Dungeons and Dragons ("DnD"): The Rise of Tiamat: Season 4 Episode 37 Adventure #69
Date of Session: October 24, 2020 (8:00 pm to 11:00 pm)
Number of Players: 3
1. Hero Captain #2 – The Great Menos (Male Dragon-born Paladin) Level 7
2. Kai-Ku Midoriya / Kai-tick (Male Human Fighter-Rogue) Level 7
3. Gundam, Model K (Male War-Forged SOLDIER) Level 7
Series Regular NPCs:
1. Mas O (Male Dragon-born, Menos’ older brother, former teacher and current Head of EDC Agency)
2. Eri Menos (Female Goddess, Menos’ wife, and current protector
3. Roshi Nighthill (Male Human Fighter, Former HERO Academy classmate of Kai-Ku and Gundam)
Recurring NPC Characters:
1. Hero Captain-Commander Nero (Male Human, God-Human)
2. Professor Gear (K-Krew’s first enemy and formerly imprisoned, Current Principal of HERO Academy)
3. Professor Uncle (K-Krew’s old teacher turned machine Gear robot)
4. Gilgamesh, King of Epic Heroes (appeared on television, currently Hero Captain #1, and Hero Captain- Commander candidate)
5. Lord Eggza (appeared on television, Resurrected Aarakocra, former Hero Captain-Commander during Hoard of the Dragon Queen Campaign, and a Hero Captain-Commander candidate on behalf of Wolfram Hart)
New NPC Characters:
1. Dai Li Agent #528
2. Dai Li Agent #156
3. Unnamed Wife of #528
4. Unnamed Son of #528
5. Unnamed Son of #156
Season 4 Episode 10—the season finale—had set up season 5 with the “Quest for the Dragon Eggs Arc” and a Hero Captain-Commander campaign to determine who would lead the future of heroes for centuries to come. The current candidates are Menos, Gilgamesh, and Lord Eggza—who are all running to replace Hero Captain Commander Nero, who is slated to retire with the upcoming election.
Also, the players have decided to return to HERO Academy—where the campaign began—in order to save all the students from being corrupted under Gilgamesh’s biased education. Kai-Ku and Gundam—being former students—decide to infiltrate first as undercover plumbers, while Menos and NPC Mas O wait for the signal. Roshi followed Kai-Ku and Gundam because he didn’t want to feel left out and almost ruined the plan.
Since Roshi didn’t have an undercover outfit, Professor Gear recognized Roshi immediately and called him a “dropout boy” for failing to properly graduate from HERO Academy like Kai-Ku, who Professor Gear also roasted without knowing Kai-Ku was there of course. Kai-Ku simply ignored the hate, and wanted to know where the pipes were—having discussed a plan with Gundam to blow the Dai Li controlled school into a million pieces.
Roshi was having those “bad high school memories” moments, having forgotten he became incredibly strong—almost God-like—since he “dropped out” of the school. Roshi took it though to maintain the plumber cover, hating that Professor Gear internally for job shaming him.
There’s seriously nothing wrong with being a plumber, the world needs plumbers!
Roshi also got himself captured—on purpose—after Kai-Ku and Gundam left to “clean the pipes.” Roshi thought it was all “part of the plan”.
Anyway, on the way to “cleaning the pipes”, Kai-Ku and Gundam ran into a Dai Li agent escorting students to class. The students were walking in a line, wearing chains attached to their hands and legs and each other. Gundam and Kai-Ku questioned this, with the Dai Li saying “mongrels need to be treated like mongrels.”
The Gilgamesh education was worse than the players initially feared. The students responded, “we must learn to live under the Number 1 Hero, King of Epic Heroes. Hail the Great Gilgamesh.”
Gundam and Kai-Ku left them alone, knowing if they did something, it would blow their cover. They continued onward to “clean the pipes.”
There, Kai-Ku and Gundam encountered Uncle—a former Professor they didn’t remember—attached to metal tentacles that run through the walls. He claimed to be the one in love with Gen Kai, with Gundam saying, “wasn’t that the stoner mummy guy?” Uncle claimed it was a love triangle—it really wasn’t—and attacked Gundam first. The battle was difficult with the tentacles having the ability to pierce and control on hit, with Kai-Ku learning that the hard way by taking the hit for Gundam.
Gundam called Menos and Mas O to teleport over using Eri’s power, and they did so from behind. While Mas O failed to get a hit in, Menos managed to catch Uncle off-guard with a Divine Smite! This freed Kai-Ku as well from Uncle’s control, and he attacked with a Fireball-level technique.
The attack caused the entire tunnel area—where the “pipes” were—to explode and take out a majority of the HERO Academy building. Uncle was defeated—blown into pieces—but Professor Gear used a technological connection to rebuild Uncle’s body in an instant. Then he attacked the players, fighting them on top of the school’s ruins.
The real Professor Gear was with Roshi and the other captured students trying to make an escape off Bubby’s Island. The “Uncle” Gear Bot continued fighting Menos, Mas O, and Gundam while Kai-Ku flew into the air—transforming into his Ultra Instinct—for Professor Gear trying to escape on a Dai Li Spaceship. Kai-Ku succeeds in blowing the ship, and waking Roshi—who used his Hell Zone Destructo Disc move to save everyone from falling to their deaths. Roshi was done “pretending” to be an idiot. Gundam and Kai-Ku teased Roshi, saying he wasn’t actually captured on purpose and was really caught off-guard.
Then everyone went into their battle positions. Menos attacked Professor Gear first, batting him to Roshi who cried out, “PASS IT TO ME!” like Hinata Shoyo from Haikyu!! Menos blasted Professor Gear up into the air—after multiple attacks and a Divine Smite—over to Roshi, who used his reaction to SMASH him down to Kai-Ku. The funny thing is, Gundam was next in the rotation, but the reactions took precedent due to passing the enemy to other people like a volleyball. Kai-Ku knocked Professor Gear over to Gundam, who ended the match with his new big gun.
Professor Gear, their first schoolteacher, was eliminated before he could resurrect the Great Demon, Lian Yu once again. He was trying to do that in secret—using the students as sacrifices—but failed miserably because of the heroes’ timely interference. HERO Academy was officially destroyed, and everyone hightailed it out of there before Gilgamesh sent more Dai Li Agents. The destruction of HERO Academy was necessary, but the publicity wouldn’t look good if the players were caught.
As a result, Mas O decided to depart from the team, wanting to hide the students from Gilgamesh. This would mean he would live a life as a “criminal”, but he was willing to do that because he felt like it was his responsibility as a Professor. Menos didn’t want to lose a powerhouse member, but he understood Mas O had some atoning to do. Mas O blamed himself for what happened to the students because he left the school vulnerable when he sacrificed himself—going to Ninth Hell—for the players during season 1. On that note, Mas O left with the students to protect them.
After returning to the Vanishing Point and Captain-Commander Nero’s Office, the players decided to attack the Dai Li’s homes to weaken Gilgamesh’s police work.
Gundam, Kai-Ku, and Menos messed with a few Dai Li agents by visiting their neighborhoods and kidnapping their families, torturing them for information. They also judged Captain-Commander Nero for having torture rooms—believing he was a good hero—but Nero simply said, “I don’t think any of us is truly good.” The players conceded after that, knowing their actions weren’t the most moral or justified.
After some comedic moments of accidentally kidnapping the wrong kid and going to the wrong house, the players managed to turn the Dai Li Agents in this private neighborhood against each other; they made the Agents believe Gilgamesh was going to kill them all for insubordination.
Some Dai Li Agents were willing to blindly die as the mongrels under his feet, while others were beginning to see how awful they were as Gil Supporters; the players caused a civil war to break out in this Dai Li Agent Neighborhood. Then the players sent a giant sword—created from Gundam’s new Godly connection to Cybertron and his existing connection to a Satellite—at the neighborhood. There were no survivors of this incident, with Gilgamesh taking full credit for killing all the mongrels who dared betray him.
The session ended with Menos making a political statement during a televised interview about being the new Hero Captain-Commander in the aftermath of this incident, and how he will never treat the good people of the multiverse like mongrels. He will “Make Heroes Great Again!”—something that people responded to fairly well to.
Captain-Commander Nero also officially endorsed Menos as his successor during this political statement interview, showing clear disapproval for his predecessor Lord Eggza and Hero Captain #1 Gilgamesh.
Then Menos rejoined the others, asking Baxter and Eri to help create a “Dragon Radar” to find the Dragon Egg. With Gundam having one, Wolfram Hart and Lord Eggza having Mas O’s Dragon Egg, and XerX, Killion, and WIFI going to Sky Castle to retrieve XerX’s Egg from the previous campaign, there are six—out of nine—still out there to uncover. Baxter and Eri went to work on this Dragon Radar, ending season 4 with the promise of another epic adventure.
Season 5—which took place on November 7, 2020—will be the start of the “Quest for the Dragon Eggs Saga”. Things are about to get incredibly more interesting, fun, and complex moving forward into this Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Thanks so much for reading and following our sessions so far, everyone! We’re having a good time!
Until we meet again!