Through the Balcony

With Polacorrin finally put to rest, and the Totem of Fall in your hands, it is time to find a way to join it with Bity's Totem of Spring and see what powers they hold. Though you're not quite sure how to do that the now free Champion of Tevanna suggests going to the Heart of Spring and seeing what the great spirit there can do. Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin MacLeod, License...

2.4.1. Drinks have found and saved the Lost Champion of Tevanna, Veritta after fighting off a horde of undead, awakened trees and the corrupted spirit that had attempted to trap her. While the rest of them helped Veritta recover and took a moment to regroup Bitsy found the temple that is at the heart of the forest's corruption. Inside is the corrupted spirit, as well as the Totem of Fall that she...

After traveling to the elven city of Homillion in search of answers, 2.4.1. Drink met a young acolyte in the temple there.  They learned that her mother, the Champion of Tevanna, had left weeks before and not returned.  She had gone to deal with a problem, but had explained very little.  The party now knows where the path she took started, but not yet where it goes. Music in this episode is: "Tell...

The Mistwrought Staff now in hand it is time for 2.4.1. Drinks to choose their next steps forward.  With time (and Xanithia) short they have to plan carefully and try to gather as many artifacts and allies as they can in the time left.  With that in mind they set out for Homillion in search of any information on the Heart of Spring... Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin MacLeod, L...

The Ambassadors of the Loris games have located Delegate Hadron Lyle and are readying themselves to return to Manora once again.  Doubts still linger as to the legitimacy of the trial and many of them still seem determined to see to it that the Manoran Ambassador is given a fair chance at the games.  All they have to do is return to the city where another trial awaits them... Music in this episode...

It is the start of the games yet again.  Every ten years the peoples of the lands of Loris come together to participate in the grand event, as champions of each of the seven countries come together to compete in the series of trials that await them.  Hunts, obstacles, battles of wits; who knows what this year will hold.  The Ambassadors are gathered, having proved themselves in their own countries...

Welcome!  As you may have noticed, this is not an episode of Through the Balcony.  Nor is it exactly on time.  Could I have posted it earlier and let you know about this delay beforehand?  Certainly!  Did I?  No.  I could blame all sorts of things: the holidays, a global pandemic, busy schedules, but at the end of the day… I was just lazy and tired. All the aforementioned things played a role… but...

This is the end.  Maybe not the end, but an end.  Arabelle, Tamora, Lariat, Kai'nora, Dill'aan, and Ras El Hanout's prepare to face that end alongside the newly ascended Yunalia, Goddess of Prophecy.  Theirs is a tale long forgotten, unheard, and untold.  A tale that finally will be remembered.  But first... the accursed one is coming... Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin MacLeod...

Sianodel.  Once the crown of the elven civilization is now a dusty, empty ruin around you.  Empty aside from the deep, abiding grief sunk into the stones and the visions of trees to draw the eye of a certain wild mage.  Now you must seek answers here and, with any hope, the goal of your quesst: one more weapon against the coming end of days... Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin M...

The quest to find the Mistwrought Staff is about to begin.  A few last minute details in Jarmaulk including some goodbyes and final directions and the group was off to the Villis Halls in Amakiir.  At least, that was the plan... Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, Incompetech ; "Medieval Town" by TabletopAudio,...

With the Conclave of the Merchant Princes concluded with the thwarting of the plans of the Mistwalker brothers, it is now time to focus on the future ahead.  Making final plans for road ahead, and dealing with a few loose ends in the city, it will soon be time for 2.4.1. Drinks to head off for the first of the Legacy Artifacts they seek. Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin MacLeod...

The day has finally come for the Conclave of the Merchant Princes.  2.4.1. Drinks (and Bitsy and Xanithia) have done everything they can to prepare and be alert for everything that might come their way.  First, though, there is one outstanding question to answer: who will win in a fight between a druid and a barbarian? Music in this episode is: "Teller of Tales" by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Cr...

While separated by the distance of planes, the two halves of the Cleanup Crew make their way steadily towards each other.  Knowing that the threat runs much deeper than they originally knew, they will have to face a threat wrapped up in the God of Shadows himself.  While Jack, Garlic, and their new friend Myrvin make their way to an exit, Meg, Biff, Hendrix, and Ripjaw plan to turn an ambush to th...

With two of their number trapped in the world beyond the mirror they'd found in a cave, the remaining members of the Cleanup Crew head out in pursuit of the shadow duplicates of their friends in order to try and free them.  As they pass back through High Ridge, knowing full well that many of the people there are not what they seem, there seem to be other things in play.  No matter what they are de...

Jack and Garlic, having found themselves in a pretty pickle, continue into the world beyond the mirror that they have found themselves trapped in looking for another way out.  The world around them is twisted and wrong, wrapped in shadows, and a desolate echo of the world they've known.  As they pass back through High Ridge they discover a number of things, including the fact that they are not the...

Now that the party has taken some time to gather themselves and think, it is time to bring all of their friends and allies in Jarmaulk together to discuss everything that they learned in Cairith.  To come up with a path forward and any plans they could enact that might help them survive the inevitable.  And come up with a name for the Beast.  As the Conclave of the Merchant Princes approaches, it...

Join with the Cleanup Crew once again as they finally make their way to the city of Kellindale.  They started this path in answer to a job posting looking for help dealing with strange events in the town of High Ridge to the north.  Along the way they have picked up a couple of new allies, but they are as ready as ever to jump in and get the job done.  What are the odds that this goes poorly? Musi...

After returning from Cairith and paying a visit to Xanithia's home in Amakiir, 2.4.1. Drink decided it was time to return to Jarmaulk and the friends and allies they had there.  Each of them dealing with the weight of the news they had learned in the frozen northern lands, the desert city was a place of refuge that they could lose themselves in while they tried to choose a new path forward.  Music...

Welcome to the first episode of Through the Quarantine!  (Very similar to Through the Balcony, only a lot rougher around the edges)  Join while we wile away the time until we can get back to our main campaign by following the adventures of the Cleanup Crew once again!  They have made their way through the world again, seeking work and are making their way through the rich town of Donasa when an od...

Sometimes the answer to a question leaves the world feeling different than it did before you heard it.  Events of the past can suddenly twist into new shapes and things can make a new, horrifying kind of sense.  2.4.1. Drinks, Bitsy, and Xanithia emerged from beneath the frozen wastes of the Greyfrost seat burdened with more than they had bargained for.  Needing to find their way back to Jarmaulk...

Continuing on our  usual tradition, to commemorate the break between story arcs it is time for another Episode Zero! As our heroes have made their way though the treacherous land of Cairith they have not gone unnoticed, having drawn the attention of the Blind Goddess Selanna, and the Great Wolf Kentha.  Not much escapes their Sight. This episode summaries the events of The Old Gods' Legacy arc fro...

Some announcements from us for the (near) beginning of 2020: "Hello everyone!  It has been about a year since I’ve done an update like this, but there’s a lot going on so I wanted to let everyone know what we’ve been up to.  First off, before we get to anything, I want to thank you for being a part of what we do.  Sharing these stories is something I’ve really come to enjoy, so thank you for being...

The entire reason that the adventurers from N'drin set foot in Cairith in the first place was to find answers.  Answers to questions that even the gods and fates could not, or would not give.  And now, after all this time in this frozen lands they find themselves on the doorstep of their goals.  The temple of the old gods, and the spirit of winter herself, await.  What they learn could very well c...

Now having a clear path before them, the adventurers from N'drin have a few loose ends to tie up in Anuvale before they make the inevitable jump to Varith and take the treacherous road to the rarely traveled wastes north east of the city.  Once their business was done, and those that needed to be on their way to other places were well away, there was no more reason to wait.  Time to head to the Fr...

It has been a long path to get 2.4.1. Drinks to where they are.  It started with their meeting with Pelannia in the ruins of the city of Freygarde, where Selanna charged Kizzy to prove herself by aiding the blind Champion.  Then across countless miles of snow choked roads, and ice clogged straits, to the city of Farglenn, the Eastwatch mines, and beneath.  All of that to arrive here, on the precip...