This was the first session of my second Heroic Orchestra campaign, and it was a very successful one even though we were missing half the party. I’m very happy of the outcome, I had a blast, I know my player had a blast. All in all, this was a bitchin’ comeback after months of not touching the dice.

The Mission

The Draven Academy’s scholar have been working on a prototype airship, able to fly seemingly for ever at a never before reached speed. This airship is the machine that will bring our party to the Ancient island discovered a few weeks back. Problem, we need a power source. Solution : a village of beastmen, seemingly gone mad, are known to have, in their possession, a power crystal (ancient energy source of great power). Go get it.

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”WHAT!?” A tall man, with black hair and a short, well trimmed beard. He was lean and looked extremely irritated. This man was Locken Frey, once a powerful wizard, now a magicless man who found power elsewhere. Politics.

”I know it’s not ideal, sir, but our image needs it right now, if we associate with the Brigade…” The young, yet already balding man, sitting on the other side of the gigantic mahogany desk was terrified. He could set Frey on fire with a word, yet…

The History

The Order of the Tome was founded about 15 years back by Maelen Frey, an aging wizard who decided he would not put his son through the merciless combat training the Golden Brigade forced upon all young magic-sensitive, recruiting all spellcasters to their cause, mostly to not have them fight against them in the future. Thus began the Order, an alternative for spellcasters who ultimately just wanted to deepen their understanding of the Verse without having the responsability of fighting dissonnance wherever it appeared.

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You’ve heard it here first, folks! The Heroic Orchestra setting is getting the zombie treatment!

For the next campaign, the players will be member of an elite team of explorers, soon to be sent to a strange floating island, far west, above the Valessian Sea. This floating island is believed to be one of the largest untouch ruins of the Ancients, a race of highly advanced proto-humans, believed to have had access to incredible technology and magic (IE : A FREAKING FLOATING CITY!).

More after the jump.

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This is my intro fiction for this weekend’s Anima one-shot. The players are all members of the Golden Brigade having been sent from Ludsburg to Gharamston after the following plea was made to the Brigade’s leader

On the envelope

Highest importance - Confidential

To High Lord Gaius Brandt

In the letter

High Lord Gaius,

It pains me, as the Baron of Gharamston, no doubt the State with the most well-trained and well-equipped army of the known world, to mutilate my pride in asking the help of your motley crew of mercenaries for help.

The truth is, we have been having problem with Dissonance cultist with obvious terrorist tendencies in our fair city in the recent months, and we are ill-trained to deal with dark sorcery. They slowly creep and infect my population and I will not be at ease until men with experience are sent to root out whatever it is that keeps them organized.

I fear for my people, and obviously cannot afford them infiltrating my goverment. The situation is growing into a barely controllable chaos and I do not want to have to declare Martial Law over Gharamston.

Thus, I come to you, High Lord Brandt, with a request that you send a squad of your men to deal with the situation. I ask of you to remain discreet about the situation as I do not want the general populace to know we have had your help. Not until your mission has been proven a success, for both our reputations. I promise a hefty donation if all goes well.

Baron Eberhardt of Gharamston

After a night at the tavern, and the discovery of commoner’s food by the rich Earl Von Hamilton, our most eclectic party of adventurers decide to brave the once-great city of Hathareth…

In this forsaken place, haunted by evil, moving corpses, ghosts, and much, much worse, the adventurers faced their first challenge : Finding the fabled Library of Hathareth, one of the greatest repository of knowledge of the old world.

There, they hoped to find the “Minstrel’s Prophecies”, a book supposedly holding information about the much desired “Scrolls of the Perfect Song”.

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