Drake's Company

Drake's Company was a group of adventurers who were active in Orodeth. Their leader and namesake was the paladin Drake Roxley.

Membership

• Bran - Male aarakocra ranger. Tortured and killed by the Cult of the Howling Hatred.
• Drake Roxley - Male human paladin of Nalindra. Lost in the lair of an aboleth.
• Gnarls Blackwood - Male half-elven bard. Slain by an extremely powerful elemental in the Plane of Water.
• Láfièlthién - Female elven cleric of Del'Braeth. Torn apart by a hydra.
• Qwynn Cupsigh - Female halfling bard. Retired to Brightstone.
• Ru Bae Ya - Female human wizard. Lost in the lair of an aboleth.
• Sumac Briarden - Male half-orc druid. Lost in the lair of an aboleth.
• Waedin - Male aarakocra monk. Slain by undead while battling a necromancer.

History

The Hunt Begins

Drake's Company originally came together in 2964 when bounty hunters Drake Roxley and Bran sought allies to hunt down a dangerous tiefling wizard named Bastian Thermandar. Joining their crew were Qwynn Cupsigh, Waedin, Láfièlthién (Lafiel for short), and Ru Bae Ya.

• Arrive in Red Oak, hear rumors of strange happenings, odd weather
• Investigate tomb
• Investigate Lance Rock, Waedin dies
• Kill the necromancer
• Bury Waedin, back to town
• Follow strange masked figures, find hidden underground earth cultist and followers
• Hear about missing caravan, nearby graves
• Exhume graves, find bodies of caravan guards, earth cultist, feathered guy
• Track feathered guy to Feathergale Spire
• Feathergale Knights turn out to be air cultists, try to kill party, saved by aarakocra
• Chase air cultists into temple, meet bard
• Bran shoots bard, flee from cultists, Lafiel hides and works recon
• Back to town, Lafiel is not dead!
• Bran leaves to find allies to fight air cult
• Party prepares to head to Sacred Stone Monastery, but gets lead on Thermander
• Head to Scarlet Moon Hall; druids performing rite of the wicker giant to fix nature
• Druids turn out to be fire cultists
• Fight cultists alongside real druids, ornery werewolves
• Cultists chase heroes away
• Off to monastery
• Kill earth cultists, blame fire cultists
• Meet friendly lich Rennard Carras
• Kill earth abbess, blame fire cultists
• Hell hounds show up and help sell the deception
• Minotaur smashes through the wall
• Floor collapsed onto orcs
• Rescue prisoners, find minotaur on its way out of the kitchen
• Lead prisoners to Westford
• En route, orcs
• Spend a week in Drakkengarde, hire samurai, Ru Bae Ya throws a party
• Rivergarde Keep, Drake fails to fake killing someone
• Lafiel rejoins the group, Drake gets grumpy
• Drop off prisoner in Drakkengarde, hear about fire sorcerer terrorizing Nettlebee Ranch
• Wake up ancient barbarian revenant, turns out Nettlebees faked the fire sorcerer and defiled his tomb to lure heroes in and kill them under orders form earth cult
• Guilty parties are questioned, Ya tells the barbarian to kill them
• Red Oak Village attacked by fire cult; druid dies, party almost dies, Ya refuses to let them sacrifice Drake
• Fire tower burned down, descend into caves for days
• Find fire temple
• Drake turns into Boar Drake (Lafiel says he's always been a bore...)
• Stupid ogres
• Viva la Salamander revolución!
• Bastian captured and brought to Drakkengarde
• Bastian give life imprisonment in exchange for information; Drake gets mad
• Drake drops Bahamut for Nalindra
• Spending the new year celebration in a dwarven shrine to Berronarr Truesilver
• Shrine occupied by treasure hunters led by an ogre mage, Lafiel channels Truesilver's power to divinely smite them to death
• Loose the ghouls, kill the wyvern, dispatch Aerisi Kalinoth and set the djinn free
• Windharrow tells his story, Lafiel wanders
• Fight through water area, find water weirds, bypass troll, kill a terrifying hag
• Lafiel returns, troll in tow
• Dragon turtle; weird backpacks die
• Rest in a hut, lizardfolk show up, Lafiel gets a fat lip
• Qwynn turns a demon into a newt. A lizardfolk eats it. It gets better.
• Weirds drag Lafiel into a river, Drake goes after her, both go over the waterfall
• Finish clearing the temple; fireball a bedroom, claim to be a cultist, kill some ghouls
• The fountain
• Meet lizardfolk, admit to slaying the dragon turtle
• Fire cultists prisoners of the water cult; convinced they're fire cultists
• Return to lizardfolk with turtle proof; cultists realize the truth and die
• The whirlwind orb
• Balloon Packs, backtrack down below to finish the water cultists
• Explore a bit on a boat, find some cultists who say where the prophet is
• Everyone takes the bubbles; Drake winds up far behind
• Ya throws a fireball, Qwynn casts d-door, the rest almost all die
• Fly back up, taunt cultists with Drown. Sending to Qwynn (you're all dead, I'm just hearing things), celebratory drinking
• Terrible visions, back down to investigate, boat is destroyed
• Water portal. Lafiel sees a wave, ducks back out. Gnarls gets hit, pulled back out. Gnarls goes in again, does not come back.
• Lafiel goes in, nearly dies but comes back out. Drake and Qwynn go in, Ya somehow pulls them out. No hope of rescuing his body.
• Something terrible - an aboleth!
• Sorrowful return to Drakkengarde, meet a new (old) druid.
• Drake demands Thermandar's head; guard says the cults have devastated Red Oak and Westford. Kill all the prophets, and we'll see.
• Terrible dreams!
• Rush to stop the water cult from destroying Drakkengarde
• Box destroyed, boat on fire, banish Lafiel with the orb
• Head to Yalnos for an auction on another orb
• Auction
• Off to Silverstone
• Meeting with Dark Lady dragon
• Air cult still active with new leader
• Qwynn claims leadership, slays old leader, finds air portal
• Explore caves
• Harpies and mushrooms and giants, oh my!
• Oops, there's the fire cult leader.
• She's dead, Qwynn runs off and tries to summon the Howling Hatred.
• Need to destroy the weapons, but we sold Drown.
• Get rewards, get legend lore, return and check out the water caverns.
• Everything's slimy. The water's fouled.
• Diseased, enslaved lizardfolk attack!
• Further down, horrible visions of madness.
• Everyone almost dies to an aboleth.
• Everyone does die to the aboleth.
• Saved from the aboleth.
• Years pass.
• Joining Drake in going to Varen to find his family's killer.
• Attacked by a Scyllan, Ya and Sumac hop through the Nine Hells.
• Dinner with Stormlord Lanak Iskarr.