1 About

1.1 To a stranger

Brother Harvey JS Alansbarn wears the emblem of the Ilmater and often dresses in reds and greys/neutrals. Though only in his late 20s he bares several scars. And anyone looking into his eyes can tell that Harvey has been witness to some terrible, unspeakable things.

"Long and strong as a dog's devotion".

1.2 For the ref

Brother Harvey JS Alansbarn is an investigator for the Church of Ilmater who recently lost his mentor, Priest Xiang. The two of them were tracking slavers along the Sword Coast, but were captured and tortured. Xiang didn't survive. Harvey watched helplessly, explaining the Haunted One backstory.

Born into slavery in the very city known as The City of Slaves, Calimport¹, Calimshan², his family along with several friends and relatives fled to Waterdeep when he was eight. Upon arrival he and his parents were separated from the group. One night while making camp outside of BG, they were mugged. The attackers fatally wounded his parents and kidnapped him. They stuffed him into a sack.

As they smuggled him, Harvey a strange power inside of him burning and a blinding light lit up the inside of the sack, shining through the fabric. Moments later he was rescued by a group of clerics of Ilmater. It was Harvey's own doing, casting some kind of magic that had given away his abduction. The clerics took him in as their own and taught him the ways of magic. They never found his parents, or any of the others of Harvey's group.

Harvey is currently searching for a missing child of his church. He has a lead that a ship is taking the child, possibly others, to Calimport.

Harvey would kill:

• the person who tortured him and murdered his mentor
• to find those who murdered his mentor
• to stop slavers

Languages:

Abyssal, Common, Infernal, Orc

1.3 For me

His name Harvey JS comes from J Stewart, the actor from the movie with the ghost bunny, mixed with a little of New York Zorro's DA of the same first name. And while there's a little bit of New York Zorro in his backstory, I have initially modeled his overall character after the big magnet dude from the X-folks.

2 Log

2.1 2023-01-13

Session 0, a character introduction.

2.2 2023-02-03 - Session #1

We met in Neverwinter. Headed out to Phfandolin [sic]. Two days on the road, we stopped at some dead horses. Fought some goblins.

2.3 2023-02-10 - Session #2

Our story begins on the 1st day of the 2nd ten-day, in the month of Marpenoth 1497 DR.

We deescalate the battle wtih the goblins, wolves, and the bugbear. Save Ice-Eel-Door (Sildar), and make it to the town.

2.4 2023-02-17 - Session #3

• PME, the Phandolin Miners Guild
• We find Halea Thorton and ask about Gundrune Rockseeker (our captured associate) and the goblins
• The Redbrands hang at the Sleeping Giant pub
• Glasstaff
• Redbrands have bugbears in their employ
• Dwarves found an entrance to Huavaco Cave
• I give her a gold piece
• She thinks the Redbrands also have ties to the Tresendor Manor
• She offers a bounty of 100 gold
• We deliver the wagon and we get 10 gold each
• We fight a gang of Redbrands, killing all but one.

2.5 2023-02-24 - Session #4

• We got back to interrogate the prisoner.
• Named Coyn. The leader, who died, was Marlow.
• We go to the Manor dressed as Redbrands.
• In the first room we find a waterproof bag hidden in a well.
• Upon entering the second room, Kellar is killed by crossbow bolts.
• But Kellar was saved!

2.6 2023-03-03 - Session #5

• We explore, fight some guards, save some prisoners.
• We find a secret door into a cavern.
• A nothic lives there.

2.7 2023-03-17 - Session #6

• Glass-Taff talks about the forge of spells in wave echo cave

2.8 2023-03-24 - Session #7

• We go to visit Mr Wester in his office
• He gives us a reward of lots of coins.
• Wyvern Torn
• 65 gold
• small cirular pin
• We get the title of Fang, Zhentarim
• She shows us the "mark" to post on the town message board
• We head out
• Make camp
• Get attacked while camping
• I take a level of exhaustion

2.9 2023-03-31 - Session #8

• We wake up
• We keep traveling and find the bugbear, dead
• I cast gentle reposterbear
• Borg cuts off some meat and I cast purify the foods
• Keep traveling and fight a bunch of orcs and an ogre at a cave

2.10 2023-04-14 - Session #9

• We take a short rest.
• We explore the orcs' cave then move on
• We get to the old owl well… wait no apparently i wrote this down wrong and we only went to Conyberry
• Bro John and I investigate the nearby forest
• We meet a banshee
• We camp in the ruins of Conyberry
• Ghouls attack us in our sleep

2.11 2023-04-22 (Saturday) - Session #10

• Kellar and Borg think a lot about where a castle might be
• Spiorad reminds us all about our collective stash, yet to be distributed:
  • 174 silver
  • 303 gold
  • 5 carnelians
  • 2 paradots
  • 1 pearl
• Now we really go to the old owl well.
• There's a fancy tent
• Bro John checks out the tent, smells bad
• Spiorad turns into a squirrel and sneaks into the tent and almost gets found
• Detect Magic vs Wild Shape
  • Detect Magic > any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic
  • Wild Shape > magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before
  • So it's not constrained to only cantrips, spellcasting, or pacts
• We camp nearby
• We talk to the necromancer, who wants the name of the person who created the tower
• We go back to the banshee, who tells us the name Arthindol
• We stay the night
• We go back to the necromancer
  • 35sp, 20ep, 20gp, 5 platinum
  • 1 spell scroll of darkness
  • 1 pearl
  • 1 potion of healing
  • 1 jeweled box (25gp)

2.12 2023-04-28 - Session #11

• We get back to Phandolin
• Spiorad talks to Sister Gariel and he gets a new title of Watcher
• 10 bolts
• 10 rations
• Black Spider is behind everything
• https://rpgbot.net/dnd5/characters/classes/cleric/subclasses/grave/#feats

2.13 2023-05-05 - Session #12

• Level4
• We leave Phandolin, going north to the woods.
• We get to the castle.
• We fight a bunch of goblins.

2.14 2023-05-19 - Session #13

• Lupo the goblin

2.15 2023-05-26 (Missed) - Session #14

2.16 2023-06-02 (Missed) - Session #15

2.17 2023-06-16 (Missed) - Session #16

2.18 2023-06-30 - Session #17

• Level 5

2.19 2023-07-14 - Session #18

• We get back to the Phandolin and visit Halia
• I get 3 diamonds worth 300 gold pieces

2.20 2023-07-21 - Session #19

• We went shopping at Neverwinter

2.21 2023-07-28 - Session #20

• More shopping at Neverwinter
• I buy a Moontouched mace from Karl of the Neverwinter Armoury and promise to give him first pick of anything I don't want from my travels up north
• We go to the Empty Vial Bar, which is 3 doors from the Black Lake

2.22 2023-08-05 - Session #21 (Saturday)

• We fight and kill a dragon.
• Kellar tanks and I DPS when our fighters hide in the woods.

2.23 2023-08-11 - Session #22

• We carve up a dragon.

2.24 2023-08-18 - Session #23

• We sell a dragon.

2.25 2023-08-25 - Session #24

• We left the Sword Coast for the far north.

2.26 2023-09-22 - Session #25

• Our wagon train hikes up the mountain.
• Duncan MacCloudonut got eaten by either a yeti or a dragon.

2.27 2023-10-07 - Session #26

I missed this one.

2.28 2023-10-23 - Session #27 (Saturday)

• We wake up and go to breakfast at some tavern or whatever in Bryn Shander.
• I buy some snowshoes.
• there's a bright red skinned trifling eyeing your party a little bit, sitting off on his own near a corner of the tavern
• I cast detect magic on them, the spell fails, possibly countered
• I use eyes of the grave
• I use thaumaturgy to make the tiefling's table shake
• bro john and i go to the tiefling's table to have a conversation
• They seem to be some kind of fancy treasure hunter or collector

2.29 2023-10-27 - Session #28

• We hang out
• Go to next town
• We level up => Level 6

2.30 2023-11-10 - Session #29

• Remember that Brother John and I are both secretly members of the Zhentarim because of our dealings with Halia Thornton in Phandalin
• Brother John carries a coin with the spread wings of a diving dragon (like in the discord images)
• We go to the River's Mouth Tavern

Footnotes