The group begins working to stop Nyrissia. While also looking for a way to bring the fight to her.

The True Nature of the Invasion

Nyrissia’s invasion of the stolen lands is not just one of occupation…

While researching the magics that brought the Horned Hunter into this world, Smoke realized that they have seen magic like this before, however its nature is different. Like the Bloom that infected living creatures before, the very land itself is being infected with Nyrissia’s fey magic.

The group defend’s their kingdom from Nyrissia’s assault ! Saving their citizens and trying to figure out what is going on.

Fey Morning

After some time of peace, the rulers of Gloomwerth wake up to a horrible commotion.

Their kingdom is under assault to the south and to the east. The docks of the kingdom are flooded. Putting the lives of their citizens in danger. At the same time, the kingdom’s farms to the east have been attacked by a swarm of small creatures. Taking many children away from their families.

The group destroys the focusing lense! Putting an end to the cult of Yog’Sothoth once and for all.

Confronting Foralas

The group finds the cult leader in a strange circular room. Half of the room transformed into a magical observatory. Foralas and his followers meditating in the center.

He Begins by casting time stop and setting up a bunch of nasty spells. They have no effect on this turn but they will start causing damage in later rounds.

The group takes on a quest from a space slaver before having second thoughts about it. They then end up making new friends and learning what must be done in order to destroy the focusing lense once and for all.

The Leng’s Request

The leng that helped the group before turns out to want nothing more than to leave. However in order to return to his ship, he needs a source of power… The cloth of the Monitor’s should do it.

The group takes on 4 alien creatures guarding a garden. They are interrupted by an unexpected guest.

The Mastiffs

Entering the cult’s garden cave, the group runs into 4 all black centaur like creatures. They have hard exoskeletons and large bulbous heads. They also have long sharp teeth. The group is able to spot the creatures hiding in the bushes before they get the jump on them.

Darkness and Wind Strikes

The creatures prove to be resilient. Their hard skin being highly resistant to most of the group’s attacks. However, a spirit blast from Gregile, a new powerful darkness spell from Suzaku and a series of powerful wind strikes from Stetson eventually take 2 of the creatures down.

The group takes on the Sha’Goth! The fight proves to be challenging. The group also learns of a dark discovery from Korog.

The Maddening Cacophony

The creature emerges from the stone walls of a pit. Countless mouths mumbling and screaming together.

The dark mass wasted no time approaching the party, attacking with thick strands of its form. Additionally, the party started being affected by the countless voices of the creature.

One of the most popular GM prep books out there is Sly Floorish’s Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master. It has had a great effect on how I prep my games. However, as good as the book is it never really explains how to use your note in game. I hope to explain how I use my notes at the table, the key takeaway from Lazy GM prep that we can apply to reduce our prep and some pros and cons of the style.

After a good few months of downtime, the group starts to hear rumblings from their people that not all is well at Candlemire. The Willo Wisps have grown in number and all who get to close feel a great unease. Wanting to appease their people, the group decides its time to return.

The group enter’s the mysterious Candlemire tomb. They encounter undead Pharasmins who have been in a timeless conflict with a Cult of Yog Sothoth. After some persuasion, the group is able to prove that they want to help.

King Irovelli fries! The time for talk is over. King Irovelli confronts the group. Seeking to take them out once and for all. He puts on a good fight but the group beats him.

The King’s Arrival

After licking their wounds from the fight with Juung. The party hears slow clapping approaching them down the hall.

The king strides in with his Naga Consort. He offers the group diplomacy. Saying they could rule the stolen lands together. Possibly even expand their kingdoms out of the stolen lands.

Inspired by a recent video I watched I thought I might talk a little about styles of play in TTRPGs. Different tables run games differently. No table will play exactly the same. In the video above, the commentator talks about 8 different play styles. I will be simplifying these down to 3 broad styles. I will talk about how these styles of game tend to be run, how we can prep to run a game in this style, and some pros and cons of the style as well.