Session 032 | Dreams Can Catch You
Day 3 of the trek began with a desperate attempt to wake the unconscious pteranodons and guard. Sorina's X-ray vision revealed her bones glowing red while Warwick's mana-infused shocking grasp turned grotesque—the pteranodon's brain melted, leaving it dead. After discovering the guard had died from brain damage, TyelKoron's Speak with Plants spell inadvertently summoned White Apes drawn to the party's magical signatures. The brutal combat left Sorina and Xercomath infected with Arcane Wasting—a contagious curse that spreads through targeted spells. Meanwhile, an entity began hunting the Golden-Eyed Dream Deity through Warwick's burning Mind Palace, causing him severe psychic damage and memory loss. TyelKoron, caught between two patrons, approached the Sisters with flames in his eyes speaking Abyssal. That night, Broj dreamed of a colossal apocalyptic entity approaching across scorched wasteland. By morning, both infected party members showed visible illness as they continued toward Vysteerie—wounded, haunted, and pursued by forces that hunt even through dreams.
Session 031 | The Dream Deity
Day 2 of the flight to Vysteeri turned catastrophic. After Warwick restored Sinora's hair and Tyelkoron meditated on his new fire-orb powers, the party reached a bowl-shaped mountain platform filled with stale water. When Broj accidentally knocked Sinora off the edge, Tyelkoron leaped after her empowered by Egg's "Indestructible" spell, stabilizing her while Broj drained the bowl. That night, a Dream Deity possessed Xerocomath with golden eyes, causing guards and pteranodons to convulse. The entity transferred to Warwick, but morning revealed devastating consequences—guards suffered severe memory loss, pteranodons failed, and the platform crashed. Two guards died in the fall. After lighting funeral pyres, the journey to Vysteeri transformed from escort mission to survival arc.
Session 030 | The Marked Journey
The party departed Wyrmhallow aboard massive pteranodons, bound for Vysteeri across a treacherous three-day flight. As Sinora's cursed Oni mark flared with renewed pain, four pursuers—an Oni and three cultists on giant vultures—followed relentlessly. During their first night on a shielded platform, the party shared their origin stories around the fire, bonding through vulnerability. When the Oni raced ahead toward Vysteeri, desperate attempts to remove Sinora's blood magic curse revealed it could only be broken by its creator's death. Tyelkoron, bearing his own curse tied to Gorrath the Malice-Scaled, intervened—accepting a fiendish pact that transferred the mark to his hand along with a living orb of fire. Sinora was freed, but Tyelkoron now carries a darkness yet to be understood.
Sessions 023-029 | The Crimson Awakening
Captured and imprisoned as living leyline batteries, the party awakened in the Arch Mage's sinister laboratory. Xercomath, trapped in a birdcage, coordinated their escape through telepathy. They freed Porthos, an albino giant Realmstrider held captive for years, whose violent awakening destroyed the lab in crimson fire. In the Arch Mage's hidden chamber, they discovered his true allegiance—a collection of severed Realmstrider heads from the Ætherborn Kin. After a catastrophic battle on Theros that ended in a mushroom cloud explosion, the party survived by their Realmstrider instincts. Now, with Porthos guarding their sentient ship Loid, they head to Vysterie, carrying the weight of dark revelations and unanswered questions.
Sessions 021-022 | Unfortunate Events
The party descended into the crystalline gorge to meet Arch Mage Sir Magnus Opus U'rilius Corbus, agreeing to clear blocked mine passages where trespassers had become fused with essence-draining crystals. After exhausting work in the mines, their attempt at goodwill with Loid's potent goodberries went catastrophically wrong—a farmer was accidentally killed, his wife injured, and the body reanimated as undead. The party's confession led to their imprisonment beneath the Cerilian Spire in magic-dampened cells.
Session 020 | Infernal Gateway
Dreams bled between minds as the party awoke aboard Loid. The tiefling twins Sorina and Sinora ignited, their touch tearing open a portal to the Nine Hells. A Chain Devil clawed through while something worse pushed from beyond. Sorina sacrificed herself with a radiant blast to seal the breach. The party then journeyed to a crystal mining town, spotting a dragon across the chasm before being escorted to the Cerilian Spire to meet the despised mage-lord Magnus Opus.
Session 019 | Loid's Awakening
The Realmstriders readied their new illithid-grown airship Loid, discovering it feeds on flesh. While hunting fuel, they encountered a magic-negating flail snail and negotiated peace with a pack of territorial lycanthropes. Fed vampire heads, Loid transformed—tentacles becoming hands as sentience emerged, communicating through sign language. Upon reaching a crystal-choked crevasse, a Cord mage confronted Xerocomath with a death threat, ordering them to land outside the town walls.
Session 002 | Warcrimes and Wit
Fresh from Camp Sethreal, the party received their first real mission: help the Duckbee family deal with goblin raiders. Agelaius concocted an infamous "creative solution"—poisoned stew placed inside chickens to be fed to the goblins, who would then be fed to their worgs, sending the beasts into a frenzy. While tactically effective, this questionable strategy earned the party a complicated reputation in the region.
Session 001 | Bootcamp at Camp Sethreal
The journey begins at Camp Sethreal, a remote training outpost where would-be Realmstriders learn to harness the power of the Æther. Under the watchful eye of Bringar "Old Brin," a grizzled dwarf with a mysterious past, seven souls converge to receive their first taste of what it means to walk the planes. Each recruit receives a leyline-enhanced crystal and faces their first trial.
