Setting: Our heroes venture at last to the caldera rim to seek the second of the two wind elementals who caused the raging Infernex, Scirocco, and discover the nature of Wuther's nemesis.
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Setting: Having gathered some mysterious plants from shadowed crevices in the isle's central desert, the Star Chasers seek to appease Wuther the wind elemental with something sufficiently tea-like to satisfy him such that he returns Reize's long-lost scarf... before our young hero succumbs again to Sea Madness.
Setting: Reize and Ivo hunt for some plant to use for tea with the assistance of Daiby's knowledge. Unfortunately for the party, they come across a very dangerous saurian.
Setting: Reize and Ivo arrive past the Volcanic Cliffs and decide to look for a way to get past the malevolent maelstrom: The Infernex. Reize comes across a very familiar face and an even more familiar keepsake.
Setting: As the party have a moment of respite, Iris takes interest in the boy's boomerangs, a unique craftsmanship compared to the current age of socketed weapons. She offers to enhance his weapon using a technique that is long forgotten by society.
Setting: Preparations had been made to get through the dangerous obstacle: The corrupted toxic wind elemental. Reize, Ivo, Daiby, and Iris arrive with grenades to try to blow through the toxic gas.
Setting: As the team prepare for their next trip back to the volcano, its the matter of training the two pets to get along.
Setting: "This is totally stupid, but it's not boring at least." --Laineth
Setting: The Star Chasers have passed through the cactus-ridden desert and reached the dormant volcano at the center of the isle, where seemingly insurmountable cliffs loom before them. With Reize, Hero of Vulturekind, having rejoined his party, our heroes elect to hazard the ancient lava tubes in the hopes of ascending up and through the darkness, seeking safe passage and the mountain's treasures.
Setting: Our rehydrated heroes venture on to reunite with their fearless leader, only to discover that Reize has had some extraordinary adventures of his own.
Setting: Ivo, Fabroxo, and Iris venture into a warren of giant cactus-dwelling aphids in search of access to the oasis the party desperately needs. In the absence of their fearless leader Reize, they do not get lost. What happens to Fabroxo is entirely on purpose, and so doesn't count. As for Ivo and Iris, they acquire not only water but a further prize -- and a mysterious means of acquiring prizes yet further.
Setting: Our heroes venture at last into the wind-scoured inland deserts of this misbegotten isle with the aid of a marmot-powered sand-sailing sledge. There, the dice giveth a companion, and the dice taketh away a companion. He'll be fine.
Setting: In which Reize takes 9999 damage. He'll be fine.
Setting: What can some mad magitechnicians make to assist with a desert crossing when all the tools at their disposal are some rocks, some driftwood, some coconuts, and a lot of marmots? Much more than just sunscreen... when not distracted by pressing concerns like what Argent's beachwear should be.
Setting: Our heroes open negotiations with their erstwhile foe: an especially surly giant tortoise that lives a little ways down the coast. Should they succeed, they may acquire an ally and beast of burden effective in their efforts to traverse the inland deserts of the cactus forest. Should they fail... rock to the face.
Setting: Using the marmot meat obtained from the hunt, Reize and the group prepared the food anticipating the arrival of the Catgirl gang. However, they come across a new inhabitant in the isle who has a mission of her own...
Setting: In search of meat and hide, the Star Chasers hunt the most dangerous game (?).
Setting: Under cover of darkness, hunkered against the elements by the shelter of the shipwreck they inhabit, our heroes discuss their next goals on the Isle of Blessed Winds.
Setting: Reize finally recovers from the Sea Madness and wakes up to Ruidosa tending to him..
Setting: Since landing in the mysterious Island, Reize's seasickness evolved into the worst case of Sea Madness. Rallied by Reize to search for his missing scarf, Ruidosa and Ivo learn more about the island's inhabitants.
Setting: On the word of a wandering parakeet, Professor Acting Governor Fabroxo brings Argent and Laineth on an alleged rescue mission to the Zel'rik Archipelago. It goes exactly as one would hope. Best of luck to Acting Acting Governor Granny Wilmie back in Cosmopolis in the meantime.
Setting: Our heroes first set foot as castaways on the Isle of Blessed Winds.
Setting: Reize is rescued, but at what cost? Our heroes struggle to survive in the depths of the Twilight Canyon -- and beyond.
Setting: Our heroes pursue the Reizenapping Catgirl Mafia in a magitech speedboat chase into the perilous Twilight Canyon.
Setting: As the hapless Reize was kidnapped by a pack of catgirl demi-humans, Ivo leads the boat chase in the Romancing Saga.
Setting: As Ivo and the lizardfolk clergy prepare to depart on the Romancing SaGa to bear the busted MegaCapo back to Aurita Meloda, his fellow Star Chasers prepare to receive Madam La Crima as a visitor to their humble establishment, when an unexpectedly urgent quest arises-- and a new game mechanic is unlocked. Almost like we're setting up for a new adventure!
Setting: The lizardfolk priestess Cutini Nak, leader of Aurita Meloda, arrives at our heroes' lakeside restaurant, Time for Crab, to investigate evidence of occult activity: specifically, the use of vampire necromancy to revive and rematerialize the spirit of the King Crab, using its giant shell, to cook and eat it over and over, creating an endless supply of the most delicious crab to ever exist. The Star Chasers endeavor to hide the evidence. I know what you're thinking: this can't get any wackier. Just you wait.
Setting: The Star Chasers christen the name "Time for Crab" as part of the La Crima merchantry-owned restaurant. There is a discovery of the crab's vengeful spirit.
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Setting: As the Star Chasers explore the Lakeside Town to do some shopping, they encounter an old 'acquaintance' of Reize from his adventures in Ihiyo.
Setting: Last episode, our heroes discovered the long-lost treasure of the Pits of Avarice in the form of an extraordinary solid-gold golem. With Ruidosa concerned that revealing this newfound wealth would once again attract treasure hunters to the dangerous and haunted Pits, Ivo conducted a foolproof scheme: to launder the gold through The Capo's contacts in the Lakeside Town by way of acquiring a languishing seafood restaurant. This will go well.
Setting: The Star Chasers were overwhelmed by the merchant skeletons, but luckily, they have Ivo to come to the rescue with a great new artifact for the young prince to use!
Setting: The Star Chasers take the young Prince Constatin on his first real adventure. Exploring the depths of the Pits of Avarice, they encounter the skeletal merchants that overwhelm them by numbers....
Setting: While Ivo is making final adjustments to his artifact for the prince's protection, Reize would have the young prince undergo some training in preparation of his first adventure. It is the matter of getting Ruidosa's pet, the Doom Chicken, to work with him...
Setting: The Star Chasers came a long way since the start of their adventure. Reize reflects not only on the adventures that they had, but the main reason he took up the path of an explorer. Ruidosa and Anna find him in an odd introspective mood. In this, he reveals the reason for that introspection.
Setting: The young Vanguards have a private meeting with Darcey and Constatin regarding his request: To be an adventurer.
Setting: After spending time at Aurita Meloda, the Star Chasers were making their way back to Zerhem Kingdom, but passed by the Logged Town to find that it had been revitalized to a vibrant state. They meet with Nais, the new Guardian of the town and Aoife, who brings them news about a special request.
Setting: The final match for the championship is between Ruidosa, who had been dominating the roster and Anna, the berserker with the heritage of the beastkin behind her axe. Will Ruidosa meet her match?!
Setting: The third match is the loser's bracket, consisting of both Ivo and Reize. Which fighter will land on top?!
Setting: Reize has been bothered regarding Ruidosa's aggression as of late. It is up to the mother to bring Reize up to speed regarding the vampire customs as a new member of the "La Crima" house.
Setting: After obtaining victory over Reize, Ruidosa is set to take on Ivo. However, what lies at stake is not for La Crima's hand, but Reize's hand. ... Wait what?
Setting: A new dawn has risen for Aurita Meloda and a celebration is heightened by an honorable duel between unexpected combatants: Reize and Rui!
Setting: What started off as a simple funny idea of trying to get Reize's unruly hair fixed turned into a battle against an insurmountable foe. The Vanguards discover how aggressive the unruly strand of hair is, much to Reize's ignorance. As Ivo devises a plot, Reize gets himself into a situation with his partner... Shenanigans ensue.
Setting: The Star Chasers arrive at the deepest part of the catacombs beneath the manor of La Crima. They discover that not all of the cultists had been driven off...
Setting: The group manage to recover after dealing with the vampire hunters. However, why Ruidosa was specifically hunted remains a mystery.
Setting: Reize, Ruidosa, and Ivo were on their way through the marsh to visit the La Crima manor once again for some further information and casual visitations. However, there are a group who await their presence.
Setting: While the Star Chasers await the arrival of Daiby to Zerhem, a mysterious bard induces in them a strange dreamlike trance...
Setting: Taking up a request by Argent, Reize and the other Vanguards investigate the reason for merchants and other travelers being unable to go through the forested roads, only to find out the infestation of ice elementals.
Setting: The C-Class Vanguards take up the quest to investigate the root cause for the bounty of 'slaying 10 Reizes'. However, it is back to the Pits of Avarice. While they were at it, Reize took up multiple side-quests along the way.
Setting: The latest Vanguard Association request deals with a recent commotion at the Mountainous Road where a massive Yeti arrived and took control over the other Yetis. This resulted in strife for travelers who would pass through the range. It's up to the Vanguards to put an end to it!
Setting: Ivo helps Argent and Laineth prepare for a move to Cosmopolis.
Setting: Ivo calls a party organizational meeting for a performance review of their previous adventure.
Setting: Reize and Ruidosa enjoy a day of shopping at Zerhem.
Setting: The Star Chasers arrive at the source of the mist, a strange radiating orb. However, they come across a challenger who seemingly comes from somewhere far beyond their understanding. Can the explorers face the man's challenge?
Setting: The Star Chasers earned the right to enter an unexplored temple that predates Vaeltrandia's origins. As they try to learn about the surrounding area, they brave through a few puzzles and threat that sense fresh arrivals.
Setting: The Star Chasers, armed with the four keys, applied them to the entrance in order to unlock the secret temple, only to find disappointment when nothing happened. At the revelation of a fifth key, the Star Chasers finally encounter a man who had been watching Reize the whole time. Standing between them and exploration, he offers the final key if they accept his challenge...
Setting: The victorious Star Chasers return to Aurita Meloda to assist Cutini Nak and the beastkin in building a new shrine for Kernunnos.
Setting: At last, our heroes confront the Star-Crowned Emperor upon his glass ark, Arcadios, to battle for the true legacy of the Star-Crowned.
Setting: Our heroes contend with the airborne defenses of the Floating City Arcadios and seek the throne room of the Star-Crowned Emperor.
Setting: The party takes flight on the rocket-tree Sol Ascent, the last legacy of Vaeltrandia, aiming for the floating city of glass Arcadios. In their way is the shattered Bridge of Light, a veritable maelstrom of translucent blades -- and an unexpected denizen thereof.
Setting: With the Crux of Creation reassembled and empowered, the Star Chasers gather at the Bastion of Bygone Days in preparation for their ascent to the floating city Arcadios and the long-awaited final chapter of their adventures in Granse.
Setting: Our heroes return to Granse and gather in the Manor La Crima to review their adventures thus far and discuss their next steps.
Setting: Ivo at last resumes his Cosmopolitan duties, joined by his senpai Daiby and his estimable colleague Fabroxo. A laboratory is installed in the governor's manor of the Seventeenth Turn of the Spiring City. What, as ever, could go wrong?
Setting: Two friends and allies face off in an exhibition match to celebrate the beginning of the Cosmos Cup, Cosmopolis's first international fighting tournament.
Setting: Darcea and Georgie hatch a plan to help repair the rift between Reize and Ruidosa. Ruidosa received a summon to meet with the princess at an undisclosed location, only to be led to a secluded date with Reize. Will they be able to patch their bond?
Setting: Reize and Ivo go dirt hunting in the Cosmopolitan jungle.
Setting: A vendor currently has issues regarding a flock of parakeets invading her orchard and eating her mangos. While they usually could be scared off by dangling bright pots and pans from the trees, they've wisen up to it. The current Vanguards associated with the Star Chasers have taken up the task of resolving the issue. There was an additional warning about them picking up 'fowl' language.
Setting: Our heroes investigate the rumored eidola cult in the sprawl outside the city walls of Cosmopolis.
Setting: The Star Chasers visit the new offices of the Vanguards in Cosmopolis ahead of the Cosmos Cup.
Setting: The Covenant to Control Chaos sails the Sweet Francine to the secret coves beneath the Spiring City Cosmopolis, where aristocrats who resent the changes that have come to the long-sealed city invite the antagonists to assist them in plotting a sinister scheme.
Setting: In search of the largest crab in Lake Gerisia with which to appease the wronged Ruidosa, Reize and friends take the Romancing SaGa out for some deep water diving, assisted by the magics of their merfolk and lizardfolk allies. Everything goes well and-- ahaha, no, you got me.
Setting: With Reize in distress at the catastrophic failure of his dungeon date with Ruidosa, Ivo hatches a crabby scheme.
Setting: Answering a letter of challenge, the party returns to the River Delta and meets with their erstwhile merfolk opponents for a rematch between the princess berserker and the brawny mermaid bodyguard Gasa Dan. A clash of great resolve commences!
Setting: Ivo requests Priel and Argent's assistance in returning to the Drowned Undercity beneath Aurita Meloda, the site of their previous battle with Deathless Draaken, to further examine Meloda's Blessing and perform some tests with the completed Crux of Creation.
Setting: Ruidosa dreamed of a perfect evening upon a balcony under a full moon with a bucket full of crabs and spending it with her beloved. ...Unfortunately, her "beloved" took her to a dark mine with skeletons for the first date. However, Reize heard that there was a rare flower that she would appreciate. ...But will she?
Setting: Within the La Crima manor, Headmistress La Crima sent Ruidosa and Tranquila away to confide with Ivo and Reize upon the origins of the two girls.
Setting: Ivo, Fabroxo, and Camellia of the Covenant to Control Chaos venture to the Golden Hills south of Lake Gerisia, ostensibly to gather materials relevant to their research. But for some reason, Ivo has brought a picnic basket and a bottle of wine.
Setting: The party returns to Aurita Meloda after receiving a letter of challenge from Gasa Dan of the merfolk for the berserker princess Anna Primrose.
Setting: In order to help a reformed criminal accept his roots, Reize and Ivo offered to help him train within the Hills and Dale, where Nais could attune with nature to further his affinity with his heritage. At the same time, it was training for the newly acquired pet, Doom Chicken. The training collide together for all!
Setting: The Zerhem Castle residents became more guarded over the past few days. Unbeknownst to the public, an emissary from Hagos arrived prior to warn the King and Queen of an plot to assassinate the Prince. They received intel that the Empire planned to take out the divided rulers in his attempt to amass all of the nations under his iron fist. Despite the reclusive nature of the royal family, they granted the prolific Class D Vanguards an audience for their success with Princess Darcea. The hope would come into frustrations as they reach a fruitless end to negotiate the release …
Setting: The legacy of Vaeltrandia is at last revealed. Awaiting our heroes is a tragic tale of betrayal, grief, and misbegotten ideals. But in the depths of the druids' fortress, a single hope lives on.
Setting: Concerned that some eidola yet malinger after their battle on the northern coast of Granse, potentially threatening the nearby fishing village, Ivo empowers the Crux of Creation with the aim of attracting any stragglers hungering for domain aether. But in a twist, the news of eidola has already attracted two nemeses: Aguri, sworn to hunt demonic forces, and Yari, who desires to consume their essence.
Setting: Chaos: an elemental power so immense that it ruptures the very laws of the universe, producing a dynamo of limitless energy. Such a force could remake the world and anything in it to suit any imaginings. The Covenant to Control Chaos was formed to harness this strange and still-mysterious phenomenon. And Frankie, the beloved daughter of the Covenant's leader, wants in. For she has an impossible, incomparable ambition: to become a beastkin. She turns to The Great Fabroxo, animal hybridization specialist, to demand that the (not yet harnessed, ETA TBD) power of Chaos be used to this end. But a …
Setting: The Star Chasers make their way to a lone island that bears the final fragment according to the nearly restored Crux. However, they come across remnants of the dead as well as an eidola responsible for Anna's destiny with the Star Chasers.
Setting: The Star Chasers explore the next level of the catacombs underneath La Crima's manor. What they find is an area constructed of gears and hazards.
Setting: Previously, our heroes were tasked by the royal family of Zerhem with stealthily observing the tortured love life of Princess Darcea. The party's interference resulted in Darcea rejecting both her terrible suitors and running off with a waiter. Now, the royal family requires that the princess and her new beau be located. But her romance with the waiter, Georgie, is already under threat from her conspiring ladies-in-waiting. Can our heroes bring about a happy ending for Princess Darcea? How much will doing so cost Reize? And how many whole crabs can Ruidosa's family eat in one sitting? Find out on …
Setting: Ivo and Argent attempt to replicate the lightning generation of the captured Heavenly Crowned Beetle via elemental fusion. Using the apparatus designed for producing elespheres, their efforts yield failure. But then who should appear but the incomparable genius Fabroxo, here to request the mad scientist equivalent of a cup of sugar. With his presence, their failures shall turn to... much more dramatic failures!
Setting: The party travels to the Lonely Woods where Kernunnos's shrine slumbers after Ivo claims that the demigod has sensed a curious presence there. Then Ivo promptly begins gathering flowers. But Kernunnos did indeed sense a presence: that of the Heavenly Crowned Beetle, the ultimate six-star Ultra-Mega-Rare specimen. Our heroes now have one quest. Catch that beetle! But what will stand in their way...?
Setting: The Capo calls for a new meeting of the Covenant to Control Chaos on the Sweet Francine. There, his minions are to present what he has demanded: a suitable "combat system" so that, in his next encounter with the pesky heroes, he may emerge victorious. Fabroxo seems confident in what he has devised. Yet his rival Ivo has brought not some device as his "combat system," but a gaggle of his adventuring friends. What could the gangsters-in-waiting be planning? And how will The Capo react?
Setting: The group, especially Reize Seatlan, were left to rest and recover after a brutal being demolished by the rampaging Black Beast. The atmosphere is left crestfallen.
Setting: During the party's conflict with The Capo and his Covenant to Control Chaos in Aurita Meloda, before the capybara gangster could have a proper showdown with Reize, he fled complaining that there was "no combat system" and he couldn't "see the numbers or meters," leaving everyone in confusion. But Ivo has to remain in The Capo's good graces to keep the party's laboratory in the aqueduct safe from the predations of the Granse underworld. Thus may he not refuse The Capo's newest demand: that Ivo create "a combat system." Ivo has no idea what this means. He goes to the …
Setting: After foiling the assassin's plot, the Vanguards face the misfortune of crossing paths with the Black Beast. Even worse, he has his eyes set on Reize Seatlan.
Setting: With the prince's arrival, he prepares his first speech to the city. Within the darkness lie assassins waiting for their opportunity to strike.
Setting: The city square will be decorated with wreaths, dancers will be prepared to showcase their rituals and there is fun to be had! There has been growing rumors that it will be the first time that the boy prince will show up to make his first announcement as he steps into his path of manhood. What's a festival without shenanigans?
Setting: The Vanguards return to Zerhem Kingdom to recuperate after the last adventure into the Mirage Forest. As the group catch up with Ivo, they are visited by a very familiar face.
Setting: After clearing the source of darkness, the Vanguards find a passage that leads to an unknown halls. An enigmatic temple awaits them with unknown history.
Setting: Under the request of Professor Reynald, the new Vanguards return to the Mirage Forest to investigate the rumor regarding a secret passage and the dark forces that drove away a group of excavators.
Setting: The Star Chasers find themselves taking on a new mission, after the persistence of a certain vampire and as recommendation by a certain receptionist for a CERTAIN CRIMINAL to redeem himself: Find the lost kitten. Should be a simple enough request, right?
Setting: Reize Seatlan accepts a request to investigate the rumors of the sirens beyond Lake Gerisia, much to Ruidosa chagrin. What lies ahead for the adventurers is the unexpected: the sirens were specifically luring them in for a heartfelt request.
Setting: Our heroes are victorious in Aurita Meloda, subduing the mighty MegaCapo and repelling, one way or another, the members of the Covenant to Control Chaos. Meloda's Blessing is safe for now, and Reize and his friends have earned the undying loyalty of Cutini Nak and her lizardfolk faithful.
But this victory did not come without cost: Ruidosa was injured during the battle and the party must rest while Reize nurses her back to health. In the interim, during a quiet and private moment, the eidola Kernunnos, having observed the previous battle from within Reize's pendant, speaks up. He is concerned that …
Setting: The party is still reeling from their tragic encounter with the remnant eidola of the goblin village and the mysterious woman who assaulted them there when an emergency message arrives for them at Vanguards HQ in Suryle Kingdom. Cutini Nak, the lizardfolk priestess whom they assisted in the battle at the River Delta west of Zerhem, is requesting aid from our heroes. She reports that a motley band of suspicious individuals is seeking access to the Drowned Undercity beneath Aurita Meloda, where Meloda's Blessing continues to churn away. Her faithful have returned to Aurita Meloda from the delta and are …
Setting: As our heroes prepare to depart at last from Suryle Kingdom and travel to the goblin village so dear to Anna's heart, their contacts at Vanguards HQ issue an emergency request. Reports out of the Queenswood indicate that in the wake of the massacre of the goblins by the marauder eidola, spectral images and eerie sounds have begun manifesting on the killing grounds. Unable to safely return to their village under the circumstances, the goblins, despite their ambivalent relations with the kingdom, requested the aid of Knights of Suryle. The small troop sent to investigate ended up returning in a …
Setting: With Reize recovered from seasickness, the party visits the headquarters of the Vanguard Association in Suryle Kingdom before venturing south to the Queenswood. While Anna stays behind to avoid discovery and prepare for her return to the goblin village, the others are joined by some recent acquaintances, who, it turns out, may be more important members of the Vanguards than Ivo initially realized...
Setting: Our heroes return to Verdios bearing the treasure they intend to donate to the goblin village previously devastated by the eidola marauder they helped Anna to repel. Their port of entry is Suryle Kingdom, the Sentry on the Shore and the wayward princess's home. Though the party does not plan to tarry long, now that Reize has procured a proper disguise and has gathered his resolve, they decide to take the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the Vanguard Association, located in the chilly coastal city.
After a night of rest in one of Suryle's spartan (but free!) longhouses for …
Setting: The sorceress Camellia has trailed the Star Chasers on their journey west from Zerhem, being aware that their alliance with the eidola Kernunnos allows the party to detect the missing arms of the Crux of Creation, the artifact that will lead to the lost legacy of the Star-Crowned. She thus witnessed the merfolk chief Silrug Dac summon Elemental Chaos at the river delta with the aether gems fused to his scaled skin, then ambushed him to cruelly extract some of them for study. She is distracted from the Crux by the prospect of studying this intriguing source of power, and …
Setting: With the treasure acquired from the Drowned Undercity, and the globe-trotting mobility offered by the Romancing SaGa, our heroes hope to return to Verdios and donate some riches to assist in the rebuilding of the goblin village that Anna so loves. Though nothing can restore the lives lost in the devastating eidola attack, and no trail of that eidola has yet resurfaced, the party can still contribute even if Anna's nemesis remains at large.
There's just one catch: Reize, the party's otherwise fearless leader, is oddly nervous about returning to the nation of his birth. Ivo seeks to persuade the …
Setting: The party is returning in triumph and exhaustion to Zerhem, their adventures on the western coast of Granse concluded. On the road back, they stop to rest in a picturesque logging town near the Misty Forest where the architecture seems familiar, reminiscent of Kernunnos's shrine. It turns out that some of the town's residents have claimed to be descended from the druids of Vaeltrandia scattered upon the kingdom's fall, though most of them have passed away.
One of those self-proclaimed inheritors of druidic talents was especially skilled at predicting the weather, and used this skill to navigate the Misty Forest …
Setting: He has endured for centuries, imprisoned beneath the ruins of the city he once overthrew, the seal upon him repeated and renewed, the mighty and undaunted rebel worthy of his name -- Deathless Draaken.
Now, as Meloda's Blessing churns on behind him, the whorling watery mass intensifying his menacing mien, all that stands between him and liberty is our heroes.
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Setting: Beneath Aurita Meloda, something stirs.
The party returns to the ruins of the ancient beastkin metropolis refreshed and resupplied after their time in Zerhem, prepared to seek the third arm of the Crux of Creation in the flooded network of canals buried under the city streets. They bring with them the two fragments they currently possess, now crafted by Ivo into a somewhat functional relic, and the Ophidian Totem, lent to them by the lizardfolk priestess Cutini Nak. The half-Crux has allowed them to restore Kernunnos to limited but adequate strength. The Totem will supposedly open a path deeper into …
Setting: Now in very good graces with Zerhem's royal family, our heroes are preparing to venture back to Aurita Meloda on the western coast and delve into the Drowned Undercity beneath in search of the third arm of the Crux of Creation. But Kernunnos remains exhausted from their battle with the Elemental Chaos in the River Delta.
While the party remains in Zerhem, Ivo resolves to find a way to use the two fragments of the Crux currently in their possession to find a way to convert elemental aether into the power of Creation that Kernunnos needs to recover. Should even …
Setting: The roots of Vaeltrandia's druids run deeper than our heroes anticipated. The aid of an enigmatic and alluring acquaintance clues them in to the true nature of Nais, the bandit they bested in the Misty Forest.
Setting: Previously, in Star Chaser Story, our heroes came across some valuable intelligence (salacious gossip rag) that informed them that the princess of Zerhem is rumored to sneak out through a secret passage in the library for trysts with two beaus between whom, melodramatically, she cannot choose. In a remarkable coincidence, when the party returns to Vanguard headquarters with all the actually-relevant-to-adventurers information they could find in the restricted library, a special and oddly lucrative request is waiting for them from an anonymous source: to follow the princess on one of these escapades and confirm their veracity, on the condition of …
Setting: The plucky trio reflect on their adventures thus far.
Setting: Due to the bravery of the few, the "Star Chasers" earned a free pass from the lizard-folk in the River Delta going forth.
Those affiliated with the "Boy with the Long Yellow Scarf" have becoming increasingly recognized across Zerhem Kingdom and the proximity surroundings. Their successes have attributed to the associated affiliates of the beginner Vanguard the privilege of accessing the castle library.
Given that Corrine is no longer threatening to arrest Reize (for now?), she requested for him to return a few books to the library as she has some updates on the requests board to take. Reize is …
Setting: Upon defeating the Elemental Chaos summoned by the merfolk of the River Delta, our heroes are celebrated by the lizardfolk and allowed safe passage west to the coast. After further discussion with Ivo regarding the party's objectives, Cutini Nak, the lizardfolk head priestess, has lent them the Ophidian Totem, a sacred relic that she claims may open the way into the depths of the ancient and abandoned beastkin city of Aurita Meloda. Based on Kernunnos's intuitions, it seems likely that the third arm of the Crux of Creation somehow ended up buried in the flooded waterways below the city streets, …
Setting: Following their successful picnic, the party has confirmed that the signal from the third Crux fragment is emanating far to the west, near the coast. The ruins of an ancient beastkin city lie there, now much diminished from the halcyon days of their people's golden age, but few save the bravest or most desperate treasure hunters venture there. The way passes through wetlands dotted with footbridges that make any travelers targets for the amphibious and aquatic beastkin descended from the denizens of that bygone city.
Once, the lizardfolk would have merely charged a toll to any passerby. But their control …
Setting: The party has narrowed down the location of the next piece of the Crux to somewhere west of Zerhem Kingdom, but how far west remains undetermined. Fortunately, the area immediately west of the city is a gorgeous location where the forested hills appeared to be in perpetual autumn and the valley between is in endless spring. Since this is due to aetherial flux caused by a subterranean concentration of earth-aspected crystals, our heroes have three good reasons to travel there:
1) to test how far away the next Crux reading is,
2) to see if any powerful earth crystals and …
Setting: Recently, there were rumors amongst travelers that there has been an ambush against anyone who traveled along a misty woods. Those who traveled out to reach to their destination were attacked and forced to flee. The rumors even say that the forest is haunted; surrounded by mist, everything within the forest appears to be a mirage. Dwell too deep and you never live to tell the tale.
The situation warranted the attention of the Vanguard Association, who put a task for those to investigate the situation. None other than the Beginner Vanguard, Reize Seatlan, took up the task.
Join Reize …
Setting: The party has acquired the second of the four arms of the Crux of Creation from the burial mound of the lost kingdom of Vaeltrandia. Now, unfortunately, they are out of leads. Ivo has thus decided to attempt to adapt his magitech amplifier into a makeshift enhancement device for Kernunnos' detection abilities, so that our heroes may narrow down where in Granse to venture next.
To that end, Ivo has obtained permission from Zerhem's government to repurpose the abandoned workshop within the nearby Ruined Aqueduct into a magitech laboratory under the pretense of engaging in an archaeological investigation. With this …
Setting: In the ongoing search for the pieces of the "Crux of Creation", the party makes their way towards their next destination, the ruined halls of an ancient underground catacomb. A place said to be where those of great standing have been laid to rest honorably. With the Festival of Blessings serving as a ritual of passage, the group will now see their way in.
However, within these ruined halls and tombs lie vicious traps mean tto protect great treasures, and monsters who have made the place their home in the centuries following. Will their bravery be rewarded? Or will …
Setting: The party has recovered one of the four arms of the Crux of Creation. Acquiring it seems to have bolstered Kernunnos' invaluable ability to detect the presence of the other pieces. Even so, unfortunately, the eidola reports that he senses only one weak and vague signal. Worse still, that signal is coming from the Central Plains of Granse, a vast area with no permanent settlements that is roamed by dangerous megafauna. Searching without any further clues could take a lifetime.
But rumors have spread in Zerhem that the Aehani have made camp near a great landmark of the Central Plains, …
Setting: None today seem to know of the "Crux of Creation" which Kernunnos, the sapient eidola once worshipped by the forgotten druids of Zerhem, claims will lead the way to the lost city of the Star-Crowned. The search for clues has been a difficult one. But rumors and legends have at last led the party to the Golden Hills south of Lake Gerisia, near the Oradian border, where Kernunnos has sensed the faint presence of one of the Crux's four arms.
Hidden deep within those dusty hills lies an abandoned mine that is said to be haunted by the spirits of …
Setting: Ivo, Anna, and Priel help an old woman gather firewood, and in the process learn of some fascinating lore ... and a lot of less fascinating lore.
Setting: Word has it that one of Suryle's princesses has been kidnapped! ... Again. Actually this seems to be a common and re-occurring thing. Nevertheless, adventurers have been hired to deliver the ransom to the goblin tribe and retrieve the princess. Things however will not exactly go as planned when an Eidola attacks in the middle of the delivery.
Setting: Stop me if you're heard this one: a templar, a princess, and a dilettante walk into a graveyard...
Setting: Formidable figures of the Gransean underworld make their appearance.
Setting:
Our heroes have discovered the dilapidated shrine of the enigmatic druids who helped construct Zerhem's aqueduct many years ago. Within, dormant yet stirring, await the four trials of selection for those who would be privy to their secrets.
Sacrifice. Fortitude. Cunning. Hope.
Should the party pass muster, a hidden history of Granse shall be revealed by a most uncommon host.
Setting:
Ivo's research into the history of the ruined aqueduct has made him curious about the mysterious and forgotten druids who supposedly helped construct it. He believes that he has identified the forest where they once dwelled before departing for Zerhem centuries ago and gathers a party to travel northwest and explore it, putting out a call among the Vanguards for any other adventurers willing and able to assist in exploring the dense woods.
But he adds an unusual secondary objective: finding and acquiring a rare breed of wild rose. Though cultured Oradia is famous for its cultivated rose gardens, these are …
Setting: After a magitech mishap summoned water elementals to the Zerhem markets, our heroes have deduced that their likely source is the ruined and abandoned aqueduct that once supplied the city with fresh water from Lake Gerisia. The adventurers travel there to determine whatever is causing the excess in aether and resolve the issue.
Setting: Ivo meets the ranger Orilion camping by the banks of Lake Gerisia.
Setting: Reize, Ivo, and Faruja brave the Treacherous Marsh to investigate the mysterious manor house there. Within they encounter a new ally and, in various respects, a test of resolve.
Setting: Reize visits the offices of the Vanguards in Zerhem Kingdom and shows them the wrong Key Item.
Setting: The party arrives in Zerhem Kingdom, the capitol of Granse, and notes the presence of Cosmopolitan magitech for sale in the bustling market now that the Spiring City has opened its borders. A magitechnical mishap leads to an unexpected fracas and new encounter.
Setting: After the events of First Flight, canonically, Reize and Lily set sail for adventure from Cosmopolis while Ivo and Priel stay behind. Ivo is reappointed to his father's rank and assigned the governorship of a mid-tiered district and he hires Priel as his bodyguard to help him survive Cosmopolitics (TM), which she accepts I guess because he has some money now and the sealed city is pretty interesting. Since we don't have a Lily, I figured our MUSH twist is: Lily goes into Homunculus Sleep Mode and the magical scientists of Cosmopolis can't make heads or tails of what's wrong …