Characters

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Scenes

• The Spindle
  • Flighty Foundling arrives and takes Miken into custody, Boatswain Tarto and Saerthe Abizjn board the characters ship to join them, Saerthe as captain and spelljammer. Wizpop, Krik’let, and Pffred go with the foundling.
  • Takes days to reach H’Catha. When they do, show characters the art.
  • Tarto gives characters sending stone and bag of holding (for meteorite).
  • Characters find where meteorite landed but no meteor, and a single pair of tracks leading from the site. DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check to knows its an ogre.
• Spindle Cavern - negotiate with ogre and beholders over meteorite
  • Cavern is dimly lit by cracks in the ceiling.
  • Two spectators named Greelob and Orlob ask the characters to figure which of them should guard the meteorite. Greelob arrived first.
  • Ogre with one eye follows and beholder named Kurrzot but is pretty lazy and disinterested.
  • meterorite is 500 lbs, 2 feet x 18 inches x 18 inches.
  • lots of options. Convince one or both spectators to go, leave it to ogre, fight them all.
  • Kind of want to have a short beholder encounter and escape. Maybe a beholder zombie gives chase?
  • The foundling flies away with Tarto proclaiming “Now for the easy part”
• Journey Interrupted
  • Saerthe sees a sus asteroid, Tarto sends characters to investigate. DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) to see a githyanki damselfly ship hiding behind asteroid.
  • Qitru, githyanki on a starlancer, flies up and demands Miken.
  • No Miken, inevitable fight until Qitru or the starlancer is reduced to 20 hp.
  • If captured, Qitru admits:
    • Qitru and her crew work for a mercane named Vocath.
    • Vocath has several vessels looking for the tyrant ship.
    • The damselfly ship hiding behind the asteroid has a four giff and four githyanki aboard it.
    • Qitru has a strange tatoo that is Vorcath’s symbol.
    • The damselfly ship will let the characters go, but surreptitiously follow them
• Homecoming
  • After night’s rest, characters are told to report to foundling in morning to swab the decks.
  • To giff drop on to foundling to drive off characters.
  • Once characters defeat giff, explosion from other side of academy.
  • If characters go to check on Miken, encounter two githyanki carrying Miken. If they stay put, gith show up at the ship.
  • If its going badly Wizpop shows up to help.
  • If one githyanki falls, the other chops off Miken’ head.
  • Characters find tatoo with Vocath’s sigil on the githyanki’s neck.
• Graduation Day
  • grad ceremony. characters told to go to neverwinter to wait assignment to a ship.
  • Each characters can choose 1 magic item.

Secret and Clues

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• [ ] “Keep an eye out for some of these new cadets - they think the can cut it by studying all day, but it takes more than book learning to survive in Wildspace!” - a reference to Miken Haverstance in chapter 2.
• [ ] “There have been a bunch of thefts around the academy here lately…Mirt and the bridge are letting any vagrant in the place!”
• [ ] “Have you been to the Rock of Bral yet? Let me tell you, its the place to be in Wildspace!”
• [ ] “I’ve heard tale of world inhabited by elves whose star is dying! Hate to be them!” - A reference to the Xaryxian Empire.
• [ ] “It seems like Miken is nervous about something besides the academy, like something he is hiding.”
• [ ] “Vocath is a Mercane, some kind of space giant, who has a grudge against Mirt. I hear it has something to do with an astral elf lady.“
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