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Why Did the Dinosaur Cross the Road?

Session Date: 06/07/2025

Player Characters

  • Balia, Eladrin College of Dance bard (Tara)
  • Inari, Kitsune Arcane Trickster Rogue (Rex)
  • Kip Cescorna, Human Chronomancer Wizard (Jian)
  • Myrrha Venolin, Drow Trickster Cleric (Karen)
  • Psithuris Mithrilwood, High Elf Circle of the Stars Druid (Quinton)
  • Reed Shadowsheath, Human Moon Druid (Clint)
    • Solas the Owl

Named People and Places

  • Wildare of Flaygallows - A stoic Shadar-Kai merchant
  • Nixheim - One of the shards that make up The Road
  • Flaygallows - A 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
  • Cussquirt Band - A warband of Wyrmslugs who will do dirty deeds for cash and flesh; created from the blood of helpless dinosaurs
  • The Scattered Shards gang - A group of kids who grew up poor in and around the town of Scisceptus on Criostalun
  • Prince Gregarious - A Feywild soverign who murdered his entire court and then used their corpses as material for making furniture and decoration.
  • Tetaro Ten-Tails - A truly evil kistune who prowled the Feywild for dupes to magically sway to romance him in order to do his sinister bidding.
  • The Painted Jungle - A Fey Shard located in the province of The Road that includes a ruined palace, a brightly-colored jungle, and a huge colony of Crystal Mimics. It most likely still has a Wyrmslug infection.

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 Polywog is ambushed by Wyrmslugs led by faceless hags as it navigated through an asteroid field of small shards.
  • The Polywog is crippled. With Kip's help, Psithuris is barely able to land it on a nearby Fey Shard before it comes apart.
  • This shard features a ruined palace, a waterfall down to a clearing in a thick, colorful jungle, and finally a barren area filled with crystal elements and a far cave.
  • The hold is filled with fresh, bright tangerines meant for “adults only” in Flaygallows. Wildare is ashamed.
  • The Polywog is demolished, unable to venture out into the void again leaving the party stranded on this shard named the Painted Jungle.
  • The Homeshard Heroes see some pigmy dinosaurs frolicking below them in a field by a waterfall. They begin to feed them oranges which they gulp down with gusto.
  • Wyrmslugs emerge from the jungle and wrestle one of the one-hundred pound pigmy dinosaurs to the ground to kidnap it. The heroes spring into action, and the demons made flesh are slain.
  • Kip adopts the small brontosaurus who was attacked, naming her “Tim.” She begins to follow him everywhere.
  • The party breaks up, with Reed, Myrrha, and Inari investigating the crystal ruin while Psithuris, Balia, and Kip search the jungle for more Wyrmslugs.
  • Reed realizes just in time that the crystals are just bait. The entire section of the shard is nothing more than a parasitic crystal mimic colony, and the three are nearly consumed whole by the crystaline cave mouth. The movement of this titanic beast shakes the entire Fey shard.
  • The others encounter an abandoned Wyrmslug origin pit where cute, helpless pigmy dinosuars were hung to bleed out and complete the dark ritual that creates more of their spawn. The heroes theorize that perhaps these evil beings are about to create a new “batch” from the remaining pigmy dinos.
  • The Homeshard Heroes resolve to somehow get all the dinos and their eggs off this shard before it becomes a breeding ground for more Wyrmslugs. However, to do that they need to find a way back across the Aether.
  • The party investigates the palace. They find a monument identifying it as once belonging to an Eladrin named Prince Gregarious.
  • Inside, they find all sorts of decorations made from the corpses of the court and servants of Gregarious.
  • Kip begins drinking, picking up a flagon made from a servant's skull.
  • Reed uses the Moonbeam spell to bust up a horde of Wyrmslugs as they fly in on a fancy, elven voidship. The voidship is small and maneuverable, but is very fragile and unarmed.
  • As the heroes fight, they hear a disembodied voice who identifies himself as Tetaro Ten-Tails. Inari seeks him out, looking for the source of the voice.
  • As the heroes turn the tables on the Wyrmslugs and their hag mistress, Tetaro reveals himself. He had secretly replaced “Tim” the dinosaur! He prepares to inflict horrible magic on the party turning them against one another for his amusement.
  • Once Tetaro Ten-Tails is revealed the heroes burn him down with a multi-inspired Guiding Bolt and a backstab from Inari FTW!
  • The heroes give Kip control of the voidship, and they complete their voyage to Flaygallows. After a few more trips, all the tiny dinos that populated the shard of the Painted Jungle have been rescued and now live with Psithuris on his dino ranch.
  • Each of the Homeshard Heroes are tasked with hatching and raising three pigmy dino eggs as pets. There are tiny brontosaurus, parasaurolophus, stegosaurus, dimetrodon, and even one triceratops. None of these animals will ever be as terrible and intimidating as their full-grown counterparts, but they are all very cute and snuggly.

Pigmy Dinosaur

Small Beast
Armor Class 10 Hit Points 8 (2d6+1) Speed 20 ft. STR 8 (-1) DEX 11 (+0) CON 12 (+1) INT 3 (-4) WIS 8 (-1) CHA 12 (+1)

Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +0 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d4) piercing damage.

These toy-sized dinos make great, cuddly pets!

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