Scripted Events

The campaign starts at Horseshoe which is a village in Velith. The campaign is built for the party to start at level 3 with a level 5 Paladin Lenna Loragolor which is critical for the plot of the campaign. 1 The campaign's first scripted encounter happens at the very start of it, where the PC are placed in the world to begin with for the battle of Horseshoe. After the battle is won a group of Velith soldiers will approach them saying that they are evacuating everyone to the capital and try to convince the party and the remaining PC to head for the capital themselves. 2

Hopefully the party will head for the underground tunnel between Velith and Lothissa. Where they'll first run into Gelbirt. He will approach the party acting normal and present himself as a friendly wizard and if there is a spellcaster in the group he will try to befriend them. 3 The party travels for 3 days under in the tunnel in which unless the PC want to roleplay parts of is skip-able as no events take place.

At the end of the tunnel the PC arrive at Lothissa at the time of the Queen of Lothissa Eris Talraidal happens to be passing by. Gelbirt should run towards the the Queen pulling a scroll from his backpack and casting a spell which summons 5 Arachne and an Arachne Queen. After which the Lothissa encounter ensues. 4

When the party succeeds in saving Eris Talraidal she invites them to her palace where she plans to reward them with a cast of Aspect Tattoo on each PC and asks the PCs to guard the rear of her caravan on her journey to Velandra offering a monetary reward if they are to comply.

Appendix

1 Use Lenna as a tool to push party towards the objectives of the campaign so that she doesn't restrict the plans of the party but guides them towards the plot

2 If the PCs don't want to follow the soldiers try to convince them in character and if they still insist on going else where explain that there is not much to do around here and that they are likely to die if they stay around here.

3 If the PCs suspect that Gelbirt isnt who he portraits to be on a decent insight roll DC10+ say that something feels off about him and on a DC15+ it seems that he has twisted intentions

4 If the PCs taken interest in Gelbirt and have rolled for insight on him give them a chance to cancel his spell