Virgin DM Monologues: Frank & The (Zombie) Kobolds

Lightningrail1

Welcome to the recap of the 28th session of my Eberron campaign, which took place on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010. When we last saw the party, they had just defended the lightning rail and its passengers from a group of pirates. The next day, the party patrols the train, making sure any new passengers are not there with nefarious plans. Everything on the train looked to be fine. Brick decided to take the clothes from one of the dead pirates to the guards up by the engine car to see if they … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: Pirates On the Lightning Rail

lightningrail

Welcome to the recap of the 27th session of my Eberron campaign, which took place on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010. When we last saw the party, they had accepted a job as bodyguards to the renowned opera singer Lady Tyasha d’Phiarlan as she traveled around the continent to lecture students at the Five Demesnes. The trip had nearly been delayed due to a strange sorceress named Beaf who was making it rain acid down on Wroat, closing the lightning rail station there. The PCs are en route to Korth, … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: A Traitor Turned In, A Nightmare Revisited

Welcome to the recap of the 25th session of my Eberron campaign, which took place on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010. When we last saw the party, they had captured Toven d'Cannith and killed the traitor Evan. After looting his corpse of valuable items (Cyd: "Evan would want it this way."), Beatdown carries the unconscious Toven to Lady Elaydren's townhouse. She balks at accepting him herself as it would reveal her lack of protection for the schemas to Merrix. All he knew was that she was hiring … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: It’s All Fun & Games Until Somebody Loses A Rogue

Welcome to the recap of the 24.5th session of my Eberron campaign, which took place on our Obsidian Portal forum on Monday, September 13th, 2010. When we last saw the party, they had been betrayed by Evan the rogue.  He'd taken up Toven d'Cannith's offer of more money to steal the schemas, fake his death, and then meet up with him in Sharn for fun and profit. Since this was a play-by-post, I'm going to show you the actual posts by the folks who wrote them.  If you get angered by lack of … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: Betrayed By One Of Their Own

markofstorm

Last we saw the PCs, they had received word from one Lord Toven d'Cannith asking for them to come to his house to discuss the items they had retrieved for his house.  While Jelly and Ulvein were researching, they found a ritual that was able to calm the malevolent energies of Xulo. Jelly feels that the ritual should hold for about a week, at least long enough for a more powerful caster in House Cannith to take over responsibility for the schemas and creation pattern. The magic book continues to … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: A Few Days in Stormreach

stormreach

Upon their return to Stormreach, the PCs unload their stolen airship through some unsavory though profitable channels. They find the captain of the undersea ship, but he needs a few more days to finish up some business before he can return to Khorvaire. As the party walks around town, Beatdown sees a pretty awesome sight - the Rusty Nail, a bar that seems to cater to an almost exclusively warforged clientele. They serve all sorts of blended oils and alchemical fluids that are delicious to … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: Getting Caught Up With Updates

Oh boy, what are we in for?

D'oh. I'm a horrible DM. I got really behind with adventure logs and now they're so far in the past, I don't remember all the details. (Also, it's wayyyyy too too far back in my Twitter history to try to dig it up.) I am going to try and be diligent and keep them updated from now on. Our adventurers were hired by Lady Elaydren d'Cannith to retrieve a creation pattern and four schemas that belong to her house. They were stolen by agents of the Emerald Claw, which (conveniently) had stolen a … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: Riding The Marlow

Welcome to the recap of the 16th session of my Eberron campaign, which took place on April 27th, 2010. I'm running Grasp of the Emerald Claw by Bruce R. Cordell.  It was written for 3x Eberron, but I'm updating the encounters with 4e monsters. I'm mostly just stealing it for the story, with a few tweaks to make it work with this campaign. The PCs traveled to Stormreach, where they missed the Emerald Claw agents by less than two days. They are met by the elf Muroni, a scholar of the draconic … [Read more...]

Virgin DM Monologues: A New Patron, A Submarine, and Murlocs

emeraldclaw

Welcome to the recap of the 15th session of my Eberron campaign, which took place on April 20th, 2010.  (Actually, a tiny portion of this happened at the end of the 14th session, but shhh.) Recently, the PCs had the final page of their mysterious book stolen by Lan Hazal and members of the Emerald Claw in Sharn.  They fought him and his undead minions in the temple of Vol but he was able to complete his portal to Xen'drik and get away with the page. For the next sessions, I'll be running … [Read more...]