====== Search & Rescue ======

**Session Date**: 05/11/2025 \\
**Game Master**: Declan

===== Player Characters =====

  * **Baila**, Eladrin College of Dance Bard (Tara)
  * **Beatrix**, Harengon Ranger/Monk (Colin B)
  * **Griffin Lee Atwood**, Eladrin Ranger (Hal)
  * **Myrrha Venolin**, Drow Cleric (Karen)
  * **Reed Shadowsheath**, Circle of the Moon Druid (Clint)
    * Solas the Owl
  * **Slate**, Warforged Giant Barbarian (Andy H)

===== Named People and Places =====
  * [[nemedobur|Nemedobur]] - Declan's adventuring province; a group of dangerously unstable and widely unexplored shards
  * Crannathragh - A large jungle shard located centrally in [[nemedobur|Nemedobur]] 
  * [[Steve McSword]] - A haughty, arrogant human paladin & Founding [[the_voyagers|Voyager]]
  * [[guinevere|Guinevere]] - A no-nonsense, overworked triton fighter & Founding [[the_voyagers|Voyager]]; also the head of the Crannatragh [[the_voyagers|Voyager]] Outpost
    * Soairse - Guinevere's pyroraptor companion
  * Meriwether Vale - Head cartographer at the Crannathragh [[the_voyagers|Voyager]] outpost
    * Ducky - Meriwether's drake companion
  * Bravo Team - a missing expedition of Voyagers
    * Micah - Expert hunter and leader of Bravo Team, lost his arm fighting the T-Rex
    * Arana - Elf cartographer
    * Imrish - Green Dragonborn fighter
    * Khiv - Orc, hired muscle, fighter, found dead on arrival
    * Corryn - Gnome scout, found dead on arrival
    * Ulfrik - dwarf medic, found dead on arrival
  * East Sector - The most explored region on Crannathragh
  * South Sector - The least explored region on Crannathragh


===== Major Plot Points =====

  * [[Steve McSword]] collects the various party members for what he's pitched as an easy, introductory sample collection mission in Crannathragh's East Sector
  * The party all meet Meriwether and Ducky, who are doing paper work, get a map of the Shard, and are gearing up to leave
  * [[guinevere|Guinevere]] mentions Bravo Team hasn't reported back using their Sending Stone or their Sending scroll
  * She commandeers the party for a search and rescue mission, hoping they'll find survivors but saying it's important to collect any research materials they find if no one is left alive
  * Guinevere, Soairse, Steve, and the party go to the last known location in the South Sector, a dangerous portion of Crannathragh
  * Beatrix stumbles into a group of Dagger Blooms, a plant with razor sharp leaves and flowers that occasionally grow into humanoid-adjacent creatures, and the party make short work of them. Samples are collected of the Dagger Blooms
  * The party moves forward to find a large flower surrounded by violet berries and a sweet smelling pollen that draws Beatrix and Slate closer
  * Soairse knocks the two party members out of the way before this plant can eat them, though Beatrix later gets swallowed and has to cut her way out
  * Beatrix names this plant the Ophiorchid and samples are collected of it after it is decapitated during Beatrix's escape
  * Several samples of the nearby sweet smelling violet-colored berries, that Baila names Baila Berries, are also collected
  * The party follow a trail, working together to find clues, and locates the mangled corpse of Khiv. The group bury her as well while Baila collects her shield to send back to her family
  * They then find Corryn's left arm, and Ulfrik's left half from the shoulder to the hip, burying them too and collecting evidence of what happened
  * A growl and shouting calls their attention, and they follow the sound to find a T-Rex has cornered Micah, Arana, and Imrish in a tree's roots
  * The party fights the T-Rex, taking it down handily, rescuing the remaining [[the_voyagers|Voyagers]], and bringing them back to the outpost to recover from their injuries