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).
3. Seeds of hope for the Sena'ka
   1. Hired to help Crow and Leina deliver stabilization packages to the three creches of the Ship Folk: one on Sentinel Island, one on Vil'ath, and the last at Vrol'ath.
   2. Had to resolve some worker disputes on Sentinel Island to persuade the creche guardians to accept it. This involved scamming a local landlord and slaver out of his estate via cheating at gambling. He was so pissed off that he died of an aneurism.
   3. Took passage aboard the Primal Voyager (a merchant ship), working security as it island hopped towards the south.
   4. Were attacked by warped Ika-ika near an uninhabited rock spire; defeated them and went inside to find an enslaved colony and a worshiper of the Twisted (or its agents). Killed him, freed the people.
   5. Landed at a larger island in the chain for resupply. While there, port attacked by two pirate ships. Killed the leader, took the ship. Now renamed the Hot Totty.
   6. Traveled to Pal'ath, the largest port city (and floating city) in the Halfway Islands to try to get official status to run the ship without interference from the Fleets.
   7. Discovered that an ancient dragon turtle (later discovered to be named "Robert") was sitting in the only real passage through the Deadman's Gulf, sinking ships as they came by.
   8. Parlayed with Robert, found out he was mad that another ship folk ship had stolen a replica of Lapat Afa. Parked on one of the two "cursed" islands in that passage.
   9. Turns out it was the Azure Seeker, the other ship they could have taken passage on (with a skeevy captain). Turns out he'd gone full evil and become a mkhulu in service to a demon-spider-crab entity that was filling the ship with necrotic soul-devouring toxin to try to take Robert's soul and puppet his body. The theft was just a ruse to draw him in for the kill.
   10. They sunk the Azure Seeker, drew out the crab and fled back into open waters so Robert could fight the crab and kill it without the tricks. They then recovered the replica shield and returned it to Robert, which satisfied him.