The Ashmoon Banner is Born

Fari attempts to evade trailing city guards by magically altering her cloak's color and ducks into the Adventurers Guild, where she meets the gnome Fenwick. They team up and register as an adventuring party with Vadis and Continuity, naming their group the Ashmoon Banner. After grabbing a quest from the board to find a missing cat, they rest and head to the Arena the next morning. Prince O Nisia opens portals to a dark forest pocket dimension, instructing the contestants to survive for 24 hours. Inside, they engage a hostile suit of animated armor standing in a magical pond, eventually defeating it and claiming its runic gauntlet.

• Party formed and formally registered at the Adventurers Guild.
• Accepted a missing cat quest from the bounty board.
• Entered the glimmering hope portal for the survival challenge.
• Defeated the animated armor.

• Adventurers Guild — Hub for quests and lodging.
• The Arena — The starting grounds for the competition.
• Dark Forest Pocket Dimension — A magical, hostile woodland.

• Metal gauntlet with a swirling rune on the palm (taken by Vadis).

Fought Animated Armor in a pond. Vadis used Echo Knight attacks to deal the killing blow. Fari threw a rock. Fenwick missed with Firebolt.

• Why are city guards following Fari?
• What is the nature of the magical pond and its lights?

• Vadis: Tried to make a cool, mysterious entrance but tripped over a chair.
• Fari: Drank a massive bucket of ale and got poisoned right before the survival competition.

"I am continuity the all powerful time wizard bow down before me"— Continuity

"You shall serve under my banner"— Vadis

• The party needs to survive 24 hours or find an exit portal to escape the pocket dimension.