2025-03-29 - Session Zero?

Previous session: 2025-02-15 - Social & Light Discussion
Next session: 2025-04-12 - Session 1

Where Were We?

Trying to figure out WTF we’re doing and who we are.

And Then What Happened?

• Character introductions
  • Clodagh MacCairthaigh (Dave’s character)
    • Grew up playing with logger children & developed affinity for nature
    • Came to town as a small child (doesn’t remember)
    • Encountered Brighde Dunleigh while playing in the woods?
    • Father was master woodcarver
  • Aoife O’Dairn (Jenn’s character)
    • niece of Brighde Dunleigh
    • descends from founders of FW
  • Thalador Orelion (Mike’s character)
    • Mountain elf, not quite 100 years old, so older but also a peer of the human members of the party in terms of maturity
    • On a misson: go look & find out what’s up
    • Has a mentor, is part of a small trade group from the elves — Amlachanar
    • Official goal 1: Learn about the wizard in town
    • Official goal 2: Learn about what’s going on with the sinkhole
    • Personal goal: find missing sibling
  • Cador Logan (James’s character) is a large, simple man
    • Traces his line to the founders.
    • Grew up listening to grandfather’s stories — believes them as truth
    • Played with Clodagh & Aoife’s brother as a child.
    • Friends with everyone whether they like it or not.
    • Will go out of his way to help people. On edge between caring about people and feeling obliged to help.
    • Best friends with his axe.
    • Has an itch to explore & find out what’s going on
• How do we integrate Thalador into the group? An inciting event, or something else?
  • Game starts mid or late spring — 1st of Thawtide.
    • The interactive calendar is here: https://app.fantasy-calendar.com/calendars/e63d3b9bf023a530d1f2040c8b356a37
    • The elves come twice a year — in the spring and again at harvest time
    • Maybe there’s some event or celebration when the elves come?
  • Maybe Thalador wants to learn more — start at the library?
  • Maybe there’s a connection between the elves and humans around the druidism, and the elves have primarily oral histories, so the idea of a library is fascinating
  • He’d be interested in the tavern scene and the artisan scene
  • Maybe session 1 starts with the night of a feast
  • Mayyyyyybe… the night of the festival, the three humans go off to explore reports of glowing lights at the sinkhole, run into Thalador, and then a thing happens? A Macguffin appears? Clodagh found a rock with runes carved on… it starts glowing on the festival night, and stronger when pointed at the sinkhole. Loggers want to fill the sinkhole, make it go away. Or Thalador sees the others sneak off and tails them.
  • Another idea: we meet at the festival (Cador is eager to make a new friend? And Thalador’s never had human friends before, let alone met humans, so he’s on board) and when the stone starts glowing and the humans want to sneak off, Thalador tags along (as it dovetails with his mission). Cador is probably looking for someone to try out his bad Elvish on, and Thalador would find this most amusing and would take delight in gently correcting Cador’s pronunciation. Doing something like this would mean we don’t have to do awkward introductions during the session and can jump right in. Chris brought up “Kids on Bikes” and it definitely has that vibe for Mike.
• Use normal 5E rules for starting equipment (sub things out if desired via shopping), pick a trinket.
• Chris would like to have more magic items in game than in the books
• Chris is going to try out Maps on Beyond
• Mike is going to continue being the chronicler

Plans for Next Time

• Session one???