Uncharted Heroes
In the aftermath of invasion, a band of heroes come together in the wilderlands far from civilization. First, they strive to repel the invaders. After that, will they seek refuge or revenge? A new home or a life of wandering?
13th April 2008 TO PRESENT
Volume 1: A Once in a Lifetime Opportuntity! 13th April 2008 The Stonehelm Mining and Exploration company seeks interested parties to join them in establishing a new settlement in the uncharted lands north of the Ellenean Peninsula.
Chapter 1: New Beginnings 13th April 2008 Curious about news of recruitment for a new settlement, those with an adventurous heart flock to Floating City.
Chapter 2: The Adventure Starts! 11th May 2008 Wagons, carts, animals, and adventurers depart Floating City via turtle ferry, for the shores of the Crying Woods and the long trek into the uncharted lands.
Chapter 3: A Suitor Scorned 3rd June 2008 Lollena, a girl from one of the wagons has gone missing. Has she been kidnapped?
Chapter 4: A Time to Kill, and a Time to Heal 25th June 2008 Having liberated the pretty seamstress from the kidnappers, the party makes haste to return to the main body of the caravan. Along the route they enounter abandoned wagons occupied by some very sick settlers.
Chapter 5: A Time to Loose, and a Time to Seek 22nd July 2008 Having located a suitable camp site for the caravan's next stop, the scouts back track, only to discover the wagon train is under attack!
Chapter 6: A Time to Keep Silent, and A Time to Speak 18th August 2008 The caravan is able to beat off the bandits, narrowly foiling their attempt to steal an artefact secreted in the druid's wagon. Tarketh Clearwood reveals the Orb of Kalista to the security detail, and explains its relevance in the survival of settlement.
Chapter 7: Outlanders 8th September 2008 The security detail realize the wagon train is being watched.
Chapter 8: Dream Quest 14th October 2008 After breathing in magical smoke conjured by a native shaman, the group learn what it is that worries the nomads. While still in the dream state, the group are summoned to another Ahote camp and learn two children have gone missing in the night.
Chapter 4: Deadly Hunters 10th December 2008 The party investigate some creature's lair and discover a pair of deadly draconic hunters--Ambush Drakes!
Chapter 5: Ahote 5th January 2009 Having successfully overcome the monsters, the party investigate the lair. They are interrupted when a group of Ahote hunters make their presence known.
Chapter 6: Return to the Settlemnt 21st January 2009 The party returns to Bryn Baraz. The vigour of growth achieved by all plant material is shocking.
Chapter 7: Lurking Shadow 13th February 2009 The party investigates rumours of something lurking around the face of the outcrop above the community. The newest party member bravely volunteers to lead the investigation, only to get trapped on a ledge by a puma!
Chapter 1: The Children are Missing! 9th March 2009 While trying to relocate a puma from its lair near Bryn Baraz to the den previously occupied by a pair of Ambush Drakes, the party encounter a small group of Ahote scouts. The scouts recount the bewitching of Ahote womenfolk and the mysterious disappearance of the tribe's children.
Chapter 2: The Second Dream of the Ahote 24th March 2009 The party learns more about the history of the Ahote -- and receive a vision of a place that may lead to the restoration of the children.
Chapter 3: Battle in the Badlands 20th April 2009 Searching for a tilted spire in or near the broken lands of a black mesa, the party encounters those who wish them ill.
Chapter 4: Prisoner Dilemma 8th May 2009 Oh, what to do with captives? And after that, how to find the way through the maze of the badlands?
Chapter 5: Under The Tilted Spire 3rd June 2009 By a dark cold lake, the trail of faint evil leads the party to the place they have seen before -- in a vision. There are stairs here ... stairs that lead down into dangerous dark.
Volume 4: The Storm That Changes Everything 5th November 2009 Visions and premonitions give some warning, but nothing could truly prepare the folk of Bryn Baraz for what lies ahead.
Chapter 1: Coming Home 5th November 2009 The party returns to the settlement, with a warning.
Volume 5: A New Game Begins 14th February 2010 Across vast differences, from an amazing variety of backgrounds, a new team of adventurers is born: The Uncharted Heroes!
Volume 6: From Many, One 14th February 2010 Heroes separated by vast distances. Enemies beyond any chance of defeat. What little hope there may be depends on forging ties where none existed.
Chapter 1: In Medias Res 14th February 2010 Let us jump right in to our story, with adventurers alone and in groups, with clear purposes, with vague desires, with faint hopes. Real stories often do not have clear beginnings, and sometimes fantastic stories do not either. Even stories about heroes.
Chapter 2: Per Aspera Ad Astra 8th March 2010 Our heroes, still divided by vast distances, struggle to reach their goals ... their increasingly convergent goals.
Chapter 3: Lizardfolk and Ratmen 24th March 2010 In caverns, some heroes battle ratmen. Above ground, others encounter a range of lizardfolk, in diverse places.
Chapter 4: Fortuitous Meetings 23rd April 2010 Gruemor and Charek meet Alexi and Jet ... and then Keela. Meanwhile, Zeph, Sjurd, Hmark, and Garret meet the NPC refugees from Byrn Baraz.
Chapter 5: Veni, Vidi, Vici 18th May 2010 United, the heroes have brought the civilian refugees from dark caverns to a calm night. But will dawn bring an attack? Will the lizards come, see, and conquer? The heroes choose not to find out! They force a night march, and in the morning use one-shot magic to teleport the civilians back to Plateau City.
Chapter 6: The Second Battle for Bryn Baraz 8th June 2010 After sending the civilians to safety, the heroes return to their mining village and retake it from a skeleton force of lizard defenders.
Volume 7: Adventures in Grass 30th June 2010 The Uncharted Heroes seek out the Ahote and find that the people of Al-Mathir are seeking them too.
Chapter 1: Into the Blasted Lands 30th June 2010 The party seeks the Ahote, and the regions destroyed by Ancient Cataclysm loom before them.
Chapter 2: Battle Under Moonlight 23rd July 2010 After two young Ahote warriors rouse the party and lead them to a battle scene, our heroes find that a group of large lizards have massacred the Ahote. Being still sorely wounded, and with many asleep, these lizard-people present an unrivaled opportunity. Battle ensues.
Chapter 5: Battle on the Plains, Part Two 25th October 2010 The heroes capture the downed flying craft and defeat more thrul and their lizard-hounds that were coming up after them.
Volume 8: Journey to the Crying Woods 16th December 2010 The party travels south to the Crying Wood, seeking a lizard-folk noble to help them win back Bryn Baraz.
Chapter 1: A Report and Mystery 16th December 2010 Katarina, the party's contact with the mining company who is sponsoring the group, offers the results of a Divination that takes some interpreting. [And the party converts their PCs to 7th level under the Pathfinder Core Rules.]
Chapter 2: The Bite Of The Blight 18th January 2011 As the party journeys south -- to find an exiled lizard noble now living as a hermit -- the very earth under their feet attacks! Reeking with the stench of evil, this blighted land is a reminder that all the land hereabouts was blighted not too long ago.
Chapter 3: Eagles and Humans 21st February 2011 The party finds a conflict in progress, as two races fight over hunting rights in the rolling grasslands.
Chapter 4: The Lizardfolk of the Woods 15th March 2011 The party travels to the edge of the Crying Woods, seeking the lizardfolk among whom an Al Mathir noble lives in exile.
Volume 12: Rolling the Dice 15th January 2013 Keela's wedding is still fresh in the minds of Bryn Baraz when trouble looms on the edges of the Sphere's influence: a band of desperadoes has attacked the Bar Zero ranch and one of the survivors comes to the heroes for help.
Chapter 3: Scene 3 20th February 2013 It's been an eventful day for the Heroes so far: saving a lone rider from a pack of wolves, rushing out to a ranch that has been attacked by a group of raiders and then the surprise appearance of an angry earth elemental. What will happen next..?
Chapter 4: Scene 4 4th March 2013 The Heroes find that they must question the rancher Raeval about the identity of an outlaw called "the White Ranger" if they are to have any chance to get his kidnapped wife back from the clutches of the Bar Zero Gang.
Chapter 5: Scene 5 1st April 2013 The heroes, their new allies and a group of outlaws that they've captured return to the safety of Bryn Baraz. (It IS safe...right...?)
Chapter 1: That's Gonna Leave a Mark 13th May 2013 Just when things have returned to nearly normal, the heroes are called upon to investigate the sudden demise of one of the townspeople.
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