here it goes, FULL SUMMARY: (also here is an apropriate theme song for the darker parts of the campaign:
here )
The game opens with each of you individually arriving in a fairly large town, designed as a stopping point for traders and travelers. Upon arriving in town many people tell you that you should stop by the statue on the upper level, and if you like even say a short prayer; its said the statue helps people find their way (Dane is that correct semicolon use?). each of you arrives here individually and some of you meet here, others not. As Colin approaches the statue he spots a small object in the fountain and pulls out a necklace with a carved ornament of some sort on it. It couldn't have been in there for too long given the amount of water absorbed by the wood (or lack thereof).
You each stay in the nearby inn for the night by now having mostly met. That night some of you notice figures in purple cloaks have entered the city, and begin roaming the streets in groups and, you suspect, are noticed in return. Those of you asleep or inside are approached by a cloaked figure you recognize from earlier and told you have to go with him if you want to live.
Outside, just before emerging from the alley beside the inn, you see a group of these cloaked figures, led by a larger monstrous humanoid of some sort, absolutely decimate a few guards. Soon after you hear the large smash of the statue you visited earlier being destroyed, and as the Dolari approach the inn you agree to follow the cloaked figure. You hang from a cliff by a rope while he stands at the top, and when the Dolari approach he gestures at them and they leave to search elsewhere. He then leads you out of the city via a hidden tunnel.
From a safe distance you look back to see the town surrounded by these figures, and a dark cloud appears, surrounding the city, then both vanish, and the Dolari head off in various directions.
Darrow gives you a book, and tells you to head to Abruzzo. You do, you talk to the author of the book who gives you information on a small society he has heard stories of to the south, which he associates with the necklace you show him.
Then when you see a Dolari in the city you decide it would be best to head south, and get away from the city and the Dolari. You hire a boat to take you south.
(1 week)
At the first stop you are suddenly and unexpectedly called back to the ship which is leaving momentarily. On the way back you spot wanted posters with your faces on them and several Dolari. You talked to a guard, disguised, and ask who they are. he tells you they're some sort of special enforcement group, and they've been given specific privileges associated with the tracking down of wanted persons. You quickly get back to the ship and find that another passenger has come aboard (who suddenly and inexplicably disappears later on). It also turns out that these Dolari have been given authority to search the ships including the one you are on. you try to hide but end up having to kill this Dolari, and the ship is immediately taken to sail by absolute badassery of it's captain. Sailing away you see Darrow among the ranks of the Dolari, but separate and headed out of the port town.
that night he tells you that they know where the ship is going and that they will be there waiting for you so he will have to drop you somewhere on the way. Which he does, in a little dingy which you row to shore.
Though the Dolari didn't know for sure you were on there they had their suspicions and sent boats in pursuit. You find this out when shortly after you land, several boats appear and send land parties to search for you. At this point you have made camp in the mountains, unable to find a way across. That night (i think it was Colin on watch) sees a figure on the hill during the watch. He is wearing what looks like while robes and head wraps with cloth trailing in an unfelt wind. He makes eye contact before moving out of sight. Cautiously he stands and moves out far enough to see the torches coming to shore. he wakes the party and you head in approximately the direction the figure headed. With a bit of searching you find a cave which leads through the mountains.
From there on, to avoid being recognized and reported, you kill a family and orphan/adopt the youngest girl, steal her father's wagon and pants and head out, but not before burning down the house and an inn in order to sneak through unnoticed.
(another week= 2 weeks)
You come across a few villages where Dolari have supplemented guards ranks, and in one you see Darrow. Then you come to a village where the Dolari seem to be displacing the local leadership, but with some resistance. You save a mayor and in return are given a boat to head down river. You fight some bandits, collect a bounty, pimp out your boat and rocket south east.
(you arrive at the 2 person Nordic elf camp 3 weeks after you met.)
This part is summarized previously and takes 3 days.
this part is recent so it will be less detailed.
You wake up in complete darkness and travel though the blackened desert, you hear the whispers, not really coherent and in a language you don't understand. With the only light being the entire 4 stars you can see (a ton of light), and the pitiful amount given off by your torches, plus Colin's magic invisible light you navigate to the village, fight some zombies and continue travelling to a tunnel practically identical to the one that ended up getting you here. You pass the same carved images and extinguished candles, finding only 4 lit to illumninate the art above them. and come to the main room, where an extinguished candle sits the in the middle. The amulet made by Chris (while you were here, and he was completely out of it) begins to glow as you bring it to the candle and when it touches the candle, the candles immediately becomes lit. A column of light appears blinding you briefly and looking up you can see the stars on the ceiling now and the illuminated globe below.
Colin holds out his own amulet and stares at it then, suddenly the room spins and you feel yourselves fall through the wall between worlds, landing in a forest at night, next to a familiar statue, in a very unfamiliar place.
(that was 4 more days, for a total of 4 weeks)
you travel here for a day length night, then wait in the port you find for a few more days while a boat arrives (hiding from the Dolari here that you didn't kill). The boat takes you to Chris' how town where you find his people dead or scattered. You leaving knowing only that it was the Dolari, and according to Chris' god they did it to "eliminate the knowledge which should be forgotten", "...but they did not find it here.".
You get back on the boat and head for the mainland. While on the boat the sky lights up for the first time in days as a giant glowing ball of light appears, over a minute or so it dies off leaving a star that wasn't there before. You arrive on the land about 5 weeks after your journey started.
Over three days you head to the city, coming across a couple villages where the people are dead, the land dieing and you here whispers of people being slaughtered, it becomes apparent that it is being done by the Dolari.
You arrive at the city, sneak in, kill a Dolari and head to the university. You talk to some geologists who have been studying the same dirt you brought a sample of from the villages, they tell you it contains traces of decaying organic materials (decaying in a way they can't accurately describe). (
clarification ->) in talking to these geologists it becomes apparent that they don't know it was the Dolari, and thing it was some sort of bandit raid. If you set them straight they look very afraid, and you realize will keep it to themselves in fear of being killed over it. (It is not so long later they decide to investigate a meteor that falls nearby).
You then talk to a political "scientist" who with some persuasion reveals the unusual circumstances in a certain man's rise to power. he appears from no where about 6 months ago and manages to get control of some critical areas, and since then has introduced the Dolari as primary law enforcement and basically seized control of the country. He tells you where this man can be found and you leave.
you spend 2 days in the city doing very little then leave the city to investigate the meteor with the geologists. it is a 2 day trip to the boarder.
(6 weeks total) you pass several more destroyed villages and, not wanting to stay near them, the geologists take quick samples and hurry onward. You get directions at a town you pass later, it is mostly empty now with people having left to head to a safer place. a day later you arrive at the crater, you follow tracks around for 2 days, finding several destroyed towns (several because the exact number is not important, and needn't be specified) then another 2 days finding a few others. 2 other meteors fall far off in this time. then you start heading back and find groups of refugees heading to Abruzzo for safety.
7 weeks and a day after meeting, you will end up back in Abruzzo, now flooded with refugees, with no way to feed them off the dieing land. Less than a hundred people dieing in the smaller villages devastated land for about kilometer around. There are several hundred thousand (again specifics are not relevant or practical so several is used lol) people here between refugees and citizens, at the center of Dolari control.