Coastal Chronicles - Tarsakh 1360 DR Year of the Turret
Cloakwood and Wood of Sharpteeth - The annual 10 days of Blood Moon, a malarite celebration, appear, enshrouding the areas in a red mist. A Huntsmaster, a champion of the Beastlord, is appointed to lead a savage hunt of whoever is unfortunate enough to reside within the hunting grounds. Slaying the Huntsmaster before the 10 days are over seems to have no impact on it, as a new one is appointed.
[DMInk]
Cloudpeaks - The snowstorm continues to rage in the area.
[DM Abyss]
Syriad's Rest - Supposedly, many dead animals are found in the surroundings of (now ruined) Syriad's Rest, a village raided by a band of Marauders a few days prior. The dead carcasses show no signs of any wounds or disease.
[DM Soulcatcher]
2nd Tarsakh, Uldoon Trail - A vampire is sighted leading a host of ghouls and skeletons until dawn.
Player Led]
5th Tarsakh, Nashkel - Threatening flyers appear in Nashkel urging the population to pay respect to Auril.
[Player Led]
6th Tarsakh, Near the Friendly Arm - A Broken Goblet bartender and a female halfling namely Terra are revived and healed by magical and mundane means as their bodies were laying in their own pool of blood.
[Unknown]
6th Tarsakh, Roaringshore - After a scuffle with an unknown woman, the bartender known as Sel is knocked unconscious by a tall individual and kidnapped by three halfling.
[Player Led
6th Tarsakh, Uldoon's Trail - The undead procession continues on both sides of the Amnian border. The undead seem to gravitate around what remains of Tyrelius' tower.
[Player Led]
6th Tarsakh, Sword Coast - As the Blood Moon continues, disappearances increase and tributes are often found in the woods.
[DM Ink]
6th Tarsakh, Trade Way - A horde of undead coming from the abandoned chapel north of Beregost desecrate the shrine of Mielikki.
[Player Led]
7th Tarsakh, Cloakwood - The Archdruid Emmanuel is marked as prey for the Malarite High Hunt. He is killed but he is then brought back to life after his allies kill the gnoll who was found with his body.
[DM Ink]
7th Tarsakh, Cloakwood - A skinned bear is found and a blighted, centipede-like crawler with tentacles for all extremities, burst from its abdominal area. Investigation reveals traces of profane divine magic.
[DM Ink]
7th Tarsakh, Sunriver Bend - The wealthy hamlet is raided by drow, who kill everyone in their path, including the paladin of Chauntea Sir Nariun Lerren, and the five visiting Flaming Fist who were escorting a minor artifact of Chauntean faith. The paladin and the Flaming Fist were apparently raised as undead but then put to rest again and any fire quelled.
[DM Ghost]
7th Tarsakh, Soubar - A group of drow is observed teleporting into the settlement, bloodied and fatigued.
[Player Led]
7th Tarsakh, Soubar - New parchment bearing sharran symbols appear in the settlement, threatening retribution for Castus.
[Player Led]
8th Tarsakh, Friendly Arm Inn - A man claiming to be a former pupil or the former Banite and now Sunmaster Barristan Schultze attempts to attack the latter while under the effect of a curse attributed to the Black Sun. The curse is purged through a ritual performed by the Sunmaster.
[DM Soulcatcher]
9th Tarsakh, Cloakwood and Wood of Sharpteeth - Though there are still several days until the end of the Blood Moon, it would seem that the adventurers managed to fight back the worst of it.
[DM Soulcatcher]
9th Tarsakh, Near the Friendly Arm Inn - A group of adventurers is attacked by ankhegs but manages to defeat the insectoids.
[DM Verjigorm]
9th Tarsakh, Nashkel - The blood magus and murdered Kazaiev Dovrik is found guilty and sentenced to death.
[DM Abyss]
Friendly Arm Inn - A creature that resembles a flesh golem, known as the Great Spine, is identified as the cause for maggot-bloated animal corpses in the forests.
[Unknown] and
[Unknown]
Soubar - The Ebon Keep, now occupied by the Crimson Watch sees coming and goings of strange and mysterious folks. There are also rumors of gruesome sacrifices conducted near the burial pit, supposedly in the name of Cyric.
[Player Led]
Near the Friendly Arm Inn - The Great Spine is defeated.
[DM Ink],
[DM Summerbreeze]
13th Tarsakh, Amn - Stefan Rhonmark, son and heir to Baron Enriq Rhonmark, makes known his displeasure at his father and uncle Eloy's decision to defend the criminal Tyrelius with a public denounce.
[DM Mimic]
14th Tarsakh, Sword Coast - A storm of gigantic proportions approaches from the west. In the coming days, the Bladestone Foundation and the Order of the Radiant heart organize efforts to offer shelter to those who may need it.
[DM Wisp],
[Player Led] and
[Player Led]
14th Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - The martial tournament being held in the city is interrupted when a contestant warns of the cities refusal to bring homage to the Stormlord. This is punctuated by a red bolt of lightning hitting the contestant with no ill effect. This man is slain soon after by other men and women eager to face him.
[DM Wisp]
17th Tarsakh, Nashkel - The trial to Tyrelius the Thrice Judged takes place. Despite the evidence and the verdict of guilt, he is sentenced to house arrest under the Rhonmark Barony's custody. Tyrelius is killed by Castus immediately after, despite the intervention of Hinzel. Hieron Ampbel orders Castus' immediate arrest, but the fallen paladin manages to escape.
DM Mimic
17th Tarsakh, Friendly Arm Inn - The Temple of Mystra seeks skilled archers.
[Player Led]
18th Tarsakh, Greenest - Aela is killed by Castus, but as he attempts to destroy her once and for all he is rebuked by Mystra. Meanwhile Judicator Sofia Barca meets with "Queen" Dharva Scatterheart and delivers an ultimatum. Should the Myradon Vindicators be revealed as agents of Greenest, Amn would will consider further dissident action by the Vindicators within Amnian borders as a declaration of war by Greenest against Amn. Dharva asks the Myradon Vindicators to leave Greenest.
[DM Mimic]
20th Tarsakh, Cloudpeaks - The snowstorm comes to and end.
[DM Abyss]
21st Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - A solar is seen carrying another solar and land near the Temple of Ilmater.
[DM Ghost]
21st Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - General Moruene announces that the nobleman Rogier Exeltis, known under the pseudonym Black Rook, was arrested as the responsible for the recent raise in drug traffic in the city. The Ducal Task Force is dissolved.
[DM Honk]
21st Tarsakh, Lion's Way - After the sorceress Aela channeled some destructive magic near the grove on the Lion's Way, the clouds take the shape of a hand and unleash a red lightning which set a profane fire to the grove that can't be quelled through normal means. Many witnesses confirm that the consequence wasn't intended nor expected by the sorceress and the event is attributed to Talos intervention.
[DM Soulcatcher]
21st Tarsakh, Wood of Sharpteeth - For a full day and night, a colossal translucent crescent moon, the symbol of Corellon Larethian, floats above the woods scattering the remaining orcs.
[DM Ghost]
22nd Tarsakh, Lion's Way - According to an eyewitness the grove is approached by a talosian priest who claims to be there to "claim the one which spreads the destruction". The priest is attacked by those present but they fail to harm them. The witness also sees Aela being disconnected from the Weave after a heated discussion with those present.
[DM Soulcatcher]
22nd Tarsakh, Friendly Arm Inn - The Deneirrath paladin Cyllin Skaeva witnesses a ragged halfling identifying herself as "The Rat Queen" consuming a severed human limb less than fifty feet from the Friendly Arm Inn's gate, and in plain view of over half a dozen spectators, explicitly refusing to stop consuming the severed limb or depart the premises until threatened at bladepoint.
[Player Led]
22nd Tarsakh, Soubar - A message is added under the sharran flyers likely by an unknown third party expressing interest in a meeting.
[Player Led]
Soubar - Rumors about mysterious rituals being conducted in the Ebon Keep continue. Many of them involve the acting leader of the Crimson Watch, Ilyon and a mysterious woman.
[DM Abyss]
Uldoon's Trail - Rumors spread of a small group of former Inquisitors, Amnian deserters, and ragtag mercenaries traveling northward out of Amn and into the Greenfields. Calling themselves the Fellowship of Unravellers, this cult-like operation purports to believe Castus is their savior and proselytizes that magic is the greatest source of woe in the Realms. Led by former Inquisitor Micaela Navar, these "Unravellers" spread anti-magic propaganda, leveraging fear and anger toward spellcasters to grow their numbers daily. Runners soon report that the Unravellers have seized Fort Abraxus in the Greenfields for their own, while High Inquisitor Giovann Vakkar is quick to disavow his former protege.
[DM Mimic]
24th Tarsakh, Lion's Way - A group of people attempts to restore life in the desecrated grove on the Lion's Way.
[Player Led]
24th Tarsakh, Friendly Arm Inn - A crazed, armed and bloody gnome has an exchange with a few adventurers present and is accused of following a Mole God. A fight ensues and the gnome is killed. As this happens, the ground looses under the body and it's taken below by some unseen force.
[Unknown]
24th Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - An amnesiac woman, likely the survivor of a shipwreck, is recovered at the docks and brought to the Temple of Ilmater.
[Player Led
24th Tarsakh, North of Beregost - A sellsword is found dead mauled by what looked like a giant, clawed monster, and drained of all life. An inscription is found on the remains of his plate armor.
[Player Led]
25th Tarsakh, Sword Coast - The large storm cotinues to rage over the land, accompanied by various red lightning bolts. The cause is attributed to the wrath of Talos.
[DM Wisp]
27th Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - An open stage takes place themed around the fight against the Crimson Spice. A triage is also placed nearby to provide free medical assistance to those in withdrawal. [Player Led, with the assistance of DM Honk]
28th Tarsakh, Sword Coast - Ryke Lighthouse and Lunaethar Silverbloom perform two simultaneous rituals, one calling to Valkur, another to Selune. With their united efforts, it seemed as if the storms abated.
[DM Wisp]
28th Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - After the storm the Temple of Ilmater conducts an effort to help with the aftermath.
[Player Led]
29th Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - After the storm, the martial tournament can continue. Rhaeg, Gorlock, Reorx, Lilly Summerheart and Vichard Domivyk secure a place in the next part of the tournament.
[DM Ink]
29th Tarsakh, Soubar - A group, led by Illyon, and consisting of warrior known to some as Garon, and a handful of masked individuals is seen leading a subdued minotaur to the Ebon Keep. Later on its remains are thrown cut into pieces into the burial pit.
[DM Abyss]
29th Tarsakh, Friendly Arm Inn - A man allegedly sent by cultists of Cyric attempted to desecrate the tomb of Sir Billy by throwing a bucket of blood on it.
[Unknown]
29th Tarsakh, Way of the Lion - A shrine to Talos is erected in the destroyed grove.
[Player Led]
30th Tarsakh, Ebonaust - People seem to have vanished without a trace from the village. Although no signs of struggle are found, a whip has been left curled around the neck of a small statue of Ilmater.
[DM Ink]
30th Tarsakh, Baldur's Gate - A severely wounded man in dark armor is brought to the temple of Ilmater. His wounds don't seem to close when exposed to the divine magic of the god.
[DM Ink]
30th Tarsakh, Nashkel - Watcher Wai Li, accused of sedition, requests trial by combat.
[DM Abyss]
Author's note: if anything is incorrect or missing, do not hesitate to contact me.
In faith,
Guide Edelgarde Spades