DerBattery Rising

Chapter 4 The lightning rail raced in the dead of night down the track away from Sharn towards Wroat. Between the late hour and the brutal ending to the thieves' guild encounter, we sat in  broody silence  in our sleeping car. In the morning everyone seemed hesitant to go forth and socialize, maybe nervous of any police presence on the train or in town. Eventually Belanor had had enough of the reclusiveness -- they had found an ancient Xen'drikian relic and vanguished a horde of miscreants, others must know of their glory! After a tuna fish sandwich for lunch, he ventured out of our sleeping car and headed to the entertainment car. Despite the early hour there were already a bunch of people drinking and gambling. To a rough count, there were six humans, one gnomish card dealer, three elves, and three halflings in the parlor, and Belanor sidled over to the blackjack table and took a seat. Ordering a round of drinks, he introduced himself to a human with a short stack next t

Chapter 1 Our story opened in Sharn, a bustling city on the mouth of the Dagger River in Breland. Being an adventuring group that had been questing after low to moderate importance relics for the last six months, our shop "Belenor's Exemplary Group of Legend Seekers" was on the second plateau of the city -- close enough to the ground to be shady enough to be known to the right customers yet higher than the base level to illustrate our success. Our heroes were relaxing in their shop when they were suddenly visited by the woman Uleena, who entered hefting two large sacks of coin. Uleena explained that she had been sent by her superiors at Morgrave University to hire our group to travel to the wild continent Xen'drik. Their scholars had finally deciphered some ancient texts that gave clues leading to a metallic sphere that -- once found -- could then lead to one of the Orbs of Dragonkind. Ancient fables say that the giant civilizations of Xen'drik created some Orbs