User:Zeromaru X/Project Neverwinter/Campaign outline/Summary 1

==Campaign 1, the White Griffons rise==

Dates
Alturiak 3 – Alturiak 30, 1479 DR

Summary

 * Kaylara, Dargor, Kara the Oghmanite and other adventurers hired by Dann Thann to protect Kaylara, are hired by Seldra Tylmarande in Waterdeep to escort her to Neverwinter. As Kay was planning to go to Neverwinter before that, the deal is quickly accepted and they sail to Neverwinter with Dann's blessing.
 * Upon arriving to Neverwinter they are ambushed by the Red Wizard Tolivast, who steals the package that Seldra was carrying, that has the lost Crown of Neverwinter.
 * The adventurers chase Tolivast across the city to Neverdeath Graveyard. There, they had to force their way into the cemetery while fighting a horde of undead commanded by Tolivast. The adventurers are able to eventually kill Tolivast, retrieve the Crown and destroy most of the undead. Unknown to them, however, is the fact that Tolivast had managed to curse the Crown with a spell of madness.
 * Kay returns the Crown back to Seldra, unaware that this was the fabled Crown of Neverwinter (luckily for her).
 * Kay and her companions began to search for a place to live in Neverwinter. Although they considered to rent rooms at the Moonstone Mask at first, they eventually decided to rent rooms in the Beached Leviathan because the Moonstone Mask was full of Dagult Neverember's sympathizers.
 * While Dargor was buying some stuff for the group, he is contacted by a Harper named Cymril. Sent there to spy on Kay (as she is a noble from Waterdeep, some parties in the city were interested in her doings), so she contacted Dargor and convinced him to join the Harpers cell in the city, praising his ability with swordmagic. Cymril's plans were to use Dargor as a scapegoat if something went awry.
 * A tenday later, Cymril and a few members of the Sons of Alagondar are killed by Mintarn mercenaries, who ambushed them during a "pacific" manifestation. This was Dargor's first mission with the Harpers, and he was the only survivor of the attack. He discovered that Cymril was a double agent working for Nevermeber. Before fleeing the scene, Dargor retrieved Cymril's Harper pin. Dargor's relationship with the Harper's cell in the city becomes complicated, as he is suspected of Cymril's murder.
 * This operation deals a huge blow to the Sons of Alagondar, and eventually the group divides into two groups: the Nashers and the Graycloacks. Lord Neverember hailed the news as a victory for law and order in the city and promised to pursue the remnants of the insurgency.
 * In the meanwhile, Kay had learned a lot of the current status of the city and the New Neverwinter movement.
 * Kay's group was also been helping the citizens of Neverwinter in what they could, usually volunteering themselves to help to patrol in the Wall. Is during those watch patrols that they met Alegast Amakiir, a ranger that is fighting plaguechanged horrors while seeking for his lost sister.
 * Two tendays after the group has arrived to Neverwinter, the Shards of Selûne fall into the city.
 * The following morning, Kay's group is hired by Lady Jasmine, a priest of Selûne, who knows what they did in Neverdeath and wants their help. She task them to retrieve the Shards of Selûne. Spies of Lord Neverember report Kay's meeting with Lady Jasmine to him. He invites the group to the Hall of Justice for their first meeting that same day.
 * Lord Neverember task Kay's group to help a platoon of his soldiers to deal with a group of plaguechanged monsters that are in the place where one of the Shards fell, just on the other side of the Wall from the Protector's Enclave. As she knows Lord Neverember for his position of Open Lord of Waterdeep, Kaylara accepts his request.
 * At the same time, Valindra Shadowmantle reunites with Arlon Bladeshaper, the leader of the Nashers, and the wererat Rsolk, the leader of the Dead Rats cell in Neverwinter, and begins to support the Nashers activities in the city.
 * Kay's group and Neverember's soldiers are able to deal with the plaguechanged monsters with help from defenders of the Wall, with minimal losses for the soldiers and defenders, although one of the adventurers in Kay's group is killed. As Neverember is not interested in the Shards, the group successfully retrieves the first one. They also recruit the young warlock Quon as a replacement for the death adventurer, unaware that she is an spellscarred. Deegan, a member of the Graycloaks faction of the Sons of Alagondar, recognizes Dargor as the rogue Harper suspected of having killed Cymril. As seeing him defending the Wall has changed his opinion about him, Deegan invites Dargor to talk with Madame Rosene at the Driftwood Tavern.
 * As clues about the second Shard lead them to Blacklake District, the adventurers go to the Beached Leviathan to talk with Eralt Gavin, a patron of the tavern that leads the Friends of Blacklake Association. Eralt reveals that the Shard has been taken by Palas, a bandit who lives in the ruined area of the Docks District.
 * While searching for clues about Palas, the group meet the elven sisters Sylvara and Ayala. After besting them in a duel of skill, Kay hires them for the mission.
 * A few hours later, the group is ambushed by a party of Nashers who believe Kay was a puppet of Neverember. The group is able to defeat the Nashers thanks to the help of the wizard Olivar, who joins them after the battle.
 * At the Driftwood Tavern, Deegan introduces Kay to Madame Rosene, the leader of the Graycloaks. After determining that Dargor is most likely innocent and that Kay is a true ally of Neverwinter (however, Kay never revealed her true bloodline to her), Madame Rosene decides to help the group directing them to Palas' hideout.
 * After reaching the old Docks, the group witness an all-out battle between Palas and his minions against members of the Nashers, the Dead Rats, some Mintarn mercenaries, some imps sent by the Ashmadai, and some undead from Castle Never that had been attracted to the gem. Despite the efforts of the other factions, Kay's group, with help of the Mintarn mercenaries, kill Palas and retrieve the second Shard. As the party loots Pallas' hideout, they find a journal with information about Gauntlgrym and a waterclock from the Waterclock Guild's Crypts.
 * A few days later, Kay get clues of the last Shard thanks to the Graycloaks. The last Shard fell into the River District, and now a band of orcs from Many-Arrows are trying to get it. The group goes to the River District and deal with the orcs diplomatically. From one of the orcs they learn about Vagdru One-Ear, the bartender of The Fallen Tower.
 * After impressing the orcs present at the Fallen Tower (as Dargor defeated Brog in an ale drinking contest), Kay befriends Vansi Bloodscar and Vagdru directs the party to the Shard of Night, where the last gem fell. Vansi provides an orc squad to help Kay against the Shadovar agents in the temple.
 * Kay's group and the orcs storms the Shard of Night by using a modified version of Tenser's Floating Disk ritual, cast by Olivar.
 * Although the battle is hard (the orc squad lost half of its number and one of the adventurers of Kay's group was killed by an Uthgardt werewolf), Kay and her allies are able to defeat the Shadovar agents and destroy the teleportation circle that connected the temple to Xinlenal, and retrieve the last Shard of Selûne. The group also retrieve some of the treasures stored there by the Shadovar, including a few Iliyanbruen relics (that alert Alegast of the Shadovar movements in the Neverwinter Wood) and a white griffon pup the Netherese were training.
 * In the following days, Lady Jasmine and the selûnite priests use the Shards to reconsecrate the Shard of Night to Selûne.
 * In the meantime, Kaylara decides to adopt the griffon, naming him Crookytail. With the new addition to the group, they decide its time for their company to have a name: the White Griffons are born.