UVG DW - Session 4

Dramatis Personae

Mac 'Driver - DWARF artificer with inherited golem armor

River Thornheart - Steppelander witch/warchief's daughter

Uba Bigtooth - Half-orc gunslinger cowgirl

Axil Scheele, Cogflower Inquisitor

Cordolan s'Abner - Chief medical aristocrat of biomagical corruption (i.e., cleric)

R5F1 - Ancient golem archaeologist

Amaric diVridi - Greenlander hostler. Hired to care for the pack animals.

Taelin Nyxara - Violetlander Heretical biomancer agronomist and undergraduate wizard

Sonia - Artificial dryad re-awoken from the Great Mechanical Baobab Tree.

Imke 'Shippingexpert - DWARF Hexad RLD smuggler, professor of Oldtech Engineering at Magenta Magical University, and caravan financier

Axil Scheele - A stern, no-nonsense greenlander and Cogflower Inquisitor

Caps and Nico - Two post-mortal thugs of the Nighshade Syndicate who work for Old Tom

Tomas "Old Tom" duc Lyco - A minor wine vampire nobleman turned capo of the Nightshade Syndicate.

Session 4 Notes

• The heroes returned to the Violet City to sell the loot from their first successful venture. They met with Imke ‘Shippingexpert, who chided them for cutting the vile heart out of the statue. Still, they were able to sell their acquisitions for an ample profit.

• With their new funds, they purchased four hover-wagons and the magnificent velblod camels needed to pull them, as well as several replacement bodies to sell at the Porcelain Citadel.

• At the stockyard, they were approached by Axil Scheele, a Cogflower Inquisitor. He informed them that the reason that the RLD Hexad had cut funding from MMU was because Imke ‘Shippingexpert had accidentally activated a vile communications array and sent and received a ping from beyond the Mountains of the Moon, where the last viles live. He warned them of the danger of a resurgent vile invasion, and urged them to tell him if Imke asked them to do anything else dangerous or illegal.

• Later, they were approached by two men in purple suits and gasmasks, who asked them to come to the Lagoon Lounge, a local dive bar, to discuss a business venture. There they met Tomas “Old Tom” duc Lyco, a minor vampire nobleman and capo of the Nightshade Syndicate. He asked them to deliver a shipment of illegal narcotics to a post-mortal named “Two-Lives” Traz in Flare Town, a settlement northeast of the Last Serai. They were promised a $5000 reward and they agreed.

• They passed through the Violet Lands and saw a congregation of azure cultists performing funerary rites for a deceased avatar of the Blue God. They decided not to bother them.

• In the Low Road and the High, their camp was attacked in the night by six hulking wolf-like creatures, who turned out to be skinchangers of the war-like Pomelo tribe. They tried carrying off their camels, but the heroes reacted and the skinchangers were slain.

• They sold the replacement bodies in the Porcelain Citadel for a high profit and proceeded to the Last Serai. 

• Somewhere along the way, the copy of the spell taken from the Iron Obelisk went missing. Cordolan investigated the wagon thoroughly, and it showed evidence of a tiny humanoid sneaking into the caravan and making off with it. River consulted her new familiar, and it told them it was a fairy. How a fairy had known to steal this from them was a mystery.

• They arrived in the Last Serai, and encountered an apparition of a woman in a flowing gown, apparently made of static, who beseeched them for aid in freeing an imprisoned goddess. River’s divinatory magic revealed that this was a trap, and approaching the tower with the imprisoned goddess would result in their souls being devoured.

Concluding Thoughts

    This campaign is turning out to have a lot of book keeping associated with it. I think I should probably try and conduct this over Discord so as not to cut into adventuring time.

    Also, I'm beginning to worry if the players are getting too much money and XP too fast. I should come up with something for them to spend it on.

    In general, I just need to get more organized, and smarter about my prep time. I feel like I spent a lot of time prepping things that didn't come up this session and not enough on the things that are actually important.