#### About the Campaign **Dungeon Master:** Court **Players:** Jen Jenneration as [[T.H.E.M]] ([[Tyrius]] [[Hawthorn]] [[Marla]] [[Emery]] ) Armoury as [[Viv]] K as [[Maria v'mova]] ShadowCalypso as [[Myria]] and [[Imagination]] --- ###### The campaign follows our party as they are navigating the chaos of a world on the brink of destruction, caught between a demonic invasion, political turmoil, and ancient secrets resurfacing. Set primarily in **[[Tallon City|Tallon]] City**, the party has fought to defend it from **cultists, demons, and warlords**, uncovering the sinister plans of the **[[The White Spears|Cult of the Last Days]]**, who wield corrupted divine shards to reshape the world. Alongside military battles and supernatural conflicts, the party contends with **Fae Court politics, lost technology, and the resurfacing of forgotten legends**—including [[T.H.E.M|THEM]]'s connection to ancient warforged, [[Maria v'mova|Maria]]’s struggle against her monstrous past, [[Myria]]’s ties to vampiric bloodlines, and [[Viv]]’s link to divine forces. As they prepare for their next mission to **[[2. Locations on Recca/Westvale/Westvale]]**, where all contact has been lost, they face not just external enemies but the weight of their own histories, the shifting balance of power, and the question of what it truly means to be a hero. --- # **Current Session:** [[Session 42 - Written in Thorns]] *Transcript:* [[Session 42 transcript]] *Audio:* https://youtu.be/CujBXnMLvBM **Starting Date:** 2nd of Springdusk 2451PS **Ending Date:** 5th of Springdusk 2451PS -=-=- ## Recap --- Absolutely. Here's a clean, ready-to-share summary of **Session 42: Written in Thorns** formatted for posting to your group chat, Discord, or campaign doc. --- **📜 Session 42 Recap: _Written in Thorns_** As the Summer Court’s army draws near, the party makes their final preparations over three tense days. **THEM** leads the engineering effort, collaborating with Talon’s elite combat engineers and their massive tunneling _boulette_ to construct a “false gate” trap — a kill zone built to exploit the Summer Court’s rigid code of honor. **Maria** reinforces the outer perimeter with divine _Plant Growth_, ensures civilians are evacuated to the vault, and plans to hold the inner gate line. **Viv**, still plagued by a cursed wooden duck, reattunes to his mantle through a painful arcane shunt. Meanwhile, **Evergreen** and **Garrett** brave the vault again, retrieving a sealed scroll containing the 9th-level spell _Blade of Disaster_. The scroll nearly consumes Evergreen. Its magical weight is so overwhelming that even nearby allies (Elnos, Marla) are shaken by its presence. In a desperate act, the scroll is fed to **Scribbles**, whose transformation is both bizarre and unsettling. Now euphoric and oddly grateful, the familiar utters a single word: “Thanks.” Evergreen distributes powerful scrolls (_Embody Aspect_, _Counterspell_) to the party in case she falls. Between tactical planning, emotional confessions (including Evergreen’s admission she was raised by a hag), and magical experimentation, the party finds brief moments of humanity before the storm. Now, with the defenses in place, reinforcements at the ready, and the vault sealed for retreat, the party braces for the attack promised on **Day 5**. The next session brings war. --- **Key Loot**: - _Scroll of Embody Aspect_ – to Viv, Maria, THEM - _Scroll of Counterspell_ – to Maria, THEM - 9th-level _Blade of Disaster_ scroll (consumed by Scribbles) - 300g and potion (Evergreen & Garrett’s vault haul) **Important NPCs**: - **Scribbles** – now very strange - **Kalani** – vault guardian - **CS 1–5** – THEM’s combat engineers (Bill, Jim, Canterbury, Carmen, Robert) - **Garrett** – Evergreen’s vault partner - **Elos** – shunt installer, still spooked - **Mala** – magically shaken - **Boulette** – good giant worm buddy **Next Session**: War begins on Day 5. --- Let me know if you want a short “Previously on” intro or visuals (like a combat map or character brief)!