The latest in the Jaystorm saga
The other Campaigns - Where are they now?
Last we knew, the rest of the player characters from the Dark Savant mission were working on building a castle for their order of Knights and searching for the spell book of Malcom Zioniss. Trilia left her Sister, Aviendah in Collakra to study to be a Palladin of Venna. Luther...he's being big and stong someplace. Alus was causing mayhem around and about with the Drow Campaign and caused the bring-about of the Hollow Warrior and is now kept in Forlimb's back pocket for Gray to reprimand as he wishes (since he's in charge of his order of knights and Alus is one of them). Collette and Raquel went off to fight slavers and pimps from Collette's home town in the Rutlands and found the Hollow Warrior as previously described.(Sashradan - Forlimb's Daughter - is on her way to help them out - GIRL POWER!). Hue is trying to understand that magic is not all evil. Anada is taking care of Raquel's animal friends, Jean Michele and Kucha, and is being thankful that the flying furniture in the dreamworld and the Frog man in Collakra didn't kill him yet.
Side note for those following the game: Frog man also appeared in the Drow campaign and turned the player characters into frogs and had them race to the other end of the swamp. Justin learned of a nasty castle that has been buried there for years and he even spoke to the dead king who rose out of the muck and gave him his crown. Butcher Bones got something too, but I don't remember what it was.
The Drow campaign was full of thieves and swindlers. Juhale and Ophelia are both dark elves that belong to a gypsy caravan along with Motoko, a beautiful oriental woman who happens to be Juhale's lover (yes, they're both girls - woo hoo!). The men of the party include Justin - a young merchant posing as a mercenary who smuggles magic items around to sell, Butcher Bones - a mysterious man in a trenchcoat with bifocals and pistols who rarely speaks or moves, Luther - a paladin of Vorex (different than the Luther in the Dark Savant Team) with a Boar as a mount, and Alus, the knighted Mercenary with the morals of a greedy corrupt person who has lost his mind.
THE STORY
These treasure-hunters went through quite a few obstacles through this campaign. They started off in a town where they heard good money could be made. The gypsies were sent from their caravan to bring home some money and goods. That went just wrong. The drunken captain of the guard pissed them off, so they stole all his stuff - a crystal sword, a gold ring, lots of stuff. Then we heard about a really big treasure a little ways away. Going there, we founf out that it has already been discovered by another group, but they couldn't manage to get itn. It was guarded by something magical that they couldn't work out. It turns out that in order to get into this great treasure room, 2 people had to be married in front of and approved by the Dragon Spirit guarding the place. Alus so generously volunteered Justin (from our group) and Randi (from the other group)to marry eachother so that they'd be satisfied that we could all split the treasure. It had nothing to do with love. They couldn't stand eachother. In the ceremony, Justin was covered in a golden glow and Randi was drenched with water that wouldn't ever dry. Still, we were all allowed in! There were jewels, magic items, gold and silver, and even a battle with magical crystal dragon statues! It was great! The only problem was that when they split the treasure and went their separate ways, Justin and Randi were still bonded together. He had Ophelia to vill the feeling of loss and emptiness, but Randi had nobody. The Dragon spirit blessed the union with Justinn and Ophelia, but Randi was still left in the void of despair. That turned her in to the Hollow Warrior. Also, because the marriage was blessed by the dragon spirit in the first place, both Justin and Randi were given the power to turn themselves into dragons. Now that Justin is with Ophelia in the eyes of the Dragon, she is allowed that poswer as well, though she and Justin don't know of it yet.
The travelled a while and passed through Collakra, but it was too holy for them to stay there too long. Passing through, they ended up in a swamp owned by the Frog Man from the original 40 heroes who have recently made their way to Collakra. He challeneged us to a race for a treasure. Naturally we took that up in a heatbeat, but we had no idea we'd be turned into FROGS for the race! One of the NPCs was eaten by an alligator in a sacrificial attempt to save Ophelia from the same fate. Justin won first place and Butcher bones came in second. The treasure couldn't leave the kingdom, but it included a castle and the title of lord or King and the crown to boot. Juhale, who was the most powerful character in the party with her vast knowledge of shadow magic and the school of alteration, and with the aide of the magical items received from the Dragon's Treasure Room, is being taught and guided by the Zaird - a creature of PURE EVIL. She and Motoko had been quite corrupted. All that is left of the party is Ophelia, Justin and Luther (who is only there until he can find a city to stay in)
In our LATEST ADVENTURE, Ophelia and Justin had gone out to hire a small group of mercenaries. There was apparently a small hoard of treasure being guarded somewhere in the area and they wanted their share. Luther had nothing to do with them or their business. The man that Ophelia met with to hire these thugs seemed a bit too interested in her, though she tried to keep herself low-key. That night, at their designated meeting spot, that man turned out to be Brenin Llewer (Evil Gray). He spoke to them about their dragon auras though they knew nothing about them. Then he offered his treasure he brought with him - a case full of gems, jewels and gold! Ophelia was baffled and Justin became wary of this man's intentions. He stood protectively between Brenin and Ophelia to keep her protected from anything he may do to her. What he did though, was open her mind to accepting the dragon spirit into herself and releasing its power. She surrendered herself over to it and felt the immense power as she took the form of a HUGE dragon! TWICE the size of Randi! Inspired by this amazing show, Justin was told that he had the same ability, so he took ALL of it and grew to the same size! They noticed from up there that there was a small creature calling out to them with roars they couldnt' understand. It was annoying them, so Justin swiped at it with his tail. It got pissed off and disapeared.(we all knew it had to be Forlumb)
MEANWHILE, back at the wagon, Luther had settled in for the night and was falling into a peaceful sleep (peaceful now that Justin and Ophelia weren't in the wagon doing it for once!), when there was a voice in his head yelling at him to wake up. He got up to find Juhale had returned, now wearing a black crown and both of her hands resembling obsidian. She attacked him and he was flanked by her shadow cat, but Luther managed to keep himself alive. She attacked again with magical force, but he struck true and killed her. He called out for his boar, but Motoko had already killed it. The voice came again telling him to follow. He was brought to an underground altar designed to revive the Dark Dragon God, Kark. Obviously, the place was heavily guarded with Zairds, but again, Luther was Triumphant. This place was so well hiddne, the only way he could get there was with the help of an earthen fairy that allowed him to pass through solid rock. It was killed once he was inside, but Kian (Forlumb) brought it back to life and allowed Luther to pass back through to the rest of the world. Ophelia and Justin were already corrupted beyond repair, but Luther had saved an even bigger dilemma and stopped a more evil foe and for that he was thanked. I'm sure he was also thankful to be in good company once again.
YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAW!!!! Break out yer Banjo and yer shot gun and let's git ready to play HICKstorm! The player characters, Annie, Jethro, and Jed, have made their way up in the world and have manage to track down and kill a Boogieman! (one Kobald) Man! That was one ugly boodieman! But we got it stuffed and sittin' at the end of the bar, so when people comes and sits down, and they sees the boogieman, they say "Hey, Boogieman!" and we knows we killed it! Now it's time for us to move out into the rest of the world...they better be ready for some true hee-roes! Here we come!