Session 11: The Battle of the Stilt Docks & The Miracle at the Brink
Session 11 narrative: The party awakens on Isla Hela, defeats Inquisitor Brother Lorn at the Stilt Docks, and channels the Siphon Core to cure Gus of the Salt Rot.
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Session 10: The Weight of What You Carry
Session 10 narrative: the party flees the Drift on the Shadow Sprinter, retrieves raw Clarion from the Bleached Lady, and meets Gus.
Session 09: The Tar Pit Gambit
Last time, the crew made their preparations for an underground auction — a location of a mysterious crate, a bidding floor full of people with reasons to want it, and a plan that assumed the other interested parties were there to buy. They weren't.
Session 08: The Scent of Raw Eel and The Blue Goose
The Crow's Roost sat perched like a bird of prey—a salvage shop cobbled together from the hulls of dead ships. It was here the party sought answers about the Clarion Crate.
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Session 7 (Part 2): Rust, Rangers, and Fragrant Stealth
The Rust Bucket Tavern had earned its name. Old enough that the wood had long since rotted away and been replaced entirely by rust — structural rust now. Dim, warm, close. Not quite a dive; definitely not Gilded Keel's resort.
Session 7 (Part 1): The Weight of Ancient Iron
In the chaos of Atlas's raid, the party made their escape the hard way. Thorne's lighthouse, which had pulsed violet and alien for so long, went dark the moment they cleared the cove.
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Session 6: The Glass House
At the edge of the world, where the sea meets the sky, a lighthouse burns with a light that isn't fire. The players confront Dr Elias Thorne on Watchtower Cay.
Session 5: The Low Road to Watchtower Cay
In which our heroes play a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with searchlights, hallucinate the past in a tunnel of sand, and discover that kobolds make excellent (if paranoid) bar buddies.
Gears & Grottos: A Traveler’s Guide to The Hollows
The Hollows is a magnificent disaster! Inside a sea cave whitewashed to reflect a single sunbeam, it’s a clandestine paradise of turquoise paint and Seaweed Gin. The bridges have a 40% collapse rate, but that’s just part of the charm. 4.5 Cogs—structural chaos at its finest!
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Session 04: Breaking the Blockade
The Hollows held its breath. The party awoke at The Driftwood Inn not to the usual clamor of the port, but to a suffocating "low tide" anxiety. Atlas Group had locked down the harbor, a reactionary fist closing tight after the destruction of their dredger at Whispering Deep.
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Session 3: The Shadow of the Watcher
A DnD session narrative In which our heroes discover that underground cities have skylights, tortoises make excellent armorers, and the best way to start a heist is with accidental seduction.
Building a Second Brain for Dungeon Masters: How AI Transformed My Campaign Organization
Every DM knows the chaos: sticky notes everywhere, scattered NPCs, lost plot threads. Discover how I built a sophisticated campaign management system using AI—without writing a single line of code.
Episode 1: The Crystal Rot
The introductory tale of the DND story
