🔴 This post was being updated LIVE as we progressed aboard the Dawnstar, toward the heart of a dying star to claim the treasure hidden within!
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CHALLENGE 1 COMPLETE
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CHALLENGE 2 COMPLETE
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CHALLENGE 3 COMPLETE
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CHALLENGE 4 COMPLETE
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FINAL CHALLENGE COMPLETE
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Ahoy Spacefarers!
When last we left of, twas the final breathe before the plunge into our stories conclusion; our valiant crew have decided that knowledge be the key to the fate of this voyage, and so in the penultimate stretch of silt to our final destination you have spent the learning better the secrets of where ye be going and what ye might expect! Our challenge shall culminate in a single roll of the d20, and by choosing to study you have granted yourselves a 💫+1 BONUS💫 to that final roll! But more on that later, we join back now as the Dawnstar finally approaches its long awaited destination…
After days in the quiet silt of the Beyond you are awoken by the rumbling of feet upon the deck, and the ringing of the ships bell. Something has been sighted, though you arent sure what. You leap from your bunk like the crew around you, and race up to the top deck to lay eyes upon the horizon.
There, you see it, the dying star spoken of in tales, etched upon that strange map you’ve been following all this time! It sits like a gem of brilliant hues, arcing coronas of colour ejecting from its rippling surface and radiating out into the beyond. You stand in awe, your shipmates falling silent about you as the beauty of both promise and vision washes across the deck.
But you’ve little time to bask in the wonder of such a sight, as more and more crew begin to spot something far more sinister; an ocean of debris orbits this star, the corpses of ships scattered like pebbles in the sea. You’ve seen this sort of destruction before, and you feel your heart sink before your eyes catch sight of the exact thing you expected yet hoped wouldn’t be true…
The silhouette of a massive tentacled beast moves about the star, its mass shifting the debris like the fin of a siltshark through the Beyond. The stars blink out as it obscures their light, a monster most tremendous guards this treasure it seems, and you have sailed right into its hunting grounds…
To reach the heart of this star you must make it beyond the debris and past the kraken before sailing into the star itself! A series of challenges now lie before you, each more daunting than the last. But now is not the time to fret, now is the time for action, and your first challenge is upon you!
As we draw closer to the treasure at the heart of the star, this post will change and update live with the action. New challenges, polls, and puzzles will emerge for you to complete in order to safely guide the Dawnstar to victory! You must succeed in 5 challenges in order to secure the treasure at the heart of the star, but be swift spacer, for each challenge will only remain active for a few hours…
Despite hopelessness, despite the odds stacked against you, you all rallied together to see this story through to its very end! As the Dawnstar pulls away from he collapsing heart of the star you each bear the burden of hope that carries the ship to safety. Some spoke of promises of tomorrow, others the bonds forged before today, but all spoke of the bonds built by this here crew on this here vessel.
And so with the crew inspired the Dawnstar just manages to pull away from the sable expanse behind, today shall not be the day the crew of the Dawnstar perish! Instead you succeed, and in succeeding you recover the treasure that awaited at the end of this storied journey; We only awaited our Final Roll to determine exactly how much treasure you were able to escape with, against a
DC of 15 (and thanks to some incredible bartering for advantage during our
closing stream)…
And we rolled an 18!!!
With our final roll a success you drag the chest aboard, crack open its gilded lid, and reveal the loot inside:
The Loot of the Kraken Tamer, hidden within the heart of a dying star and forever guarded by the very beast what gave its former own their name. This loot contains several new Kraken themed items, munitions, and ship upgrades that will be added to the book (including the ability to summon yer very own terrible tentacled beastie) along with an entirely unique Kraken Silt Sail ship!
But more on our treasures in the future, for now we celebrate! Treasure won and crew safe we now close this chapter for good, but who knows what might still await the good ship Dawnstar out there on the starry expanse of the Beyond….
Thank you everyone who took part, who answered the polls and made your voices heard in the comments! We hope you enjoyed this story we told as a community as much as we’ve had putting it together! If you want to continue on with community discussions, polls, and more (such as our yearly Vault Gauntlet Monster Creation competitions), head over to the Dragons Vault Discord and say hi!
Ahoy Spacefarers!
