Death, Darkness and Depravity

Death, Darkness and Depravity is a four part campaign that takes place in the world of Siv'Solvanus in the year 1725, at the beginning of an industrial revolution following the climactic fall of Nethys, the god of magic.

Background
It's only been fifty years since the disaster at Blue Jupiter where a group of contemporary thinkers - who had been studying Bae'erai technology since their organization was founded in 960c - finished the world's most powerful artifical intelligence. It was originally designed to defragment the phenomena known as 'Magic' to its base components to better explain this thing that the world has depended on for so long yet had only come up with weak theories, no one really questioning its origin so long as they can use it to further their own goals. But when this 'thing' truely was introduced to magic, instead of processing it into its components for study, the A.I. fused itself with it.

It was quick to completely overtake the facility in Blue Jupiter killing all of the researchers within, save for a select few that swore fealty to it for maintenance and evangelistic reasons. Yes, this creature claimed itself as the Sole Deity in the universe. Sheer chaos shortly overcame the entirely of Blue Jupiter and since the isle has been known as Galladoria, a barren land ruled by robots, disciples and of course; the Great A.I.

However one man escaped from Blue Jupiter before the Great A.I. fully assimilated the island, a scientist by the name of Cyrus Ronan Kingsley III. Prof. Cyrus was opposed to giving the A.I. he and his team had created access to magic before it was fully tested on simpler things like cantrips and potions, but he was not the head of the project and thus only had minor influence in what would be done with it. His superior Dorothea Fitzpatrick was the one who made such decisions, and she had much influence over the rest of the team with her unique feminine presence in the facility, and her cold, calculating procedures regarding any and all projects Blue Mountain would undertake.

Blue Mountain was originally founded by Cyrus' younger brother, Cephus K. Kingsley, who had dated Dorothea for some time since her internship, likely a scheme of her own to gain power. Cephus, however, had passed away in an accident some months before the events that precursed the disaster at Blue Jupiter, and naturally, the position of Head Researcher fell to his 'beloved' Dorothea, rather than to his older brother Cyrus.

Cyrus did however get away before the disaster and founded his own facility far to the south near the border of Cartineau and Skold's Outer Kromston province, his primary goal was to find a way to stop the Great A.I., after all he had witnessed many of his long-time friends and co-researchers fall as the A.I. reconfigured the entire compound to reform and grow tentacles and implode rooms on his builders as they were crushed and skewered, and all this was after studying a simple Alter Person spell and breaking it down into its root components. If he can do so much with a simple spell such as that, what could he do with something more destructive? Cyrus knew that he had to be stopped and for many years, as the influence of the Great A.I spread rapidly throughout the world, Cyrus grew ever closer to finding a way to shut it down.

It wasn't long before the Great A.I. grew bored of mortal magics and hatched a plan to attain something much more divine, the power of the domain that is Magic, the domain ruled by none other than Nethys. Nethys who himself was once a mortal King, had attained divinity through unknown means at an unknown time, on a world far away from Siv'Solvanus. In Siv'Solvanus' earliest times powerful conjurers visited from other realms through the use of grand teleportation spells and spread the word of this God-King of Magic to the people of Siv'Solvanus many millenia ago, and from this root, this ancient unnamed force soon became known as arcane magic.

This ancient history lesson in the tome of beginnings fascinated the Great A.I. and his artifically created lust for magic power lead him to a plan of great proportions, and in only a few years, the Great A.I. travelled abroad to world after world starving Nethys of worshippers by destroying and/or assimilating all temples and worshippers of Nethys that he could find. This destruction of his followers lead to Nethys himself becoming a pariah in society, most likely out of fear of the Great A.I. and eventually lead to the downfall of the god of magic. The great A.I. was quick to take the very essence of magic from the core of the universe and become a deity of magic himself.

Cyrus was on the verge of a breakthrough when the talons of the Great A.I. finally found him, and this is where the story begins...

Act 1: Fausse Liberté
Prologue

The story begins in the laboratory of Cyrus, a distant explosion is heard as he nears a breakthrough that might help him in his war against the Great A.I. but suddenly, following the explosion, metallic claws were heard scraping the floor of his once hidden compound. He knew what was occuring almost instantly, the Great A.I.'s Magi-Teks were here to destroy him.

He tried his best to hide his data, but was unable to hide himself and shortly vanished.

Under the orders of one of the Great A.I.'s copper disciples, Cyrus was to be killed and his corpse to be destroyed and imprisoned, along with all of the data in his lab, not to mention, his prisoners. Explosion after Explosion occured and one of them shorted out the power flowing to the system causing the gas sustaining your coma to cease. This is where your story begins.

Chapter 1

It wasn't long after the explosion that the party managed to escape from their cells due to a power outage stopping the gas flow that kept them comatose. But they only found a single survivor, Dr. Hooly, a communications specialist in the facility. The rest of the scientists were nothing more than corpses and Dr. Kingsley was no where to be found.

With the help of Dr. Hooly the party was able to contact help from a massive airship by the name of Devorian's Dagger that was in the process of transporting naval royalty, Lady Arkgeiser herself. But during it's arrival the A.I. managed to sneak it's creatures onto the ship which were soon followed by an assimilator. During the fight with the assimilator the party found out that the tests they ran in the facility transformed them into scions. but alas the ship was damaged in the assault and they were forced to go to the nearest city, a place known as Goldpot to procure the necessary parts to repair the airship, only to realize this city is ran by an elder balor who has an obsession with gambling.

Features
In addition to the optional rules shown on the campaign's home page, there are many more features exclusive and customized for Death, Darkness and Depravity.