The Syndicate

He's powerful, not creative.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:18 am Jobhril, the greedy ferryman, is now MY character in the campaign.

Was he responsible for the storms?

Ok, so my game is called The Mark of Nekrak'Tir. Level 1 party starts in Aldrapel, a bustling trade town south of Scornubel. They are celebraing the anniversary of when the wizard Aldra sacrificed himself to save the town from a dragon, his spell turning both of them to stone.

Opo Vic Threen, a gnomish artificer, is doing a Wild Magic demo, when an arrow pierces the containing glass globe and causes chaos, the worst of which sends the party and various other townsfolk to the Shadow Realm, specifically a section called Nekrak'Tir. They fought their way back to a still-open portal, through little annoying shadow creatures. When hit by one of these creatures, the player is Shadow-marked, and will eventually be overcome and consumed by shadow. So that's the driving force here.

The local wizard tells them that Ceranthus can maybe help with the Shadow Mark. They go to see him, fighting some goblins, cave spiders, then Ceranthus' keep is in Fey territory. As they approach, a bookish fey guy, Bernard, asks for their names. When given, the names are taken by him and they no longer have names.

Ceranthus says they need the Crimson Crystal to help cure the affliction, and it's with the Ulquaith Ascetics in the Far Hills. To get their names back, Bernard asks for fruit from a specific tree. The tree turns out to be Mahogany White, an Entlike white willow with a face on the trunk, and many unique fruits. Kobolds attack while they're there, so they defeat them. Mahogany White gives them fruit that allows him to travel psychically with them, and see through their eyes, which also gives them communication with each other.

They travel through the Reaching Woods toward Ulquaith, and get captured by gnolls and hobgoblins. While caged, an NPC who was Shadowmarked succumbs to the Shadow and becomes Shadow Man, spawning five Shadow Beasts and they start causing chaos and destruction in the gnoll village. The players fought through the monsters, freeing elf prisoners, and being pursued by Shadow Man. When all seems hopeless, a ring of fire appears, and the Circus King jumps out of it, bidding them to come to his realm.

There, in his pocket dimension, the party and elves recover, until an incident causes the King's violin to break, which damages the small realm. They fight off an eldritch horror, heal the King, and fix the violin.

That's where we're at now. I skipped quite a few details.

Maybe I could bounce ideas off you guys in here though?

Oh sorry, guys, no, it is in the middle of the adventure. And there's already 8 damn people in the party which is too much.

I'm currently DMing a game on Roll20.

I have just signed on to do every other Sunday from 6-9pm EST with a friend's campaign. This might line me up for joining you in the future, but I'm taking it one at a time for now.