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--- game_systems:pathfinder:kingmaker:adventure_journal [2024/03/16 10:43] – [Beneath the Arena] Bryan Stephens
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 **Pharast 2nd 4717**
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 Once the battle up river from Resbin was over, the group spent a couple hours searching the bodies and organizing the villagers in the cleanup effort to dispose of the dead bodies and carry off the loot. A silver raven Hovers down to Ayrn with a message rolled up in its claws. When Aryn takes the message, the raven flies over to Caleb and turns back into a figurine once in Caleb’s possession.
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 //”Are you the puppet masters who commit this act of war against Thylicia?”// The dragon’s response is they are only here to kill the half-breeds, as the dragons land. But despite that statement, the remaining three fire their acid breath and batter the cube of force, and damage most of the party, and putting Felix at death’s door, and Vern close to dead. Tarcil drops the cube as Vern scoops up Felix and Tarcil heals him. Vern retreats and the cube goes back up. Tarcil is able to stabilize Felix and he plays his dirge to demoralize the dragons.
-The group moves to engage, with Miki and Ayrn flanking one dragon. A storm of swords does over a 100 points of damage. A dragon is able to breath again and further weakens the party. Caleb is able to //hold monster// on that dragon, and now their forces are curt in half. Ayrn begins to offer orders, but the remaining dragon casts darkness and plunges most of the party into being unable to see. Miki can still see with her darkvision and moves to attack. The dragons move forward and cast another darkness even as Ayrn backs out of the first darkness field. Caleb casts //blink// upon himself and prepares to risk a fireball at point blank range, hoping he will blink out when it goes off. The fight is dire.
+The group moves to engage, with Miki and Ayrn flanking one dragon. A storm of swords does over a 100 points of damage. A dragon is able to breath again and further weakens the party. Caleb is able to //hold monster// on that dragon, and now their forces are cut in half. Ayrn begins to offer orders, but the remaining dragon casts darkness and plunges most of the party into being unable to see. Miki can still see with her darkvision and moves to attack. The dragons move forward and cast another darkness even as Ayrn backs out of the first darkness field. Caleb casts //blink// upon himself and prepares to risk a fireball at point blank range, hoping he will blink out when it goes off. The fight is dire.
 But then, unexpectedly, the two dragons take their paralyzed companion and fly away at top speed. There is no way for the party to pursue. Seeing them fly away, they heal themselves, and they get the babies home. Miki is able to make sure all the babies are returned to the right parents. Ayrn tracks down a sprite and corners it, delivering a speech that leaves it running in terror. Ayrn and Vern then complete the exploration of the region. They find some of the giant dragonflies that are a threat and give that information to the crafter asking for them, to let him hire someone to gather his resources.
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 ==== A Threat at Home ====
 |Game Date|03-05-2023|
-|Campaign Dates|Arodus 4117– Gozran 7, 4118|
+|Campaign Dates|Arodus 4717– Gozran 7, 4718|
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 |Game Date|01-07-2024|
-|Campaign Dates|Densus 11-15, 4118|
+|Campaign Dates|Densus 11-15, 4718|
 Not wanting to waste time, Aryn has Caleb teleport them to an abandoned building in the Shattered Ward district of Pitax to meet with their newly hired mercenaries. The half-orc leader, Fraizer, (“My mother named me”), meets them and updates them on the details.
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 This fight over, Aryn takes the head of the fallen king and mounts his //jade kirin// and flies over the city, telling all that the tyrant is dead. In the city, the armies of Thylicia are winning the battle for the city as the defenders collapse.
-|Game Date|03-04-2024
+==== Endings and Premonitons ====
-|Campaign Dates|Densus 16-31, 4118|
+|Game Date|03-04-2024|
+|Campaign Dates|Densus 16-31, 4718|
 With the defeat of the King of Pitax, there is much to be done. Aryn appoints Vashra to be the military Governor of Pitax, with Tarcil as Lt. Governor. His plan is clear to give power to the common people, which will upset the local merchant class, especially the four families, more like criminal organizations themselves. It will remain to be seen if they can be incorporated into the Kingdom or will have to be …. Sidelined.
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 End of Book 5
+===== BOOK 6: SOUND OF A THOUSAND SCREAMS=====
+==== A Bloom of Evil ====
+|Game Date|4-14-2024|
+|Campaign Dates|Sarenith 6, 4719|
+=== It was a Clear Morning ===
+It has been slightly over a year since the liberation of Pitax. The clean up of corrupt nobles and functionaries took some months. The Kingdom’s stability suffered at times, with increased unrest in various areas, but after a year, things have settled out, and Pitax was able to enjoy its first Liberation Day last month. Alas, the Kingdom of Thylicia is about to fall under the greatest threat it has ever seen.
+The morning of Sarenith (June) the 6th breaks as a typical summer day. The heat of summer is still a few weeks away. The rains of the previous month have cleared, and the sky is a bright blue with high clouds without the heft to carry more rain, pushed along by a slight breeze. Aryan and Fyonia enjoyed a walk in the courtyard after breakfast.
+{{ :game_systems:pathfinder:kingmaker:monster:treant.jpg?350|}}
+The messages started to arrive to the Marshal, the Keeper of the Keys, and the General of the Kingdom. Between Levton and Coppertree all communication was lost with the watchtower. Immediately on that news is reports of a sudden giant forest. All three immediately teleport to the area, telling their respective agents to inform the others. Caleb arrives first and begins to probe the area using arcane eyes. The forest has upended and destroyed the highway and canal. Giant trees, plants, flowers and animals now abound. Inside, Caleb sees how some people are shot through with sudden plant growth, killing them where they stood, and he shudders.
+Miki arrives with Barry and several of her higher level agents. Barry departs to tell the King in Person. Miki is stunned with the First World energy flowing about in front of her. It is entrancing. Still, she orders her druids to shapeshift and enter into the forest to explore. During this, Grunder arrives and simply starts to hack his way inside the rough terrain. He emerges noting he can create a pathway, but he is not sure it will last more than a few hours. It is then that the King and Queen arrive in a flash of light. Seeing the destruction, and hearing that his covers a radius of 12 miles or so, Ayrn is angered and appalled. Hearing Miki express amazement at the horror before them, the King grabs his friend and hauls her up to his face.
+//”How many dead!”// he shouts into the startled druid’s face, //”The farmers! The fishers! Your soldiers! How many are dead!”//
+Ayrn’s companions are stunned at the display. Miki nods her head and apologizes as Ayrn sets her down. He orders them into the chaos, Grunder in the lead cutting their way through, with Miki behind trying to sense her way to the core of this event, where the First World has spilt into this one.
+Following what was once the highway, they group rescues two merchants from a wagon amid the bodies of their fellow travelers. Plants with more movement and appetite than is common have killed many. Miki sends them back the path they have carved guarded by Flip. Aryn lends her Felix to ride. They continue on to the watchtower to find it in ruins.
+The mot and baily has been destroyed, an the tower lays crumbled. Both Marshal’s and Key’s men fight against ordinary cats now transformed to the size of cougars. The party jumps in to save them and offers them healing potions. Caleb goes to order his men to escape back down the path, but Aryn overrules him. He orders all remaining forces to move to the farms and fisheries to save any subjects they can. Not knowing the dangers of this wood, Ayrn cannot be sure they will even survive. There is a brief silence as the reality of that order sinks in, and then the watchtower’s commander salutes and leads his forces into the woods.
+One of Miki’s agents flies out of the woods as parrot and transforms, only to be pulled back into the forest by vines! Grunder leaps to the rescue and kills the giant fly-trap plant. He reports the extent of the damage and wide area of this strange forest and offers a direction they might try towards the north. Miki sends him out to join the rest of their forces.
+=== The Heart of the Bloom ===
+The group follows a game trail into an open area with a great tree. Miki proposes to //speak with plants//, and Ayrn agrees, but instructs the group to prepare for combat. This includes various spells cast and items readied. Miki approaches the tree to cast her spell, but suddenly, roots emerge and swipe at the group. Miki and Caleb are struck and knocked several feet backwards. It appears a fight is on.
+Ayrn, his eyes flashing, charges across the difficult terrain with ease, plunging //Briar// into the monster before them. As he approaches, a dryad with vine-like tentacles with thorns steps from the tree. Fyonia pulls out her //broomstick// and takes to the air in what would end up being a futile effort to avoid future root attacks. Miki decides fire is the way to fight a forest and becomes a huge fire elemental and starts to //call lightening// down. Caleb //enervates// the tree. Finally, Grunder charges towards the targets.
+The dryad uses her bow to attack Caleb, wounding him while the tree moves, striking Miki and catching on fire, while grabbing Caleb with roots. Caleb cannot move, but resists being pulled away as the tree //blinks// into ethereal space. Lacking a target, Aryn and Grunder lay into the dryad, slashing at her immense form. Fyonia launches //magic missiles// into the ethereal tree, her permanent //detect invisibility// letting her see that foe. The Tree responds by grabbing both casters, its roots reaching well into the air. Again it tries to haul them away to its own pocket and fails.
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+The fight rages on until the dryad falls, with the tree moving along another plane, always trying to grab Caleb. Fyonia, once free, turns herself invisible to then unleash a mighty //fireball// as the tree reabsorbs the body of its dryad. Unlike the dyrad, the tree is quite evil, and Grunder activates his //smite// for himself and Aryn to focus on the tree. But the monster blinks away again, while ordering two trees to uproot themselves. Miki sets on fire and Caleb responds with bouncing rays of fire, both at the animated trees and their larger foe. Fyonia uses //dimensional anchor// to keep the tree affixed on this plane of existence, letting Ayrn and Grunder charge forward. The allies the tree created explode in fire that rebounds on their creator. Between more chopping, fueled by holy might, and the roar of fire, the great animated tree explodes in a burst of primal First World Energy, knocking several of them back. Then there is the silence after a battle. There are no forest sounds, but the pop and crack of dying fires.
+Miki notes the first world energy is fading from the land and the excessive growth has stopped. Ayrn bows his head, his hopes that things might revert dashed. The body of the dryad, now normal sized and alive, lays in the ash of the great tree. Aryn has Fyonia cast //dimensional anchor// on her as well and demands Miki wake her up for interrogation. Again, Ayrn’s hopes are dashed, as this dryad seems to have no memory of what happened and cannot return any information. Stymied and frustrated, Ayrn shoves her at Miki and orders her to take charge of her.
+Caleb goes through the ash to find several items with unknown inscriptions upon them. They will take some study. It is now Miki and Caleb receive sendings that the Castle of Knives looks to be reappearing. Ayrn looks at the first world sword in his hand and it feels warm. He can sense a thirst for first world power, first world blood. That mirrors the King’s rage at the Fairy Queen who is attacking Thylicia and killing his people.
+Ayrn leads the group towards the farms to see if anyone has survived this horror. His thoughts are dark, and his normally smiling face is grim. Riding beside him, his love reaches out to pat his shoulders, which Aryn barley acknowledges. What is coming next?
+==== Questions, Answers, Eruptions ====
+|Game Date|05-19-2024|
+|Campaign Dates|Sarenith 6-7, 4719|
+=== The Night of the Bloom ===
+The weary group arrives back at Stagfell to find Vern just arriving as well. They bring him up to date, and the eldritch knight is horrified. Everyone is worn out. Aryn order Jhod to prepare a //commune// spell for the morning and works on a list of questions. Caleb and Miki draft orders to all towers that if a blom occurs, all units are to first stay alive, and second proceed to anywhere there are people and get them out. They further alert their forces to monitor the more distant parts of the Kingdom. They only knew about this event because it was in a major artery. What is this was in the mountain near Numeria?
+Aryn orders Miki to send word to the Owls and Caleb the Harpies. As they can fly, they can also monitor.
+After a brief dinner, everyone retires to their quarters. Ayrn cannot rest and is pacing in his private study atop the tower, overlooking his capital city. It is then that he receives word about some robed figure and a gathering just south of the bloom forest. Ayrn gathers his friends and hands Vern a //teleport// scroll for them to all appear nearby.
+There, a man on a box is preaching that the bloom is the end of the world in a jumbled verse. Aryn approaches the man and calmly asks him to have faith:
+//”This is an attack, not the end of the world. This is Thylicia, carved out of the Stolen Lands. Every citizen has moved here for a new life. Ours is not a nation for quitters. Ours is a nation of those who stay and fight. Taldan peasants fighting for land to call their own. Slaves fleeing Chelish domination. Souls tired of the constant intrigue of the rest of the River Kingdoms. What we offer is great and it comes with the price of standing and fighting. I know you feel broken and beaten and scarred; just have one more try; it's dead easy to die. It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.”//
+(H/T to [[https://allpoetry.com/The-Quitter|The Quitter]])
+The man nods and the crowd disperse. The heroes go back to Stagfell to rest. Aryn orders Caleb to have that speech transmitted and printed.
+=== Mushrooms and a Twisted Forrest ===
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+The next morning, Jhod is ready. They ask their questions. It becomes clear that the chaotic nature of the blooms may make even a god predicting them impossible, so the most pressing questions of “where and when” cannot be answered. They do find out that they will need to go to the First World to stop the blooms, in Fey Queen Nyrissia’s realm, Thousand Breaths. Knowing there is a wood with the Castle of Knives called Thousand Voices, they ask if the Castle is a gate, and it is. They will have to use it. Ayrn also leans that his strange sword Briar holds the key to defeating the Fey Queen, and it must be charged with First World energy. Ayrn demands of Miki she can make a gate to the First World, but the druid sadly informs him she would have no control of where it came out. They will need to use the gate at the Castle of Knives.
+Aryn then asks Caleb if the recovered keys would get them to the First world, but he says they are keys to a pocket demiplane. Vern suggests they head there and investigate. They begin to make those plans, when word comes via the heliographs of two more blooms. One just south of Silver Step and one in the Narlmarches. Quickly, they split into two teams and head to stops these attacks. Ayrn leads a group of Miki, Barry, Fyonia and Vern to the Narlmarches. Grunder goes with Hargood and Caleb to explore the giant mushrooms that have appeared.
+In the forest, Ayrn leads them against magically transformed cats and nefarious pixies. As each pixie falls, it unleashes First World Energy which damages all around it, but is absorbed by //Briar//. As their foes fall, these blasts do more damage to the party than anything else, dropping Barry first, forcing Miki to //Heal// him, and then dropping her. Ayrn and Vern clean up the final.
+Meanwhile, at close to the same time, the other group runs into a giant mushroom with strange tentacles transforming the corpses of fallen soldiers into fungal corpses. Caleb stuns many with //sricocco// that also starts to devastate the mushroom. They make steady progress with their foes and are moving towards finishing off the mushroom when Fyonia, who has used //telepathy// to link to Grunder orders them to keep the mushroom intact for Ayrn to get there. They are puzzled at this order, but comply, stopping the damaging spell and waiting. Ayrn and Fyonia arrive, leaving Vern to help Miki and Barry. Ayrn strides to the mushroom and slays it with //Briar// adsorbing the energy of this bloom. This attack is over.
+Aryn wonders is the Castle of Knives is here yet. This pace of blooms will destroy the Kingdom.

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