The Dungeon House

The Vigils finally made it to the village of Elkay, where they met Sir Fireborn, leader of the Fiefdom. He explained the predicament of missing villagers and discussed the house that is suspected to be hunted. After preparations, the party made their way to the house, where they started to explore the grounds and interior. Somewhere on the floor above was a constant tapping sound, and footprints w...

At the end of the formal dinner, Adilaide confronts her mother and stands her ground so she and her fellow Vigils can receive help from her family. Before setting out in the morning, Opal, Ren, and Pinky perform a daring prank on Adilaide involving a peacock, disorganization, and fart sounds to show their appreciation. The team leads out on a ferry the following day, and soon after Adilaide and Ba...

With the formal dinner approaching, Adilaide does her best to prepare her friends in all aspects of fine dining. Results are varied. The dinner comes, and each member of the Vigil's must fight not to pass out from a food coma while being berated by Aya Brighthor, Adilaide's mother. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The searching continued after the goblin fight at the disheveled shack and surrounding area, leading the Vigils to catch the runaway goblin as well as find traces of a vampiric presence, presumed dead. After Adilaide was beaten up by a box and Barren and Ren turned a presumed dead vampire into a most assuredly dead vampire, the party thought it best to continue through the night to Fel-nor. The ol...

With preparations finished by contacting Azureus Brightor, Adilaide's father, the Vigils set off on their next mission: investigate the mystery of a haunted building in far away Elkay. On their way to Fel-nor, Donnie escaped his confinement in the jar and gave Ren a hard time, to the chagrin of most of the party. During that, the group found goblins and a bugbear burying something. After Moss was...

As the week continued on, our Vigils were able to accomplish a few tasks that they wanted to do. They were able to do some research in the Archive and the Archanium. Adelaide found an interesting and somewhat disturbing journal, apparently written by Draven Duril, the leader of the Vigils. Opal learned that the black monolith is some power source waiting to be tapped into by something or someone....

With the group safe at the Lighthouse, the party relaxes and prepares for their next adventure. After the dinner, which Pinky and herself helped prepare, Alia heads up to the Hall of Remembrance. She finds the nameplate of her father and talks to him, relaying all the recent stories. A little while later, Barren joins her, clearly under the influence of alcohol. He reveals that his grandfather, wh...

As morning arrives over the City of Havnok, our heroes are whisked away through teleportation to the Lighthouse again. As soon as they arrive, Reginald Briar, their Handler, debriefs them and gives them the tasks of handing over the Black obelisk to the people in the Arcanium and meeting with Ihab to sort out their dwelling in the tower. After a dense disagreement with the Head Arcavist, Opal pers...

With the defeat of the shadows, the party discusses some of their concerns about working together. Alia mentioned her failings and revealed her father's demise. Moss expressed concern that she would get killed because of her anxiety though ultimately, the party supported her. Ren explained his viewpoint more clearly, and while most of the party may not agree with him, it fostered a sense of unders...

With the roar of the looming Pitch Kruvust Demon, combat ensues in the Temple of the Night. Barren and Opal rush to the forefront to battle the demon head-on, Alia and Ren work with Pablo to get the real children out of danger, and Brigadier Haws, Adelaide, Moss, and Pinky work to provide ranged support. It all turns upon its head when the Kruvust starts to summon the same shadow monsters that hav...

With the weariness heavy in their eyes, the party, barricaded in a forlorn weapon room, decides to rest. Opal to exhausted, collapses on her sleeping mat before warning any of her party member of the true nature of Ralph, the older boy they found. Barren and Moss take the first watch which is uneventful and silent for the duration. Next is Ren and Adilaide for watch, both struggling to wipe the sl...

After the harrowing encounter with the shadows of the sewer, the party continues forward to face whatever lurks under the city. After finding a path created by the settling of stone, the group sees a light ahead. Upon finding a low lit destroyed great hall, the party springs to action to fight off a swarm of rats bent on ripping up a humanoid form. Opal, releasing divine energy and critically stri...

With the return of Pinky bearing news of the general location of the Tsigani in the city, the party travels once again into the Bread Wall District. After getting some supplies, Ren hears the clamor of people coming from the BDBB (Black Dragon Bakery and Brewery, one of the first places they visited when the Vigils reached Havnok). Entering in, they party has their first run in with one of these l...

The Morning come of the third day that the Vigil's have been in Havnok. As most of the group leaves Alia and Barren behind for the funeral of Renerin, the town guard that lost his life, they overhear a street crier. The city of castles lesser ward where the poor live are increasingly being burdened by the shadowy plague and new quarantines and curfews being established. They hurry to the Barracks...

As Opal slips into a vision from a previous Hero of Lillies, She finds herself in an out of body experience talking to an Opal from the past. She is able to gain info that the Demon from a bygone era was a Kruvust or Demon of Pestilence. After a warming reunion with Adilaide from her 24 hour shopping spree, the team talks over their findings and decides that it might be best to do some hands on re...

With the party splitting to investigate the happenings of Havnok, Pinky and Moss return to the Bread Wall. There they meet a doctor from The Watchers who shared with them some information. Pinky was approached by some angry townspeople about Vigil's taking children and she was able to deceive them into thinking she isn't a Vigil. Moss and Pinky then find a way into the undercity. As they are explo...

With their run in with the demonic shadows just behind them, the Vigils travel with the surviving guard to his barracks to warn his commanding officer. They then travel back to their own outpost and rest for the evening trying to recover their strength. In the morning, discussion of their next move consumes them as it is apparent that to defeat some type of Demon may be out of their reach. In the...

After vanquishing the demonic shadow, the party discovers that the Elwind's son's ailment, though helped, was not cured. They decide to look into their other lead of what is going on by following the small boy, Powel, who had been collecting the moldy bread. He leads them to his meeting spot with Klem who they then follow into the Smiter's Quary, a poorer district where the stone is hewn for the C...

The party of Vigil's find themselves in Havnok, the City of Castles with it's imposing walls and labyrinthine streets. The curator of the Vigil outpost points the group to investigate the Bread Wall, a section of the city known for it's delicious baked goods and being built into the side of a steep cliff. After a few hours of pressing their way through the crowds, they reached the Black Dragon Bak...

During the escapades of Barren, Adelaide, and Pinky, Opal and Moss have a heart to heart on what it means to be a Paladin for Opal and her personal struggles. Inspired by this conversation, Opal meditates and receives a vision depicting a teen-aged warrior and herself searching for living among the dead. The boy asks her to promise to stop the war if she has the chance and she accepts leaving hers...

With their training fully underway, the new group of Vigil's are given the 'new employee' presentation. The group decides to focus on personal development and accomplishing their goals as a group. Barren the night before decided to clean up and shave, his purple eye are strange for a human. Many of the characters choose to use what little down time they have to research in hope of improving their...

As the new vigils make their way to the training grounds, a pervasive awkwardness fills the cabin of the carriage as Alia's mother had just hung up her sending stone. This is not assisted as Barren pushes the subject and everyone else tries to get as far away from talking about Alia's hardships as possible. The only relief is the jovial carraige driver named Spindly. The party finally reaches the...

Without recognizing the reveal of the end of the trial, Alia finishes off Nigel before things truly settle down. Opal tries to use a spell scroll to revive Nigel but in the end he is too far gone. The stranger leads to group out of Thorne's tower and meets up with other Vigil's who rush Nigil and Lanaster away in a teleporting carriage. The Stranger introduces himself as Henry Van Dyke and welcome...

As the party hears the crash of the metallic bull in the sea far below, they take the chance to finally catch their breathe and head back to the underground tunnels to rest. After a bit of strife over the treatment of a silk shirt subsides, the party receives a missive from Nigel Zolair, the necromancer the party has been trying to track down. With an invitation to talk, the party sleeps on what t...

The party finds themselves delving down into the ancient tunnels under servitude. As they search what seems to be an escape route from the Thorne's Tower, they find the remains of archaic warriors, some bearing the markings of Adilaide's faith and Opal's Oath. The party finds that the tunnel ends at the shear cliff that the town runs beside. With presumably no way forward, the party turns back onl...