The Kaleidosphere

Having fully committed to the rescue mission, the party sets sail with the crew of the Black Sparrow. They face coastal threats from the wilds of Penjarhao, and share fish tales with the crew, learning more of the world around them.

We turn to Hudson Swift in this interlude, following his harrowing abduction. Hudson endures brutal physical and psychological torture at the hands of the vicious loan shark Thousand Tooth Tom. Throughout it all, Hudson struggles both to maintain his sense of identity and to find an opportunity to escape from Tom's vise-like grasp.

We return to the main party. Elizabeth's crew pirates a passenger ship, and the party's pirating skills turn out to be… unconventional. Through the misadventure, the PCs are forced to confront questions of heroism and morality, each in their own way.

Jack has another dream, and discusses it with Zachariah and Mitzka. They attempt to divine what Jack's deific benefactor wants them to do. When the party stops off for a supply restock in a tiny seaside village on Reniyenan continental mainland, they get embroiled in a monster hunt.

The party agrees to keep their ship docked overnight, allowing Elizabeth's crew to carrouse while the party looks into the threat posed by a monster. They determine that they are dealing with a werewolf, and follow its trail into the black pine forest.

The party finally tracks down the true monster. After the dust settles and the remaining party licks their wounds, Jack is approached by a moose - the symbol of his god - and they diverge farther still from their original mission in pursuit of the divine.

Jack dives into the tidepool. Mitzka gets ambushed by sand, and then Klakkr and Moriarty give her drugs. Zachariah helps Jack explore the watery crypt beyond the tidepool… leading to a puzzle with consequences that they could not have seen coming.

We are going on a brief hiatus while DM/Nathan finishes earning his MFA in fantasy fiction writing. We'll be back in your feeds on August 10th!

The party joins Jack on a small key (an island of fossilized coral), where they confront the spirit of Tiggal. Having built a shrine in honor of his son's death and the animals' symbiotic relationship with him, Tiggal now protects a powerful magical item, which the PCs can take for themselves if only they best him in a contest of strength…

Listen to our two-shot interlude as a crew of Neraoese politicians, soldiers, and criminals that embark upon a deadly mission to check in on a fortified outpost that has gone silent. Nerao is an aquatic kingdom, so this entire adventure takes place beneath the surface.

Disconcerted by the cloud of diluted blood hanging over the whole town, the party finds a couple survivors and learns more about what happened. Then they dive into the fortress to confront the Terkanese aggressors, and are confronted with untold horror.Our main campaign resumes next week!

Jack communes with Jold again, but Jold's advice leads to a couple of very different interpretations of what the party should do next. The argument escalates into a surprising conclusion as Zachariah and Jack cannot see eye to eye.

Following Jack's interpretation of Jold's entreaty, the party heads north towards the Dagharal mountains. After a chance encounter with a carnivorous elk, the party happens across an archdruid and a tabaxi wielding the bagpipes.

A pack of savage gnolls attacks Jantor's hut, and the party struggles to fend off the attack with their new friend, Lucky Shore. Many counterspells are cast.

Jantor tells the party the results of his communed conversation with Jold. However, there is more to the conversation than Jantor first let on, forcing the party into another argument that pushes them to the point of breaking.

Having reached an agreement with Jantor, the party allows him to attune to the Totem of Tiggal, allowing them to travel north much more quickly. Having defeated the gnolls only hours ago, the party sets out through the Dagharalish Mountains and the Erohavian North in search of the Eye of the Norns.

The party late at night arrives in town,and seeks out shelter, finding an old friend.The innkeep asks too much (it's a shakedown).The party sleeps like beggars in the end.Upon the morrow, the whole party deemsthat in this town not all is as it seems.

While the town is certainly unsettling, it invokes in the party such a feeling of paranoia that they begin second-guessing every decision that they've ever made. They debate their options in excruciating detail while beginning to explore Trisyn, eventually hatching an unorthodox plan.

Cleaning out the abandoned inn leads to a series of strange encounters. Lucky gets lucky. Jantor and Mitzka feel the clock ticking, but some plans require a certain amount of cooking time to reach fruition. Ultimately, the party uncovers Trisyn's shocking secret.

In a shocking turn of events, the party changes tact and uses the age-old solution to most problems: violence. In a tense and dramatic series of encounters, the party takes on two of the three hags of Trisyn, but realize that they might be outmatched.

Having failed to kill any of the hags, the party quickly confers and decides to push their advantage while they have it. If the hags have time to retreat and regroup, all might be lost. So, with many of their resources expended, the party continues to hunt down the coven.

At long last, the party approaches the much-anticipated Well of Fate. With the use of the wheels that they took from Trisyn, they manipulate enormous stone slabs to reveal different doorways. As the resident expert on different types of holes, Lucky randomly picks which mini-dungeons to explore.

In one of the Well of Fate's pits, the party plays with mirrors and moonbeams in a complex geometric puzzle. Solving the puzzle leads to another, deadlier challenge, and Moriarty rises to the occasion in typical fashion.

Only a short way into the multitudinous mini-dungeons within the Well of Fate, the party faces obstacles that challenge their very perception of reality. Jack undergoes an awakening, and Mitzka is offered an ultimatum.

While exploring the Well, and digging into the themes and challenges presented by the Well's emphasis on past, present, and future, the party fights one of their most challenging adversaries yet: themselves.

Descending one of the deepest holes in the Well leads the party beyond the material plane altogether, and they set foot into the Astral Sea for the first time, where they engage in some hand-to-hand combat with otherworldly beings.

Plowing through another hole nearly results in catastrophe. After recouping, the party individually come face to face with their deepest fears.

The party delves into more mini-dungeons within the Well of Fate. Jack faces a surprise attack, and Klakkr proves his prowess at puzzle-solving!

The party each re-experience some of their formative moments, causing old wounds to open anew. Yet, at the end of it all, the party has acquired every disk that they need. All that remains is charging the sphere in the last chamber…

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Before the exhausted adventurers charge the Eye of the Norns, Lucky recounts the warning that the town elder gave them: responsibility is hard to shoulder, and beauty's in the eye of the beholder. Both weary and wary, the party sets about activating the eye… causing a terrifying turn of events.

After last week's stunning cliffhanger, we… don't get a resolution. Keep waiting! In the meantime, enjoy this publicly released OnlyFins episode. OnlyFins is our talk show about the Kaleidosphere, available biweekly for Patreon subscribers at $2 per month!Topics this week include decompressing and theorizing about the cliffhanger, discussing our rebrand, cutting edge science, and a hint of what is yet to come!

In the first half of a 2-part interlude, we back up in time to when Jack and Zachariah disagreed on their next course of action. We follow Zachariah and his undead entourage as he journeys south through gnoll-infested woods in a grim effort to reach Ricksport in time to save Hudson.

Zachariah sails the stormy seas with some folk from Jack's past. When he reaches Ricksport, surprising developments lead Zachariah to recommit to an old promise. A mysterious benefactor assists him in implementing his decision.

Join Nathan, Alex, and Ellen in an exciting recap of our story up to now!

Zachariah uses his teleportation circle coordinates to return to Kraz's lair. He sets back out towards Cliffsbay, which he can see is covered with some sort of foul haze. Along the way, he makes two new friends: an occult experimenter named Abraham and Torr, a hobgoblin who seems to hear multiple voices in his head. When the three enter the city, things are clearly amiss, and it is not long before a fight breaks out. A few brave denizens of Cliffsbay leap to help the party, including some old friends and new allies, Penelope and Arf.

In the heat of battle, Zachariah, Abraham, Torr, Penelope, and Arf help one another kill an ilithid and its thralls. A second ilithid barely escapes with its life. Isak of the Lion's Den, along with his companion Nelton the mapmaker, offer the Lion's Den as a safe haven for the party.

The party quickly realizes that while the Lion's Den is safe from the ilithids, it is still far from safe. After the mind flayers took over the city, a fledgling resistance broke out, but tensions run hot between Isak and Sapphire, the leaders of the two most prominent gangs that compose the resistance. To make matters worse, the Taiyangese maintain their naval blockade, wealthy Cliffsbayans have declared themselves the emperors of new city-states, and the indigenous folk of Penjarhao besiege the city from land. It seems no matter what the party does, there will inevitably be bloodshed. And lots of it.

Having settled on a tentative course of action, the party plans to retake the Fungal Crags, which seems to be the source of the magical pollution covering the city. On the way, they are intercepted by minions of the mind flayers, who are out for blood now that the party has killed one of their own.

Arriving at the Fungal Crags, the party quickly realizes that the atmosphere itself is hostile around this corrupted complex. The walls, once stone, now pulsate like flesh, and oozing plant matter chokes the region. Even so, the party presses inward, set on stopping this pollution.

The party presses into the Fungal Crags, using stealth and caution to maneuver around some of the more obvious threats. After scouting ahead, Abraham formulates a plan of attack, and the party moves to execute.

After Zachariah brutally demolishes the mind flayer overseeing the Fungal Crags, the party mops up the remaining enemies and sets about finding a way to eliminate the pollution pouring forth from the Fungal Crags and feeding the dangerous clouds over the city.

The party's brazen takeover of the Fungal Crags has not gone unnoticed. They double down and prepare to defend their newly gained territory against the mind flayers, who launch a massive counteroffensive.

As Cephalossk himself attacks the party, along with hordes of minions, Zachariah and his undead horde refuse to budge. As the dust settles, we see for whom the bell tolls…

The Nightcats finally secure the Fungal Crags, giving their resistance movement a massive victory. Tears are shed for fallen companions, and Abraham makes a shocking revelation.

Isak and Sapphire invite the party to strategize with them and debate the next plan of attack. Their plans are interrupted by two unexpected delegations, and Penelope makes a discovery that has drastic implications.

Rayalan, exposed as a traitor and a mind flayer, briefly skirmishes with Torr and Penelope before determining that they are beneath his concern. After retreating, Penelope and Torr strategize with their friends in the Lion's Den and decide to pursue Rayalan into his lair, knowing that they are descending into a deadly lair.

The party descends into an old cistern and explores the Collective's tremendous network of caves beneath Cliffsbay, fighting off many horrific creatures as they search for Rayalan himself.

Abraham has a secret conversation. The party delves deeper into Rayalan's lair, demolishing an army of lackeys.

As the party continues to explore the lair, they find that they have descended into caverns beneath the waves. They finally come face to face with Rayalan…

Jack and Nagish float through the Astral Sea, and as they talk philosophy, Nagish reveals secrets regarding the multiverse's entire existence.

Nagish and Jack continue their sojourn through the stars as Nagish seeks to escape Azathoth's reach. When ambushed by interstellar mind flayers, the unlikely duo confront an unforeseen turn of events.

Klakkr and Moriarty attempt to go back to the Well and rescue Jack, picking up a couple new friends along the way. Then, they decide that it's finally time to return to Penjarhao.

The party in the caverns beneath Cliffsbay battle Rayalan. As both sides grow more and more desperate, they pull out all stops.

The party struggles to defeat Rayalan and escape the cavern with their lives as the cavern collapses.

While the party in Cliffsbay plans their next move against the mind flayers, the party journeying to the city from Kraz's lair makes similar plans with Hashiss and the Fangdeath.

As the heroes in Cliffsbay launch an assault on the mind flayers' last stronghold in the Riverbed Inn complex, the party that has returned from Trisyn launches their own invasion of the city. Westannicans, Glitzcliffians, Shadowcats, Fangdeath, and the Collective collide in a five-way battle.

The Elder Brain has revealed itself and the battle rages on. Things look especially grim for the heroes of Cliffsbay, but they are determined to see this battle through to its bitter end…

The crew is back, LIVE on YouTube! As the dust settles from the Battle of Cliffsbay, the Westannicans, Shadowcats, and Fangdeath call a parley to discuss a ceasefire. The heroes, especially Penny and Abraham, step in and moderate the negotiations.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

The party oversee negotiations and help the various factions interested in Cliffsbay reconfigure its governmental structure. They get reunited with a couple old friends and a former enemy, and plan their next steps in taking on the mind flayers.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

Jack, Klakkr, Moriarty, and Seline spend the day fixing up their new warship, shopping for supplies, and gathering a crew. They intend to sail for Keluarumah, reembarking on their quest for the artifacts that compose the legendary Jeushpitar Lyre.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

The treasure hunters set sail for Keluarumah, braving hurricane winds and an enormous sea monster.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

The treasure hunters learn more of the legend of Sangkuriang. As they sail deeper into contested waters, they are accosted by a pair of Taiyangese warships.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

Moriarty leads a diving expedition to plunder the sunken Taiyangese destroyer, but another crew of plunderers battle them for rights to the ship.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

The treasure hunters speak with Neraoese patrol agents and learn that mind flayers are threatening the underwater nations as well as those on the shore. Back onboard the Stormbreaker, Jack has a troubling dream.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

The treasure crew arrive at the capital of Nerao and plan an overnight stay to repair their boat. Klakkr and Seline lead a night out on the town, and Seline's quest to get in on Nerao's real estate leads to a surprising discovery.

Seline leads the rest of the party to follow up on her lead with the Dusk noble family. They meet Freya Dusk, a politician who went insane after a confrontation with a mind flayer who calls himself Nyarlatili, the Avatar of Cthulhu.Back on the sea, the party encounters a dreaded foe… and a long-lost friend.

A desperate battle erupts as the crew battle Thousand Tooth Tom in an effort to rescue Hudson Swift.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

The desperate battle rages on as the crew battle Thousand Tooth Tom in an effort to rescue Hudson Swift.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

Seline finds too many drugs. The party learns the history of the Boat of Sankuriang and the Jade Jewel, leading Jack to ponder questions of cosmology. Jack, Klakkr, and Moriarty tend to an emaciated and broken-spirited Hudson Swift.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

Seline finds too many drugs. The party learns the history of the Boat of Sankuriang and the Jade Jewel, leading Jack to ponder questions of cosmology. Jack, Klakkr, and Moriarty tend to an emaciated and broken-spirited Hudson Swift.Get in contact with us!Watch us on YouTube Thursdays, 7:30 EST!

Arriving in the coastal capital of Keluarumah, the party goes on a shopping spree, Klakkr makes an appearance at a Tea and Honey Quarterly office, and the party learn that illithids might be looking for the same artifact that they are.

The party immediately sets out into the jungles of Keluarumah and are accosted by dreadful ahools. Sustaining scrapes and bruises, they press forward and come across a cottage that seems to be straight out of the Legend of Sankuriang.

The cottage in the jungle holds a nasty surprise… and some troubling revelations. The party chooses to push on through the night, trudging through heavier and heavier rain before they arrive at Sankuriang's lake.

At Lake Sankuriang, a devastating battle breaks out. The party holds their own, but were they too late? And what does this mean for the fate of the world? http://voten.mythcraftrpg.com/5

We return to Cliffsbay, where Abraham, Penelope, Arf, and Torr prepare for their voyage to Shikyodai. They acquire a ship, a crew… and a stowaway.http://voten.mythcraftrpg.com/5

Join Nathan, Cody, Pippin, and Maggie in a round table discussion about the campaign and about a variety of characteristically unrelated topics, such as the moon rusting.http://voten.mythcraftrpg.com/5

The heroes face a brutal attack from a kraken, mind flayers, and Chomp Razorfin, the champion of Nyarlatili.http://voten.mythcraftrpg.com/5

The battle rages on against the Kraken. Can the heroes prevail?http://voten.mythcraftrpg.com/5

After being devastated by a kraken on the open seas, the party floats adrift. But the ocean is a brutal and unforgiving force of nature.http://voten.mythcraftrpg.com/5

With land in sight, the party is hopeful for a reprieve. But they are intercepted by Nyarlatili, the Avatar of Cthulhu… who invites them to parley over a strangely human meal.

The party washes up on the mysterious island chain with a dark past. After scouting, they set out to explore some ancient ruins and the pyramid overlooking them.

The party delve into the pyramid, contending with numerous traps and studying ancient hieroglyphs depicting the key events of a past World Storm.

The heroes reach the grand crypt at the base of the pyramid and plan for a coming confrontation, choosing each of their next moves with great care.

Atahualpa, a mummy lord with a dark history, battles the heroes in the heart of the pyramid.

Abraham faces the consequences of his previous deals. The party loots the pyramid and makes a new friend in a doomed village.

The party set sail for Shikyodai, witnessing a terrifying storm and arriving to an uncertain city coping with a recent regime change.

Having arrived in Shikogawa, capital of Shikyodai, the heroes go on a shopping spree only to find that everything has become back-breakingly expensive under the new emperor, Bosunaga. Spies lurk in the shadows and average citizens trade in drugs rather than currency.

The heroes continue their shopping spree despite the city's exorbitant prices. They finally head into the sewers beneath the city in search of “the Resistance.”

In the sewers beneath Shikogawa, the heroes meet frogfolk that are orchestrating a resistance against the dread emperor Bosunaga. After a night of strategizing and doing shrooms, the heroes come up with a plan and approach Bosunaga for an audience.

After speaking with Bosunaga, the heroes secure passage on an airship and head to Monisokotan, home of the resistance, and allegedly where the heroes anticipate meeting a much anticipated foe.

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Upon arriving in Monisokotan, the heroes meet Zugchigaungu. But all is not as it seems, and it appears that the heroes are not the only ones looking to navigate fraught alliances.

New alliances tenuously forged, the heroes return to Shikogawa, where Torr challenges Emperor Bosunaga to a duel to the death on a marble bridge over a pool of lava.

The tide turns in the battle, and the party makes new plans for the nation of Shikyodai.

After Torr's coronation, the two parties plan their next moves.

The Dreamer stirs. The gods are dying. Nagish's headaches foretell doom. The party reunites and make their final plans to combat the Collective. This is the beginning of the end.

The Dreamer stirs. The gods are dying. Nagish's headaches foretell doom. The party reunites and make their final plans to combat the Collective. This is the beginning of the end.