Repotaters

Start: Midsummer 253, in Bradford, Duarchy. Real Time: Q1 2025

Characters:

• Valeri (scaled human female swashbuckler) -- left party in Tarad’am
• Rodrick ( wb human male moon druid)
• Ydris (gwerin male warlock, patron is the Goddess of the Harvest)
• Quecha (female dwarf cleric of Lon Ka)
• Boris (male red dragonborn draconic sorcerer)

Starter: escort wayfinding caravan across Ungoverned Lands toward UC.

Events

1. Caravan/Pathfinding (Sea of Grass)
   1. Discovered a small faction of the Imperial Sons near Hero's Rest. Defeated them and rescued some children.
   2. Defeated "bandits" led by Holy Hands agents preying on aid caravans between Merrybranch (capital of County Tsun) and Alford.
   3. Assisted Alford and Glass Junction in moving toward unity and mutual aid after fixing the Glass Junction ferry.
   4. Made friends with Anvar, an elderly hill giant who is returning home to the high country.
   5. Assisted the Frog-creek halfling clan, who had been reduced to sub-subsistence living and were on the edge of extinction.
   6. Defeated Aurich Wood-woad, a botanist/primalist who had become ensnared in the Mother Tree's machinations and become a hybrid tree person...and who was converting others. His tower had been concept bombed sometime between the War of Souls and the Cataclysm, and returned near the village of Redhawk in the Ungoverned Lands.
   7. Freed the town of Torpen Hill from hag influence and acquired a Hopeseed.
   8. Negotiated with the leader of Meadowbrook for safe passage. Dealt with a Barbed Circle micro-cult.
   9. Discovered a group of dwarves practicing extreme BBQ.
   10. Arrived safely outside Fuar Uulan
2. Planting the seed (Blood-thirst Wildlands)
   1. Traveled via Portal Network to Kel'al'ar and then to Tarad'am, taking ship to Fuhino
   2. Cleansed a lingering demonic remnant corrupting flora and fauna.
   3. Encountered Illgira, aka Spite, a fey who knew Roderick. With his help, defeated Covra (aka Gossip), another fey who was attempting to bring Roderick to "her".
   4. Entered a Moonpath.
      1. Defeated some demons attempting to burn it.
      2. Blessed by a toad spirit.
      3. Were chased out by a spirit turtle the size of a hill, carrying a fortress. This is strongly connected to Roderick's fiancee--they were taken by a fey and she was put to sleep so the fey could try to control Roderick.
   5. Encountered the One Horn tribe of bovine shifters. Assisted them to deal with the Broke Tusk tribe (porcine shifters), who are under the control of a wereboar from Byssia.
   6. Attempted to retrieve a "soul cage" amulet from an ancient ruin to the east of the central blasted lands
      1. Black stone aelvar mega structure (300 ft on a side, 150 ft high, ziggurat style)
      2. Elder chimera (3 independent heads) nesting on top, bribed with food
      3. repaired top level
      4. negotiated with guardian. did not retrieve soul cage (as it wasn’t as advertised).
   7. Went to the partner ruin to the south. Discovered exiled tribe of insectile warped creatures. Got (grudging) permission to explore the inside.
      1. Discovered that it had been a biological research station immediately before the 2nd Wish.
      2. Destroyed an overgrown plant creature.
      3. Discovered some drama around the time leading up to Moon's Fall.
      4. Liberated some humanoid hybrids (and a stray winged, grey-skinned telepathic aelf from an unknown land) who had been kept in stasis.
      5. Set the souls of the "discarded" experiments to rest, gained a favor from them.
   8. Headed into the center, carefully avoiding all the nasty flora/fauna hybrids.
      1. Discovered that the center temple was an aetheric font of Life, but was currently being contaminated by a remnant of the Twisted, cut off when he attacked the Catalysts, tended by three clone beings named Malignance, Metastasis, and Metamorphosis, each in mental control of the bug folk (from which the exiles came).
      2. Reached an accord with Metamorphosis, keeper of the breeding farms, who wanted to change things.
      3. Gathered allies from the One Horn, the Broke Tusk, the exile clade, and even managed to bribe the chimera to help.
      4. Allies caused massive distraction. Party attacked Metastasis. Big fight ensued.
      5. Metastasis forced the remnant/core to tear a hole into Shadow, where the Twisted tried to re-acquire the core. The party gave the Hopeseed to the core, blasting them back and planting the seed.
      6. Rapid conversion of core and area into shadow-rooted Cobaith (Tree of Hope).