talumin

OK, so lots of campaign diaries now, just to keep my head around them all.

I have the Storm King's Thunder module book, so I sort of know what to expect with this campaign, but the DM S has said he's going to be changing a LOT, so I'm excited. I also have avoided picking up the STK book since the campaign was announced, so I won't be tempted to check on things.

This game I'm playing Manu Kuka-Ilimoru, a goliath circle of the moon druid, which means I can transform into different animals and use LOTS of magic. Personality wise, he's basically Korg from Thor Ragnarok - he believes in balance and letting things be, but the world is a brutal place, so sometimes he has to work and fight to bring it back into balance.

We started off on an airship going to Goldenfields, and we introduced ourselves. We have me, A playing a monosyllabic dwarf pyromancer, B (our usual DM) playing a halfling bard, E playing a tabaxi warlock, T playing an aasimir paladin, and M playing a silver dragonborn divination wizard. T has dropped her paladin after the first session, so we'll see what she's playing next week.

Our airship got attacked by four air elementals who were trying to free the captive air elemental that steers the ship. We managed to kill the attacking elementals, but they did free the captive one first, who escaped and left us stranded. We managed to pass a skill challenge to save the ship from crashing, so yay us!

After landing, we continued towards Goldenfields with our contact, who was quickly becoming the Major Reisman to our Dirty Half-Dozen. We were stopped by what were clearly bandits and although the bard tried to talk us past, the dwarf mage toasted about eight of them with one fireball shot, which meant we were battling. Some great initiative rolls meant that I turned into a dire wolf and teamed up with the warlock to kill the leader before the bandits even had a turn. The bandits fled, save for one who may have been the leader's wife. She kept pointlessly attacking and since Manu is totally feral in beast mode, he had to be magicked into NOT killing her. So the tabaxi did it instead. This led to major conflict between the warlock and paladin, with them nearly killing each other. It also made T realise she didn't like her character and want to switch.

We eventually made it to Goldenfields and I was reminded why we were actually going there (there are missing treants) but before we could really get to talk to the locals, we were taken to the castellan, who proved to be a massive tool who had no idea what was going on in his community. We might have made some mistakes there, but that's where the session ended before we could learn more.

I'm playing again Thursday, but our regular DM will be running one-shots on Wednesdays, so lots of roleplaying to come!!