Argentones
From Dreams of Hope
An adventuring group adventuring in the Jungle of Fangs during the Time of Troubles. In-universe, started late spring 260 AC.
People
- Lark
- Hiroh Megasaki
- Ren Tashiro (retired as of the end of High Summer 260 AC)
- Alfred Madgwick (retired as of 16 High Summer 260 AC)
- Kazado "Wordcarver" Uguna
- Jin Kanagi
Adventures
Sraasa Saat Adventures
- Gathered to discover who was behind a series of bizarre thefts from the local distillery.
- Thwarted attempts by a rival distillery to steal the real recipe, but the real culprits were Mope and Private Eyeguana, stealing bits of things to make a nest for a little girl (Ma'li) that they had rescued. Mope is near death due to several decades of hard living in the wild.
- Assisted them.
- Did a job for an alchemist to gather luminous starbloom.
- Hired to explore a Fanged Kingdom ruin. Were in competition with Aiko and Apsalar, who turned out to be Coiled Ones agents. The ruin collapsed, nearly killing them.
- Hired to scout a bandit camp that had captured a large contingent of local soldiers sent to root it out.
- Made a deal with the local cannibal halfling tribe for safe passage
- Rescued a number of slaves working in a iron mine on the Kaelthian border.
- With some of the slaves, they raided the camp and defeated them, suffering heavy losses from among the slaves.
- One of the slaves was Ma-li's mom (Katelyn), a "barbarian" from the western mountains who had slept with a fang-kin noble. Ma-li's mom has it going on.
- Reunion of Ma-li with her mom.
- Discovering that Ma-li's dad is the son of Lord Kato. Happy reunions and turns out G'pa is a softie for kids.
Sha'slar Family
- Roh's family is from Sha'slar, and Ren's sister (and daughter) have moved there to escape scrutiny.
- Songs and concerts go well.
- Meet an exemplary dancer and her dwarven priest attendant.
- Dude from before (Aiko) shows up on his own business, looking for Ren's daughter.
- Managed to evade him and get family safe to Kato, where she's hired as a servant.
Asai'ka & Golems
- Standing song stone teaches Lark a bit of a song
- Dealing with sex cult/demon cult. Violently.
- Reach Asai'ka.
- Investigating some murders, thefts, and other stuff.
- Hired by Sapori family under false pretenses to help with a party (Lark and Roh singing)
- Party attacked independently by zealots from Ar Salem Dolem and goroesi assassins seeking to kill Saiko Ssa'ka, grand-daughter of Hvang Ssa'ka. Both foiled, but with some complicity.
- Party arrested. Eventually freed after a sham trial.
- Alfred begins working for Saiko's group, the Kestrals, who are stealing silver to build/repair a fleet of Fanged-Kingdom-era golems; rest of party works for Sapori and (secretly) the goroesi.
- Raid happens on golem shop.
- Alfred ends up transplanted into the body of an operational shadesteel golem, built by renegade cysgor. He ends up in command of the golems.
- Saiko ends up dead. As does the soul of her grandfather, who had been possessing her son (there had been some icky things there)
- Workshop destroyed
- Party meets Ahzekiel Cai'Valur. Roh is killed, then resurrected for mouthing off.
- Picked up Kazado here.
To the Holy City
- Next big mission is handling Ren's stuff and the corruption in the Church of the Queen Ascendant.
- Infiltrated Ar Salem Dolem under aliases.
- Made allies with Kortel, the bronze dragon that Enigma met, now become a criminal boss with a hoard of tea-kettles.
- Attacked by Aiko and Apsalar. Killed them both, but Lark and a bystander were killed (and then rezzed at Ar Dolema)
- Ended up finding a major cult operation holding Ren's not-wife-baby-momma in an old Fanged Kingdom temple north of the city (at Parel Tor).
- Also discovered that there was some child abuse happening. Saved some kids from abusive nobles, parked them with a kind couple.
- Destroyed it and saved the girl, but a mess ensued; they ended up on the slopes of Mt. Refuge near Kaelthia.
- Took Ren and girl back to Kato. Ren leaves party at this point and gets married.
- Picked up Jin in Sha'slar city.
- On the way back to figure out what happened, found out that there were some copyright infringers ripping off Kaz's books. They died.
- Kids got re-captured by Anora/Violet Bloom, a vampire sex-slaver running a "joy estate" nearby. Much violence ensued; Anora escaped. Kids safe. Eventually taken to Kato.
Against the Coiled Ones
- On the way back, defeated another coiled one cult and recovered another Midnight Orb. Explosively.
- Recruited by the Opal Coalition (working with the Rainbow Serpent to defeat the Coiled Ones). Encountered Lark's brother and would-be fiancée. That didn't go well for anyone.
- Task to gather objects connected to them so they can be summoned and trapped in the orbs.
- ...more to come
