Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 1643916" data-attributes="member: 1405">I ran a time travel story arc in my last campaign.  The Mua'vadin (heroes) of the kingdom of Rhyden (6th level) had just finished their tour of service for the king.  One of their friends, a local arms dealer, threw a party in their honor.  All of the heroes attended the party except one, who had taken a special assignment outside the kingdom.  Towards the end of the evening, the King arrives with dire news.  The Acharenne Empire had assaulted Rhyden troops outside the city walls.  The troops, who had been led by their friend, had been conducting the Elven princess to Rhyden to marry the human heir of the kingdom. (NOTE: Rhyden was a part of the Empire, but was secretly preparing to rebel.  The prinncess was key in that decision.)The heroes raced to get ahead of the Acharenne force before they could leave the province and foil the chances of the rebellion.  The heroes successfully ambushed the mounted force and destroyed them. They rescued the princess, but found their companion dead, his head upon a pike.  They had little time for grief as they had to get to a set of standing stones before Imperial wizards found them.  The stones were part of an ancient travel network that could get them back to Rhyden in moments.  As the wizard started to cast the ritual in the stones, the Imperial mages attacked, causing an overload that threw them 30 years into the past and on the other side of the continent.They arrived on the shores of the island nation of Anduin, close to its fabled library.  They soon discovered their plight and that the island nation would soon be going to war against the dread pirate and his fleet.  It was written that heroes from Rhyden would help defend the island.  The mua-vadin suspected that those older heroes were not corrupt due to personal relationships that they had with them in the future.  (According to history, those heroes embarked on a ship to chase the pirates after their defeat and only three members of that fabled party returned, years after their disappearance...changed...)One of those who had disappeared in the past was the father of the Bard Alyna, a current member of the Mua'vadin!  She had never known him!At the library, they met the younger versions of the people they had known.  These people were completely different and wholly good.  Alyna met her father, yet could not bear to reveal the truth.  The mua'vadin decided to help defend Anduin along side the old heroes.  They took two ships to chase down the pirates, but were separated in a freak storm.  The mua'vadin arrived at the secret hideaway of the pirates alone.  They defeated pirate leader and freed the prisoners, including a young man who eventually became a powerful cleric and friend to them in the future, although blind in the past, never seeing the heroes who saved him.In the course of their investigations, they learned that the pirate had been tortured into insanity and that he had secretly been controlled in order to forment trouble and destabilize Anduin.  The poor man had hideous scars, both physical and mental.In the end, they had to give up their search for the old heroes, although they had found information that those heroes had been targeted by the dark forces that had taken the pirate.They jouneyed to the lair of the great wyrm Kharista, who showed them a way to get home, although they had to best several tribes of Ogres to do it!Eventually, they returned home, 6 months after they vanished, to find that they had started a war between Rhyden and the Acharenne Empire, with the Elven kingdom supporting Rhyden!Whew....and that is not even half the detail of what happened....</blockquote>

Verification