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--- session_3 [2025/05/04 16:26] – [Major Plot Points] andrew
+++ session_3 [2025/06/29 02:26] (current) – [Open Road] andrew
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 ====== Open Road ======
-**Session Date**: 05/03/2025
+**Session Date**: 05/03/2025 \\
+**Game Master**: Rew
 ===== Player Characters =====
   * **Caiel**, Teifling Warlock (Nat)
-  * **Dane**, Tabaxi Shadow Monk (John)
+  * **Dane Shadowstrike**, Tabaxi Shadow Monk (John)
-  * **Elydra**, Eladrin Shadow Magic Sorceror  (Nicholle)
+  * **Elydra “Ellie” Illixalim**, Eladrin Shadow Magic Sorceror  (Nicholle)
-  * **Kip**, Human Chronomancer Wizard (Jian)
+  * **Kip Cescorna**, Human Chronomancer Wizard (Jian)
-  * **Klast**, Cleric (probably Grave domain) (Jim W)
+  * **Klast Ronison**, Rock-Man Peace Cleric (Jim W)
-  * **Yuna**, Human Cleric of Isva (Jenny Beth)
+  * **Yuna Keen**, Human Cleric of Isva (Jenny Beth)
 ===== Named People and Places =====
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   * Chaddrus - Caiel's infernal father and owner/operator of [[Chads-R-Us Voidships]] in [[Welmet]]
   * [[welmet#isva_s_hand_orphanage|Isva’s Hand Orphanage]] - The orphanage served by Yuna and Dane
-  * Mother Omay Westerly - The matron of the orphanage
+    * Mother Omay Westerly - The matron of the orphanage
-  * Brother Moses Voidshard - The secondary helper at the orphanage; a retired adventurer
+    * Brother Moses Voidshard - The secondary helper at the orphanage; a retired adventurer
-  * Letharr - A deity worhiped by Klast, also known as the veiled lady
+  * [[Nixheim]] - One of the shards that make up The Road
-  * Noxheim - One of the shards that make up The Road
+  * [[Flaygallows]] - A [[shards#shadow_shards|Shadow Shard]] that makes up the "capitol" of The Road, home to a large population of Shadar-Kai
-  * Flaygallows - A [[shards|Shadow Shard]] that makes up the "capitol" of The Road, home to a large population of Shadar-Kai on a Shadow
+  * [[Graeae]] - A great hag who holds powerful sway over the lesser monsters of the entire province of [[The Road]]
-  * Graeae - A great hag who holds powerful sway over the lesser monsters of the entire province of [[The Road]]
   * Martha - A lesser hag, the seditious servitor of Graeae
-  * Eilac - A lesser deity in the pantheon of WelL Met Heroes who defeated the Matron of Ravens, clearing the way for Ariyah the Reborn
+  * [[Isva]] - a deitiy worshiped by Yuna
-  * Hydra Band - A group of Malmyrdons associated with a ten-headed pyrohydra who operates on Nixheim
+  * [[Letharr]] - A deity worshiped by Klast, also known as the veiled lady
-  * Cussquirt Band - A warband of Wyrmslugs who will do dirty deeds for cash and flesh on Nixheim
+  * [[wellmet_heroes|Eilac]] - A lesser deity in the pantheon of WelL Met Heroes who defeated the Matron of Ravens, clearing the way for Ariyah the Reborn, a ruler of Flaygallows back from the earliest times of the Sundering
+  * Hydra Band - A group of [[Malmyrdons]] associated with a ten-headed pyrohydra who operates on Nixheim
+  * Cussquirt Band - A warband of [[Wyrmslugs]] who will do dirty deeds for cash and flesh on Nixheim
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+  * Wildare offers to start buying items from the orphanage in exchange for help getting his bag of "delicate goods" back to [[Flaygallows]].
+  * Wildare describes the deal he made with the hag Graeae to travel unharmed across the wilds of [[Nixheim]], inferring that he lost a very important organ in the deal.
   * Wildare explains to Caiel that Flaygallows has a nascent voidship business. To get on his father Chaddus's good side, Caiel joins the expedition.
-  * The Homeshard Heroes emerge from the voidspan gate from Welmet into a cave complex on [[Nixheim]].
+  * Wildare convinces Klast to join his expedition to get his secretive bag of "delicate goods" to his home of Flaygallows.
-  * The heroes learn that Graeae Rules Nixheim
+  * Wildare convinces Kip and Elydra to join him. Elydra finds Kip familiar, but doesn't share why.
-  * Martha says she's "changing the terms of the deal" with Wildare and that she now "Wants to know where the location of the orphans."
+  * The Homeshard Heroes emerge from the voidspan gate from Welmet into a cave complex on [[Nixheim]], but find their way blocked by Martha the hag and a dozen [[Malmyrdons]].
+  * The heroes learn that Graeae Rules Nixheim.
+  * Martha tells Wildare //"I’ve decided to change the terms of the deal. Give me the location of the orphans and you can proceed unharmed.”//
   * Martha has plans to double-cross Graeae and take "the orphans" for herself.
-  * The heroes challenge Martha, and learn that by "orphans" she means she is looking for "The Orphans of Ariya.
+  * The heroes defeat the Malmyrdons, but Martha escapes.
+  * The Homeshard Heroes see the Hydra Gang torturing members of a village for information about Wildare.
+  * Once again the heroes are attacked by demons made flesh led by Martha. In this case, [[Wyrmslugs]] buried themselves in the snow to make a surprise attack. Once again, Martha escapes with her life as the monsters are destroyed.
+  * The heroes challenge Martha, and learn that by "orphans" she means she is looking for "The Orphans of Ariyah."
+  * The Homeshard Heroes fight a final battle against Martha and a half-dozen demonic soldiers on a mind-numbing, gravity-changing staircase between Nixheim and Flaygallows.
+  * Once the expedition reaches the city of Flaygallows, it is revealed that Wildare carried a bag of bright red tomatoes to market to his monochromatic countrymen. The Homeshard Heroes stay for a little bit, and are welcomed as special guests by the stoic Shadar-Kai.