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Masters of the Nine Elements

A complete history of the adventures of the Masters of the Nine Elements

Chapter I: Origins

Session 1 - Session 18

The Masters of the Nine Elements embark on their legendary odyssey.

  • 10th Tětramís 529 AXR > 13th Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 1: Odyssey's Dawn
    Founding

    Kairon arrives in Σu'ryxia and meets with continent dwellers Rostliem, Averel, 'Sly' Tony and Rhogar. They defeat a griffon and become local heroes. This gets them work from various people in the town - work including fencepost wars and pickaxe deliveries.   1st September 2022

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  • 13th Tětramís 529 AXR > 14th Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 2: The Great Rat Heist
    Discovery, Exploration

    The party is tasked to rescue a lycanthrope from underneath Ayerith by his concerned mother. They descend into the gut of the town and end up finding an old, deserted cultist hideout infested with rats. Eventually, they rescue the Rat King and find Ayerith burning at the hands of the Mesilists. Barely escaping with their lives and with a dying Kairon, the party head off into the Forgotten Wealds.   10th September 2022

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  • 14th Tětramís 529 AXR > 15th Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 3: The Curse of Mistbrook Manor
    Expedition

    The party sets off into the Forgotten Wealds to find a cure for Sly Tony and Kairon. They wander into the heart of the Terribonne forest where they learn of an ancient curse from a sentient corpse. It directs them to a place called Mistbrook Manor, which they find in the middle of a dark clearing. After wandering around it, they are eventually greeted by the house's owner, who turns out to be an Oni hellbent on curing himself. The party manages to kill it but Rhogar dies in the struggle.   25th September 2022

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  • 15th Tětramís 529 AXR > 16th Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 4: Blood and Thunder
    Expedition

    The party venture further into the Forgotten Wealds, killing monsters that lurk in the darkness. After escaping Hill Giant territory, the players end up on the other side of the Terribonne forest, looking out upon a cliffside at the city of Ablefell.   1st October 2022

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  • 16th Tětramís 529 AXR > 18th Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 5: Ablefell
    Life, Publicity

    The party make their way into Ablefell. Losing the business of Yulia Sedan, they instead try to find guild work around the city, whilst Dal goes off in search for clues of his past. However, in a turn of events, the hunters become the hunted as the party is cornered by assassins and it's revealed that Averel Talekin is a wanted man.   8th October 2022

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  • 18th Tětramís 529 AXR > 19th Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 6: Infamous
    Life, Publicity

    Gideon betrays the party, wanting to take Averel's bounty for himself. Though, with Gideon's death, also brings the truth that Averel is a changeling. With a new objective of finding who wants Averel dead, the party search the city for clues on the bounty hunter Ardenyx. Eventually, their leads take them to Lord Eonir Elixin; a former Engineer for the Empire who gives them all a chance to turn the tide of the war.   22nd October 2022

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  • 19th Tětramís 529 AXR > 33rd Tětramís 529 AXR
    Session 7: Behind the Curtain
    Political event

    In search of Elixin's blueprints, the players search the districts of the city for clues about where they were taken, eventually tracing evidence to Wilchest Hardegraave - an extremely wealthy aristocrat in Ablefell. Taking on the forms of nobles, a bodyguard and a rat, they infiltrate Hardegraave's masquerade and turn the party to chaos.   6th November 2022

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  • 33rd Tětramís 529 AXR > 1st Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 8: The Aftermath of Anarchy
    Military: Battle

    After Harlon Ydrenich, supreme governor of Ablefell, escapes the chaos of the ballroom, the players set out to find and kill him before he leaves for Terren with Elixin's blueprints. Tensions build to their climax as the party face off against Ydrenich in one final confrontation on his warship, finally leaving the wicked noble to die whilst everything else comes crashing down.   12th November 2022

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  • 1st Xǐàmís 529 AXR > 3rd Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 9: Cruel Horizons
    Disaster / Destruction

    The players are tasked to escort Elixin and Homjack along with the blueprints out of Ablefell through a connection of underground tunnels beneath the city. But when the party is confronted by mercenaries that threaten Elixin's capture, they fight back - though Kairon is sadly killed. Forced to move on, they travel through the sewers to the edge of the city where they're ambushed by André Calixis and the Imperial Army, who takes Elixin to be punished for treason in Terren and kills poor Homjack. With no other choice, those who remain turn their backs on the city and leave for Holdenglade, in search of a new life.   10th December 2022

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  • 3rd Xǐàmís 529 AXR > Σlṿamís 6540 DE > 11th Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 10: Yesterly Snows
    Discovery, Scientific

    After Tony accidentally destroys the Wanderlust Hotel, the players journey to the village of Theraldin in search for spare parts to fix the tavern, only to find themselves in the middle of an untangling web of lies involving time loops and mind-altering plants. The loop is eventually destroyed, though the village suffers the same fate after 600 years of time catch up to it. It seems that trouble follows the party wherever they go; or vice versa.   22nd December 2022

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  • 11th Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 11: Memento Mori
    Military: Skirmish

    The players recruit Heato Hiyori as the newest member of the Masters of the Nine Elements after arriving in Holdenglade and discuss the next steps of their plan. Donevan is healed of his curse by his God in return for the party overtaking a Mesilist outpost nearby that is killing his worshippers - which they manage with relative ease. Meanwhile, Rostliem is visited by a not so friendly ghost from his past - Ardenyx - who demands to know the location of Averel Talekin. Everything comes to a climax when the revenant disturbs Holdenglade's Founding Festival in an attempt to kill the party once and for all.   7th January 2023

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  • 11th Xǐàmís 529 AXR > 13th Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 12: Sanguine Advocates
    Religious event

    After defeating Ardenyx for the second time, the party retreat back to their base camp to rest. However, the morning brings a mysterious invitation from an enigmatic vampire regarding the disappearance of his daughter. And so, in exchange for 800 gold pieces each, the party set out to finding Zelèna De La Vére. Yet, as usual, things take a turn for the worse when Averel realises, the culprit behind all of this is none other than his own patron. Oh, and to tempt ill fate yet even more so, the cultists who kidnapped Zelèna are using her fangs to resurrect what they like to call a Beholder Titan. Seems friendly enough.   28th January 2023

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  • 13th Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 13: Dissonant Whispers
    Disaster / Destruction

    Armed with the location of Marko Turei, the party sets off in search of destroying the Brothers of Vess in Holdenglade's long abandoned Undercity. Though the dark patron enacts revenge of his own as Sly Tony mysteriously disappears in the night, leaving the Masters of the Nine Elements in a frenzied panic. So, left to partake in a wild goose chase around the city in the dead of night, the party must find their Kobold renegade before something else much worse finds him.   11th February 2023

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  • 13th Xǐàmís 529 AXR > 14th Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 14: Under the Surface
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    With help from Anton, the party descend into the depths of Reaver's Keep in an attempt to find Zelèna and stop the cult from summoning the Beholder Titan. Yet the further down they go, the more horrifying the fortress becomes. Twisted abominations lie in the darkest depths of Holdenglade; the worst of these, as the party soon finds out, just so happens to be an orb capable of destroying Avalǿn as we know it...   18th February 2023

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  • 14th Xǐàmís 529 AXR > 23rd Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 15: Reigns and Revolutions
    Revolution

    After the players face off against the Brothers of Vess and come out victorious, the revolution begins. The party suffocate the city from the inside, convincing the peasantry to take up arms and fight against the tyranny, making deals with guilds to turn on their King, disabling communications to the Empire, assassinating nobles that pose a threat to the insurrection and intercepting vital payloads that Holdenglade needs to survive. There are now riots on the streets. Fires rage on every corner. And King Orthrond awaits the final showdown...   24th February 2023

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  • 23rd Xǐàmís 529 AXR > 24th Xǐàmís 529 AXR
    Session 16: Harbingers of Holdenglade
    Revolution

    With Holdenglade left fragile from days of utter desecration, the Masters of the Nine Elements move in for their final assault on Reaver's Keep, leading the peasants into battle against the King's men, with lines of artillery not far behind. They charge at the main gate, and break through each and every one of Orthrond's defenses. After his two bodyguards are killed, the King is left exposed, like a clay pigeon at the mercy of its hunter. Tony grants him a quick death, and the party finally interpose themselves as the Harbingers of Holdenglade.   1st April 2023

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  • 24th Xǐàmís 529 AXR > 14th Sṽenɀamís 529 AXR
    Session 17: Brothers of Yore
    Expedition

    After Goron reveals that he wishes to give Kairon a fond farewell on Elgen Isle, the Masters of the Nine Elements must journey back to the tumultuous streets of Ablefell, this time clandestine. Averel, Tony, Heato and Rostliem all manage to recover the wizard's body from the city mausoleum in addition to making a new undead friend in the form of Cindy the Flameskull. Meanwhile, Donevan learns more of his past life and who his former party members were. Together they leave the city behind and make for Elgen Isle, where Kairon is given the funeral he so rightly deserved.   3rd April 2023

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  • 14th Sṽenɀamís 529 AXR > 19th Sṽenɀamís 529 AXR
    Session 18: Errant Memories, Tinted Glass
    Discovery, Scientific

    Angered by Goron's incessant refusal to explain himself, the Masters of the Nine Elements finally pressure him to break, revealing that Elgen Isle is blighted by a disease spreading from the Underdark, which proves that underneath the island is a Planar Gate. The only cure to said disease is a flower, Rasdivis' Lotus, which only grows in the lowermost layers of Byrexior. Trusting Goron's word, the party descend into the gut of the island, and eventually come across a sprawling dungeon, long abandoned. At the centre stands the ruins of a Planar Gate connecting Avalǿn and Byrexior - the Astral Vault. As Donevan steps forward, visions of his past and an alternate future flood to him - warning the party that if Barontyne finds all shattered remnants of the missing sword, Xandria will be unleashed upon the world once again...   22nd April 2023

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Chapter II: The Astral Key

Session 19 - Ongoing

The Masters of the Nine Elements scour Σu'ryxia in a race against the clock to find the pieces of the Astral Key before the Empire does.

  • 19th Sṽenɀamís 529 AXR - 15th Øctřamís 529 AXR
    Session 19: On the Straight and Narrow
    Diplomatic action

    On their way back to Holdenglade, Averel breaks his pact with Vess and the party is attacked by a gang of gnomes hungry for Tony's blood. Upon their return, they learn that the city is in dire straits, with only 20 days left to surrender to the Empire before Barontyne attacks. The party do the best they can to evacuate its people and give them hope that everything will be okay, whilst Donevan locates the whereabouts of the hilt of the Astral Key. And Heato leaves for Val T'loré in the middle of the night in fear that Calixis will murder his loved ones to try and get closer to him.   19th June 2023

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  • 15th Øctřamís 529 AXR - 32nd Øctřamís 529 AXR
    Session 20: Ozymandias
    Military: Battle

    Accepting that Holdenglade will inevitably fall to the Empire, the Masters of the Nine Elements feed the flames of the revolution by taking their last stand in the city, acting as heroes to the people and showing the world the barbaric nature of Barontyne and his men. Looking onto bigger horizons, they then venture to the ruins of the fallen starship Harbinger II, where they partake in a legendary duel against the dead Pirate Lord Davy Drax only to learn that the hilt of the Astral Key had been stolen mere weeks ago by a group of Orcish Marauders. With the realisation that obtaining this sword may be harder than they first thought it would be, the party prepare for the long haul...   27th June 2023

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  • 32nd Øctřamís 529 AXR - 2nd Ŋamís 529 AXR
    Session 21: Of Bandits and Thieves
    Expedition

    After taking a quick detour to a nearby village, the Masters of the Nine Elements approach the Elmisle Wood ready to ruin some happy Orc families with their new weapons. They help a man find his fork, and defeat the Wise Mystical Tree in a battle of the wits, feeling confident in themselves. However, things prove not to be as easy as they first thought as the party get destroyed by the Orcs and get thrown in their prisons, forced to fight against their pet worm. Doesn't seem too bad.   Until you realise it's purple...   30th June 2023

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  • 2nd Ŋamís 529 AXR - 9th Ŋamís 529 AXR
    Session 22: Kindred Spirit
    Expedition

    Turns out that the Mogrhog Marauders had been duped by a gosh darn wizard, and the hilt had been stolen for weeks on end without the chief even realising. And so the Masters of the Nine Elements resume their search for their needle in a haystack, murking some rebels by the Evrean border, paying off Halfling entrepreneurs for information and visiting Rostliem's old tribe. However, after the tribe is put in danger by a hostile group of pillaging Mesilists, Rostliem realises his true potential and saves the lives of his people, guided by the Kindred Spirits of his ancestors.   10th July 2023

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  • 10th Ŋamís 529 AXR - 14th Ŋamís 529 AXR
    Session 23: Deus Ex Machina
    Discovery, Exploration

    Their search for the Astral Hilt takes the Masters of the Nine Elements to the technological supercity of Sota. There, they induct a new member into the party: Ondor, a Warforged Cleric from the faraway plane of Chronomachina instructed to keep the Astral Key out of the hands of evil by his God, the Curator. But as always seems to happen, their recess is cut short when ruckus in the city breaks to new mutiny. Through interrogating the captured instigators, the party trace the explosive disappearance of their artefact to the most infamous crime syndicate in the city: Da'ernam Grye. And they all give out a collective groan as the wild goose chase begins once again...   13th July 2023

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  • 14th Ŋamís 529 AXR - 15th Ŋamís 529 AXR
    Session 24: The Genesis Project
    Discovery, Scientific

    In a wild series of events, the party invade the secret hideout of the Da'ernam Grye only to help the faction defend themselves against invaders of their own: a secret syndicate of dopplers who had stolen the hilt from right under their noses. One surviving creature escapes, leading to a citywide chase that culminates in the party finding the hidden doppler base miles outside of Sota. And there they learn that a supposed ally, the artificer Feugelhaig, is planning to create an army of supercharged war machines to fight underneath him, for better, or for worse.   17th July 2023

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  • 15th Ŋamís 529 AXR - 19th Ŋamís 529 AXR
    Session 25: Hemlock Horrors
    Expedition

    The artificer Feugelhaig is soon revealed to be one of the many guises of the mad demon Ryokai, who has long since assumed his identity and tainted his Genesis Project to one of evil intent, disposing of the dwarf in the process down Hemlock Street. With Feugelhaig as their only lead, the party willingly venture into the darkness of the alley and come out at the dreaded Hemlock Asylum. Whilst inside, they fight sinners, monstrosities and themselves as they try to escape from inside of their own heads on the brink of insanity. Though, in the end, they manage to find themselves in the darkness and overpower the evil Dr. Qhasrel before it's too late. Feugelhaig is located at long last. The only issue...   ...is getting him out.   9th August 2023

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