The Storm King's Thunder (Dublin, Ireland)

The party takes the 5:15 whale towards the coast with a connecting roc to reach their destination, the home of the Doom of the Desert. The giants travelling with us agree to leave a few of the trained rocs behind in case we need them for a getaway. As the party enters the amphitheatre, they see a ruined church. Dunbarr, Dipple and Bearnabus enter and the ground gives way, making them fall down into a sandy sinkhole. Graupel heads around to find a safe route down. Kin explores the amphitheatre and sees statues beginning to animate and come alive. Everyone heads down into the sinkhole to get away. In the depths, Dipple finds a cavern full of dangerous worms but Kin and Dunbarr make quick work of them. Further in, Bearnabus sees a glyph that could trap the party and disables its magic. Dipple creates an illusion as if the tunnel has collapsed preventing the animated statues from chasing them. The next room is filled with massive amounts of gold. Dunbarr leaps in taking anything shiny he c...

Heckaton and the party arrive back at the throne room to find the place in chaos. The throne room is a makeshift hospital where Giants are being treated for injuries. It looks like Imryth has wrecked the place and taken a magical ring which makes her immune to psychic damage. The party sets up shop near the scrying pool. Bearnabus uses the jar of dragon blood and sees Imryth near an ancient ruined amphitheatre in a desert with snowy mountains in the distance. We are told this must be the home of the Doom of the Desert. In the middle of the ruined amphitheatre is a hole. Could be where the Kraken lives. Statues are scattered throughout. Harshnag is alive and tied up somewhere nearby a snakehead statue. The octopus from the Grand Dame is living its best life on the sea bed. Heckaton offers us 10,000 GP to kill Imryth. Klauth gives Dipple a claw of Wyrm rune. Kin gains a potion of giant size. Dipple also gets that potion, he gives it to Dunbarr who then smashes it on the ground. Dunbarr a...

The action continues on the Morkoth with Orcabus using splash to demolish the deckhands and then rolling off the side into the water. Dipple's animated objects are smashing the other deckhands as Kin fires a hail of arrows at the captain whispering "overruled" (because the captain's name was Rool). The enemy wizard creates a crescent half-circle dome of wind force to protect himself and the mercenary. Graupel runs over to Dipple's unconscious body and contemplates stealing his healing potions and decides to heal Dipple instead. Awakening from their slumber Goripple loses his gripple and punches the wall of force and then the ground in a fit of rage. From below the deck, the Merrow fires a beautifully arching harpoon which lands directly into Dunbarr's internal organs.  Dunbarr then uses misty step to escape the harpoon and travels into the wall of force right beside the wizard and decapitated him brutally shouting "spell that out". Graupel re-engages...

As the battle begins to unfold, two wizards and a mercenary teleport aboard the kelpie's kiss. The hideous face of Kastan is unmistakable. Kin immediately activates Operation Human Shield hiding behind sailors and party members alike. Dunbarr, Grapel, Dipple and Kin team up to attack Kastan. Kastan looks at  Dunbarr and says "You are very far from your homeland" and Dunbarr replies "You are very close to your grave". Tholtz, the other dark wizard, casts some very dark magic on Dipple to stun him. Kin fires a 62-damage arrow at Kastan as Graupel beheads him in a killing blow. Under the ship, Bearnabus wild shapes into a male killer whale and breaches out of the water smashing into the top floor of the Morkoth crushing many of the deckhands.

The party heads to the feeder ship at the dock to get some info. The crew bring the party to the captain, Tazlan. Dipple stays behind to chat with a ship hand. Graupel begins by intimidating the captain stating matter of factly that we will kill every living thing on the Morkoth. The captain looks worried and says the Morkoth is probably near the Whalebone isles based on their direction and travelling speed. Dipple also tries intimidation on the deckhand, casting frost on the ground and threatening to kill him. The deckhand says all sorts of weird stuff are on the ship and even under it but he has no idea what they are. The party leaves the feeder ship and climbs back aboard the kelpies kiss and heads out. On our travels, we meet Merfolk. They seem friendly enough and invite us to an underwater rave. We give it a rain check after we explain what rain is. 4 days pass until we arrive at the Morkoth. We keep our distance and Bearnabus jumps into the water and turns into a giant octopus an...

The party is boating it up big time on the Grand Dame. It turns out that it was a powerful dragon that is casting power word kill on those the dragon controls. Kin uses the hat of disguise to find out that the wizard in the Kraken cult is none other than Kastan. Graupel is communing with an octopus to get more information. She lifts the incredibly heavy water tank using the handles, brings the octopus to the edge of the ship and agrees to free it in exchange for info. The octopus tells her of blublublublubblub, a 30 tentacled creature in control of the cult. Graupel releases the octopus and stores a labelled jar of tank goo for future scrying. After arriving back at port at 3am the party heads to Neverwinter. Kin spills all of the beans to Emerald Enclave explaining we think King Heckaton is on a squid-like ship northwest of the trackless sea. Bearnabus and Dunbarr spill the beans to the Harpers on how to properly transfer the soul of an axe from one axe to another. Dipple heads to the...

The party work hard to try and convince Saoirse that Imrith's behaviour has been suspicious and she should not be trusted but Saoirse stays loyal to Imirth.  She has been like a mother to her.  Uther is led by Saoirse.  Bearnabus tries to dispel magic from Imrith.  There is clearly a great deal of magic surrounding her but the spell fails.   Saoirse is very happy the adventurers have agreed to help find her father.  She provides them with 2 letters and the golden goose token.  One that states the mission they are on to investigate the disappearance of the King for the acting Queen.  The other absolving them of any retaliation by the cloud Countess.   They are escorted back to the summoning circle where a cloud giant teleports them to Yartar.  The party sleep in the Poison Dagger to recover before the investigation.  The party get clothes suitable for sneaking on to the Grand Dame and Sharpie gets a new axe handle.  Th...

The party begins the day ready for adventure. They decide to activate the conch and see where it leads. It feels like they lose conchessness as they are teleported to king hackathons palace deep underwater near the Monshae Isles. They find themselves in what appears to be an entrance cave with several doors leading off it. Bearnabus casts underwater breathing on the party and readies her water-based magic. Dunbarr and Graupel tie each other together with a rope.  Dunbarr heads down into a water entrance and travels out to the sand. From here he can see an underwater gladiator pit filled with smashed ships and a big plug hole.  Along the walls leading out are entrances blocked by metal gates. Dipple heads backwards out of what looks like the tunnel for medium-sized folk. Outside he gets a face full of hot steam as a geyser erupts. Dipple decides to head back to the party. Kin stealths into a door on the left and the party follows. They find a hallway with a stone statue at the ...

"No one is innocent until proven guilty" - Dipple The plan to break out Harthal and get the giant slaying axe begins. Dipple casts Seeming to turn himself into Zymomen and turns Dunbarr and Graupel into official-looking bodyguards. Bearnnabug hides in Dunbarr's beard. We then enter the garda station. The captain of the guards is humbled by king Zymomen but can't do anything without the permission of the Waterbaron. Dipple assures the captain that Harthal will be properly tortured and imprisoned in their homeland. Graupel slips out of the station and puts on the hat of disguise, magically transforming via disney princess method into Waterbaron Nessa. Over in the Emerald Enclave, Kin is in discussion with Barnel. They tell Kin that Perdita has been falsely imprisoned for theft. Kin agrees to break her out. Kin arrives at the guard station, stealths past Graupel doing a magical transformation, uses the chaos Dipple is causing and slips by the captain. Kin sees the safe i...

As the party softly lands in the marshy bottom due to the feather fall potion, from above they can see the cloud castle of Zephyros coming to lend a hand. We quickly jump aboard and his smaller ship begins making a quick getaway towards Neverwinter. Zephyros says he likes the excitement of us small folk and never really liked Sansurei anyway. Zephyros had spent a long time over in the Moonshae isles seeing all sorts of chaos from sea creatures to thunderstorms. He also says representatives of the giants have gone to meet princess Saoirse in the underwater palace of King Heckaton. The Count Vala of the cloud giants is much more reasonable than Sansurei and will most likely side with whoever gives her a bribe. Dunbarr gives Zephyros a jar of mucus and Zephyros then levitates away to drive the castle and mess around with the mucus. During this time Graupel has been meditating to speak with Prittstick. Prittstick had a ribbon on her leg which was a message from a ba...

Dunbarr calls a message meeting and tells the party that Gustnabus has the conch and is flying towards the marshy bottom at the speed of air. Now is the time for everyone to jump out the nearest window. Dunbarr also sees in the distance a familiar cloud. Could it be the incredibly helpful and friendly Zephyrs in the distance? Dipple and Graupel are surrounded by angry giants. Things are not looking good. Graupel begins cleaving at the giants, every shot landing perfectly, never missing. The voice of Lisa in the background says "are you serious?". Cicero sees Dipple with a smirk on his face and uses telekinesis to bind and restrain him. Dipple fights back casting fear and acid but Cisero takes it in his stride. Another giant comes up and knocks Dipple out. From the shadows, Kin fires a wave of poison arrows at the giants directly into their danger zone. A giant knocks out Graupel before Kin lands an arrow in its eye killing it. Cicero uses misty step to get into hand-to-hand r...

Cicero doesn't believe that we are not involved somehow and locks us inside the room to check out the disturbance. Dunbarr has a message conversation with Bearnabug. Dunbarr realises he is only getting insect tapping back as a response. One tap for yes, two for no. It seems like Bearnanbug is getting on good and now is the time for the party to leap into action. Dipple begins casting ice magic upon the lock to try to break it open but fails. Kin with dexterous hands and lock-picking tools unlocks the door getting some cold hands because of it. Upstairs Bearnabug turns into an air elemental and strikes at Sansuri but fails to steal the conch. Sansuri farts a wind aura around herself and tells Airnabus to show her true form. Airnabus says "look, I'm panicking, I'm just trying to make you the leader of the giants". Airnabus then gives her potion of hill giant strength to Prittstick who immediately becomes super ripped. They both go in for another attack on Sansuri. A...

Our party confronts Sansuri and explains why we want the magical conch. Our party argues that with her help we could join the giant clans together under her rule. She seems hesitant and wants us to convince her we were sent by All-Father. We vaguely describe what happened to get into the other dimension and talk with the oracle before a dragon came by and wrecked the place making sure not to mention Harshnag by name. Cicero brings us to a locked room where we can chill out so she can process the request. Dipple and Graupel take this chance to dimension door out to save the dragon. Bearnabus turns into a ladybird and tries to find Sansuri. Dunbarr and Kin stay behind and pretend that everyone else is in the room and use message to ensure everything is going well with all the other parties. Dipple and Grapuel end up in a room surrounded by 5 sleeping griffons. Beyond the cages, they can see another cage with the dragon inside. Another dimension door and they are inside the dragon cage. T...

The party considers how to face the cloud giant. They head towards Silverymoon to buy 5 potions of feather falling in case they are yeeted off the cloud castle. They then meet up with an old friend, Zephyrs to gain some intel. He tells them that the cloud giant is called Sansuri. She is a powerful magic wielder and has protected her magical conch by placing it in another dimension. Her cloud castle is called Lyn Armael. The party begins discussing plans of action, mostly revolving around blackmailing Sansuri. The ideas of cutting off one of Sansere's children's hands or cutting off a bandit's hand and casting enlarge on them are played with. Fear permeates the party as they ride their blimp towards the cloud castle Lyn Armael with no real plan. As they approach the castle they hear the sounds of screaming coming from the basement. As they land on a landing platform they see blue humanoid birds patrolling the skies around the castle. They are met with Chrisario the Castilian...

The party leaves Neverwinter by dragon cult blimp to bring the giant artefacts back to the Eye of the All-Father. On the way back Dipple studies Kastan's spelly book and decyphers one of his spells, Dimension Door. Very handy. Gustnabus stares out over the edge of the ship and sees a dragon flying in the distance carrying one of the giant's relics, a relic related to Voindod, the dragon-slaying machine. The dragon says it is under the leadership of an ancient white dragon from the north. Graupel checks her notes and finds a reference to white dragons in the following notes: https://stormkingsthunderdublin.blogspot.com/2021/12/12th-december-2021-session-31-gathering.html Once we arrive at the Eye of the All-Father, we meet Harshnag. He has been defending the temple since we left and was roughly brushing the corpses into a mound to the side. He's pretty happy we are here and have come with the artefacts. We proceed to gift the artefacts to the oracle and gain knowledge of whe...

As the battle comes to a close, Jesop from the Emerald Enclave appears at the entrance with a student in shackles. Kin begins discussing Kastan and the jars of mucus. He draws Jesop an incredibly detailed stick figure of a woman in a purple dress. Jesop looks lost but does remember a secret organisation long disbanded called the order of the black network but that can't possibly have anything to do with this. Kin then ties Sharpy with 75ft of rope and sinks it to the bottom of the red water trying to find the bottom. Sharpy gets stuck 75ft down. It didn't feel like the bottom though, just caught along the side. Dunbarr summons Sharpy back and the rope is given back to Dipple. Dipple begins to feel sick at just the touch of the red liquid on the rope. Dipple scoops up some of the red liquid in a jar. Graupel begins to ritual cast of speak with animals to talk with a rat that Dipple had previously forced to drink the magical clear water. The party leaves Graupel forever as they h...

In the creepy bloody water ritual room, we find the party facing off against Kastan and two water elementals. Bearnabus creates a stone wall around Kastan. Dunbarr jumps into it with misty step and using action surge, he gets a few hits in before Kastan disintegrates the wall saying "you will not be able to stop my plan, we will meet again" as he walks 30ft away and summons 6 crulls (crunchies). Water elemental A and Jeff attack each other because of crown of madness. Dipple's panther doesn't know what's going on but successfully does some splashing damage to the elementals. Dipple, Graupel and Hootnabus face off against the crunchies and a cycle of poison, paralyzation, and grapples. Hootnabus taking too much damage becoming Bearnabus once again. Kin runs at the speed of a sneaky elf to get help from the Emerald Enclave. Jeff regains his control and slams the panther killing it. Dipple polymorphs into a giant ape and stomps crunchy Bob. Dunbarr grapples (hugs) Ka...

Kin is heading to meet the Emerald Enclave. He puts his hood up as he arrives at the entrance of a big building to remain anonymous.  Kin is looking for Jesop. While walking through he also recognises Keir and Umbra but sneaks past unnoticed. Kin arrives at Jesop’s room and initiates the secret knock.  Kin tells Jesop about the wacky adventures he’s on. Kin tells Jesop about the conches and the search for the relics.  Jesop and the Enclave have been searching for the storm giant's lair.  Serissa (the storm giant king’s daughter) might be an ally and she might know where her father is.  Someone might be working against the Enclave and blocking their communications.  Eagles can’t find the lair either.  Jesop offers to help the quest to find the storm king. Serissa’s mother was actually an ally to Neverwinter, Queen Neri was her name and she passed away 20 years ago.  Jesop asks to pass on a message and keep an eye out for an Enclave leak/spy.  ...

All members levelled up to 9. Story background items: We are collecting Giant artefacts and have recently acquired a gold tooth. The metal piece we found was sent to Fred Moonstar, who couldn't figure out what it was so he sent it to a mage in Neverwinter. We also sent mucus to Neverwinter through the Emerald Enclave. Kin since received a letter saying the mucus was from an ancient monster that hadn’t been seen in a long time. The Moonstars have a family home in Neverwinter.  The Harper HQ and Emerald Enclave HQ are also in Neverwinter. Khastan is rumoured to be in Neverwinter.  The group is in Neverwinter and breaks up to do tasks. Dunbarr goes to visit the Harpers to look for Khastan, Graupel & Bearnabus go to the Moonstar home to visit, Dipple went for a chat with the Dragon people Arzastra (Dragonborn who serves a dragon lord from the North), Kin goes to see Barnell Jessops in the Emerald Enclave.  Dipple Dipple updates Arzastra, who is pro-giant-collapse, on our ...

 It is daytime, around 6pm. The party arrives at Morgur’s Mound. It sort of looks like a wingless dragon. It feels like we are being watched. The party decides they should explore the area. The cairns look like they have been recently disturbed. Bipeds likely involved, wearing shoes. Plundering and desecrating the area. Some of the holes in the mound look like stuff has already been taken from it. Dunbarr investigates the rock. Looks like the mound was manufactured rather than being a natural mound. Dunbarr starts digging. Graupel starts digging in a dip in the middle but doesn’t find anything. Rather than digging, Dipple fireballs some rocks out of the way and discovers a little pouch that contains Dust of Sneezing and Coughing. Potent stuff.  Kin and Bearnabus dig into the mound and come to a structured rock formation. We find a scroll that appears to be of level 3. Bearnabus finds a gold tooth of a fire giant. Once the tooth was touched, a great rumbling was heard. The cair...