Game Masters: Nick Williams and George Primavera
- Farah Vallari (Jasmine Chiong) Level 5 Half-Elf Blood Hunter, Order of the Ghostslayer
A half-elven woman with silver hair. She sits tall and proud, her worn, studded-leather armor (that she no longer fills out) suggests a life of adventure she has long left behind.
- Frog (Caroline Lux) Level 5 Aeormaton Monk, Way of the Cobalt Soul
Frog stands about six feet ten inches tall. Her body is humanoid in shape, but metallic in nature. She is copper gilded with ornate accents that now have taken on a greenish patina over time. To cover this up and blend in more, she wears a hooded poncho and belted, high-waisted corduroy trousers. When she’s active, her eyes glow a dull blue, so she wears large round spectacles to dim them. Across her back she has a worn leather knapsack, which holds her most prized possession: a beat up looking journal where she jots down all her notes and discoveries.
- Heera Agneheart (Jasmine Bhullar) Level 5 Tiefling Rogue, Inquisitive
Heera is a tiefling with an ochre complextion. She wears leather armor embossed with henna designs, strapped over green, emerald green, and Prussian blue silks. She has water buffalo-style horns that she ties with ribbons and peacock feathers.
- Idrin Shadowstep (Jasper Cartwright) Level 5 Uniya (Elf-Orc) Wizard, Chronurgy Magic
On the back of his left hand is a tattoo of the moon. On the back of his right hand, there is a corresponding tattoo of the sun. He wears matching gold earrings in both ears. He’s wearing flowing robes in tones of reds and browns and golds with a pattern that looks like fragments of a starry sky. Then he moves his hand to his satchel that sits on his left hip next to a dagger. He reaches in and finds a silver coin that rests between his clay-toned fingers and his painted black nails.
- Timpani Guff (Nick Williams) Level 11 Firbolg Druid, Circle of the Shepherd NPC
A shorter-than-average, more-portly-than-average firbolg. With a shock of red hair on top of his head, coming out of his ears, and in the form of a large bristly moustache on his face. He wears canvassy pants that have been patched over many times, a simple tunic, and a barn coat that is in similarly bad repair.
- Poogs (George Primavera) Level 3 Goblin Fighter NPC
The first thing you notice about this goblin are his perfectly straight white teeth (upon his release from The Curse of Strife, his first free action was to remove all his teeth and found a wizard to replace them).
S1E1 The Carnivorous Cube
Four adventurers journey to the humble town of Himblewood in hopes of joining the legendary Slayer’s Take. But when their goal seems just within reach, mayhem breaks loose at the market.
We open on a chilly, misty morning in the Vesper Timberland. As the citizens of the humble town of Himblewood begin preparing for their festive montly market. The vibrant, lush woodland of the Vesper Timberland frames the town in a truly picturesque embrace and soon, colorful tents and awnings are erected all along Himblewood’s uneven cobblestone streets. The plain hodgepodge of houses and shops are quickly accented with decorative streamers, gawdy signage, and flamboyant displays and as noon rolls around, the market gets into full swing. The air is filled with a variety of dazzling aromas. The smells of fruity frosted cakes, pungent stinky cheeses, and briney slimey fish mix in the air. At the edge of a street band’s captive crowd, we see a tall hooded figure looking shyly on. A figure we know as Frog…
The band’s song ends. There’s a polite applause from the surrounding crowd, and then the crowd begins to disperse. As you wander on, Frog, you reach a small eatery with barrels stacked up behind a small counter with a couple of chairs and tables spread out on the cobblestone main road. At a countertop, there is a hunched figure that seems to repel everyone else’s presence. Even the shopkeep behind the counter mixing colorful beverages, seems to avoid her gaze. Frog, it strikes you just how lonely this must be for someone to sit all alone on such a joyful day. Turning to see who just sat next to her, we see Farah…
Frog, as you stare joyfully ahead, Farah scrutinizes your person. Farah, you notice sticking out of the pocket of this enormous figure’s corduroys, is a familiar red-hued piece of parchment. One that you happen to have in your own pocket…
At the fishmongers at the other side of the market, standing in front of an enormous and bizarrely-colored swordfish on a bed of ice, we see Idrin Shadowstep…
S1E2 The Bog House
The party is assailed by sinister snowmen in the forest. After one of their rank is taken, they must venture further into the ghostly light for answers.
S1E3 The Frozen Puppet
Finding themselves in a spectral tundra, the party delves deeper into caves once explored by the legendary adventurers, Vox Machina.
S1E4 The Voiceless Village
Following a lead about travelers disappearing in swampland far to the west, the newly-formed Re-Slayer’s Take travel to the backwater town of Josgren’s Hollow where nothing is as it seems.
S1E5 The Whispers (featuring Dominic Monaghan)
The Will-O’-Whispers descend upon our heroes, forcing them to look for allies in unlikely places.
by Marty Abbe-Schneider (artist for Hero Club Podcast)