22 Tarsakh, 1502 DR

its been a month im here, fun place this is, the people certainly are different everyone has their on little quirk and history.
The region seems chaotic, so many things try to kill you.
The missions are something else too, heard the other day some of the new guys stoped a ritual that would destroy the world, and me myself discovered a plot to revive a angry serpent god and stuff. well aint much to say for now, the plot is still on going and only time will say if they will do it

well since we talking about missions, Parnast, hate the place, the mayor or what ever Raggnar is, DONT GO THERE!

-surx

TIME TRAVEL EXTRAVAGANZA?

Hey, whoever might be reading this :)

Oh man, this one was a fun one.

So, I don’t know much, but everyone except Na’ima had some history with this pirate crew that contracted us. I think it was a good history? Either way, they knew each other. Our mission was to infiltrate a pirate-only tavern.

After talking a bit with Aurora, the captain, and listening to some of the crew, I noticed they were going on about some end-of-the-world nonsense, something about a giant serpent destroying everything, and then the gods dropping an entire island on it. You know, classic religious cult talk to scare people into following them. Don’t fall for that, kids.

Anyway, the mission required disguises… and PIRATES! Aurora got us a bunch of pirate clothes. Oh yeah, the gang: me, Na’ima, Shev, Bri, and Yashir.

After some thinking, we all came up with pirate personas: Me: the Crimson Corsair, a hot redhead man (man, because there was already a hot redhead woman among us), Na’ima: the Boar, Shev: Shiv, Bri: Red Blade, and Yashir… honestly, I forgot his :(

Welp.

We got to the tavern, where there was this pig-looking bouncer. We had to convince him we were pirates—surprisingly easy.

Inside, there were… a lot of pirates. Shocking, I know. We split up to gather information. Everyone picked up bits and pieces, but Na’ima ended up talking to the right people and got us the full story.

So, there’s this pirate crew called The Dark Tide. Long story short: they were researching something related to that giant serpent I mentioned earlier. They had a room in the tavern and caused quite a bit of trouble before one day just disappearing. Only the captain ever left. Spooky.

We got ourselves the key, and a crowbar, and broke into their room. Pirates are very superstitious, so it was locked up tight.

Inside, there wasn’t much, just a mess and more of that serpent-and-gods mumbo jumbo.

Then Yashir, like an amateur, decided to touch a horn he found.

And we all got teleported.

To the past.

Yeah. Time travel. Because things weren’t weird enough already

We ended up on a beach, and it was chaos. Remember the serpent? Yeah, she was there—VERY far away, but also VERY big. So big we could barely even see it. People were running everywhere.

So we ran too.

We ran into the missing crew, and they told us they were stuck in a time loop. You remember the part about the gods dropping an island on the serpent? Yeah. That. well I think it was that island.

They said we had to protect some priests during a ritual involving the horn. If we succeeded, we could use it to get back.

So that’s what we did.

We fought off a multi-headed dragon thing, two fish-like creatures, and two water elementals. We held them off long enough for the ritual to finish. Then, when the priest came over—probably to thank us—Yashir just grabbed the horn from her and… blew it.

And that got us back.

So yeah. Apparently, someone is trying to free a giant serpent god that wants to destroy the world.

Which raises a question: how do people even join these cults?

Like seriously—who wakes up and thinks,
“Hmm, I want to free a god that hates me and will definitely kill me. Yeah, that sounds great. Can’t wait to destroy the entire world for someone who despises my existence.”

What the fuck?

- Surx XoXo

Did I ever write how much I hate Parnast?

So yeah, another mission there. My boy Raggnar :) was worried about a group of hobgoblins that were “too close” to town. (Not close enough, in my opinion.) Apparently, they wanted to join a hill giant’s army at some wizard’s tower.

So, me, Na’ima, Ivor, Sal, and Mila went to where these hobgoblins were supposed to be. On the way, a tiny dragon appeared, and Ivor—being weird about dragons—didn’t even let the thing speak before agreeing to do its bidding. That might be something he needs to work on, honestly. Anyway, the tiny dragon asked us to find a wizard’s tower.

We eventually found the hobgoblins… dead, in the middle of the swamp, with no apparent cause. Well, we figured out the cause soon enough—mephits and these water snake things started attacking us. We dealt with them without too much trouble, and then another little, smelly mud mephit showed up and started talking. Very annoying creature. Still, it led us to the wizard’s tower from before. Quite a long walk, by the way.

When we got there, we found a group led by someone called “Momma-something,” with around ten ogres under her command. We tried to infiltrate their ranks, but that didn’t work, so we had to fight our way through.

When we finally reached this “Momma” figure, turns out she wasn’t a person she was a hag. A sea hag, to be exact. Honestly, I feel a bit bad for them. They’re so ugly that people and animals fear them on sight. I imagine that’s part of why they end up so cruel they can’t really make friends. Must be a difficult existence.

Anyway, the rest of the group was terrified of her :)
Not me, of course. I see beauty differently. When you can be whoever you want, it’s hard to judge based only on appearance… though, yes, she was ugly.

It was a tough fight. I was handling three or four ogres at once, but I’m good, so it was manageable. In fact, I even killed the hag myself—with a single hit. All me.

Once she went down, the ogres lost their nerve and ran. We let them go, and no one said anything that could cause trouble for the Syndicate.

All is good :)

Surx

This one is also way too overdue.

So, a fun one too. I don’t know much about demons well, I know they like contracts and such. Bunch of nonsense in my opinion; a good old verbal agreement is much better. I’m losing the plot, sorry.

So we all met for a mission: me, Na’ima, Mimsy, and Coranzen, who at the time was a newbie in the Syndicate. Thrax shows up, explains basically nothing, and just teleports us away.

We go through the portal and appear in… I don’t even know how to describe it. A massive hole in the ground where Elturel was supposed to be. Demons everywhere, refugees lots of them. We met a few, including a pink tiefling who was a bit of a snob, in my opinion, but that doesn’t really matter.

The refugees asked us to gather supplies, weapons, and more refugees, so off we went. We got to a blacksmith, and while we were talking to him, a woman conveniently knocked on the door, claiming there were bandits and other dangers outside. All lies she was clearly up to no good. But nobody believed me, so we didn’t do anything about it.

Next, we went to a temple. I personally didn’t notice anything strange, but the others found a secret door. We went down the stairs, and sure enough demonic ritual. Very fun, indeed. We tried to stop it, but they managed to transform the poor guy on the table into a spined demon. We killed all the cultists, though Cor went down for a bit luckily, he was quickly healed.

After that, we found an old man who refused to leave his house. I almost knocked him out to drag him along, but it didn’t come to that we convinced him to leave willingly.

Then, our last stop: an inn that was on fire. Inside, there were these blob-like demons looked like multiple people fused together into a mass of flesh. Truly fascinating, not going to lie. Never thought something like that could exist. Anyway, we killed them all and managed to save the people inside.

Buuut while me, Cor, and Na’ima were doing that, Mimsy and the pink lady Dahlia, that was her name were apparently trying to “help” a dying man… by going through his pockets. They claimed they were checking his pulse through his pockets. I don’t know how nobody else found that suspicious, but okay.

With the inn cleared and people saved, we returned to the caravan of poor souls. Mission complete, I guess. I still don’t really understand how the Syndicate works, but we got our gold, so that’s good :)

So the mission was to scout some forest and report back to the enclave, pretty basic.
The gang runs into a Troll.

Welp, after a week without any assignments, I get to finally go on one. To start, I got the mission details from Thrax — enclave, people doing missions with them, something something... got to the forest by the road where everything tries to kill you, and scout the area because some druid people want that info. Pretty basic. Can’t see why they chose me for that mission, but okay, I’m desperate.

Well, I met some new faces that got assigned to the mission as well:
Salviron: little weird magic man, had to be carried multiple times and looked like he was about to pass out of starvation.
Astraelis: little weird magic woman, same as Salviron minus the carrying.
Fenris: big muscular divine magic man, very good for climbing.
And Arlis: already met him, so I didn’t care to take notes, gets angry.

So yeah, we met in front of the syndicate, I did the [REDACTED] with all of them, and went on our journey. There I got some more info about the previous jobs they’ve done.

Far enough we went into the forest, since I’ve noticed some non-fun fey activities, I tried looking for that kind of stuff.

So while I was looking for any fey activity, some of the group noticed it was very quiet in the forest, so we did some more investigating and found weird magic symbols. They had some magic on them but very little, and for some reason the vegetation appeared to be growing faster.

We kept following the trail and found some more of the symbols, and after some more walking we found a village that was completely destroyed and overgrown by magical weed monsters.

Arlis and I decided to go a little further stealthily. Did not go well — Arlis was found, and I think around 10 of the weed monsters appeared. Quickly, I killed one. As the monster fell, it alerted a bigger “fish” in the area, and a Troll appeared out of nowhere. (I don’t know shit about Trolls — scary thing doesn’t die, gotta do a puzzle to kill it).

Well, we killed it, and I started looting. We found some weird magic items and two more of the symbols. Then a figure that was watching us from afar started to come closer. He called himself [WOW ITS A SUPER COOL NAME], a druid from the enclave. I took the front of talking, but that didn’t stop Salviron from being a little aggressive with the strange man. He told us the location of a druid bastion around the area and gave us a broach so that we could enter the place with no problems.

That was the mission.

Ass - Surx
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This is way overdue, but oh well.

So, this was my first mission with the Syndicate good times, even if it was sooo long ago (like, one month). We were tasked with going to Parnast, being good sports, and helping with whatever they needed something involving the Zhentarim. So off we went: me, Na’ima, and Ivor.

Right at the village entrance, we got profiled because Na’ima is an orc, but we managed to resolve things without much trouble. The guard who stopped us pointed us toward the tavern, so that’s where we went.

There, we met a questionable individual named Raggnar. He wanted us to hunt some big game for a festival happening that day. Oh, I forgot to mention the conditions in that tavern were terrible. They gave us a squirrel to eat. Yeah.

Anyway, back to the important part: his reputation was pretty bad because he had helped the Cult of the Dragon, and now he was desperately trying to rebuild it. After he gave us the quest, a very angry guy showed up and started arguing with Raggnar. While they were going at it, we noticed that Raggnar’s daughter and the other guy’s son had a thing for each other. Could’ve been a beautiful love story… but, well, he died the next day. Don’t worry about that for now.

The son came up to us and begged to join the hunt. So we said yes :)

The next day, we woke up early to go hunting with the son. Don’t ask me his name. He died so fast it wasn’t worth remembering. Sad, I guess.

We spent some time wandering through the woods, which Raggnar conveniently forgot to mention were fey territory. There was this blue mist that made it hard to breathe. Eventually, we found an elk, and just as we were ready to take the shot, a sprite suddenly spoke. It startled me, and I fired killing the elk instantly.

Then things went downhill. A bunch of sprites and a tree decided to kill us, and just to prove a point, they turned the poor lover boy into a pancake. Not with magic just a giant tree stomping him flat. Na’ima didn’t want to kill any of them, so we held back… except for one that Ivor accidentally(?) cooked alive.

We won the fight and quickly left, carrying pancake boy and the elk. When we got back to the village… yeah, not great. The boy’s father started crying very sad stuff. Instead of a festival, they held a funeral.

During this funeral, the sprites attacked again this time with giant wasps. And for some reason, the villagers decided it was a great idea to start killing themselves climbing onto tables and shoving an old guy into an open flame. Absolute chaos.

We won the fight and captured one of the sprites. We tried talking to her, but after a bunch of nonsense, Raggnar decided we had to do community service.

And that was it.

Hope that village exploded. With much love,
Surx XoXo