has the knife of an Otakai royal family
- Jilvad is Nalia’s partner, they have a young kid
- Zenna = Nsiriazendonia, Tsifielmara (Ella) is younger sister
- Father: Zendon Danren 13th
- Spent about 16 hours in the dungeon
- No presence of magic on the journal, not in Common but Zenna can read the journal, Nalia can recognize it
- The journal does end up being LK’s journal – recording attempts at magical forays (not a mage, self taught)
- Started venturing into summoning circles and figuring out how summon and bind the powers of creatures to objects
- First attempt was very successful, otherwise LK would be dead
- The objects are on his body: rings/charms IN his body – under skin
- Lists: pitfiend (type of devil) and a planetary angel, an earl king (type of powerful fae)
- Zenna withholds this: there is a way to get out the objects out in an emergency
- Thatcher born in Bakiana, left for a life of adventuring, joined a military and learned his tactics and code of conduct there – returned to Bakiana as part of retirement, then joined Rebellion
- Decided to meet Thatcher – Zenna will be diplomatic
- Start up the process to meet with Thatcher
- Led to a mostly abandoned theater, led to a private box office with Thatcher sitting with Mercer, a journal and an unknown person with bubblegum pink hair (Laila Montagu)
- Kro has the journal
- Thatcher agrees to a plan with Zenna and Mercer in a side conversation in the hallway
- Four ruins need to be written across Kikua’s body and something being spoken aloud
- Only need one ritual to release the beings from rings
- Rings binding will still be intact
- Pit field bound to son’s soul, son has to be killed then need to do the unbinding ritual
- Planetary angel need to “sacrifice of honors heart blood” within Kikuka’s presence
- Erlking is in a time trap
- Son is protected by the pit fiend
- Cordelia tries to remember time traps, picks up the journal, flips to ritual circles and speaks in another voice
- Planar passages
- Voice takes chalk from Mercer’s bag and starts drawing things on the ground
- Cordelia can transport us between planes
- Gan is the voice
- Entering the interplane thingy
- Traveled to a swampy place, meet giant trees and proceeded to fight them
- Immune to cold, resistant to physical damage, magic, fire, electricity and acid
- No weaknesses
- Beat them but much of the party is now enervated
- Went from summer to winter real fast
- Head north: Kro, Oleander, Zenna, Mercer, Cordelia and Nalia
- Goes back to summer really fast again
- Went north for 6 hours, found the earl king and the world resets
- Successfully fought off the kronos lords again
- Booked it along the right path again and made the journey in 5 ½
- Cordelia is able to touch the earlking!
- We all descend into memories from our past when the world tilts
- We land in Oleander’s sitting room
- Amias the earlking is watching Oleander’s house
- The earlking gave us titles (permanent) and some of his magic (temporary)