2023/02/19 Session 1: Welcome to Eureka (Campbell, Doug, Gryffon, Madeline, Ronn, Zak) 18 Deepsnow 5023 VA After an eighteen hour sail up the coast on the Golden Enterprise , the troupe arrives in Eureka with their shipment of mining supplies. After an over-long discussion about the price of an inn stay and how comfortable they need to be, the heroes chose the Bayside Inn to make their home for their brief stay in town. In an effort to find some mischief to get into, the team ended up at the Diver Bar . After some light conversation with the bartender, the group is directed to one Blaine Glostic who can often be found at the Empty Net tavern. The Empty Net generally maintains a crowd rougher than that of the Diver, but off the adventurers go seeking the stories of this mad townsman. For the price of a pint (then another and another) of ale, Blaine tells the story of his visit to Charnok House one dark and stormy night. In short, he was confronted by a banshee, a ghostly apparition a

16 Deepsnow 5023 VA While acquiring mining supplies for Gundren Rockseeker and his brothers from the decommissioned Fort Bragg , the garrison commander dropped several interesting bits of conversation. A large fire swept through Eureka in mid-Fellnight (14th) and more than half the town burned. Prices and tensions are high as the rebuilding continues. The garrison is being pulled back to San Francisco despite the increased monster activity in the local wildlands and throughout the entirety of the Lost Coast region. The decommissioned garrison is being taken over by the Union Timber Consortium .

31 Frostmoot 5023 VA DM. Your meeting with Gundren, on the outskirts of the quarantined city of Chico , went well. He convinced you to aid the three brothers in their endeavor to reclaim the lost Phandelver Mine . The next day you set off for the coastal garrison of Fort Bragg , a trip that should have taken 7-8 days, maybe 10 days if the mountains proved difficult… It took your party 15-days to make the trip. Why? What happened? Horatio. Turns out the druid (Eyrowyn) found a hidden message in Druidic inscribed on a tree. We wandered the forest for hours, trying to find the clearing that it mentioned, but got separated. Each of us saw something of which we cannot speak. When we finally found our way out, days had passed. We walked in silence until we saw the fort in the distance. DM. Sounds like you may have been walking the veil between the Mortal Realm and the Lands of Faerne . You are fortunate to not have become subsumed into the essence of the border region. And more fortunate

I put together a 2-page handout for the players to give them an overview of the first stop on their adventure. Welcome to Eureka. OUR STORY BEGINS in Eureka, a large harbor town tucked into the rugged wildlands of the Lost Coast on the shore of Humboldt Bay. Welcome to  EUREKA Humboldt County Seat Population 5,900 Eureka is the principal port town and county seat of Humboldt in the Redwood Empire region of the Kingdom of Ajwain. The town is located on the Old Coast Road on the shores of Humboldt Bay, 270 miles north of San Francisco and 490 miles south of Portland and 150 miles west on the Trinity Kingsway from Redding. Perhaps more significantly, it is 100 miles south of the contested border with the Kingdom of Cumerin. The town occupies the largest protected body of water between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound. The bay is also the only deep water harbor between San Francisco and Coos Bay, making Eureka the largest port on that stretch of coast and the only one that can accept the