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Game Timeline

Timeline of Events in Game (as recorded by the PCs but mostly Moira)
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Moira Ruadh
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Holidays and Character-Important Dates
30th of Hammer: Midwinter Festival + Claire Larkspur's Birthday
5th of Eleint, 1486 DR: Date of the death of Claire's mother
6th of Eleint, 1486 DR: Date of the death of Claire's father - Arkan Larkspur
12th of Eleint: Lord Roarington of Amphail's birthday
30th of Eleint: Highharvestide Festival + Moira Ruadh's Birthday
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Moira Ruadh
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Game Timeline

Campaign Start - 5 Eleint 1486 DR
Cornerstone Events

-Attack on Nightstone/Dripping Caves Goblin Raid
-Ceryna leaves the party
-Oni Attack, U'lin joins the party
-Waterdeep
-Road Travel from Rassalantar -> Amphail, Amphail Feast
-Doderic leaves the party
-Road Travel from Amphail -> Red Larch, Kobold Tower, Uthgardt Werewolf Encounter
-Red Larch, Stone Giant Freestyle Rap Battle, Vonindod Dig Site Encounter
-Thente (technically) leaves the party, Zaiya joins the party
-Road Travel from Red Larch -> Westbridge, Emma's Shop
-Road Travel from Westbridge -> Triboar, Night Hag Encounter
-Road Travel to Triboar, Triboar Under Siege
-Ethgar joins the party, Party receives Marks of Prestige and are granted Knighthood from Triboar under Lord Protector Daratha
-Road Travel toward Yartar, party encounters Zephyrous' Fallen Tower
-Immediate return to Triboar, Thente rejoins the party
-Road Travel toward Yartar, party returns to Zephyrous' Fallen Tower and encounters the Brass Dragon Felgolos, fights a Fey summoning ritual gone awry, and spends the night at Felgolos' lair.
-Road Travel to Yartar, party encounters and assists the Seekers of Justice in defeating a Stone Giant just outside the city limits.



Prologue - On the Road and the Night the Sky Fell:
Day 1 - 5th of Eleint: Moira and Ceryna travel from Waterdeep with the Rockseeker Caravan for Nightstone.  They encounter Doderic along the way and give him a lift.  Nightstone is attacked on that evening.  Among others, Lady Nandar, Claire's mother, and Moira's nephew-in-law die in the attack.


Chapter 1 - Nightstone, Waterdeep, and a Talk Over Tea:
Day 2 - 6th of Eleint: Caravan arrives at Nightstone post-Giant Attack, meets Claire and Thente.  Party forms to mount an assault on the Goblins at the Dripping Caves to rescue the kidnapped villagers.  Four of the kidnapped villagers, including Moira's friend Darthag, are killed by the Goblin Boss Hark's cruelty.  The party rescues the remaining 28 villagers and clears out the cave, potentially discovering a Dragon Cult Cache.  Moira covertly backtracks and finishes off the remaining Goblins without telling the rest of the party.  Claire's father - Arkan Larkspur, and the missing researcher - Veradda Stoor, are both found dead, having perished at some earlier point in the day.  That evening, Doderic converses with Stoor's familiar and the single long-running goal they've yet to achieve of reviving Stoor at Yartar is assigned.

Day 3 - 7th of Eleint: Party buries the dead of Nightstone.  Moira discovers Kella Darkhope is a Zhentarim agent and develops a plan to route the Zhents out of town by gaining aid for Nightstone from House Nandar's seat in Waterdeep.

Day 4 - 8th of Eleint: Ceryna remains in Nightstone while the rest of the party sets out to Waterdeep.  The party meets U'lin and an Oni-in-disguise along the road and escorts them to Amberly's Boathouse.  The party stays the night there, only to be attacked by the Oni.  The Oni is defeated and slain.

Day 5 - 9th of Eleint: U'lin officially joins the party and the trek to Waterdeep recommences.  The party reaches Waterdeep's gates by that same evening.

Day 6 - 10th of Eleint: The party spends the day in Waterdeep, setting up a meeting with House Nandar and the Church of Waukeen.  Claire settles her family affairs and receives her inheritance from the Cassalanter bank.  Moira, meanwhile, establishes the Resurrection Project contract with the church.  Later that same day the party makes contact with SEER and joins her service.  The party sets out back onto the road for the town of Rassalantar that same day and spends the rest of it traveling.

Day 7 - 11th of Eleint: The party spends the entire second day on the move.  That evening, they camp along the roadside and share gossip with other travelers.


Chapter 2 - Amphail, Red Larch, and U'lin the Rankbreaker:
Day 8 - 12th of Eleint: The party encounters the young Lady Rosalind's carriage under attack by Uthgardt Barbarians and come to the rescue.  In doing so, they gain both the favor of the Eagleshield family of Amphail and a cursed dagger recovered from the Uthgardt.  The party escorts Rosalind to Amphail and attends The Lord's Party that evening, having a lovely fun time that's interrupted by an attack by a Mouth of Grolantor Hill Giant.  They help defeat the Hill Giant, then remain in Amphail to rest and scout the area for security's sake.

Day 9 - 13th of Eleint: The party holds an impromptu military meeting with the various noble leaders of the region who were in attendance at the party.  During following conversations, Doderic agrees to remain in Amphail to assist their defenses and leaves the party.  The party sets out back onto the road once more and discovers the Kobold Tower that evening.  They camp out in the area to lay a trap for the Kobolds, turning the ambush around and soon laying siege to the Tower itself.  All the Kobolds are slain and a shrine to Tiamat is destroyed, albeit with the result of seemingly laying a curse on Thente in the process.

Day 10 - 14th of Eleint: The party collapses the Kobold Tower and resumes travel toward Red Larch.  That night they all sit down and have a heartfelt conversation about their feelings like respectful adults.  Other D&D parties should be so lucky.

Day 11 - 15th of Eleint: The party continues toward Red Larch and discovers trace of an Uthgardt attack on the road.  Following the trail results in a frantic chase and a showdown with an Uthgardt Werewolf pack leader.  After a tense conversation, they part ways without a fight and the party hauls ass toward Red Larch.

Day 12 - 16th of Eleint: Uneventful travel.  The party arrives at Red Larch in the evening.  They help where they can by reporting to Mayor Orna, assisting at the Allfaith's Shrine, and have a much-needed night of decompressing fun.

Day 13 - 17th of Eleint: Still at Red Larch; the party lends some hands at the Allfaith's Shrine and gets some magical gear for their trouble.  That same day, they meet up with Valkis of the Order of the Gauntlet - a fellow associate of SEER - and head out to a neighboring windmill to address the town's Stone Giant problem.  Lots of tense conversation and a free-style rap battle ensues.

Day 14 - 18th of Eleint: After crafting throughout the entire night and into the morning, U'lin (with some sneaky help from Thente) defeats the Stone Giant G'ymiralir in his challenge.  The party gains his cooperation in leaving Red Larch peacefully and some tidbits of information about other Giant affairs along the coast.  The party returns to Red Larch to report the good news and spends the rest of the day helping out around town while U'lin takes some much-deserved rest.


Chapter 3 - Vonindod, Rituals, and Triboar Aflame:
Day 15 - 19th of Eleint: The party receives word from SEER to investigate a nearby dig site related to the Giants, along with a request from Mayor Orna to search for locals who had gone missing.  After recovering a badly wounded Red Larch scout en route, the party meets Zaiya at the site.  During their investigation they contend with a Fire Elemental bound to the site as a guardian.  U'lin hits a warhead with his hammer and recovers a forgotten fragment of the Giant superweapon "Vonindod, Titan of Death" from the site.  U'lin and Zaiya are later ambushed by the Uthgardt Werewolf boss and minions, but manage to finagle their way to safety.  The party returns to Red Larch to report their findings.

Day 16 - 20th of Eleint: The party remains in Red Larch to reinforce the town against future threats.  Moira and Thente encounter the Red Dryad in the woods neighboring town and beat a hasty retreat.  Despite still wanting to help where they can and U'lin wanting to pursue the trail of the Giants directly, the party ultimately decides to leave that same day and continue on their trek north at SEER's urging.

Along their travel the party takes shelter in a cave from a quickly approaching storm and ends up spending the evening in the company of a giant lizard who's made its nest there.  Some cajoling and careful application of ham gains the lizard's uneasy trust, to the point that the party is able to retrieve a Pearl of Power it had mistaken for an egg.  Additionally, in the midst of the storm, U'lin takes the opportunity to do some mystical tinkering and reforges his broken Legacy Weapon.

Day 17 - 22nd of Eleint: After sleeping out the storm, the party awakens that morning to discover Thente had fallen into a comatose state of some supernatural nature.  They make haste further north in hopes of getting Thente care, only to be waylaid by bandits posing as Triboar guards.  Despite having a pet Hill Giant on their side, things turn out decidedly foul for the bandits.  The party gathers their loot and hurries on to arrive at Westbridge by that evening.  The party remains in Westbridge for the night, spending time with some of Moira's kin and learning more of the troubles along the Coast.

Day 18 - 23rd of Eleint: The party learns of the woes of a local alchemist - Emma - who's suffered an encounter with Lycanthropy and welcomes their help in finding a cure.  Meanwhile, Moira goes to an impromptu therapy session with Waukeen and establishes a piety-based Legacy Blessing, enabling her to fight supernatural foes.  That evening, the party stays with Emma to help manage a ritual to cure her and fends off a trio of Uthgardt Werewolf assassins who break in to try and kill her.  Following the battle, U'lin spearheads the curative ritual but an unforeseen hiccup with the cursed dagger the party carried caused a mishap.  The dagger was destroyed and, though cured of Lycanthropy, Emma was permanently transformed into a Shifter.  Additionally, the party interrogates the conjured spirit of one of the Uthgardt assassins and learns more of the barbarian tribes' war plans along the Coast to establish a new Great Hunt.

Day 19 - 24th of Eleint: Because of Emma's poor standing with the biased townsfolk and her new state of being, she decided to leave the town along with the party in order to relocate to safer pastures.  NPC Emma joins the party as they travel north to Triboar.  They travel that entire day without event, though end up encountering a Night Hag - Mama Gretchen - when they settle down for camp that evening.  While the event ends without battle, Moira is too unsettled by the Fae threat to dare risk camping out on the roads and insists the party make a forced-march to civilization.

Day 20 - 25th of Eleint: No sleep 'til Triboar!  Moira and Claire defy exhaustion to varying degrees of success.  After dawn, the party discovers the body of a slain Triboar scout carrying pilfered Orc war plans.  They continue on through the day and night alike, arriving at Triboar only to find the town under siege.

Some hasty investigations and a whole lot of violence later soon has the party officially lending their aid to Triboar, deputized by and cooperating with the Lord Protector in the effort to drive out the Orcish invaders.  They learn that Triboar's local wizard betrayed the town to Fire Giants in some unclear bid for power, only to be back-stabbed himself and killed in the conflict.  The party saves the Dwarven smith Foehammer and his Goblin assistant Tetri as they set out to save Triboar from its various woes.  Claire learns that her inherited greatsword is an Oathblade - her Legacy Weapon.

The party continues to aid Triboar in a hurried string of assaults; fighting off Orcs, Ogres, Gargoyles, Mephits, and ultimately taking down a horrific Stone Dragon Construct that had broken free of Hyuth's control.  Though the battle nearly killed the entire party, they pulled through and managed to rescue Moira's kidnapped friend, Alaestra, from certain doom.  U'lin also uncovered more information about the looming threat of the Giant Superweapon in the depths of a plundered vault hidden beneath Hyuth's warehouse.  After deactivating and capturing an elemental anchor to help quell the still-raging fires, the party finally retired for some well-earned and much-needed rest.

Day 21 - 26th of Eleint: With the fires finally extinguished and Triboar's military forces rallied outside the town walls, the party is called upon to take another proactive strike.  They agree to explore and secure Hyuth's tower in hopes of putting a stop to an impending threat from within it, as well as secure some useful tools to help in their upcoming challenges with the roaming Fire Giants.

A thorough sweep of Hyuth's Tower revealed not only strange magical treasures, but dark dealings with unscrupulous forces throughout the region as well as blasphemous arcane experiments in the basement.  The party managed to put a halt to an impending threat left behind after Hyuth's demise and freed Ethgar - an Uthgardt skald captured and experimented on by the evil wizard - who swore his service in gratitude.  Following their capture and cleansing of the Tower, the party was granted titles of Knighthood as part of their payment, allowing them to serve as vassals of Triboar.

Later that evening, personal conversations with the Lord Protector, Foehammer, and Alaestra brought some of the party new insight into their own histories, as well as changed their outlook on their futures.  Moira - through some personal difficulty and a sincere moment of reflection - successfully completed her founding contract with Waukeen by helping draw Foehammer off a self-destructive path and back into his craft.

Day 22 - 27th of Eleint: After setting off for Yartar, the party was waylaid by a sudden freak storm partway through the day.  A great disturbance in The Weave occurred as, nearby, the flying tower of the Cloud Giant Zephyrous crashed down for the party to make quick investigation of.  Within the ruined chambers they discovered not only Zephyrous' corpse, but strange hints of his foresight and prophecies left behind after predicting his own doom.  Zephyrous posthumously provided the party with a means to revitalize Thente, which led them to swiftly backtrack and return to Triboar in order to do just that.  Though uncertain of the Cloud Giant's intentions and trustworthiness, the process proved successful and Thente was awakened, albeit changed by the experience.  He similarly became bonded to his Javelin of Lightning, gaining it as his Legacy Weapon.

Day 23 - 28th of Eleint: With Thente back in stride, the party set out once more for Yartar.  They were intercepted, however, by the arrival of Felgolos; an adventurous Brass Dragon whom Moira announced as being family as a friend to all Hin.  After a bit of tea and conversation while mulling whether U'lin wished to sell his Iron Beetle war wagon to the Dragon as a collector's piece, Felgolos announced his excitement over seeing the ruins of Zephyrous' fallen tower.  The party wished to check to see if there was anything remaining after the destruction of the Cloud Giant's tower as well and they set out, only to discover that the wreck had caused severe distortions in The Weave.  The area had become a gnarl of Wild Magic and appeared to have drawn a number of Fey who looted the wreck in the meantime, scavenging what they wished to keep and using the rest as fodder for a bonfire.

Though the party as a whole agreed to simply let things be and continue on, U'lin took great umbrage to the destruction of fine creative works and sneaked off on his own to confront the Fey.  A chaotic series of mishaps revealed that they Fey were actually performing some sort of ritual and U'lin's interference caused it to go awry, conjuring a monstrous and unstable Elemental.  Amid a battle mixed with magical flare-ups, the party managed to destroy the Elemental but were left with plenty of questions without answers after the Fey abandoned the area.  With no other lead to follow, the party adjourned to Felgolos' hidden lair for the night to discuss matters of trade, have a hearty meal, and plan their next steps.  When all was said and done, the party gained a fair amount of loot in return for helping with chores, and U'lin negotiated a trade for the Iron Beetle in return for a potentially flight-capable wagon and its schematics.  Felgolos was also generous (or simply careless of wealth) enough to donate two Life Diamonds to the Resurrection Project for Nightstone.

Day 24 - 29th of Eleint: After being returned to where they left off by Felgolos, the party said their fond farewells to the Dragon and returned to their journey for Yartar.  Just as they neared the city limits, however, they stumbled across a battle in progress between a group of mercenaries - the Seekers of Justice - and a Stone Giant building another magical monument.  The two parties joined forces and quickly felled the Giant, though not without some raised tensions from Thente and U'lin over the callous approach of the other group.

...


Day 25 - 30th of Eleint: Highharvestide Festival + Moira's Birthday
Day 26 - 1st of Marpenoth:
Day 27 - 2nd of Marpenoth:
Day 28 - 3rd of Marpenoth: The approximate date of the next Full Moon
This message was last edited by the player at 00:41, Mon 27 Sept 2021.
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