Chapter 1: A New Dawn

This is the first arc of the Four Keeps campaign. This arc has three total episodes. Characters are level 1.

VOD: A New Dawn Part 1
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Welcome to the new campaign!

Dramatis Personae:

Caelum: shadar-kai cleric

Blake: dragonborn blood-hunter

Coriander: eladrin paladin

Gwen: halfling barbarian

this section to be filled in later.

VOD: A New Dawn Part 2
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Plot Summary:
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The episode begins with Caelum and Ferrin; Caelum leaves Off Constantly to join the party. Ferrin gives Caelum a goal: in a year's time, Caelum must make it into a bard's song

Back at the Zesty Anchor, The party gets to know each other a little more. Caelum sleeps, he does not trance, which is peculiar for an elf. Caelum, at this point, is vegetarian and does not drink.

The next morning, they talk to the Guard about the catnap and the altercation that occurred. The guard captain is Skavex Slaughterhouse, a scrawny white dragonborn. LG. Skavex makes Fang nervous. (Fang gave him the moniker "Slaughterhouse", since he can rage and cleared out an entire nest of monsters on his own. )

Fang tells Skavex he is grateful that his bar was not robbed, and lets the party crash there for free for a few nights. Fang himself does not sleep.

Cori trances, recalls her previous life as a bard, though she can never clearly remember the bard's song

Caelum sleeps, he does not trance, though he does remember snippets of his own life. Blake has stuffed animals- an owlbear and a werewolf (but no Tiamat, despite the art)

The elves rise early, needing only 4 hrs to long rest. Cori gives Caelum a long-winded lesson on Corellon and the origin of elves.

In the morn, Huddle gives them coffee and bacon. They discuss the catnap. They get wineskins full of the spiked Stonedrop Ale. Fang tells them to visit Macoth. Macoth is a blind, red-skinned tiefling woman who runs an oddities shop in Shroudport. She has an assistant named Scruff.

The party visits Macoth's Oddities. She's a little creepy, and part of that is her gimmick for new customers. But she says she will look into the catnap and its origins. She tells the party that she will send them what information she finds.

The party then decides to look into the job that Blake has lined up.The old blood hunter Vend, Blake's mentor, owed a favor to someone who is now calling it in.

They go to see an arborist about some dirt.

VOD: A New Dawn Part 3
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Plot Summary:
Meet STEN FIZZENO the AWARD WINNING ARBORIST.

He tells the party (slowly) that he imported soil for his garden from the burnt-out region in the Hollow Locks. There was a wildfire about one year ago. Arson was suspected, but no one was caught.

Gwen and Caelum notice a worm in the dirt. They don't think much of it.

This soil turned a sapling into a blight. Combat!

Gwen does not like gnomes

After the fight, Blake and Caelum go full science bros on the dirt, in an attempt to find something unusual. They find a black worm. Blake gets an arborist's kit (specialized alchemist's kit)

They set fire to the rest of the imported soil, killing any other worms. Task completed, they get paid.

They ask STEN FIZZENO, THE AWARD WINNING ARBORIST if he knows anything about catnap. He says he can put together some research, but will have an intermediary drop it off at their temporary residence at the Zesty Anchor.

Fang and STEN FIZZENO have history, which is left vague.

They then return to Macoth's, to pick up the information they requested. As payment, Macoth asks for one of Blake's scales. Against his better judgement, he gives her a scale.

They return to the Zesty Anchor

Relevant NPCs

 * Ferrin. Human fighter. Head of Off Constantly and surrogate father to Caelum
 * Mugwort. Dwarf ranger. Member of Off Constantly and close friend of Caelum's.
 * Prescott. High elf wizard. Member of Off Constantly.
 * Fang Zest. Half-orc, retired adventurer. Bar owner. Runs the Zesty Anchor in Shroudport
 * Huddle. Tortle (class). Cook at the Zesty Anchor
 * Macoth. Tiefling warlock. She's blind. A shopkeeper, she runs Macoth's Oddities in Shroudport. Has a mongrelfolk assistant called Scruff.
 * Skavex Slaughterhouse. white dragonborn (class). He is the head of the guard in Shroudport.
 * STEN FIZZENO THE AWARD WINNING ARBORIST.