Season 1 Guide:
A Threat Unseen
Episode 1: Ghosts from the Past
The new Investigation firm researches the cause of several murders in Dura, where several people were assassinated by an unseen sniper, leaving only puzzles behind. After another victim they watched was murdered, they find out more about the military unit of the Steelhammers, a warcrime that was never prosecuted and a warforged on the path of revenge against them. During the final shootout they manage to surprise Remnant the Warforged and manage to save the dwarf before the Lord of Blades sympathizer could finish what he started.
Episode 2: Forgotten Relics
After a nice face massage by the Daask leader Fenia. Their ally Guard Captain Villroy alerted them to a strange disappearances of warforged all over lower Dura. The Team searched for clues in the Cog Carnival where they met Coal, an one armed warforged who told them that her friend worked for a secret project of house Orien in the lower parts of the city, only accessible by a certain elevator. They began to see that a certain splinter of the Daask seem to go after their own goals and that they were followed by a certain man.
Finally reaching the Old City of Dashaarat in the underground they found ancient Dhakaani ruins and an archive that contained strange stone tablets. The halfling was able to make out some words pertaining to a seal and a danger. Apparently the work and the tablets were dangerous for the warforged as they found a pit full of corpses. After questioning the guards they found a child of the Orien house and after bringing it back the whole story was unveiled.
Alden d’Orien was blackmailed as his son was kidnapped by a half-oni called Garra, who wanted an easy and disposable workforce in order to unearth something. After the return of his son the party went to Garra’s home and found Garra and the stone tablets gone and a band of Kenku trying to burn papers in a fireplace. From what they could rescue they found out that Garra was a traitor to the Daask trying to usurp leadership with the help of a Z.
Episode 3: Undercover Student
Professor Ambronsius from the Morgrave University called for help as the stone tablet that was given to him by the party disapeared. He wants the Team to join his course as new students and find out who of his students might have stolen the tablet from the Library.
After settling into their dorms and new student personas they began to delve into the web of student relationships full of breakups, old flames, cults and political extremists. After an exciting night out they found out that Jannis ir’Selan was acting strange and that he was the most suspect person.
After stopping his and hearing the Jannis, or rather the changeling Tem out, they found out that he was blackmailed by a person called Zargeb with the truth of his current state of living. He gave back the tablet to the party and decided to help him as his “Community Service” in order to atone for his actions. Professor Ambronsius was able to tell them more about the tablet such as that the inscription describes a seal that holds back a great danger of corruption.
Episode 4: Blood and Games
The race of Eight Winds is here and the party is hired by both the Boromar and the Daask, as they worry that someone else is trying to fix the game, making an outsider win the race. An unknown party was attacking the riders of the teams scaring them and making some of them unable to fly. The party split up trying to join the Teams of the different district to find out who might be responsible.
They found out that the attacker might be Garra as a strange horned person was seen attacking them with a maul. Also the riders and animals were manipulated to fail a doping test as their food and drink was laced with Potion of Heroism, which disqualified multiple people.
There seemed to be a conspiracy between the mysterious Mr. Panthera, Garra and the mysterious changeling. They found the changeling and Garra in the doctors office where the original doctor was murdered and replaced by the changeling. Before they could arrest the perpetrators the Dark Lanterns and Mr. Calico showed up to take over the arrest and warn them that they would meet again.
Episode 5: A Betrayer’s Answer pt. 1
The Team was invited to a “friendly” meeting with the Dark Lanterns in an empty open air theatre. After a questioning Mr. Calico was assassinated and the Dark Lanterns intending to tie up loose ends and get their hands on the potential assassins gave an order to kill the Team. With the help of a several documents they began the search for the true perpetrators and in order to prove their own innocence.
After a save stay at the Dungeon, their first target was the shop of Drakewell’s Arcana where they found out that Drakewell was part of a cult of the Dragon Below and Eldrantulku, and that he was a double agent in the Lanterns spying on them and they were probably framed. They took both statues of Khyber and Eldrantulku with him.
After almost being seen by the Dark Lanterns they returned back to the Dungeon to rest up and discuss their next steps.
Episode 6: A Betrayer’s Answer pt.2
After a short rest and teaming up with another member of the Team they decided to visit Khaled ir’Zafir, to find out more. While on the street they were ambushed by Kenku in wingsuits trying to restrain them using lassos and shooting them with their hand crossbows. They scatter them and found out that the wingsuits were made by Zafir, and that the Kenku were both sent to watch and assassinate them.
After a short meeting with Victor Saint-Demain the arrogant but brilliant rival of H.I.M they snuck up to upper Dura under disguise.
Through the inventor they found out that Alexei d’cannith was a high ranking member of the cult and that there was a meeting at Carasan Top. After being chased over a railing and barely escaping the Dark Lanterns they made it to Broken Arch where they found out what Carasan Top was. A tower in middle Menthis.
After making to the half finished tower they fought a fiendish bird and finally made it up to the top of the tower where they faced Mr. Panthera or rather Zargeb. He tried to convince them the reign of the Overlords would be preferable but the Team disagreed and it came to a fight. Mr. Panthera or rather Zargeb showed his true form as a Rakshasa Zakya and began to strike at them with his massive greatsword. Rick Longfeather swayed by the betrayer’s words changed sides and started attacking the party. However after a grueling fight Zargeb and Longfeather were dead and the surviving party was able to make a deal with the Dark Lanterns for their freedom.
However when coming back home to their office they noticed something. The Rod of Eight Winds was gone. This was all just a setup by Zargeb’s master, the Rajah.