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So what can you tell me about your group? The Brainless Quintet? 📝👀

ok so i got a lot to say so under a read more it goes! im literally just trying sum up the story thus far LMFAWOEIGHAWOI

SO THE BRAINLESS QUINTET is their joke name bc theyre a bunch of chucklefuck dumbasses LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the party originally consisted of

-Road [last name] - Hexblood Lore Bard

-Rorik Steelbender - Dwarven Rune Knight Fighter

-Dori Finiva - Tiefling Div Wiz

and these three met in an inn and tavern in one of the big cities of this homebrewed continent of Maka that's called Sentinel.

After meeting they ended up finding themselves in a weird altered state of the tavern and monsters appeared. After a lil combat the group woke up in their beds in the inn. The fight had occurred in a shared dream state and the three of them recognized each other from it. After some chatting the owners of the tavern who also were in the shared dream space had asked them to go check on one of the towns people named Jonah who lived just outside of town.

They did so and found out that she had fallen into a comatose state and couldn't be roused. They later found out that this was happening in other areas as well. The three decided to investigate a bit further and headed to their next destination which is the next big city of Cleys.

Upon arriving in Cleys they take care of some busy work and also find out that the ruling families there which are four houses of Genasi are having some internal conflicts and rumors are spreading that one of the matriarchs had fallen asleep. This is where the gang picks up their grave cleric Patchouli as our other friend had joined our campaign. They needed a healer and she needed money so they basically hired her on via a suggestion of a contact they made there.

They had mingled and became friends with one of the Genasi royals Eris from the Air family. They provided some insight for us as we began our investigation and found out there was a foreign diplomat who had made himself quite at home for the last month and a half in the city who was kind of sus. Lo and behold it was actually Eris' brother Gyael in disguise trying to take down the royal family (war criminal meow meow) due to him being a bastard child and hating how the rich treated his mother (not royal blood). he tried to kill us (hehe meowmeowwwww twirls hair)

He originally was to be condemned to life in prison but thanks to a....very motivational speech from Rorik with the help of guidance from Patcholi, protent from Dori, and bardic inspiration from Road we hit a DC where Eris worked it out to entrust Gyael to us as a travel companion so he didn't have to suffer life in prison he just however, cannot go back to Cleys.

After leaving Cleys the gang now the full quintet!!!! Consisting of

-Road

-Rorik

-Dori

-Patchouli [dnd last name] - Reborn Grave Cleric

-Gyael Phir - Air Genasi Bladesinger Wizard

(HAHA FIVE OF US!! BRAINLESS QUINTET!!!)

they headed to Ardimir which is Roriks home village on a mountain. Upon arriving the gang found out that majority of his village had been wiped out due to attacks from shimmers (home brewed shades) and it had happened ever since this mysterious traveler dropped off a shipment of ores. The survivors have been staying in a cave as these creatures don't like the shade. The gang takes care of the problem and Rorik has to come to terms with the fact that majority of the people he grew up with have passed.

Moving on the gang then goes to the northern icy city of Sitka where they were told this shipment came from. They end up dealing with the mobsters that kind of run things up in that city and have a run in with a mutated dream hag. This dream hag possessed Dori in her dream and almost made her run off a cliff in the middle of the night while sleep walking. Thinking she may be the one putting people to sleep they investigate and find her den and fight her with the help of a contact they made in the city.

Once taken care of they end up picking up another job from one of the mob families to find and deliver a dagger to an associate. This dagger is a necromantic dagger (we found out later) and was in a resident evil esque house within a pocket dimension where the family that lived there practiced necromancy to bring back their beloved and there was a fucked up fusion monster of the two of them that was stalking and attacking us. We made it out w the dagger and continued to move to deliver it to our drop off point.

On the way to this drop off which is on the other side of the map, the gang ends up heading to Doris small tiny home town of Albis which is a desert town real quaint. However when they arrive it's not as she remembers it. Turns out they ended up in a time bubble and ended up 300 years in the past. There was a crazy occultist lady that lived in the town next to Dori named Ayuka who also, was there but much younger. After some chatting and talking about how Dori was searching for her spirit friend that had disappeared she discovers that it was Lilith and Ayuka had been talking to her as well. Lilith explains that in the future a forgotten god known as Chyellenor will be trying to put the world to sleep, and if all gods and mortals go to sleep the world will end. She requests Dori's help with this and she being naïve, agreed. Making her first deal with Lilith the arch devil of the 9th layer of hell and also sealing her fate and making her devil touched and a tiefling. Lilith then shunts them back to current day. Checks in on her family, Ayuka, and finds out a gift had come for her a while back and has been sitting in her room. It's her phylactery.

The gang continues onward finding out there is a plague in another city and they avoid it and heading towards another big city Eden. Which is predominantly a fey and aasimar run city. While there Rorik ends up killing his fey mount in broad daylight...because it took his name and bit his pinky off. He is then jailed and we had a court trial....which he won with the help of a lawyer we hired, Halric Lawbender. He helps those who are down bad.

While in Eden the gang takes up another job from the guild as there were aasimar children going missing. While patrolling one night a gold dragon strikes the aasimar district and burnt majority of it down. Gyael ends up getting kid napped and we end up psuedo adopting a child named Hal who was orphaned during the attack (she also was in a one shot we did so we're all like BABYYYYY)

Thanks to Road reaching out to their Hag aunties we find out where Gyael was taken to which was another fucked up manor in a pocket dimension near a feywild rift. On the journey there Patchouli didn't tell the gang that she literally has a legion of demons after her and one of them snuck up and possessed Dori. She tried to kill the gang and Rorik ended up bashing her head in with his hammer so hard he busted her horn off. (i had 5 hp left and he decided to great weapons master bc he misheard and thought i had 55 left LMFAO) after this they make their way to a small town called Juon and Road has a visit with their mentor who we find out had passed so they visited his grave.

This manor was fucked up and had a bunch of dead kids in it. It appears that there was a lot of experiments done on children in this place and they ended up fighting a faux god named Kanon, the god of suffering. Find out that Gyael was in a mirror realm and was trapped within it the whole time we were searching. We save him and along with like 6 other kids of varying ages. However Gyael is different after that and he no longer can use magic aside from innate Genasi magic.

The gang goes back to Eden and there is some rumors about issues between the summer and winter fey courts. Some even saying that King Titania will pay a visit. There is a lot of research done on Cheyllenor and forgotten gods. Patchouli finds out she's a reborn. Yknow im a lil fuzzy here but at one point Rorik, Hal and Dori get stuck in a state of dreaming where they couldn't get out of it. They were heckled by Chyellenor in it as they know we're on their tail. Rorik also got a glimpse of Yggdrisil the world tree....some how.............LMFAO VERY ON BRAND THING FOR RORIK TBH....Dori makes another deal with Lilith to help them break free of the fear they were feeling that literally was so primal and visceral they couldn't move from the gaze of Chyellenor. The three of them were rushed to the hospital and ended up waking up. We end up going to visit Road's aunties which is a coven of hags and King Titania is there but in a weakened state. Turns out during his travels to the material plane he lost his artifacts and is weakened because of it. We also find out that one of Roads Aunties named Billie is also asleep and cannot be roused, and she had a seat in the fey court. So Road has now become interim member of the court in Billies stead.

Titania has requested that we find his relics to help restore him to full power. One of the relics happens to be near Patchoulis home village and we were headed that way anyway to see if we could resolve her demon problem. Rorik ends up pushing some buttons with Titania and gets himself turned into a little leaf man by Titania who cannot turn him back at this moment in time...and is unsure if he'll be able to. So he's out of commission. The gang leaves Hal with Road's aunties for safe keeping as they kind of pseudo adopted her and head off. On the way to Patchouli's home in the Neer'a mountain range they meet Groop. A kobold who is a lil stupid lookin LOL (Roriks replacement) he takes quite a liking to Patchouli and he's on the quest for a 'shiny' somewhere in the range. He ends up kind of latching onto Patchouli and we agreed to help him locate his shiny.

They make their way to Vyora which is Patchouli's village. Very traditional village. Find out that it's actually a cult that follows what is known as 'The Goddess' and does human sacrifices into a pit known as 'The Chasm' where the sacrifice feeds the goddess and keeps the village safe. Patchouli ends up learning that her father isn't actually her father and is her fathers friend who is a race of elves that are undying. She also finds out that when she was born she was still born and her father begged his friend to bring her back to life, and the ritual was performed to make her an undying but it happened at the same time a sacrifice was going on and due to the two powerful rituals happening at once it caused the demons to latch onto her. We still have no solution for this. During this converstaion the group got separated and attacked. This leads to Road and Dori specifically ending up separated from the gang but together. They have flash backs of their past in this place. Doris being her mothers disdain for her, Road showing their backstussy and how they were chronically ill and ran off with their mentor and him dying.

The two meet again after going through their journeys and are faced by The Goddess in the distance. When they got separated Dori ended up putting on the phylactery in hopes Lilith would be able to help protect them. Liliths voice comes through and Dori asks for help with safe passage back to their bodies as their souls were currently hanging onto their bodies by a thread. Lilith could make no promises for both but could definitely shuttle one back. After some back and forth and Road being....blunt. They agreed that Dori would be the one to go back. Her lack of backbone made her agree but she also had huge hopes that they'd both make it back fine and dandy. As they began their ascent back to their bodies, a demon latched onto Dori's leg and Road let go of her hand, grabbing the demon and going down with it. Their soul being severed from their body and trapped within the Chasm.

Coming back Lilith lent her power to Dori to help destroy the cult leader and another one of the demons that looks like Kanon from The Chasm. We also find out Gyael is now a barbarian. She then has to tell the gang that Road didn't make it back as their body was just there. Gyael grabs her by the neck and blames her rightfully so. Aunties are pissed at her. They find out from Gyael that he also lost his brother and they assumed that he fell asleep.

Their next suggestion was to head to a village on a mountain top called Kuzre which is also where one of the relics is supposedly located. On the way there up the mountain they run into a man who is passed out on trail from altitude sickness. Hence where we gain Ruth. He was also headed to Kuzre to investigate people falling asleep in his village and seeing if it was a medical thing. They travel up there together and they inform Ruth that this isn't a medical thing but is a god related thing and now he's kinda like aw shit well now I'm stuck. He hangs around them for a bit and some more information comes out about their situation thanks to Patchouli they decide to hire Ruth on for his skills. Which they drew a contract up for, and only knew his skills as being good at directions, having knowledge of boats, and being good with Groop.

They find out that the Kings artifact has been found and is under lock and key at academia within Kuzre but there is a tournament happening where if you win, you can ask for a favor. So the gang is now in their YYH dark tournament arc. LMFAO

We also found out last session after scrying on Eris that he was up and moving around which was great news, thinking that he had woken up. However he was able to detect the scrying and stared seemingly into Patchoulis eyes as she scryed on him. They presented this information to Gyael who got very upset because Eris was apparently murdered which confirmed that something (chyellenor) had body snatched them. Patchouli could gather that he was on the way to Eden and was probably headed towards Titania. Patchouli then sends a message to Roads Aunties to let them know and warn them.

Road comes to Patchouli in a dream and next day Patchouli scrys on one of the Aunties and sees theyre asleep. She then scrys on Hal and sees her running through the woods so the gang teleports back to Eden to try to find her. They end up finding her and find out that Eris came and attacked and the Aunties sent her and leafman Rorik to run and not stop. They take her back to their apartment and get settled in. Patchouli takes a short rest and then attempts to scry on Road. Who we've confirmed has had their body snatched as the same thing happened. Patchouli sends a message telling the invaider to get out but gets no reply.

Dori reaches out to Lilith to see if she can offer any advice as to what to do about this body snatcher and how to not harm the body as she wants to try to get Road back. Lilith informs her that it's going to be a difficult task if the person who is doing it is who she thinks it is. Titania shows up in a more mortal form and decides to watch Hal in the apartment while they go fetch his relics. So now we're currently back in Kuzre getting ready for this tournament and have officially trauma dumped everything onto him to give him context as he requested it :")

SO CURRENTLY THE CREW IS

Dori - Tiefling Divination Wizard

Patchouli - Tiefling Reborn Grave Cleric

Groop - Kobold Path of the Beast Barbarian

Gyael - Air Gensai Tempest Barbarian

Ruth - Variant Human Swashbuckler Rogue

LATE AND/OR MISSING MEMBERS:

Road - rest in peace baby girl

Rorik - Leafman. Titanias personal stress ball.

:"333 if you made it this far congratulations. LMAWEGOIAHWEOIGHA

As far as relationships go for Dori

Patchouli- She is the one shes closest to in this group, Patchy and her are complete opposites, Dori being a ball of anxiety and a rule follower and Patchouli being care free and against authority. The two of them are purple besties.

Road- Upsetting that she never got the chance to know them very well bc they are aloof and slippery. She admired them a lot though. Never found out they were blind. That was a secret that died with them.

Rorik - He backhand compliments her all the time and it's out of the goodness of his heart but hes just...really good at hittin her where it hurts. She tries so hard to be kind to him but his shenanigans and trouble he gets the group into frustrate her at times.

Gyael - She admires his intelligence and would've loved to learn from him. He constantly insults her intelligence and dislikes her for her lack of backbone.

Groop - She finds him endearing and the fact that he loves Patchouli so much cute.

Ruth - Thinks he's been very kind thus far to them despite all of the trauma dumping theyve done to him LMFAO BUT ITS RLY ONLY BEEN LIKE 5 DAYS OF KNOWING HIM.

#krampsers #PHEWWWW #THAT IS A READ!!!#THIS LITERALLY TOOK ME ALL DAY TO WRITE #IM SO SORRY I TRIED TO MAKE IT SHORT AND DIGESTIABLE BUT IDT IT IS

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