Final Miniboss D&D began on April 12th, 2011, with four PCs. Livy, the Eladrin Cleric of Bahamut, who was raised by Rickets from birth after her parents abandoned her. Rickets, the Warforged Paladin of Kord. Sam and Alban, two half-brother (half-)elves, a wizard and a rogue. Settled in Wolfeye's Tavern, run by the titular Wolfeye, in the town of Allycya, the party heard of a powerful magical object in the ruins which were near the town. These ruins were known to be inhabited by a band of ruthless kobolds, but the party thought that they'd be okay.
The party ventured to the Ruins, vanquishing many Kobolds and dodging some traps, eventually coming to the last two rooms. Alban and Rickets co-operated in using their magic, convincing the Kobolds that they were envoys of Tiamat, who the Kobolds worshipped. The party passed the Kobolds, set off a deadly Poisonous Gas trap, and fled the ruins, killing the remaining Kobolds.
Upon further examination, the magical item was a part of the legendary Prism of Io, a shard of Io's power which was left behind when Io was split into Tiamat and Bahamut. Upon learning of this on their way back to town, the party was ambushed by a Large Black Dragon. The party fled the scene, minus Rickets, who stayed to valiantly take on the dragon; however, rickets was saved by a Silver Dragon, who descended onto the Black Dragon. The two dragons battled it out, and the Silver Dragon emerged victorious. The party gathered at the scene, and the Dragon, named Chris, began explaining. As it turns out, there were more pieces of the Prism scattered throughout the land, and it became the party's quest to collect the pieces and unite the whole Prism as one.
Upon returning to Allycya, Sam was in a coma due to some blunt force trauma and Livy was asleep, so Rickets and Alban burgled some houses, getting some cool loot. After the entire ordeal cleared up, Wolfeye notified the party that he'd heard a rumor of another piece of the Prism being at Tamait Peak to the north, only a few days' walk. The party ventured up the peak and Livy set off a bunch of traps and nearly killed herself, but after a long enough time, the party encountered what woudl come to be known as their greatest adversary of all:
Ankhegs.
The party fought valiantly, and it was a brutal battle, but in the end, Sam ended up dying a horrible death by means of being dropped off the edge of the cliff by an Ankheg, and Alban was incapacitated but otherwise fine when the Ankheg decided to aid him in committing Seppuku. The party, realizing that they'd lost this time around, gave Sam a proper burial, gazing at the mountain one last time, for good measure. At the top of the mountain stood a bard, who held up the piece of the Prism in her hands.
Getting back to the town, the party decided to take some things more seriously, performing a coup d'etat on the tavern, which didn't do much. They recruited five new party members; Ness, Harken, Toox, Wince, and Zan-Kyri. Ness is an Elven Monk who iz mysteeriz and has dark pazt. As a child, he was left as an orphan on the doorstep of a Monk temple, where he trained diligently, until he was one day framed for murder, which prompted him into stealing the treasured artifact of the Monk temple, The Pendant. Or something, I'm not completely clear on that one. Harken is a Kalashtar Bard whose father left in search of an enchanted guitar and never returned; Harken's goal in life was to find the Guitar. Wince is a Human Fighter whose village was burned and pillaged, "in the name of the gods." His goal in life is to kill all of the gods to avenge his town and family's death. Toox is a changeling who also happens to be a lesbian who likes strippers. Oh, and she's a Warlock as well, but yeah, lesbian. Zan-Kyri is/was a somewhat absent-minded (lol) Voidsoul Genasi Swordmage who... is/was absent-minded. He is/was an extremely powerful fighter, though. The five new party members had a battle royale, and Wince emerged victorious.
The party heard a rumor that a piece of the prism lied to the west, in an old fort which was heavily guarded. They ventured there, storming the fortress with much tact, and, unfortunately, the magic item was just a pair of Gloves, which Wince took. These gloves, known as the Gloves of All Elements, would become a powerful weapon in (on?) his hands.
Upon the party's return to the tavern, Wolfeye delivered the news that the party who'd taken the previous piece of the Prism, known as Reaver of Souls, was headed to Ykrim Jungle-forest-thing to the northeast, so the party headed there. After a brief interlude, the party traversed the jungle-forest-thing, killing a big monkey, rescued Reaver of Souls, reclaiming their Prism Piece, and Harken obtained a key called the Key to the Forest Temple. As it turned out, the door to the Temple was already unlocked, so there wasn't much use to there being a key. The party entered the temple, killed some monsters, dodged a trap, and encountered a Dwarf who ran the place, known as Dwarf-Lord Mordekai Hopa. They did friendly battle with the Drawf-Lord, and won, so he let them take the piece of the Prism, which just-so-happened to trigger a deadly gas trap, driving Mordekai and the dwarves out of the Forest Temple. Mordekai and the Dwarves apparently planned to set up a new base of operations in Tamait Peak.
Upon returning to the tavern, this time, the party was approached by a group of seven bards, known as the Roulf Octet, whose eighth member had been kidnapped. The Octet hired the party to find the eighth member, Waltz, and the party set off to a Bandit camp. They killed the bandits there and saved Waltz, but Waltz told Harken that the Metal Axe (the legendary guitar Harken was looking for) was stolen by the bandits' ringleader. The party went to the main base of the Bandits, and slew a dragon, taking the Metal Axe as their own. Harken rejoiced.
Later on, sitting back in the tavern, the party heard of a town to the south, being assaulted by orcs. Checking it out, it turns out it was actually a settlement of orcs under attack by humans, and there were only a few orcs left. The settlement happened to be over the ruins of Wince's hometown, which was a mine, and the orcs claimed that the reason they were assaulted was because there was said to be a magic item in the mine, which the humans wanted. The party headed down into the mine, vanquishing many Humans, and eventually got to the bottom of the mineshaft.
At the bottom of the mineshaft, holding the Prism, stood a tall, pale-skinned man, named Baron Kratos Von Xenudin. He carried an axe, sword, lance, and bow. He challenged the party to a duel for the piece of the Prism, but their battle was drawn short, as the mine began to collapse over their heads. Kratos said something, and teleported out holding the piece of the Prism.
The heroes went back to Allycya, when Ness was assaulted by a rowdy Swashbuckler named Crow, who rides a fucking bear. Eventually, the heroes got to know Crow and he joined the party. Later that day, a Dwarf arrived and requested the aid of the heroes on behalf of Mordekai, who needed help in securing Tamait. The party rushed to his aid. The heroes fought their way up the mountain and were about to be killed by Ankhegs YET AGAIN, but Mordekai Deus-Ex Machina'd their asses, saving them all. They eventually secured the mountain, and Mordekai said that the heroes were welcome in the mountain any time.
The heroes went far south, to Kcod, the port town, where two Orphans, Douglass the Drow and Jade the Medusa, were adopted. The party decided to test their abilities and kidnapped a small child, getting a few thousand GP in ransom for her. With this money and some of their own, the party bought a Greatship, which they named Union Fivefold.
A few weeks of doing nothing later, a rumor spread around town of a meteor hitting a nearby island, and the party decided to investigate. It was the cast of Hivebent, and everybody minus Tavros, Eridan, Gamzee, Vriska, and Aradia were captured and befriended, joining the team. The party suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of Vriska, however, and she took the majority of their riches, sending them home with their tails between their legs.
Nepeta and Harken were married, Toox was assigned to be the cook on the boat, and everybody who isn't Crow, Livy, Ness, Wince, Harken, Nepeta, and Karkat were assigned to crew it. These seven became the combat group of the ship. The party visited Harken's mother, and went to the heart of a Volcano, getting another piece of the Prism. The party discovered that, aside from the piece which Baron Kratos held, the final piece of the Prism was inside the Monk Temple where Ness grew up. One of the Baron's team members, Captain Hopkins, assaulted the heroes, and informed them that they had two months to retrieve the final piece and meet Union Baronfold at their base for a battle for the entire Prism.
It turns out that for a long time now, Vriska had been periodically mind controlling different members of the crew. This was the straw which broke the camel's back, and the party decided to locate and finish Vriska once and for all. Seven days before the due date with the Baron, the party enters Vriska's lair.
