Garrison D&D World

• Town we started in
• Has a mansion about a mile away known as the “farmhouse” where the vampires had taken over
  • Now known to be the Blooddrinkers
• Has a graveyard with 2 mausoleums - one had a protective circle and skeletons, another had the old Warden’s ghost guarding his children’s graves
• Everyone was under some sort of glamour - didn’t remember any details about the vampires
• Has a path towards Lark’s Cutting, where we were ambushed after a day and a bit of travelling

• Next town over from Longhorn, home of Jack Jackson
• Kids/individuals have been kidnapped and eaten by kobolds from the Darkwood forest
  • Father Huel knew of 4-5 people taken over the last ~6 weeks
    • Including the children Pip, Squeak, Gary and Jen
  • Jamie was taken just as we arrived
• There are boats on the river
  • Some go towards Crestfall, the nearest big city
  • Morty mentioned “sea captains” here
• Protected by the Woodsmen’s Guild, headed by Charis Ulrich
  • But he won’t allow them to go out into the woods to search for the kobolds
• When we came back after going to Durgarshope there were black armoured guards at the gate, and the toll had increased to 10GP per person
  • There’s a dusk curfew and people are afraid of the guards

• Extremely dark (funnily enough)
  • Darkness causes mental exhaustion from the paranoia and constant looking around
• Perceptive people saw a figure darting through the trees

• Points of interest, going from Lark’s Cutting upward
  • Lark’s Cutting harbour
  • Small island with crucified pirate
  • “Things coming up from the deep”
  • Cove with caves (see below)
  • Durgarshope

• River goes towards the Abbey of Sarenrae and Crestfall
• Plied by Captain Longpipe on his barge
• Encountered:
  • Dolphin getting eaten by shark
  • Coral that changes colour and lures you into the water
  • A weird fish man on a moving rock who demanded we all sacrifice something to let us pass
  • Giant iceberg with a ghost ship frozen inside
  • Giant whirlpool

• Town on the river 7-10 days upriver of Lark’s Cutting
  • Chartering a small boat would be ~75GP/day
• In the mountains, situated on a cliff with no trees nearby
  • Has contraptions to haul stuff up the cliff - at least 100GP
• Well fortified - 25ft stone wall with towers, dwarf guards wearing heavy metal armour
• If you don’t work in the mine you’re not well regarded here
• After breaking into the prison to take down the murderbot, we have been asked not to return for some time
  • Not banished though!

• Wizard academy
• Near Crestfall - may have ties to the empire
• Not sure if the imperial wizards holding Yennefer captive were from here
• Towering spire of crystalline stone surrounded by a vortex of crackling energy, surrounded by a moat

  Inside

  Bigger

  Ground floor

  Open to most. Grand bazaar, archives (library), main tavern

  • Grand bazaar
  • Archives

  2nd floor

  Spell guard garrison, secretaries for the 8 domains

  • Go here, find a clerk off to the side, they will ring a bell which will summon the secretary

  Upper floors

  Each is dedicated to a different school of magic. Avoid - the high lords have their own defenses

  Top of tower

  Grand audience chamber to speak with council. Magical elevator from 3rd level to there

• Guarded by the Spell Guard, who wear full mail and a purple tabbard with a white tower on it
• Inside they have magical owls called wols that speak messages
• At the base is a courtyard with at least a fancy inn and a butcher’s shop (presumably a whole settlement)
  • The inn is The Archer’s Chalice, run by Della
  • The butcher’s shop is run by a half giant woman
  • More affordable inn for travellers is the Hunt & Harper, run by male halfling called Willy
    • Has a female dwarf wandering around stealing drinks
• Hattie the Marvelous works as a magister here
• Lady Lefay’s room is inside the realm of the dead - you will die if you stay in there too long
• Attending the academy costs 100GP/month

• Has a dock on the river
• Main hall with other buildings around it, and a stone wall with watchtowers around all

• Big city on our map - population about 50,000
• Used to have outposts defending the area, at least as far out as the Darkwood Forest keep
• Centre of the Crestfall Empire, which we don’t yet know the extents of
  • Has soldiers but towns are mostly somewhat independent
• Closed by the order of the king for the last few weeks
  • External excuse is that there’s a disease going around that nobody knows anything about
  • What’s actually happening is that there was an outbreak of madness with unknown causes, and the Arconsphere wizards have frozen the city in time until they can figure it out
    • If you hit the boundary of the spell you will be reduced to an infinitessimally slow speed until the spell ends

• Fortress guarding one entrance to Crestfall at a confluence of rivers
  • Has a gatehouse for the river and the road
• Small town around it, surrounded by walls
• Very busy when we visited, as Crestfall is closed

Places:

• Butcher called the Chop Shop
• Deirdre’s Delightful Depot - old lady selling all kinds of stuff. Had a broken bag of holding
• Errol’s Enchantery - Old gnome with glasses, slightly frazzled hair
• Hammer and Tongs - twin mountain firbolgs from the Dragonspear mountains running a blacksmith
• Path towards Crestfallen Garrison
  • Where we encountered the 4 druids surrounded by people they’d polymorphed into goats
    • Bertram, travelling priest of Llira, goddess of joy, from Bowhold

• Guards one of three bridges across the river to Crestfall
• Inn where we met the rich Dwarvish owner of the magical goat belt
  • The fancy suite of rooms had little fairies cleaning up in the night
• Also met Hattie the Marvelous, a magistrate wizard who wanted us to guard her carts while she took magical shortcuts to the Arconsphere

Nearby:

• Clan of cave giants
• Dryads in the woods, including Elenid who asked us riddles and imprisons wizards in trees

• Near Topier, between Arconsphere and Kalkugrim
• Allegedly where “Samuel” from Longhorn was from
• Prosa the innkeeper from Handles Stand was from here too
• May be a centre of thievery/smuggling?
• Cobblestones Inn
  • If we are in need, draw the thieves’ cant symbol for sanctuary on the side of the inn

• Near Kalkugrim
• Where Mordoe grew up
• When we got there something had happened and it was completely destroyed
  • People killed, blood everywhere
  • Whole area tainted with death and decay - no animals coming near
  • Heartwood tree dying
• Nearby
  • Mist rising as we approached a clearing
  • Undead creatures in the clearing, someone firing eldritch blasts from above

• Apparently there’s a slave trade toward the desert

• Out to the west - Durgarshope is at the east end
• Freya was wandering somewhere in here when the weird stuff happened

• Sylvan city in the Dragonspear mountains
• Elys asked us to find it (presumably for nefarious reasons)

• Located to the south of Resith - past the village with cows on the human skin map
• On a peninsula
• Nearest village to the Monastery of Life
• Presumably Tetuel’s mother is from here or nearby
• (Originally called Graveholm when I was making up something on the spot)

• Down to the south, past Kalkugrim

• City to the southwest of Resith, by the coast
• (Essence is from here) - but hasn’t told us yet

• Elven city in a hidden location, presumably named after Sarenrae
• Surrounded by magic and you have to be invited to be able to find it

• Temple in Durgarshope
• Big dude with hammer
• Symbol is a 4-spoked wheel

• Fae god
• Topless antlered man, flanked by a wolf and a rabbit
• Crossbreed between firbolg and archfae
• Known for tricking people

• Found a small glass statue of her and a censer decorated with her under Durgarshope
• Tetuel threw the censer into the river between Lark’s Cutting and the abbey as a sacrifice to Blibdoolpoolp

• Goddess of the river? Or all rivers? Worshipped by the weird fish guy who demanded we sacrifice to pass

• (Crown?) Prince of Hell
• God of trickery and cunning

• Crown Prince of Hell
• Sarenrae wants his crown and has tasked Mordoe to get it in a year
• Can be found in the 9th circle of Hell

• Goddess of joy
• Met a priest between Handles Stand and Crestfallen Garrison

• Elven goddess, daughter of the night skies

• Met at the party in Longhorn
• Arrived in Lark’s Cutting about 5 days later
• Stayed around Lark’s Cutting for 2 days
• Headed upriver to Durgarshope - took around 8? days
• Did stuff around Durgarshope for a couple of days before heading into the mines

• Where was it found?? - Fight on way to Lark’s Cutting - Tom the Mage was carrying it
• Can create the sound of a bird call to a range of 60ft
• Carried by Mordoe

• Where was it found?? - Longhorn somewhere
• Endlessly releases smoke, instantly filling a 60ft radius around it
• Requires a command word to close it, but still takes 10 minutes to dissipate
• Caused the death of Cyra when the kobolds could find her
• Was held by Reggie, but got thrown down chimney of guildhall in Lark’s Cutting
  • We presume cleric took it

• Sold to high priestess in Durgarshope for 500GP
• Offered resistance to poison, but also cursed the user to turn into a Gorgon
  • As happened to Arnie Longfingers

• Bought from Morty in Lark’s Cutting
• Mordoe keeps showing it to people who really don’t need to see it
• Tetuel made a copy that was so bad it wasn’t very useful
• Very outdated - probably a few hundred years old
• Mordoe sacrificed this to Blibdoolpoolp in the river

• Map of some islands, two with X marked on them
• Found in Cove with caves along with a drawing of a boat+lady with “5000” written on it, and a small ledger of stolen items

• Jack bought from Gremble in Durgarshope

• Gremble gave Jack these in his house in Durgarshope
• Stats
  • Use once per day - recharges with long rest
  • Active from putting them on until removed or for 1 hour, whichever shorter
  • Vision beyond 5ft blurred - disadvantage on ranged attacks (including spells)
• We left these at the Arconsphere for the Archivist to contact Gremble

• Jack convinced Gremble to give this to Tetuel
• Stats
  • Use up to 3 times a day
  • To make it pointy, as a bonus action:
    • Hold the staff in both hands towards the centre and run your hands towards the end quickly
    • Roll a D20
      • On a 1: Pinging and cracking noise and staff becomes unusable
      • Otherwise two spikes spring out of the ends
  • On an attack roll
    • If nat 1 spikes ping off in a 1D8 direction, dealing 1D6 damage to everyone in 30ft in that direction
    • Otherwise add 1D6 to damage

• Found in an enchanted iron chest beneath Durgarshope
• Can turn into a snake!
• Identified by Berteph
• Currently in Mordoe’s bag

• Found in a cursed chest in room 10 under Durgarshope
• Says something in arcane script about cats and agility
• Identified by Berteph
• Currently in Mordoe’s bag

• Black goo with a mind of its own - wants to seep into the ground
• Made from a captive Yennefer in her prison, by the Imperial wizards
• Do not use fire on it or it’ll explode!
• Don’t touch it either or you’ll take necrotic damage

• Cause pain when the wearer doesn’t follow the commands of the master
• Found on Taktak and Sooty in Mayor Trovoski’s manor house

• Oval shaped amber plaque the size of a hand, with a small figure in it
• Yelena Trovoski told us that the figure is someone trapped inside it, but with no idea of how to release them

• “Derek” the butterfly fae gave Mordoe a fire tattoo on his arm and Tetuel a face tattoo
• They can be changed by washing them with water and thinking hard about what you want them to be
• Derek told Mordoe “if you get bored and want to have some fun, just say my name 3 times into a flower”

• Book found in Charis’ desk in the Lark’s Cutting guild hall, written in Abyssal
• The bit Mordoe read seemed to be a poetic note about what was happening in Lark’s Cutting
• Scholars at Abbey of Sarenrae were very interested - I think they still have it

• Found very early on, Regi was carrying it but traded it with Elys for information
• Thalor Brightflame at the Abbey of Sarenrae told Regi to blow it outside but smirked and didn’t elaborate

• Metal pole grabbed by Nathaniel the Farmer, founder of the Order of Life
• Was used to defeat a being of light and absorbed some of its energy - began to glow
• Has since been shattered into 5 pieces and their locations lost
  • According to The Hand, one has been found by an orc lord known as Marach

• 1 blue vial, 2 red vials
• He said Regi should try the blue one - why?

• Ring in which Xavier Xaith, priest of Mephistopheles, has been trapped for aeons
  • He was a high level priest in his order originally
  • Was forced to endure aeons of pain and misery at the hands of the creature wielding it
  • A portal opened between planes, it cut the creature’s hand off and in Tyford, Hubert picked up the ring
• The occupant of the ring swaps places with the owner of the body it’s on (if they agree)
• Now owned by Sentinel Brightflame of the Order of the Radiant Dawn

• A relic stored beneath a statue of Sarenrae in the Abbey of Sarenrae near Crestfall
• The High Priestess was able to use it to call Sarenrae to re-attach Mordoe’s tongue
  • Sarenrae herself spoke to us!

• Found by Jack on an Orcish barbarian near Handles Stand
• Doesn’t reflect light

• Found by Regi on a human wizard near Handles Stand
• Explodes with ice when you try to open it - useful for a trap?
• Unknown contents

• Was used by bandits to distract us near Handles Stand by projecting a tiger cub

• Some sort of powers of turning people into goats. Potentially other uses in the right hands?
• Found on druids near Handles Stand, given back to original owner for 600GP

• Taken from a fire giant while travelling with Hattie the Marvelous
• Currently carried by Regi (none of us really want a greatsword)
  • Didn’t immediately catch fire when he wielded it

• Gives a way to call secretary of abjuration?
• Also shows that we are associated with them
• “If you break the law while carrying it, it will destroy you”
  • Unclear if this is the law of the Arconsphere or any old local law
• Given to Tetuel at the Arconsphere by the secretary of the domain of abjuration

• Jack bought in the Arconsphere’s Grand Bazaar from a theatrical changeling

• Mordoe traded Wand of Cat’s Grace for this in Arconsphere bazaar
• Tells you nearest hostile creature within 60 feet even if they’re hidden

• Regi has 2 - requires a 100GP pearl as a focus (Regi also has this)
• Tetuel bought in Arconsphere bazaar

• Red robe with blue scrollwork embroidery, has a swooshing enchantment
• Tetuel bought in Arconsphere bazaar