TODO: #

1. Flesh out Guradian interaction.

   • Trésor background?
   • Modes of transform:
     • Leviathian Alligator
     • Gargantuan Oilaphant

2. Flesh out Airship area.

   • Loot potential.
   • Loot on way?

3. Flesh out Droaam travel.

   • The Great Crag

     • Who to find. Pumat Sol Firbolg Wizard/Druid.
     • Their background.
     • What they want in return.
     • City Map - chaotic/organic/mountains 75% perimeter.
     • Area Map?

   • Thrakelorn - Should I flesh this out??? Maybe for return trip.

4. Loot from Warforged?

Post-Session Notes #

• Efrix was saved by party.
  • ?Reveal background.
  • Wants to hide papers from Träger.
  • Trusts many of the party, but mostly Robbie and Kito.
  • Tries to communicate wo Träger hearing.
    • Had convinced Daemon DeLyrandar to move faster and had actually overshot the site.
    • That was approximately when the 🔍 Fire Elemental ➡️ broke free.
    • Doesn’t know about flash. Will be inquisitive and grill Robbie if knows about it.
• Träger is distressed by the fact that the group attempted to engage the Elemental
  • Frantically checks over robes as they land and Frumpkin lands on his shoulder.
• About 1pm when land.
• Dex, Acrobatics check for landing.
• Watch the smoking hulk of the Zephyr crash in the distance.
  • Efrix wants to go to crash site.
  • Träger needs to continue because will take some time to reach the site.
    • if continue roughly NW until night.
    • Finds some way to take readings in swamp.
    • Realizes need to travel SE tomorrow.
• Everyone got 7gp. Fish - 5, Mark - 3, Claire - 2gp 2sp, Sarah - 1 sp.
  • SJ staff of wood nymph.

LDM Adventure : In The Bayou #

Before we start #

• Everyone record the currency/items they received.
  • Fish - 2💛
  • Mark - 4💛
  • Claire - 4💛 8⚪
  • Sarah - 6💛 9⚪
  • Eliza - 7💛

Strong Start #

The wind gently whips around the party, momentarily providing a brief balm for those of you who have felt the scorching embrace of the 🔍 Fire Elemental ➡️ .

Small flakes of blackened skin still occasionally flake from Efrix’s body revealing new pink skin underneath. Her long dirty blond hair which she kept neatly in a braid from the crown of her head is badly singed, but her eyebrows and lashes seem to have regrown nicely from Kito’s healing. She had been holding tightly to both Kito and Robbie, but has realized that the feather fall token she has now tucked into a pocket of her badly singed, but still servicable brown tunic top is keeping her decent safely slowed.

It is a striking scene as your group sees the majestic Zephyr airship, now hundreds of yards away, plummets with increasing speed toward the ground below. As it passes you in it’s decent you can see the fire has engulfed the forecastle. The fire has consumed enough of the of the bow, releasing the gasses trapped in the Soarwood planks of the

Scenes #

A movement of air. #

• Possible maps:
  • http://zorconsword.blogspot.com/2013/08/jades-furry.html

In the swamps #

Run survival checks often. About 1 day out. Flying Snake ➡️
Cockatrice ➡️

At the Ruins #

1. Have Träger change out. His cloak is now crimson with gold embroidery.

2. Efrix will refuse to continue and says she will make camp, prepare some food for their return, and dry out her darn boots.

3. Signs of encounter between a group of Warforged {Perception check DC 13 for them to recognize from when they broke up the illegal ring before}. DOES MARK WANT SEIGE TO SHOW UP DEAD???

   • Träger shows signs of getting nervious.

4. See a ring of standing stones thru the surrounding trees and bushes (DC 15 Perception check for ground tremor).

5. Approach the ring of trees and stones thru eerie silence.

6. Enter the ring.

7. Trees and bushes attack, grappling the party and trying to squeeze them to death. Awakened Shrub ➡️
   Awakened Tree ➡️
   Giant Crocodile ➡️
   

   Run Encounter ▶️ 7 x Awakened Shrub, 8 x Awakened Tree, Giant Crocodile
   
   

8. Träger disappears (DC 17 Perception check - smell of brimstone) as a massive 🔍 Giant Crocodile ➡️ runs into the ring.

9. Vak-isul morphs from the 🔍 Giant Crocodile ➡️ into a large Orc Druid - 6'5" highly muscled with large protruding lower incisors, a topknot bound with green bands around which his head has been shaved clean. His nose is pierced through with a bar bell, and his grey green skin is covered in tattoos of black, but not like a dragon marked.

10. Träger re-appears far across the circle from the action. Sees Vak-isul, and casts 🔎 Burning hands ➡️ at the trees which are holding the party. TPK

11. In the next moment you hear a cosmic tearing sound and see Träger reach toward a tear through which a horrible vision can be seen {DC 14 Charisma Check or take (1d4) psychic damage}. The Druid screams a throaty NO and claps his hands together as Träger reaches into the rift. The rift closes in a flash of brilliant emerald green. {Everyone make a death save} Träger screams as he disappears in another cloud of acrid black smoke, but his location is easy to follow from the remainder of his scream. {Everyone make a death save} Just outside of the ring of standing stones another tear more like a bubble has opened and Träger slips through as the last echos of his scream die out.

12. Reveal

• Meet Guardian - Vak-isul Rungoda

I am Ka… Vak-isul Rungoda - Guardian of Ga Hoole. Why did you bring that great evil here and why did he then turn upon you?

Chat with the characters…

The evil one knew what it was he was doing. This place has been hidden for centuries and no outsider has ever seen this place. Even within our sect the GateKeepers of only the highest order may learn of the location of Ga Hoole, so that they may send their most promising acolytes to become one of the 5 Guardians of Ga Hoole. That is just what I asked of them just over 3 nights ago after we were attacked by men of metal like this one (gestures to Quiver). The evil one knew that beneath the great seal stone here gestures toward seal there is a chamber with no entrance within which rests the tablet of the great Druid Ga Hoole set atop 5 pure veins of electrum, platinum, gold, silver, and copper which encircle a giant dragonshard. It is that tablet that stabilized the great seal which is largest of the Gate Seals. How he knew of the unknowable, is a great mystery. I was embraced by the father earth and brought to the chamber. The tablet is what the evil one stole.

He pauses then stirs from his reverie.

I spared you for it has been foretold that at the time of the Great Weaknesses those that would save the world would arrive with those that would break the world. This has for centuries been interpreted as the GateKeepers would have a resurgence before the Great Weakness. I now realize that we are in decline, and now is that time. The foretelling was speaking of you.

Wait for that to sink in.

Before you track the evil one to retrieve the great seal. I will need you to get for me 5 ingots of the most pure byeshk. From this I can fashion a temporary binding which might hold the great seal for some time while you find the evil one. You must make haste to The Great Crag to find ingots of the highest purity. You must all take the form of a bird and fly WSW until you see a great mountain. In the midst of this you will find The Great Crag city of the Daughters of Sora Kell in Droaam. You must seek out a seller of rare material, and will need to find a way to purchase several hundred gold pieces worth of pure byeshk.

If the party doesn’t pipe up that they cannot shape change he seems irritated and says: now would be the time to go. Why do you wait.

I cannot risk that many days of travel by foot. Seems to think of something I think I have a resolution for this problem. Come with me.

Leads them through the outside of the camp where the druid’s huts are. Walks around a giant hill for about 1000ft.

Here is our resolution (pats a large outcropping of stone). Yells at the top of his voice - “my old friend… is time to stir”. Nothing happens. Yells more - “Come Trésor we need your aid. Wakey Wakey”. A large eye opens in the outcropping. Blinks lazily for a moment, then all the characters hear a booming voice in their minds. “Hmmmmm…. Isul have you brought me a snack for whatever task it is that you have set for me."

{DC 20 Dex save to remain standing} A large portion of the hill begins shifting and the ground shakes tremendously. The eye closes and is replaced by a very large mouth. A tongue makes smacking sounds and the maw opens wide and begins to reach for the party. If anyone makes to draw weapons Vak-isul will vine snare if needed but just tell them put your weapons away, Trésor is an old trickster and just trying to scare you. Awwwww isul you take all the fun out of meeting new people. And very odd people at that. Meanwhile several small bushes, boulders, rodents, rabbits etc. tumble off of the moving hillside. Vak-isul calls up vines to save the party from several falling debris. As the rumbling subsides the ‘hillside’ becomes fluid and the party sees hundreds of tiny feet {DC 19 Wisdom, Nature check to recognize it as the feet of a Gargantuan Mimic}.

• Accept?
  • If not within 2-3 weeks the seal will fail and hordes of aberrations will flood out of The Shadow Marches. Perhaps I could buy 3-4 weeks if I could summon a fey, dryad, naiad, or similar, but Xoriat is in ascension strongly here and my summons don't seem to get thru. (DC 5 Int, or Intuition check to recall the staff of the dryad). In the meantime he will have to prepare, train his new guardians when they arrive, and battle the aberrations which will begin to seep through the cracks. He will also prepare a bound lode stone which will point the way to the tablet when it is in the material plane. He also says when the party returns he will have gifts to aid them on their quest.
  • If return to Sharn to try and get paid Efrix will warn against it, and will encourage the party to take on the quest. Will indicate that there is more to this than they know. That Träger was someone she was asked to watch and gather intel on shortly before the Zephyr was set to leave. She will be tight lipped about anything else - in truth she doesn’t know anything else. Will also remind them they don’t have anything to get paid for.
• Needs group to quickly get the purest byeshk ingots. Must seek out Myshak in The Great Crag in Droaam. About 4 days to get there if using Trésor.
• Efrix wants to return to the crash site???
• Meet Trésor
  Dragon Turtle

  🔍 Dragon Turtle ➡️
  Gargantuan Dragon , neutral
  

  • Armor Class: 20
  • HP: 341
  • Initiative Modifier: 0
  • Challenge Rating: 17
  • Environment(s): aquatic
• Gifts? Stones of Vvaraak

Secrets and Clues #

• The Zephyr is the first Airship made. Thus it is smaller and more worn. The elemental ring stabilizer is in an unusual 3 arm design instead of the typical 4.
• The ‘Trees’ are former brothers of the GateKeepers who have fallen, or passed.
• The chamber the Guardian takes the group to is just outside Vvaraak’s old lair. He would kill the group for defiling her lair if they actually went in.
• Vak-isul’s name is actually Isul - Vak is an label of his rank as now Chief Guardian of Ga Hoole. He almost introduced himself as Kas-Isul - Kas as his former and lowest rank.
• Träger escaped into Xoriat - The Shadow Marches are a place where the material plane and Xoriat often intersect and thus has many aberrations. {DC 11 Arcana check or DC 17 History} or have Vak-isul explain.
• The dragonshard under the great seal was brought forth by Vvaraak. Is it a normal Eberron dragonshard???
• If the party makes it to The Great Crag they may notice a lot of looks from the citizens - News has made it out that they are wanted for murder.
• The group may be ‘detained’ by guards of Sora Katra. She is intrigued by this group of adventures, who has been a thorn in the side of The Tyrants (much to her appreciation), murdered a prominent researcher’s assistant and stolen thousands of gold worth of magical items from his office, and now apparently has the blessing of the great druid Vak-Sigisi.
• Vak-Sigisi is the former head Guardian of Ga Hoole.

Fantastic Locations #

Crash Site: Submerged end in a large body of water in the midst of the swamp smothered the flames, hold access doors accessable.

Swamps: Huge cypress trees draped in moss, water the color of tea surrounding clumps of land, wildlife everywhere.

Ruins: Signs of battle - dead Warforged scattered throughout, Giant slate gray standing stones (similar to stonehenge),

Important NPCs #

Flammenträger StaubHersteller - Caleb from Crit Role :: ??Lando??

Flammenträger StaubHersteller Character

Captain Daemon Lyrandar - accent :: character based on

Captain X details

First Mate Hilde Flameborn - accent :: character based on

First Mate Y details

Guardian Vak-isul Rungoda - Russian like :: TBD

Orc Druid of the GateKeepers Character

Efrix Ellafrand Lyrris - Ship’s Chef - accent :: character based on

Efrix Drawley is the name she gives on the ship. Backstory link if they ask about name. Gnome agent for The Trust

Potential Monsters #

Potential Treasure #

• Mordenkainen’s Codex of Creatures : An immense brown leather bound tome with All creatures in gilt lettering. If obtained from Mordenkainen it is signed Gut lesen - Prof. M. Mordenkainen Ph.M O.M.L. Esq.. The tome is packed with the professor’s detailed notes and observations of almost any creature imaginable in the professor’s cramped, but very neat handwriting. It has illustrations of many of the creatures and also has detailed notes on lore and references to the works where that lore was obtained.
  GM Notes

  If studied for two hours with a region in mind provides +2 to ability checks to recall a creatures resistance/immunity/weakness information and lore. If studied for two weeks will provide general advantage on such checks for any creature. If studied for two months will provide advantage and + proficiency bonus on such checks.
• Dragonshards : In area around ruins with passing DC 15 check in Investigation, Nature, or Survival.
• Airship :
  • The ship if somehow able to save.
  • The ship’s Khyber dragonshards if able to loot.
  • Cargo in the hold.
• Stones of Vvaraak : TODO

Eratta #

Eberron Source

Syndicates #

• Boromar - The Boromar Clan is the most powerful criminal organization in the city of Sharn.
• Daask - Daask is an aggressive criminal organization with cells across Khorvaire. Led by monstrous immigrants from Droaam—gnolls, harpies, medusas, minotaurs, ogres, trolls, and others—the group is ultimately under the command of Sora Katra, one of the rulers of Droaam.
• House Tarkanan. House Tarkanan is known as a small order of highly skilled assassins and thieves in Sharn. Less well known is the fact that this guild consists primarily of criminals who bear aberrant dragonmarks—hence its choice of namesake, as Lord Halas Tarkanan united the bearers of these marks during the ancient War of the Mark.
• The Tyrants. The Tyrants are a mysterious group of shapeshifters who traffic in all manner of information. They sell secrets, blackmail powerful people, and forge everything from identification papers to coins and works of art.