Season 3, Session 1 - Arrival in Everbrook

Date Played: 2024-06-02 • In-Game Date: 15 Jazur, 3520 NY

The party arrives in the city of Everbrook, explores its districts, and begins uncovering signs of hardship under Chegdrok’s rule.
 

Recap Summary

The adventuring party reached Everbrook and began exploring their new surroundings. Encounters with the city’s citizens revealed deep poverty and decay following its conquest by Chegdrok the Conqueror. After observing the conditions and meeting several locals, the group regrouped at the inn to plan both civic entertainment and political intervention.

 

Acts, Scenes, and Moments

  • Act I – Arrival and Exploration
    • Scene: The party split to explore the streets of Everbrook.
      • Action: A small boy with a blackened foot sold pencils to Fazzo and Nissa. Fazzo attempted magical healing but could not fully restore the injury.
      • Action: The boy guided them to the city’s poorer districts at their request.
  • Act II – The Lower Wards
    • Scene: Fazzo and Nissa encountered a struggling dwarf fighting a lizard-like creature over food.
      • Action: They witnessed widespread destitution—collapsed buildings, makeshift shelters, and signs of past siege warfare.
      • Action: Fazzo conjured food for the hungry citizens, who swarmed the offering until the pair withdrew for safety.
  • Act III – Authority and Reflection
    • Scene: The party investigated the regime of Chegdrok the Conqueror.
      • Action: They observed that the former four rulers remained displayed as skeletal warnings within public cages.
    • Scene: The group returned to the inn.
      • Action: Draphi Oturo tuning a crystalline chime accompanied by a lute player, working toward a resonance with the land she had just escaped from.
      • Action: Adaranth Monroe taught Moon Magi to dance and the group celebrated their arrival in a more familiar setting.
  • Act IV – Plans in Motion
    • Scene: The party conceived dual plans: a public performance and a covert effort to destabilize the ruling power.
      • Action: Adaranth prepared promotional fliers and nearly set out to distribute them in the middle of the night before realizing the timing error.
 

Highlights & Moments

  • First arrival and establishment of Everbrook as a new setting.
  • Introduction of Chegdrok the Conqueror’s oppressive regime.
  • Fazzo’s charitable magic feeding the city’s destitute.
  • Draphi Oturo’s crystalline tune linking to interplanar resonance.
  • Formation of plans to uplift or challenge the local government.
 

Consequences & New Threads

  • World Impact: Everbrook becomes the new operational base for the party, its political state now directly observed by the heroes.
  • Field Observation: The region suffers post-siege collapse and lacks central relief; Chegdrok’s governance is predatory and unstable.
  • Future Potential: Plans for a public performance may serve as cover for deeper civic infiltration or organized revolt.