Adventure #0: The Call to Adventure

2023/01/28 Session 0: The Call to Adventure (Campbell, Doug, Gryffon, Madeline, Ronn, Zak)

Campaign sales pitch. Discussion of Game Play. Characters created. Backgrounds intertwined to create established relationships. A party is brought together and an adventure embarked upon.

Our Cast of Characters:

Chane Titanoak, 19-year-old male homen, martial prodigy, and sergeant in the Ajwain Infantry. (Zak)

Dartina, 20-year-old female homen, disciplined monastic, and one of the masses in the court of proles. (Campbell)

Eyrowyn Cwycyshyn, 210-year-old female aelfar, wanderer of paths unknown on both the Mortal Realm and the Faerne. (Madeline)

Garnet Stormsoar, homen male, champion of Heliod, and sergeant in the Ajwain Cavalry. (Gryffon)

Horatio Helkat, 40-year-old homen male, scribe, sage, and academic at the Lyceum Arcanium in Ajwain. (Doug)

28 Frostmoot 5023 VA

Gundren Rockseeker sent word for our cast of characters to gather at the city of Chico in Ajwain’s northern Sacramento Valley where he would ask their assistance and reveal to them news that would change their fortunes and ensure their futures. But the city was under quarantine as the Count of Butte blockaded the city with soldiers to keep a nasty plague from spreading further into the valley and threatening the kingdom. It took a couple days, but the friends were able to find each other and gather at the Winery & Distillery at Almendra. Spirits were imbibed, tales were exchanged, and friendships renewed.

"Are you familiar with the Phandelver Pact? No. Can’t say I’m surprised, it’s pretty dusty stuff. Basically, a hundred and fifty years or so back, during the last gold rush, before the big sleep, the denwar, homen, and gnomes found a big vein. A magical vein. Everyone says it was a rich mine and fount of arcane energy. It was a big deal. Then the scro swept through the region and wiped out everything. A few big quakes, some forest fires, landslides, and all the rest. Now, no one knows where it’s at. Gone. Lost to all eidola and just a footnote in the history books written since the big sleep. Well, we’ve been looking for it, Tharden and me and Nundro. And while we were doing some survey work for the governor, we found it. Not a hundred percent sure, but pretty damn sure. We’re going to dig it up and find out what all the fuss was about. And I’m going to need your help to do it. It’s pretty wild country up there; monsters, scro, claim jumpers, and who knows what all… then you add a font of magic into the mix. I thought of you. All of you. We’re gonna make a big stake this time, not like last time and certainly not like the time before that."

And with that, your friend asked you to pick up a shipment of mining supplies he’d acquired from a contact at Fort Bragg. Just pick them up, sail them up the coast to Humboldt Bay, offload them onto a wagon in the town of Eureka, and roll them up to Weaverville in the foothills of the Trinity Alps. The favor would take a little time, but he’d pay you for that time. A crown a day and a stake of the mine if you stuck around and pitched in. The deal sounded good, help a friend, make a little money, get some steady work, possibly striking it rich. Why not? You didn't have anything else going on and it was a chance to see a bit of the world.