Campaign Journal

By Tim Emrick

Campaign the First: The Maidens Who Serve the Gods

This journal records brief summaries of the game sessions of my Arcadayn campaign. This first campaign was played from November 1998 to February 2002--a three-year run that has reached a satisfying stopping point for now. We will return to Arcadayn for more adventures at some future date yet to be determined.

• Dramatis Personae: List of PCs and important NPCs.
• First Visions, First Battles: Fazia, Darra, Laylah (Sessions #1-8)
• The Cat's Eyes: Darra, Laylah, Ruqayyah (Sessions #9-12)
• The Duz, the Dragon and the Demons: Darra, Laylah, Ruqayyah, Naima (Sessions #13-42)
• Bodies of Water: Ruqayyah, Sarah, "Star" (Sessions #43-46 and 48-49)
• Reclaiming the Asanos: Laylah, Ruqayyah, Darra (Sessions #47 and 50-55)

First Visions, First Battles: Fazia, Darra, Laylah

• Session #1 (17 Greening 994 KC; 11/21/1998): Fazia and Darra meet as Darra is attacked by undead; Fazia takes Darra to her barracks; they are questioned by Lt. Ulfgar and Master Pelmark.
• Session #2 (18 Greening; 1/16/1999): more questioning; news of a company that fought undead; a night at the circus with Corben's company; Laylah's first prophecy.
• Session #3 (19-20 Greening; 1/30/1999): Pelmark introduces Laylah to Mistress Theolodia; Ulfgar speaks with Corben; Laylah has a dream; Fazia and Darra meet Laylah properly.
• Session #4 (20-22 Greening; 2/13/1999): preparations for expedition to hunt undead; Laylah has another dream, and speaks more with her master and the priests.
• Session #5 (23-26 Greening; 3/6/1999): Laylah freed from servitude; expedition departs; seek more data in Theronton.
• Session #6 (27-29 Greening; 3/20/1999): travel to ruins in eastern hills; two battles with undead.
• Session #7 (29 Greening; 3/27/1999): the obelisk; fight with the necromancer and his minions; Fazia's death.
• Session #8 (29 Greening-4 Blooming; 4/3/1999): return to Theronton to heal; some of Darra's past revealed; Laylah begins lessons with Master Volan.

The Cat's Eyes: Darra, Laylah, Ruqayyah

• Session #9 (5-10 Blooming; 4/10/1999): more healing and lessons; Ruqayyah introduced; Rashira speaks to Laylah.
• Session #10 (11-22 Blooming; 4/17/1999): Laylah's song; Silverbolt's story; report on ruins; "Tel Yuli."
• Interlude (in #10): Silverbolt's Story: how Pelmark's skin turned silver.
• Session #11 (23-26 Blooming; 5/8/1999): journey to Tel Yuli; the lizard man shaman.
• Session #12 (26-29 Blooming; 7/3/1999): another desert vision; meeting Al-Zaki; Hajaj's hawk.

The Duz, the Dragon and the Demons: Darra, Laylah, Ruqayyah, Naima

• Session #13 (30 Blooming-1 Highsuntide; 7/10/1999): audience with Hajaj, and offer of aid; Naima introduced.
• Session #14 (2-7 Highsuntide; 8/7/1999): joining the caravan; sandstorm; Ruqayyah trapped in cat form.
• Session #15 (8 Highsuntide; 8/13/1999): bandits; the man in the desert; to Tel Talib.
• Session #16 (8-11 Highsuntide; 9/18/1999): tending Ayyub; Ruqayyah restored.
• Session #17 (12-18 Highsuntide; 10/30/1999): travel to Tel Rebinat to meet the Duz.
• Session #18 (18-19 Highsuntide; 11/27/1999): meeting with the Umar; Ayyub's story; rumors of necromancy; Ruqayyah's boon.
• Session #19 (20 Highsuntide-1 Heatblight; 12/4/1999): visions of upcoming journey; goodbye gifts; leaving desert; Al-Zaki's help.
• Session #20 (1-3 Heatblight; 12/18/1999): through Quikara; more about Al-Zaki.
• Session #21 (4-11 Heatblight; 1/9/2000): waiting out Ruqayyah's lethargy; more about the Ranae and Rift; to Farvale; news of a dragon sighting.
• Session #22 (12-14 Heatblight; 2/21/2000): news of an ambushed patrol; cross border into Outlands; Darra reveals more secrets; otters.
• Session #23 (15-17 Heatblight; 3/4/2000): the dragon reveals itself.
• Session #24 (17-19 Heatblight; 3/25/2000): dreams of kittens and lullabys.
• Session #25 (19-21 Heatblight; 4/15/2000): the "dream-eaters"; Laylah's prayer for light; the Haunted Rift.
• Session #26 (22-23 Heatblight; 5/6/2000): talking with Yantos; the eagle nest; the forest hunters and Rana.
• Session #27 (23-24 Heatblight; 5/26/2000): an audience with the chief and his wife.
• Session #28 (24-25 Heatblight; 6/17/2000): Laylah helps Ruqayyah obtain a vision.
• Session #29 (26 Heatblight-1 Harvestmonth; 7/8/2000): into the badlands; the Mynar duel; the sentient sword; plus Interlude (8/3/2000): Darra and Helledoth.
• Session #30 (1-2 Harvestmonth; 8/5/2000): Umok wakes, and trades stories.
• Session #31 (2-5 Harvestmonth; 9/2/2000): resume journey; Birkum's tribe; Mynars join the quest.
• Session #32 (5-7 Harvestmonth; 9/16/2000): encounter with scorpions.
• Session #33 (8-14 Harvestmonth; 9/30/2000): into Perbor; the Mouth of Klur; Taroq sighted.
• Session #34 (14-16 Harvestmonth; 10/14/2000): the battle with Taroq; finding the Asanos (?) in the Mouth of Klur.
• Session #35 (16-22 Harvestmonth; 11/11/2000): leaving Perbor and the Mynars; nightmares of Ormenlind begin.
• Session #36 (22-28 Harvestmonth; 11/25/2000): fighting the dreams; out of the badlands.
• Session #37 (29 Harvestmonth-1 Leaffall; 1/6/2001): Naima poisoned; to Rana; audience with the seeker Iztok; the equinox festival.
• Session #38 (1-4 Leaffall; 1/20/2001): gifts from Glaxis; Ruqqayyah's owl nightmare; Yantos's cave; "Thastygliax."
• Session #39 (4-13 Leaffall; 2/3/2001): Darra pledges to help Yantos; to Farvale; Laylah helps Ruqayyah fight the dreams; downriver with Bran and Fran.
• Interludes (in #40; 2/9/2001, 2/10/2001): talks with Al-Zaki; Kuldor condones Darra's new quest.
• Session #40 (13-19 Leaffall; 2/17/2001): Pelmark finds them; Darra's pyre dream; to Berigissel; consult with Theolodia; the exorcism.
• Session #41 (20 Leaffall-2 Browning; 3/9/2001): back to the Cat to request help; the Umar sends Duz to Berigissel; plus Interlude (3/11/2001): Darra and Pelmark.
• Session #42 (1-4 Browning; 3/31/2001): the obsidian disk analyzed; the Duz arrive; Darra, Al-Zaki and Naima depart.

Bodies of Water: Ruqayyah, Sarah, "Star"

• Session #43 (8-9 Browning; 5/5/2001): Sarah introduced; boat trip to the sea; an amnesiac discovered; Ruqayyah turned into water.
• Session #44 (10-11 Browning; 5/19/2001): divination jogs "Star's" memory; experiments with water magic; the undine; consult palm-reader.
• Session #45 (11-13 Browning; 6/16/2001): set sail; help victims of remora; to Veluvar.
• Session #46 (14-15 Browning; 7/1/2001): to Carnvrin; consult with Old Meg about "Star"; learn about Oracle of the Cauldron.
• Hiatus (7/2001-11/2001)
• [Session #47: See below.]
• Session #48 (17-21 Browning; 11/3/2001): to Veluvar, then the Shrine of the Petitioners.
• Session #49 (21 Browning-4 Yearwane; 11/23/2001): Star's dream and question; Ruqayyah learns Death Vision; Star sets off for "Marwar"; Ruqayyah returns to Berigissel.

Reclaiming the Asanos: Laylah, Ruqayyah, Darra

• Session #47 (4-30 Browning; 10/3/2001): Darra aids Yantos; farewell to Al-Zaki; picking up Laylah's trail.
• [Sessions #48-49: See above.]
• Session #50 (20 Leaffall-4 Yearwane; 11/24/2001): ritual in Berigissel; the clerics' caravan prepares and departs.
• Session #51 (4-18 Yearwane; 12/16/2001): reunited with Laylah; Al-Zaki's letters; the rituals in Grimfled, Bregmund, and Gunrothric; the snake-spirit attacks; Darra nearly forgets the full moon.
• Session #52 (18 Yearwane 994 KC-1 Darkmonth 995 KC; 1/12/2002): dreams of Ormenlind; to the Mother Church in Krynan; audiences with a Paragon and the Emperor; Prince Sidor's surprising request; the final ritual, and confrontation with Ormenlind; Ruqayyah's prayer for Sidor.
• Session #53 (1-2 Darkmonth; 1/18/2002, 1/27/2002): Aftermath 1: Ruqayyah: dream of the Jackal; ears changed; a request to help Sidor.
• Session #54 (1-2 Darkmonth; 1/28/2002): Aftermath 2: Darra: audience with Emperor, and a possible future request.
• Session #55 (1-19 Darkmonth; 2/8/2002): Aftermath 3: Laylah: the new feather; divinations by Sunhild and others. Aftermath 4: Group: Laylah scolds the Emperor; Ruqayyah's gift and duty; plans for the future; clerics promoted; birth of Princess Laisa.

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