Important Campaign Info

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Official Game Intro Thread plus a repository of campaign info.

"Only the desperate and the brave", so reads the proud motto of the town of Falcon's Hollow, for here on the fringes of Andoran, in the shadow of the looming volcano known as Droskar's Crag, the dim mist laden forests are prowled by feral beasts, ravenous monsters, and the restless souls of the dead. Once a Great Dwarven Kingdom brought stability and and safety to the region, but that all ended with the wakening of Droskar's Crag during the apocalypse known today as the Rending. For too long did sibilant whispers ride the vale winds after nightfall in the aftermath of disaster, and during those desperate years evil took root in hidden places deep below. Today, the land has recovered from the volcanic eruption, and as is humanities want, settlers have returned to the region. "Only the desperate and the brave" came to build Falcon's Hollow, and time has appeared to reward that desperation and bravery, for now their home seems relatively safe and secure.

This is all a lie, for what awaits the people of Falcon's Hollow deep below might well be doom adorned with a boodstained crown.





Falcon's Hollow Settlement 4
N Town
Remote Lumber Town ruled by a self-interested consortium
Govt: Council [Lumber Consortium]
Population: 1,400 people [95% humans, 3% halflings, 1% elves, 1% other]
Languages: Common, Halfling
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Religions: Lip service to various faiths.
Threats: Kobolds, uncaring leadership, undead, violent wildlife
Falcon's Hollow is a Lumber Town. Earn Income is Athletics or Labor Lore. (6th) or Crafting/Performance (4th)
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Leadership
Sherrif Deldrin Baleson Half-Elf Male
Payden 'Payday' Teedum Human Male [Lumber Consortium Overboss]
Thuldrin Kreed Human Male [Gavel of The Consortium]
Vamros Harg Halfling Male [Town Magistrate]

Key
1. Rouge Lady (Burlesque/Gambling Hall)
Kabran Bloodyeye Owner. Has Bronze nose piece. Half-Orc Male
--Ralla Hebraddan favored prostitute Human Female
--Brother Hollin Hebraddin Aspiring Wood Carver Laborer  Human Male Child 11 years old

2. The Goose and Gander (General Store/Lumber Consortium Owned)
Brickasnurd Hildrinsocks Gnome Proprietor  Male

3. The High Market (Bazaar) martil and exotic weapons, medium and heavy armor and large shields. gear over 1 gold
Kilarin Salk Halfling Female Runs the High Market. Failed Farmer 

4. The Hollow Tribunal (townhall)

Vamros Harg Halfling Magistrate Halfling Male
The Hollow Tribunal is the primary government building in the area, run by the halfling Vamros Harg, Magistrate of Falcon's Hollow. Providing the community with general public services, as well as presiding over disputes and prosecutions.

5.  Jak'a'napes (Inn-ramshackle)
Jak Crimmy Owner. Ex-Adventurer-Chubby but healthy. Human Female. The Consortium isnt welcome here.

6.The Low Market (Bazaar) Simple Weapons, Light Armor and small shields, No gear over 1 gold
Jason Greatoak (portly and disorganized) Human Male

7. Lumber Consortium HQ
This run-down building opens onto the High Market, and has seen better days; once one of the town's more impressive structures, recently it has fallen into a state of disrepair. It usually remains vacant unless Thuldrin Kreed decides an official setting is warranted.

8.  To Cemetary
Verrin Tierak Groundskeeper Male Human

9.  Roots and Remedies (Healer/Herbalist)
Laurel Gebre (Owner. rail-thin Garundi)Human Female Herbalist

10.  The Sitting Duck (Tavern frequented by Lumber Consortium)

Ergin Tock Owner Brawny Human Male

-Jalene Artem. Bartender. Human Female

11. Temple of Iomedae

Lady Cirantha Gensar (Priestess) Human Female Cleric of Iomedae
Lady Cirthana sees little support from the inhabitants of Falcon's Hollow, and her Temple and actions have been openly denounced by the Lumber Consortium. Despite this, she does what she can to serve those few who turn to Iomedae for guidance in life.

12.  Butcher

Colbein Jabbs Human Male
--Son Mikra Jabs 12 years old and autistic. Human Male

13. The Cutyard
The Cutyard is the heart of Falcon's Hollow, where lumber crews work day and night under terrible conditions.
Payden 'Payday' Teedum  Lumber Consortium Overboss Human Male

14. Kreed Manor (well guarded fortress)

Thuldrin Kreed 'Gavel of The Lumber Consortium' Human Male
--Jurin Kreed Chubby Bookish--more like his deceased mother--Human Male child 10 years old

15. Vade's Tower (local wizard-reclusive)

Sharavos Vade Wealthy Hermit Wizard Human Male

Savram Vade- daughter pale and sickly Human Male child 11 years

16. The Sherrif's Office
Deldrin BalesonHalf-Elf Male Sheriff of Darkmoon Vale(ex-lumberjack) openly against Thuldrin Kreed.
--Tabrik Splint Dwarf Female Deputy Openly opposed to the Consortium Dwarf Female has relationship with Vamros Harg

17. The Falcon Caravanserai (Makes weekly runs from Falcon's Hollow to Olfden)
Ayda Vorshin (Owner) Ex-Mercenary. Human Female

other points of interest

Ferry Across The Foam River
Ferryman's home David Banyon Human Male

Seamstress
Kitani Eaveswalker (seamstress and wife to Idris Eaveswalker a wood-elf adventurer who's been missing for two years) Human Female
Kimi Eaveswalker Half Elf Female child 13 years

The Woodwil (painter/artist)
Daveera Gadsel Half-Orc Female Artist

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Ancestries Allowed
Dwarf 
Elf
Gnome
Halfling
Human
{Half-Elf,Half-Orc,Aasimar,Tiefling}
Catfolk
Grippli
Kitsune
Ysoki (Ratfolk)
Android
Shoony


We will be using the free Archetype Background at 2nd level

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Campaign combat maps

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About Darkmoon Vale

The River Foam is the primary waterway in the region and cuts a line through the center of the Vale. While Darkmoon Vale consists mostly of frontier lands rife with kobolds, fey, werewolves, hags and worgs, it nevertheless hosts several mentionable settlements. These include Falcon's Hollow, Olfden, Oregent, and Piren's Bluff. Despite the region's many dangers, Andoran remains interested in the Vale's natural resources, from darkwood to silver, and its access to the Isgeri border.

Woodlands in The Vale

The two main woodlands in the Darkmoon Vale are the Darkmoon Wood, located between the River Foam and the Five Kings Range, and the northern reaches of the Arthfell Forest. At one point in time they were one continuous forest, but the lands between them have been clear cut over the preceding centuries. This logging continues to create great tensions between the human Andorans and the native fey protectors of the forest.

Darkmoon Forest

Darkmoon Forest is located in Darkmoon Vale, at the base of Droskar's Crag, along the banks of the River Foam in northern Andoran, near the border of Isger and Druma. The dense forest, which stretches approximately forty-two miles wide and around fifteen miles tall, contains at its heart a small lake which runs into the nearby River Foam. Lumber camps can be found throughout the outer edges of the Vale, a reminder that the dangers of the woods are not enough to stop the expansion of the greedy Lumber Consortium. The nearest permanent settlement is the logging town of Falcon's Hollow, which rests about eight miles from the forest's southern edge.

The Darkmoon Wood is home to a wide variety of plants and animals beyond its more dangerous intelligent residents, such as the fey of the forest or the kobolds of its subterranean reaches. In most cases this flora and fauna remains neutral, existing solely to survive. That said, if a visitor to the Wood crosses one or threatens its survival, the results are often unpleasant

Fauna

Most creatures in Darkmoon Vale are simply animals or vermin, with no darker agendas than mere survival. The following are some of the most common creatures of the region.

Firefoot Fennec: These red-footed foxes are common throughout northern Andoran and southern Isger. Their pelts are popular in Absalom and Molthune.

Dusk Spider: These foot-diameter spiders inhabit nearby Arthfell Forest in large communities that weave immense webs covering several acres. Dusk spider venom, when properly milked from a living creature, makes for a potent alcoholic additive.

Giant Mosquito: These pests are as large as small birds, but they tend (thankfully) to travel alone. Female giant mosquitoes (like their normal-sized cousins) drink the blood of warm-blooded animals.

Giant Moorsnake: These ophidian predators are active mostly at night. As constrictors, they prefer to sneak up on their victims while their potential meals are sleeping.

Mereswan: Unique to the Droskmere, mereswans are normal swans who can eat the mildly acidic popcarp within the lake and who only use a certain kind of volcanic rock for their gizzard stones. The combination of these two elements mean regurgitated gizzard stones of mereswans are smoothly polished semiprecious gems popular with dwarves.

Mountain Horses: Indigenous to the Aspodells, these long-haired, massive equines are popular with miners for their easy temperaments and flexible diets.

Popcarp: Mildly acidic flesh makes the popcarp of Droskmere an unpopular meal, except for the beautiful mereswans who live nearby. When threatened, a popcarp can explosively empty its gas bladder out its mouth to move quickly away, making a distinctive popping noise when it does so (hence its name).

Slurk: The slurk is the disgusting result of ill-advised dwarven efforts at breeding underground frogs. Kobolds prize the foul-smelling and slime-covered creatures as pets and mounts. Slurks live underground in damp caverns where the fungi and lichens they prefer to eat grow in abundance.

Zhen Worm: A smaller species of great worms roughly half the size of Qadira's famous alamein worms, the zhen worms of Andoran can survive in environs that would kill their larger cousins. Zhen worms thrive in warm, moist soil, and many of them migrate frequently to the areas around Darkmoon Vale's geysers, mud pots, and other geothermal features.

Flora

Many varieties of unique and rare plants live in Darkmoon Vale. The following are those of greatest interest to residents and visitors of the region.

Appleleaf: These low-growing plants have leaves that grow in groups of four and taste of slightly bitter apples when eaten. Appleleaf grows all over within the forests of Darkmoon Vale and southern Isger.

Blackscour: A black-headed fungus that tastes hard, bitter, and sharp. It grows in the water and causes blackscour taint if any part of it, including its spores, are consumed (usually by drinking contaminated water). Blackscour is not native to the region and was only recently introduced to Darkmoon Vale.

Downberries: Although the plants that bear them contain massive thorns, downberries remain a popular dessert treat when in season in late summer and early autumn. Downberries grow best in arid climates and grow all over the eastern side of the Aspodell Mountains and Wolfrun Hills.

Elderwood Moss: This semi-magical moss only grows on the oldest tree in a forest. As such, two known patches exist near Darkmoon Vale: one upon the forest elder in Darkmoon Wood and another on the Green Patriarch within Arthfell Forest. Elderwood moss, when prepared correctly, acts as a strong decongestant. Some people claim that, when prepared incorrectly, elderwood moss causes premature aging.

Glowmold:  As its name implies, glowmold glows. Rather brightly, in fact. Glowmold grows very slowly on the undersides of igneous rocks, and the largest concentrations of this useful mold live for centuries under stones too large to easily flip or roll over. Smaller finds provide as much light as a torch. Regardless of the size of the moss colony, picked glowmold glows for 3 days once picked.

Ironbloom Mushrooms: These stunted fungi only grow in dark places thick with metal. The diets of Five Kings Mountains dwarves consist heavily of ironbloom mushrooms, mainly because the plants grow naturally in and around dwarven forges. Protein-rich ironbloom mushrooms bear a slight salty taste but otherwise contain no flavor of their own, making them excellent additions to many dwarven meals.

Pesh: This strong stimulant also has mild hallucinogenic properties, which together make its users easily agitated and randomly aggressive (and easily identified, with bloodshot eyes and frequent nosebleeds). Originally imported from Vudra, pesh cacti grow in warm, moist areas, like those around the vale's mudpots and hot springs. Wild pesh cacti threaten to choke out native species near the geothermal vents. Outside of Katapesh, Darkmoon Vale is the largest supplier of pesh to nations of Avistan.

Paueliel Trees: These silver-barked softwoods grow to immense heights, but never spread to more than a few feet in diameter. Lumberjacks claim paueliel trees are somehow connected with elves and give copses of them wide berth when logging.

Rat's tail: When pickled, this exceedingly salty root acts as a mild analgesic. Used raw, rat's tail gives a strong salty flavor to whatever dish it is added to. Many of the poor residents in Darkmoon Vale use rat's tail to flavor their food, as salt remains out of the price range of most.


History of Darkmoon Vale

The history of the region goes back before Taldan and Chelaxian humans first settled in the region in the mid-42nd century AR. In 3980 AR, it was rocked by the eruption of Droskar's Crag, a volcano just north of the Vale. The event, known as the Rending, destroyed the nearby dwarven settlement of Jernashall and flooded the Foam and Andoshen Rivers with millions of gallons of snowmelt. The resulting flooding caused widespread destruction along the banks of the rivers, particularly in the capital of Almas hundreds of miles away.

The indigenous Kellid inhabitants of Darkmoon Vale were first conquered in 4113 AR by Karas "the Falcon" Novotnian


Droskar's Crag

Droskar's Crag is a dormant volcano located in northern Andoran, in the region known as Darkmoon Vale. The mountain consists of two primary peaks, known as the Hammer and the Anvil, the taller of which rises to an altitude of 28,822 feet. The volcano last erupted in 3980 AR in a massive explosion known as the Rending, which transformed the entire region. At the time, Droskar's Crag was known as Torag's Crag, though its name was changed to reflect the more hostile nature of the volcano since that time. To date, it has shown no major activity, though the peaks constantly spew ash and smoke into the air as a constant reminder of the threat that exists beneath the snow-capped mountain

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Quest 1. Find out what happened to Druingar 'The Glintaxe' (Deldrin Baleson)
Quest 2. Retrieve at least 12 Ironbloom Mushrooms (Laurel Genre)---------------------------------------Have Mushrooms now to take them back
Quest 3. Find and rescue, if possible,Barlus Horton, The Hunter (Lady Cirthana Gensar)--------------Know hes downstairs in The Crucible
Quest 4. Hunt Down Drazmorg (Oriana)
Quest 5. Kill and bring back proof of big gray furred beast (Payden 'Payday' Teedum)----------------Done now to take proof back to Payday

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 watch schedule
1.  Breezy 7-830 pm
2.  Oriana 830-10 pm 
3. Satoru and Arielle 10-1130 pm
4. Dunndero 1130-1 am
5. Harley 1-230 am 
6. Toryn 230-4 am 
7. Larz 4-530 am 
8. Lucian 530-7am.

I took the liberty. If theres a change that you feel is important...let me know.