====== Road Work Ahead ======

**Session Date**: 05/31/2025 \\
**Game Master**: Rew

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

  * **Beatrix**, Harengon Ranger/Monk (Colin)
  * **Klast Ronison**, Rock-Man Peace Cleric (Jim W)
  * **Lith Oakenheart**, Shadar-Kai Druid (Bridget)
  * **Nox Celeste**, Shifter Swashbuckler (Alex)
  * **Sahbirr**, Tabaxi Fighter (Dustin)


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

  * Wildare of Flaygallows - A stoic Shadar-Kai merchant
  * [[Nixheim]] - 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
  * [[Graeae]] - A great hag who holds powerful sway over the lesser monsters of the entire province of [[The Road]]
  * [[Letharr]] - A deity worshiped by Klast, also known as the veiled lady
  * [[wellmet_heroes|Eilac]] - A lesser deity in the pantheon of the [[gods|Well Met Heroes]] who defeated the Matron of Ravens, clearing the way for [[ariyah|Ariyah the Reborn]], a ruler of Flaygallows back from the earliest times of the Sundering
  * Cussquirt Band - A warband of [[Wyrmslugs]] who will do dirty deeds for cash and flesh on Nixheim
  * Princess Glorianna - The Shadar-Kai leader of Flaygallows
  * Darkgate Manor - A shard long thought lost, identified by Glorianna for the Homeshard Heroes to find evidence of the "Orphans of Ariyah"



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


  * Wildare hires the Homeshard Heroes to accompany him on his new voidship named the Polywog as it travels back home with a secret cargo he calls the "Fruits of Debauchery."
  * The ship is attacked by another ship of Gamma Co make crewed by the Cussquirt gang led by a faceless hag who threatens to stop all trade with Flaygallows until her master Graeae is told the location of the [[ariyah|Orphans of Ariyah]]. 
  * Once the expedition reaches the city of Flaygallows, it is revealed that the "Fruits of Debauchery" Wildare carried back was a hold full of lemons. This citrus are all seen as shocking and a little scandalous to all his monochromatic countrymen, but many buy secretly because they want to know more. 
  * The Homeshard Heroes are welcomed as special guests by the stoic Shadar-Kai. 
  * The Homeshard Heroes spend some time in the most upscale tavern in the Docks district - The Grey Rectangle right during "Satisfactory Hour."
  * In what could be a shady deal, Princess Glorianna reveals that not only did the Orphans of Ariyah actually exist, they lived hidden in exile at a hidden shard known as [[ariyah#darkgate_manor|Darkgate Manor]]. Unfortunately, the shard and its caretaker Cain were cursed. Glorianna believes that it was Graeae who levied the curse. 
  * The Homeshard Heroes travel to [[Darkgate Manor]] and find it defended by all sorts of Shadar-Kai undead. They battle past them, and find Cain dead in the vaults. 
  * Evidence including paintings and geneologies show that perhaps Lith is herself one of the Orphans of Ariyah, forced to flee Darkgate Manor as a small child. There is also evidence of two other orphans who fled.