[[start|Back to start page]] ==== The Pioneers Campaign ==== Most organized and coherent of my original campaigns. Ran under AD&D rules in 1984 and 1985. After college, it morphed into a Fantasy Hero campaign centered around the characters [[Rhae]] and [[Shardanna]]. Later, it evolved into the [[D'Hari Campaign]]. [[Player characters]]: * [[Rhae]] * [[Shardanna]] * [[Logan]] * [[Loquen]] * [[Trevvi]] Significant Non-player characters: * [[Larindel]] * [[Alsif]] * [[Bar]] ==== Timeline ==== For a summary of the main campaign arc, see the story of [[bar_great_map|Bar and The Great Map]]. Here is a calendar of the Pioneers //(as transcribed by [[Rhae]])//: === 2711 === * Aug 1 [[Rhae]] sets out on her first patrol * Aug 13 [[Larindel]] saves [[Rhae]] from the Ogre * Aug 18 [[Rhae]] and [[Larindel]] arrive back at Caran. [[Rhae]] and [[Loquen]] resign from the Rangers and set off adventuring with [[Larindel]]. * Aug 20 Leave Caran and decide to see [[heaven_spire|the Spire]] * Aug 25 Rescue girl from some goblins * Aug 26 Arrive in [[Rep Klin]] and leave the girl with relatives * Aug 27 Leave [[Rep Klin]] in the direction of [[heaven_spire|the Spire]] to go after the goblins * Aug 28 Arrive at [[heaven_spire|the Spire]] and meet [[Logan]] * Aug 30 Find Sirilus * Aug 31 [[Alsif]] sends us on a quest to assemble [[great_map|the map]] * Sep 1 Arrive back at [[Rep Klin]] * Sep 2 Leave for [[Vollarin]] * Sep 8 Arrive in [[Vollarin]] * Sep 9 Leave for Ice Cave with [[Trevvi]] * Sep 11 Arrive at the Cave * Sep 12 Find [[Shardanna]] and the first segment of [[great_map|the map]] * Sep 15 Fight an Ogre and find the second segment * Sep 20 Arrive back in [[Vollarin]] * Sep 21 Begin work for the Clerics * Oct 22 Finish work for the Clerics * Oct 23 Leave [[Vollarin]] for the coast * Nov 1 Arrive at the Keep with the third map piece * Nov 3 Find fourth map piece in a sunken chest * Nov 4 Arrive at the coastal city of Poralai * Nov 11 Meet Aron at a Sewer station * Nov 12 Buy the fifth piece from a trinket salesman * Nov 13 Find the sixth piece at [[Bar]]'s Castle #1, head south * Nov 22 Find a spy trailing us * Nov 29 [[Larindel]] killed by a poisonous snake so we raise him * Dec 3 Find pieces 7-8 and a magical book from [[Bar]]'s second castle * Dec 16 Meet [[Jaslahar]] and find map pieces nine and ten === 2712 === * Jan 1 Zolton appears in our campfire flames near [[Bar]]'s third castle where we find the eleventh piece, he tells us to seek [[Alsif]] * Jan 23 Arrive in the capitol of [[Lural]] * Jan 27 Arrive in [[Rep Klin]] * Jan 28 See [[Alsif]] then set out for [[Qualarai]] * Feb 8 Find the portal to the elemental plane of air where we find the key to the magical book, head back to [[Rep Klin]] * Mar 20 Hire a boat to the southern islands * Mar 30 Arrive at the islands * Apr 2 Find map piece 12 * Apr 5 Pepperell brings [[Shardanna]] down to the islands * Apr 12 Leave for second island * Apr 13 Find [[Bar]]'s fourth Castle and map piece 13 * Apr 17 Back to the main island * Apr 27 Investigate an island to the south * May 9 Find piece 14 * May 14 Exorcise [[Loquen]] * May 23 Leave for the Valley of the Gray Wizard * May 24 The Valley of the Gray Wizard * May 30 Leave for [[thentao|the Main Continent]] * Jun 11 Back in the port city * Jun 30 Arrive in [[Rep Klin]] * Jul 1 See [[Alsif]] * Jul 2 Leave for the temple * Jul 3 [[Alsif]] recognizes the demonslayer * Jul 11 Leave for the Spire City * Jul 25 Leave for [[thentao|the Southern Continent]] * Aug 3 Arrive in the islands * Aug 4 Leave for [[thentao|the Southern Continent]] * Aug 14 Arrive at [[thentao|the Southern Continent]] * Aug 19 Find [[Bar]]'s last keep * Aug 22 Arrive at the elvish city * Aug 28 Set sail for the islands * Sep 3 Back at the islands, the elves take us north * Sep 13 Arrive at the Northern Continent, go see [[Jaslahar]] * Sep 14 Leave for [[Rep Klin]] * Sep 17 Arrive at capitol of [[Lural]] - see Aron * Sep 19 Arrive at [[Rep Klin]] * Sep 30 Leave for the portal to the elvish city * Oct 8 Release [[Bar]] from the Portal * Oct 9 Go see the elves with [[Bar]] * Oct 18 [[Rhae]] gets her +2 sword with special abilities * Oct 19 [[Bar]] goes North and takes every one but [[Rhae]] and [[Larindel]] with him * //(at this point, the calendar details the adventures of [[Rhae]] and [[Larindel]])// * Oct 20 Set out for Magical area * Oct 21 Arrive at the first river * Oct 22 Arrive at the second river * Oct 25 Go around the lake * Oct 29 Arrive at the third river * //(seem to have lost November here?)// * Dec 1 Arrive at the great river * Dec 7 Malicious attack by ravens * Dec 25 Taken by dragons and arrive at the cave of the evil magic user; Meet Ruthgar === 2713 === * Jan 9 Back at the elvish city * Jan 10 Ring of negative energy is a fake * Jan 11 Leave for mountains * Jan 23 Cave of the magic user had been cleaned out * Jan 26 Dragon's cave * Jan 28 Find Giant's Keep and release a Jann who takes us North * Jan 31 Arrive on the Northern Continent * Feb 1 Enter the monastery * Feb 2 Boat to Japanese Kingdom * Feb 11 Arrive at the Japanese Kingdom * Feb 13 Leave city but [[Larindel]] is poisoned by a snake * Feb 14 Back to Japanese city and they neutralize poison * Feb 15 Leave city again * Mar 25 Arrive in [[Rep Klin]], meet with [[Bar]]; Go to a village with portal problems, [[Larindel]] goes through the portal to the elemental plane of fire * Mar 29 [[Bar]] teleports [[Rhae]] to the elemental plane of fire; [[Rhae]] meets a deva and kills a demon * Mar 30 Go to an oracle * Mar 31 Head for river seen from the hill * Apr 1 Arrive at the city of Brass * Apr 2 Walk to the next village * Apr 9 Take the last ferry * Apr 15 Edge of the elemental plane of fire * Apr 16 Fall into the plane of air, meet Strei * Apr 22 Near Imex's castle, get the [[living_crystals|fire crystal]] * Apr 26 Find [[Larindel]] * Apr 27 Return to the prime material * Apr 28 Go east along the shore line * May 14 Go north along the river * May 26 Close to some mountains * Jun 28 Plains on the other side of the mountains * Jul 14 Take portal from [[D'hari]] to the islands * Jul 23 Take the portal to the northern continent * Jul 24 Fight the colddrake dragon * Sep 5 See vision of Lord Kier, High Priest of [[Glekdin]]; Head for portal * Sep 9 [[Larindel]] goes through the portal alone; [[Rhae]] heads back to [[Lural]] * Oct 1 [[Rhae]] enlists in the Ranger Corp === 2715 === * Summer [[Rhae]] goes down to see the elves and asks about [[Larindel]] \\ [[start|Back to start page]]