#middlemost

So the world we’re in is called Middlemost. For our entire lives, we lived in a small town surrounded by mountains, with no knowledge of the outside world. Everyone has grown up together, with no concept of birth or growing old. The races are referred to as “Kin” with no understanding as to why they are different. Our idyllic life had everything we’ve ever wanted. So naturally, the first session is when we decide to leave our home to explore the world outside.

Our group consists (in order) of Sko, Diemer, Salvius, Quash, and Brinnik:

The first couple sessions were fun filled with:

-Quash trying (and mostly failing) to catch and ride elk

-Swimming to the bottom of a glowing lake and exploring a crystal cave (even though Brinnik is deathly afraid of drowning)

-Finding a forest of red trees and getting attacked by a glowing elk (Also Quash’s doing) (He broke Diemer’s drum and has to spend each night making a new one) (to be fair the elk was protecting her young)

-Climbing a mountain and finding an abandoned treehouse with a telescope pointing towards a ruined cathedral (Brinnik is now trying to replicate a looking glass for our travels)

-Forgetting Diemer is blind and leaving him behind a couple times (whoops)

-And spending several days and nights palling around and being completely carefree

But once we got to the cathedral and wandered around, we were locked in a room with a pit and attacked by a skeleton creature covered in skulls and stringy flesh. Before we could do anything, it had cut Diemer basically in half and cut off Salvius’ face. It dragged both of them down the pit along with Quash, leaving Brinnik and Sko alone. They decided instead of running away, to jump in to save everyone. They woke up in the basement, the floor covered in old bones and blood. Across the room, a disgusting baby-like creature lay on the steps. He gave them two choices, wait for “Her” to come back and finish the job, or give him a blood offering to bring everyone back to life. He also promised to give us knowledge of this land through interacting with items we find throughout our journey.

The next session, with weapons and armor we took from the unfortunate skeletons in the basement, we take down The Groundskeeper and escape back to the surface. The baby, Cecil, gave us a task to take a branch from one of the red trees where a white waterfall sprouted from and dip it in the pool at the bottom of the mountain. When we did this something foreboding happened. The red flowers on the branch leaked out into the water and stained everything red. Then, the nearby mountain shifted towards us and soaked up the water. A ledge was formed along the chasm created that we traversed into a new area.