Active Quests

Start-class article · First seen: s01 · Last seen: s17

Active quests as of end of session 16. Each entry: name, giver, objective, current progress, last touched in which session. For one-line status see Canonical Names. Completed quests live in Completed Quests; failed/dropped quests in Failed Quests.

About this tracker

Each active quest has: name, giver, objective, current progress, last-touched session. Status as of end of session 16. Order roughly by urgency.

The Egg Quest (Sevryn’s)

  • Giver: Sevryn
  • Objective: Deliver The Egg to chromatic dragons’ hoards in turn so it can absorb their essence and repair Eldurae’s failing magic.
  • Current progress: 1/N dragons absorbed (Death-at-Sunset, [1]; egg now glows permanently green). Brioche turned out to be gold-with-red, not chromatic, and the egg did NOT resonate with him [2], L1293-1294). Per Thomas Feld (s11), Aurelia and Vhal’Zarim hunted the chromatic dragons together long ago and “there are no chromatic dragons left on this side of the world to find” — so the quest may need to head west or be re-conceived.
  • CRITICAL: The Egg was stolen by Aurelian forces in s15 [3]. The Egg was in Caelumn’s backpack; the backpack was pulled into the smoke by an unseen chain. Its exact current location is unknown. Recovering it is now the top-priority quest.
  • Black Mask’s s17 audience: In her frozen-time audience with Hugo, The Black Mask claimed she could help with Hugo’s mind-control problem and spoke dismissively about the Ascendancy [4]. The exact reason Black Mask is willing to act against them remains unclear. Her interference with the quest itself is forbidden by Hugo’s restated immunity clause [5].
  • Last touched: s17 (party still sailing south, ~half a day from the White Lantern Shrine; combat-paused at the cold-water reef line).
  • Sevryn’s affirmation: “Everything is happening the way it’s supposed to” [6], telepathic).

Vasquez and Althea — captured offscreen (NOT an active rescue arc)

Vasquez and Althea were captured by Aurelians at the s16 sewer exit per the s17 retcon [7], L785). When the rescue was initially treated as an active quest in the s17 derived-page sweep, that was a misread of the situation. Per Chris’s post-s17 clarification: the rescue is not the campaign’s direction; Vasquez and Althea are departed offscreen, in the same category as Cholmondeley, Harvo, and Ruin. Their fate (still alive in Aurelian custody, presumably) is in-fiction unresolved by design rather than as a hook. Future agents: do not promote this back to an active quest, and do not write “the party plans to rescue them” without on-screen evidence the party has decided to.

If a later session does pivot the party toward a rescue, the entity files for Vasquez and Althea can flip back from departed to captured at that point. Until then, treat as closed.

Investigate the Aurelian “road offices” and “unauthorised studies” abductions

  • Giver: implicit (party-flagged from Nella’s s17 testimony, parallel to the Mira Hale thread).
  • Objective: Find out what the Aurelian “road offices” are doing with detainees taken on the “unauthorised studies” charge. The pattern, first surfaced in s17: small-town Aurelian arrest infrastructure searches homes, confiscates research materials (tide charts, weather notes, copied journal pages — Nella’s husband, [8], and removes the bearer. Nella’s husband (unnamed; unseen) was taken three nights before s17. Sits alongside Mira Hale’s abduction case as a second on-screen example. These cases appear to be part of a broader pattern of Aurelian abductions or disappearances, but the exact structure remains unknown.
  • Current progress: Witnessed but not engaged. Nella sailed on toward Gloamhearth with her two children Pim and Leo; the party did not commit to a rescue.
  • Open thread: how many other Nella-family-equivalents exist across the coast?
  • Last touched: s17 (testimony received).

Risa’s Sister Conspiracy / Mercy Investigation

  • Giver: Risa (de facto; the urn-woman the party intervened to save in s7).
  • Objective: Find out what happened to Risa’s sister, Mira Hale.
  • Current progress: Mira was abducted by an Aurelian cell from the Dawn Mercy Clinic (revealed [9] by the orderly Drew under Caelumn’s three-nat-20 Intimidation). Mira showed magical capabilities (telekinesis, lighting candles with her mind per Risa’s s7 account). Taken to Dock 13 and shipped to Aurelia four days before s10. The Nightwatch had been paid off. The clinic was a coerced cover, not the conspirator.
  • Risa’s state: drinking heavily and despondent at end of s10 (“she’s never coming back”). Last seen at the Glomangol Inn.
  • Party commitment: Vasquez vowed at [10]: “If anything goes south, we’ll make sure that the entire place goes up in flames.” Mharos’s response (in his head): “Pathetic.” The party committed in s10 to investigating during their planned Aurelia transit.
  • Last touched: s10 (clinic confession). Not progressed since.

Hugo’s Devil Pact

  • Giver: The Black Mask
  • Objective (Hugo-facing — the rest of the party do not know the pact’s full terms): Hugo serves the Mask for 7 years post-egg-quest, with a 3-year amnesty period in which his soul is forfeit only if he dies. In return: intel on his erased family, on Bella (another Project Veilbreak survivor), on the Project doctor; help killing the doctor; help destroying the project Hugo names as The Ascendancy if Hugo dies pursuing it. The Ascendancy brand-name is Hugo-only in-fiction knowledge.
  • Current progress: Pact signed [11]. Ring (the Onyx Ring of Barbed Hooks) cannot be removed. Demonic-blade self-revive triggered s6 (phase-spider fight). Hugo named The Ascendancy explicitly to the Mask in [12] (private summoning on Hugo’s long-rest watch — the rest of the party were asleep) and proposed upgrading to “champion eternal” — Mask refused, but offered a counter-deal: convert a party ally to the same pact, in exchange for help with the Wraith mind-control.
  • s17 substitution clause renegotiated (frozen-time audience with the Mask in her new third visual form, a gnome on a fishing chair, visible only to Hugo): the substitute now becomes a second attack-dog rather than replacing Hugo — “what is better than one attack dog? to attack dogs” [13]. The Mask indicated that both Hugo’s and the Wraith’s (“Rafe”) mind-control would lift together when the substitution clears [14]. Hugo restated the egg-quest immunity [5] and Ascendancy-destruction clauses [15]; the Mask accepted both. Black Mask claimed she could help with Hugo’s mind-control problem and spoke dismissively about the Ascendancy. The exact reason Black Mask is willing to act against them remains unclear. Quoted: “Fine I’ll crush your little ascendancy and probably send my little attack dog after he’s done fetching that egg” [4].
  • First failed substitute-recruitment attempt under the renegotiated terms (s17): Hugo targeted the new PC Mike via a rigged breath-hold bet (Hugo is Voidforged and doesn’t breathe; [16], L622). Hugo won the bet but Mike refused to sign the contract on three lawyerly grounds [17], L744). The Mask’s response: “better luck on the next go i’m sure” [4]. The substitution clause is still open; Hugo can try again with another willing soul.
  • Current Mike-substitute state — verbal IOU only: Mike committed to a single owed “wish, eventually, should I live long enough” [18], later clarified as “with a 9th level spell slot” [19]. This is a verbal favour-debt, NOT a soul contract, NOT a substitution clear. Hugo also asked Mike to “at least entertain the idea” of signing the contract should he approach unavoidable death; Mike declined to commit [20].
  • The Wraith leash: Hugo passed loyalty Deception s7 (“my pull is as strong as ever”); the Wraith reports the leash is “weakening”. Per the s17 renegotiation, the Wraith’s leash would lift together with Hugo’s when a substitute signs. The “comply” whisper from Mike’s s17 ritual suggests Hugo’s conditioning or leash may still be active or leaving magical residue. Exact status unknown.
  • Last touched: s17 (renegotiation + first failed substitute attempt).

The Duskwatch Shipping Ledger

  • Giver: The Broker (advice; not formally contracted).
  • Objective: Sell the forged shipping ledger from Maelis Dirn’s research desk (s6) to Silent Intake in Velkris, near “the Talking Skulls” entrance, for significant reward. The ledger routes bio-gloom toxin through Duskwatch to Velkris.
  • Current progress: Ledger in Hugo’s possession since s6. Not yet pursued.
  • Last touched: [21] (Broker’s advice).

Phil’s Contact at White Lantern Shrine

  • Giver: Phil Flowerforge
  • Objective: Meet Hett Varn — a red-headed dwarf with forehead goggles — at the White Lantern Shrine, a half-ruined waystation roughly half a day’s travel from Aurelia (direction not explicitly named on-screen — likely a coastal waystation on the freight road approaching the city). Code phrase: “Phil sent us.” Hett can help with safehouse and Aurelia entry; lives in Ashward of Aurelia.
  • Current progress: Phil parted ways at the sewer mid-point in s15, having handed the party a written note for Hett. Party is currently sailing on a small skiff toward the shrine at end of s16.
  • Last touched: s16 (sailing toward the shrine).

Bring Brioche to Sevryn (or to safety)

  • Giver: implicit (party self-imposed at end of s14).
  • Objective: Take Briochebane back to Sevryn to explain that the small dragon is gold-with-red rather than chromatic and that the egg’s misfire needs Sevryn’s attention.
  • Current progress: Brioche is travelling separately with Phil since s15. Brioche cannot be returned to Phil (his original home in Eldwythe) because of the Aurelian occupation. The party plans to use the bubblegum halfling (now reverted to a normal halfling) as a courier if/when feasible.
  • Last touched: s15 (Phil + Brioche left the party at the sewer mid-point).

Reunite Edith Applegarth with the Asger — CLOSED (impossible)

  • Giver: implicit (party realised it from the rock-candy storybook in s13).
  • Objective (historical): Reunite the rescued bubblegum halfling (s13) with his sister Edith Applegarth — confectioner of Eldwythe. The storybook [22] depicted Edith’s child-bargain with the hag; per DM clarification 2026-05-17, the betrayal is probably based on a real event but the storybook is not an objective historical record.
  • Status: CLOSED (impossible) per DM canonicalisation 2026-05-17. The bubblegum halfling’s canonical name is Bubblegum Halfling (Asger), and he was killed in the Aurelian ambush in s15. The party did not witness the death and never learned his real name in play. Edith is in Aurelian-occupied Eldwythe, status unknown. The reunion cannot happen.
  • Last touched: s15 (Asger died; quest closed retroactively per DM 2026-05-17).

Test the Black Potion (Alston’s request)

  • Giver: Alston (the Whisper Coil Emporium dwarf, s11).
  • Objective: Drink an unidentified bio-gloom-experimental black potion and report back the effects.
  • Current progress: Potion was in Caelumn’s pack — lost with the backpack in s15. Quest effectively dropped.
  • Last touched: s15 (lost with the backpack).
  • Status flag: Effectively failed/abandoned by item-loss; could move to failed.md if Chris prefers.

References

  1. ^ Session 3, line 1532 — Inline citation.
  2. ^ Session 14, line 837 — Inline citation.
  3. ^ Session 15, line 500-504 — Inline citation.
  4. ^ Session 17, line 717 — Inline citation.
  5. ^ Session 17, line 712 — Inline citation.
  6. ^ Session 16, line 1753 — Inline citation.
  7. ^ Session 17, line 130 — Inline citation.
  8. ^ Session 17, line 973 — Inline citation.
  9. ^ Session 10, line 648 — Inline citation.
  10. ^ Session 10, line 1556 — Inline citation.
  11. ^ Session 4, line 1658-1730 — Inline citation.
  12. ^ Session 12, line 194 — Inline citation.
  13. ^ Session 17, line 709 — Inline citation.
  14. ^ Session 17, line 711 — Inline citation.
  15. ^ Session 17, line 716 — Inline citation.
  16. ^ Session 17, line 580 — Inline citation.
  17. ^ Session 17, line 738 — Inline citation.
  18. ^ Session 17, line 757 — Inline citation.
  19. ^ Session 17, line 811 — Inline citation.
  20. ^ Session 17, line 747-766 — Inline citation.
  21. ^ Session 7, line 745 — Inline citation.
  22. ^ Session 13, line 1206 — Inline citation.