When they reach the river, the party takes a detour to investigate the fallen star. Meanwhile, in the Shadowfell, Finnith meets an unexpected ally.

In these Campaign Diary posts, I talk about the campaign I play in and our most recent session!

About SBotLL

SBotLL is the campaign I play in that has been running for over five years now. There are two parties: one mostly good-aligned party that started on the surface, and one mostly evil-aligned party that started in the Underdark.

The good-aligned party includes these characters:

  • Finnith (me), high elf bard/rune scribe
  • Nala, dragonborn rogue
  • Allora, tiefling/elf ranger

It also includes Allora’s animal companion, Frikka the bear, plus the NPCs Amuulqalo and Rupert.

The evil-aligned party includes these characters:

  • Eliera, dark elf/high elf ranger/warlock
  • Cipher, changeling rogue/mystic (currently operating as a human named Albion)
  • Baala’rug, tiefling monk

This group also includes Eliera’s animal companion, Artemis the dire wolf, plus the NPCs Naivara, Ivellios, and Daear (played by me).

Recap

Last session, the party on the Material Plane saw a meteor shower on their way to the river where Vindus’ realm is (where they can reach the Shadowfell). They continued travelling and were attacked in the night by several star spawn. Meanwhile, Finnith and Daear escaped their cells in the Shadowfell. They left the building they woke up in, and a giant raven appeared in front of them, transforming into the kenku named Nebra who Finnith met several months ago back on the Material Plane.

In this session…

Finnith has many questions for Nebra, who answers as best he can. Nebra serves the Raven Queen, and he tells Finnith that Antonio is trapped in the Fortress of Memories. Nebra begins leading Daear and Finnith there. Daear doesn’t protest, but he does have some things he’d like to ask Finnith on the way…

On the Material Plane, the group recovers from their fight against the star spawn. They reach the Duin Umoira and find that the river is drying up. The meteor fell upstream. Despite their wishes to continue onward, they decide to investigate the meteor first before heading to the Shadowfell.

They discover a small lake has formed around the meteor, which is quite large. There’s also a shimmering field around the meteor in the middle of the lake, too. When Eliera and Nala pass through the field, they seem to go to a different realm entirely, with a starry sky above and several star spawn around. They quickly return and relay this to the others. The group decides to spend the rest of the day investigating to see if there’s some way to cut off this otherworldly connection without fighting the star spawn.