Campaign 1 2019-04-15 to 2021-05-10
The Skyfire Chronicles
The party
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Braggum
Half-orc Berserker barbarian with a red hand mark across his face, founder of the Bragglands and one of the Fatemakers; after the Skyfire he climbed into the northern mountains of the Bragglands and was never seen again.
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Bralmur
Dwarf Oath of Vengeance paladin of Helm, one of the Fatemakers; worshipped at Jarren's Outpost, he succeeded his uncle Jokit as the Everbright.
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Cirella
Levistus tiefling Forge cleric of Gond and archaeologist, the Fatemakers' scribe and crafter, who hoards the inventions her faith says to destroy.
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Phantom flavour of the wind
Kalashtar bard of the College of Glamour and entertainer, the Fatemakers' "Wicked Tongue", with a storm-swallowing cloak and a homunculus, Din Viesel.
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Daxon
Daxon ShellFirst, snapping-turtle tortle Circle of Spores druid and anthropologist of the Fatemakers, who boarded their first ship to learn about people.
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Wraith
Wraithian Moore, stout halfling Swashbuckler rogue and mercenary veteran of the Fatemakers, "a really short John Wick", favoured by Loviatar.
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Morgaine
Wild Magic sorcerer of the Fatemakers: once human, then a dachshund by his own magic, and finally, by a Wish, a golden dragonling.
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Theo
A campaign 1 PC, a bard who left the party early and went home to the Dottenland before the culling.
The story
- Real dates: first session Monday 2019-04-15 (the earliest session page is C1 · Monday 29 April 2019 · The Baron's tasks), finale 2021-05-10. Play was weekly on Mondays, online during the 2020 to 2021 lockdowns. The table first called it "the Skyfire Chronicles (prequel)", and the codex front page lists it as "The Skyfire Chronicles".
- In-world: it ends with The Skyfire, which runs from 17 First Seed to 26 Hearth Fire 1019 PC. The start year is unrecorded. In January 2021 (real time) the party noted 17 First Seed 1019 as "a couple of months from now".
- Party: The Fatemakers:
- Braggum, half-orc barbarian, founder of the Bragglands; after the Skyfire he vanished into the northern mountains of the Bragglands
- Bralmur, dwarven paladin of Helm with a celestial buffalo (Oath of Vengeance); worshipped at Jarren's Outpost, he later succeeded Jokit as The Everbright
- Cirella, Levistus tiefling Forge cleric of Gond and archaeologist
- Phantom flavour of the wind, kalashtar bard of the College of Glamour and entertainer, a people "of two minds", who appeared human
- Daxon ShellFirst, snapping-turtle tortle Circle of Spores druid and anthropologist, who boarded the first ship to learn about people
- Wraithian Moore, stout halfling Swashbuckler rogue and mercenary veteran, favoured by Loviatar
- Morgaine, Wild Magic sorcerer, a human turned into a dachshund by wild magic; a Wish near the end made him a golden dragonling (he kept a PC stat block)
- Theo, a bard, was a PC in the first months. She went home to The Dottenland before "the culling"; her player left and Phantom's player joined.
- The party started at level 1, reached level 18 by the end of 2020 and level 20 by the end of the campaign.
- Premise:
- The party washed up in Bosia and worked for a town wizard, Delin, who was secretly a warlock of an eldritch power called The Aspect and manipulated the cults the party met. The cults' original villain plot partly fed into this.
- They were drawn into the court intrigue of Xinstock, where they unmasked the dragon Sim, and into the dwarven depths of Kheledzund, where they found Zarok the Thrice Scarred.
- A sphinx in The Burg sent them into the bodies of the original Fatemakers, the heroes who ended The Calamity, to fight its final battle (C1 · Monday 16 March 2020 · The pre-Calamity flashback).
- They averted a war between the Empire and The Dottenland, and killed Delin in September 2020 (real time).
- Meteorites "from beyond the spheres" brought on the endgame.
- Ending: in the last sessions Braggum "telefragged" the big bad with the party's planeshifting ship (C1 · Monday 3 May 2021 · Telefrag), and the finale was played on 2021-05-10 (C1 · Monday 10 May 2021 · Finale). The Fatemakers killed the Aspect, Ulamog, an interdimensional being from beyond wildspace, in the ruins of old Xinstock where New Xinstock now stands. By then they had also defeated Herminius the Lich and The Ashkarn. Herentor's Veil, which had hidden the south, was destroyed in the Skyfire's final months, and the Xinsi emperor was dead before it ended. The PCs' individual fates (their "epitaphs") aren't recorded in the sources. The epilogue describes the "Ruination", a second calamity:
- Xinstock was teleported into the northern sea, leaving New Xinstock in its crater.
- The Dottenland fell to revolution and became Potenxia.
- Bosia was decimated, and the Bragglands grew.
- The Therian Confederacy closed itself off.
- A one-shot, The Battle for Xinstock (2021-04-26), showed the city's last hours.
Every night at the table 100 sessions · 73 with notes
Numbered in order of play. Faint rows are weeks without a game.
Who turns up when: the sessions × people and places matrix →
- 1 Session 1 Played, no notes · first session of campaign 1 (stated in chat)
- 2 Session 2 Played, no notes · Easter Monday; group chat created that night
- 3 Session 3 The Baron's tasks
- 4 Session 4 Siege and ritual
- 5 Session 5 Played, no notes
- 6 Session 6 The sunken temple
- 7 Session 7 Embassies and downtime
- 8 Session 8 The bandit camp
- 9 Session 9 The earth myrmidon
- 10 Session 10 The Museum of Stick
- 11 Session 11 The platinum egg
- 12 Session 12 The waterfall
- No game · missed (stated in chat)
- 13 Session 13 The island and the moonlit mist
- 14 Session 14 Delin's letter
- 15 Session 15 Officially Fatemakers
- 16 Session 16 The Hurricane
- 17 Session 17 The Three Dooms
- 18 Session 18 The nexus
- 19 Session 19 The Sepulchre
- 20 Session 20 The masquerade
- 21 Session 21 Camar's festivities
- 22 Session 22 Played, no notes
- 23 Session 23 Thefts and sewers
- 24 Session 24 The Psycore
- 25 Session 25 The Deathtower
- 26 Session 26 Bringing back the Bragg
- 27 Session 27 Played, no notes
- One-shot · level 5 one-shot run by a player
- 28 Session 28 The murder brain
- 29 Session 29 The Thrice Scarred
- 30 Session 30 The hoard
- 31 Session 31 Cirella's blueprints
- 32 Session 32 Return to Scinteria
- No game · no game
- 33 Session 33 The death of Sim
- No game · holiday break
- No game · holiday break
- 34 Session 34 Sim's hoard
- No game · holiday break (back on 13 Jan)
- 35 Session 35 Loviatar speaks
- 36 Session 36 Played, no notes
- 37 Session 37 The Golgothan
- 38 Session 38 Played, no notes
- 39 Session 39 Played, no notes
- 40 Session 40 The worms
- 41 Session 41 Played, no notes
- 42 Session 42 Crossing the Burg
- 43 Session 43 Agmath
- 44 Session 44 The pre-Calamity flashback
- 45 Session 45 Kilseth's god
- 46 Session 46 Played, no notes · online
- 47 Session 47 The assassination order
- One-shot: the Solhaven Lost one-shot
- 48 Session 48 Played, no notes · Easter Monday, on Zoom
- 49 Session 49 Auntie Suzie
- 50 Session 50 The Divine Gate
- 51 Session 51 Pandemonium and the City of Brass
- 52 Session 52 Played, no notes
- 53 Session 53 Delin flees
- 54 Session 54 A day to stop a war
- 55 Session 55 Played, no notes
- 56 Session 56 The Arthouse
- 57 Session 57 The halfling and the key
- 58 Session 58 Played, no notes
- 59 Session 59 Played, no notes
- 60 Session 60 Bral falls
- 61 Session 61 The beholder
- 62 Session 62 Played, no notes
- 63 Session 63 Ruin's Wake
- 64 Session 64 Played, no notes
- 65 Session 65 A demon lord's carcass
- 66 Session 66 Gond's Airfoil
- 67 Session 67 Played, no notes
- 68 Session 68 Played, no notes · late start after a power cut
- 69 Session 69 Fleet battle
- 70 Session 70 The death of Delin
- 71 Session 71 Played, no notes
- 72 Session 72 The Expositor
- 73 Session 73 Played, no notes · public holiday
- 74 Session 74 Played, no notes
- 75 Session 75 Ulissag
- 76 Session 76 The temple to Umberlee
- 77 Session 77 Played, no notes
- 78 Session 78 The Forge
- 79 Session 79 Dyrrn
- 80 Session 80 Played, no notes
- 81 Session 81 Morgaine ascends
- 82 Session 82 Played, no notes
- 83 Session 83 Finale 2020
- No game · moved to Sunday 13 Dec
- No game · holiday break
- No game · holiday break
- 84 Session 84 The Shadowfell temple
- 85 Session 85 Played, no notes
- 86 Session 86 The copper dragon
- 87 Session 87 Played, no notes
- 88 Session 88 The dragonlich plan
- 89 Session 89 Axes and a fireside
- 90 Session 90 The burning forest
- 91 Session 91 "We want your juice"
- 92 Session 92 Errands
- 93 Session 93 Boiling water
- 94 Session 94 Flind and the cabbage
- 95 Session 95 Played, no notes
- 96 Session 96 Played, no notes
- No game · Easter Monday; week off
- 97 Session 97 The Thing of Sadness
- 98 Session 98 As the apocalypse lands
- One-shot: The Battle for Xinstock one-shot
- One-shot · wrap-up of the one-shot
- 99 Session 99 Telefrag
- 100 Session 100 Finale