Eavaros Codex

Campaign 2 2021-05-24 to 2023-07-26

After Skyfire

At the table24 May 2021 – 26 July 2023 Opens in the world18 Suns Dawn 1034 PC Sessions99 · 73 with notes

The party

The story

  • Real dates: session 0 on 2021-05-17 (C2 · Monday 17 May 2021 · Session 0), first session 2021-05-24 (C2 · Monday 24 May 2021 · Establishing session), final battle 2023-07-19 (C2 · Wednesday 19 July 2023 · The Siege of Talonkeep), epilogue 2023-07-26 (C2 · Wednesday 26 July 2023 · Epilogue). Play moved from Mondays to Wednesdays in August 2022.

  • In-world: starts on 18 Suns Dawn 1034 PC, the 613th anniversary of the coronation of Maxim, first emperor of Xinsi, fifteen to sixteen years after the Skyfire. The Xinsi Empire had been without an emperor for sixteen years. Scribble collapsed The Prismatic College in 1034.

  • Party:

    • Scribble, kenku wizard
    • Xosomasaux, tabaxi Scout rogue and urban bounty hunter, pressed into Fascinatia and Demobray's service and sent south by the thieves' guild of Luktow and blessed by the Dawnfather
    • Ebony, loxodon Circle of the Shepherd druid and outlander who fled his grove, afraid of failing his family's legacy
    • Keso Jeaeii, Bosian myconid warlock of the Undying, whose patron is the swamp that Daxon became
    • Olaf Atlason, old reborn Armorer artificer, rebuilt by Gurgle after an illithid, who wields the Hand of the King in Yellow
    • SAM (S.A.M. #19), warforged Path of the Beast barbarian and shipwright, who once walked alone into Mechanus
    • General Xalner, who died in the first episode; the pirates kept his talking head
    • The party started at level 1, reached level 19 by June 2023 and level 20 by the end of the campaign.

  • Premise: the first campaign in the newly opened south. The party escorted a sealed chest across the southern lands while being hunted by The Broken Bones, a pirate crew whose members all held The King In Yellow's contracts. The campaign ranged over:

    Olaf tore up the King in Yellow's contracts in December 2022 (real time). Scribble created or awakened the kenku god Quorlinn, later the Feathered Deceiver, and the party pursued the spell Sever the Pact Primeval. The chest held the Fork, an interplanar tuning fork that let the party Plane Shift to the Hells to retrieve the contracts. SAM signed the devil Torganoth's contract.

    The one-shots of the period are all canon: "the crew of the Nimbus" (Meanwhile in Wildspace), "Let's drink Blue Wine together" (see Duke Feriland) and the players' own mini-campaign of March to April 2022.

  • Ending: the Siege of Talonkeep (2023-07-19) against the warforged Dhum, agent of Orcus, who led a corrupted march of a million modrons on an interplanar invasion. Allies included Braggum and Morgaine from campaign 1. SAM sacrificed himself to destroy the massive robot body Dhum had built; Ebony revived him with his vestige at the cost of 3 Intelligence, which left Ebony simple, until Scribble tracked him down months later and restored him with a risky Wish. In the epilogue, "the heroes of yore return to their lands… the wizards of the City of Birds are emboldened by the victory of their cohort". Keso built a mushroom tower up to 40,000 ft tall and lives in its penthouse. Whether Sever the Pact Primeval was cast isn't recorded in the sources.

Every night at the table 99 sessions · 73 with notes

Numbered in order of play. Nights marked ≈ are best estimates, because the record of some earlier weeks is uncertain. Faint rows are weeks without a game.

Who turns up when: the sessions × people and places matrix →

  1. 0 Session 0
  2. 1 Establishing session
  3. 2 Played, no notes
  4. 3 Ogres and the gug
  5. 4 The Diary and Ol' Barry
  6. 5 Played, no notes · online
  7. 6 The Starlight Cloak
  8. 7 Karkos and the sharks
  9. 8 Played, no notes
  10. 9 Played, no notes
  11. 10 Played, no notes
  12. 11 Played, no notes
  13. 12 Time to die in Crab Town
  14. 13 Leads, and on to Luggard Dror
  15. 14 The lifeless warforged
  16. 15 The train heist
  17. 16 The binding verse
  18. 17 The library haul
  19. 18 The Braithway
  20. 19 Restarting the machine
  21. 20 Earth elementals and the dragon turtle
  22. 21 Magic rocks
  23. 22 Played, no notes
  24. 23 Mole men and the pact
  25. ≈24 Probably played, no notes
  26. ≈25 Played, no notes
  27. ≈26 Devil's Ride
  28. ≈27 The pirate party
  29. ≈28 The bubble city
  30. ≈29 Played, no notes
  31. ≈30 The bleeding-eye ship
  32. ≈31 Back to Luggard Dror
  33. No record · Christmas week, no chat
  34. ≈32 The dam heist
  35. ≈33 Smuggled warforged
  36. ≈34 The train crash and Heta
  37. ≈35 Played, no notes
  38. ≈36 The druid and the owl
  39. ≈37 Telaxio
  40. No record · no chat that evening
  41. ≈38 Level 10
  42. ≈39 Played, no notes
  43. ≈40 Delegations in disguise
  44. ≈41 The pirates' letter
  45. ≈42 The hunter canaloth
  46. One-shot · player-run game
  47. One-shot · player-run game
  48. One-shot · player-run game
  49. No game · Easter Monday; no game
  50. ≈43 A deadly ball
  51. ≈44 Played, no notes
  52. ≈45 Wildharbour
  53. ≈46 Played, no notes
  54. ≈47 Played, no notes
  55. ≈48 The Watcher falls
  56. ≈49 The arena won
  57. ≈50 Plans after the arena
  58. ≈51 Played, no notes
  59. ≈52 Played, no notes · online
  60. ≈53 The clutch in the deep
  61. ≈54 The flight to Branestone
  62. No game · not enough players
  63. ≈55 Duskmere
  64. ≈56 Fort Obsidian
  65. ≈57 A card from the bazaar
  66. ≈58 Hor's revenge
  67. ≈59 To the Fungal Wall
  68. ≈60 Mushroom-land
  69. ≈61 Three days of flight
  70. ≈62 Played, no notes
  71. ≈63 Played, no notes · online
  72. ≈64 Played, no notes
  73. ≈65 A guest falls
  74. ≈66 Played, no notes
  75. ≈67 Played, no notes
  76. ≈68 The kraken
  77. ≈69 Patrick the elm tree
  78. ≈70 Torganoth's contract
  79. ≈71 Tolerated of Quorlinn
  80. One-shot · one-shot
  81. One-shot · level 5 one-shot set in the Xinsi Empire
  82. ≈72 The contracts of God Street
  83. ≈73 Tearing the contracts
  84. ≈74 The end of the Broken Bones
  85. No record · holiday week; players compiled notes
  86. No record · holiday week; usual venue closed
  87. ≈75 The Rookery College
  88. ≈76 Castle Scribble
  89. ≈77 Played, no notes
  90. ≈78 Rocks fall
  91. ≈79 The forgemaster
  92. ≈80 The grass shop
  93. ≈81 The DendroGeist
  94. ≈82 The Unseelie Court
  95. No game · transport strike
  96. ≈83 Played, no notes
  97. ≈84 Level 17
  98. No game · break (travel)
  99. No game · break (travel)
  100. No game · break (travel)
  101. ≈85 Into Mechanus
  102. ≈86 Played, no notes
  103. ≈87 The election
  104. ≈88 Adrift in the astral sea
  105. ≈89 Thekko brought to heel
  106. ≈90 Election intrigue
  107. ≈91 Lore dump
  108. No game · moved to Sunday 11 June
  109. ≈92 Patrick and the box of doom
  110. ≈93 Played, no notes · party now level 19
  111. ≈94 Played, no notes
  112. ≈95 Azguk and Leaxis
  113. ≈96 Preparing for war
  114. ≈97 Planning the fort
  115. ≈98 The Siege of Talonkeep
  116. ≈99 Epilogue

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