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The Continuum Chaser Pahhu Kilaniu
Disguise Names: Juniper, Persimmon or Percy

Level 20 Half Wood-Elf Chaotic Good 17 Stone Sorcerer & 3 Satire Bard [Planned Build 17/3]
(Urchin)
/ 182 HP

An orphaned half-elf child raised in the Bound Hands Orphanage now better known as part of Hyssop Home. Began adventuring as a way to keep up with her peers. Her magical talents have begun to cause significant trouble as her temporal powers have grown.


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Hyssop Home, City of Driftriver
Mon 2nd Mar 2020 10:30

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 22: Welcome Home Party

by The Continuum Chaser Pahhu Kilaniu

DAY 166
(It is on this day that the events of If I’m here, then… what’s happened to the rest of them? Occur in the Driftriver session archives. In this time Hyssop Home was nearly destroyed as detailed below.)
 
DAY 223
Theodore returned to Arvandor, a bearer of most unusual news. The far realm had once again struck Hyssop Home, and in a truly chaotic warping of space and time the entire home had been ripped from the earth and displaced, thrown across the continent of Faerun and mysteriously pulled to a city by the Ashaba river; the city of Driftriver. While Theodore had been investigating the city for months before the arrival of many of his friends, he soon found himself offering assistance to Quinton and Hulfgar as they struggled to ensure the safety of the orphans. It had taken some time for him to find a chance to return to Arvandor to tell Pahhu of what had occured, and that quite unknowingly she had moved homes.
 
Pahhu welcomed her friend back to Arvandor, quite happy to see him. Eager to tell him of her accomplishments she was shushed by Theodore who told her the news of the accident- and the casualities. Pahhu sucked her teeth as she listened, but she listened to Theodore completely before asking quick and pointed questions. Theodore soon came to realize Pahhu was a changed woman, no longer the frantic little girl she had been. She seemed more mature and calm though he could still sense her devilish mayhem and nonlinear thinking.
 
Pahhu sought permission from the Lord of the Continuum to leave the tower and return to her Hyssop Home family. Labelas Enoreth agreed on the condition that Pahhu investigate the occurrence of “Drifters” supposed travelers from other crystal spheres and odd planes; but most importantly some claimed to be of different times. These unusual travelers seemed to be concentrated about this city of Driftriver, in fact it seemed to exert some manner of mystical pull which was capable of drawing people, monsters, and even houses. The Lord of the Continuum Commanded: “I shall call you to Lake Eredruie, the mouth of the Glaemril River when your time has come to answer me on this matter.”
 
Theodore guided Pahhu through the new city, the clean stone pavement and uniform construction of the buildings making it obvious to Pahhu that this was not an old city full of history. The top-hatted gentleman lead her to a simple tavern in the Lahaina docks district. The bar itself was fashioned with a sandstone facade and seemed to be intended to cater towards visitors who might be more comfortable with desert travel, perhaps from the Anauroch desert or eastern Calimshan. Inside the pair found business to be booming, the bar seemingly a popular place for traveling mercenaries as a fairly large mercenary company filled most of the seats in the bar. The bartender swooped about the room as a talented showman, the house special seemingly a flaming goblet of some spiced alcohol.
 
As the bartender came to their table Pahhu quickly recognized his accent as that of the Bedine tribesmen she knew herself to be kin of. They discussed what had happened after the group had chased off the Zhent. The man revealed that the Zhent had stopped harrying them but the tribe had decided not to tempt fate and many of them had left to pursue their fortunes elsewhere. When asked about Elder Habib they soon learned that he was able to live his last few days peacefully with the tribe before passing, and that after his passing Lyndia had left the tribe with few words. While most of the tribe had survived it seemed their way of life in the desert had been changed forever. Pahhu promised the man she would do what she could to fix the situation, and also promised to keep visiting; after all they were distant cousins!
 
The group soon fell into discussing old times; it had been nearly half a year since their last gathering. Ed filled Pahhu in on the happenings with Hyssop Home, and the wreckage they had cleared, as well as the casualties of the attack and the missing persons including the lost child, Timmy. Ed told Pahhu of Quinton’s plans for a new home, and that all would make a full recovery in time with the exclusion of the planar disposition of poor Timmy.
 
The trio soon recognized Moyra, a dwarven woman who they had adventures with together in the past, particularly appreciating her help in the resurrection of Charva in his sanctuary long ago. They invited her over to the table and Moyra joined them, bringing Kur her enormous feline companion along with her. The conversation soon turned to the more distant past, and the life of adventuring they had all shared as well as the mission they had not been able to complete previously.
 
After briefly hitting on a specific shared memory which they all shared together in which Pahhu had once teleported Theodore into the air, where he assumed the form of a quetzacoatl, and then Pahhu enhanced him with hastening magic as the two had divebombed a bloated hag and split her asunder with the sheer impact of the blow. In the moment of nostalgia Pahhu whisked Theodore away into the sky with a short range teleport, and the two went for a quick joyride over the city as Theodore showed her the new city that her extended family had moved to.
 
Meanwhile in the bar the flamboyant leader of the mercenary troupe approached a rather pretty young woman with striking blue eyes and brilliant red hair. The man introduced himself with great confidence and began to introduce himself as a hunter of mass murderers but he was rebuffed by the young woman who simply found it odd that such a group would even exist in this odd place.
 
The woman, Piper Porfirio was a young half-elf who had only recently come to Driftriver to pursue her patron’s interests. Ruuk, a genie of the earthen strain had dispatched Piper to seek out a Druid capable of establishing a link to the plane of earth and call forth a particular being. The person she was looking for was on the posh side, an adventurer who should be in the bar this night.
 
A middle aged man entered the bar, wearing an unusually tall hat, quickly calling the attention of the mercenary leader with a vocalized greeting. The two men approached each other and sat amongst the lieutenants of the group as they began a discussion. Curious as a cat Kur sauntered over to the group and lay on the floor thumping his tail and blinking sleepily. Moyra listened in on the conversation through Kur’s ears, her curiosity also piqued.
 
The mercenary troupe discussed the bounty they were hunting. A group known as mass murderers and wanted by Thay for killing mercenaries and military assets. The primary target among them was a young half-elven woman with blue-black hair, blue eyes and who often wore a white robe. The mercenary leader glanced over towards Piper but quickly shook his head, even if she had the eyes and the robe to an extent, there was no way that that brilliant red hair could be black underneath. The contact then went on to detail other individuals, a top-hatted druid in a dark suit, a paladin of unknown race in shimmering plate, a blue-cloaked madwoman, a calimshan assassin, a stoic firbolg and an energetic gnome.
 
Almost seemingly on cue two individuals matching the description entered the bar as Pahhu an Theodore returned from their joyride. They walked right by the table and made their way to their friends in the back. In an instant all eyes were on them. Moyra quickly passed on what she’d heard to Ed, and the yuan-ti rose to his feet almost as quickly as the mercenaries across the room.
 
The tall-hatted man quickly began to make his exit hastily as he sensed trouble was soon to erupt in the bar. Ed and the troupe leader faced off against each other. The situation was obvious, and both sides knew that there was little chance of this ending easily. Regardless Ed attempted to magically suggest the man depart, and surprisingly the spell took effect. Even as he turned to leave though one of his companions realized the magic that had been used and dispelled the leader. The battle was joined as nearly 15 mercenaries faced down the group in the corner.
 
Pahhu was quickly singled out by the enemy forces and they began a withering assault of crossbow fire and magic missiles. Moyra and Ed quickly leapt to the front to form a bastion of defense and establish a line of protection, with Moyra calling forth spiritual guardians to encircle the group. Theodore attempted one last time to defuse the situation by demanding obedience using the Rod of Yagya Karn, and even though nearly half of the mercenaries were forced to bend knee to Theodore it lasted only momentarily as another caster was able to dispel the enchantment. It was becoming clear there was no way to stop this battle from turning ugly. Moyra’s companion, the angel Eleanore quickly swooped over and attempted to protect Piper, the woman seemingly caught as a bystander in the escalating barfight. She ushered Piper behind Ed and Moyra and blessed the front line.
 
Spells began flying as eruptions of magic began to tear through the bar as waves of frigid energy were punctuated by massive burning explosions, the bar furniture being vaporized and scattered in the pressure waves. The party weathered the assault behind Ed’s dampening aura as the energy rolled off them in waves.
 
Pahhu, dashed behind a half of a table and began to concentrate temporal energy out of sight of enemy counter-spellers, before vaulting over the half-table and unleashing the most powerful temporal hold she had ever attempted. Five of the mercenaries were paralyzed instantly in the wave of temporal distortion. Taking advantage of the situation Moyra began to approach, the mercenaries burning in her holy light as she raised her great dwarven warhammer and vanished in a blur of heat, the sound of a hammer on a forge ringing out as many mercenaries were struck by an enormous wave of force as Moyra swiftly struck with a steel wind strike.
 
The mercenaries continued their focus, and began to wear Pahhu down, their sustained assault beginning to threaten her concentration on the temporal magic holding their allies. A massive earthen hand materialized in the room and slammed into one of the mercenaries, sending him tumbling over a table as Piper called forth the fist of her patron, Ruuk. While she wasn’t sure about the people she was standing with she did know that heroes would try to talk it out and that heroes would also try to protect innocent bystanders. The fact this group had done this meant they had to be the heroes here! She had chosen her side.
 
Ed soon recognized that their ringleader was the one keeping the mercenaries in line, and as the spellcasters had focused all their attention on Moyra and Piper with their flashy spells he took his chance to Banish the troupe leader. They’d deal with him later, ideally learning whatever they could from him. Above the battle Theodore swirled into the form of an air elemental, a cold wind beginning to turn and scream in the rafters as he channeled his energy into a cone of arctic cold, snap-freezing one of the mercenaries and harming many of them.
 
Deprived of their leader and facing an explosive answer to the aggression the mercenaries began to buckle. Moyra bounded between them, her great warhammer slamming into them, the paralyzed mercenaries unable to even attempt to avoid the assault. Pahhu also ran out from cover, running up a wall and kicking off to gain an angle and unleashing a concentrated beam of raw entropic forces. Paralyzed and unable to dodge out of the way two of the mercenaries were reduced to piles of entropic sand in but a moment.
 
The mercenaries rallied one last time to try to break the temporal hold and nearly laid Pahhu low with the assault, but thanks to Ed and Moyra acting together to keep her standing with potent healing the advantage was maintained. Ruuk’s fist slammed into another mercenary as crackling beams of energy flecked with gem dust arced through the bar sending a mercenary tumbling over the bar unconscious. The mercenaries were now realizing their significant disadvantage, the fight looked lost and the first began to bolt for the door
 
Eleanore winged over the bar to chase an assassin who had been using the counter for cover, quickly chasing him down. Pahhu seeing the escaping mercenary then chases after the fleeing one, intent on catching him. Ed chases after, wanting to make sure she stayed safe in the streets.
 
Theodore surrounded the remaining mercenaries in a wall of fire, preventing their escape even as the bar itself began to go up in flames. The mercenaries inside of the wall soon submitted to the heat and lack of air, and Moyra put the flames of the bar out, conjuring water to quickly douse the flames. The bar now had 13 dead mercenaries scattered about it, some having naught but dust left of them. Pahhu soon returned with Ed, dragging behind them a shackled mercenary. Ed then released his banishment, and an attempt to negotiate with the leader turned to a bloody end as he joined his fellows in death, unwilling to accept defeat.
 
Sirens sounded in the distance as the group spoke to the final mercenary. Realizing his utter defeat he promised to reveal all of his secrets if the group would only grant him mercy…

Pahhu's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

  1. Pahhu: Backstory
    24 Aug 2019 03:30:29
  2. Pahhu: Level 8: The Bothness
    24 Aug 2019 03:31:25
  3. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 1: Two Letters
    24 Aug 2019 03:33:53
  4. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 2: Past Regrets
    24 Aug 2019 03:35:24
  5. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 3: Sandstorm
    24 Aug 2019 03:36:51
  6. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 4: Time Will Tell
    24 Aug 2019 03:38:57
  7. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 3.5: Blast From The Past, Propelled Towards The Future
    24 Aug 2019 03:40:11
  8. Pahhu: The Prismatic Plaza
    24 Aug 2019 03:41:17
  9. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 5: Back On Their Feet
    24 Aug 2019 03:42:02
  10. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 6: Twists in Time
    24 Aug 2019 03:44:36
  11. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 7: Schisms
    24 Aug 2019 03:46:46
  12. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 8: Into Synod
    24 Aug 2019 03:48:43
  13. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 9: Reflections
    24 Aug 2019 03:49:49
  14. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 10: Rest & Recovery
    24 Aug 2019 03:52:48
  15. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 11: Elemental Time
    24 Aug 2019 03:54:16
  16. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 12: The Homefront
    24 Aug 2019 03:55:12
  17. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 12.5: Fever Dreams [RAW]
    24 Aug 2019 03:57:05
  18. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 13: Madness
    24 Aug 2019 03:58:10
  19. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 14: Chasing Tragedy
    24 Aug 2019 03:59:29
  20. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 15: Aftermath
    24 Aug 2019 04:00:34
  21. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 16: Picking Up The Pieces
    24 Aug 2019 04:01:45
  22. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 17: Reflections II
    24 Aug 2019 04:02:35
  23. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 18: Three Truths
    26 Aug 2019 08:58:13
  24. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 19: Different Lands
    29 Aug 2019 03:42:22
  25. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 20: Heirs and Heiresses
    31 Aug 2019 03:41:50
  26. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 21: The Interim
    02 Mar 2020 10:28:48
  27. Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 22: Welcome Home Party
    02 Mar 2020 10:30:34

The major events and journals in Pahhu's history, from the beginning to today.

The new party comes together!

10:31 pm - 02.03.2020

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 22: Welcome Home Party

DAY 166 (It is on this day that the events of If I’m here, then… what’s happened to the rest of them? Occur in the Driftriver session archives. In this time Hyssop Home was nearly destroyed as detailed below.) DAY 223 Theodore returned to Arvan...

10:30 pm - 02.03.2020

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 21: The Interim

(Readers, due to a lengthy hiatus the campaign was temporarily suspended. A number of months have passed in the campaign, as well as a party change. This interim chapter will attempt to manage the loops of the transition and prepare the campaign for re-la...

10:28 pm - 02.03.2020

The Spring Court!

03:59 am - 31.08.2019

The Winter Court!

03:56 am - 31.08.2019

The Summer Court!

03:55 am - 31.08.2019

The Autumn Court!

03:54 am - 31.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 20: Heirs and Heiresses

Two figures in light grey robes of Labelas Enoreth turned to face the newcomers. Their faces were familiar from visions in the mirror, almost perfectly so. Sariandi Morvyre and Abaka Felfarren, Pahhu’s parents. With a strangled squeak Pahhu ducked behin...

03:41 am - 31.08.2019

Pahhu first meets her parents!

03:49 am - 29.08.2019

A tale for a treant!

03:49 am - 29.08.2019

The lonely dryad!

03:48 am - 29.08.2019

Battle with the giants in the gulch!

03:48 am - 29.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 19: Different Lands

DAY 50 The portal closed behind them, a final glimpse of Thamisia staring dispassionately as the planes mended and the party found themselves on an enormous tree-stump. The stump was decorated, and along the periphery a number of small homes were built...

03:42 am - 29.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 18: Three Truths

DAY 49 The turbulent energy of the temporal demiplane where the party had faced their mirrors slowly disintegrated around the party as the feeling of an instant stretching through time and shattering enveloped them. They found themselves in Thamisia’...

08:58 pm - 26.08.2019

Pahhu's art.

04:13 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu's Shield.

04:05 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu's Rapier.

04:04 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 17: Reflections II

EIGHT DAYS LATER, DAY 35 The remnants explained what had happened to the others in grisly detail, and of the pact they had made with Thamisia. They agreed it would be best if they repaid the kindness and warning given by Thamisia, and they made their w...

04:02 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 16: Picking Up The Pieces

The hot desert air made sleep difficult, and although Jorah felt something trying to push into her dreams she was able to shake it off. Something was definitely trying to find them… It was no surprise then when as their rest neared its end they heard fo...

04:01 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 15: Aftermath

The hostages introduced themselves as adventurers, exploring on a contract from Arabel. The Yuan-Ti had taken many dozens of hostages, possibly even hundreds and as investigation parties were sent to look in on the problem they were often overwhelmed and ...

04:00 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 14: Chasing Tragedy

DAY 26 Due to pressing business the party was delayed in regrouping. In the past few days they had tried to use the mirror to investigate new things. Unsurprisingly the mirror failed to uncover the history of Charva the Stubborn; it seems that either h...

03:59 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 13: Madness

DAY 21 The party was visited by strange visions this night. Each of them saw different Pahhus, in perhaps different timelines. What they chose to share of those visions with each other was particularly interesting… Nyx had a vision of the Pahhu they...

03:58 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 12.5: Fever Dreams [RAW]

Below are unrefined notes related to a sequence of dreams that the party had in the Shifting Sands of Time campaign. Please excuse the raw nature of this material: ** Separate Visions** Theodore -> The Duchess (Lawful Evil) -> The vision is spurred ...

03:57 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 12: The Homefront

DAY 17 The next day Ed, Pahhu, Jorah and Nyx regathered around the mirror, ready to seek more answers, the others off on business. This time Pahhu stood in front of the mirror, frustrated by the lack of information it had given her about her father she...

03:55 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 11: Elemental Time

Without answers once more the group decided to return to Synod and investigate more of the buildings. Starting with the house in the middle that contained an undisturbed humanoid, even after all this time… As they approached the house a green figure scr...

03:54 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 10: Rest & Recovery

Pahhu reaches level 13, taking her 10th level in Stone Sorcerer. She learns to control the Arrow of Time (Chill Touch), directing the entropic force unleashed from the temporal energy plane. When targeted at a foe it rapidly ages them dealing necrotic dam...

03:52 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 9: Reflections

Additional details: The High Priest’s journal recovered was penned by a Brin Silisk, High Priest of Amaunator. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The party walks out of the temple, once again seeing the...

03:49 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 8: Into Synod

DAY 13 The group gathered, weary of conversation and thankful for the chance to simply move they teleported back to Charva’s sanctuary and then began to fly in the sky via wind walk. Without telepathic bond they flew silently together, each in their ...

03:48 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 7: Schisms

Marinette, under the sway of the fiend’s suggestion rounded the corner with purpose, sighting Tona the panther. Heavy footsteps pounded the sand as every muscle fiber in Marinette’s body resisted simultaneously resisted the compulsion and wound itself...

03:46 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 6: Twists in Time

DAY 7 Breakfast the next day was a drowsy affair, the group having had their rest interrupted the night before. Apples, cheeses, breads and jerkies made for a satisfying meal. Barnaby the Korred even snacked on some of the nearby rocks. Looking out over ...

03:44 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 5: Back On Their Feet

Pahhu made light laps around the yard of Hyssop Home. It felt good to be moving again, it helped with the physical itchiness and restlessness. The itchiness in her mind though continued to bubble, there were a lot of questions and new thoughts she found h...

03:42 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: The Prismatic Plaza

Pahhu follows Quinton as he goes to work on the teleportation circle for Lerwick one day. She watches him as he adeptly carves the runes into plain stone, but quickly begins to lose interest. She was dragged along to get her strength back, and so Quinton ...

03:41 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 3.5: Blast From The Past, Propelled Towards The Future

It was dark. So dark that Pahhu couldn’t even see her own hands in front of her face. She couldn’t tell if her eyes were open or closed. This was different than when she sometimes ran so fast she could see the place with the wind, dust, and howling st...

03:40 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time: Time Will Tell

The once clear fountains of Charva’s sanctuary lay still and muddled, some even cloudy and red, stained with blood from prisoners and wardens alike. Marinette, Theodore, Crixus, Zairissia, Moyra and Quinton teleported into the altar room of Labelas arri...

03:38 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 3: Sandstorm

The party touches down southeast of the Plain of Standing Stones, having exhausted themselves in the wild day. It had been less than 12 hours since they’d woken up to a flash storm and been washed into the prison of Charva’s wards. It was time to rest...

03:36 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 2: Past Regrets

The party began to tend their wounds, their bodies aching at the warping corruption they’d been subjected to. As they collected the “gifts” offered by the fallen fiend they spoke some words of thanks to the bodies in their tombs. Pahhu called forth ...

03:35 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Shifting Sands of Time 1: Two Letters

Two letters arrive simultaneously to Pahhu Kilaniu, the Half-Elven sorceress of time living in Hyssop Home. Pahhu immediately reacted with anxiety, after all a letter was filled with letters, and she'd never been good with those. She opened the first one,...

03:33 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Level 8: The Bothness

Pahhu sits on the ledge of the clock tower doing something she doesn't normally do. She stops. Then she does another thing she doesn't normally do. She thinks. "Hmm-mm-mm-umm." She tries making the noises thinking people make, assuming it will help. "Humm...

03:31 pm - 24.08.2019

Pahhu: Backstory

Pahhu’s story begins in 1473 DR, an abandoned roughly half-year old baby left at the stairs of the Bound Hands Orphanage in Secomber. The child was half-elven, with deeply tanned skin with coarse dark hair, and the marked features of a Wood-Elf. The chi...

03:30 pm - 24.08.2019

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