Episode 1: Caravan of Chaos

Session Summary:

We begin this tale along the Rainbow Road in the region of Tarabon. A group of adventures are traveling together in a caravan heading west from Elmorra towards the city of Tanchico. We meet K'ryen Swallowsong - a copper dragonborn, Tony Cockatiel - an Aarakocra, Fjænder Whoash - an Air Genasi, and Roh Taguta- a Tortle. The four are traveling together under the leadership of Lyna Marr. Tony and Fjaender have been working for Lyna since the last journey along the Rainbow Road with K'ryen and Roh being new additions to the group.

After a few nights of business as usual with K'ryen taking a liking to Tony's journal writing, Fjaender magically assisting Roh at a game of dice, and conversations about the moon and stars, Tony is awoken by Doran, one of Lyna's guards who says something is wrong and that Lyna has gone missing. Tony, together with a human guard Rake, set out in search of her. The forest they have settled in is quite dense, but Tony is able to fly low to the ground; however, he gets no response from Lyna. From seemingly out of nowhere, a volley of reddish missile-like objects darting through the forest - colliding with Rake basically making him explode. RIP Rake. The next set of missiles fly towards Tony who quickly jumps into to stealth, while another set soon after are followed by screams in the dark forest. Tony spies a large ball of flame hurtling toward the encampment which explodes, killing Doran instantly, and leaving a 30-meter wide crater in the earth. K'yren, and Fjænder, woken by the blast were luckily just outside of the blast radius. Roh, however, who chose to sleep under the stars, was knocked into their tent. The encampment, now completely ablaze, chaos everywhere, the group hears the sound of an otherworldly hiss coming from the trees to the south. The three turn around to see the sight of a strange group of figures approaching. They spy a flying humanoid-sized demon hissing at them flanked by two rock monsters with menacing maws.

A tense battle ensues. Fjænder is knocked unconscious by the voracious maw of one of the creatures. Roh is able to slice through the demon creature with his cutlass, it's flanking lackeys falling to the ground, and quiet returns to the forest. They notice two creatures flying away to the east carrying something between them. Tony flies off in pursuit to see where they're heading. They make off to the south, disappearing into the trees. Roh is able to discern that the creature they killed, oozing weird green blood, is not of the natural realm of Cretoria. They realize the caravan's cargo (whatever it is) has been stolen by the creatures!

The group decides to head back north towards the road looking to rest and hoping that daylight will bring new ideas and solutions.