#madness' end campaign

[unitedaegis]

[9] Madness' End: Nightmare Relief

Post campaign re-release, originally dated:

MID-MAY Y41 / 6:00 AM / DALARAN CITY

FOR EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION TO ALL UNITED AEGIS MEMBERS

Greetings, United Aegis. The following has been compiled by QUARTERMASTER VIVIKA SPLINTERTREE-TALONSCRIBE from reports by TEAM LEADER VOLHELLIAN ZHI LU-DUSKWHISPER and TRADESPERSON MYRO GLADEWIND.

ALL NON-ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN IN VALDRAKKEN OR RETURN TO THEIR HOMES FOR THE TIME BEING.

Clarification: All organization members below OPERATIONS LEADER are advised to retreat to Valdrakken, or leave the Isles entirely. Those who remain are required to report to Director Zael or Team Leader Volhellian.

Continuing from last week’s revelation, Director Zael and Team Leader Volhellian attempted to guide the remaining expedition out of Ohn’aran Plains and into the Azure Span via the Teerakai Road entrance.

As suspected, an old threat has resurfaced. Details will remain on a need-to-know basis until a re-deployment order has been issued. I am allowed to share the following de-classified information:

FILE: Aezsden N.N.

Species: Naga Threat Level: 6 Old God Age: Unknown - estimated 12,000-15,000 years

Encountered: Approx. 3 months before the War of Thorns, caused intense psychological damage to multiple members of then Aegis Academy, and kidnapped a Ren’dorei woman from the original organization headquarters in Surwich.

Orders: Do not engage. If encountered, make all efforts to escape. Do not risk injury to yourself or your team. Report sightings to Team Leadership immediately.

Aezsden has been encountered on the road from the Plains, confirming that it was indeed his influence causing nightmares for the Teerai Initiates. His departure from the region has brought calm to the Centaur’s dreams, though he summoned several Faceless minions to make his escape.

Zael, Volhellian, Kang, Myro and Randred faced and defeated these aberrations, and remain deployed, camped in the Azure Span.

A second threat has been reported; when Aezsden made an appearance, a large explosion lit up the sky across the Plains, coming from the direction of Timberstep Outpost.

Initial scouting reports from Myro speak of great destruction in the waterfalls near Timberstep Outpost, though only one fatality among the Centaur. They speak of sighting the Incarnate of Fire, Fyrakk, diving into the earth and boring into unknown caverns below the Dragon Isles.

Myro was able to use his connections with the Dragonscale Expedition to request aid for the Outpost’s injured, and we thank him for his quick action.

United Aegis leadership will need to decide which path to follow now, between the threats that have emerged in tandem. Please be patient and remain safe in Valdrakken or otherwise away from the Dragon Isles during this time.

WHAT HAPPENED

Old God Level 6 Threat Aezsden remains active.

Incarnate of Fire Fyrakk has destroyed a portion of the Ohn’aran Plains and disappeared into the earth.

WHATS NEXT

Discussion continues between the currently deployed expedition team and United Aegis leadership.

A re-deployment order is expected within the next two weeks.

ACTION ITEMS

Remain alert. Report any unusual void-based sightings to Team Leaders.

[utilitycaster]

I don't begrudge anyone their campaign preferences, and I think there's plenty of valid reasons to like Campaign 3 the best and this is not directed at people who are genuinely having a great time with it, but it feels like virtually all the nostalgia and wishful thinking I see surrounding Campaign 3 is screaming "you guys want Campaign 2." You want more slow travel and downtime and interparty conversations and slow-burn romance? You wish their main focus was fighting governmental corruption? You want a party that only semi-settles down at the end and keeps adventuring and remains very close? You're frustrated by how everpresent and overarching the moon plot is? You miss when they were just fucking around in a city? I genuinely believe you want Campaign 2, or at best you love a specific ship or a character from Campaign 3 but aren't happy about basically anything else, and would vastly prefer the tone and events and plot of Campaign 2. And I don't really care if you watch Campaign 2, or if you think I'm being annoying here; I simply genuinely believe you'd be happier watching Campaign 2 than Campaign 3 and are so deep in a sunk cost fallacy well you can't see it.

[bon-uoq]

I still really like Age of Calamity in spite of its canon divergence, because nothing brings me more joy than seeing glimpses of what the Kingdom of Hyrule was like before so much of it was vaporized!!

I read every little mission/quest text and it just makes me smile. Reading (wholesome) stories about random citizens!! Little cultural details and how different tribes interacted with each other, what the Sheikah-Royal family relationship was like...

It gave us a surface-level form of the one thing I secretly hoped TotK would let us do, which is to explore this iteration of the kingdom while it was intact. The stone tablets in Tears were so much fun but GODSSS I wish they'd have let us explore ancient Hyrule instead of just the ruins of some of it in the sky and depths.

I am after all a nerd about these games so it really is the small stuff that feeds my heart the most <33

[memendoemori]

I really wish I could figure out why I no longer feel a sense of pride and accomplishment when I finish a big project or something critical for work or even like. A short story. Why do I just get mad at myself for my failures and shortcomings instead of enjoying the fact that I did something really cool or wrote something neat

[repositoryofmalarky]

Just finished a 4 year long level 1 to 20 DnD campaign where we beat the mad mages dungeon.

I'm gonna go insane, what do you mean I have to stop thinking about my blorbo

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i know that when carlo suddenly decided that he needs to marry guy made a whole list in his head n like had a deadlines n shit. like it was some kind of a task he needed to do

[she-aint-no-slow-regard]

Not my emotional support himbo :(

[mantisgodsdomain]

Building characters for TTRPGs is great. You can make a character who's really good at everything but the one stat where they have a 72% chance of failing miserably at every single roll and immediately dying.

[silverislander]

working here is making me a little bit nuts abt antibullying again <3

[ashmcgivern]

Been a while since I've had a moment to draw stuff for myself. Lots has happened in our campaign, I don't think I'll have the time to write any of it up, but Zeal got a new sword! Actually, it's Xan's greatsword, sized down and modified ever so slightly to become a rapier so he can actually use it. Zeal has more or less accepted that he wants to follow in Xan's footsteps in working with Lathander, and so his 'training' for it began (the boy also met Lathander, so that helps)

He's also taken some more sorcerer levels, so the gold is now bleeding into his feathers for real.

[unitedaegis]

[8] Madness' End: Maruukai

Post campaign re-release, originally dated:

LATE APRIL Y41 / 6:00 AM / DALARAN CITY

FOR EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION TO ALL UNITED AEGIS MEMBERS

Greetings, United Aegis. The following has been compiled by QUARTERMASTER VIVIKA SPLINTERTREE-TALONSCRIBE with assistance from DIRECTOR ZAEL MARLFOX.

ALL NON-ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL ARE ADVISED TO EVACUATE THE OHN’ARAN PLAINS AT THIS TIME. AN OLD GOD LEVEL 6 THREAT HAS BEEN REVEALED.

Clarification: All organization members below OPERATIONS LEADER are advised to retreat to Valdrakken, or leave the Isles entirely. Those who remain are required to report to Director Zael or Team Leader Volhellian.

Waking Shores Basecamp and Ohn’aran Plains Basecamp have been evacuated at the time of publishing. All other non-leadership, non-expedition personnel are advised to leave the Dragon Isles, or at the very least, evacuate from the Ohn’aran Plains.

The elders of the Plains have given us permission to travel though, which is the best news I can bring you today, however an old threat has re-emerged.

At this time, a threat assessment is underway headed by Director Zael and Team Leader Volhellian.

When that assessment has concluded, a proper evaluation will be published, and re-deployment will be discussed.

WHAT HAPPENED

Our organization has earned the privilege of travel through the Ohn’aran Plains.

A level 6 threat has been revealed. All non-essential personnel are advised to evacuate the Isles.

WHATS NEXT

A threat assessment is being conducted, and a proper re-deployment alert will be published upon completion.

ACTION ITEMS

Evacuate at your earliest convenience.

[notquiteaghost]

can i ask what happened with the rqg finale that you mentioned in the tags? 👀 i used to be a listener but stopped a while back

im still only half awake n im going off my memory alone so, grain of salt, but the Big thing is. if you got far enough in, y'know the blue veins? or if you didn't, the final big bad, they turned out to be like. very powerful deity-type thing who could not be meaningfully defeated, only reasoned with. so the party gamely attempted to reason (again if you got far enough in, a conversation with big mr. ceiling vibes), and then got to Make A Choice. as a handful of random people, on behalf of Absolutely Fucking Everyone. they chose for the big bad to fuck off n leave everyone alone. game over! campaign over! oh by the way when the big bad left they took all magic (sorcery wizardry and deity) with them and you didn't in fact fix anything because everything is now just broken again but differently :) the cool floating city crashed to earth and loads of people died :) ninety five percent of technology no longer works :) thanks for playing and listening!

[arcadian-vampire]

Actually I've been on this site since like, 2016 I think, and this is The most semi-negative attention I've ever received tbh. It's still not much at all, I haven't even had any anons abt it. It feels like there are two or three kids outside my window and they just occasionally smack it w a twig. Keeps things exciting

[sugar-spice-and-everything-dice]

All those posts that are like "homebrewing dnd is like modding skyrim into call of duty" or whatever are missing the point. Coming from someone who extensively modded skyrim back when i was playing it, maybe the appeal is taking the bones of a system and just absolutely fucking them up in a way that pleases you. Did you consider that.

ALSO . in the same vein, those posts that are like "just play a different system!!!1!!" and then either a) don't give any recommendations or b) just recommend their favorite system that is absolutely not widely-customizable/appealing are also Bad

[bbeeohazardd]

jrwi fan community on twitter THE most annoying place on earth, my congolences to jrwicrew because good lird

[illithilit]

I actually managed to find that Drow name chart, so I am here to share the breakdown of dear Daxie's name.

His first name translates to "legendary wanderer" ( or renegade, but I doubt his parents would have selected that particular meaning. ) It's.... Certainly something to name your child, and frankly, to me it reads as his parents being fully prepared to keep him as a sort of foot soldier; they didn't by any means expect him to have any semblance of standing in the house, and to make it even more transparent, it's not any kind of compliment. It's a nicer way of naming him red-headed step child. He has his uses, ofc, particularly when his house has traditionally placed a great deal of importance on bloodline -- but that's, uhh.... About as far as it goes, since it's not exactly smiled upon in Vhaeraunite culture to cull healthy children.

His house's name translates as "raiders from the web." The name dates back to the house's origins under Lolth's rule, but has long since undergone a perception change since they're too proud of themselves to deign to change it. ( That being, 'from the web' is viewed as returning home from raiding Lolthite society. )