TMC: The Mercurial Avengers

Vengeance never dies, it's just reborn.

This campaign is happening in tandem with ⁠⁠Collateral Damage⁠⁠. Attros and We’ahqa exit the campaign after the Strahd adventure (⁠⁠ep 45⁠⁠/FR 7). Cereius and Kyver disappear from the party after the run-in with Galahad’s mentor Antonius (⁠⁠ep 63⁠⁠/FR 10). The first adventure that you will all hear occurs while Collateral Damage is spending time in the city of Nymora and ends a few day...

Mr. Bell has recruited Rig to pull Attros and We'ahqa from the Astral Sea. The three decide to recruit Cereius and Kyver from Collateral Damage to help them finish what they started. All the while, Mr. Bell runs a risky gambit to save the planes...

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The newly formed party finds its way to the Heartwood on the plane of Sloane. After disguising themselves and a bit of searching, they get an audience with the Arbiter, an Unillum called Amina. She's expecting them and asks them to help her find a Bard named Aldis, who goes by the moniker "Sleight Hand", who can help her defend the region from destabilizing forces. The only clues that she has are in a tome given to he...

The party had made its way into the Arbiter’s Tome in search of Aldis, a powerful bard who could help protect the Heartwood from extraplanar forces. They emerge from the portal and find themselves in a forest, on a path that leads them to a small and idyllic village. But something is off with its inhabitants, and We’ahqa is the first to notice. They eventually figure out, through several interactions, that all of the villagers seem...

Last we left off, several things were happening at once. We’ahqa, Cereius, and Attros started and then quickly finished an altercation with two sets of animated armor. While this happened, Kyver revealed himself to Aldis and the Beholder, pleading with them not to attack himself or his friends. After the animated armor sets were defeated and stuffed into Attros’s bag of holding, the three combatants entered the ballroom, where they...

Last we left off, the Beholder was defeated, and the search for Aldis was at the forefront. With the corpse of the Beholder looted and picked clean for ingredients, the party splits. Rig and Kyver make their way through the mansion while Cereius, Attros, and We’ahqa try to figure out where the bard may be. Using various spells, the three in the ballroom discover that the large painting in the room isn’t a normal painting but a door...

Last we left off, the Beholder was defeated, and Aldis was released from his prison within the Tome. The Party interpreted the clues from the Tome and found the cure for the bard’s affliction. With Aldis free and restored, the party brings him back to Amina, who rewards them with gratitude and a piece of the Root of the Heartwood. She imbues the piece into Cereius’s rings and makes a subtle suggestion to venture to the city of Nymo...

The party arrives in Grimdale, a town plagued by blight and disease. Investigating its source, We’ahqa communes with nature and learns that the corruption stems from the hells, infecting the river through poisoned roots. When Kyver collects samples, the residue manifests into a black ichor slime that attacks.

They meet Ruben, a cynical Earth Genasi guard with a grudge against nobles, who warns of Drakewood Travels’ shady dealings. R...

After exploring the outskirts of Grimdale, the party set off from town, following new leads and fragments of information. Guided by Rubin, an old Earth Genasi guard who’d long left city life behind, they traced signs of the spreading blight to a nearby river, where corrupted remnants lingered. Rubin shared what he knew about Nymora and its darker dealings, pointing them toward the forest ahead.

As the group traveled through incr...

In the dead of night, a shadow moved through camp: a panther that vanished into the dark with Poncho in its jaws. Without We’ahqa, who had gone missing hours earlier, the Mercurial Avengers gave chase. Guided by Franchise, We’ahqa’s familiar, they ventured into a mist-choked bog where twisted Jaculi vipers and a blighted elder lizard struck from the murky water. Kyver’s blades found their mark, cutting down the monster in moments.

Last time, our group found themselves outside the eastern gate of Nymora, where Kyver had seen his past tormentor, the son of the Vitalis family, Abraxis. Although he had to hold himself back from chasing after him, Rig and the others used this opportunity to disguise themselves and head in while playing themselves off as a noble and their bodyguards. 

Despite hearing noises coming from behind them, the party pushed further in, ...

Picking up from last time with the Mercurial Avengers, We'ahqa departed and set out to return to Cat’s Cradle, while the others set out with Poncho to find We'ahqa. However, when the rest of the group made it to the location where We'ahqa him were left. After a few inquiries from Rig to an elderly green Tabaxi lady with golden eyes, they were able to determine that she is a “cleaner” of the street, and that “occasionall...

Last time on Mercurial Avengers, the party had a close call with some of the guards looking for them, but after being commanded by their leader to return to patrol, they headed off, leaving the Cat’s Cradle Inn, where We'aqha, Cereius, and Rig were currently at.

Rig headed out to meet Kyver, who brought his friend Robin Lynxley to meet the group after a bit of an exchange. During this time, Cereius began to sense something ...

Last time on the Mercurial Avengers, the party set off to the Greatsword Village, where the barracks of the city guards and knights were. There, they went to meet Arnable and came across many of the warriors training. The group disguised themselves as Fat Arguile made his crunchy appearance through town. 

After getting up to some antics and familiarizing themselves with one of the guards, they were shown to Arnable’s quarters. W...

Last time with the Mercurial Avengers, Rig and Weaqha took a look at some wares while in the market area. Weaqha learned what a black market really was, opting not to purchase a presumably stolen moon sickle. Meanwhile, Cereius, led by a strange vision of his wife, Valencia, came to a fortune teller. There, he received fortune-telling from an elderly goblin shaman woman, showing him visions of his past, present, and somehow possibl...

The party had split up, Rig and Kyver going with Robin Lynxley to rob the Western Branch of the Drakewood Travels. Robin served as a distraction, picking a fight with the outside guards while Rig and Kyver headed in, disguised as a shorter Shanks and a stocky Zechs. While inside, they happened to run into an older Tabaxi gentleman named Rinde, whom they had fooled into thinking they were from an official branch checking for the pos...

The party found themselves in a tight situation, surrounded by many people involved in the operations of the Vineyard, but an old friend of Cereius, Satela, joined them as Kyver held back on lashing out against those who had wronged his kind. After coming back together and reassessing the situation, the party decided to leave the vineyard for now, to return with a more formulated plan to shut down the vineyard and free the cap...

Last time on Mercurial Avengers, Kyver had just found himself home and face-to-face with his mother, but time stood still as the group saw a rift that opened up behind them. As they ventured through it, they traveled through the memories of their companions, gaining a peek into Attros’ past and the day Kyver was taken away to the Vineyard.

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The party continued traveling through the memories of their fellow companions. They found themselves in a dungeon in which Cereius himself had traveled once before, with old friends in search of the Hourglass of Phantasia, only to find that it was a ruse by the elven wizard Kaela in the party, who sought out a ruby gem that was found between 2 pillars guarded by gigantic statues of Displacer Beasts. After stealing the gem, Kaela te...