Session 1: The one where Elias dies right away (October 12, 2022)
It’s the 23rd day of Hallow in the year 6529.
The last glints of sun have disappeared from the white stone buildings on this spring evening in Ivalgo. Servants toil busily in the Imperial Residence in preparation for the royal family to pass the summer here by the sea. Music fills midtown as a brass quartet performs by torchlight for smiling citizens at the Shadeby Stage. Farmers out in the Reaches begin plowing the fields for the coming season. Children home from the Per Curiam Learning Center chatter excitedly as the last few days of the school year fade into the comfortable evening heat.
And down by the docks in the humble Foamy Waves Tavern, a young gnome is having a little fun.
- Heph is sitting away from everyone in the Foamy Waves Tavern
- He places a rock under the chair of a drunk man named Greg
- The man notices but doesn’t do much about it
- Heph causes the rock to make a fart noise and give off a terrible odor, then succeeds on a deception check so everyone in the bar laughs at Greg who insists it was the magic rock that farted
- Meanwhile, Elias has just escaped the brig of the ship he stowed away on as it began to dock in Ivalgo
- He’s standing at the prow when one of the crew notices he escaped
- He cuts the rope he’s holding on to and gracefully swings down to the docks
- He then starts making his way to a cluster of buildings in order to escape his pursuers
- On his way he bumps into a merchant and upon helping him up easily steals a pouch of 15gp
- He finds the Foamy Waves Tavern
- Meanwhile again, Rormir has decided that he wants to leave his sheltered life and seek knowledge in the wider world
- He meditates on this and the snake spirit Urobor shows up
- The spirit asks why Rormir wants to give up his easy life to experience difficulty, and Rormir responds that suffering is a part of life
- The spirit says that he will send Rormir to a new world, and that he won’t be able to return until he finds what he’s seeking
- Also the spirit puts 10gp in his butt but doesn’t give him any other equipment
- Rormir then feels his stomach drop and he’s falling, feeling more and more material sensations as he falls
- Elias walks into the tavern and notices Heph making
rocks glow
- He walks over to the bar and buys two mugs of ale
- He then does a scam trick where after exchanging various pieces of change he gets 1gp from the bartender
- He walks over to Heph and starts up a conversation, asking about the magic tricks he’s doing
- Rormir then falls through a portal in the ceiling and lands on Greg’s table
- The bartender asks if he has any money, and after he poops out 10gp, asks Greg to throw him out
- Combat starts
- Elias steals 9 of the 10 gold that fell out of Rormir
- Greg is unable to grapple Rormir, who runs across the tavern and steals a bow and arrows from an unconscious man
- A man runs into the tavern, says that guards put a 5gp bounty on Elias, then collapses from exhaustion
- People start trying to attack Elias and he runs outside
- Heph fails to grab him
- Rormir shoots him with an arrow, saying after his gold was stolen “balance must be restored”
- People in the bar get excited as clearly a bar fight is happening
- One person breaks a stool over Heph, and he then Fire Bolts her unconscious
- Elias misty steps away, but Rormir jumps through the window and shoots him again, knocking him unconscious
- The barkeep runs out and says that now that everyone got that out of their systems, there will be no bounties collected here so as not to scare away her usual customers
- Everyone begrudgingly agrees
- Elias rolls a nat 20 on a death save a pops up with 1HP
- Rormir takes his gold back
- The three settle back in to the bar to discuss
- Elias is very interested Heph’s magic
- They all exchange names
- Elias says he’s from the “Nor...Southern Isles”, which no one has every heard of
- They decide to get Rormir clothes