The Ancient Horrors

The Ancient Horrors is a campaign set on Gernon. The events take place in 1 asr.

Player Characters

 * Yotokono Kusetare: a human Drunken Monk, and future King of Kurosekai
 * Trigwocket the Engineerateer, a gnome alchemist and gunslinger, and future founder of the nation of Trigwocket
 * Valdemarr a Half-Orc Barbarian
 * Kasidrek, a Fiend Spawn bard
 * Geylin, a Simian Wizard.

Before The Adventure
The party first met in Hollowpond following the beginning of the Scientarian Revolution and the Scientarian Attack on Kurosekai. Kusetare was taking on random mercenary work for a few months around Kurosekai when Alek Tellumnar's attack on the city as part of the revolution. He and thousands of other citizens were forced to flee east, and eventually found himself doing some minor labor for the coalition army gathering around the Dwarven King in Exile, mustering west of the Mesorban town. Trigwocket and Valdemarr were old gambling buddies and ran into each other at Hollowpond, where they made Kusetare's acquaintance. Kasidrek was an orphaned rogue that had been living on the streets of the great metropolis, and had come along with the army seeing it as a better chance of survival than staying in the war torn city. Geylin, who would not join the party until later, worked as a member of the Institute for Magical Learning in Belleza and scribe to the King in Coralis.

Summary
The group was a ragtag group of mercenary types looking for work in the overcrowded camps. Tobias, a representative of the Institute for Magical Learning, had put out a request for soldiers to help with a peculiar problem. The group arrived at Tobias' house, a mansion on the outskirts, and he greeted the group inside. He had received information from certain sources saying that there was word that an ancient Vampire King may have been discovered, and Tobias and his Institute compatriots in Hollowpond needed people to head to Coralis where the information was leading them to try to find this King and possibly destroy him. Vampirism had once been a serious plague on the continent, but it had been dormant for some time, and Tobias wanted this potential resurgence of the condition stamped out.

On their way to Coralis, the group stopped in Shiron. There was a gang war between those who supported the local alchemical college and the Scientarian Revolution overall, and those who were magical or who were against the violence. The party helped stop a small scuffle from getting too far out of hand, but could not heal the rift between the two parties.

In Coralis they met Geylin, a simian scribe working for the King of the Silver Throne, Humphrey Balor. He was also a member of the Institute, and upon hearing that there was a vampire in his midst they joined to continue the search. In the woods near the Coralis Zoological Society they found the Vampire King, a shell of his former power, and managed to kill him after burning down most of the Forest. It was in the king's lair though they learned that he had been working alongside two other ancient monsters wishing to reclaim their lost power, the Werewolf King and the Mummy King.

Under the castle at Coralis they found and battled the Werewolf King in his hidden lair, and managed to narrowly defeat him and stop him from spreading his lycanthropy into the population. Before he died, he returned to a human form and gave the group important information on their foe. They learned that the final of their allies, the Mummy King, was building power in Belleza. The group then traveled to Sephora to stop the Mummy King. Kasidrek made friends with a captured unicorn named Blessing that had been held at the Coralis Zoo, and off they went to the Spice Coast. On their way south, Trigwocket accidentally burned down a part of the Silver Tree Forest during an encounter battle, and were attacked by a platoon of gunslinger elves loyal to the Tellumnars. It appeared that the soldiers there were on high alert for some important event coming soon...

They quickly set up an ambush for the Mummy King, who was masquerading as the vizier of Belleza while he amassed power and searched for items that would help restore him and his allies to their former glory. In the struggle, they brought on the attention of the guards, who arrested the party, save for Kasidrek. The party then learned that the archmage of the Institute was evil and corrupt, and had actually been working with the Mummy King to help him gain power, and thus decided to use his influence to have the group slated for execution. Just as the execution was about to go off, lady Adele Tellumnar shot the Archmage's head with her sniper rifle, and in the confusion the group jumped through a window and fled the city to safety. The city then became the second casualty of the Scientarian Revolution, and the Wars of Scientarian Expansion had begun. With few places to go, the group escaped to Nuhaven far to the west to hopefully wait out the firestorm now engulfing the whole of the continent.