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College of Conjuration, Natural history, and Environmental Studies.

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{{Infobox location|type = Magical College|location = University of Xyrneiros, Osugbo}}One of the eleven Magical Colleges at the [[University of Xyrneiros]].

== About the Department ==
The College of Conjuration tends to attract primarily students interested in summoning animals and druids interested in transforming into them. Accordingly, the College adapted to studying the zoology and habitats of various magical and non-magical creatures very early into its creation. Many of the College’s early classes focus on the conjuration of non-living magical objects to teach students the fundamentals of calling material from the magical aether and the caster’s own memories. Later coursework, however, often involves the conjuration of living creatures and eventually magical and [[List of Planes|extraplanar]] entities such as elementals. To accompany this coursework, majors are required to take supplemental coursework on both natural environments and other planes of reality to order better understand the habitats of creatures summoned from “elsewhere.”

== Location ==
Olazaford Bestiary and Botanical Garden

== Department Head ==

* [[Dr. Qedre Yih’Zeth]]

== Notable Professors ==

* [[Professor Byron Fæbes]]
* [[One|Three]]

== Traditions Among Majors ==

Summoning various farm animals into academic buildings at the end of each school year. Choosing rather large animals as familiars to get them onto campus as pets and moving out of dormitories as soon as possible to start co-op housing with other majors to keep more and larger animals on campus.

“Don’t go to the Conjuration parties if you’re allergic to pets”

-common piece of advice given to first years.
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University of Xyrneiros

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[[File:Istockphoto-1434925755-612x612.jpg|alt=A picture of a beautiful gothic citadel on an island, framed by sky and sea|thumb|Stock Photo of Mont St Michel on Earth. Placeholder image to evoke Xyrneiros' energy]]
[[File:Xyneiros.jpg|thumb|Map of Campus in mid 300s [[PR]]]]'''The University of Xyrneiros''' is a prestigious magical university just off the northern coast of [[Osugbo]], with a lauded but historically embattled reputation. Built on an artificial, magically created island, and linked to the mainland via a causeway passable at low tide. On the mainland, the small town of [[Presmarivale]] sprung up around the university to support campus life and visitors to the university.

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== History: ==

=== Foundation ([[Realm War I|Realm War Era]], 28 PR-380 PR): ===
The University of Xyrneiros was one of the larger magical universities on the continent of [[Osugbo]] which emerged in around 28 PR following [[Glendoveer]]’s destruction and subsequent absorption of [[Champerty]]. Constructed on a magically-made island just off the coast of [[Osugbo]] and reachable by causeway, Xyrneiros was originally constructed as a defensive outpost during the first [[Realm War I|Realm War]]—originally only reachable by teleportation circle. With the conquest of [[Champerty]] by [[Glendoveer]], [[Glendoveer]] began to increasingly regulate the formerly unfettered magical developments of [[List of Champerty Institutions|Champerty’s magical universities and enclaves]] to reduce avenues for rebellion and regional destabilization.

Other magical institutions and outlying local mages [[guilds]] saw an increased degree of surveillance and regulation by the [[Glendoveer|Elven Monarchy]], with particularly dangerous or revolutionary organizations having their archives and materials seized by the government to pre-emptively mitigate risk of revolution.

However, the [[Northwest Treaty]] of 25 PR, the treaty which formalized [[Champerty|Champerty's]] surrender of all lands previously seized in the realm war to [[Glendoveer]], contained a special provision calling for the establishment of a repository of magical texts seized by the forces of [[Glendoveer]] during their growing control of the region. This heavily-negotiated provision was intended by the Paragnosts of [[Champerty]] to minimize the loss of centuries of magical research, but functionally resulted in the creation of an offshore magical storehouse explicitly under the control of [[Glendoveer|Glendoveer’s]] monarchy.

Following the [[Realm War I|Realm War]]’s conclusion, this militarized storehouse began to attract mages and researches from across [[The Quelmar Realm|Quelmar]], eventually leading to [[Glendoveer]] opening the island to select academics by establishing it as a university—the University of Xyrneiros. However, as the University began its initial recruiting push, its administration was slowly infiltrated by sympathizers to the cause of [[Champerty]], resulting in the creation of a secret enclave of professors and academics known as the “[[Order of the Dreaming Eyne]].” This group covertly operated within the University to shield the [[The Lost Relics of Champerty|greatest magical advancements]] from use by the Monarchy, and slowly erase them from the university’s records--hiding them in a subterranean safekeep deep below the Island.

=== [[Another One Bites the Dice|The disappearances of 321 PR]] ===
<blockquote>"They are gone...all...gone"</blockquote>In 321 PR, the enclave known as the Order of the Dreaming Eyne had taken dramatic measures to protect the university and the entire realm as a whole, using the vast resources of the school to fight back against an approaching entity known as "[[The Mists]], which hailed from a demiplane of dread known as [[Barovia]]. After an attack on the university which stole away many of the school's greatest minds and students, absorbing them into Barovia, the survivors (mostly those enclave members housed underground) took to controlling the University for a short time, until the mists were confirmed driven back, at which point reconstruction could begin.

=== Rise of the [[Order of the Dreaming Eyne]]: ([[The Cavalry Rush|Cavalry Rush]] Era, Dissolution of [[Glendoveer]], 380 PR--390 PR) ===
During the [[The Cavalry Rush|Cavalry Rush]] era which saw the dissolution of [[Glendoveer|Glendoveer’s]] kingdom holdings, and the creation of the [[Alest]] [[domain]], the University saw a great degree of internal debate and conflict. With their grip over the peasantry slipping, nobles in the monarchy of [[Glendoveer]] sought to access the college’s trove of [[The Lost Relics of Champerty|arcane weapons]] seized in the assimilation of [[Champerty]] to suppress the rebellion. However, Emissaries of [[Glendoveer]] attempting to reclaim select tomes and orreries often found their efforts frustrated by overcomplicated library classification systems, labyrinthine archives, and even outright subterfuge by members of the [[Order of the Dreaming Eyne]].

News of this inquiry quickly reached the masses and catalyzed even more segments of the population to the antimonarchist cause—ironically shifting the balance of power in the conflict. Without access to the most powerful weapons and enchantments from the [[Realm War I|conquest]] of [[Champerty]], the monarchy lost both their assumed military advantage, as well as their reputation among magical academics; who assumed the monarchy had broken the terms of the [[Northwest Treaty]] and covertly destroyed all seized artifacts.

For their part in the monarchy’s undoing, the Order’s politics had shifted greatly during the intervening three hundred and ninety years. Originally the organization formed as a pseudo-revolutionary enclave, comprised of [[Champerty’s]] arcane elite. Its more reactionary members in the early days discussed plots to violently overthrow the monarchy, use magic to retaliate against [[Glendoveer]] on the whole, or even restart violent attacks against the [[Troverth Dynasty]]. However, as generations passed, and those with firsthand memories of the [[Realm War I|Realm War]] died out and were replaced, the philosophy of the organization underwent a sea change. Catalyzed in large part by [[The Archivist]], newer generations of [[Dreaming Eyne]] leadership more carefully debated the risks of widespread use of the [[Lost Relics of Champerty]].

They came to the conclusion that such uses of magic had devastated the region and [[plane]] enough during the duration of the [[Realm War I|Realm War]] and preceding [[BR|BR era]] and should not ever be repeated. A vocal contingent frequently noted in discussion the Champerty Mages’ [[Drake's Deal|implementation of the ice wall embargo, using the island itself as a bastion for arcane focci, indirectly leading to the genocide of the elven refugees resultant from Drake’s Deal]]. In response to the rising tensions between the monarchy and peasantry, the Order resolved to remain politically isolationist—concealing the [[The Lost Relics of Champerty|Lost Relics]] and the existence of [[The Archivist]] from both the monarchy and the outside world, lest the university become a target for military aggression.

When faced with inquiries for access to the [[Lost Relics of Champtrey]] in the mid-380s PR, members of the [[Order of the Dreaming Eyne|Order]] frequently attempted to subvert, sabotage, and misdirect the same officials and regents that their predecessors had deceived seven generations prior. What once were some of the most astute court mages of [[Glendoveer]] assigned to oversee the University had grown wizened and dottering with age, even their own personal archives now mismanaged and ill-maintained. While generations had developed organization infrastructure and dutifully [[The Archive|maintained the labyrinthine stacks of Xyrneiros]], the arcane court of [[Glendoveer]] and its emissaries within the University often looked for texts in places they were housed 200 years prior, and were frequently derided behind closed doors by student workers when they tried to requisition spellcasting components using forms dated 75 PR. Due to the insulation of these elite classes of the court, and a culture of deference to seniority, it quickly became an open secret that the University was growing too quickly for the slackening grip of the monarchy’s governance.

These tensions reached a head in 392 PR with the appointment of [[human]] Professor [[Muriel Elkhlore]] to the position of Monarchic Liaison—a position within the college previously occupied only by elven officials from the Court of Glendoveer. The Monarchy of Glendoveer erroneously assumed that appointing a supposedly sympathetic ear from the current roster of university professors would serve as a concession to academics critical of the court mages and the monarchy as a whole. In reality, [[Professor Elkhlore]] was a ranking member in the [[Order of the Dreaming Eyne]]. Her tenure saw monarchist officials refused entry to campus, and some historians even believe that some of the early records proving the monarchy’s conspiracy to seize and use the [[Lost Relics of Champerty]] against the peasantry were written on stationary from her on-campus office, though this remains hotly debated.

In any case, as [[Glendoveer]] crumbled and [[Alest]] was founded, the administrative forces at Xyrneiros tried to steer the institution in as “politically neutral” a direction as possible—endorsing the creation of a new regional government only after the tides of revolution began to shift. Conscious of the arcane secrets they protected, the [[Order of the Dreaming Eyne]] endeavored to slowly die out and be forgotten with the foundation of a new regional government. They viewed their role as that of a silent custodians over the relics and caretaker of the Archivist—the quicker those secrets were forgotten to history, the better. However, rumors of the society had become somewhat of a campus urban-legend, and still endure in regional talks about the University. Mercifully, the rumors of the organization have overshadowed the magical advancements they conceal, and [[The Archivist]] living in the vaults beneath the island.

=== Immediately prior to the [[The Arctic Autumn|Arctic Autumn]] (390 PR--466 PR): ===
In the intervening 60-odd years between the [[The Cavalry Rush|Cavalry Rush]] and [[The Arctic Autumn|Arctic Autumn]], Xyrneiros and the adjoining town of [[Presmarivale]] thrived as both an academic hub and sightseeing destination. While too far afield to become a major shipping hub, [[Presmarivale]] is frequently buoyed by the influx of tourists and scholars venturing to the University. The university frequently oversaw magical experiments, conferences, presentations, and publishing operations, buoying the local economy. Xyrneiros today thrives off of its history as a massive repository of arcane texts, its academic rigor, and even quiet whispers about the “[[Lost Relics of Champerty.]]”

=== [[The Fantasial Freeze|During the Arctic Autumn:]] ===
The freezing of [[The Quelmar Realm|Quelmar]] wreaked havoc upon the relationship between the university and [[Presmarivale|town]]. While famine was less prevalent in the university and surrounding town due to the mages’ ability to magically conjure food, the difference in quality between magical food created for the university and town began to build tensions. [[Presmarivale|The town]], historically rather trusting of the University, began to be rattled by rumors that the University may have had some part in catalyzing the freeze via an experiment gone wrong. These rumors flourished in part because of the abrupt halt in visiting/tourism. While several of the luxury lodgings still managed to eke by due to the ability of certain gifted magical alumni to teleport onto campus under their own power and visit their usual haunts, many of the more traditional lodgings and stores which thrived upon the tourist economy were struggling.

Additionally, the supply chain disruptions which were throttling the town’s tourism industry also threatened the college’s ability to remain self-sufficient. Although food was far from scarce, consumer goods needed for the day-to-day maintenance of the University quickly began to dwindle in supply. Some students, lacking an understanding of the supply chain necessary to maintain the university, began to accuse the townsfolk of hording supplies for themselves. Quickly, the symbiotic relationship between the [[Presmarivale|town]] and university devolved into mutual distrust.

The University’s administration has largely scaled back classes during the freeze, instead mobilizing students to use their magic and help the town keep from starving in an effort to win back goodwill. However, many of the professors are concerned what may happen if the freeze continues onward for too long, as the ramifications of an entire population subsisting for a prolonged period on magical food have never been comprehensively documented.

To try and restore the town’s economy and the university’s prospects, many of the school’s resources have been dedicated to the creation of a long-distance, mass-teleportation array which would allow for the restoration of supply chains. However, progress has been slow given the logistics of transporting shipments of mixed life forms, inanimate objects, and even potentially livestock across great distances. Not to mention the lingering diplomatic issues of traveling great distances to contact other large city centers/nations, and requesting to install a colossal and experimental piece of teleportation infrastructure in their city.

== Relations With Other Institutions: ==
Xyrneiros’ relationship with other universities across what used to be [[Champerty]] is best described as complex. Though many scholars gravitate to Xyrneiros for its collection of pre-Glendoveerian magical literature, talks are ongoing between the school and universities such as [[List of Champerty Institutions|Drȳcræft Drīfan]] to return texts confiscated by [[Glendoveer]]. Xyrneiros’ possession of these texts for many years was a source of friction, but progress has been accelerated with the creation of [[Alest]]. The one sticking point for some mages remain the [[The Lost Relics of Champerty|Lost Relics of Champerty]]—with some skeptical of their absence during the dwindling days of [[Glendoveer’s]] Monarchy. While some mages view the search for these lost tomes and artifacts from the genuine lens of historical inquiry, others (such as the [[La Croix]] family’s antiquarians at [[Xircola College]]) have far more covetous intentions. In any case, any such legends are only speculation among academics, who have no knowledge of [[The Archivist]].

== Geography/Layout of Campus: ==
The campus of the University sits upon a hilly plateau on an outcropping off the cost of [[Osugbo]]. The outer cliffs and inclines of the island are ringed by ruins of defensive parapets—some of which have been converted into study spaces—and guard houses which now serve as housing for off-campus guests. Because of the island’s unique history as a military bastion and later a defensive stockpile, much of the university’s archive infrastructure lies under the island’s surface, though the university has built newer buildings above-ground. For a visual reference from earth, imagine the French city of Mont St-Michel.
[[File:University of Xyrneiros 1.png|thumb|300x300px]]
Much of the architecture has been said to have a sort of "glimmer" about it, which some believe has to do with [[Wovenstone]] cornerstones, brought over from when [[Glendoveer]] was located across the ocean in [[Isonhound]].

=== The Gates of Xyrneiros: ===
The first glimpse of campus many see, as the water-worn stones of causeway to [[Presmarivale]] give way to the well-maintained flagstones of the Pathway of Knowing, The Gates of Xyrneiros are a large stone gatehouse leftover from the island’s time as a defensive encampment. When the island was converted from a military stockpile into a university, many of the defensive posts were removed, and the outer walls which ring the main campus of Xyrneiros were re-finished to look far more impressive to visitors.

Part of this process included carving a series of stone reliefs into the walls of the gatehouse and adjoining walls depicting the life of [[Queen Xyrneiros]], and the story of Champerty’s fall. In the early days of the university these reliefs were frequently vandalized or altogether destroyed--prompting administration to enchant the walls with a perpetual charm of mending to repair vandalism attempts as they happened. However, this only led to a perpetual arms-[[race]], with generations of students trying to figure out workarounds to the charm. One of the more notable instances in this tug-of-war included a student from the [[College of Illusions, Visual Arts, and Art History|College of Illusions]] creating a paint out of ground-up enchanted bronze, which not only confounded a loophole in the mending charm, but significantly damaged the masonry of the relief upon removal. Such attempts have somewhat diminished in recent years, but informal vandalism has been replaced by a formal movement by students and professors to replace or remove the reliefs—especially following the fall of [[Glendoveer]].

=== The Hall of [[Corellon]]: ===
[[File:HallofEve.png|thumb|300x300px|Hall of Corellon, set for a communal feast at the top of the school year]]
The highest point on the island, and the building hosting its tallest spire stands at the apex of the plateau’s largest hill—the Hall of Corellon. The hall contains several floors of large lecture halls, student study-spaces, and quarters for the University's administration at its highest floors. These quarters are coveted by faculty for their beautiful views—the cream of the crop being the archmages’ quarters, which sports 365-degree views of the university campus, sea, and town of Presmarivale. However, any magical experimentation is expressly prohibited in these quarters by university policy. Administration must reserve laboratory or studio space elsewhere on campus, but get priority in these reservations.

First-year orientations, alumni banquets, and large lecture courses from all Colleges of the university are often held on the lower floors of the building, with professors and students alike enjoying the high ceilings, natural light, and good acoustics of the lecture halls. Additionally, the first floor contains a rather large mess hall and kitchen, which serves as a popular destination for on-campus lunches, though most residence halls have their own kitchens as well.

The building itself is enchanted with a perpetual charm of feather-fall, to prevent fatalities in case of an accidental fall from the upper balconies. It is an infrequent practice by seniors to scare prospective students and their families by “accidentally” falling from the top of the atrium, only to slow into a hover ten feet from the ground, and gently land on their feet. This practice caries harsh disciplinary consequences for the offending students, as it has scared off several wealthy families over the course of the university’s history. Of course, because this enchantment applies to the outside of the building as well, the much more “allowed” tradition of scaling the building under cover of night is passively encouraged by the university—with the Archmage traditionally publicizing their intent to schedule a trip into mainland Osogbo two weekends before graduation.

=== The Archive: ===
The pride and joy of the University, The Archive is a massive, underground library spanning the entirety of the island. Walking around campus, one will frequently spot small gatehouses with staircases which lead down into The Archive, which students frequently use to get between buildings during the winter months. The complex is divided among five known levels accessible to students, and two more secluded sections which exist largely outside of the public eye.

The first floor of The Archive house primarily student study spaces, small classrooms for courses with smaller [[class]] sizes, the offices of the Archive Staff/Librarians, some smaller displays of books and course reserves, and two galleries with skylight domes for student exhibitions or displays of the university’s art and sculpture collection. Additionally, a wing to the northwest corner of the first floor contains a series of woodblock printing blocks, ink, and parchment which comprise a burgeoning student press. These resources are available for reservation through the university for students to print and publish their own small batches of manuscripts, short books, or even reproducing excerpts of existing texts for remote research.

The second through fourth floors comprise the accessible stacks of the library. These are complimentary to students and alumni with tuition, but also for the public with a one-time library card fee—usually of thirty gold. The archive is organized around an organizational system akin to the Dewey Decimal system. All tomes in the library are modified to feature raised lettering on their spines, with tanks of [[Scroll Snails]] available upon request. Primarily comprised of tomes, but with a dedicated scroll and other print section on the fourth floors, these stacks are all linked through a large central atrium ringed by balconies and tables, with levitating discs scattered across eight different points around the circular floors acting as elevators. These disc elevators are also color-coded to indicate which of the cardinal and ordinal directions they’re aligned with, allowing for an easy visual navigation around the library in addition to the call-number system.

The fifth floor of The Archive constitutes the university’s restricted section. While the three previous floors contain a healthy mix of spell tomes and non-magical writings on subjects such as the sciences and humanities, the restricted section contain books on more esoteric spells and subjects-- including more advanced destruction spells, the creation of dimensional portals, contacting the outer planes, pact magic, and some of the university’s spell tomes which touch on the foundational principles of necromancy. Additionally, many of the texts originally seized by [[Glendoveer]] currently reside here, though some have been returned to their institutions of origin in recent years. The texts in this section are available to students and professors on the conditions that they do not leave the floor’s study rooms, and that no reproductions of their contents are made by members of the student body.

Below the fifth level of The Archive lies a sixth, secret level housing the University’s private collections and storage—including magical tomes, scrolls, and many of the arcane items seized from [[Champerty]] by the government of [[Glendoveer]]. While the exact contents of this level are considered classified information, with only professors and select graduate students able to access it, its existence is known by many across the region and part of the longstanding tension between Xyrneiros and other academic institutions. It is here that the majority of the University’s spell tomes on necromancy are stored to both minimize the risk of undergraduate students attempting such rituals and corpse-stitchings, as well as the public relations disaster such lines of inquiry would bring upon the University’s reputation.

Even further below this level lies the University Vaults—known only to the heads of each college, select administrators, the Archmage, and of course, members of the [[Order of the Dreaming Eyne]]. This colossal vault, with ceilings nearly four stories high house the most dangerous of the [[The Lost Relics of Champerty|Lost Relics of Champerty]] and serve as home to [[The Archivist]].

=== Outer Rings: ===
Accessible via the first and third levels of The Archive, as well as by several of the academic buildings dotting the periphery of campus, the Outer rings are a series of renovated guard parapets designed to include larger semicircular protrusions from the wall as well as small, insulated rooms dug into the rock. These spaces serve as magical “practice rooms” for evocation, illusion, and abjuration mages—allowing them to practice conjuring flames or lightning, creating illusionary summons, and creating domes of anti-magic facing outward towards the sea—not posing any risk to other students or townsfolk.

Additionally, these renovations mean that looking out towards the island of Xyrneiros at any given day, one might glimpse bursts of fire or strange creatures flying about these stone balconies. What once were guardhouses along these walls have been renovated into lower end housing for guests to the university, and storage for the [[College of Artifice, Mathematics, and Material Sciences]].

=== Cathedral of Erudition: ===
Though Xyneiros is a secular university, the Cathedral of Erudition serves as a hub for both the [[College of Clerical Studies, Religion, and Philosophy]], as well as the [[College of Restoration, Medicine, and Botany]]. The building’s first and second floors house both the campus’ hospital and chapel. Examination rooms unused by patients from the university, Presmarivale, or surrounding towns are often used for practicum teaching for healers.

The hospital also contains a wing dedicated to housing a campus morgue, and occasionally sources cadavers of humanoid creatures and beasts for dissection. The morgue of the Cathedral of Erudition is kept under constant surveillance. The hospital wing also contains one large operating theater for demonstrations of healing techniques and also nonmagical first-aid and suturing technique.

The Chapel wing of the Cathedral of Erudition contains small shrines to the divines of [[Quelmar Deities|Quelmar’s various Pantheons]], providing options for students to learn about and pray to a [[deity]] of their choosing, should they seek to venture down the path of clerical magic. Because Xyrneiros is primarily focused on the arcane arts rather than the divine, this setup is less robust than some of the other Colleges or Monasteries, but still sufficient enough to support students hoping to study magic of the divine.

The top two floors of the Cathedral consist primarily of department-specific faculty offices and lecture halls, as well as an alchemy laboratory stocked with ingredients for brewing potions of restoration. These floors are primarily where most of the specialized classes and seminars in the two Colleges which call the building home are held.

The fourth floor also sports access to a greenhouse and the campus’ clock tower—a tower which both tells time itself, and overlooks a semi-circular quad opening onto campus, allowing the tower itself to serve as a sundial. The sea-facing side of the Cathedral opens onto a large flower garden which serves as a popular place for students to lounge in the summer, but also a resource for the [[College of Restoration, Medicine, and Botany|College of Restoration]] to grow some of the mundane flowers and plants needed for their potions.

=== Hall of Eve: ===
[[File:University of Xyrneiros3.png|thumb|300x300px|Student [[Xuut Syth Ment|Xuut]] stands amidst an artistically decorated lounge in the Hall of Eve.]]
The Hall of Eve plays host to both the [[College of Illusion, Visual Arts, and Art History]], as well as the [[College of Enchantment, Literature, and Anthropology]]. The first floor of the building primarily houses the offices of both departments, while the second floor opens into spacious studios with hardwood floors and large windows. The topmost floor contained dormitories in the 300s [[PR]], but student housing would be moved offsite to nearby [[Presmarivale]] by the mid 400s [[PR]], to make room for more studios.

The more unfurnished of these are perfect for the paintings and spells of the [[College of Illusion]], while the rooms sporting comfy chairs, rugs, and bookshelves often serve as classrooms for the [[College of Enchantment]].

The hall also features one large lecture hall shared between the departments—notable for its high ceilings, but comparatively shallower incline to seating and larger stage area— designed primarily for demonstrating spells with larger areas of effect—both vertically and horizontally. Occasionally, student groups will reserve this auditorium and the larger studios of the [[College of Illusion]] for musical or theatre rehearsals--sparking friction with Illusion majors who assume they have unfettered access to the building for craft spaces.

=== Crucible of Innovation: ===
A three-story building at the southern end of the Pathway of Knowing which bisects campus, the Crucible of Innovation is built more firmly into the rocks of Xyrneiros than some of the other academic buildings, and plays host to the [[College of Artifice, Mathematics, and Material Sciences]], as well as the [[College of Transmutation, Chemistry, and Architecture]].

The former's workshops and laboratories occupy the ground floor of the building, as well as its slight overhang above the sea below. Some of the [[College of Artifice, Mathematics, and Material Sciences|College of Artifice]]'s workshops contain an intricate series of pulleys and levitating discs to lower crafts to the beachfront or sea under their facilities. The building only has two in-built lecture halls for the [[College of Artifice, Mathematics, and Material Sciences|College of Artifice]], specifically equipped with loading docks into the facilities larger workshops, with most classes in mathematics and physics held in The Archive or Hall of Corellon.

The [[College of Transmutation]], however, is based almost entirely out of the building's smaller second and third floors--with the second floor hosting many of the arcane laboratories for potion brewing and the third hosting drafting studios with high ceilings and large skylights for architectural projects. The exception being one large, first-floor studio with an unfinished floor and loading dock access to serve as a studio to teach lithomancy.

=== Lathor Tower: ===
A tall, circular tower at the southwest edge of campus, housing the [[College of Divination, Political Science, and History]]. The first few floors of the tower house small, divination-specific classes and a medium-sized lecture hall with basic scrying equipment for demonstrations. The higher floors contain a college-specific lounge, as well as professor offices. The top floor of the tower houses an observatory and telescope array to interpret predictions in the stars. It is rumored that tea brewed in Lathor Tower is the best-tasting on campus.

=== Sapior Hall: ===
A small, square building two-story building two doors down from the Hall of Eve which houses the [[College of Abjuration, Humanoid biology, and Linguistics]]. The first floor mainly contains classrooms, a lecture hall, and a small study room, with the second floor housing professor offices. It is said that non-abjuration majors get somewhat drowsy from looking at the building for too long.

=== Center for the Evocative Arts: ===
A multi-story performing-arts building on the south-east corner of Wisdom's Walk, and Integrity Way. The building is home to the [[College of Evocation and the Performing Arts]]. Though not as tall as the Hall of Corellon, it is still a massive building, with the ground floor playing host to a large proscenium theatre, a concert hall, and a small, black-box theatre space. The upper three floors of the building house some classrooms, dance studios, ensemble rehearsal rooms for musical ensembles, and professor offices. The building also contains a small lounge with hand-me-down playscripts and sheet music known only by mages in the [[College of Evocation and the Performing Arts|College of Evocation]]. These texts are left on a take-one, leave-one basis and a cherished memory of many Evocation majors.

=== Hall of Multitudinous Magic-Weavers: ===
Home of the [[College of Psionic and Innate Arcane Studies]]. Located in the triangle intersection between Integrity Way, Wisdom's Walk, and the Path of the Psionics.

=== Olazaford Bestiary and Botanical Garden: ===
Home of the [[College of Conjuration, Natural history, and Environmental Studies.|College of Conjuration, Natural History, and Environmental Studies]]. Located along the Pathway of Knowing, to the South of the Hall of Corellon, on the west side of the street.

=== [[Pelor]]'s Pond: ===
An enchanted spring on western end of campus, water from [[Pelor]]’s Pond when filtered and purified in an alchemy laboratory, provides a base for potions nearly clean of any impurities. The spring’s enchantment renders the water both always potable, and capable of curing surface-level wounds or muscular aches of those who wash themselves in the spring.

It is not an uncommon sight to see a student emerge from The Archives, dip their hands into the pond, and return to their studies having healed their paper cuts and hand cramps. It is also not uncommon to see at least one first-year student futilely attempting to dunk their forehead into the pond after a long night out, only to find out the hard way that the pond’s effect does not extend to hangovers.

== Colleges of the University: ==

=== [[College of Illusions, Visual Arts, and Art History]] ===

=== [[College of Abjuration, Humanoid biology, and Linguistics]] ===

=== [[College of Divination, Political Science, and History]] ===

=== [[College of Clerical Studies, Religion, and Philosophy]] ===

=== [[College of Restoration, Medicine, and Botany]] ===

=== [[College of Evocation and the Performing Arts]] ===

=== [[College of Enchantment, Literature, and Anthropology]] ===

=== [[College of Artifice, Mathematics, and Material Sciences]] ===

=== [[College of Conjuration, Natural history, and Environmental Studies.]] ===

=== [[College of Transmutation, Chemistry, and Architecture]] ===

=== [[College of Psionic and Innate Arcane Studies]] ===

== Notable Staff and Faculty ==
* [[Quimbleton]]
* [[Professor Darwin]]
** Student advisor, disappeared (presumed dead) in 321 [[PR]].
* Professor Rayburn
** Professor of Interplanar Studies
** Member of the Order of the Dreaming Eyne, a secretive organization that operates under the University's nose.
** During the great disppearances in 321 PR, Rayburn took over headmasters duty, and used the university's resources to try to train and push soldiers into [[The Mists]] to save [[Quelmar]] from the looming threat of [[Barovia]].
* Master Greyfeet
** disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].
*Associate Healer Castin
**disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].
* Professor Talon
** disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].

== Notable Students ==
* [[Xuut Syth Ment]]
** disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].
* [[Isadora de Carlyle]]
** disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].
* [[Wynter Fatiun]]
** disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].
* [[Willa Fatiun]]
** disappeared (presumed dead) in mid 321 [[PR]].

[[Category:Another One Bites the Dice]]
[[Category:Fantasial Freeze]]

The Fantasial Freeze/PCs

2025-09-28T06:09:24Z

Parkelca2:

<center>
'''Active [[Player|Player Character]] Count: 43'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!PC Name
![[List of Quelmar Races (DDWN)|Origin]]
![[Class#DDWN Classes|Class]]
!Background
!Player
!Status
![[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]]
!Level
![[The Fantasial Freeze#Wiki SP|Wiki Word Count/WSP]]
|-
|[[Jaxzo'Ilan]]
|[[Drow]] [[Dhampir (Player Race)|(Dhampir)]]
|[[Druid]]
|Priest
|Jacob
|'''Alive'''
|[[Manquel]]
|6
|0
|-
|[[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|"Countdown"]]
|[[Human]]
|[[Accursed|Hexblade]]
|Peasant
|Josh
|'''Alive'''
|[[Manquel]]
|7
|9666/15
|-
|[[Quimbleton|Quimbleton Fiddleford]]
|[[Human]]
|[[Wizard]]
|Scholar
|Caulden
|'''Alive'''
|Orbis
|6
|'''10000/16'''
|-
|[[Clover Softpaw|Clover]]
|[[Harengon]]
|[[Slayer]]
|Hunter
|Jenelle
|'''Alive'''
|Orbis
|5
|1014/1
|-
|[[Kara]]
|[[Kitsune]]
|[[Lacer]]
|Courtesan
|Adam
|'''Undead'''
|[[The Unravel|Unravel]]
|6
|1636/2
|-
|[[Luv]]
|[[Changeling]]
|[[Lacer]]/[[Healer]]
|Courtesan
|Ian
|'''Alive'''
|Orbis
|6
|'''10000/16'''
|-
|[[Tessa Night|Tessa]]
|[[Human]]
|[[Slayer]]
|Hunter
|Christina
|'''Alive'''
|[[Ravel]]
|5
|1776/2
|-
|[[Ravii]]
|[[Choeru]]
|[[Accursed]]/[[Duelist]]
|???
|Rachael
|'''Alive'''
|[[The Unravel|Unravel]]
|6
|2061/3
|-
|[[En]]
|[[Changeling]]
|Skinshifter/Expert
|Artisan
|Link
|'''Alive'''
|None
|4
|'''10000/16'''
|-
|[[Fären]]
|[[Half-Elf]]
|[[Rogue]]
|Criminal
|Link
|'''Alive'''
|[[Ravel]]
|4
|'''10000/16'''
|-
|[[Cecil Alaxorsa|Cecil]]
|Human?
|Champion/[[Duelist]]
|Chef
|Caulden
|'''Alive'''
|Balabag
|6
|'''10000/16'''
|-
|[[Adebimpe]]
|[[Kitsune]]
|[[Bard]]
|Performer
|Isaac
|'''Alive'''
|None
|4
|0
|-
|[[Kludzu]]
|[[Goliath]]
|[[Druid]]
|Criminal
|Ryan
|'''Alive'''
|Orbis
|3
|2455/3
|-
|[[Cavii Kero|Cavii]]
|[[Choeru]]
|[[Mystic]]
|Scholar
|Victoria
|'''Alive'''
|[[Ravel]]
|4
|653/1
|-
|[[Osric]]
|[[Shifter]]
|[[Slayer]]
|???
|Taylor
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|4
|204/0
|-
|[[Cecilia]]
|[[Otomo]]
|[[Beastmaster]]
|Performer
|Sadie
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|4
|1953/3
|-
|[[Annabelle]]
|[[Human]]
|[[Monk]]
|Priest
|Sadie
|'''Alive'''
|[[The Unravel|Unravel]]
|3
|1953/3
|-
|[[Fridtjof]]
|[[Goliath]]
|[[Expert]]
|Wanderer
|[[Paul]]
|'''Alive'''
|[[Manquel]]
|3
|0
|-
|[[Yoko]]
|[[Tanuki]]
|[[Rogue]]
|Peasant
|Casper
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]
|[[Harengon]]
|[[Rogue]]
|Performer
|Emmett
|'''Alive'''
|[[Manquel]]
|4
|422/0
|-
|[[Ben|Ben/Sven]]
|[[Dragonborn]]
|[[Slayer]]
|Priest
|Andrew
|'''Alive/Dead'''
|[[The Unravel|Unravel]]
|4
|1569/2
|-
|[[Oswald]]
|[[Choeru]]
|[[Paladin]]
|Soldier
|Matt
|'''Alive'''
|[[Davenwood]]
|4
|1316/2
|-
|[[Takeshi]]
|[[Kitsune]]
|[[Expert]]
|Wanderer
|Dawn
|'''Alive'''
|[[Ravel]]
|4
|0
|-
|[[Jollyfist Burnale]]
|Dwarf
|Fighter
|???
|Tinka
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|4
|424/0
|-
|[[My Neighbor Craig]]
|[[Changeling]]
|[[Mystic]]
|Nomad
|Mickaylee
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Gaul]]
|[[Goliath]]
|???
|???
|Nico
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Asími]]
|[[Elric|Elf]]
|[[Sorcerer]]
|Artisan
|Billy
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Mundy]]
|[[Choeru]]
|[[Barbarian]]
|Noble
|Nathan
|'''Alive'''
|[[Manquel]]
|3
|0
|-
|[[Gale]]
|[[Elf]]
|[[Expert]]
|Physician
|Kate
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Thimbol]]
|[[Gnome]]
|[[Wizard]]
|Artisan
|Jordan
|'''Alive'''
|[[Balabag]]
|3
|0
|-
|[[Alcordyn]]
|[[Shifter]]
|[[Slayer]]
|Courtesan
|Niko
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Enrik]]
|[[Goliath]]
|[[Champion|Champion/Expert]]
|Artisan
|Thomas
|'''Alive'''
|[[Balabag]]
|3
|4184/6
|-
|[[Dak]]
|[[Aarakocra]]
|[[Mystic]]
|Sailor
|Riley
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Yuki]]
|[[Kitsune]]
|[[Druid]]
|Artisan
|Bri
|'''Alive'''
|[[Balabag]]
|3
|0
|-
|[[Dr Burdock]]
|[[Harengon]]
|[[Necromancer]]
|Physician
|Ryan
|'''???'''
|''Unknown''
|4
|2455/3
|-
|[[Isabelle]]
|[[Shifter]]
|[[Cleric]]
|Priest
|Trig
|'''A̸͍͠ͅḻ̶̠̌͘i̵̝͕͌̚v̴̪͓͂͂e̷̲̹͋'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Freida]]
|[[Dragonborn]]
|[[Ranger]]
|Sailor
|Rae
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|[[Farlander]]
|[[Gnome]]
|[[Rogue]]
|Wanderer
|McKenzie
|'''Alive'''
|[[Manquel]]
|3
|0
|-
|[[Viralyn Kiyoni]]
|[[Dhampir]]
|[[Accursed]]/[[Champion]]
|Noble
|Bill
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|6
|4879/7
|-
|[[Caul Davre]]
|Corpse-Stitched
|Necromancer
|???
|Ian
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|6
|'''10000/16'''
|-
|[[Sameera]]
|[[Genasi]]
|[[Lacer]]
|Artisan
|Sabi
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|3
|0
|-
|???
|Kitsune
|Slayer
|Courtesan
|Manny
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|2
|0
|-
|???
|Tanuki
|Ranger
|Thug
|Cassandra
|'''Alive'''
|''Unknown''
|2
|0
|}
'''Retired Player Character Count: 9'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!'''PC Name'''
![[List of Quelmar Races (DDWN)|'''Origin''']]
![[Class#DDWN Classes|'''Class''']]
!'''Background'''
!'''Player'''
!'''Status'''
![[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|'''Bastion''']]
!'''Level'''
![[The Fantasial Freeze#Wiki SP|'''Wiki Word Count/WSP''']]
|-
|[[Clementine]]
|Hexakin ([[Hag]]) + [[Devil]]
|[[Bard]]/[[High Mage]]
|Performer
|Bill
|'''Undead'''
|[[Manquel]]
|5
|4879/7
|-
|[[Savile]]
|[[Kitsune]]
|[[Expert]]/[[Merchant]]
|Scholar
|Rachael
|'''A̸͍͠ͅḻ̶̠̌͘i̵̝͕͌̚v̴̪͓͂͂e̷̲̹͋'''
|????
|5
|2061/3
|-
|[[Eltolinde Lykaios|Eltolinde]]
|[[Kitsune]]
|[[Lacer]]
|Performer
|Sadie
|'''Retired'''
|[[Manquel]]
|4
|1953/3
|-
|[[Lairus]]
|[[Changeling]]
|[[Mystic]]
|Performer
|Taylor
|'''Dead'''
|[[The Unravel|Unravel]]
|3
|204/0
|-
|[[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]]
|[[Genasi]]
|[[Mystic]]
|Nomad
|Tinka
|'''Dead'''
|[[Ravel]]
|2
|424/0
|-
|[[Rosamund]]
|[[Aarakocra]]
|[[Mystic]]
|Wanderer
|Elora
|'''Missing'''
|''Unknown''
|2
|0
|-
|[[Mr. Putney]]
|[[Drow]]
|[[Slayer]]
|Wanderer
|Jay
|'''Missing'''
|''Unknown''
|2
|0
|-
|[[Silent Wind]]
|[[Aarakocra]]
|[[Sorcerer]]
|Nomad
|Carter
|'''Dead'''
|[[Manquel]]
|3
|0
|-
|Dremaria
|[[Half-Elf]]
|[[Barbarian]]
|Thug
|Christine
|'''Dead'''
|''Unknown''
|2
|0
|}</center>

[[Category:Fantasial Freeze]]

Alsace LaCroix

2025-09-28T06:06:55Z

Parkelca2: created page

[[File:Cecil Alaxorsa HeroForge.jpg|thumb|Cecil Alaxorsa.]]
'''{{PAGENAME}} '''is a human Swashbuckler (duelist/champion) in [[The Fantasial Freeze]]

== Physical Appearance ==
Cecil is a 28 year old human with faintly elven features. He stands at 5'11.5 (6' and half an inch in his boots) with brown eyes and hair. He's often seen wearing elaborate, multicolored cloaks, fine rings, and handmade boots.

== Personality ==
Cecil has wandered across Quelmar for many years, practicing in both the courtly and culinary arts. He's relatively aloof, but loves a good party. He's a patron and scholar of the fine arts--with a particular passion for harpsichord music. He's an aspiring chef, hoping to start a restaurant in Ravel, on property he purchased from the Bremmer Bank. While his food is delicious, he never dines with his guests, preferring instead to play host from the kitchen.

Cecil is a very mannerly chap, trained for many years in the customs of etiquette, accepting and declining social invitations, and discussing art and rhetoric. He is also a reputed rake and notorious flirt. His roomates in the [[Balabag]] bastion have marked his comings and goings at all hours of the night.

== History ==
Cecil hails from a wealthy family in the northeast of [[Osugbo]]. While his travels have taken him far from home, he still enjoys living in [[Osugbo]] the best.

== Powers and Abilities ==
Cecil is an accomplished swordsman with elite training that allows him to strike twice as fast as a normal humanoid. His swordsmanship allows him to weave

== Attacks and Weapons ==
Cecil wields a double-edged Rapier that's been handed down through his family over generations. He had the sword sharpened and refined by his friend [[Enrik]] in [[Balabag]].

== Quotes: ==
"Always wonderful to meet new people, darling. I'd love to have you for dinner sometime"

"Oh it was atrocious, I had to go to... to ''Five'' whole shops just to find it" -''Cecil, discussing his recently purchased Harpsichord with [[Enrik|Enrik of the Hill]]''

[[Category:Player Characters]]
{{Worldbuilders}}

File:Cecil Alaxorsa HeroForge.jpg

2025-09-28T05:37:12Z

Parkelca2:

Heroforge model of Cecil Alaxorsa

The Fantasial Freeze/The Story So Far

2025-09-28T05:31:20Z

Parkelca2: /* Session 33: Blowting */

== Prologue ==

=== Session 0: The First Night ===
[[Session]] Tags: Survival

Characters: Adebimpe, Mr. Putney, Rosamund, Kara, Savile, Quimbleton [All NEW!]

DM: [[James]] (12/5/2024)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Bidwell

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Players left the city of [[Ravel]] onboard the '''SS Exodus''' after taking on a small contract to work the ship on its voyage south towards [[Galik]] in [[Amusa]].
* We learned that Whales are elusive around [[Osugbo]] and that some sailors believe that '''Birds ward off Whales'''.
* After meeting and making rough acquaintance, the captain invited the crew to the '''Captain's dinner''', where they were told to protect the precious and dangerous-sounding cargo which lived in a lock carriage on the deck.
* After hearing that a possible [[whale]] was nearby, Mr. Putney hesitantly left dinner and got some fresh air, getting a first row seat to the beginning of the [[Arctic Autumn]] as a mysterious force on the horizon seemed to zoom by, freezing the ocean water in its wake.
* When the ice reached the ship, the jostle nearly killed the lowly (Level 1) crew, but after getting their bearings, the team left the cabin and were shocked to see the dangerous creature...a [[Dire Turkey|dire turkey]]...had been thrown off the ship and was scrambling quickly away into the frozen sunset.
* Getting onto the Exodus' dinghy, the team took off into the night, kept safe and warm by Kara's fire-bending elementalist powers.
* Avoiding a near-death collision with '''pirates''' (whose cover was blown when Rosamund's [[mystic]] powers revealed their emotions and thoughts), the team sailed into the next day, freezing and huddled around a precarious fire on the dinghy.
* Finally catching up to the sleeping turkey, the team's [[Aarakocra]] tried some bird-like rituals to coax the [[beast]] back, but instead imitated a challenge to the alpha Turkey. In the quick brawl that ensued, Rosamund was nearly killed, but quick thinking from Kara, Putney, and Quimbleton put the bird into an exhausted state, ready to return back.
* Once they returned the bird, the team learned that there would be no voyage to Galik...indeed, the realm had frozen over, and a strange winter had begun: '''A Fantasial Freeze'''.

=== Session 1: Cold Feet ===
Session Tags: Survival, [[Onomancy]], Boss Battle, [[Blowt|Blowted]]

Characters: Adebimpe, Eltolinde, Luv, Clover, Lairus, Jaxzo'Ilan [All NEW!]

DM: James (1/3/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Nhart]], [[Otto Bremer]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Working and staying at a shelter in [[Ravel]] to stay away from the cold, the heroes are imposed upon by a group of '''thugs''' who were looking to take blankets to stay warm from the arctic conditions outside.
* After [[Luv]] paid the thugs off, the team convened at a local '''Quest Board''', noting a few of the crazy things happening in town at the moment, including:
** A bone dealer named '''[[Otto]] Bremer''' who wanted whale bones
** A baker whose fires seem to be magically extinguished by an '''unknown force'''
** A citizen who gets the uncanny feeling they are being watched via '''Elemental Scrying'''
** Reports of a vision from the '''Onomancer's Guild''' of a '''Kaiju-Sized Penguin'''
** Worries from citizens about local tortle '''Captain Kronch'''
** Several notices about '''Pirates''' in the region.
* Eventually the team settled on investigating the mysterious penguin vision, and went to the '''Onomancer's Guild''' where they met with '''Nhart''', an onomancer who showed them his visions: A massive penguin breaking through the ice sheets of the ocean, sending locals fleeing in fear, while '''an unknown group of 6''' stand vigilantly opposed to it.
* The team got along well with the Onomancers, though team Mystic [[Laris|Lairus]] was highly suspicious, going with the popular thought that Onomancy is an "invasive" form of mind magic that shouldn't be practiced.
* After being given rations and a warm place to sleep that night, the team awoke refreshed and ready to hit the road. However, once they reached the city's frozen harbor piers, they ALSO caught the glimpse of '''Something Large, Monstrous, and Whale-Shaped''', lurking in a back alley.
* As one of the team members was [[Clover]], an infamous monster slayer, an order was given and the team pursued the beast. Eventually it gave an ominous warning to [[Adebimpe]] via telepathy: "You all will pay for the sins of the past". Which was enough reason to go ahead and fully kill the beast in an epic battle across Ravel city rooftops and parks.
* Once the beast was slain and the team totally exhausted, it was decided to backtrack and instead sell this '''Whale-Shaped''' corpse to '''Otto Bremer''', the whale bone dealer, who rewarded the team with a '''Magic Swimming Ring of the Princes''', and '''A Portrait of a Spoon.'''

=== Session 2: Burnale & Whale ===
Session Tags: Bastion, [[Blowt|Blowted]], Wilds, Burnale

Characters: [[Eltolinde]], Luv, Clover, Jaxzo'Ilan, [[Quimbleton]], [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]] [New!]

DM: James (2/10/2025)

Important NPCs: The [[Burnale]] Clan, [[Otto Bremer]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Jaxzo'Ilan''' lost control again and nearly killed Quimbleton in the dark streets of '''Stalled-For-Thyme''', the merchant's district of Ravel (Quimbleton having another Absinthe inspired late night conversation with a lampost)
* The team is attacked by a '''Dragonfly Blowt''' in the streets, forcing everyone to seek shelter nearby, where they notice the piling up problems in Ravel on the bulletin board.
* As much of the group had helped '''Otto Bremer''' before, they decided to assist him in another mission, delivering '''Bone Flutes''' carved from the bones of the Whale Blowt they had previously slain.
* While taking the bones to '''[[Manquel]],''' the team was nearly ambushed in the night by members of the [[Burnale Clan]] who were looking to loot them. In an inspired move, the team instead decided to challenge the Burnale to a '''drinking contest''', using Quimbleton's Absinthe as the drink of choice.
* Having built up a tolerance (or otherwise using magic) the team was able to stay on their feet longer than the Burnale leader, allowing them to loot his body instead. Eltolinde claiming roughly 100 GP worth of gold in doing so.
* Before arriving in '''Manquel''', the team receives a message from the city (delivered by a freezing Jaxzo'Ilan) that the '''Flutes may be cursed.''' The team attempts to confirm if they're cursed by...playing the flute. By doing so, the massive and deep tones of a whale burst over the countryside, unknowingly summoning any nearby Blowt to the area.
* In Manquel, it appears the town was '''recently under attack by a Blowt''' summoned to the area (I wonder by who???), but the team fights hard to trap the blowt in its own mind through Luv's mental magics. Once it was trapped, it was a trivial matter of ending it.
* To avoid having to now deliver the flutes to the townsfolk and further cursing people, the team decides to instead pay the city merchant the full value of the flutes (roughly 80 GP), which he seems happy with.
* With the Whale defeated and the mission finished, the team begins to set up a headquarters, a [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]], in Manquel.

=== Session 3: Blood on the Ice ===
Session Tags: Boss Battle, [[Blowt|Blowted]], [[The Unravel]], Escort

Characters: Adebimpe, Lairus, [[Sevile]], [[Kara]][[Asimi|, Asimi]] [New!], [[Cavii Kero]] [New!]

DM: James (2/16/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Aiken]], [[Mayor Berry]], [[Captain Cronch]], [[Breakwater]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* In a town meeting at '''The Kaleidoscope''' (the city's center), it is revealed that more Blowt attacks have been happening, and the city guards are not enough to protect the people in the streets.
* After some "negotiation" from '''Kara''' and '''Savile, a''' deal is brought to the table in which the city's Thieves' Guild, [[The Unravel]], would pad the city's forces and patrol at night. However there would be a team up: 1 guard for every [[Thief]], to ensure accountability.
* With the meeting adjourned, the team decided to investigate the poor tortle Captain Cronch who had been frozen for at least a week, and who had people so worried about him that they were posting for help on the notice boards of the city.
* On the way to Cronch, the team encountered a massive '''Squall''' which nearly destroyed their ability to survive the cold, if it weren't for '''Kara's''' firebending abilities. Surviving the blizzard, the group encounters '''Breakwater''', a bright eyed Grung in the region, they give him a coat and send him to safety.
* Arriving at Cronch's cabin, the crew find that Breakwater had buried Cronch in a "Burial Mound", after evacuating Cronch from his burial mound (don't worry he was just hibernating), it would open up into a portal to ''another world,'' through which a massive turtle-like blowt would emerge.
* After nearly TPK'ing to the turtle (in part thanks to Asimi's uneducated use of Cronch's staff [[Rumblewood]]) they would be able to push the turtle back into the portal and close it for good, saving Cronch's life and taking him back to [[Ravel]] for a more permanent safety.

=== Session 4: Are we the Balabaddies? ===

Session Tags: Exploration, Balabag, Survival, Lush Pocket

Characters: [[Savile]], [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Quimbleton]], Silent Wind [New!], [[Fridtjof]] [New!]

DM: James (2/28/2025)

Important NPCs: Balabag's Heroes ([[Thaddeus]], Tim the Aarokocra, ??? the Goliath, ??? the [[Kitsune]]), Fergus the Manquel Merchant

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Having set up the [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Manquel Bastion]], Jaxzo'Ilan begins to employ the Barracks with other heroes of the realm, recruiting a '''Goliath''' and an '''Aarakocra''' who were taking shelter in the area to help in saving the world.
** The Goliath has daddy issues, and struggles in his nightmares.
* After others arrive in from Ravel, a team of 6 is founded, and the decision is made that since Manquel is already in land, they're in the perfect position to search for the rumored "'''Lush Pocket'''" that Ravel was hunting down.
* Thanks to the insane survival abilities of [[[Paul]]'s Goliath], Silent Wind, and Jaxzo combined, they were able to find the Lush Pocket in record time, stumbling upon a warm spot after only 3 hours of trudging through the snow.
* After discovering that the '''[https://news.umich.edu/tropical-rain-forest-thrived-throughout-last-ice-age/ Lush Pocket thrived due to a greenhouse effect on the lowlands]''' (scientifically backed!), the team snuck down, only to discover that the Lush Pocket had already been claimed by '''Rival [[Adventurers]]''' hailing from the city of [[Balabag]]
* The leader of these rivals was revealed to be '''Thaddeus''' of the '''Drycræft Drifan School of Magicks''', a rival school to Quimbleton's '''Xerneiros'''.
* ''When Quimbleton realized that the valley was south of the [[Balabar River|'''Balabar River''']], and that due to the geopolitical fallout of [[The Cavalry Rush]], this particular pocket has every right to be claimed by [[Ravel]] and NOT by Balabag, which exists on the north side of the river. However, once he began to elucidate the historical and political reasons why Balabag should give up its claim on the land, the rival adventurers figured it was going to be a better idea to just fight off our intruding heroes.''
* After an epic waterside combat (and the death of half of the enemy team) the Balabag heroes forfeited, offering themselves up to be arrested and taken back to Ravel or Balabag.
** This included Tim the Aarakocra, as well as an unnamed Kitsune and Goliath.
* [[Jaxzo'Ilan]] lost control again and once again needed to be talked down by her friends.
* The heroes were rewarded in gold, and political machinations were set into action.
=== Session 5: End of the Rime ===
Session Tags: Amaun, [[Blowt]]

Characters: [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven,]] [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Lairus]], [[Kara]], [[Eltolinde]], [[Quimbleton]]

DM: James (3/12/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Professor Alfonz Mordecai, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* An appearance of the followers of [[Amaun]], said to have been apotheosized from the freezing citizens of Ravel to wards off the cold, move into the Fresna (the Outer District of Ravel)
* Narrowly saving Farmer Lyle's farm by using mysticisim against the minds of Amaun's believers, it is discovered that among their ranks is '''Serg,''' a former lover of [[Dark Silvio]].
* They interrogate Serg and discover the Amaun forces believe that Amaun's flames cleanse an area of the perpetual cold, and they were trying to bring life back to the frozen farmlands, almost destroying the entire crop of '''Sour Lingenberries''' growing there.
* Farmer Lyle thanks them by giving them a pig, named Turkey Bacon, who now belongs to [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]]
* Worse for wear, the group travels into the city for warmth and shelter at Cavii's [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|bastion]], where they meet 6 unique NPCs who have been staying there as shelter from the storm
** Pierre Robes, local tailor
** Ennui, a mysterious tielfing
** Hermis Rangina, a [[minotaur]]
** Alfonz Mordecai, a [[kenku]] professor from the [[University of Xyrneiros]]
** Althia Arcanethia, a scholar elf
** Zugon [[Montane]], a fisherman
* Althia and Quimbleton take a moment to go over what the scholars have determined about the "Blowt", which includes references to something called the '''[[Subsoil Air]],''' and rumors that the Blowt are coming from either under the frozen ocean, or from under the now-barren continental shelf
* After taking on a mission to take down pirates on the Ice, the group of heroes PLUS Althia and Mordecai head out on the ice. Mordecai goes because he's a healer, Althia goes because she's researching the ice and the possible Blowt under it.
* On their way out on the ice they encounter a '''Carrion Crawler''' which had devoured a group of Merfolk.
* Finally arriving at the pirate's stronghold, a series of ice structured erected on the ocean's ice (and a number of ships that go with it), the group takes out the pirates AND the spies. claiming the gems and rewards left there, and claiming the bounty in the name of the Xeo Family of Ravel.

== Act 1: [[The Arctic Autumn]] ==

=== Session 6: Unraveled ===
Session Tags: [[The Unravel]]

Characters: [[Savile]], [[Luv]], [[Silent Wind]], [[Yoko]] [New!], [[Sven]] [New!], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]] [New!]

DM: James (3/15/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Peatro, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* A group of good Samaritans (New PCs Yoko, Sven, and Red), working together to clear snow on the streets of Ravel after a recent squall discover that Farmer Lyle has been sheltering in the historic district, which is now known as [James look this up again, it's the petroglyph one].
* The house, which was located on the riverbank, then collapsed down into the bank, crumbling the structures and sending everyone down under a massive avalanche of soil and wood.
* When the dust clears, the group finds that under the riverbank was a portion of [[The Unravel]].
* Shortly aftewards, two heroes dive into the avalanche to pull out any survivors, they themselves becoming trapped. The confused and anxious group, stuck in what appears to be a dungeon of a hideout, find their way to the next room where Silent Wind is interrogating Ennui.
* Ennui is left underground in the Ravel
* [[Luv]] finds the blankets that have been stolen from shelters around Ravel
* [[Sven]] contracts wendigo disease from a [[Wendigo]], and immolates himself to save the rest of the team from being turned, and to save himself from having to become a monster. His final words: ''"Head to [[Schmetalton]], look for my identical twin brother, [[Ben]]"''

=== Session 7: Schmedled ===
Session Tags: Schmetalton

Characters: [[Oswald]] [New!], [[Takeshi]] [New!], [[Kludzu]] [New!], [[Tessa Night|Tessa]] [New!], [[Adebimpe]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]]

DM: James (3/28/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Peatro, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Welcome to [[Schmetalton|Schmedleton]], home to a unique monestary, which was previously the church of Sven and Ben (see Session 6)
* [[Oswald]] contracts Wendigo disease, and it's learned that the disease can be stopped before it takes hold if the diseased gets ahold of some '''Grey UmaOrchid'''
* The team fights a '''[[Wendigo]]''' '''Bear'''
* Jaxzo comes face to face with [[Xilas LaCroix]] for the first time.

=== Session 8: Onomanced ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]] (Now '''Six'''), [[Kara]], [[Luv]], [[Clementine]] [New!], [[Savile]], [[Tessa]]

DM: James (4/6/2025)

Important NPCs: Peatro

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* [[Tessa]] arrives in Ravel, looking for the [[LaCroix]] estate and clues to where the vampiric [[Xilas LaCroix]] may have escaped off to.
* [[Peatro]] gives in to his wendigo disease, with no cure found in the area yet. Those present during his transformation fight '''Wendigo Peatro''' within he C3, using successful team tactics.
* Luv finally comes full circle from session 1, finishing the mission their original team set out to do, but far too late.
* The team fights a '''[[Wendigo]] [[Blowt]]'''
* [[Clementine]] learns to [[Onomancy|read names]]. By deciphering a piece of poetry, they are rewarded with a magical crust of bread.

=== Session 9: Waddled ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Frieda]] [New!], [[Neighbor]] [New!], [[Fridtjof]], [[Yoko]], [[Takeshi]], [[Cavii Kero]]

DM: James (4/12/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* We find [[Webber]] the [[Kaiju Penguin]]
* The team fights a '''Blizzard Eel'''
* We encounter [[Garl Glittergold|Glittergold]]'s [[White Horse]] 🐎
* Frieda discovers a lost Manatee who she then names '''Freya'''.

=== Session 10: Towered ===
Session Tags: Defense, Sneakery, Amaun, LaCroix

Characters: [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Six]], [[Ben]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], [[Kludzu]], [[Clementine]]

DM: James (4/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Aiken, Bartlett, Kiun Xeo, Vindrix LaCriox, some really cool dogs

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Six is captured by the '''Unravel''' on suspicion of leading the [[Amaun]] [[cult]]. Teir evidence includes his fiery sword, his mysterious nature and convenient inability to recall where he's been or who he is, and his ever-burning branch (gifted by Kara). During questioning, Aiken recognizes a magical geas has been placed upon Six.
* Six is almost beaten to death, but the interrogation is interrupted by [[Clementine]], who mistook a posting looking for thug support as one looking for artists and performers.
* Recognizing Six, Clem and others present (including a late arrival Ben) calm the room after a brief skirmish, and the Unravel are convinced Seven is innocent, and that in fact it is '''Dark Silvio''' who is behind everything. They take Dark Silvio and leave.
* Licking their wounds, the group reconvenes in safety elsewhere, eventually deciding to band together and take a quest looking for protection at the Xeo Estate in the city.
* The team learns Kiun Xeo's life after the LaCroix family in town appear to have a bounty placed on his head. Along with Xeo's two golems, the team takes up defensive positions for the night. [[Xilas LaCroix|Xilas]] sends waves of dhampir and vampire spawn to ensure Kiun is dealt with properly. Several team members are injured or paralyzed, and Kludzu is downed.
* In the midst of the fighting, Red scurries to a quiet corner of the Xeo mansion and unlocks a secret door. They discover that the Xeo family are worshippers of the [[Amaun]] fire cult and have been funding the group's activities! Red makes off with the sacred text the Xeos have hidden in their mansion, later turning it over to Six.
* After the sun rises, Kiun treats the heroes to breakfast. It's a trap! Vindrix LaCroix, the son of Xilas, ambushes the party in the dining room with his boli familiar. Another fight ensues, and things are tense, but the group does slay the vampire.
* Kiun, now fearing extra for his life, pleads with the heroes to escort him to safety. Six allows Xeo and his golems to hide out to the '''Manquel''' Bastion, and the party resolves to keep an eye out, knowing the fire cult will be taking up residence in the abandoned building.

=== Session 11: Crossed ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Tessa Night]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Mundi]] [New!], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Adebimpe]]

DM: James (4/27/2025)

Important NPCs: Xilas LaCroix, [[Cecil]], the Bolis!

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The gang meets in [[Kludzu#The Brass Eye|The Brass Eye]], a tavern operated by PC [[Kludzu]] (who isn't present at the moment).
* While there and discussing their plans to take down [[Xilas LaCroix]], the gang is overheard by "Mundi", a well spoken, vaguely british, fine dressed Choeru warrior. He claims to also have "beef" with the LaCroix, and promises the team a secret entrance through which they can ambush the LaCroix palace.
* The gang argues for a while on best practices, and various battle strategies to get ready for their infiltration, including some very wise invisibility spells.
* ...It was a trap. Once they're at the back door, "Mundi" gives the secret knock, and a teleportation [[rune]] trigger, taking everyone in the vicinity, visible or not, to a waterlogged dungeon where [[Boli]] await to torture and suck the blood of the victims.
* Xilas is there, briefly, but only to attempt to turn the players against each other, which he fails to do. However, he then sends the REAL '''Mundi''' against the team, who is a powerful hulking [[barbarian]] of a capybarafolk, and NOTHING like the Mundi they thought they found, who was in fact a braggart of a [[vampire]] spawn named "Cecil".
* Within the same dungeon there also sat a captured gnome by the name of [[Ipanam]]. Originally known for his wonderful music, he now was being mind controlled to try and fight the party. Once the fight is over, he is recruited as another of Luv's henchmen.
* The team fights hard, takes out the Boli, and even kills Cecil along the way, but once again fails to secure Xilas. Thinking themselves alone, they begin to plot a plan in which Luv will impersonate and take over the LaCroix estate here in Ravel...but realize too late their precious plans were already overheard by Xilas, who now instills paranoia to all of them.

=== Session 12: Smithed ===
Session Tags: [[The Unravel]]

Characters: [[Kara]], [[Savile]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Clementine]], [[Luv]], Denaria [New!]

DM: James (5/4/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Glarf, Breakwater, Nhart, Pierre Robes

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Dark Silvio''' narrowly escapes his encagement in the '''Unravel''', being chased by a number of Unravel members. Member [[Kara|Karasu]] corners him and talks him into smuggling away to a safe corner of the Unravel where he can hide out in peace until it is time to return with [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]]. New Unravel member '''Denaria''' is also there.
* After Kara finds out '''Someone has also put a bounty on her head''' she goes to the C3 to start an investigation.
* While there, she bumps into '''Clementine,''' as well as C3 residents '''Quimbleton, Savile,''' and '''Luv,''' who are working on making a delicious stew as well as understanding the '''Mysteries of the Magic Bread'''. It is determined that it IS infinite food, but not very quick infinite food, nor is it long lasting once removed from its breadbox.
* '''Denaria''' also stumbles in, and after brief tensions with Luv, who mistakes her as another Unravel member looking to collect a bounty, accepts Denaria. Together the 6 of them now look for some work to bring in money and more food for themselves.
* They settle on accepting a Bounty Mission placed on a mysterious creature known as '''The Firefly''', after '''Denaria''' leads a tracking expedition, the Firefly is found stealing from a market late at night.
* Using a combination of Quimbleton's Sleep spell, Denaria's grappling hook, and Savile's net, the group captures the Firefly, only to realize that it is...(cue dramatic music)...'''Captain Crezzerin from Session 1!'''
* Deciding not to take Crezzerin in, the team learns why Crezzerin got the bounty on her, and why'd she'd been stealing so much. It turns out nobody was helping her procure the materials and goods she needed for her Ship-Repair project, so she put together teams of thieves from other forgotten and outcast persons.
* When the players revealed they had a combination of ''Muscle, Brains, and Blacksmithing knowledge''',''''' (plus Clementine's Bardic inspiration to set the pace of the forging), they took matters into their own hands, crafting and forging everything that Crezzerin needed instead of stealing it from others.
* With the forging done, and the ship repaired, the team was able to rechristen '''The Arctic Express''' (legally distinct from the Polar Express), and sent Crezzerin and her team on their way as they began to test out the new ship: one with the ability to finally traverse the frosty wastelands.

=== Session 13: Veiled ===
Session Tags: [[Blowt]], Lore, Personal Mission

Characters: [[Ben]], [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Fären]], Ramad, [[One|Six]], Yoko

DM: James (5/10/2025)

Important NPCs: Thesaurus

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Yoko is assisting in handing out food to citizens of Ravel in the Rolling Spools tavern. Ramad, Fären, and Ben are part of the long line that has formed, as stores for the city are running low.
* Six arrives with his new henchman, '''Inflammable Kevin''', as the crowd is dispersing. He turns to assist a lone woman who is licking the crumbs off her fingers, and she turns into a '''wendigo''' before his eyes, sparking a fight.
* The transformed '''wendigo''' downs Fären and transmits the wendigo disease to Yoko before being slain. Six grabs Fären's body and runs toward the C3, just across the frozen river that winds through Ravel.
* Cavii hears Six's cries and meets the heroes halfway, deftly reviving Fären and Yoko with Ramad's help, notably '''curing a PC of the wendigo disease''' for the first time in the campaign. Fären comes to in Six's arms, startled at the reality of being saved by a human male.
* Six reveals an anonymous note showing that '''Balabag''' has poisoned the rations that were to be dispersed amongst the townsfolk with wendigo disease, and that the '''Balabag army''' sits just outside of '''Manquel''', demanding housing for its soldiers as they move to fight against Ravel. Many '''wendigo''' are now loose on the city streets, and many quests are incapable of advancing until the scourge is dealt with. Six pens a letter calling for '''troops to fight the Balabag army''', and posts it on many bulletin boards.
* Yoko and Fären both report seeing the image of a skeletal frost giant, calling for Cavii, while they were downed.
* The heroes reconvene in the C3, where Cavii outlines the plan for piercing through the '''Veil''', where downed characters exist in moments close to death, recounting a wall of eyes calling for Cavii himself. The process involves bloodletting the heroes in a safe space (the C3), then exploring the Veil together. Cavii and Ramad offer to watch the others with healing potions at the ready, as Inflammable Kevin guards the door from interlopers.
* Fären, Ben, Yoko, and Six descend into the Veil. They quickly realize they are separated and have to deal with their own personal antagonists. There are siblings aplenty, as Fären is forced to confront his brother, '''Lycidas''', and Yoko fights his brother, Mujyo. Ben reunites with his brother '''Sven''', who has passed on, as well as '''Gustafar''', his step-brother now armed with dark eldritch magic. Six is transported to a space alone, but for a set of ghostly hands reaching down.
* Six calls the skeletal frost giant, bringing it into the Veil near the heroes, then alerts Cavii that their presence is necessary. Cavii descends into the Veil and meets the spirit of his own brother '''Ravii''', who rests on the frost giant's shoulder. The giant is introduced as '''Thesaurus''', who appears to be the master of this place. Thesaurus is calling not for Cavii but for something called the "Cailleach [[Bhéara]]", which Ravii mishears as "capybara".
* Combat ensues within the Veil; Cavii and Fären are defeated by Thesaurus and Lycidas, while Yoko reaches a kind of truce with Mujyo. Ben and Sven work together to defeat Gustafar, and Ben gains some closure over his twin's death. Six pulls down one of the hands within his space and meets Seven, another soul inhabiting his body. Six and Seven have a long, comforting chat, and Seven convinces Six to rest for a while and "let someone else take over."
* Cavii is defeated by Thesaurus, and in Quelmar, they start to die in their bed. The presence of death summons a '''Blowt''', who downs Inflammable Kevin with one blow, and who Ramad skillfully avoids through magical means. Six reincarnates as Five, poetically incinerating Kevin's corpse (he was inflammable) and defeating the Blowt. The rest of the crew are stabilized and brought back to life, their journey to the Veil filled with more questions and few answers.

=== Session 14: Crowned ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Kara]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Tessa Night]], [[Annabelle]] [New!]

DM: James (5/21/2025)

Important NPCs: [[X (The Paladin)]], Unnamed Amaun Cult leader

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 15: Blowted ===
Session Tags:

Characters: Takeshi, [[Kludzu]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], [[Neighbor Craig]], [[Thimbal|Thimbol]] [New!], [[Gale]] [New!]

DM: James (5/29/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Farmer Lyle]], Jenny Jangles, a Blowt named Uct, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 16: Chased ===
<blockquote>This session was a crossover game with [[Ancients Alive]] and [[System Agnostic]] campaigns!</blockquote>Session Tags:

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Kara]], [[Lairus]] (Guest Featuring: [[Maverick]], [[Edna]], [[System Agnostic/Episode 3.3: System Error|Nuria]])

DM: James (6/1/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* [Cue sitcom guest appearance applause] [[Edna]] and [[Maverick]] stop by [[Ancients Alive]] to assist in hunting down the Paladin
* Clementine and the Paladin steal passing glances and awkward story swapping as she tries to get a better idea of who he is, for better or for worse.
* Nuria is there too!
* Clementine tried to steal the wand from the Paladin and fails
* The entire mountainside is collapses in an avalanche onto the players, nearly killing everyone, who try desperately through magic and might to stay afloat while the Paladin assaults them.
* '''Lairus dies''' by throwing herself between Jaxzo and the Paladin, tanking the hits and letting Jaxzo escape.
* Peatro was re-discovered, having somehow reincarnated as a strange '''Blowt'''
* The Paladin gets away and flees north, searching for the great powers in '''the Quiet North'''

=== Session 17: Casted ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Intrigue, Magic

Characters: [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Cavii Kero]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Oswald]], [[Fären]], [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]]

DM: James (6/7/2025)

Important NPCs: Driklar the Alchemist, Mayor Barry,

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Sandbox magic adventure!
* [[Quimbleton]] invented a spell of "Mass Create Sorghum"
* [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]] gained a Phoenix spirit familiar.
* [[Cavii Kero]] gained the ability to control weather.
* [[Oswald]] gained the ability to doff an enemy's clothing or armor.
* '''The team restored 6 powerful artifacts used in an ancient war''', in theory for Ravel to use against an approaching Balabag.
* [[Fären]] stole one of the 6 artifacts (Artifact of Flesh Manipulation) and disappeared into the cold and dark night.

=== Session 18: Ambushed ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Gale]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Oswald|Oswald,]] [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Sven]], [[Tessa Night]]

DM: James (6/17/2025)

Important NPCs: NOT Xilas LaCroix

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Another important meeting in the [[Brass Eye]] (Kludzu's tavern) leads to another attempt to take down LaCroix (though the team is momentarily suspicious of Oswald, who is yet another powerful looking Capybara who has intel)
* After much deliberation, this team decided ultimately to use their opportunity to barge into the LaCroix manor in Ravel right through the front door.
* LaCroix was not home, and was in fact expecting them to confront him via the trap door that he had previously trapped many of them by.
* Instead, a small group of Boli as well as two [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Meazel Meazels] who were still guarding the interior ambushed the intruders.
* While a great fight was had, LaCroix was no where to be seen, and eventually the team had to burn some of their faction points with Ravel to talk their way out of being arrested for B&E.

=== Session 19: Damned ===
Session Tags: Travel, Blowt, Magic, The Hole (new!)

Characters: Asimi, [[Clementine]], [[One|Five]], Mundy, [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]

DM: James (6/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Glarf, Breakwater, Maynard

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The session starts in the '''Manquel Bastion''', where remnants of the Balabag army, greatly diminished due to cold and hunger, is attacking. All three soldiers are quickly talked down and offered food and shelter by Mundy, Asimi, and Five.
* Ramad takes a moment to catch up with '''Kiun Xeo''', who has been holed up in the Bastion to avoid death by LaCroix. They chat briefly about the fire cult of Amaun.
* A haunted and defeated Clementine arrives in Manquel later that evening. She informs the group of [[X (The Paladin)|The Paladin]]'s involvement in the Freeze, Peatro's resurrection, and other important events from Episode 14. The group are shocked that the Freeze could potentially be ending in three weeks' time.
* The group returns to Ravel, where they catch up with '''Captain Crezzerin''', who has constructed the '''Arctic Express''', a ship outfitted to plow through the ice and snow. The heroes reconnect with several NPCs from past sessions who form Crezzerin's current crew, such as '''Glarf''', '''Breakwater''', '''Pierre Robes''', and '''Maynard.''' The group agrees to Crezzerin's request for bodyguards as they make a four-day journey across the bay to Tuskur.
* The first day is spent in relative quiet, but the second day the ship is beset by a wounded and hungry roc. Asimi is quick to deflect the giant bird's attention with an illusion, but Five is inspired to attack the beast as he wants to impress Clementine. Drawn into combat, the heroes are able to defeat the roc and strip it for meat and feathers. However, Mundy is unable to come out of his berserker rage, and capybara-chest-bumps a badly wounded Five, killing him. Five resurrects again as [[One|Four]], and the heroes puzzle once again over why Four's personality is once again changed.
* The third day passes in relative quiet, but the Arctic Express is approached by a floating ship, crewed by a gang of [[Devil|devils]]. They offer great boons to the heroes, in exchange for as many souls as they are willing to spare. Asimi is quick to hand over '''Maynard's''' soul, and Four offers the soul of one of their henchmen. In the most surprising moment of the day, Clementine offers her own soul to the devils in exchange for an unknown boon. The deal is struck, and the crew moves on.
* The fourth day is marked by the appearance of '''The Hole''', located a half-day's journey from Tusgrer. To stop the Arctic Express from tipping into the Hole, the heroes act quickly to disable the engines and bring the ship to a shuddering crawl. The noise of the ship attracts a '''Kaiju Penguin-Blowt''', which towers over the ship, and several smaller '''Blowt''' follow in its wake. The outmatched heroes quickly start the engines up again, turning the ship and escaping, although both Asimi and Glarf are downed by a single flap of the '''Kaiju Penguin-Blow'''<nowiki/>'''t''''s flippers. The Arctic Express arrives at its destination, and everyone breathes a big sigh of relief.

== Act 2 ==

=== Session 20: Unleashing ===
<blockquote>This session was a crossover game with [[Ancients Alive]] and [[System Agnostic]] campaigns!</blockquote>Session Tags: Travel, Magic, Horror, The Quiet North, Necromancy

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Kara]], [[Savile]], [[Quimbleton|Quimbleton Fiddleford]] (Guest Featuring: [[Rowan Buckman|Rowan]], [[Blumenthal]], [[Wielder-of-Karavox]], [[Arlow]])

DM: James (6/29/2024, [[QuelmarCon 2025]])

Important NPCs: [[Touse]], [[Bhéara]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

While all characters in the freeze have access to the following summary in the form of rumors around Ravel, greater details can be found by reading [[Quimbleton's expedition notes]] in the C3.

[[Luv]], [[Savile]], and [[Quimbleton]] started an expedition north looking for [[Kara]] who was hot on the trail of [[X (The Paladin)|The Paladin]]. By the time they all met up in [[Dolmvay]], the party had been joined by a sorceror named [[Rowan Buckman|Rowan]] and an alchemist named [[Blumenthal]] who claimed to be part of a party which slew [[X (The Paladin)|the Paladin]]--the one who caused [[The Arctic Autumn|the freeze]]--some time earlier. However, [[The Arctic Autumn|the freeze]] was still strong in the north, and the party set out to find the source of the cold in [[Paraska Manor|a mansion to the north]]--along the way meeting a batfolk named '''Wielder''' who carried [[Karavox|some kind of magical axe]].

While the exact details of what happened in the house have been somewhat distorted, what is clear is that the party found an incredibly powerful and malevolent presence within, and were completely routed--limping wordlessly back into town. Some claim that the force inside the building had something to do with vivid and disturbing paintings that acted as portals to other worlds, some spoke of a powerful but sinister coven of necromancers operating from inside the house, and still others whispered of a towering monster made of brass, wax, and fire with claws like butcher knives.

In any case, the stories and rumors all tend to share three core truths--some kind of ancient and malevolent magic was behind whatever happened in the house, a deeper, more intense frost has been slowly enveloping towns in the north and may soon turn its attention to the south, and [[Savile]] did not return from the expedition.

=== Session 21: Falling ===
Session Tags: Sorghum, Attack, Blowt

Characters: [[Ramad Shadewalk]], [[Kludzu]], [[Gale]], [[Thimbol]], [[Asimi]], [[En]] (New!)

DM: James (7/7/2025)

Important NPCs: "Thesaurus", Mayor Berry

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''The Famine is over'''! Ravel celebrates with its first ever '''Sorghum Festival!'''
* [Stuff happens here]
* 10 Civilian causalities, including a band of bearfolk, a tigerfolk, and a loxo.
* [[Kludzu]] entered the [[Otherworld]], perhaps never to be seen again (or seen much later)
* Mayor Berry died and became Blowted
* [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]] died at the hands of the blowt. When passing on, he chose the path Peatro did: Connecting and grabbing onto the life force of the Blowt, becoming one with them.

=== Session 22: Deflecting ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Political Intrigue, Bastion, Manquel

Characters: Annabelle, [[One|Four]], [[Luv]], Mundy, [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], Takeshi

DM: James (7/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Maximillian [new!], Kiun Xeo, Ennui

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The session begins with renovations taking plane on the Manquel Bastion. Four, Red and Mundy clear out some of the space in the courtyard, which Mundy dubs "Bitch House" with a backwards T. Takeshi is also camped out for the time being, investigating the local area for cultural tidbits and rare books. We learn that Manquel is known for growing high-quality oolong tea, is architecturally inspired by Japan, and has a local mochi donut shop that survived the Freeze.
* Annabelle arrives at the Bastion, carrying a beleaguered Luv with her. The heroes gather and converse; Takeshi takes interest in Annabelle's written language, Luv reads the room's needs for the first time, and the crew is generally filled in on the evil "sentient frost" inhabiting Paraska Manor, as well as Savile's passing.
* The heroes receive word that Balabag is approaching, intent on taking the Manquel Bastion as their own. Four prepares the forces at their disposal, while Luv and Takeshi draft a treatise to establish peace before any bloodshed.
* Balabag's forces arrive, more than doubling the Manquel forces with spearmen, longbowmen, shield bearers, a trebuchet, and a line of cavalry. Their captain, Maximillian, is greeted by the negotiating party of Luv, Mundy, and Takeshi. Maximillian believes that Six (now Four) is guilty of fire-related crimes and must answer for them. Luv steers this anger towards Kiun Xeo, still holed up in the Bastion, who has notoriously funded the cult of Amaun in Ravel. Maximillian agrees to take Xeo in Four's place.
* Red and Four go down to the basement and convince Kiun through... gross oversimplification... to go to Balabag with the army. While Red walks Kiun out, Four is attacked by Ennui, who has snuck into the Bastion. Four easily overpowers Ennui and walks him out to the group, turning him over as well to Balabag. Annabelle also chooses to depart to Balabag, revealing a necklace marking her as a Flamewalker of Kosuth, whom the Balabagians seem to revere. (This unlocks the Balabag missions for the FFreeze proper.) The Bastion is saved, and the heroes can relax...
* UNTIL! A kaiju-penguin [[Blowt]] erupts on the far side of the Bastion, spurring the heroes into combat. Luckily, combat is not long, and nobody is killed. Takeshi reaches out to the Blowt, whom we now know is split between its own purpose and that of the [[Bhéara]], and convinces it to flee instead of fight. The Bastion is damaged, but not destroyed, and the heroes can actually take a breather.

=== Session 23: Becoming ===
Session Tags: Lore, Campfire, Character Building, The [[Blowt]]

Characters: [[Kara]], [[Quimbleton|Quimbleton,]] [[Clementine]], [[Osric]] [New!], [[Enrik]] [New!], [[Alcordyn]] [New!]

DM: James (7/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Hollowfoot, Bearah, "Mr. Mosquito", Nhart,

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Quimbleton continues to provide '''Sorghum''' all over! This time with a 1st year intern named Lorena following him about.
* The town of [[Tusgrer]] is finally revealed! Turns out while seeming mundane on the surface, the town has actually been heavily infected by Blowtessence, being supervised by a '''Mosquito Blowt''' known only as "Mr. Mosquito".
* To save the town, [[Kara]] decided to transfer all of the Blowtessence from the Mosquito into themselves. As a result '''Kara becomes a Blowt.'''
* But in under 30 seconds, while the window of curing is still open, '''Hollowfoot the Druid launched into action, aided by Quimbleton and Clementine,''' and Kara is cured of the new infection. However, the latent disease that set in during Session 19 was far too engrained to be cured.
* With the rest of the town still being under Blowt influence (and Quimbleton only able to hold his sleep spell for a short period of time), the group flees into the wilds and regroups.
* After heavy discussions, Kara shares everything she learned about the Blowt in the Otherworld after becoming "one with the machine". '''It is an intense and revealing look at who the Blowt are and why they are doing what they are doing'''...and you'll have to wait to see if anyone from this table shares that intimate knowledge with the server or wiki.
* The team decides ulimately to retreat...back to Ravel...not knowing what may await them there soon enough.

=== Session 24: Slaying ===
Session Tags: LaCroix, [[Blowt]]

Characters: Tessa, Jaxzo, Clover, Oswald, Ravii, Dak [New!]

DM: James (7/24/2025)

Important NPCs: Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep), "Dak Jr."

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* LaCroix is slain by the team of slayers.
* Admittedly, LaCroix was ALSO a [[Blowt]] at the time of his slaying, since his house was in the district overrun during Session 21.

=== Session 25: Burning ===
Session Tags: Burnale, [[Blowt]], Bearah, Davenwood

Characters: [[Mundy]], [[En]], [[Ben]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Oswald]], Jollyfist Burnale [New!]

DM: James (8/7/2025)

Important NPCs: Burnale Clan (Othello, Oscard "Deadeye", Alan, Hildor, Keg, "Fjord" Firebeard), Wubly the Tavern Keep of Davenwood, Nikolas (Oswald's Dad), Orthin the Paladin

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Set a fire which accidentally spread to nearby Davenwood, which was part of a mission given by [[The Unravel]] to send a message to the nearby [[Burnale Clan]].
* Do community service to help the town rebuild and persevere through the immediate trauma of the attack.
* Meet Oswald's family on his childhood farm.
* Discover Oswald's mentor became a [[Wendigo]]
* Fight a super Blowt Wendigo in an epic battle (also includes a handful of Blowted Bunnies)
* Oswald inherits the farm from his family and begins to help them rebuild it into a powerful new [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]].

=== Session 26: Speedrunning ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Bhearah

Characters: [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Eltolinde Lykaios|Eltolinde]], Fahrlander [new!], [[One|Four]], Ravii, [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]

DM: James (8/17/2025)

Important NPCs: Massimo the Painter, Tulio the Apprentice (Briefly), Rogerre the Blacksmith, [[Dark Silvio]], Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep)

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Farlander the gnome Rogue comes down from the mountains to the north in desperate need of money. The group settles on going to Balabag to deal with a church afflicted by '''dark ice.'''
* The Kero brothers reunite!
* The party journeys to Balabag's religious district, called the Cindernest. They meet Rogerre and see that even fire can become Blowted, a glitchy blue flame that cannot be manipulated through magical means.
* The party explores the open halls of the church, and Four opens a door that reveals a Blowted Massimo the Painter. Combat immediately starts, and the torchlight is lit.
* Four fights off Massimo and the wights he paints into existence while the rest of the crew speedrun the ENTIRE DUNGEON in search for his wife Lavinia's locket. There is an outer Massimo, controlled by the Bhearah, and an inner Massimo who wishes to be free from his condition. The heroes use the power of words to slow his progress.
* The torchlight goes out, and we see how strong the Bhearah's hold over the church really is - Farlander is downed in a moment. Light your torches in dungeons, everyone.
* Lavinia's locket is found, and the party uses it to briefly stop Massimo's Blowt-self from taking control. Everyone escapes the church and is rewarded for saving him, though the space itself is still overrun by dark ice....
=== Session 27: Descending ===
Session Tags: Blowt, [[Ravel]], [[Davenwood]]

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Kara]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Dr Burdock]], [[Isabelle]]. [[Clover]]{{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|Kludzu}}DM: James (8/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Wubly the Tavern Keep, Rogerre the Blacksmith, Massimo the Painter

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* In the currently-under-construction tavern of [[Davenwood]], [[Dr Burdock]] showcases his realm famous solution to Blowt - Simply dominate their minds and make them your pets!
* Unfortunately Burdock didn't know the limits of his own power, and when attempting to control 2 Blowt at once, accidentally unleashes a Blowt onto the town.
* The rest of the team is impressed with Burdock's power, but unimpressed in how they had to clean up after his mess.
* Once the group catches their breath (and restores some spell slots), they decide that with lots of power over Life and Death (including new Grave Cleric Isabelle), it might be a good idea to investigate the hole in [[Ravel]] that opened up and unleashed [[Blowtessence]] all over the city.

* The team decides to test their resolve and go into the Blowhole.
* {{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|The players exist in the other world, [[Orbis]], and await rescue or attempts to escape. Not all of them managed to make it to the shelter intact, and some may not make it back to the surface exactly as you remember them. }}

=== Session 28: Damning ===
Session Tags: Blowt, Balabag, Kiyoni

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Isabelle]], [[Thimbol]]. [[Enrik]], [[Yuki]] [New!], [[Cecil Alaxorsa]] [New!]

DM: James (8/27/2025)

Important NPCs: Two Balabag Residents, Rogerre the Blacksmith

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Isabelle returned to the surface, a weapon of the [[Bhéara]], sent to Balabag to find the '''Kiyoni''' family.
* The players spent a long time in a library, as is tradition for some random point in every campaign.
* In doing their research (and spending their research tokens appropriately) the team learns that there is a deep-seated history of bad blood between [[Balabag]] and [[Ravel]].
* Their rivalry goes back to the first humans who appeared in the region during [[The Scattering]], when Animalfolk primarily lived in the region that would eventually become Human-dominated.
* The Kiyoni were a prominent and early human family with roots that go back to the Scattering, and for some reason, the Blowt want revenge on the Kiyoni.
* The Blowt apparently were damned to an eternal banishment after a war between the humans and animalfolk all the way back then. They were punished and sent to an afterlife which didn't reward them, but trapped them.
* Not wanting to aid and abet in political and physical assassination, the team agrees that there's definitely some merit in what the [[Bhéara|Bheara]] has tasked her minion to do...but there's other people in need of help, so they pick up and finish off the '''Cindernest Mission''' which was left partially uncompleted by the Session 26 team (see above).
* The team successfully retrieves one of '''[[Gohei|the Gohei]]''', then uses it's immense power to purify the church of all of its residual blowtessence.
* (Along the way Clem dies when Isabelle attempts to send Clem's soul to '''[[Orbis]]''' after Clem gets severely blowted. But the plan backfires because Clem's soul has already been claimed by another much more powerful faction..See Damning.)
* The team is rewarded a brand new [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]] in Balabag to take their new toy and begin planning their next steps.
=== Session 29: Liberating ===
Session Tags: PC Drama, Devils

Characters: [[Takeshi]], [[Neighbor|Neighbor Craig]], [[Mundy]], [[Tessa]], [[Osric]], [[Sameera]] ''(New!)''

DM: James (9/10/2025)

Important NPCs: Maynard, Maynard's Mom Veronica, Mephix

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Tessa kills Mephix''' but knows an accomplished Slayer Mephix will be back by IRL November (Devils don't die if killed on the mortal plane mundanely)
* Mephix will remember that.
* Tessa, Neighbor, and Takeshi discuss "'''The [[One|7]] High Roads to the Peak'''", a self help book by Alycone Daze
* Neighbor breaks up with Maynard, and the team threatens him to leave "every other woman in this city" alone, he is branded with Twin Snake patterns by Sameera to mark him as a snake.
* They loot his cool vintage katana collection.
* The team hits up the nightclub.

=== Session 30: Bounty-Hunting ===
Session Tags''':''' Ravel, Blowt, DeGaulle, Unravel, PC Drama

Characters''':''' Oswald, Ravii, Kara, Caul Davre [New!], Viralyn Kiyoni [New!], Gaul DeGaulle [New!]

DM: Christina (9/18/2025)

Important NPCs: Jimmy (Unravel knight, now V’s servant), Charlie DeGaulle (Gaul’s father, blacksmith, estranged, hunted by Blowt and the Unravel), Teddy (Charlie’s friend/neighbor), Rosie Pumpernickle (Gnome, Charlie’s lover, wealthy)

XP Gained''':''' 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The group reunites in Ravel during a miserable sleet storm, catching up in Kludzu’s bar. Viralyn claims to be Quimbleton’s long-lost lover.
* Blowt portals erupt outside the bar, unleashing Kara and several Blowt. A vision of the DeGaulle family flashes through his mind before he regains control. The fight is short-lived thanks to Caul’s necromancy, and Kara quickly recovers their mind.
* The party learns Gaul is estranged from his father Charlie, the last in a long line of blacksmiths. Gaul openly wishes his father dead.
* At the DeGaulle smithy, they find it ransacked by Unravel forces. In the basement, the party ambushes soldiers and charms Jimmy the knight into service under Viralyn.
* Jimmy reveals Charlie has been targeted by the Unravel for acquiring a mysterious material called '''Blight Dust''', which can be forged into weapons devastatingly effective against humans.
* Following a hidden exit, the group misses Charlie but encounters Teddy, who points them toward Charlie’s secret lover Rosie. They go to her mansion where more Blowt portals open and the party fights multiple waves, with Caul even taming one as a pet.
* They capture Charlie and Rosie during his attempted escape. Aftewards it is discovered that Charlie branded Gaul (on Gaul's butt) in the past as part of a family blacksmith ritual, granting Gaul the DeGaulle forging legacy.
* Ravii strikes a deal with Charlie: protection in exchange for each party member receiving a '''Blighted Shortsword''' (worth 750 gp).

=== Session 31: Sacking ===
Session Tags: Tusgrer, Blowt, Boss Rush, Gohei

Characters: Cecilia [new!] Dak, [[Enrik]], Fahrlander, [[One|Four]], Kiyoni

DM: James (9/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Dak Jr., Jim Dentured, Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep)

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Everyone wanders into the Manquel Bastion while Mundy is too busy to watch the doors, where a plan is hatched to liberate the town of '''Tusgrer''' from its Blowt problem. There is a bounty out for some sort of Mosquito Blowt, and the team goes in properly armed.
* Fahrlander scouts out the town and finds Blowted townsfolk and blood everywhere, both human and otherwise. The Mosquito sits at the edge of town, and team notes how distended its... sack... is. Using some clever tactics, the heroes bring it down! Until...
* One of the corpses laying about Tusgrer lets loose a burst of Bhearah energy, and the Mosquito reappears! The heroes combat both the Blowted townsfolk and the mosquito, having to slay it an additional five times. Enrik deals the final blow while using the Gohei to kill the body of the Mosquito while the Blowt-soul inhabiting it flies away, taking the form of a frost giant!
* With combat resolved, the heroes take stock. The worst news is that Tusgrer's population is now ''zero''. Also, a new Blowthole exists, due to the strange nodes of energy that the mosquito unleashed stitching together and opening the portal. The only silver lining is that this Blowthole is easily accessible and unguarded, compared to the madness in Ravel and on the ice field. Another '''Gohei''' is looted off the dead samurai from which the Mosquito, and Enrik uses the Gohei he brought for Balabag to save the frost giant's spectral form. Dak realizes that a '''Blowted Xilas LaCroix''' is probably still alive and waiting....

=== Session 32: Looting ===
Session Tags: Dungeon Crawl, Blowt, Emotional Support

Characters: Freida, Faren, En, Jollyfist, Ben, Red, Thimbol

DM: James (9/21/2025)

Important NPCs: Breakwater, Sven (Frederic, Gio mentioned in support group), Farmer Lyle as always.

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 33: Blowting ===
Session Tags: Orbis, Balabag, Blowt,

Characters: [[Thimbol Goldbone]], [[Farmer Lyle]], [[Semeera]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Isabelle]], [[Clementine]], [[Viralyn Kiyoni|Kiyoni]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Cecil Alaxorsa]],

DM: James (9/27/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened
* Thimbol wakes in the subsoil air following a [[Blowt]] attack on the Balabag Bastion, surrounded by The Eyes. Thimbol had taken a psychic attack to save Farmer Lyle offscreen and died in his arms. Though The Eyes tempt him with the posiblity of returning to Quelmar as a Blowt, Thimbol passes into Garl Glittergold's holy afterlife for gnomes--his life's work of creating and passing on an LLC completed, and his soul at peace knowing that wether that business succeeds or fails, the will of the market will be done.
* This ascension into the afterlife is witnessed by [[Clover Softpaw]], stranded in the subsoil air following the events of Session 27. As she returns to the Orbis Bastion, [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]] encounters [[Semeera]], transported between worlds through the power of dreams, and the lingering Blowt influence from Session 29. After a brief conversation, Clover brings Semeera back to the Orbis Bastion where they encounter Quimbleton Fiddleford who has recently completed the bastion's teleportation circle. Quimbleton introduces himself and greets the pair with alarming news. Although previously non-functional, the Teleportation circle suddenly began to pulse with magical energy before the two's arrival.
* There's a knock at the door, and [[Isabelle]] joins the party--tasked by the [[Bhéara]] with bringing a special contract to the house. At which point the portal flares to life and out steps Mephix. Over the questions and protests of [[Quimbleton]] and [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]], [[Isabelle]] hands the contract to Mephix, who releases a small birdcage containing the soul of [[Clementine]] before disappearing.
* After [[Quimbleton]] creates a paper doll for [[Clementine|Clem's]] soul to inhabit, the party returns to the surface world, promising Isabelle to help the Bhéara's mission of tracking down a certain member of the Kiyoni family in Balabag. They are to kill the Kiyoni Elder, and destroy their prize phoenix egg to sate the Bhéara.
* The group portals directly into the Balabag bastion, disturbing the conversation of [[Cecil Alaxorsa|Cecil]], [[Viralyn Kiyoni]], [[Semeera]], and [[Farmer Lyle|Lyle]]--with the two parties nearly coming to blows. An elder member of the Kiyoni family--the target--comes to the house, introduces himself, and hands the group the egg, tasking them with getting the egg out of [[Osugbo]]. After some conversation about the family's history aiding [[Troverth Dynasty|Troverth]] in the [[Realm War I|Realm War]] (and a crossover conversation between [[Parkelca|Parkelca2]]'s 2 PCs), the Elder Kiyoni provides the group with money, hands over the egg, and makes plans for dinner with [[Cecil Alaxorsa|Cecil]] later in the week--although [[Viralyn Kiyone|Viralyn]] strikes a bargain with [[Isabelle]] to kill her kinsman later in the night to satisfy Bhéra's will.
* Egg in hand, the group attempts to leave [[Balabag]] for Ravel after finding a mannequin for [[Clementine|Clem's]] soul to posses, but are ~immediately~ ambushed by [[Blowt]]. In the ensuing brawl, Farmer Lyle reveals that he holds ''The Monocle of Flesh Manipulation,'' [[Isabelle]] tries to communicate with the [[Blowt]] that they need to work with the surface dwellers to reach their afterlife by unmasking her veil, and in a desperate moment, [[Clementine|Clem]] possesses the phoenix egg--hatching out of it as a 6-month old phoenix-folk infant.
* Because the egg has been hatched and the Elder Kiyoni killed (though under mysterious circumstances outside [[Viralyn Kiyoni|Viralyn's]] doing), the [[Bhéara|Bhéra]] is satisfied. The [[Blowt]] attacking the group depart--content in the fact that Kiyoni's long-held beastfolk ancestry has finally been brought to light, and one of the family's elders has been punished for his sins.
* In the aftermath, as the group prepares to go their separate ways, [[Quimbleton]] tells [[Isabelle]] that seeing a (to his knowledge) peaceful resolution in the conflict with the [[Blowt]] has convinced him to spread the word of her mission to have a more open perspective in [[Ravel|Ravel's]] dealings with the [[Blowt]]. As she returns to the otherworld, he sends with her a note for remaining members of the Orbis bastion, telling them where he and [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]] have gone, and that they'll return soon.

== Act 3 ==
[[Category:Fantasial Freeze]]

The Fantasial Freeze/The Story So Far

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== Prologue ==

=== Session 0: The First Night ===
[[Session]] Tags: Survival

Characters: Adebimpe, Mr. Putney, Rosamund, Kara, Savile, Quimbleton [All NEW!]

DM: [[James]] (12/5/2024)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Bidwell

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Players left the city of [[Ravel]] onboard the '''SS Exodus''' after taking on a small contract to work the ship on its voyage south towards [[Galik]] in [[Amusa]].
* We learned that Whales are elusive around [[Osugbo]] and that some sailors believe that '''Birds ward off Whales'''.
* After meeting and making rough acquaintance, the captain invited the crew to the '''Captain's dinner''', where they were told to protect the precious and dangerous-sounding cargo which lived in a lock carriage on the deck.
* After hearing that a possible [[whale]] was nearby, Mr. Putney hesitantly left dinner and got some fresh air, getting a first row seat to the beginning of the [[Arctic Autumn]] as a mysterious force on the horizon seemed to zoom by, freezing the ocean water in its wake.
* When the ice reached the ship, the jostle nearly killed the lowly (Level 1) crew, but after getting their bearings, the team left the cabin and were shocked to see the dangerous creature...a [[Dire Turkey|dire turkey]]...had been thrown off the ship and was scrambling quickly away into the frozen sunset.
* Getting onto the Exodus' dinghy, the team took off into the night, kept safe and warm by Kara's fire-bending elementalist powers.
* Avoiding a near-death collision with '''pirates''' (whose cover was blown when Rosamund's [[mystic]] powers revealed their emotions and thoughts), the team sailed into the next day, freezing and huddled around a precarious fire on the dinghy.
* Finally catching up to the sleeping turkey, the team's [[Aarakocra]] tried some bird-like rituals to coax the [[beast]] back, but instead imitated a challenge to the alpha Turkey. In the quick brawl that ensued, Rosamund was nearly killed, but quick thinking from Kara, Putney, and Quimbleton put the bird into an exhausted state, ready to return back.
* Once they returned the bird, the team learned that there would be no voyage to Galik...indeed, the realm had frozen over, and a strange winter had begun: '''A Fantasial Freeze'''.

=== Session 1: Cold Feet ===
Session Tags: Survival, [[Onomancy]], Boss Battle, [[Blowt|Blowted]]

Characters: Adebimpe, Eltolinde, Luv, Clover, Lairus, Jaxzo'Ilan [All NEW!]

DM: James (1/3/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Nhart]], [[Otto Bremer]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Working and staying at a shelter in [[Ravel]] to stay away from the cold, the heroes are imposed upon by a group of '''thugs''' who were looking to take blankets to stay warm from the arctic conditions outside.
* After [[Luv]] paid the thugs off, the team convened at a local '''Quest Board''', noting a few of the crazy things happening in town at the moment, including:
** A bone dealer named '''[[Otto]] Bremer''' who wanted whale bones
** A baker whose fires seem to be magically extinguished by an '''unknown force'''
** A citizen who gets the uncanny feeling they are being watched via '''Elemental Scrying'''
** Reports of a vision from the '''Onomancer's Guild''' of a '''Kaiju-Sized Penguin'''
** Worries from citizens about local tortle '''Captain Kronch'''
** Several notices about '''Pirates''' in the region.
* Eventually the team settled on investigating the mysterious penguin vision, and went to the '''Onomancer's Guild''' where they met with '''Nhart''', an onomancer who showed them his visions: A massive penguin breaking through the ice sheets of the ocean, sending locals fleeing in fear, while '''an unknown group of 6''' stand vigilantly opposed to it.
* The team got along well with the Onomancers, though team Mystic [[Laris|Lairus]] was highly suspicious, going with the popular thought that Onomancy is an "invasive" form of mind magic that shouldn't be practiced.
* After being given rations and a warm place to sleep that night, the team awoke refreshed and ready to hit the road. However, once they reached the city's frozen harbor piers, they ALSO caught the glimpse of '''Something Large, Monstrous, and Whale-Shaped''', lurking in a back alley.
* As one of the team members was [[Clover]], an infamous monster slayer, an order was given and the team pursued the beast. Eventually it gave an ominous warning to [[Adebimpe]] via telepathy: "You all will pay for the sins of the past". Which was enough reason to go ahead and fully kill the beast in an epic battle across Ravel city rooftops and parks.
* Once the beast was slain and the team totally exhausted, it was decided to backtrack and instead sell this '''Whale-Shaped''' corpse to '''Otto Bremer''', the whale bone dealer, who rewarded the team with a '''Magic Swimming Ring of the Princes''', and '''A Portrait of a Spoon.'''

=== Session 2: Burnale & Whale ===
Session Tags: Bastion, [[Blowt|Blowted]], Wilds, Burnale

Characters: [[Eltolinde]], Luv, Clover, Jaxzo'Ilan, [[Quimbleton]], [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]] [New!]

DM: James (2/10/2025)

Important NPCs: The [[Burnale]] Clan, [[Otto Bremer]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Jaxzo'Ilan''' lost control again and nearly killed Quimbleton in the dark streets of '''Stalled-For-Thyme''', the merchant's district of Ravel (Quimbleton having another Absinthe inspired late night conversation with a lampost)
* The team is attacked by a '''Dragonfly Blowt''' in the streets, forcing everyone to seek shelter nearby, where they notice the piling up problems in Ravel on the bulletin board.
* As much of the group had helped '''Otto Bremer''' before, they decided to assist him in another mission, delivering '''Bone Flutes''' carved from the bones of the Whale Blowt they had previously slain.
* While taking the bones to '''[[Manquel]],''' the team was nearly ambushed in the night by members of the [[Burnale Clan]] who were looking to loot them. In an inspired move, the team instead decided to challenge the Burnale to a '''drinking contest''', using Quimbleton's Absinthe as the drink of choice.
* Having built up a tolerance (or otherwise using magic) the team was able to stay on their feet longer than the Burnale leader, allowing them to loot his body instead. Eltolinde claiming roughly 100 GP worth of gold in doing so.
* Before arriving in '''Manquel''', the team receives a message from the city (delivered by a freezing Jaxzo'Ilan) that the '''Flutes may be cursed.''' The team attempts to confirm if they're cursed by...playing the flute. By doing so, the massive and deep tones of a whale burst over the countryside, unknowingly summoning any nearby Blowt to the area.
* In Manquel, it appears the town was '''recently under attack by a Blowt''' summoned to the area (I wonder by who???), but the team fights hard to trap the blowt in its own mind through Luv's mental magics. Once it was trapped, it was a trivial matter of ending it.
* To avoid having to now deliver the flutes to the townsfolk and further cursing people, the team decides to instead pay the city merchant the full value of the flutes (roughly 80 GP), which he seems happy with.
* With the Whale defeated and the mission finished, the team begins to set up a headquarters, a [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]], in Manquel.

=== Session 3: Blood on the Ice ===
Session Tags: Boss Battle, [[Blowt|Blowted]], [[The Unravel]], Escort

Characters: Adebimpe, Lairus, [[Sevile]], [[Kara]][[Asimi|, Asimi]] [New!], [[Cavii Kero]] [New!]

DM: James (2/16/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Aiken]], [[Mayor Berry]], [[Captain Cronch]], [[Breakwater]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* In a town meeting at '''The Kaleidoscope''' (the city's center), it is revealed that more Blowt attacks have been happening, and the city guards are not enough to protect the people in the streets.
* After some "negotiation" from '''Kara''' and '''Savile, a''' deal is brought to the table in which the city's Thieves' Guild, [[The Unravel]], would pad the city's forces and patrol at night. However there would be a team up: 1 guard for every [[Thief]], to ensure accountability.
* With the meeting adjourned, the team decided to investigate the poor tortle Captain Cronch who had been frozen for at least a week, and who had people so worried about him that they were posting for help on the notice boards of the city.
* On the way to Cronch, the team encountered a massive '''Squall''' which nearly destroyed their ability to survive the cold, if it weren't for '''Kara's''' firebending abilities. Surviving the blizzard, the group encounters '''Breakwater''', a bright eyed Grung in the region, they give him a coat and send him to safety.
* Arriving at Cronch's cabin, the crew find that Breakwater had buried Cronch in a "Burial Mound", after evacuating Cronch from his burial mound (don't worry he was just hibernating), it would open up into a portal to ''another world,'' through which a massive turtle-like blowt would emerge.
* After nearly TPK'ing to the turtle (in part thanks to Asimi's uneducated use of Cronch's staff [[Rumblewood]]) they would be able to push the turtle back into the portal and close it for good, saving Cronch's life and taking him back to [[Ravel]] for a more permanent safety.

=== Session 4: Are we the Balabaddies? ===

Session Tags: Exploration, Balabag, Survival, Lush Pocket

Characters: [[Savile]], [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Quimbleton]], Silent Wind [New!], [[Fridtjof]] [New!]

DM: James (2/28/2025)

Important NPCs: Balabag's Heroes ([[Thaddeus]], Tim the Aarokocra, ??? the Goliath, ??? the [[Kitsune]]), Fergus the Manquel Merchant

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Having set up the [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Manquel Bastion]], Jaxzo'Ilan begins to employ the Barracks with other heroes of the realm, recruiting a '''Goliath''' and an '''Aarakocra''' who were taking shelter in the area to help in saving the world.
** The Goliath has daddy issues, and struggles in his nightmares.
* After others arrive in from Ravel, a team of 6 is founded, and the decision is made that since Manquel is already in land, they're in the perfect position to search for the rumored "'''Lush Pocket'''" that Ravel was hunting down.
* Thanks to the insane survival abilities of [[[Paul]]'s Goliath], Silent Wind, and Jaxzo combined, they were able to find the Lush Pocket in record time, stumbling upon a warm spot after only 3 hours of trudging through the snow.
* After discovering that the '''[https://news.umich.edu/tropical-rain-forest-thrived-throughout-last-ice-age/ Lush Pocket thrived due to a greenhouse effect on the lowlands]''' (scientifically backed!), the team snuck down, only to discover that the Lush Pocket had already been claimed by '''Rival [[Adventurers]]''' hailing from the city of [[Balabag]]
* The leader of these rivals was revealed to be '''Thaddeus''' of the '''Drycræft Drifan School of Magicks''', a rival school to Quimbleton's '''Xerneiros'''.
* ''When Quimbleton realized that the valley was south of the [[Balabar River|'''Balabar River''']], and that due to the geopolitical fallout of [[The Cavalry Rush]], this particular pocket has every right to be claimed by [[Ravel]] and NOT by Balabag, which exists on the north side of the river. However, once he began to elucidate the historical and political reasons why Balabag should give up its claim on the land, the rival adventurers figured it was going to be a better idea to just fight off our intruding heroes.''
* After an epic waterside combat (and the death of half of the enemy team) the Balabag heroes forfeited, offering themselves up to be arrested and taken back to Ravel or Balabag.
** This included Tim the Aarakocra, as well as an unnamed Kitsune and Goliath.
* [[Jaxzo'Ilan]] lost control again and once again needed to be talked down by her friends.
* The heroes were rewarded in gold, and political machinations were set into action.
=== Session 5: End of the Rime ===
Session Tags: Amaun, [[Blowt]]

Characters: [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven,]] [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Lairus]], [[Kara]], [[Eltolinde]], [[Quimbleton]]

DM: James (3/12/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Professor Alfonz Mordecai, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* An appearance of the followers of [[Amaun]], said to have been apotheosized from the freezing citizens of Ravel to wards off the cold, move into the Fresna (the Outer District of Ravel)
* Narrowly saving Farmer Lyle's farm by using mysticisim against the minds of Amaun's believers, it is discovered that among their ranks is '''Serg,''' a former lover of [[Dark Silvio]].
* They interrogate Serg and discover the Amaun forces believe that Amaun's flames cleanse an area of the perpetual cold, and they were trying to bring life back to the frozen farmlands, almost destroying the entire crop of '''Sour Lingenberries''' growing there.
* Farmer Lyle thanks them by giving them a pig, named Turkey Bacon, who now belongs to [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]]
* Worse for wear, the group travels into the city for warmth and shelter at Cavii's [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|bastion]], where they meet 6 unique NPCs who have been staying there as shelter from the storm
** Pierre Robes, local tailor
** Ennui, a mysterious tielfing
** Hermis Rangina, a [[minotaur]]
** Alfonz Mordecai, a [[kenku]] professor from the [[University of Xyrneiros]]
** Althia Arcanethia, a scholar elf
** Zugon [[Montane]], a fisherman
* Althia and Quimbleton take a moment to go over what the scholars have determined about the "Blowt", which includes references to something called the '''[[Subsoil Air]],''' and rumors that the Blowt are coming from either under the frozen ocean, or from under the now-barren continental shelf
* After taking on a mission to take down pirates on the Ice, the group of heroes PLUS Althia and Mordecai head out on the ice. Mordecai goes because he's a healer, Althia goes because she's researching the ice and the possible Blowt under it.
* On their way out on the ice they encounter a '''Carrion Crawler''' which had devoured a group of Merfolk.
* Finally arriving at the pirate's stronghold, a series of ice structured erected on the ocean's ice (and a number of ships that go with it), the group takes out the pirates AND the spies. claiming the gems and rewards left there, and claiming the bounty in the name of the Xeo Family of Ravel.

== Act 1: [[The Arctic Autumn]] ==

=== Session 6: Unraveled ===
Session Tags: [[The Unravel]]

Characters: [[Savile]], [[Luv]], [[Silent Wind]], [[Yoko]] [New!], [[Sven]] [New!], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]] [New!]

DM: James (3/15/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Peatro, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* A group of good Samaritans (New PCs Yoko, Sven, and Red), working together to clear snow on the streets of Ravel after a recent squall discover that Farmer Lyle has been sheltering in the historic district, which is now known as [James look this up again, it's the petroglyph one].
* The house, which was located on the riverbank, then collapsed down into the bank, crumbling the structures and sending everyone down under a massive avalanche of soil and wood.
* When the dust clears, the group finds that under the riverbank was a portion of [[The Unravel]].
* Shortly aftewards, two heroes dive into the avalanche to pull out any survivors, they themselves becoming trapped. The confused and anxious group, stuck in what appears to be a dungeon of a hideout, find their way to the next room where Silent Wind is interrogating Ennui.
* Ennui is left underground in the Ravel
* [[Luv]] finds the blankets that have been stolen from shelters around Ravel
* [[Sven]] contracts wendigo disease from a [[Wendigo]], and immolates himself to save the rest of the team from being turned, and to save himself from having to become a monster. His final words: ''"Head to [[Schmetalton]], look for my identical twin brother, [[Ben]]"''

=== Session 7: Schmedled ===
Session Tags: Schmetalton

Characters: [[Oswald]] [New!], [[Takeshi]] [New!], [[Kludzu]] [New!], [[Tessa Night|Tessa]] [New!], [[Adebimpe]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]]

DM: James (3/28/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Peatro, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Welcome to [[Schmetalton|Schmedleton]], home to a unique monestary, which was previously the church of Sven and Ben (see Session 6)
* [[Oswald]] contracts Wendigo disease, and it's learned that the disease can be stopped before it takes hold if the diseased gets ahold of some '''Grey UmaOrchid'''
* The team fights a '''[[Wendigo]]''' '''Bear'''
* Jaxzo comes face to face with [[Xilas LaCroix]] for the first time.

=== Session 8: Onomanced ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]] (Now '''Six'''), [[Kara]], [[Luv]], [[Clementine]] [New!], [[Savile]], [[Tessa]]

DM: James (4/6/2025)

Important NPCs: Peatro

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* [[Tessa]] arrives in Ravel, looking for the [[LaCroix]] estate and clues to where the vampiric [[Xilas LaCroix]] may have escaped off to.
* [[Peatro]] gives in to his wendigo disease, with no cure found in the area yet. Those present during his transformation fight '''Wendigo Peatro''' within he C3, using successful team tactics.
* Luv finally comes full circle from session 1, finishing the mission their original team set out to do, but far too late.
* The team fights a '''[[Wendigo]] [[Blowt]]'''
* [[Clementine]] learns to [[Onomancy|read names]]. By deciphering a piece of poetry, they are rewarded with a magical crust of bread.

=== Session 9: Waddled ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Frieda]] [New!], [[Neighbor]] [New!], [[Fridtjof]], [[Yoko]], [[Takeshi]], [[Cavii Kero]]

DM: James (4/12/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* We find [[Webber]] the [[Kaiju Penguin]]
* The team fights a '''Blizzard Eel'''
* We encounter [[Garl Glittergold|Glittergold]]'s [[White Horse]] 🐎
* Frieda discovers a lost Manatee who she then names '''Freya'''.

=== Session 10: Towered ===
Session Tags: Defense, Sneakery, Amaun, LaCroix

Characters: [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Six]], [[Ben]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], [[Kludzu]], [[Clementine]]

DM: James (4/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Aiken, Bartlett, Kiun Xeo, Vindrix LaCriox, some really cool dogs

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Six is captured by the '''Unravel''' on suspicion of leading the [[Amaun]] [[cult]]. Teir evidence includes his fiery sword, his mysterious nature and convenient inability to recall where he's been or who he is, and his ever-burning branch (gifted by Kara). During questioning, Aiken recognizes a magical geas has been placed upon Six.
* Six is almost beaten to death, but the interrogation is interrupted by [[Clementine]], who mistook a posting looking for thug support as one looking for artists and performers.
* Recognizing Six, Clem and others present (including a late arrival Ben) calm the room after a brief skirmish, and the Unravel are convinced Seven is innocent, and that in fact it is '''Dark Silvio''' who is behind everything. They take Dark Silvio and leave.
* Licking their wounds, the group reconvenes in safety elsewhere, eventually deciding to band together and take a quest looking for protection at the Xeo Estate in the city.
* The team learns Kiun Xeo's life after the LaCroix family in town appear to have a bounty placed on his head. Along with Xeo's two golems, the team takes up defensive positions for the night. [[Xilas LaCroix|Xilas]] sends waves of dhampir and vampire spawn to ensure Kiun is dealt with properly. Several team members are injured or paralyzed, and Kludzu is downed.
* In the midst of the fighting, Red scurries to a quiet corner of the Xeo mansion and unlocks a secret door. They discover that the Xeo family are worshippers of the [[Amaun]] fire cult and have been funding the group's activities! Red makes off with the sacred text the Xeos have hidden in their mansion, later turning it over to Six.
* After the sun rises, Kiun treats the heroes to breakfast. It's a trap! Vindrix LaCroix, the son of Xilas, ambushes the party in the dining room with his boli familiar. Another fight ensues, and things are tense, but the group does slay the vampire.
* Kiun, now fearing extra for his life, pleads with the heroes to escort him to safety. Six allows Xeo and his golems to hide out to the '''Manquel''' Bastion, and the party resolves to keep an eye out, knowing the fire cult will be taking up residence in the abandoned building.

=== Session 11: Crossed ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Tessa Night]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Mundi]] [New!], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Adebimpe]]

DM: James (4/27/2025)

Important NPCs: Xilas LaCroix, [[Cecil]], the Bolis!

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The gang meets in [[Kludzu#The Brass Eye|The Brass Eye]], a tavern operated by PC [[Kludzu]] (who isn't present at the moment).
* While there and discussing their plans to take down [[Xilas LaCroix]], the gang is overheard by "Mundi", a well spoken, vaguely british, fine dressed Choeru warrior. He claims to also have "beef" with the LaCroix, and promises the team a secret entrance through which they can ambush the LaCroix palace.
* The gang argues for a while on best practices, and various battle strategies to get ready for their infiltration, including some very wise invisibility spells.
* ...It was a trap. Once they're at the back door, "Mundi" gives the secret knock, and a teleportation [[rune]] trigger, taking everyone in the vicinity, visible or not, to a waterlogged dungeon where [[Boli]] await to torture and suck the blood of the victims.
* Xilas is there, briefly, but only to attempt to turn the players against each other, which he fails to do. However, he then sends the REAL '''Mundi''' against the team, who is a powerful hulking [[barbarian]] of a capybarafolk, and NOTHING like the Mundi they thought they found, who was in fact a braggart of a [[vampire]] spawn named "Cecil".
* Within the same dungeon there also sat a captured gnome by the name of [[Ipanam]]. Originally known for his wonderful music, he now was being mind controlled to try and fight the party. Once the fight is over, he is recruited as another of Luv's henchmen.
* The team fights hard, takes out the Boli, and even kills Cecil along the way, but once again fails to secure Xilas. Thinking themselves alone, they begin to plot a plan in which Luv will impersonate and take over the LaCroix estate here in Ravel...but realize too late their precious plans were already overheard by Xilas, who now instills paranoia to all of them.

=== Session 12: Smithed ===
Session Tags: [[The Unravel]]

Characters: [[Kara]], [[Savile]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Clementine]], [[Luv]], Denaria [New!]

DM: James (5/4/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Glarf, Breakwater, Nhart, Pierre Robes

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Dark Silvio''' narrowly escapes his encagement in the '''Unravel''', being chased by a number of Unravel members. Member [[Kara|Karasu]] corners him and talks him into smuggling away to a safe corner of the Unravel where he can hide out in peace until it is time to return with [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]]. New Unravel member '''Denaria''' is also there.
* After Kara finds out '''Someone has also put a bounty on her head''' she goes to the C3 to start an investigation.
* While there, she bumps into '''Clementine,''' as well as C3 residents '''Quimbleton, Savile,''' and '''Luv,''' who are working on making a delicious stew as well as understanding the '''Mysteries of the Magic Bread'''. It is determined that it IS infinite food, but not very quick infinite food, nor is it long lasting once removed from its breadbox.
* '''Denaria''' also stumbles in, and after brief tensions with Luv, who mistakes her as another Unravel member looking to collect a bounty, accepts Denaria. Together the 6 of them now look for some work to bring in money and more food for themselves.
* They settle on accepting a Bounty Mission placed on a mysterious creature known as '''The Firefly''', after '''Denaria''' leads a tracking expedition, the Firefly is found stealing from a market late at night.
* Using a combination of Quimbleton's Sleep spell, Denaria's grappling hook, and Savile's net, the group captures the Firefly, only to realize that it is...(cue dramatic music)...'''Captain Crezzerin from Session 1!'''
* Deciding not to take Crezzerin in, the team learns why Crezzerin got the bounty on her, and why'd she'd been stealing so much. It turns out nobody was helping her procure the materials and goods she needed for her Ship-Repair project, so she put together teams of thieves from other forgotten and outcast persons.
* When the players revealed they had a combination of ''Muscle, Brains, and Blacksmithing knowledge''',''''' (plus Clementine's Bardic inspiration to set the pace of the forging), they took matters into their own hands, crafting and forging everything that Crezzerin needed instead of stealing it from others.
* With the forging done, and the ship repaired, the team was able to rechristen '''The Arctic Express''' (legally distinct from the Polar Express), and sent Crezzerin and her team on their way as they began to test out the new ship: one with the ability to finally traverse the frosty wastelands.

=== Session 13: Veiled ===
Session Tags: [[Blowt]], Lore, Personal Mission

Characters: [[Ben]], [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Fären]], Ramad, [[One|Six]], Yoko

DM: James (5/10/2025)

Important NPCs: Thesaurus

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Yoko is assisting in handing out food to citizens of Ravel in the Rolling Spools tavern. Ramad, Fären, and Ben are part of the long line that has formed, as stores for the city are running low.
* Six arrives with his new henchman, '''Inflammable Kevin''', as the crowd is dispersing. He turns to assist a lone woman who is licking the crumbs off her fingers, and she turns into a '''wendigo''' before his eyes, sparking a fight.
* The transformed '''wendigo''' downs Fären and transmits the wendigo disease to Yoko before being slain. Six grabs Fären's body and runs toward the C3, just across the frozen river that winds through Ravel.
* Cavii hears Six's cries and meets the heroes halfway, deftly reviving Fären and Yoko with Ramad's help, notably '''curing a PC of the wendigo disease''' for the first time in the campaign. Fären comes to in Six's arms, startled at the reality of being saved by a human male.
* Six reveals an anonymous note showing that '''Balabag''' has poisoned the rations that were to be dispersed amongst the townsfolk with wendigo disease, and that the '''Balabag army''' sits just outside of '''Manquel''', demanding housing for its soldiers as they move to fight against Ravel. Many '''wendigo''' are now loose on the city streets, and many quests are incapable of advancing until the scourge is dealt with. Six pens a letter calling for '''troops to fight the Balabag army''', and posts it on many bulletin boards.
* Yoko and Fären both report seeing the image of a skeletal frost giant, calling for Cavii, while they were downed.
* The heroes reconvene in the C3, where Cavii outlines the plan for piercing through the '''Veil''', where downed characters exist in moments close to death, recounting a wall of eyes calling for Cavii himself. The process involves bloodletting the heroes in a safe space (the C3), then exploring the Veil together. Cavii and Ramad offer to watch the others with healing potions at the ready, as Inflammable Kevin guards the door from interlopers.
* Fären, Ben, Yoko, and Six descend into the Veil. They quickly realize they are separated and have to deal with their own personal antagonists. There are siblings aplenty, as Fären is forced to confront his brother, '''Lycidas''', and Yoko fights his brother, Mujyo. Ben reunites with his brother '''Sven''', who has passed on, as well as '''Gustafar''', his step-brother now armed with dark eldritch magic. Six is transported to a space alone, but for a set of ghostly hands reaching down.
* Six calls the skeletal frost giant, bringing it into the Veil near the heroes, then alerts Cavii that their presence is necessary. Cavii descends into the Veil and meets the spirit of his own brother '''Ravii''', who rests on the frost giant's shoulder. The giant is introduced as '''Thesaurus''', who appears to be the master of this place. Thesaurus is calling not for Cavii but for something called the "Cailleach [[Bhéara]]", which Ravii mishears as "capybara".
* Combat ensues within the Veil; Cavii and Fären are defeated by Thesaurus and Lycidas, while Yoko reaches a kind of truce with Mujyo. Ben and Sven work together to defeat Gustafar, and Ben gains some closure over his twin's death. Six pulls down one of the hands within his space and meets Seven, another soul inhabiting his body. Six and Seven have a long, comforting chat, and Seven convinces Six to rest for a while and "let someone else take over."
* Cavii is defeated by Thesaurus, and in Quelmar, they start to die in their bed. The presence of death summons a '''Blowt''', who downs Inflammable Kevin with one blow, and who Ramad skillfully avoids through magical means. Six reincarnates as Five, poetically incinerating Kevin's corpse (he was inflammable) and defeating the Blowt. The rest of the crew are stabilized and brought back to life, their journey to the Veil filled with more questions and few answers.

=== Session 14: Crowned ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Kara]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Tessa Night]], [[Annabelle]] [New!]

DM: James (5/21/2025)

Important NPCs: [[X (The Paladin)]], Unnamed Amaun Cult leader

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 15: Blowted ===
Session Tags:

Characters: Takeshi, [[Kludzu]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], [[Neighbor Craig]], [[Thimbal|Thimbol]] [New!], [[Gale]] [New!]

DM: James (5/29/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Farmer Lyle]], Jenny Jangles, a Blowt named Uct, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 16: Chased ===
<blockquote>This session was a crossover game with [[Ancients Alive]] and [[System Agnostic]] campaigns!</blockquote>Session Tags:

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Kara]], [[Lairus]] (Guest Featuring: [[Maverick]], [[Edna]], [[System Agnostic/Episode 3.3: System Error|Nuria]])

DM: James (6/1/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* [Cue sitcom guest appearance applause] [[Edna]] and [[Maverick]] stop by [[Ancients Alive]] to assist in hunting down the Paladin
* Clementine and the Paladin steal passing glances and awkward story swapping as she tries to get a better idea of who he is, for better or for worse.
* Nuria is there too!
* Clementine tried to steal the wand from the Paladin and fails
* The entire mountainside is collapses in an avalanche onto the players, nearly killing everyone, who try desperately through magic and might to stay afloat while the Paladin assaults them.
* '''Lairus dies''' by throwing herself between Jaxzo and the Paladin, tanking the hits and letting Jaxzo escape.
* Peatro was re-discovered, having somehow reincarnated as a strange '''Blowt'''
* The Paladin gets away and flees north, searching for the great powers in '''the Quiet North'''

=== Session 17: Casted ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Intrigue, Magic

Characters: [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Cavii Kero]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Oswald]], [[Fären]], [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]]

DM: James (6/7/2025)

Important NPCs: Driklar the Alchemist, Mayor Barry,

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Sandbox magic adventure!
* [[Quimbleton]] invented a spell of "Mass Create Sorghum"
* [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]] gained a Phoenix spirit familiar.
* [[Cavii Kero]] gained the ability to control weather.
* [[Oswald]] gained the ability to doff an enemy's clothing or armor.
* '''The team restored 6 powerful artifacts used in an ancient war''', in theory for Ravel to use against an approaching Balabag.
* [[Fären]] stole one of the 6 artifacts (Artifact of Flesh Manipulation) and disappeared into the cold and dark night.

=== Session 18: Ambushed ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Gale]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Oswald|Oswald,]] [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Sven]], [[Tessa Night]]

DM: James (6/17/2025)

Important NPCs: NOT Xilas LaCroix

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Another important meeting in the [[Brass Eye]] (Kludzu's tavern) leads to another attempt to take down LaCroix (though the team is momentarily suspicious of Oswald, who is yet another powerful looking Capybara who has intel)
* After much deliberation, this team decided ultimately to use their opportunity to barge into the LaCroix manor in Ravel right through the front door.
* LaCroix was not home, and was in fact expecting them to confront him via the trap door that he had previously trapped many of them by.
* Instead, a small group of Boli as well as two [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Meazel Meazels] who were still guarding the interior ambushed the intruders.
* While a great fight was had, LaCroix was no where to be seen, and eventually the team had to burn some of their faction points with Ravel to talk their way out of being arrested for B&E.

=== Session 19: Damned ===
Session Tags: Travel, Blowt, Magic, The Hole (new!)

Characters: Asimi, [[Clementine]], [[One|Five]], Mundy, [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]

DM: James (6/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Glarf, Breakwater, Maynard

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The session starts in the '''Manquel Bastion''', where remnants of the Balabag army, greatly diminished due to cold and hunger, is attacking. All three soldiers are quickly talked down and offered food and shelter by Mundy, Asimi, and Five.
* Ramad takes a moment to catch up with '''Kiun Xeo''', who has been holed up in the Bastion to avoid death by LaCroix. They chat briefly about the fire cult of Amaun.
* A haunted and defeated Clementine arrives in Manquel later that evening. She informs the group of [[X (The Paladin)|The Paladin]]'s involvement in the Freeze, Peatro's resurrection, and other important events from Episode 14. The group are shocked that the Freeze could potentially be ending in three weeks' time.
* The group returns to Ravel, where they catch up with '''Captain Crezzerin''', who has constructed the '''Arctic Express''', a ship outfitted to plow through the ice and snow. The heroes reconnect with several NPCs from past sessions who form Crezzerin's current crew, such as '''Glarf''', '''Breakwater''', '''Pierre Robes''', and '''Maynard.''' The group agrees to Crezzerin's request for bodyguards as they make a four-day journey across the bay to Tuskur.
* The first day is spent in relative quiet, but the second day the ship is beset by a wounded and hungry roc. Asimi is quick to deflect the giant bird's attention with an illusion, but Five is inspired to attack the beast as he wants to impress Clementine. Drawn into combat, the heroes are able to defeat the roc and strip it for meat and feathers. However, Mundy is unable to come out of his berserker rage, and capybara-chest-bumps a badly wounded Five, killing him. Five resurrects again as [[One|Four]], and the heroes puzzle once again over why Four's personality is once again changed.
* The third day passes in relative quiet, but the Arctic Express is approached by a floating ship, crewed by a gang of [[Devil|devils]]. They offer great boons to the heroes, in exchange for as many souls as they are willing to spare. Asimi is quick to hand over '''Maynard's''' soul, and Four offers the soul of one of their henchmen. In the most surprising moment of the day, Clementine offers her own soul to the devils in exchange for an unknown boon. The deal is struck, and the crew moves on.
* The fourth day is marked by the appearance of '''The Hole''', located a half-day's journey from Tusgrer. To stop the Arctic Express from tipping into the Hole, the heroes act quickly to disable the engines and bring the ship to a shuddering crawl. The noise of the ship attracts a '''Kaiju Penguin-Blowt''', which towers over the ship, and several smaller '''Blowt''' follow in its wake. The outmatched heroes quickly start the engines up again, turning the ship and escaping, although both Asimi and Glarf are downed by a single flap of the '''Kaiju Penguin-Blow'''<nowiki/>'''t''''s flippers. The Arctic Express arrives at its destination, and everyone breathes a big sigh of relief.

== Act 2 ==

=== Session 20: Unleashing ===
<blockquote>This session was a crossover game with [[Ancients Alive]] and [[System Agnostic]] campaigns!</blockquote>Session Tags: Travel, Magic, Horror, The Quiet North, Necromancy

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Kara]], [[Savile]], [[Quimbleton|Quimbleton Fiddleford]] (Guest Featuring: [[Rowan Buckman|Rowan]], [[Blumenthal]], [[Wielder-of-Karavox]], [[Arlow]])

DM: James (6/29/2024, [[QuelmarCon 2025]])

Important NPCs: [[Touse]], [[Bhéara]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

While all characters in the freeze have access to the following summary in the form of rumors around Ravel, greater details can be found by reading [[Quimbleton's expedition notes]] in the C3.

[[Luv]], [[Savile]], and [[Quimbleton]] started an expedition north looking for [[Kara]] who was hot on the trail of [[X (The Paladin)|The Paladin]]. By the time they all met up in [[Dolmvay]], the party had been joined by a sorceror named [[Rowan Buckman|Rowan]] and an alchemist named [[Blumenthal]] who claimed to be part of a party which slew [[X (The Paladin)|the Paladin]]--the one who caused [[The Arctic Autumn|the freeze]]--some time earlier. However, [[The Arctic Autumn|the freeze]] was still strong in the north, and the party set out to find the source of the cold in [[Paraska Manor|a mansion to the north]]--along the way meeting a batfolk named '''Wielder''' who carried [[Karavox|some kind of magical axe]].

While the exact details of what happened in the house have been somewhat distorted, what is clear is that the party found an incredibly powerful and malevolent presence within, and were completely routed--limping wordlessly back into town. Some claim that the force inside the building had something to do with vivid and disturbing paintings that acted as portals to other worlds, some spoke of a powerful but sinister coven of necromancers operating from inside the house, and still others whispered of a towering monster made of brass, wax, and fire with claws like butcher knives.

In any case, the stories and rumors all tend to share three core truths--some kind of ancient and malevolent magic was behind whatever happened in the house, a deeper, more intense frost has been slowly enveloping towns in the north and may soon turn its attention to the south, and [[Savile]] did not return from the expedition.

=== Session 21: Falling ===
Session Tags: Sorghum, Attack, Blowt

Characters: [[Ramad Shadewalk]], [[Kludzu]], [[Gale]], [[Thimbol]], [[Asimi]], [[En]] (New!)

DM: James (7/7/2025)

Important NPCs: "Thesaurus", Mayor Berry

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''The Famine is over'''! Ravel celebrates with its first ever '''Sorghum Festival!'''
* [Stuff happens here]
* 10 Civilian causalities, including a band of bearfolk, a tigerfolk, and a loxo.
* [[Kludzu]] entered the [[Otherworld]], perhaps never to be seen again (or seen much later)
* Mayor Berry died and became Blowted
* [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]] died at the hands of the blowt. When passing on, he chose the path Peatro did: Connecting and grabbing onto the life force of the Blowt, becoming one with them.

=== Session 22: Deflecting ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Political Intrigue, Bastion, Manquel

Characters: Annabelle, [[One|Four]], [[Luv]], Mundy, [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], Takeshi

DM: James (7/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Maximillian [new!], Kiun Xeo, Ennui

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The session begins with renovations taking plane on the Manquel Bastion. Four, Red and Mundy clear out some of the space in the courtyard, which Mundy dubs "Bitch House" with a backwards T. Takeshi is also camped out for the time being, investigating the local area for cultural tidbits and rare books. We learn that Manquel is known for growing high-quality oolong tea, is architecturally inspired by Japan, and has a local mochi donut shop that survived the Freeze.
* Annabelle arrives at the Bastion, carrying a beleaguered Luv with her. The heroes gather and converse; Takeshi takes interest in Annabelle's written language, Luv reads the room's needs for the first time, and the crew is generally filled in on the evil "sentient frost" inhabiting Paraska Manor, as well as Savile's passing.
* The heroes receive word that Balabag is approaching, intent on taking the Manquel Bastion as their own. Four prepares the forces at their disposal, while Luv and Takeshi draft a treatise to establish peace before any bloodshed.
* Balabag's forces arrive, more than doubling the Manquel forces with spearmen, longbowmen, shield bearers, a trebuchet, and a line of cavalry. Their captain, Maximillian, is greeted by the negotiating party of Luv, Mundy, and Takeshi. Maximillian believes that Six (now Four) is guilty of fire-related crimes and must answer for them. Luv steers this anger towards Kiun Xeo, still holed up in the Bastion, who has notoriously funded the cult of Amaun in Ravel. Maximillian agrees to take Xeo in Four's place.
* Red and Four go down to the basement and convince Kiun through... gross oversimplification... to go to Balabag with the army. While Red walks Kiun out, Four is attacked by Ennui, who has snuck into the Bastion. Four easily overpowers Ennui and walks him out to the group, turning him over as well to Balabag. Annabelle also chooses to depart to Balabag, revealing a necklace marking her as a Flamewalker of Kosuth, whom the Balabagians seem to revere. (This unlocks the Balabag missions for the FFreeze proper.) The Bastion is saved, and the heroes can relax...
* UNTIL! A kaiju-penguin [[Blowt]] erupts on the far side of the Bastion, spurring the heroes into combat. Luckily, combat is not long, and nobody is killed. Takeshi reaches out to the Blowt, whom we now know is split between its own purpose and that of the [[Bhéara]], and convinces it to flee instead of fight. The Bastion is damaged, but not destroyed, and the heroes can actually take a breather.

=== Session 23: Becoming ===
Session Tags: Lore, Campfire, Character Building, The [[Blowt]]

Characters: [[Kara]], [[Quimbleton|Quimbleton,]] [[Clementine]], [[Osric]] [New!], [[Enrik]] [New!], [[Alcordyn]] [New!]

DM: James (7/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Hollowfoot, Bearah, "Mr. Mosquito", Nhart,

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Quimbleton continues to provide '''Sorghum''' all over! This time with a 1st year intern named Lorena following him about.
* The town of [[Tusgrer]] is finally revealed! Turns out while seeming mundane on the surface, the town has actually been heavily infected by Blowtessence, being supervised by a '''Mosquito Blowt''' known only as "Mr. Mosquito".
* To save the town, [[Kara]] decided to transfer all of the Blowtessence from the Mosquito into themselves. As a result '''Kara becomes a Blowt.'''
* But in under 30 seconds, while the window of curing is still open, '''Hollowfoot the Druid launched into action, aided by Quimbleton and Clementine,''' and Kara is cured of the new infection. However, the latent disease that set in during Session 19 was far too engrained to be cured.
* With the rest of the town still being under Blowt influence (and Quimbleton only able to hold his sleep spell for a short period of time), the group flees into the wilds and regroups.
* After heavy discussions, Kara shares everything she learned about the Blowt in the Otherworld after becoming "one with the machine". '''It is an intense and revealing look at who the Blowt are and why they are doing what they are doing'''...and you'll have to wait to see if anyone from this table shares that intimate knowledge with the server or wiki.
* The team decides ulimately to retreat...back to Ravel...not knowing what may await them there soon enough.

=== Session 24: Slaying ===
Session Tags: LaCroix, [[Blowt]]

Characters: Tessa, Jaxzo, Clover, Oswald, Ravii, Dak [New!]

DM: James (7/24/2025)

Important NPCs: Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep), "Dak Jr."

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* LaCroix is slain by the team of slayers.
* Admittedly, LaCroix was ALSO a [[Blowt]] at the time of his slaying, since his house was in the district overrun during Session 21.

=== Session 25: Burning ===
Session Tags: Burnale, [[Blowt]], Bearah, Davenwood

Characters: [[Mundy]], [[En]], [[Ben]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Oswald]], Jollyfist Burnale [New!]

DM: James (8/7/2025)

Important NPCs: Burnale Clan (Othello, Oscard "Deadeye", Alan, Hildor, Keg, "Fjord" Firebeard), Wubly the Tavern Keep of Davenwood, Nikolas (Oswald's Dad), Orthin the Paladin

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Set a fire which accidentally spread to nearby Davenwood, which was part of a mission given by [[The Unravel]] to send a message to the nearby [[Burnale Clan]].
* Do community service to help the town rebuild and persevere through the immediate trauma of the attack.
* Meet Oswald's family on his childhood farm.
* Discover Oswald's mentor became a [[Wendigo]]
* Fight a super Blowt Wendigo in an epic battle (also includes a handful of Blowted Bunnies)
* Oswald inherits the farm from his family and begins to help them rebuild it into a powerful new [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]].

=== Session 26: Speedrunning ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Bhearah

Characters: [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Eltolinde Lykaios|Eltolinde]], Fahrlander [new!], [[One|Four]], Ravii, [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]

DM: James (8/17/2025)

Important NPCs: Massimo the Painter, Tulio the Apprentice (Briefly), Rogerre the Blacksmith, [[Dark Silvio]], Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep)

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Farlander the gnome Rogue comes down from the mountains to the north in desperate need of money. The group settles on going to Balabag to deal with a church afflicted by '''dark ice.'''
* The Kero brothers reunite!
* The party journeys to Balabag's religious district, called the Cindernest. They meet Rogerre and see that even fire can become Blowted, a glitchy blue flame that cannot be manipulated through magical means.
* The party explores the open halls of the church, and Four opens a door that reveals a Blowted Massimo the Painter. Combat immediately starts, and the torchlight is lit.
* Four fights off Massimo and the wights he paints into existence while the rest of the crew speedrun the ENTIRE DUNGEON in search for his wife Lavinia's locket. There is an outer Massimo, controlled by the Bhearah, and an inner Massimo who wishes to be free from his condition. The heroes use the power of words to slow his progress.
* The torchlight goes out, and we see how strong the Bhearah's hold over the church really is - Farlander is downed in a moment. Light your torches in dungeons, everyone.
* Lavinia's locket is found, and the party uses it to briefly stop Massimo's Blowt-self from taking control. Everyone escapes the church and is rewarded for saving him, though the space itself is still overrun by dark ice....
=== Session 27: Descending ===
Session Tags: Blowt, [[Ravel]], [[Davenwood]]

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Kara]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Dr Burdock]], [[Isabelle]]. [[Clover]]{{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|Kludzu}}DM: James (8/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Wubly the Tavern Keep, Rogerre the Blacksmith, Massimo the Painter

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* In the currently-under-construction tavern of [[Davenwood]], [[Dr Burdock]] showcases his realm famous solution to Blowt - Simply dominate their minds and make them your pets!
* Unfortunately Burdock didn't know the limits of his own power, and when attempting to control 2 Blowt at once, accidentally unleashes a Blowt onto the town.
* The rest of the team is impressed with Burdock's power, but unimpressed in how they had to clean up after his mess.
* Once the group catches their breath (and restores some spell slots), they decide that with lots of power over Life and Death (including new Grave Cleric Isabelle), it might be a good idea to investigate the hole in [[Ravel]] that opened up and unleashed [[Blowtessence]] all over the city.

* The team decides to test their resolve and go into the Blowhole.
* {{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|The players exist in the other world, [[Orbis]], and await rescue or attempts to escape. Not all of them managed to make it to the shelter intact, and some may not make it back to the surface exactly as you remember them. }}

=== Session 28: Damning ===
Session Tags: Blowt, Balabag, Kiyoni

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Isabelle]], [[Thimbol]]. [[Enrik]], [[Yuki]] [New!], [[Cecil Alaxorsa]] [New!]

DM: James (8/27/2025)

Important NPCs: Two Balabag Residents, Rogerre the Blacksmith

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Isabelle returned to the surface, a weapon of the [[Bhéara]], sent to Balabag to find the '''Kiyoni''' family.
* The players spent a long time in a library, as is tradition for some random point in every campaign.
* In doing their research (and spending their research tokens appropriately) the team learns that there is a deep-seated history of bad blood between [[Balabag]] and [[Ravel]].
* Their rivalry goes back to the first humans who appeared in the region during [[The Scattering]], when Animalfolk primarily lived in the region that would eventually become Human-dominated.
* The Kiyoni were a prominent and early human family with roots that go back to the Scattering, and for some reason, the Blowt want revenge on the Kiyoni.
* The Blowt apparently were damned to an eternal banishment after a war between the humans and animalfolk all the way back then. They were punished and sent to an afterlife which didn't reward them, but trapped them.
* Not wanting to aid and abet in political and physical assassination, the team agrees that there's definitely some merit in what the [[Bhéara|Bheara]] has tasked her minion to do...but there's other people in need of help, so they pick up and finish off the '''Cindernest Mission''' which was left partially uncompleted by the Session 26 team (see above).
* The team successfully retrieves one of '''[[Gohei|the Gohei]]''', then uses it's immense power to purify the church of all of its residual blowtessence.
* (Along the way Clem dies when Isabelle attempts to send Clem's soul to '''[[Orbis]]''' after Clem gets severely blowted. But the plan backfires because Clem's soul has already been claimed by another much more powerful faction..See Damning.)
* The team is rewarded a brand new [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]] in Balabag to take their new toy and begin planning their next steps.
=== Session 29: Liberating ===
Session Tags: PC Drama, Devils

Characters: [[Takeshi]], [[Neighbor|Neighbor Craig]], [[Mundy]], [[Tessa]], [[Osric]], [[Sameera]] ''(New!)''

DM: James (9/10/2025)

Important NPCs: Maynard, Maynard's Mom Veronica, Mephix

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Tessa kills Mephix''' but knows an accomplished Slayer Mephix will be back by IRL November (Devils don't die if killed on the mortal plane mundanely)
* Mephix will remember that.
* Tessa, Neighbor, and Takeshi discuss "'''The [[One|7]] High Roads to the Peak'''", a self help book by Alycone Daze
* Neighbor breaks up with Maynard, and the team threatens him to leave "every other woman in this city" alone, he is branded with Twin Snake patterns by Sameera to mark him as a snake.
* They loot his cool vintage katana collection.
* The team hits up the nightclub.

=== Session 30: Bounty-Hunting ===
Session Tags''':''' Ravel, Blowt, DeGaulle, Unravel, PC Drama

Characters''':''' Oswald, Ravii, Kara, Caul Davre [New!], Viralyn Kiyoni [New!], Gaul DeGaulle [New!]

DM: Christina (9/18/2025)

Important NPCs: Jimmy (Unravel knight, now V’s servant), Charlie DeGaulle (Gaul’s father, blacksmith, estranged, hunted by Blowt and the Unravel), Teddy (Charlie’s friend/neighbor), Rosie Pumpernickle (Gnome, Charlie’s lover, wealthy)

XP Gained''':''' 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The group reunites in Ravel during a miserable sleet storm, catching up in Kludzu’s bar. Viralyn claims to be Quimbleton’s long-lost lover.
* Blowt portals erupt outside the bar, unleashing Kara and several Blowt. A vision of the DeGaulle family flashes through his mind before he regains control. The fight is short-lived thanks to Caul’s necromancy, and Kara quickly recovers their mind.
* The party learns Gaul is estranged from his father Charlie, the last in a long line of blacksmiths. Gaul openly wishes his father dead.
* At the DeGaulle smithy, they find it ransacked by Unravel forces. In the basement, the party ambushes soldiers and charms Jimmy the knight into service under Viralyn.
* Jimmy reveals Charlie has been targeted by the Unravel for acquiring a mysterious material called '''Blight Dust''', which can be forged into weapons devastatingly effective against humans.
* Following a hidden exit, the group misses Charlie but encounters Teddy, who points them toward Charlie’s secret lover Rosie. They go to her mansion where more Blowt portals open and the party fights multiple waves, with Caul even taming one as a pet.
* They capture Charlie and Rosie during his attempted escape. Aftewards it is discovered that Charlie branded Gaul (on Gaul's butt) in the past as part of a family blacksmith ritual, granting Gaul the DeGaulle forging legacy.
* Ravii strikes a deal with Charlie: protection in exchange for each party member receiving a '''Blighted Shortsword''' (worth 750 gp).

=== Session 31: Sacking ===
Session Tags: Tusgrer, Blowt, Boss Rush, Gohei

Characters: Cecilia [new!] Dak, [[Enrik]], Fahrlander, [[One|Four]], Kiyoni

DM: James (9/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Dak Jr., Jim Dentured, Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep)

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Everyone wanders into the Manquel Bastion while Mundy is too busy to watch the doors, where a plan is hatched to liberate the town of '''Tusgrer''' from its Blowt problem. There is a bounty out for some sort of Mosquito Blowt, and the team goes in properly armed.
* Fahrlander scouts out the town and finds Blowted townsfolk and blood everywhere, both human and otherwise. The Mosquito sits at the edge of town, and team notes how distended its... sack... is. Using some clever tactics, the heroes bring it down! Until...
* One of the corpses laying about Tusgrer lets loose a burst of Bhearah energy, and the Mosquito reappears! The heroes combat both the Blowted townsfolk and the mosquito, having to slay it an additional five times. Enrik deals the final blow while using the Gohei to kill the body of the Mosquito while the Blowt-soul inhabiting it flies away, taking the form of a frost giant!
* With combat resolved, the heroes take stock. The worst news is that Tusgrer's population is now ''zero''. Also, a new Blowthole exists, due to the strange nodes of energy that the mosquito unleashed stitching together and opening the portal. The only silver lining is that this Blowthole is easily accessible and unguarded, compared to the madness in Ravel and on the ice field. Another '''Gohei''' is looted off the dead samurai from which the Mosquito, and Enrik uses the Gohei he brought for Balabag to save the frost giant's spectral form. Dak realizes that a '''Blowted Xilas LaCroix''' is probably still alive and waiting....

=== Session 32: Looting ===
Session Tags: Dungeon Crawl, Blowt, Emotional Support

Characters: Freida, Faren, En, Jollyfist, Ben, Red, Thimbol

DM: James (9/21/2025)

Important NPCs: Breakwater, Sven (Frederic, Gio mentioned in support group), Farmer Lyle as always.

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 33: Blowting ===
Session Tags: Orbis, Balabag, Blowt,

Characters: [[Thimbol Goldbone]], [[Farmer Lyle]], [[Semeera]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Isabelle]], [[Clementine]], [[Viralyn Kiyoni|Kiyoni]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Cecil Alaxorsa]],

DM: James (9/27/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened
* Thimbol wakes in the subsoil air following a [[Blowt]] attack on the Balabag Bastion, surrounded by The Eyes. Thimbol had taken a psychic attack to save Farmer Lyle offscreen and died in his arms. Though The Eyes tempt him with the posiblity of returning to Quelmar as a Blowt, Thimbol passes into Garl Glittergold's holy afterlife for gnomes--his life's work of creating and passing on an LLC completed, and his soul at peace knowing that wether that business succeeds or fails, the will of the market will be done.
* This ascension into the afterlife is witnessed by [[Clover Softpaw]], stranded in the subsoil air following the events of Session 27. As she returns to the Orbis Bastion, [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]] encounters [[Semeera]], transported between worlds through the power of dreams, and the lingering Blowt influence from Session 29. After a brief conversation, Clover brings Semeera back to the Orbis Bastion where they encounter Quimbleton Fiddleford who has recently completed the bastion's teleportation circle. Quimbleton introduces himself and greets the pair with alarming news. Although previously non-functional, the Teleportation circle suddenly began to pulse with magical energy before the two's arrival.
* There's a knock at the door, and [[Isabelle]] joins the party--tasked by the [[Bhéara]] with bringing a special contract to the house. At which point the portal flares to life and out steps Mephix. Over the questions and protests of [[Quimbleton]] and [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]], [[Isabelle]] hands the contract to Mephix, who releases a small birdcage containing the soul of [[Clementine]] before disappearing.
* After [[Quimbleton]] creates a paper doll for [[Clementine|Clem's]] soul to inhabit, the party returns to the surface world, promising Isabelle to help the Bhéara's mission of tracking down a certain member of the Kiyoni family in Balabag. They are to kill the Kiyoni Elder, and destroy their prize phoenix egg to sate the Bhéara.
* The group portals directly into the Balabag bastion, disturbing the conversation of Cecil, Viralyn Kiyoni, [[Semeera]], and [[Farmer Lyle|Lyle]]--with the two parties nearly coming to blows. An elder member of the Kiyoni family--the target--comes to the house, introduces himself, and hands the group the egg, tasking them with getting the egg out of Osugbo. After some conversation about the family's history aiding [[Troverth Dynasty|Troverth]] in the [[Realm War I|Realm War]] (and a crossover conversation between [[Parkelca|Parkelca2]]'s 2 PCs), the Elder Kiyoni provides the group with money, hands over the egg, and makes plans for dinner with Cecil later in the week--although Viralyn strikes a bargain with Isabelle to kill her kinsman later in the night to satisfy Bhéra's will.
* Egg in hand, the group attempts to leave Balabag for Ravel after finding a mannequin for Clem's soul to posses, but are ~immediately~ ambushed by Blowt. In the ensuing brawl, Farmer Lyle reveals that he holds ''The Monocle of Flesh Manipulation,'' Isabelle tries to communicate with the Blowt that they need to work with the surface dwellers to reach their afterlife by unmasking her veil, and in a desperate moment, Clem possesses the phoenix egg--hatching out of it as a 6-month old phoenix-folk infant.
* Because the egg has been hatched and the Elder Kiyoni killed (though under mysterious circumstances outside Viralyn's doing), the Bhéra is satisfied. The Blowt attacking the group depart--content in the fact that Kiyoni's long-held beastfolk ancestry has finally been brought to light, and one of the family's elders has been punished for his sins.
* In the aftermath, as the group prepares to go their separate ways, Quimbleton tells Isabelle that seeing a (to his knowledge) peaceful resolution in the conflict with the Blowt has convinced him to spread the word of her mission to have a more open perspective in Ravel's dealings with the Blowt. As she returns to the otherworld, he sends with her a note for remaining members of the Orbis bastion, telling them where he and Clover have gone, and that they'll return soon.

== Act 3 ==
[[Category:Fantasial Freeze]]

The Fantasial Freeze/The Story So Far

2025-09-28T03:34:30Z

Parkelca2: /* Session 33: Blowting */

== Prologue ==

=== Session 0: The First Night ===
[[Session]] Tags: Survival

Characters: Adebimpe, Mr. Putney, Rosamund, Kara, Savile, Quimbleton [All NEW!]

DM: [[James]] (12/5/2024)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Bidwell

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Players left the city of [[Ravel]] onboard the '''SS Exodus''' after taking on a small contract to work the ship on its voyage south towards [[Galik]] in [[Amusa]].
* We learned that Whales are elusive around [[Osugbo]] and that some sailors believe that '''Birds ward off Whales'''.
* After meeting and making rough acquaintance, the captain invited the crew to the '''Captain's dinner''', where they were told to protect the precious and dangerous-sounding cargo which lived in a lock carriage on the deck.
* After hearing that a possible [[whale]] was nearby, Mr. Putney hesitantly left dinner and got some fresh air, getting a first row seat to the beginning of the [[Arctic Autumn]] as a mysterious force on the horizon seemed to zoom by, freezing the ocean water in its wake.
* When the ice reached the ship, the jostle nearly killed the lowly (Level 1) crew, but after getting their bearings, the team left the cabin and were shocked to see the dangerous creature...a [[Dire Turkey|dire turkey]]...had been thrown off the ship and was scrambling quickly away into the frozen sunset.
* Getting onto the Exodus' dinghy, the team took off into the night, kept safe and warm by Kara's fire-bending elementalist powers.
* Avoiding a near-death collision with '''pirates''' (whose cover was blown when Rosamund's [[mystic]] powers revealed their emotions and thoughts), the team sailed into the next day, freezing and huddled around a precarious fire on the dinghy.
* Finally catching up to the sleeping turkey, the team's [[Aarakocra]] tried some bird-like rituals to coax the [[beast]] back, but instead imitated a challenge to the alpha Turkey. In the quick brawl that ensued, Rosamund was nearly killed, but quick thinking from Kara, Putney, and Quimbleton put the bird into an exhausted state, ready to return back.
* Once they returned the bird, the team learned that there would be no voyage to Galik...indeed, the realm had frozen over, and a strange winter had begun: '''A Fantasial Freeze'''.

=== Session 1: Cold Feet ===
Session Tags: Survival, [[Onomancy]], Boss Battle, [[Blowt|Blowted]]

Characters: Adebimpe, Eltolinde, Luv, Clover, Lairus, Jaxzo'Ilan [All NEW!]

DM: James (1/3/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Nhart]], [[Otto Bremer]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Working and staying at a shelter in [[Ravel]] to stay away from the cold, the heroes are imposed upon by a group of '''thugs''' who were looking to take blankets to stay warm from the arctic conditions outside.
* After [[Luv]] paid the thugs off, the team convened at a local '''Quest Board''', noting a few of the crazy things happening in town at the moment, including:
** A bone dealer named '''[[Otto]] Bremer''' who wanted whale bones
** A baker whose fires seem to be magically extinguished by an '''unknown force'''
** A citizen who gets the uncanny feeling they are being watched via '''Elemental Scrying'''
** Reports of a vision from the '''Onomancer's Guild''' of a '''Kaiju-Sized Penguin'''
** Worries from citizens about local tortle '''Captain Kronch'''
** Several notices about '''Pirates''' in the region.
* Eventually the team settled on investigating the mysterious penguin vision, and went to the '''Onomancer's Guild''' where they met with '''Nhart''', an onomancer who showed them his visions: A massive penguin breaking through the ice sheets of the ocean, sending locals fleeing in fear, while '''an unknown group of 6''' stand vigilantly opposed to it.
* The team got along well with the Onomancers, though team Mystic [[Laris|Lairus]] was highly suspicious, going with the popular thought that Onomancy is an "invasive" form of mind magic that shouldn't be practiced.
* After being given rations and a warm place to sleep that night, the team awoke refreshed and ready to hit the road. However, once they reached the city's frozen harbor piers, they ALSO caught the glimpse of '''Something Large, Monstrous, and Whale-Shaped''', lurking in a back alley.
* As one of the team members was [[Clover]], an infamous monster slayer, an order was given and the team pursued the beast. Eventually it gave an ominous warning to [[Adebimpe]] via telepathy: "You all will pay for the sins of the past". Which was enough reason to go ahead and fully kill the beast in an epic battle across Ravel city rooftops and parks.
* Once the beast was slain and the team totally exhausted, it was decided to backtrack and instead sell this '''Whale-Shaped''' corpse to '''Otto Bremer''', the whale bone dealer, who rewarded the team with a '''Magic Swimming Ring of the Princes''', and '''A Portrait of a Spoon.'''

=== Session 2: Burnale & Whale ===
Session Tags: Bastion, [[Blowt|Blowted]], Wilds, Burnale

Characters: [[Eltolinde]], Luv, Clover, Jaxzo'Ilan, [[Quimbleton]], [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]] [New!]

DM: James (2/10/2025)

Important NPCs: The [[Burnale]] Clan, [[Otto Bremer]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Jaxzo'Ilan''' lost control again and nearly killed Quimbleton in the dark streets of '''Stalled-For-Thyme''', the merchant's district of Ravel (Quimbleton having another Absinthe inspired late night conversation with a lampost)
* The team is attacked by a '''Dragonfly Blowt''' in the streets, forcing everyone to seek shelter nearby, where they notice the piling up problems in Ravel on the bulletin board.
* As much of the group had helped '''Otto Bremer''' before, they decided to assist him in another mission, delivering '''Bone Flutes''' carved from the bones of the Whale Blowt they had previously slain.
* While taking the bones to '''[[Manquel]],''' the team was nearly ambushed in the night by members of the [[Burnale Clan]] who were looking to loot them. In an inspired move, the team instead decided to challenge the Burnale to a '''drinking contest''', using Quimbleton's Absinthe as the drink of choice.
* Having built up a tolerance (or otherwise using magic) the team was able to stay on their feet longer than the Burnale leader, allowing them to loot his body instead. Eltolinde claiming roughly 100 GP worth of gold in doing so.
* Before arriving in '''Manquel''', the team receives a message from the city (delivered by a freezing Jaxzo'Ilan) that the '''Flutes may be cursed.''' The team attempts to confirm if they're cursed by...playing the flute. By doing so, the massive and deep tones of a whale burst over the countryside, unknowingly summoning any nearby Blowt to the area.
* In Manquel, it appears the town was '''recently under attack by a Blowt''' summoned to the area (I wonder by who???), but the team fights hard to trap the blowt in its own mind through Luv's mental magics. Once it was trapped, it was a trivial matter of ending it.
* To avoid having to now deliver the flutes to the townsfolk and further cursing people, the team decides to instead pay the city merchant the full value of the flutes (roughly 80 GP), which he seems happy with.
* With the Whale defeated and the mission finished, the team begins to set up a headquarters, a [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]], in Manquel.

=== Session 3: Blood on the Ice ===
Session Tags: Boss Battle, [[Blowt|Blowted]], [[The Unravel]], Escort

Characters: Adebimpe, Lairus, [[Sevile]], [[Kara]][[Asimi|, Asimi]] [New!], [[Cavii Kero]] [New!]

DM: James (2/16/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Aiken]], [[Mayor Berry]], [[Captain Cronch]], [[Breakwater]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* In a town meeting at '''The Kaleidoscope''' (the city's center), it is revealed that more Blowt attacks have been happening, and the city guards are not enough to protect the people in the streets.
* After some "negotiation" from '''Kara''' and '''Savile, a''' deal is brought to the table in which the city's Thieves' Guild, [[The Unravel]], would pad the city's forces and patrol at night. However there would be a team up: 1 guard for every [[Thief]], to ensure accountability.
* With the meeting adjourned, the team decided to investigate the poor tortle Captain Cronch who had been frozen for at least a week, and who had people so worried about him that they were posting for help on the notice boards of the city.
* On the way to Cronch, the team encountered a massive '''Squall''' which nearly destroyed their ability to survive the cold, if it weren't for '''Kara's''' firebending abilities. Surviving the blizzard, the group encounters '''Breakwater''', a bright eyed Grung in the region, they give him a coat and send him to safety.
* Arriving at Cronch's cabin, the crew find that Breakwater had buried Cronch in a "Burial Mound", after evacuating Cronch from his burial mound (don't worry he was just hibernating), it would open up into a portal to ''another world,'' through which a massive turtle-like blowt would emerge.
* After nearly TPK'ing to the turtle (in part thanks to Asimi's uneducated use of Cronch's staff [[Rumblewood]]) they would be able to push the turtle back into the portal and close it for good, saving Cronch's life and taking him back to [[Ravel]] for a more permanent safety.

=== Session 4: Are we the Balabaddies? ===

Session Tags: Exploration, Balabag, Survival, Lush Pocket

Characters: [[Savile]], [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Quimbleton]], Silent Wind [New!], [[Fridtjof]] [New!]

DM: James (2/28/2025)

Important NPCs: Balabag's Heroes ([[Thaddeus]], Tim the Aarokocra, ??? the Goliath, ??? the [[Kitsune]]), Fergus the Manquel Merchant

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Having set up the [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Manquel Bastion]], Jaxzo'Ilan begins to employ the Barracks with other heroes of the realm, recruiting a '''Goliath''' and an '''Aarakocra''' who were taking shelter in the area to help in saving the world.
** The Goliath has daddy issues, and struggles in his nightmares.
* After others arrive in from Ravel, a team of 6 is founded, and the decision is made that since Manquel is already in land, they're in the perfect position to search for the rumored "'''Lush Pocket'''" that Ravel was hunting down.
* Thanks to the insane survival abilities of [[[Paul]]'s Goliath], Silent Wind, and Jaxzo combined, they were able to find the Lush Pocket in record time, stumbling upon a warm spot after only 3 hours of trudging through the snow.
* After discovering that the '''[https://news.umich.edu/tropical-rain-forest-thrived-throughout-last-ice-age/ Lush Pocket thrived due to a greenhouse effect on the lowlands]''' (scientifically backed!), the team snuck down, only to discover that the Lush Pocket had already been claimed by '''Rival [[Adventurers]]''' hailing from the city of [[Balabag]]
* The leader of these rivals was revealed to be '''Thaddeus''' of the '''Drycræft Drifan School of Magicks''', a rival school to Quimbleton's '''Xerneiros'''.
* ''When Quimbleton realized that the valley was south of the [[Balabar River|'''Balabar River''']], and that due to the geopolitical fallout of [[The Cavalry Rush]], this particular pocket has every right to be claimed by [[Ravel]] and NOT by Balabag, which exists on the north side of the river. However, once he began to elucidate the historical and political reasons why Balabag should give up its claim on the land, the rival adventurers figured it was going to be a better idea to just fight off our intruding heroes.''
* After an epic waterside combat (and the death of half of the enemy team) the Balabag heroes forfeited, offering themselves up to be arrested and taken back to Ravel or Balabag.
** This included Tim the Aarakocra, as well as an unnamed Kitsune and Goliath.
* [[Jaxzo'Ilan]] lost control again and once again needed to be talked down by her friends.
* The heroes were rewarded in gold, and political machinations were set into action.
=== Session 5: End of the Rime ===
Session Tags: Amaun, [[Blowt]]

Characters: [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven,]] [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Lairus]], [[Kara]], [[Eltolinde]], [[Quimbleton]]

DM: James (3/12/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Professor Alfonz Mordecai, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* An appearance of the followers of [[Amaun]], said to have been apotheosized from the freezing citizens of Ravel to wards off the cold, move into the Fresna (the Outer District of Ravel)
* Narrowly saving Farmer Lyle's farm by using mysticisim against the minds of Amaun's believers, it is discovered that among their ranks is '''Serg,''' a former lover of [[Dark Silvio]].
* They interrogate Serg and discover the Amaun forces believe that Amaun's flames cleanse an area of the perpetual cold, and they were trying to bring life back to the frozen farmlands, almost destroying the entire crop of '''Sour Lingenberries''' growing there.
* Farmer Lyle thanks them by giving them a pig, named Turkey Bacon, who now belongs to [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]]
* Worse for wear, the group travels into the city for warmth and shelter at Cavii's [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|bastion]], where they meet 6 unique NPCs who have been staying there as shelter from the storm
** Pierre Robes, local tailor
** Ennui, a mysterious tielfing
** Hermis Rangina, a [[minotaur]]
** Alfonz Mordecai, a [[kenku]] professor from the [[University of Xyrneiros]]
** Althia Arcanethia, a scholar elf
** Zugon [[Montane]], a fisherman
* Althia and Quimbleton take a moment to go over what the scholars have determined about the "Blowt", which includes references to something called the '''[[Subsoil Air]],''' and rumors that the Blowt are coming from either under the frozen ocean, or from under the now-barren continental shelf
* After taking on a mission to take down pirates on the Ice, the group of heroes PLUS Althia and Mordecai head out on the ice. Mordecai goes because he's a healer, Althia goes because she's researching the ice and the possible Blowt under it.
* On their way out on the ice they encounter a '''Carrion Crawler''' which had devoured a group of Merfolk.
* Finally arriving at the pirate's stronghold, a series of ice structured erected on the ocean's ice (and a number of ships that go with it), the group takes out the pirates AND the spies. claiming the gems and rewards left there, and claiming the bounty in the name of the Xeo Family of Ravel.

== Act 1: [[The Arctic Autumn]] ==

=== Session 6: Unraveled ===
Session Tags: [[The Unravel]]

Characters: [[Savile]], [[Luv]], [[Silent Wind]], [[Yoko]] [New!], [[Sven]] [New!], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]] [New!]

DM: James (3/15/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Peatro, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* A group of good Samaritans (New PCs Yoko, Sven, and Red), working together to clear snow on the streets of Ravel after a recent squall discover that Farmer Lyle has been sheltering in the historic district, which is now known as [James look this up again, it's the petroglyph one].
* The house, which was located on the riverbank, then collapsed down into the bank, crumbling the structures and sending everyone down under a massive avalanche of soil and wood.
* When the dust clears, the group finds that under the riverbank was a portion of [[The Unravel]].
* Shortly aftewards, two heroes dive into the avalanche to pull out any survivors, they themselves becoming trapped. The confused and anxious group, stuck in what appears to be a dungeon of a hideout, find their way to the next room where Silent Wind is interrogating Ennui.
* Ennui is left underground in the Ravel
* [[Luv]] finds the blankets that have been stolen from shelters around Ravel
* [[Sven]] contracts wendigo disease from a [[Wendigo]], and immolates himself to save the rest of the team from being turned, and to save himself from having to become a monster. His final words: ''"Head to [[Schmetalton]], look for my identical twin brother, [[Ben]]"''

=== Session 7: Schmedled ===
Session Tags: Schmetalton

Characters: [[Oswald]] [New!], [[Takeshi]] [New!], [[Kludzu]] [New!], [[Tessa Night|Tessa]] [New!], [[Adebimpe]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]]

DM: James (3/28/2025)

Important NPCs: Farmer Lyle, Peatro, Ennui, Althia, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Welcome to [[Schmetalton|Schmedleton]], home to a unique monestary, which was previously the church of Sven and Ben (see Session 6)
* [[Oswald]] contracts Wendigo disease, and it's learned that the disease can be stopped before it takes hold if the diseased gets ahold of some '''Grey UmaOrchid'''
* The team fights a '''[[Wendigo]]''' '''Bear'''
* Jaxzo comes face to face with [[Xilas LaCroix]] for the first time.

=== Session 8: Onomanced ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]] (Now '''Six'''), [[Kara]], [[Luv]], [[Clementine]] [New!], [[Savile]], [[Tessa]]

DM: James (4/6/2025)

Important NPCs: Peatro

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* [[Tessa]] arrives in Ravel, looking for the [[LaCroix]] estate and clues to where the vampiric [[Xilas LaCroix]] may have escaped off to.
* [[Peatro]] gives in to his wendigo disease, with no cure found in the area yet. Those present during his transformation fight '''Wendigo Peatro''' within he C3, using successful team tactics.
* Luv finally comes full circle from session 1, finishing the mission their original team set out to do, but far too late.
* The team fights a '''[[Wendigo]] [[Blowt]]'''
* [[Clementine]] learns to [[Onomancy|read names]]. By deciphering a piece of poetry, they are rewarded with a magical crust of bread.

=== Session 9: Waddled ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Frieda]] [New!], [[Neighbor]] [New!], [[Fridtjof]], [[Yoko]], [[Takeshi]], [[Cavii Kero]]

DM: James (4/12/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* We find [[Webber]] the [[Kaiju Penguin]]
* The team fights a '''Blizzard Eel'''
* We encounter [[Garl Glittergold|Glittergold]]'s [[White Horse]] 🐎
* Frieda discovers a lost Manatee who she then names '''Freya'''.

=== Session 10: Towered ===
Session Tags: Defense, Sneakery, Amaun, LaCroix

Characters: [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Six]], [[Ben]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], [[Kludzu]], [[Clementine]]

DM: James (4/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Aiken, Bartlett, Kiun Xeo, Vindrix LaCriox, some really cool dogs

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Six is captured by the '''Unravel''' on suspicion of leading the [[Amaun]] [[cult]]. Teir evidence includes his fiery sword, his mysterious nature and convenient inability to recall where he's been or who he is, and his ever-burning branch (gifted by Kara). During questioning, Aiken recognizes a magical geas has been placed upon Six.
* Six is almost beaten to death, but the interrogation is interrupted by [[Clementine]], who mistook a posting looking for thug support as one looking for artists and performers.
* Recognizing Six, Clem and others present (including a late arrival Ben) calm the room after a brief skirmish, and the Unravel are convinced Seven is innocent, and that in fact it is '''Dark Silvio''' who is behind everything. They take Dark Silvio and leave.
* Licking their wounds, the group reconvenes in safety elsewhere, eventually deciding to band together and take a quest looking for protection at the Xeo Estate in the city.
* The team learns Kiun Xeo's life after the LaCroix family in town appear to have a bounty placed on his head. Along with Xeo's two golems, the team takes up defensive positions for the night. [[Xilas LaCroix|Xilas]] sends waves of dhampir and vampire spawn to ensure Kiun is dealt with properly. Several team members are injured or paralyzed, and Kludzu is downed.
* In the midst of the fighting, Red scurries to a quiet corner of the Xeo mansion and unlocks a secret door. They discover that the Xeo family are worshippers of the [[Amaun]] fire cult and have been funding the group's activities! Red makes off with the sacred text the Xeos have hidden in their mansion, later turning it over to Six.
* After the sun rises, Kiun treats the heroes to breakfast. It's a trap! Vindrix LaCroix, the son of Xilas, ambushes the party in the dining room with his boli familiar. Another fight ensues, and things are tense, but the group does slay the vampire.
* Kiun, now fearing extra for his life, pleads with the heroes to escort him to safety. Six allows Xeo and his golems to hide out to the '''Manquel''' Bastion, and the party resolves to keep an eye out, knowing the fire cult will be taking up residence in the abandoned building.

=== Session 11: Crossed ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Tessa Night]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Mundi]] [New!], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Adebimpe]]

DM: James (4/27/2025)

Important NPCs: Xilas LaCroix, [[Cecil]], the Bolis!

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The gang meets in [[Kludzu#The Brass Eye|The Brass Eye]], a tavern operated by PC [[Kludzu]] (who isn't present at the moment).
* While there and discussing their plans to take down [[Xilas LaCroix]], the gang is overheard by "Mundi", a well spoken, vaguely british, fine dressed Choeru warrior. He claims to also have "beef" with the LaCroix, and promises the team a secret entrance through which they can ambush the LaCroix palace.
* The gang argues for a while on best practices, and various battle strategies to get ready for their infiltration, including some very wise invisibility spells.
* ...It was a trap. Once they're at the back door, "Mundi" gives the secret knock, and a teleportation [[rune]] trigger, taking everyone in the vicinity, visible or not, to a waterlogged dungeon where [[Boli]] await to torture and suck the blood of the victims.
* Xilas is there, briefly, but only to attempt to turn the players against each other, which he fails to do. However, he then sends the REAL '''Mundi''' against the team, who is a powerful hulking [[barbarian]] of a capybarafolk, and NOTHING like the Mundi they thought they found, who was in fact a braggart of a [[vampire]] spawn named "Cecil".
* Within the same dungeon there also sat a captured gnome by the name of [[Ipanam]]. Originally known for his wonderful music, he now was being mind controlled to try and fight the party. Once the fight is over, he is recruited as another of Luv's henchmen.
* The team fights hard, takes out the Boli, and even kills Cecil along the way, but once again fails to secure Xilas. Thinking themselves alone, they begin to plot a plan in which Luv will impersonate and take over the LaCroix estate here in Ravel...but realize too late their precious plans were already overheard by Xilas, who now instills paranoia to all of them.

=== Session 12: Smithed ===
Session Tags: [[The Unravel]]

Characters: [[Kara]], [[Savile]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Clementine]], [[Luv]], Denaria [New!]

DM: James (5/4/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Glarf, Breakwater, Nhart, Pierre Robes

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Dark Silvio''' narrowly escapes his encagement in the '''Unravel''', being chased by a number of Unravel members. Member [[Kara|Karasu]] corners him and talks him into smuggling away to a safe corner of the Unravel where he can hide out in peace until it is time to return with [[Seven (Fantasial Freeze)|Seven]]. New Unravel member '''Denaria''' is also there.
* After Kara finds out '''Someone has also put a bounty on her head''' she goes to the C3 to start an investigation.
* While there, she bumps into '''Clementine,''' as well as C3 residents '''Quimbleton, Savile,''' and '''Luv,''' who are working on making a delicious stew as well as understanding the '''Mysteries of the Magic Bread'''. It is determined that it IS infinite food, but not very quick infinite food, nor is it long lasting once removed from its breadbox.
* '''Denaria''' also stumbles in, and after brief tensions with Luv, who mistakes her as another Unravel member looking to collect a bounty, accepts Denaria. Together the 6 of them now look for some work to bring in money and more food for themselves.
* They settle on accepting a Bounty Mission placed on a mysterious creature known as '''The Firefly''', after '''Denaria''' leads a tracking expedition, the Firefly is found stealing from a market late at night.
* Using a combination of Quimbleton's Sleep spell, Denaria's grappling hook, and Savile's net, the group captures the Firefly, only to realize that it is...(cue dramatic music)...'''Captain Crezzerin from Session 1!'''
* Deciding not to take Crezzerin in, the team learns why Crezzerin got the bounty on her, and why'd she'd been stealing so much. It turns out nobody was helping her procure the materials and goods she needed for her Ship-Repair project, so she put together teams of thieves from other forgotten and outcast persons.
* When the players revealed they had a combination of ''Muscle, Brains, and Blacksmithing knowledge''',''''' (plus Clementine's Bardic inspiration to set the pace of the forging), they took matters into their own hands, crafting and forging everything that Crezzerin needed instead of stealing it from others.
* With the forging done, and the ship repaired, the team was able to rechristen '''The Arctic Express''' (legally distinct from the Polar Express), and sent Crezzerin and her team on their way as they began to test out the new ship: one with the ability to finally traverse the frosty wastelands.

=== Session 13: Veiled ===
Session Tags: [[Blowt]], Lore, Personal Mission

Characters: [[Ben]], [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Fären]], Ramad, [[One|Six]], Yoko

DM: James (5/10/2025)

Important NPCs: Thesaurus

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Yoko is assisting in handing out food to citizens of Ravel in the Rolling Spools tavern. Ramad, Fären, and Ben are part of the long line that has formed, as stores for the city are running low.
* Six arrives with his new henchman, '''Inflammable Kevin''', as the crowd is dispersing. He turns to assist a lone woman who is licking the crumbs off her fingers, and she turns into a '''wendigo''' before his eyes, sparking a fight.
* The transformed '''wendigo''' downs Fären and transmits the wendigo disease to Yoko before being slain. Six grabs Fären's body and runs toward the C3, just across the frozen river that winds through Ravel.
* Cavii hears Six's cries and meets the heroes halfway, deftly reviving Fären and Yoko with Ramad's help, notably '''curing a PC of the wendigo disease''' for the first time in the campaign. Fären comes to in Six's arms, startled at the reality of being saved by a human male.
* Six reveals an anonymous note showing that '''Balabag''' has poisoned the rations that were to be dispersed amongst the townsfolk with wendigo disease, and that the '''Balabag army''' sits just outside of '''Manquel''', demanding housing for its soldiers as they move to fight against Ravel. Many '''wendigo''' are now loose on the city streets, and many quests are incapable of advancing until the scourge is dealt with. Six pens a letter calling for '''troops to fight the Balabag army''', and posts it on many bulletin boards.
* Yoko and Fären both report seeing the image of a skeletal frost giant, calling for Cavii, while they were downed.
* The heroes reconvene in the C3, where Cavii outlines the plan for piercing through the '''Veil''', where downed characters exist in moments close to death, recounting a wall of eyes calling for Cavii himself. The process involves bloodletting the heroes in a safe space (the C3), then exploring the Veil together. Cavii and Ramad offer to watch the others with healing potions at the ready, as Inflammable Kevin guards the door from interlopers.
* Fären, Ben, Yoko, and Six descend into the Veil. They quickly realize they are separated and have to deal with their own personal antagonists. There are siblings aplenty, as Fären is forced to confront his brother, '''Lycidas''', and Yoko fights his brother, Mujyo. Ben reunites with his brother '''Sven''', who has passed on, as well as '''Gustafar''', his step-brother now armed with dark eldritch magic. Six is transported to a space alone, but for a set of ghostly hands reaching down.
* Six calls the skeletal frost giant, bringing it into the Veil near the heroes, then alerts Cavii that their presence is necessary. Cavii descends into the Veil and meets the spirit of his own brother '''Ravii''', who rests on the frost giant's shoulder. The giant is introduced as '''Thesaurus''', who appears to be the master of this place. Thesaurus is calling not for Cavii but for something called the "Cailleach [[Bhéara]]", which Ravii mishears as "capybara".
* Combat ensues within the Veil; Cavii and Fären are defeated by Thesaurus and Lycidas, while Yoko reaches a kind of truce with Mujyo. Ben and Sven work together to defeat Gustafar, and Ben gains some closure over his twin's death. Six pulls down one of the hands within his space and meets Seven, another soul inhabiting his body. Six and Seven have a long, comforting chat, and Seven convinces Six to rest for a while and "let someone else take over."
* Cavii is defeated by Thesaurus, and in Quelmar, they start to die in their bed. The presence of death summons a '''Blowt''', who downs Inflammable Kevin with one blow, and who Ramad skillfully avoids through magical means. Six reincarnates as Five, poetically incinerating Kevin's corpse (he was inflammable) and defeating the Blowt. The rest of the crew are stabilized and brought back to life, their journey to the Veil filled with more questions and few answers.

=== Session 14: Crowned ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Kara]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Tessa Night]], [[Annabelle]] [New!]

DM: James (5/21/2025)

Important NPCs: [[X (The Paladin)]], Unnamed Amaun Cult leader

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 15: Blowted ===
Session Tags:

Characters: Takeshi, [[Kludzu]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], [[Neighbor Craig]], [[Thimbal|Thimbol]] [New!], [[Gale]] [New!]

DM: James (5/29/2025)

Important NPCs: [[Farmer Lyle]], Jenny Jangles, a Blowt named Uct, Bartlett

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 16: Chased ===
<blockquote>This session was a crossover game with [[Ancients Alive]] and [[System Agnostic]] campaigns!</blockquote>Session Tags:

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Kara]], [[Lairus]] (Guest Featuring: [[Maverick]], [[Edna]], [[System Agnostic/Episode 3.3: System Error|Nuria]])

DM: James (6/1/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* [Cue sitcom guest appearance applause] [[Edna]] and [[Maverick]] stop by [[Ancients Alive]] to assist in hunting down the Paladin
* Clementine and the Paladin steal passing glances and awkward story swapping as she tries to get a better idea of who he is, for better or for worse.
* Nuria is there too!
* Clementine tried to steal the wand from the Paladin and fails
* The entire mountainside is collapses in an avalanche onto the players, nearly killing everyone, who try desperately through magic and might to stay afloat while the Paladin assaults them.
* '''Lairus dies''' by throwing herself between Jaxzo and the Paladin, tanking the hits and letting Jaxzo escape.
* Peatro was re-discovered, having somehow reincarnated as a strange '''Blowt'''
* The Paladin gets away and flees north, searching for the great powers in '''the Quiet North'''

=== Session 17: Casted ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Intrigue, Magic

Characters: [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Cavii Kero]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Oswald]], [[Fären]], [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]]

DM: James (6/7/2025)

Important NPCs: Driklar the Alchemist, Mayor Barry,

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Sandbox magic adventure!
* [[Quimbleton]] invented a spell of "Mass Create Sorghum"
* [[Clover Softpaw|Clover]] gained a Phoenix spirit familiar.
* [[Cavii Kero]] gained the ability to control weather.
* [[Oswald]] gained the ability to doff an enemy's clothing or armor.
* '''The team restored 6 powerful artifacts used in an ancient war''', in theory for Ravel to use against an approaching Balabag.
* [[Fären]] stole one of the 6 artifacts (Artifact of Flesh Manipulation) and disappeared into the cold and dark night.

=== Session 18: Ambushed ===
Session Tags:

Characters: [[Gale]], [[Clover Softpaw]], [[Oswald|Oswald,]] [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Sven]], [[Tessa Night]]

DM: James (6/17/2025)

Important NPCs: NOT Xilas LaCroix

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Another important meeting in the [[Brass Eye]] (Kludzu's tavern) leads to another attempt to take down LaCroix (though the team is momentarily suspicious of Oswald, who is yet another powerful looking Capybara who has intel)
* After much deliberation, this team decided ultimately to use their opportunity to barge into the LaCroix manor in Ravel right through the front door.
* LaCroix was not home, and was in fact expecting them to confront him via the trap door that he had previously trapped many of them by.
* Instead, a small group of Boli as well as two [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Meazel Meazels] who were still guarding the interior ambushed the intruders.
* While a great fight was had, LaCroix was no where to be seen, and eventually the team had to burn some of their faction points with Ravel to talk their way out of being arrested for B&E.

=== Session 19: Damned ===
Session Tags: Travel, Blowt, Magic, The Hole (new!)

Characters: Asimi, [[Clementine]], [[One|Five]], Mundy, [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]], [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]

DM: James (6/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Crezzerin, Glarf, Breakwater, Maynard

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The session starts in the '''Manquel Bastion''', where remnants of the Balabag army, greatly diminished due to cold and hunger, is attacking. All three soldiers are quickly talked down and offered food and shelter by Mundy, Asimi, and Five.
* Ramad takes a moment to catch up with '''Kiun Xeo''', who has been holed up in the Bastion to avoid death by LaCroix. They chat briefly about the fire cult of Amaun.
* A haunted and defeated Clementine arrives in Manquel later that evening. She informs the group of [[X (The Paladin)|The Paladin]]'s involvement in the Freeze, Peatro's resurrection, and other important events from Episode 14. The group are shocked that the Freeze could potentially be ending in three weeks' time.
* The group returns to Ravel, where they catch up with '''Captain Crezzerin''', who has constructed the '''Arctic Express''', a ship outfitted to plow through the ice and snow. The heroes reconnect with several NPCs from past sessions who form Crezzerin's current crew, such as '''Glarf''', '''Breakwater''', '''Pierre Robes''', and '''Maynard.''' The group agrees to Crezzerin's request for bodyguards as they make a four-day journey across the bay to Tuskur.
* The first day is spent in relative quiet, but the second day the ship is beset by a wounded and hungry roc. Asimi is quick to deflect the giant bird's attention with an illusion, but Five is inspired to attack the beast as he wants to impress Clementine. Drawn into combat, the heroes are able to defeat the roc and strip it for meat and feathers. However, Mundy is unable to come out of his berserker rage, and capybara-chest-bumps a badly wounded Five, killing him. Five resurrects again as [[One|Four]], and the heroes puzzle once again over why Four's personality is once again changed.
* The third day passes in relative quiet, but the Arctic Express is approached by a floating ship, crewed by a gang of [[Devil|devils]]. They offer great boons to the heroes, in exchange for as many souls as they are willing to spare. Asimi is quick to hand over '''Maynard's''' soul, and Four offers the soul of one of their henchmen. In the most surprising moment of the day, Clementine offers her own soul to the devils in exchange for an unknown boon. The deal is struck, and the crew moves on.
* The fourth day is marked by the appearance of '''The Hole''', located a half-day's journey from Tusgrer. To stop the Arctic Express from tipping into the Hole, the heroes act quickly to disable the engines and bring the ship to a shuddering crawl. The noise of the ship attracts a '''Kaiju Penguin-Blowt''', which towers over the ship, and several smaller '''Blowt''' follow in its wake. The outmatched heroes quickly start the engines up again, turning the ship and escaping, although both Asimi and Glarf are downed by a single flap of the '''Kaiju Penguin-Blow'''<nowiki/>'''t''''s flippers. The Arctic Express arrives at its destination, and everyone breathes a big sigh of relief.

== Act 2 ==

=== Session 20: Unleashing ===
<blockquote>This session was a crossover game with [[Ancients Alive]] and [[System Agnostic]] campaigns!</blockquote>Session Tags: Travel, Magic, Horror, The Quiet North, Necromancy

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Kara]], [[Savile]], [[Quimbleton|Quimbleton Fiddleford]] (Guest Featuring: [[Rowan Buckman|Rowan]], [[Blumenthal]], [[Wielder-of-Karavox]], [[Arlow]])

DM: James (6/29/2024, [[QuelmarCon 2025]])

Important NPCs: [[Touse]], [[Bhéara]]

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

While all characters in the freeze have access to the following summary in the form of rumors around Ravel, greater details can be found by reading [[Quimbleton's expedition notes]] in the C3.

[[Luv]], [[Savile]], and [[Quimbleton]] started an expedition north looking for [[Kara]] who was hot on the trail of [[X (The Paladin)|The Paladin]]. By the time they all met up in [[Dolmvay]], the party had been joined by a sorceror named [[Rowan Buckman|Rowan]] and an alchemist named [[Blumenthal]] who claimed to be part of a party which slew [[X (The Paladin)|the Paladin]]--the one who caused [[The Arctic Autumn|the freeze]]--some time earlier. However, [[The Arctic Autumn|the freeze]] was still strong in the north, and the party set out to find the source of the cold in [[Paraska Manor|a mansion to the north]]--along the way meeting a batfolk named '''Wielder''' who carried [[Karavox|some kind of magical axe]].

While the exact details of what happened in the house have been somewhat distorted, what is clear is that the party found an incredibly powerful and malevolent presence within, and were completely routed--limping wordlessly back into town. Some claim that the force inside the building had something to do with vivid and disturbing paintings that acted as portals to other worlds, some spoke of a powerful but sinister coven of necromancers operating from inside the house, and still others whispered of a towering monster made of brass, wax, and fire with claws like butcher knives.

In any case, the stories and rumors all tend to share three core truths--some kind of ancient and malevolent magic was behind whatever happened in the house, a deeper, more intense frost has been slowly enveloping towns in the north and may soon turn its attention to the south, and [[Savile]] did not return from the expedition.

=== Session 21: Falling ===
Session Tags: Sorghum, Attack, Blowt

Characters: [[Ramad Shadewalk]], [[Kludzu]], [[Gale]], [[Thimbol]], [[Asimi]], [[En]] (New!)

DM: James (7/7/2025)

Important NPCs: "Thesaurus", Mayor Berry

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''The Famine is over'''! Ravel celebrates with its first ever '''Sorghum Festival!'''
* [Stuff happens here]
* 10 Civilian causalities, including a band of bearfolk, a tigerfolk, and a loxo.
* [[Kludzu]] entered the [[Otherworld]], perhaps never to be seen again (or seen much later)
* Mayor Berry died and became Blowted
* [[Ramad Shadewalk|Ramad]] died at the hands of the blowt. When passing on, he chose the path Peatro did: Connecting and grabbing onto the life force of the Blowt, becoming one with them.

=== Session 22: Deflecting ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Political Intrigue, Bastion, Manquel

Characters: Annabelle, [[One|Four]], [[Luv]], Mundy, [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]], Takeshi

DM: James (7/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Captain Maximillian [new!], Kiun Xeo, Ennui

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The session begins with renovations taking plane on the Manquel Bastion. Four, Red and Mundy clear out some of the space in the courtyard, which Mundy dubs "Bitch House" with a backwards T. Takeshi is also camped out for the time being, investigating the local area for cultural tidbits and rare books. We learn that Manquel is known for growing high-quality oolong tea, is architecturally inspired by Japan, and has a local mochi donut shop that survived the Freeze.
* Annabelle arrives at the Bastion, carrying a beleaguered Luv with her. The heroes gather and converse; Takeshi takes interest in Annabelle's written language, Luv reads the room's needs for the first time, and the crew is generally filled in on the evil "sentient frost" inhabiting Paraska Manor, as well as Savile's passing.
* The heroes receive word that Balabag is approaching, intent on taking the Manquel Bastion as their own. Four prepares the forces at their disposal, while Luv and Takeshi draft a treatise to establish peace before any bloodshed.
* Balabag's forces arrive, more than doubling the Manquel forces with spearmen, longbowmen, shield bearers, a trebuchet, and a line of cavalry. Their captain, Maximillian, is greeted by the negotiating party of Luv, Mundy, and Takeshi. Maximillian believes that Six (now Four) is guilty of fire-related crimes and must answer for them. Luv steers this anger towards Kiun Xeo, still holed up in the Bastion, who has notoriously funded the cult of Amaun in Ravel. Maximillian agrees to take Xeo in Four's place.
* Red and Four go down to the basement and convince Kiun through... gross oversimplification... to go to Balabag with the army. While Red walks Kiun out, Four is attacked by Ennui, who has snuck into the Bastion. Four easily overpowers Ennui and walks him out to the group, turning him over as well to Balabag. Annabelle also chooses to depart to Balabag, revealing a necklace marking her as a Flamewalker of Kosuth, whom the Balabagians seem to revere. (This unlocks the Balabag missions for the FFreeze proper.) The Bastion is saved, and the heroes can relax...
* UNTIL! A kaiju-penguin [[Blowt]] erupts on the far side of the Bastion, spurring the heroes into combat. Luckily, combat is not long, and nobody is killed. Takeshi reaches out to the Blowt, whom we now know is split between its own purpose and that of the [[Bhéara]], and convinces it to flee instead of fight. The Bastion is damaged, but not destroyed, and the heroes can actually take a breather.

=== Session 23: Becoming ===
Session Tags: Lore, Campfire, Character Building, The [[Blowt]]

Characters: [[Kara]], [[Quimbleton|Quimbleton,]] [[Clementine]], [[Osric]] [New!], [[Enrik]] [New!], [[Alcordyn]] [New!]

DM: James (7/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Hollowfoot, Bearah, "Mr. Mosquito", Nhart,

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Quimbleton continues to provide '''Sorghum''' all over! This time with a 1st year intern named Lorena following him about.
* The town of [[Tusgrer]] is finally revealed! Turns out while seeming mundane on the surface, the town has actually been heavily infected by Blowtessence, being supervised by a '''Mosquito Blowt''' known only as "Mr. Mosquito".
* To save the town, [[Kara]] decided to transfer all of the Blowtessence from the Mosquito into themselves. As a result '''Kara becomes a Blowt.'''
* But in under 30 seconds, while the window of curing is still open, '''Hollowfoot the Druid launched into action, aided by Quimbleton and Clementine,''' and Kara is cured of the new infection. However, the latent disease that set in during Session 19 was far too engrained to be cured.
* With the rest of the town still being under Blowt influence (and Quimbleton only able to hold his sleep spell for a short period of time), the group flees into the wilds and regroups.
* After heavy discussions, Kara shares everything she learned about the Blowt in the Otherworld after becoming "one with the machine". '''It is an intense and revealing look at who the Blowt are and why they are doing what they are doing'''...and you'll have to wait to see if anyone from this table shares that intimate knowledge with the server or wiki.
* The team decides ulimately to retreat...back to Ravel...not knowing what may await them there soon enough.

=== Session 24: Slaying ===
Session Tags: LaCroix, [[Blowt]]

Characters: Tessa, Jaxzo, Clover, Oswald, Ravii, Dak [New!]

DM: James (7/24/2025)

Important NPCs: Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep), "Dak Jr."

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* LaCroix is slain by the team of slayers.
* Admittedly, LaCroix was ALSO a [[Blowt]] at the time of his slaying, since his house was in the district overrun during Session 21.

=== Session 25: Burning ===
Session Tags: Burnale, [[Blowt]], Bearah, Davenwood

Characters: [[Mundy]], [[En]], [[Ben]], [[Jaxzo'Ilan]], [[Oswald]], Jollyfist Burnale [New!]

DM: James (8/7/2025)

Important NPCs: Burnale Clan (Othello, Oscard "Deadeye", Alan, Hildor, Keg, "Fjord" Firebeard), Wubly the Tavern Keep of Davenwood, Nikolas (Oswald's Dad), Orthin the Paladin

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Set a fire which accidentally spread to nearby Davenwood, which was part of a mission given by [[The Unravel]] to send a message to the nearby [[Burnale Clan]].
* Do community service to help the town rebuild and persevere through the immediate trauma of the attack.
* Meet Oswald's family on his childhood farm.
* Discover Oswald's mentor became a [[Wendigo]]
* Fight a super Blowt Wendigo in an epic battle (also includes a handful of Blowted Bunnies)
* Oswald inherits the farm from his family and begins to help them rebuild it into a powerful new [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]].

=== Session 26: Speedrunning ===
Session Tags: Balabag, Bhearah

Characters: [[Cavii Kero|Cavii]], [[Eltolinde Lykaios|Eltolinde]], Fahrlander [new!], [[One|Four]], Ravii, [[Red (Fantasial Freeze)|Red]]

DM: James (8/17/2025)

Important NPCs: Massimo the Painter, Tulio the Apprentice (Briefly), Rogerre the Blacksmith, [[Dark Silvio]], Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep)

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Farlander the gnome Rogue comes down from the mountains to the north in desperate need of money. The group settles on going to Balabag to deal with a church afflicted by '''dark ice.'''
* The Kero brothers reunite!
* The party journeys to Balabag's religious district, called the Cindernest. They meet Rogerre and see that even fire can become Blowted, a glitchy blue flame that cannot be manipulated through magical means.
* The party explores the open halls of the church, and Four opens a door that reveals a Blowted Massimo the Painter. Combat immediately starts, and the torchlight is lit.
* Four fights off Massimo and the wights he paints into existence while the rest of the crew speedrun the ENTIRE DUNGEON in search for his wife Lavinia's locket. There is an outer Massimo, controlled by the Bhearah, and an inner Massimo who wishes to be free from his condition. The heroes use the power of words to slow his progress.
* The torchlight goes out, and we see how strong the Bhearah's hold over the church really is - Farlander is downed in a moment. Light your torches in dungeons, everyone.
* Lavinia's locket is found, and the party uses it to briefly stop Massimo's Blowt-self from taking control. Everyone escapes the church and is rewarded for saving him, though the space itself is still overrun by dark ice....
=== Session 27: Descending ===
Session Tags: Blowt, [[Ravel]], [[Davenwood]]

Characters: [[Luv]], [[Kara]], [[Quimbleton]], [[Dr Burdock]], [[Isabelle]]. [[Clover]]{{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|Kludzu}}DM: James (8/22/2025)

Important NPCs: Wubly the Tavern Keep, Rogerre the Blacksmith, Massimo the Painter

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* In the currently-under-construction tavern of [[Davenwood]], [[Dr Burdock]] showcases his realm famous solution to Blowt - Simply dominate their minds and make them your pets!
* Unfortunately Burdock didn't know the limits of his own power, and when attempting to control 2 Blowt at once, accidentally unleashes a Blowt onto the town.
* The rest of the team is impressed with Burdock's power, but unimpressed in how they had to clean up after his mess.
* Once the group catches their breath (and restores some spell slots), they decide that with lots of power over Life and Death (including new Grave Cleric Isabelle), it might be a good idea to investigate the hole in [[Ravel]] that opened up and unleashed [[Blowtessence]] all over the city.

* The team decides to test their resolve and go into the Blowhole.
* {{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|The players exist in the other world, [[Orbis]], and await rescue or attempts to escape. Not all of them managed to make it to the shelter intact, and some may not make it back to the surface exactly as you remember them. }}

=== Session 28: Damning ===
Session Tags: Blowt, Balabag, Kiyoni

Characters: [[Clementine]], [[Isabelle]], [[Thimbol]]. [[Enrik]], [[Yuki]] [New!], [[Cecil Alaxorsa]] [New!]

DM: James (8/27/2025)

Important NPCs: Two Balabag Residents, Rogerre the Blacksmith

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Isabelle returned to the surface, a weapon of the [[Bhéara]], sent to Balabag to find the '''Kiyoni''' family.
* The players spent a long time in a library, as is tradition for some random point in every campaign.
* In doing their research (and spending their research tokens appropriately) the team learns that there is a deep-seated history of bad blood between [[Balabag]] and [[Ravel]].
* Their rivalry goes back to the first humans who appeared in the region during [[The Scattering]], when Animalfolk primarily lived in the region that would eventually become Human-dominated.
* The Kiyoni were a prominent and early human family with roots that go back to the Scattering, and for some reason, the Blowt want revenge on the Kiyoni.
* The Blowt apparently were damned to an eternal banishment after a war between the humans and animalfolk all the way back then. They were punished and sent to an afterlife which didn't reward them, but trapped them.
* Not wanting to aid and abet in political and physical assassination, the team agrees that there's definitely some merit in what the [[Bhéara|Bheara]] has tasked her minion to do...but there's other people in need of help, so they pick up and finish off the '''Cindernest Mission''' which was left partially uncompleted by the Session 26 team (see above).
* The team successfully retrieves one of '''[[Gohei|the Gohei]]''', then uses it's immense power to purify the church of all of its residual blowtessence.
* (Along the way Clem dies when Isabelle attempts to send Clem's soul to '''[[Orbis]]''' after Clem gets severely blowted. But the plan backfires because Clem's soul has already been claimed by another much more powerful faction..See Damning.)
* The team is rewarded a brand new [[The Fantasial Freeze/Bastion|Bastion]] in Balabag to take their new toy and begin planning their next steps.
=== Session 29: Liberating ===
Session Tags: PC Drama, Devils

Characters: [[Takeshi]], [[Neighbor|Neighbor Craig]], [[Mundy]], [[Tessa]], [[Osric]], [[Sameera]] ''(New!)''

DM: James (9/10/2025)

Important NPCs: Maynard, Maynard's Mom Veronica, Mephix

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* '''Tessa kills Mephix''' but knows an accomplished Slayer Mephix will be back by IRL November (Devils don't die if killed on the mortal plane mundanely)
* Mephix will remember that.
* Tessa, Neighbor, and Takeshi discuss "'''The [[One|7]] High Roads to the Peak'''", a self help book by Alycone Daze
* Neighbor breaks up with Maynard, and the team threatens him to leave "every other woman in this city" alone, he is branded with Twin Snake patterns by Sameera to mark him as a snake.
* They loot his cool vintage katana collection.
* The team hits up the nightclub.

=== Session 30: Bounty-Hunting ===
Session Tags''':''' Ravel, Blowt, DeGaulle, Unravel, PC Drama

Characters''':''' Oswald, Ravii, Kara, Caul Davre [New!], Viralyn Kiyoni [New!], Gaul DeGaulle [New!]

DM: Christina (9/18/2025)

Important NPCs: Jimmy (Unravel knight, now V’s servant), Charlie DeGaulle (Gaul’s father, blacksmith, estranged, hunted by Blowt and the Unravel), Teddy (Charlie’s friend/neighbor), Rosie Pumpernickle (Gnome, Charlie’s lover, wealthy)

XP Gained''':''' 3

Important Things that Happened:

* The group reunites in Ravel during a miserable sleet storm, catching up in Kludzu’s bar. Viralyn claims to be Quimbleton’s long-lost lover.
* Blowt portals erupt outside the bar, unleashing Kara and several Blowt. A vision of the DeGaulle family flashes through his mind before he regains control. The fight is short-lived thanks to Caul’s necromancy, and Kara quickly recovers their mind.
* The party learns Gaul is estranged from his father Charlie, the last in a long line of blacksmiths. Gaul openly wishes his father dead.
* At the DeGaulle smithy, they find it ransacked by Unravel forces. In the basement, the party ambushes soldiers and charms Jimmy the knight into service under Viralyn.
* Jimmy reveals Charlie has been targeted by the Unravel for acquiring a mysterious material called '''Blight Dust''', which can be forged into weapons devastatingly effective against humans.
* Following a hidden exit, the group misses Charlie but encounters Teddy, who points them toward Charlie’s secret lover Rosie. They go to her mansion where more Blowt portals open and the party fights multiple waves, with Caul even taming one as a pet.
* They capture Charlie and Rosie during his attempted escape. Aftewards it is discovered that Charlie branded Gaul (on Gaul's butt) in the past as part of a family blacksmith ritual, granting Gaul the DeGaulle forging legacy.
* Ravii strikes a deal with Charlie: protection in exchange for each party member receiving a '''Blighted Shortsword''' (worth 750 gp).

=== Session 31: Sacking ===
Session Tags: Tusgrer, Blowt, Boss Rush, Gohei

Characters: Cecilia [new!] Dak, [[Enrik]], Fahrlander, [[One|Four]], Kiyoni

DM: James (9/19/2025)

Important NPCs: Dak Jr., Jim Dentured, Kirkland Anderson (Manquel Barkeep)

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

* Everyone wanders into the Manquel Bastion while Mundy is too busy to watch the doors, where a plan is hatched to liberate the town of '''Tusgrer''' from its Blowt problem. There is a bounty out for some sort of Mosquito Blowt, and the team goes in properly armed.
* Fahrlander scouts out the town and finds Blowted townsfolk and blood everywhere, both human and otherwise. The Mosquito sits at the edge of town, and team notes how distended its... sack... is. Using some clever tactics, the heroes bring it down! Until...
* One of the corpses laying about Tusgrer lets loose a burst of Bhearah energy, and the Mosquito reappears! The heroes combat both the Blowted townsfolk and the mosquito, having to slay it an additional five times. Enrik deals the final blow while using the Gohei to kill the body of the Mosquito while the Blowt-soul inhabiting it flies away, taking the form of a frost giant!
* With combat resolved, the heroes take stock. The worst news is that Tusgrer's population is now ''zero''. Also, a new Blowthole exists, due to the strange nodes of energy that the mosquito unleashed stitching together and opening the portal. The only silver lining is that this Blowthole is easily accessible and unguarded, compared to the madness in Ravel and on the ice field. Another '''Gohei''' is looted off the dead samurai from which the Mosquito, and Enrik uses the Gohei he brought for Balabag to save the frost giant's spectral form. Dak realizes that a '''Blowted Xilas LaCroix''' is probably still alive and waiting....

=== Session 32: Looting ===
Session Tags: Dungeon Crawl, Blowt, Emotional Support

Characters: Freida, Faren, En, Jollyfist, Ben, Red, Thimbol

DM: James (9/21/2025)

Important NPCs: Breakwater, Sven (Frederic, Gio mentioned in support group), Farmer Lyle as always.

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened:

=== Session 33: Blowting ===
Session Tags:

Characters:

DM: James (9/27/2025)

Important NPCs:

XP Gained: 3

Important Things that Happened: {{#spoiler:hide=hide_message|Kludzu}}

* Thimbol wakes in the subsoil air following a [[Blowt]] attack on the Balabag Bastion, surrounded by The Eyes. Thimbol had taken a psychic attack to save Farmer Lyle offscreen and died in his arms
* Though The Eyes tempt him with the posiblity of returning to Quelmar as a Blowt, Thimbol passes into Garl Glittergold's holy afterlife for gnomes--his life's work of creating and passing on an LLC completed, and his soul at peace knowing that wether that business succeeds or fails, the will of the market will be done.
* This ascension into the afterlife is witnessed by [[Clover Softpaw]], stranded in the subsoil air following the events of

== Act 3 ==
[[Category:Fantasial Freeze]]

The Fantasial Freeze/The Story So Far

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