The Sundered Lands

The Sundered Lands of Palladium

It is a dark time.
Much has happened in the world since these companions traveled together. They have been called back to once again fight against the Lords of Chaos and help protect their world.
The lands have already been torn asunder in some places. If evil is allowed to win, the entire world could suffer the same fate!

Introduction

This is a continuation of our long-running GURPS: Palladium Fantasy campaign that started back in 2008. We played weekly using MapTool for 3 and a half years. At that point we were running 2 separate groups through a shared campaign. There were 10-12 characters played by 7 players (most of whom were original campaign players, and the others had 2+ years in the campaign) We decided to take a break for a while and started up another campaign that ran for multiple years (Dark Paths of Riddleport) before deciding to come back to this one. Still not ready to start this campaign back up right away, Arne (one of the players) agreed to host an Interludes campaign in which he GMed a series of connected plots for the characters and I got to play a former PC that had left the campaign and was reunited with her old companions. These Interludes went on for just over a year and finally, I was ready to take the campaign back over.

I fast-forwarded time, bumped all the characters up to [400] points (they were spread out anywhere between 250 and 375) and brought them back together. I added some new bad stuff to the world to let everyone know that the stakes had been raised then we jumped right in and started gaming!

The Cast of Characters (and some of them are REALLY characters!)

Arn Ironfist - Dwarven miner, lawyer and brawler who talks to his right-hand gauntlet, "Lefty"

Seeker Militis - Wolfen Warlord, scout and teenager who wields a powerfully enchanted greatsword

Valinya - Elven "air-headed" Elven wild-song mage who crafts her magic through song and can draw upon great reserves of power to handle any situation

Moonscar - Kankoran druid, mystic and esoteric enigma who goes by many names and speaks with the many smokes of the Web and travels with Sings to Moon, a savage timber wolf from the cold north

Silver - a young dragon hatchling who possesses fiery breath, magical talent and the ability to take the form of a beautiful Elf maiden. She tends to find "flame-based solutions" to most obstacles

Campaign Log

• Session 01 - Rendezevous on Lopan

• Session 02 - Lopan Aftermath

• Session 03 - Arriving in Essanos

• Session 04.1 - Getting a Room

• Session 04.2 - Visiting the Witchwardens

• Session 04.3 - Checking out the Shadowshore

• Session 05 - Meeting Lavinia

• Session 06 - The Blue Nixie

• Session 07 - Battle for the Blue Nixie

• Session 08 - Ship Shape

• Session 09 - A Sick Old Man and a Puzzle

• Session 10 - The Vision and the Vault

• Session 11 - The Riddle of the Eyes

• Session 12 - Where's the Money?

• Session 12.1 - Tracking Down Some Leads

• Session 13 - Van-Arn-thus Goes for a Walk

• Session 14 - Where's Vanthus?

• Session 15 - Parrot Island

• Session 16 - Under Parrot Island

• Session 17 - Deep Under Parrot Island

• Session 18 - The Spirit of Parrot Island

• Session 19 - Swimmin' in the Dark

• Session 20 - Turmoil in Essanos

• Session 20.1 - A Dwarf and an Ellyl Walk Into a Marketplace...

• Session 21 - Of Slaves and Taxidermists

• Session 22.1 - Trouble with the Taxidermist

• Session 22.2 - Watching the Street

• Session 22.3 - Coming in From the Rear

• Session 23 - Interrogating Eliar Peake
• Session 24 - Sea Harpies Here We Come

• Session 25 - Under the Docks

• Session 26 - Inside the Sea Harpy Lair

• Session 27 - Things Get Explosive!
• Session 28 - Tunnel Fighting
• Session 29 - Deeper into the Harpy's Lair
• Session 30 - Down the Hall
• Session 31 - To the Training Hall
• Session 32 - Clearing the Training Hall
• Session 33 - The Inner Chambers
• Session 34 - Grimbor Down
• Session 35 - Don't Mess With Valinya
• Session 36 - Lady Lotus Splits
• Session 37 - Hotfoot and Jackpot
• Session 38 - The Spoils of War
• Session 39 - Lookit All the Gold!

Campaign Update - This campaign is still ongoing. We are about to play Session 205 this coming weekend (220227) and should be wrapping up the entire thing within the next 10 sessions or so. Sadly I just could not keep up with the session reports (I'm only missing 165 or so....)