====== The Road to Ruin ======
**Session Date**: 11/29/2025 \\
**Game Master**: Rew 


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

  * **Chartreuse**, Human Artificer (Nat)
  * **Lith**, Shadar-Kai Druid (Bridget)
  * **Klast**, Peace Cleric (Jim W)
  * **Keeka**, Orc Bard (Sheila)
  * **Baila**, Eladrin College of Dance bard (Tara)
  * **Rotheon**, Aasimar Clockwork Sorcerer (Ace)



===== Named People and Places =====

  * **Flaygallows** - The former site of the Shadar-Kai fascists prison known as the Vault of Regret
    * **Princess Gloriana** - The greedy leader of Flaygallows
  * **Gloomwrought** - A mercantile powerhouse
    * **King Elisar** - A reasonable monarch, leader of Gloomwrought and widowed father of Rhebus
    * **Prince Rhebus** - Promised groom to Gloriana 
  * **Brickhell** - This shard is famous for its fortress-like construction
    * **General Karioch** - An angry half-undead fascist  
  * **Voidhaunt** - Known for the libraries including the haunted vaults and the blasphemous stacks; many of those who work and serve here are either voluntarily blind or illiterate
    * **Minister Rakthar of Voidhaunt** - An addled leader, later revealed to have fascist sympathies
  * **Umberhowl** - Known for the monsters raised in its wide-open jungles and mountain ranges
    * **Warden Pontius** - The simple master of Umberhowl
  * **Shadowhaven** - This small shadow shard is famous for its wine production
    * **Mayor Tristana** - The leader of Shadowhaven who is in love with another Shadar-Kai
  * **Antoine Pierre D'Aubert de La Cour** - The Imperial ambassador
  * **Chaddrus** - Caiel's infernal father by Chartreuse and owner/operator of [[Chads-R-Us Voidships]] in [[Welmet]]
  * **Glimpseox** - An Eye Tyrant who loves himself almost as much as he loves gold
  * **Operative Stiner** -  A corporate cog of the Gamma Co
  * **Wildare** - The owner of the Green Grocer, an enterprising Shadar-Kai merchant
  * **Harbormaster Pike** (aka Bananapants) - A whimsical Shadar-Kai bon vivant
  * **Ashriel** - The leader of the Shadowfell Fascists revival

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

  * The Homeshard Heroes arrive at Flaygallows to find it all decked out for a big, royal wedding. All sorts of Shadar-Kai warships hang nearby in orbit. 
  * Harbormaster Pike bring the party to a party at the Flaygallows Green Grocer where they are celebrated by the Whimsicals for all of their good deeds for the shard of Flaygallows.
  * Chartreuse confronts Chaddrus about his treatment of Caiel. She notes that Stacy is extremely angry with the cambion. 
  * Keeka confronts Antoine Pierre about the incident with Lith. The ambassador drops his elven accent when the Homeshard Heroes get nearby. 
  * Bailia tells King Elisar that Prince Rhebus feels compelled to marry Princess Gloriana. She learns that there was a misunderstanding between that family. 
  * The heroes overhear General Karioch and Minister Rakthar discussing the fact that the "Monstrous Energy" is already in place. "The herald has truly set the table for the Dark Messiah."
  * Princess Glorianna and Prince Rhebus emerge. They perform Bailia's dance. Keeka distracts the Princess while Bailia explains her discussion with King Elisar. Stunned, the couple are pulled away to make a tour of the room.
  * Rather than a toast to his new bride, Prince Rhebus says that there will be no wedding. Princess Glorianna grabs at the Favor of the Raven Queen in Prince Rhebus' hands. A raven appears, grabs the amulet and drops it in Lith's lap. Glorianna shrieks that her curse of Lith should have kept that from happening. Keeka decks Glorianna.
  * Shards begin slamming into Flaygallows like bombs dropping. Klast is able to identify the shards as they rocket toward them like comets. 
  * The heroes save as much of the population of the Flaygallows as possible. Somehow even [[Dr. Amazing]] finds his way to safety. 
  * As they flee, the Dark Messiah powered by Monster Energy reaches for Chartreuse's ship. It stops short, calling out "mom" in a voice that later is identified as being Caiel's.
  * There is much chaos as refugee ships are being coordinated and supplies are being allocated for the over fourteen-thousand Shadar-Kai civilians. All that remain of the civilians that once lived on the Shadowfell shards. Each of the Shadowfell shards have smashed into one-another killing untold thousands.  The shards appeared to combine into a humanoid shape with the Shadowfell fascist's [[Tower of Death]] at its head. 
  * [[dane|Dane Shadowstrike]] is mssing following the events of this disaster.
  * Lith is definitely not the leader of the Shadar-Kai, instead a popular figurehead.