Tales from the Eclipse

Pathfinder 1e adventures

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Meowdy folks. This blog is dedicated to telling stories from EclipseD20, my ttrpg group. We almost exclusively play Pathfinder 1e, but there's a LOT of homebrew involved.

The group consists of me, @interstellar0range826, @kashi-chan98, @senthemink, and my husband. All of these people will be referred to as their player character in said campaign.

Campaign Overview:

Arkworlds [on hiatus]

Setting where heroes are taken moments from death and 'saved' via being taken to a remote star system disconnected from the rest of the universe(s). Multiple existing IPs.

The Party:

Sheriff Mercury: A jovial Novakid (race from Starbound) with a strict moral code and a penchant for taking people in alive

Vega: drow hailing from a fallout-esque nuclear hellscape. She has radiation magic

Silok: A quiet Vulcan (race from Star Trek) who is our local beastmaster.

Quincy: Human from his players custom setting. Nobility who wants to prove himself. Capable of parrying ANYTHING.

Callisto: A former diplomat who switched sides when she realized her people were doing harm. Left the party to become a diplomat again.

Misc./Farside [Ongoing]

Party is plucked from various settings and coerced into joining up a Reality Protection Agency named Argus.

The Party:

The Idiots Three: Kage, Wilfre, and Drake Coronoctis (From my original setting). What remains of the Coronoctis royal family. None of them get along.

Luca Gearsmith: An orphan human from a steampunk setting who was raised by robots. Quiet, but the schemey kind of quiet.

Zeveritus Saleus: Turian Sith Lord torn between the expectations of cruelty and the desire to do something good for once in his life. Briefly dated Kage.

Ronan: A sadistic Midland Imp (from his player's custom setting. The same as Quincy, actually) dead set on getting to Hell, no matter what it takes.

Y.E.E.T.U.S.: Dead. A robotic medical unit. Beloved and remembered fondly. Bad for your health.

Samuel and Clicks: Catfolk witch who stole a magic, mechanical bird that gives him his powers. Trying to right his wrongs. Left the party to become a planes walker.

Detectives 101 [Ongoing]

Set in Victorian Europe. A ragtag group of people get put together to solve mysteries.

The Party:

Kageriva Degerikov: A human (this time) psychic who spends combat making people her friends, then having them fight FOR her.

Varisikov Van Kallig: A charming Dhampir monster hunter. Good with a rapier. (played alongside Dyeterik by the same person)

Dyeterik Vonkar Sukoveneverik: Another human. A bounty hunter who works alongside Van Kallig. Engaged currently to Kageriva.

Hiromi: A Yato (race from Gintama) who formerly worked alongside ladies of the night as a bouncer and bodyguard, collecting debts and keeping the women safe.

Dr. Orange: A human genius who thinks very highly of himself, but is normally at least a LITTLE pathetic. Has a knack for inventions.

Nebuchadnezzar: More metal than man, Nebuchadnezzar delighted in modifying his body with mechanical augments. Left the party for unknown reasons.

Mafia [Ongoing]

Set in a nebulous 1920s ish America-like, the party attends an art gala only to get roped into the local mob.

The Party:

Shirvasa/Nalathas: A Dunmer (Elder Scrolls race) necromancer. She is a singer under the name Shirvasa, and whoever she needs to be under the name Nalathas, her male persona.

Skellatio: Shirvasa's skeleton summon. He is the epitome of the "rattle em boys" meme.

Nikolai: A dhampir who works with Shirvasa, though unwillingly. Shirvasa supplies him blood in exchange for services (usually dirty work. Killing, stealing, etc.)

Elson Johanes: A Denizen (race from my personal setting) who formerly worked as a combat medic. Killed and resurrected by the party, he follows out of a sense of obligation rather than actual concern.

Nocchino Barnaby: Dead. Former party member. Killed when the party gets set up during a mansion party after the man in charge gets killed.

Fat Tuesday: A Denizen (race from my personal setting) who was exiled from his home plane of Penumbra for killing someone during ritual combat. Became a wrestler. Left the party for unknown reasons.

Shadow Town [Ongoing]

Post apocalyptic setting where the party finds themselves stuck in a strange place referred to as The God Trap.

The Party:

Zephyr Osirus: A Denizen exiled from Penumbra for active rebellion and mass murder. Quiet, easily annoyed, a chain smoker.

Conifera: A Nomai (Race from the game Outer Wilds) wizard with a serious curious streak. A little jumpy and nervous, though.

Goes-For-The-Knees: A goblin who is VERY proud of her college education. Knees is bubbly, happy, and quick to come up with a plan

Rell: An aenar (Star Trek) oracle, Rell is blind, quiet, and tends to keep his senses fixed on his surroundings.

Seven Galaxies [Yet To Start]

Deep Dark [Yet To Start]

Superhero [Finished]

Cyberpunk-ish setting where superheroes are run through an agency called Talos. Got WAY out of hand REALLY quick.

The Party:

Ruth Pothec: The Original Ruth. She was a halfling healer who used ghosts to channel her magic. The original Harmicist. Liked to make people nauseous for little to no reason.

Judgement Unit: Talos supersoldier project. Formerly Swiss Guard. No memories, no tangible past. Best friends with Ruth.

Akira "Pepsiman" Kazuma: Pepsiman by night, mild mannered doctor by day.

Velma: Young woman who had the power of friendship. Left the party to pursue other passions.

Little [Finished]

A group of young human children befriend a talking pepper who leads them on a jrpg-like journey across dimensions.

The Party:

Sio Khemi: A young aspiring chemist. Throws bombs made of shampoo, soap, and glitter. Frightened of everything and quite shy. Cries a lot. Wants to be just like his father.

Tio Khemi: Sio's older brother . Jovial, friendly, has anger problems that boil up from time to time. Very protective of Sio.

Emilio: A young boy who has a habit of putting everything in his mouth. Turns into a snake sometimes. Good friends with Sio.

Tommy: A boyscout turned renegade, and a master of 2x4 technology.

Sammy: A young boy who loves his stuffed dinosaur so much that it came to life. Left the party early.

Sean: A kid obsessed with ninjas who has a tendency to sneak up on people. Left the party early.

Morty: A necromancer. Died early.

Magia [Dead]

Funny Chef Games [Dead]

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Shadow Town Archive - Session 1

Session 1 started out with them walking through the Shadow Town Gates with Slyval, a shadow man with a red eye and a red bow tie. He showed them around town for a while, having the occasional glitch or hurtful headache if he spoke about the wrong thing. The party gathered he knows more than what he can say, and SOMETHING is preventing him from saying more. He manages to tell the party that people tend to lose themselves here, and that he doesn't have faith they'll live particularly long. The party writes memos in the Wizards spellbook to compensate.

So he gives the party a map and sends them out of Shadow Town and into the darkness surrounding it, towards a distant amber glow.

This glow turns out to be the Whiskey River Delta. The ground is made of leather, there are reeds 8ft across towering into the sky like sequoias, the sky box is fucking WEIRD (clouds moving too fast, madoka-esque ribbons in the sky with things dangling from them), and the river is made of whiskey.

Almost immediately, Goes-for-the-Knees, our goblin rogue, notices a glow at the bottom of the river before it let's out into the delta. She fucks around and makes a contraption to gauge how deep it is. She gets 40ft down, then a swift current starts to take it from her.

Rell, the party oracle, gathers using blindsight that there is a vast quantity of liquid below the plane of leather they all stand upon, and Knees notices some seams.

Conifer, the Nomai (race from Outer Wilds) wizard, offers to shoot the ground, but is denied. Instead, Zephyr the Denizen (my own custom race from my pet project Starry Eyes) offers Knees a big knife to cut away the leather. A geyser of whiskey shoots up, drawing the attention of some nearby monsters. Conifera mends the seam.

The party decides to investigate the campsite up the river after that. They find a note from someone who appears lucid. They're looking for someone named Galvo, or someone named Cereti. They also find a secret on the back that instructs them to open a seam.

There's a big ass circular seam below the burnt out campfire that Knees opens, revealing the top of a bunker entryway. She disables the alarm, saving them from an encounter, and goes in.

Inside, there's a dungeon that looks like a concrete science lab. They go through and find a pair of seamrippers, along with a log from one Ethel K'thanii going over the creation of the seamrippers. The party gathered that they can be used to create wormholes, but the wormhole doesn't last long.

They go through more dungeon, expecting a fight but finding none. It leads into a lab where they are taught about the concepts of Aether Twinning, Aether Dust, and Spatial Seamrippers, all via scripts that I had the players read aloud high school shakespeare style.

Essentially, Ethel's people figured out how to open wormholes into divine planes so they could get more resources. Ethel, in a lab somewhere, decided to make a small, compact version, but Aranis Akalow caught her in the act. She and Aranis made the seamrippers, using a process called Aether Twinning, which was discussed in another log by a doctor named Razell Helinth.

Razell discusses Aether Dust, a sparkling material that, when used properly, can make two objects slowly start to take on the same form. This process gets dubbed "Aether Twinning" and its the basis for how the seamrippers work. Ethel chews her out for not doing important work during wartime.

They also find a note from the mysterious traveler telling them that the traveler is heading towards the Mirage Flats to look for something regarding Razell.

After returning to Shadow Town, the group is brought to an inn that DID NOT EXIST before. It was crowded with shadow folk, but their movements looped and they only made white noise chatter, no real words. Until Zephyr brushed up against them, and they spoke his native tongue.

Conifera read the guest log. And again, it was in CONIFERAS native tongue. And also AI-Generated weird barely-comprehensible.

And Knees followed Slyval upstairs to their room, that she saw materialize out of nothingness.

The session ended there.

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Shadow Town Archive - Session 0

Because of prior difficulties with characters not fitting/breaking settings, my group has a policy of holding a session 0 as a beta test before the true start of a campaign.

Session 0 of Shadow Town took place in a ramshackle Mad Max/Fallout style town, where the party was tasked to clear out a building in the wastes so it could be reused as housing. During this, they ended up drawing the attention of a very STRONG wild animal (CR 15, the party is level 3. I did not intend on them fighting it). They ended up leading it to the camp of scavengers and hid in the stairwell to the second floor. While hiding, they decided they may as well ascend the building, and they wound up going through a Mirror Door, taking them to a place they'd later find out is called The God Trap.

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Important Concepts: Specimen Implant

The Ark Worlds Project takes in strong people (good, bad, or neutral) just moments before their natural death. That process involves implantation and testing. At the beginning of Ark Worlds, the party was passed through fluid-filled tubes in a dark blue metallic structure, passing by various people. They were tested in combat, then sent to the Ark Worlds Project proper. This process is called "The Dream" by Ark World natives, who did not undergo the cataloguing process. You can tell if a person is an Ark World native or not based on the specimen implant in the wrist region.

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Important Concepts: Hero's Dreams

In The Ark Worlds, those branded with a specimen implant device on their wrist are sometimes subject to special dreams. During these dreams, people find themselves locked in battle with dangerous, fearsome foes in dire circumstances. The situations one may end up in during a Hero's Dream are varied to an infinite degree, however the person always wakes up at 5am sharp (local time) and has their bodies and equipment mended. These dreams only happen to those with a wrist implantation.

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Important Locations: Merrymore

Merrymore is a bustling settlement teeming with artists of all different trades. Jugglers, painters, singers, and other artists live in a state of constant creation. Merrymore is fueled by their creative energy, but it's far from a happy place. Everyone is tired, putting on a facade, but ultimately they are unable to stop their work for fear of the settlement being destroyed. Merrymore is run by a half-dwarf named Merivus, who is a cheerful fellow with lots and LOTS of clones.

Merrymore rests at the foothills of a large mountain. Atop it sits a temple, and within the temple rests a crystal. Inside that pink, column-like crystal is a man, imprisoned. That man is named Thunder Wizard, and he was split apart into various other wizards (all music themed) and scattered across the multiverse. The entire plot of Farside revolved around collecting these various wizards.

The first time the party encountered the mountain, they were led up by a local guide. The trek was brutal and ended in a difficult fight with a solar yeti (DM Orange's custom creation). They managed to climb up to the mountain, only to be led down a set of hidden stairs by Merivus at the end, making the entire struggle feel pointless (in character. Ooc it was hilarious). The second time the party dared enter Merrymore was to bring Country Wizard back to the crystal. Merivus kindly set up a ski lift to help us get up the mountain, but it was broken. So Y.E.E.T.U.S. (our robotic healer who lost control of himself and died at the hands of Kage during an intense boss fight with his creator) flew us up the mountain to avoid the headache of climbing the damn thing again. The third time the party visited Merrymore was during the Arkworlds/Farside crossover special, which ended with Merrymore being completely leveled, including the accursed mountain.

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Pouring all of my energy into this fuckass campaign. Here's hoping it turns out well ;u; I'm experimenting with making the campaign into essentially a module, where most of the story is already written, but I'm basing combat/puzzles around the builds of my players. God I'm scared that I won't get to see it till completion, but maybe this time it'll be different.

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Kage and Ronan last session.

[interstellar0range826]

Tales from the eclipse!!!

Finally FINALLY got to run my dnd (Pathfinder 1e) campaig and ooooh boy was it something!

Farside/misc campaign.

Heads up: this post will make NO SENSE unless you've seen the Beatles yellow submarine movie.

The party was currently in Beatles Hell (yellow submarine pepper land) The party had just returned from a stupid gameshow hoasted by Quiz Kitty. In said gameshow, Kage won a free white card, Ronan won the amazing backflipping duck (the spits fire) and Zeveritus won a dead rat!

Dead rat!

Features: it's a dead rat!

Pros: it's a dead rat!

Cons: it's a dead rat!

😅 Sorry about that . . .

But, after the gameshow, the party returned to pepper land to see it on fire and in disarray. Old Fred basically begged the party to save pepper land and the party begrudgingly agreed. It was then the party was faced with their greatest challenge yet. THE BEACH BOYS!!!! I actually made my players fight the beach boys and I actually made the beach boys evil xD The fight was a RIOT! The party wasted no time imprisoning the beach boys in fire, darkness, and poison. It went so well XD about half way through, the other beach boys were absorbed by Mike Love who then grew 2 sizes and reached his final form – Mike HATE!!!

Mike HATE then used his beach boys I get around powers to rotate the freaking battle mat 180°! BTW, Mike HATE was red and moved twice as fast ala ultrakill. I even played the 6-2 music for when you refight Gabriel. Unfortunately, Mike HATE didn't last very long as Zeveritus trapped him in a force choke hold. He was able to life a six ft^3 cube of earth over his head. Buuuuuuuut he dropped it on himself and committed Giles Corey. Poor Mike HATE. However, Mike HATE was able to use his beach boys little Honda powers to throw a Honda civic into the party's only form of transportation (Their airship) thus destroying it.

After the beach boys defeat, old Fred praised the party as heros and lifted them the key to pepper land! Kinda like the key to the city but you know . . . More Beatles-y. For their bravery, old Fred (and Ringo he was there too) offered to replace the party’s broken airship with a Beatles submarine. Ringo asked what color and Kage without missing a beat said "pink". This went uncontested. So the party was now the proud owner of Ringo's pink submarine™! It even had yellow submarine Ringo's face painted on the side of it. xD Just before the party could leave, old Fred lifted the party with one last gift as he tasked the party with delivering an animate skeleton in a band t shirt.

This boney brethren is none other than the metal wizard! One of the many music themed wizards the partyhas been "collecting". With him in tow, the party sets off for Far side (hub world) but the Ringo's pink submarine™ doesn't drive like the party’s old airship and the party is taken to NEAR SIDE instead!

I joked about making a near side to complement the far side hub world but now I finally did it. Think flop side from super paper mario. The party had finally had enough of my bs and ended the session with drinks in a near side bar. Hooray!

(Yes, this is a normal Pathfinder campaign from me xD)

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The color change went uncontested, but Kage is the only one happy about it.

Fuck Mike Hate. 10/10 session.

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Guys they made me fight The Beach Boys.

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Crime Brulee/The Demolitionist

Arkworlds is coming up on a hiatus, so I'd like to take the time to introduce you all to The Demolitionist, my character for the campaign. I've only got a sketch of him so far. I'll probably post him again once he's done. Anyways, in setting Slugcats (from Rain World) have made their way off planet via a very VERY inventive iterator (Five Sins my beloved divorced man). He sends them out on void fluid powered rockets and they SOMEHOW make their way to various sections of the Milky Way. Because they form sapient communities (going heavy off what we see in Gourmand's campaign because it's canon in my heart), they're placed in this in-between of intelligent life and pest? Anyways, they're helpful if you teach them things, so most governments just kind of let them be. They're taken on as a client race by multiple species. It's another mixed IP setting, as per usual with this DM. So. I decided to play a Slugcat from Palaven. He spent time on a bomb squad during his mandatory time in the military, then went on to work on a demolitions team. He helped make drones to set up custom explosive setups. During this, he made a (very illegal) AI (VULTURE) to help him figure out new recipes. He got caught, then very quietly get fired, and started taking up work as a mercenary blowing things up for money. No real tragedy. Just a bad person doing not great things. He's inspired by Zaeed Masani (mass effect), Stitch 10 minutes in (Original Lilo and Stitch), and Vincent (Atlantis). Is he overly edgy? Probably. I'm allowed to be a little cringe. As a treat.