D&D 4e | “Timekeeper Saga” Campaign Finale Notes
At last, I bid a final and bittersweet farewell to my half-orc chef, giant-slayer, and Fey hunter Mathayus Saffron, who traveled the multiverse in search for the ultimate meal. Four seasons have passed since he entered the Feywild and encountered his destiny: he and his new companions would save the Prime Material Plane from utter destruction!
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Part 1: Countdown to Calamity
As a final meal, the gastronomist prepared mushroom risotto paired with pan-fried cockatrice breast. The rice dish was deglazed with holy wine blessed by Draken, a glamorous champion of the Platinum Dragon Bahamut, and imbued us with divine favor as well as divine flavor! For dessert, the mighty archdruid Dani provided a batch of goodberries with which Mathayus crafted a delightfully sweet and tangy sherbet. This final meal would grant them the strength needed to face down their adversary, who sought to bring ruin upon all of creation.
Part 2: The Dragon Armageddon
With stomachs filled with food and hearts steeped in courage, the party faced down the calamity known as Armageddon. Ourcumulative trials through the Feywild, Underdark, and Astral Sea led us to this final desperate confrontation with a malicious time dragon that wish to undo all life. With a sweep of its massive wings it could displace us in space and time. Its breath weapon utterly destroyed all that lay before it. And it casted reality-altering magics that relentlessly tore away at our bodies and minds. But we endured, stayed true, and fought fiercely. We raged against inevitability and impossibility, carving out hard-earned minor victories against the gargantuan foe, but our efforts were in vain. Each of the wounds we inflicted were undone swifter than we could keep up. Despair began to set in…
Part 3: The End of All Things
A ray of hope came shining through, pulling us closer to the finish line. With the power of our mortal allies, the combined might of the Timekeerers, and the full wrath of the Summer Court Archfey, we brought the beast to heel. Armageddon was bound by the most powerful of all time magics in conjunction with the highest echelon primal seals. In a fit of desperation, the creature flung itself and the party into a future that would come to pass, if we failed. The world had been torn asunder, with only ashen ruin in all directions. The world would be a lifeless husk, eventually crumpling into nothingness. On the shores of oblivion, we held our last stand against the world-eater.
Three times did Armageddon parlay with the party. Thrice it attempted to twist our minds into complying with its horrific agenda. And each time, we refuted and refused it with a burning fury. Bloodied but not beaten, Mathayus Saffron declared “YOU ARE A COWARD!” and allowed his blood to boil. He chanted the orcish war-chant “We rise!” as he LITERALLY WALKED ACROSS AN OPEN LAVA STREAM TOWARDS HIS FOE without taking any damage.
Part 5: Against the Dying Light
With the world collapsing all around them, the party unleashed their final reserves against the foe. In one last climatic clash, the beast was torn asunder by our unshakable will, and finally met its end under the shimmering steel of our paladin’s greatsword. Against all odds, we had stopped the end of the world. With this future now an impossibility, we were quickly warped back to the present, and were greeted by a brighter and more hopeful future.
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Part 6: There and Back Again
At the end of the adventure, I barely recognize my boy. When he first hit the road, he was a brash, impulsive, and gluttonous youth who had little regard for life, including his own. He spoke only broken Orc-glish and lived in self-imposed exile. He entered the Feywild in order to hunt and devour whatever he wanted, environmental or spiritual damage be damned. But by the end, he had achieved his dream, and found some new ones along the way. Now he was a world-traveler, master chef, titanslayer, dragonrider, a guardian of the Feywild, and a family man.
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