[ gaming post ] We have determined that it is not, in fact, better down where it's wetter. Actually.

Have now made a tag for this campaign so you can find the relevant posts under "three lunatics and a paladin". The last two sessions we are down a lunatic so we planned a two-session arc without him.

When we left off our heroes had joined the party that defeated the "stink monster" that destroyed the town of Eftly in a tavern back room to talk shop, tell stories of our respective exploits, and be extremely weird when talking about magic. After we did this we divided things up so our sorcerer (the missing lunatic) continued to hang out with their sorcerer (divine soul subclass, of the goddess of magic, natch) and talk shop on the way to solve other background problems.

After distributing various NPCs and the missing PC to go poke various other problems, we reformed into a six-person party (three PCs, three NPCs) consisting of:

The party, all 5th level:
Celyn (one of the lunatics; glass cannon rogue/priest)
Viepuck (the other lunatic present; child bardlock)
Robin (the paladin; a paladin)

Armand (4th level; cleric of the Night Queen, goddess of, among other things, these undead should be resting in peace already)
Emilie (2nd level; a tremendously perky "ganbatte!"-style fighter with an axe she has named Sharp Justice, who is Just Very Excited To Be Noticed By Such Illustrious Heroes)
Odo (1st level; polearm fighter originally from the destroyed Eftly, basically a kid in the guard of the city we're loosely attached to who we've been trying to train up into an additional hero)

in order to deal with our chosen problem: a local lake appears to have a lake monster. It appears to be a giant undead eel. Further, said lake monster is a) getting larger and b) has recently slaughtered the adventuring party attached to the relevant lake city, with the sole survivor being the local wizard who washed ashore, unconscious. Cultural assumptions are that wizards are Up To No Good so this has not helped her reputation at all.

( So we go forth to do things. )

After dealing with the sea serpent eelthing and taking some recovery time, we took a journey up to Fellburn, a city that is being besieged by a rampaging army of skeletons, to discover that a very organized and competent army is handling that problem and may be technically committing mutiny by doing so. (They were ordered to the national capital and collectively went "You have got to be fucking kidding me" and went to join the skeleton war instead.) We have joined these forces as skirmishers and will probably sort through what happened there in email.

( The footnote, which has a character personality note to it. )